Devesh Beri

6 days ago | extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Devesh Beri

If you have a fancy new RTX 50-series graphics card, or something equally capable, and want to try out Nvidia's impressive Zorah demo for yourself, now you can. Initially unveiled alongside its RTX 50 graphics cards at CES 2025, Nvidia's new demo lets you see how advanced raytracing and neural shaders might make the games of the future look borderline photo realistic. Graphics demos are nothing new in gaming—I still remember being blown away by 3DMark 2001's Matrix-inspired elevator scene.

6 days ago | extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Devesh Beri

Credit: HardwareLuxx If you want to pack a lot of graphical power into your next compact gaming PC, Gigabyte's new range of RTX 5060 GPUs may be the cards for you. They use a mere x8 PCIe 5 interface rather than the full x16, allowing them to run on much shorter PCBs. Indeed, the board inside the new RTX 5060 Ti Eagle is just four inches long, despite the full-size cooler design making the card much longer in total.

6 days ago | extremetech.com | David Cardinal |Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale

The world is being taken by storm by the apparently amazing "superpowers" of the latest generation of large language models (LLMs). Whether you've used DeepSeek, Gemini, Perplexity, or Claude, you've almost certainly wondered, "How did they do that?"Artificial intelligence guru Andrej Karpathy has produced one of the best tech videos I've ever watched.

1 week ago | extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale

Microsoft has stated that some users are still being offered upgrades to Windows 11, even when Intune settings are in place to prevent these updates. Not all organizations or users are affected, but those impacted have reported that even devices 100% excluded by the policy were offered the upgrade. Reports from organizations say thousands of devices are affected, with users receiving the upgrade prompt despite being excluded from the policy.

1 week ago | extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale

Microsoft has added a new tool to Copilot Studio this week that lets AI agents use websites and desktop apps just like people do. With this update, the AI can click buttons, choose menu items, and type into fields on the screen. The Computer Use tool is described by Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s business & industry Copilot, as a way for agents to handle tasks even when there is no API available to connect to the system directly.