NVIDIA’s new graphics cards are for the pros

NVIDIA’s outed some great graphics cards for gamers in the past year. Now, the company hopes to carry that over to its professional line. NVIDIA just unveiled the P6000 and P5000. The former being touted as NVIDIA’s best card yet. But it’ll most likely benefit those who process a lot of images daily and does a lot of 3D rendering. It’s a GPU meant for content creation with 3,840 CUDA cores, 24GB of GDDR5X memory (VRAM) that runs at 9Gbps, up to 432Gbps memory bandwidth, four DisplayPort 1.4 slots that can support up to 4K resolutions at 120Hz and 5K at 60Hz, as well as 12 teraflops performance. Meanwhile, the P5000 has 16GB of VRAM capable of reaching 9Gbps and has 2,560 cores and can reach 8.9 teraflops.

Source: The Verge

Microsoft creates ‘smarter’ camera app for the iPhone

Microsoft’s Research team is at it again with a new app for the iPhone. This time, the tech company claims the Microsoft Pix can take better shots than the default iPhone app. This “smarter camera app” makes use of artificial intelligence to do things like adjust camera settings, automatically enhance shots, and choose which image is the best out of a burst of photos. The app has more automatic enhancements for focus, color, and exposure if it sees people in the photo. Microsoft Pix also has a Live Photos-like feature that stitches together burst frames and creates a looping video.

You can see the difference between the original and enhanced shots with a toggle button within the app. The app is already available for free download on the App Store.

Source: The Verge

Slash away monsters with ‘Severed’

A new game on iOS has us reminiscing of the glory days of Fruit Ninja, except this is far from appetizing. Drinkbox Studios outs a new touch-enabled action game called Severed. In this game, you hack, slash, and swipe away monsters. You play one-armed warrior Sasha who’s trying to find her way back to her family. You’ll be solving puzzles along the way, unlocking new abilities, and ascend with an RPG-style upgrade tree to uncover the mysteries in the dark fantasy universe Sasha is in. The app retails for US$6.99 (around CA$9) and is available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. During this first week of release, Severed comes at a discounted price of US$5.99 (around CA$8). The sale lasts until August 4.

‘Darksiders’ gets ‘warmastered’ for the PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Wii U

THQ and Vigil Games is remastering the 2010 action-adventure game Darksiders for the current crop of gaming consoles and the PC. Nordic Games published a listing on its site for a Darksiders Warmastered Edition, which promises improved graphics and native 1080p support resolution for consoles. According to the website, it’ll have double the texture resolution of the original game, post-processing effects, enhanced shadows, and 60 frames per second on the PS4, Xbox One, and Windows PC. The Wii U will run at 30 frames per second. There is no release date yet for this version of the game.

Source: Polygon