Microsoft has introduced a new DirectX12 API. The API enables video specialists to process complex video processes more easily. This includes Video Decoding or Video Processing ad Motion. The API, which is supported by the computing power of CPUs, provides a number of interfaces that allow customization of various parts of the encoding process. Functionality […]

Garmin has announced two new smartwatches with the vívomove Sport and the Venu 2 Plus. The vívomove Sport is a relatively inexpensive ‘hybrid’ smartwatch, with an analog movement and a small screen. The Venu 2 Plus again has a speaker and a microphone. The vívomove Sport is an analog watch with hour and minute hands

AMD may release a Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor with 3D V-Cache this spring. This is evident from a leaked slide published by VideoCardz. Zen 4 CPUs will follow in the second half of 2022. The company would also announce new laptop CPUs and GPUs. Tech website VideoCardz publishes a slide that seems to confirm the

Pegasystems launches Next-Best-Action Customer Journeys. The solution measures every event in the customer journey, provides insight into the effectiveness of touchpoints and leverages AI to optimize customer acquisition and retention. Next-Best-Action Customer Journeys includes automation to measure the effectiveness of each step in a customer journey. For example, that journey starts from the moment a

Google has made Cloud IDS generally available. With the solution, companies can better protect themselves against malware, spyware, command and control attacks and other network threats. With general availability, Google wants to offer its customers an alternative to solutions from other vendors. According to Google, these alternatives are often very complex to manage, difficult to

Cloudflare has acquired website optimization specialist Zaraz. Zaraz’s technology enables companies to optimize and accelerate the performance of their websites. Zaraz’s technology helps to ‘offload’ the execution work of integrations with third party tools. This includes ad-tracking pixels, video players and analytics. The more integrations a website has, the slower the response. Mainly because they

Adobe is expanding its portfolio into social media marketing by purchasing British startup ContentCal. The technology allows customers to set up B2B marketing campaigns via social media. Financial details of the ContentCal acquisition are unknown, but insiders tell Bloomberg that Adobe will pay more than €88 million ($100 million) for the social media marketing startup.

OnePlus has broadly announced the specifications of the OnePlus 10 Pro. The device has a 5000mAh battery and can charge quickly with 80W. Wireless charging goes with 50W. The three cameras on the back get resolutions of 50Mp, 48Mp and 8Mp. With its 5000mAh battery, the OnePlus 10 Pro has slightly more battery capacity than

Pure Storage launches the FlashArray//XL, a rack with 40 NVMe flash modules (drives) and a total capacity of 5.8 petabytes. The introduction includes the most powerful array in Pure Storage’s offering. The capacity of the most comparable model, the FlashArray//X, peaks at 3.3 petabytes. A single FlashArray//XL is capable of supplying 5.5 petabytes. This makes

Rubrik launches Cloud Vault. The air-gapped security service enables organizations to store business-critical data in an isolated location. The location is inaccessible to regular environments. Ransomware attackers have no way of reaching the data. Data in the vault remains usable for the recovery of systems and data, even when other parts of an environment are