7 things you need to do before Christmas on your kid's new laptop

Setting up your kid's new laptop before Christmas is essential, unless you want to spend all of December 25 doing it!

Riot is forcing Valorant players to update their PC firmware to keep playing

The push follows Riot's disclosure of a critical flaw it uncovered in several popular motherboard models. The vulnerability can be exploited by well-funded cheaters targeting Valorant, ...

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'

If you have an Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, or ASRock motherboard, you need to update the BIOS if you want to continue playing Valorant. That's because a critical flaw was recently found that allows cheaters ...

Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering

With GPU architectures changing from being entirely graphics-focused and game rendering relying increasingly more on compute shaders, rather than classic vertex and pixel shaders, DirectX12 has gained ...

Steam is ending support for 32-bit Windows as it moves fully to 64-bit

Valve has begun rolling out the latest version of the Steam client, which users will receive the next time they launch the application. While the update ...
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Pixel 10 Finally Gets Long-Awaited PowerVR GPU Driver Upgrade

Google's Pixel 10 series is finally getting its long-awaited GPU driver update with Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1. The update introduces Imagination Technologies' v25.1 PowerVR driver, which boasts Vulkan ...