Microsoft quietly reduced the quality of the Windows 11 startup sound last year. Right around the same time, it appears the tech giant from Redmond also lowered the OOBE video quality as well.
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A Princeton Computer Science student has developed an app that determines the originality of a text. The aim is to counter AI plagiarism which has been given rise to by services like ChatGPT.
Google has a website that offers a Pinball game developed using Flutter Framework. The website attempts to mimic the behavior of native apps on Android and iOS without being installed on the devices.
Nvidia GeForce Ampere RTX 3000 cards fail to save power when the framerates are locked in games. The behavior is common in both the RTX 3070 Ti and the RTX 3090 across the games tested.
Though Microsoft never mentioned this publicly, the new Xbox One S might also offer gamers a few extra frames per second and higher in-game resolutions. This is according to the Gears of War 4 devs.
Microsoft Research has developed a system which allows even the lowest-end laptops and smartphones to run high-quality VR. Dubbed FlashBack it offers 8x better framerates and 15x latency reduction.
Microsoft has listened to gamers' feedback on its Universal Windows Platform and as of today it will be unlocking frame rates for all Windows 10 UWP apps. The new feature is part of today's patches.
