Jan 04
House Republicans appear poised to hamstring the Office of Congressional Ethics.
Jan 04
Roland may be a mainstay in the electronic music world, but it also dabbles in the occasional creator product, too. This year at CES the company has unveiled an audio interface aimed squarely at streamers and it’s called the Bridge Cast ($299).
Like rival products such as the GoXLR or Rode’s Rodcaster Pro II, the Bridge Cast offers a way to pipe different audio feeds (chat, music, game audio, browser sounds and so on) to different destinations – usually your local mix and the one your audience hears.
As you’d expect, there’s an input for an XLR mic and options for dual/submixes along with a selection of vocal effects. There are four channels with rotary controls for mic, aux, chat and game. Each channel also gets a mute button for quickly removing unwanted audio without diving into settings. An intersting touch is the ability to customize the faceplate so if your channel, stream or team has a logo you could add some branding into your Twitch or YouTube feed.
Deeper control will apparently be available via the companion software to fine tune the mic sound or even the EQ of your game audio.
The streaming space has become a massive opportunity for legacy audio companies, and it’s good to see Roland furthering its commitment to this space. How it stacks up to its rivals though, remains to be seen, but if your new year’s resolution was to finally get that stream off the ground then it looks like you have one more option to consider.
Jan 04
In all the excitement of CES, it’d be easy to overlook a product as we look at thousands of pitches. However, it is uncommon, but not unheard of, to see 500 and Hz together in monitor specifications, so we had to take a closer look.
Dell/Alienware has launched a new 500 Hz 24.5” FHD gaming monitor. With that kind of refresh rate, you really want a tear-free experience. Fortunately, this monitor is compatible with NVIDIA’s G-Sync, if you also have a compatible NVIDIA GPU.
This monitor is fit for gamers who want to have the kind of hardware professional players use in a gaming competition. The 24.5” size fits the field of vision where you’re the most focused, and the high framerate ensures the monitor won’t limit the interaction loop between you and the game. The retractable headphones hanger is a nice touch too.
More likely, it would be the GPU or CPU that becomes a limiting factor. Yes, these two very expensive items should go with this type of monitor unless you play the original Minecraft at a high framerate (I don’t judge). If there’s latency, look elsewhere, and you can use NVIDIA’s Reflex Analyzer to find it.
Other technical data for this monitor include a VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification, 99% sRGB color gamut, and some blue-light reduction features commonly found in expensive modern displays.
The 0.5 ms (milliseconds) response time (GtG) is more than enough to react even to a 500Hz refresh, which is about 2 ms between frames.
Design-wise, the monitor is agreeable, with a low-footprint hexagonal stand (intriguing look!) that seems to leave plenty of room on your desk. The rear seems to have a 100×100 VESA plate, but we cannot verify it now.
There’s competition in this space, including ASUS (RoG Swift 540Hz monitor) and BOE, a large display manufacturer. BOE demonstrated 500 Hz displays last year and a 16-inch 600 Hz laptop monitor just a month ago.
Gamers might rejoice, but GPU vendors like AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel are even happier because you need a linearly more powerful graphics processor to achieve higher framerate. With fancy, AI-based, upscaling technologies, rendering in 4X resolution might only require 1.6X more computing power.
Alienware 500Hz Gaming Monitor (AW2524H)
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Jan 04
Paget Brewster Shares Thoughts On Aging, Cosmetic Surgery With New Year’s Day Photo
Posted in: Today's Chili“I’m still hard working, inquisitive and sexy,” tweeted the “Criminal Minds” actor as she acknowledged the start of 2023.
Jan 04
NVIDIA has announced the release of its latest 40-series GPUs for laptops, with references for the 4050 all the way up to the 4090.
Jan 04
At least one person died, more than 1,000 prison inmates were evacuated from a county jail, and a levee broke amid flooding on New Year’s Eve in Northern California. A so-called “atmospheric river” brought more than five inches of rain to downtown San Francisco on December 31, making it the second wettest day in over…
Jan 04
Jan 04
Meta isn’t the only tech heavyweight making tools to help root out terrorist content. The Financial Times has learned Google’s Jigsaw is developing a free tool to help smaller websites detect and remove extremist material. The project, built with the help of the UN-supported Tech Against Terrorism, makes it easier for moderator teams to deal with potentially illegal content. The effort has the assistance of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (founded by Google, Meta, Microsoft and Twitter), which offers a cross-service database of terrorist items. Two unnamed sites will test the code later this year.
As with Meta’s open source utility, Google’s tool is meant to assist sites that can’t afford to develop AI detection algorithms or hire a large moderation staff. That may be critical when the European Union’s Digital Services Act and the UK’s looming Online Safety bill will both require that site operators pull extremist content to avoid penalties.
Both Google and Tech Against Terrorism see their project as necessary to close a gap in countering online terrorist activity. Extremists and misinformation peddlers kicked off mainstream platforms frequently turn to smaller outlets that can’t always adequately police users. Ideally, this reduces the chances of terrorists finding safe havens.
There are limitations. Some social platforms have been reluctant to moderate content even when app store operators say it incites violence — Google’s tool won’t be very useful on websites that don’t want it. It also won’t stop terrorists from sharing material over well-encrypted messaging services or the Dark Web, where providers can’t easily snoop on data traffic. This might, however, make it harder to jump to online alternatives.
Jan 04
A group of video game testers has formed Microsoft’s first labor union in the U.S. It will also be the largest union in the video game industry.
Jan 03
If you have plans to move your accumulated phone files into a new Google Pixel phone, there are a number of ways to do it.
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