How to play games on Nvidia GeForce Now

Feb19
by on February 19, 2020 at 6:55 pm
Posted In: Basics


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Nvidia recently launched its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Posed as part of the future of gaming alongside the likes of Microsoft’s xCloud and Google Stadia, GeForce Now allows you to stream games to multiple devices, no install required. That sounds very rosy, but how do you actually play games on GeForce Now? Don’t sweat: we’ll walk you through it. [Read: Half-Life: Alyx comes out on March 23. Here are all the compatible headsets.] To get…

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OpenAI’s flagging techno-utopianianism exposes tensions between business and public benefits

Feb18
by on February 18, 2020 at 5:45 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence


OpenAI‘s efforts to build an AGI that benefits humanity have earned plenty of plaudits and press coverage, but they’ve also further exposed the limits of techno-utopianism. MIT Technology Review’s Karen Hao published a piece on the lab this week that depicts a company buckling under the weight of its grand ambition. Over three days at OpenAI‘s office, Hao discovered “a misalignment between what the company publicly espouses and how it operates behind closed doors”. Changes at OpenAI OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a non-profit, but last year it restructured as a “capped profit” company. The lab claimed that this would…

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Focal Audio tour: How some of the world’s fanciest speakers are made

Feb17
by on February 17, 2020 at 6:15 pm
Posted In: Insider, Plugged


High-end audio is about precision. Recreating live music in your home is one of the wonders of technology, requiring speakers accurate enough to create a convincing fascimile of the recorded soundfield. Take a look through any of my recent speaker reviews in the past year, and you’ll find them full of measurements trying to puzzle out the intricacies of a speaker‘s sound. So when French audio giant Focal invited to see how its speakers were made last year, I knew to expect the fancy machinery, anechoic chambers, and assembly lines. What I didn’t expect was how much of a human…

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New research suggests stars don’t collapse — they explode!!!

Feb16
by on February 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Space, syndication


By conducting experimental research with matter 10 million times denser and 25 times denser than that found at the centre of the sun, researchers have determined the nature of the nuclear processes that occur within intermediate-mass stars. Our understanding of the deaths of both low and high mass stars are fairly sound, but the team’s findings could change how we think about the fate of stars that lie in between. They suggest that such stars may not collapse, as previously believed, but instead end their lives in a spectacular explosion. How a star evolves is very much dictated by its…

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