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Nvidia wants to make a Netflix of gaming—perfectly smooth, perfectly simple, superbly rendered PC games steamed to your system as if you owned an expensive rig. And so, here’s a GPU tower that the company says just that, combining 700 Xbox 360s in one tall box. More »

[CES 2013] NVIDIA’s bigwig, Jen Hsun-Huang, has just announced the GeForce Experience (GFE), a way to make your video card smart enough to detect the settings on your computer before applying the optimal playable settings on your behalf, so that you need not tweak the details on your own when the game is launched.

A demonstration of the GeForce Experience showed Call of Duty running right out of the box. Sure it is playable, but NVIDIA says that it is nowhere near optimal. With just a single click, GeForce Experience will optimize the settings of the game, and from us at the showfloor, the difference is definitely obvious.

I do wonder however, pro-gamers would want the smoothest framerates possible, and sometimes, that would mean turning down all of the unnecessary graphical details that tend to add to the visual “clutter”, if you get what I mean. I clearly remember my heydays when I played Quake 3 with r_picmip tweaked to the bare minimum in order to maximize the framerate on my machine regardless of how amped up it is. It makes it easier to see the opponent, and get to get your rail shots in easier with a flick of the wrist.

Clearly, GeForce Experience will cater to the masses who are just too lazy to be bothered to tweak the settings of their games. Humanity, my friends, is clearly heading down the point of no return. In the future, folks would expect to get hooked up with someone else and without doing anything, hope that the relationship would be “optimized.” Perhaps I am taking this example a bit too far, but don’t you feel that we are being dumbed down unnecessarily?

Still, credit where credit is due, for the hundreds of man years spent by the engineers over at NVIDIA to make setting up your graphical quality of your computer game with just a single click. It does not sound as though things could get any simpler, but who knows what the future holds?

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[CES 2013] We’re live at the NVIDIA event at CES 2013, so you can check out our live coverage which will be delivered to you on a blow-by-blow basis here. Little birds have chirped in our ears that there will be something major coming your way. Check it out!

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Starting things off fresh for CES 2013, Lenovo has just announced a new lineup of touch-based devices running Windows 8. The company unveiled new additions to the IdeaPad U series of Ultrabooks and the Mainstream Z Series, as well as the new ThinkPad Edge E431 and E531 business-minded laptops.

Lenovo’s new IdeaPad U310 and U410 Ultrabooks are just 18mm thin and boast a wake-up time of just one second, thanks to Lenovo’s own Instant Resume technology. The new Ultrabooks come packing with up to a 3rd-generation Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce graphics with DirectX 11. The U310 will be available in March starting at $779, while the U410 will release in April starting at $850.

Lenovo also has shown off the new IdeaPad Z400 and Z500 laptops and are the latest additions to the company’s Z series. These machines are optimized for Windows 8’s touch-based UI, supporting 10-finger touch at any given point. Both laptops come with a 3rd -generation Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce graphics. The Z400 will come with a 14-inch display and will be available starting in March at $699, while the Z500 will feature a 15.6-inch display and will be released in April starting at $699 as well.

Lastly, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad Edge E431 and E531 (also pictured at the top of this article). They’re the first ThinkPad laptops to include the company’s all-new OneLink technology, which allows users to connect to various external devices through a single cable connection, thus eliminating cable clutter without compromising performance. The ThinkPad Edge E431 and E531 laptops also feature improved graphics and higher-resolution displays, as well as a five-button ClickPad that will let users control various Windows 8 features from the keyboard. Both models will be available in May starting at $499.

Lenovo ThinkPad and IdeaPad refreshed with an Edge at CES 2013 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Welcome to Wednesday evening everyone! We’re back from a brief holiday break and there was plenty of news waiting for us when we returned, so let’s jump into the Wrap-Up. Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi found herself with a semi-private photo being shared publicly today, which brought up some debate about Facebook’s privacy policy. Samsung is expected to ship 500 million smartphones in 2013, while we saw a leaked image of a white BlackBerry X10 handset with a QWERTY keyboard. Instagram is facing a class action lawsuit over the controversial changes to its Terms of Service, despite the fact that it has tried to ease users’ minds since the new Terms were announced.

We heard that Windows Blue may still use the controversial Metro UI design, while Mark Cuban spilled the beans on his gadget collection in an AMA on Reddit. Samsung is seeking a ban on Ericsson products here in the US, and the Panasonic P-02E 1080p Android smartphone showed up at the FCC. The expensive yacht that was built for Steve Jobs has been released from the impound lot, and we learned that Netflix will be introducing new social features next year.

Samsung will apparently be showing off a Smart TV UI refresh at CES 2013, and Google has extended free domestic Gmail calls in the US and Canada for another year. Rockstar released a collection of new Grand Theft Auto V screenshots, and we heard that the Samsung Galaxy S III might soon be heading to T-Mobile with LTE functionality. NVIDIA TegraZone landed on Windows RT today, and we heard how loud it is on the International Space Station thanks a new audio clip containing the station’s ambient noise.

Apple has a patent on file for a new kind of curved glass, while Microsoft announced that it will soon be opening six new store locations. The POP charger has been given approval by Apple, which means the project is a go once again, and Google said that it plans to take 90% of Microsoft Office’s audience for itself. Toyota will be paying out $1.1 billion in settlements for cases relating to the floor mat issues with the 2010 Lexus RX, and iPad mini yield problems are starting to look better. Netflix’s Christmas Eve outage was blamed on problems with Amazon’s Web Services, and finally tonight we have a review of the Adorama Flashpoint 500C LED camera light for you to have a look at. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, we hope you enjoy the rest of your night folks!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 26, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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