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Tuesday, 3-November-2015 12:54:58 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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AMD have retired their Catalyst Control Center, replacing the graphics driver control package with "Radeon Software Crimson Edition". Coverage on HotHardware and TechARP. AMD has been delivering graphics drivers for the past 20+ years, and during this time the graphics driver evolved way beyond the graphics device driver. Now we have user interfaces, libraries, tools, applications, packaged as what we call drivers. The software has morphed into a mini graphics Operating System. With the formation of Radeon Technologies Group, AMD has decided to call this mini graphics Operating System, Radeon Software.
Warner Bros are apparently giving up on Arkham Knight on PC, offering full refunds. Until the end of 2015, we will be offering a full refund on Batman: Arkham Knight PC, regardless of how long you have played the product. You can also return the Season Pass along with the main game (but not separately). For those of you that hold onto the game, we are going to continue to address the issues that we can fix and talk to you about the issues that we cannot fix.
There's apparently a new Star Trek series on the way! “There is no better time to give Star Trek fans a new series than on the heels of the original show’s 50th anniversary celebration,” said David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios.“Everyone here has great respect for this storied franchise, and we’re excited to launch its next television chapter in the creative mind and skilled hands of Alex Kurtzman, someone who knows this world and its audience intimately.” More official info here, with discussion here.
Closer to home, there's a new Chinese passenger jet, intended to rival Boeing and Airbus. The C919 -- a twin-engine, narrow-body aircraft seating up to 174 people -- is similar in size to the Airbus 320 and Boeing 737 series of jets, long the workhorses for airlines around the world. With a flying range of up to 5,555 kilometers (3,451 miles), it is designed to compete head-to-head with its Airbus and Boeing rivals, and said to easily cover popular business and leisure routes from China such as Shanghai to Singapore and Beijing to Bangkok. Discussion here.
TechSpot compared DX11 vs DX12 performance in the game "Ashes of the Singularity". Finally, we have what looks to be a very accurate means of gauging DX12 performance to see just what it means for the future of PC gaming. Recently Stardock provided gamers with Steam Early Access to Ashes of the Singularity, one of the first games to use DX12. This new real-time strategy game has been developed with Oxide's Nitrous engine and looks very much like Supreme Commander though the two games are in no way related.
Amazon mentioned drone deliveries a while ago, and now Google are getting in on it as well. Google says it expects to begin delivering packages to consumers via drones in two years, after a successful test flight in Queensland last year. David Vos, the executive in charge of Google's Project Wing, said internet giant Alphabet Inc, Google's new holding company, hoped to introduce drone deliveries in the US in 2017.
But if you want robot home deliveries without having to wait for FAA approval, maybe a little driving robot is the way to go. A new robot developed by one of the original founders of Skype could help reduce the price we pay for deliveries - and possibly make them free in the future. Starship drives autonomously to the shopper's doorway and then texts an alert message to announce its arrival. The low speed robot is designed to drive for a few miles from a local hub or a shop and can only carry small loads. The company is currently testing its prototypes and hopes to launch pilot services in the UK next year.
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