Graphics Stories for 2016

Foxconn and Sharp Team Up To Build $8.8 Billion LCD Plant In China 66
Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? 449
AMD's Major Radeon Software Graphics Driver Update Goes Live With Gameplay Capture, More 98
Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED 103
Facebook Is Bringing Games Like Pac-Man, Space Invaders To Messenger and Your News Feed 22
'No Man's Sky' Releases Huge New 'Foundation' Update 112
The Next iPhone Will Feature An OLED Display, Says Bloomberg 67
Intel Lays Roadmap For 100-Fold AI Performance Boost With Nervana and Knights 44
New MacBook Pro's Dedicated AMD Graphics Chips Are 'Significantly' Faster and Support Dual 5K Displays 170
HTC Vive Goes Wireless 29
Pro Video Editor Says MacBook Pro Beats Out Superior Spec'd Windows Machines In Real-World 259
Increased Smartphone Screen-Time Is Associated With Lower Sleep Quality, Says Study 61
Samsung Galaxy S8 Screen-To-Body Ratio Could Surpass 90%, Near Bezel-Less Design 159
Why Apple and Microsoft Are Using Last Year's Skylake Processors In Their New Computers 136
Apple Says It's Out of the Standalone Display Business 108
Apple MacBook Refresh Could Bring E-Ink Enabled Keyboard 159
A Very Detailed Dissection of a Frame From DOOM 113
PC-BSD Follows a Rolling Release Model, Gets Renamed To TrueOS 132
Players Seek 'No Man's Sky' Refunds, Sony's Content Director Calls Them Thieves 467
Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR 160
Microsoft Details Its 24-Core 'Holographic Processor' Used In HoloLens 113
MIT Announces VR and AR Hackathon 12
Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default Instead Of X.Org Server 151
NVIDIA Drops Pascal Desktop GPUs Into Laptops With Mobile GeForce GTX 10-Series 42
Hacked Hobbit Pinball Machine Joins IoT, Broadcasts Itself Over Twitch 45
No Man's Sky Launches On Steam and GOG and It's Off To A Rocky Start 157
HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million 100
NASA: Revolutionary Camera Recording Propulsion Data Completes Test 81
One Billion Monitors Vulnerable to Hijacking and Spying 157
After New GIMP Release, Core Developer Discusses Future of GIMP and GEGL 117
Nintendo NX Is a Portable Console With Detachable Controllers, Says Report 158
AMD Unveils Radeon Pro WX and Pro SSG Professional Graphics Cards 53
MIT Developed A Movie Screen That Brings Glasses-Free 3D To All Seats 100
Sega Announces Two New Sonic Games That Seek To Recapture The Glory Days 45
NVIDIA Drops Surprise Unveiling of Pascal-Based GeForce GTX Titan X 134
Intel ChromeBooks Can Now Run Wine and Steam 45
Leak Shows PlayStation 4 Neo Is Expected To Have Twice The Graphics Horsepower 99
NVIDIA's Releases Its First VR Game, Along With An Interactive Screenshot Tool 'Ansel' 20
Ask Slashdot: Why Don't Graphics Cards For VR Use Real-Time Motion Compensation? 159
Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Fails Consumer Reports Water-Resistance Test 83
Unreal Engine and Unity To Get NVIDIA's New VR Rendering Tech 17
Microsoft Xbox Project Scorpio Puts Out 6 TFLOPs On Par With Current Gaming PCs 162
Google Searches For 'VR Porn' Increase 10,000% 80
A New 'Quake' Episode Appears 20 Years Later 36
'Linux vs Windows' Challenge: Phoronix Tests Popular Games 141
Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display 168
MSI and ASUS Accused of Sending Reviewers Overpowered Graphics Cards 133
Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book 192
Delete Or Update All Adobe Flash Player Instances, Experts Warn 172
Alienware Launches Laptop With QHD OLED Display After 20 Years of Business 82
AMD Announces Radeon RX 470, RX 460 Graphics Cards 48
Apple Reportedly Developing 5K Retina Thunderbolt Display With Integrated GPU 296
ARM's New CPU and GPU Will Power Mobile VR In 2017 38
Google Boosts Mobile Web Speed On Apple Devices With Accelerated Mobile Pages 28
Wearable 'Backpack PCs' Let You Experience High-End VR On The Go 47
