Enlarge / You’ll need an NVMe SSD to use DirectStorage on Windows. (credit: Getty Images) PC games can now use DirectStorage, a DirectX 12 Ultimate API that Ms announced in 2020. The feature is supposed to bring faster loading times and improved textures and draw distances. The Xbox Series X/S already uses DirectStorage , and in […]
Enlarge / Microsoft says it sees two clear peaks at the ends of a wire, with a nice energy separation between those and any other energy states. (credit: Microsoft) So far, two primary quantum computing technologies have been commercialized. One type of hardware, called a transmon, involves superconducting wire loops linked to a resonator; it is […]
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Dell, one of the top three PC makers, will not be using Microsoft’s Pluton chip in “most” commercial PCs, The Register reported on Wednesday. A Dell representative told the publication that the security processor “does not align with Dell’s approach to hardware security and our most secure commercial PC requirements.” Microsoft first announced […]
Enlarge / Flag of Ukraine on a computer binary codes falling from the top and fading away. (credit: gwengoat | Getty Images) Months before the Russian invasion, a team of Americans fanned out across Ukraine looking for a very specific kind of threat. Some were soldiers, with the US Army’s Cyber Command. Others were civilian […]
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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith announced today via blog post that Microsoft would be suspending “all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia” following the country’s “unjustified, unprovoked, and unlawful” invasion of Ukraine. The company didn’t name specific products, but a blanket ban would include Windows […]
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