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Beautiful Prints From Iconic New Yorker Artist Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine has a talent for capturing the strangeness and beauty of life in a city, from creeping Brooklyn gentrification to the subway-borne Missed Connection. His frequent illustrations for The New Yorker have always made me wish I could own a larger print — in fact, a copy of his iconic post-Hurricane Sandy cover hangs in our living room.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780: Titanic Power At A Less Ludicrous Price
Hot on the heels of the all-powerful Titan’s release just a few months ago, Nvidia is now plowing forward into the its 700 series with the sweet new GTX 780. It’s a Titan-esque bad-boy that’s a little bit cheaper.
Best Laptops Under $500
There are some great laptops out there these days, but who says you need to spend big bucks to get a great device? Is it possible to buy a great laptop on a budget and still get everything you need? Let us show you the best laptops on a budget.
Whoa, Computer Graphics Can Make Water Look Real Now
Now here’s something impressive. PhysXInfo seems to have solved one of the tougher problems in computer graphics: realistic fluid dynamics. In other words, making water look like actual water and not a tub full of triangles.
Video Games Will Soon Look Like This Unreal Engine 4 Graphics Demo
So this is gorgeous. The video up top is a leaked demo of the Unreal Engine 4. It’s been shown at GDC, and Kotaku isn’t sure if it’s a new, next gen game or just a tech demo. But, either way, it’s stunning for in-game visuals.
These Incredibly Realistic CG Human Faces Will Obviously Be Used For Porn
We’ve seen how impressive Nvidia’s new Titan GPU can be, but this is kind of nuts. Face rendering that is pretty darn close to briding the uncanny valley. It’s remarkable. Also this is obviously going to be used for porn.
The ’10 Hidden Positions’ In Basketball, Beautifully Visualised
Basketball is a complicated sport. It’s got fewer traditional positions than any other team sport, but no less specialisation and far more fluid movement than many others. Two “point guards” can play drastically differently and still play the same basic position. Muthu Alagappan’s research makes some sense of that.
Windows 8 Buyers Guide: Which Specs Are Most Important?
You already know what size of Windows 8 PC you want, but what are you going to put in it? More RAM? A bigger processor? Solid state storage? We’re here to explain a few things for you to help you get the best Windows 8 device for your money.
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