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Microsoft store houses thousands of applications for users to instantly download and use to their needs. Although a very convenient app, it may sometimes refuse to open at all. This may happen due to various scenarios. One of the common causes is a slow internet connection. The date and time of your system also play a significant role in the proper workings of your Microsoft apps. Or in some cases, using a VPN can also interfere with your connection to the Microsoft store servers....

Microsofthas fueled outrage among many gamers by deleting their old Mojang Minecraft accounts. The deletions came because the gamers neglected to migrate their accounts from old Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts. After Microsoft purchased Mojang (and, naturally, Minecraft), it announced thatlegacy Minecraft and Minecraft: Java Editionowners would need to migrate their accounts to Microsoft accounts. The migration process began in October 2020 and was originally scheduled to be finished by March 2022....

Earlier this week, developer Moralrecordings (aka Scott Percival) posted anextended blogdetailing how they and some others created a modded “Oregon TrailTime Machine” in hopes of finding a way to beat the game by waiting at the final Snake River crossing for a long enough span of time that, through an already-existing glitch, should make your party effectively immortal since health conditions are not recalculated when waiting for conditions to improve....

Last week we covered Igor’s Lab materials scienceinvestigationsinto sixAIO liquid coolerradiators. Igor has followed up by dissectingfour more models. Interestingly, this time he found one radiator featured such heavy use of lead that he comments, “Sales in the EU should be stopped immediately.” Wallossek reached out to German tech retailer Caseking about the problematically toxic and RoHS-violating Barrow Dabel 28b Slim 120mm, and it hasremovedall Dabel series products from sale until its own investigations are completed....

Chinese chipmaker Loongson has a new GPU on the way that blows its current-gen 9A1000 out of the water. According to a senior company executive speaking today, the upcoming Loongson 9A2000 will deliver performance that is “8-10 times that of 9A1000,” reports Chinese language tech siteITHome. The machine translation suggests that the new 9A2000 is comparable to Nvidia’sGeForce RTX 2080. Nvidia’s Turing architecture RTX 2080 is still a very serviceable graphics card in 2024, as evidenced by our frequently updatedGPU benchmarks rankings....

GPU performance numbers of Qualcomm’s highly-anticipated Snapdragon X Elite processor in theAshes of the Singularitybenchmark have beenpublishedin the benchmark’s database (via@BenchLeaks). While the results do not look bad for a pre-production mobile processor, they don’t exactly generate excitement. Apparently, Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU in the Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100 processor only scores1.300 pointsin Min_1080p preset level with an average framerate of 13.7 FPS in a 2880x1800 resolution inAOTS. Meanwhile, Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU in the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 GPU scores1,800 pointsin Min_1080p preset level with an average framerate of 19....

The Nvidia App has been updated with a new release, from version 10.0.x to 11.0.1. The significant change here is that users should not experience the disappointinggaming performance loss(up to 15%) witnessed by those who installed prior releases. However, rather than fix the underlying bug, Nvidia seems to have swept it under the carpet, as 11.0.1’s only flagged change is that the “Game Filter now defaults to off.” We wrote about thisoption-toggle fix (which is more like a workaround) shortly after tech forums and social media began to erupt with complaints over the performance-sapping Nvidia App....

The new Nvidia Blackwell GPU architecture will power the upcoming generation ofRTX 50-series GPUs. We’ve known various details for a while now, and many have been rumored, but at its Editors' Day duringCES2025, Nvidia provided a lot more information and details on the core functionality. There’s so much to cover, with seven sessions that took all day, plus some live hands-on experiences.This article deals primarily with the architectural changes in Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs....

Yesterday, Nvidia Research published a blog post highlighting the numerous advancements in AI research throughout 2024. Some of these advancements are pretty typical generative AI fare. Still, some are a little bit more interesting than simply generating content with other people’s copyrighted material—for example, “StormCast” and “MaskedMimic,” which correspond to more advanced weather forecasts and motion inpainting (reconstruction of full motion from partially visible motion) for robotics, respectively. There’s also “GluFormer,” which uses AI to predict blood sugar levels up to four years out, though it does require past glucose monitoring data....

Reputable GPU hardware leakerkopite7kimihas again taken to social media platform X to tease the imminent release of RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPUs. The hardware leaker claims, “We will meet GeForce of Blackwell soon.” However, Igor Wallossek from Igor’s Lab thinks differently.Kopite7kimi was the original leaker who released the purported legitimate specs of theRTX 5090 and RTX 5080,which hit the Internet like a bombshell two months ago. Since the RTX 50-series leaks were published, multiple rumors/leaks have pointed toward an early 2025 launch for Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs, withCES 2025being the earliest candidate for a potential announcement/launch....

IEEE Spectrum reportsthree new supercomputers powered byNvidia’s Grace Hopper CPU+GPU chipstopped theGreen500 for June 2024. The list ranks the most efficient supercomputers in the world. The three new supercomputers that broke into the list are Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s JEDI,the 1 ExaFLOPS Jupiter Supercomputer, University of Bristol’sIsambard-AI phase 1, and Cyfronet’s Helios GPU. The Green500 is the energy efficiency counterpart to the Top500, which lists supercomputers according to their power. Most of the powerful supercomputers in the world remain unchanged, with Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier, Argonne National Laboratory’s Aurora, andMicrosoftAzure’s Eagle still taking the top spots....

Nvidia could make $87 billion from its data center GPUs alone in 2024, according tomarket research firm Omdia. The firm’s latest report shows estimates for how much money Nvidia made with its AI- and server-focused GPUs in 2023 and how that momentum may make 2024 an even bigger year for Nvidia. Omdia also highlights how Nvidia’s massive sales figures directly impact market share between OEMs, with Nvidia being termed a “kingmaker....

While Nvidia’sGeForce RTX 5090 Founders Editiongraphics card features the world’s highest-performing consumer GPU released to date, it is also one of the most power-hungry GPUs ever made. As a result, Nvidia needed a completely new printed circuit board, so it developed a three-piece design that looks like nothing we have seen before. The main PCB carries the GB202 chip, memory, and a monstrous 30-phase voltage regulating module (VRM). Nvidia says that the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, which promises to be thebest graphics card, uses a ‘unique three-piece PCB’ design....