E Ink Creates Full-Color Electronic Paper Display 96
Google's Tensor Processing Unit Could Advance Moore's Law 7 Years Into The Future 86
History Buffs Discover Inaccuracies In Battlefield 1 Trailer 74
Microsoft Kills Its Game-Building Platform Spark 84
Original 'Doom' Level Remade in the New 'Doom' 46
NVIDIA Shows New Doom Demo On GeForce GTX 1080 142
NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070, Faster Than Titan X For a Lot Less 153
Star Wars Buttons And Lights You May Have Missed 125
Nvidia GPU-Powered Autonomous Car Teaches Itself To See And Steer 54
Linux 4.6 Brings NVIDIA GTX 900 Support, OrangeFS, Better Power Management 129
You'll Soon Be Able To 'Holoport' Anywhere In the World With Microsoft VR Tech 54
Report: Intel May Dump Nvidia, Turn To AMD For Radeon Graphics Licensing 124
AMD Releases Open-Source Driver Support For Next-Gen Polaris GPUs 38
US Army Creates Virtual Reality Dome To Assess Soldier Thinking During Combat 35
PlayStation VR Pre-Orders Sell Out In Minutes At Amazon 92
Wine Makes It Possible To Run Vulkan Windows Programs On Linux 52
NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver Adds Support For Wayland, Mir 83
Studio Ghibli Animation Software Going "Open Source"; Details Pending 102
Cinema-Quality Unity Engine 'Adam' Demo Claims To Run Real-Time On GeForce GTX 980 59
AMD Publishes Preview Linux Hybrid Driver With Vulkan, OpenGL 4.5 Support 51
Intel Teases Skull Canyon Gaming NUC: Core i7, Iris Pro Graphics, Thunderbolt 3 92
Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own 149
AMD Announces 16 TFLOP Radeon Pro Duo 42
Facebook Preps Its Infrastructure For a Virtual Reality Future 53
Valve Is Bringing Steam's Game Library Into VR With Desktop Theater Mode 26
'Serious Sam 1' Engine Released As Open Source 82
New Tool Offers Look At Performance of UWP Games On Windows 29
Galaxy S7 vs iPhone 6S: Samsung Has the Upper-Hand, For Now 131
9 Open Source Alternatives To Picasa 86
Oculus Co-Founder's New Venture: Long-Range Virtual Reality Tracking System 15
Ubuntu Drops Support For AMD's Catalyst GPU Driver 155
Amazon Job Posting Hints At New VR Platform 17
ScummVM, Update With a Bang 37
Valve Announces New Portal Content For Virtual Reality 30
Wayland Isn't Ready For the Fedora 24 Desktop 120
Microsoft Losing Ground On Windows Store and UWP For Gaming 209
AMD Wants To Standardize the External GPU 172
Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms 214
Mindfulness Meditators Are Less Affected By Virtual Reality 86
Valve's SteamOS Now Supports Vulkan, The Cross-Platform Alternative To DirectX 12 119
Ubuntu 15.10 Kernel Regression That Broke Graphics Displays In VMWare Patched 76
Multimedia Powerhouse FFmpeg Hits 3.0 67
ARM: Mobile Graphics Will Surpass PlayStation 4, Xbox One In 2017 90
Valve Releases SteamVR Perf Test To Measure Your PC 97
Twitter Rolls Out GIF Button 81
Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds 89
Khronos Group Announces Release of Vulkan 1.0 77
NVIDIA Begins Providing Open-Source 3D Driver Support For GeForce GTX 900 Series 63
Goldman Sachs: VR and AR "Will Be The Next Generation Computing Platform" Worth $80 Billion By 2025 133
Ubisoft Talks Splitscreen and the Division 55
Fresh Wayland Experiences With Weston, GNOME, KDE and Enlightenment 133
First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland 154
Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS Finally Ships With Open-Source OpenGL Support 59
Amazon Launches Free Game Engine Lumberyard 56
Talos Secure Workstation Is Free-Software Centric — and $3100 [Updated] 117
NASA Is Building a Virtual Mars For VR Viewing 37
Unreal Engine Will Soon Allow Developers To Build Games Inside of VR 37
Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability 156
Storing Very Large Files On Amazon's Unlimited Cloud Photo Storage 229
Magic Leap Raises $794 Million To Accelerate Adoption of Secretive AR Tech 51
Asus ZenBook UX305CA Shows What Skylake Core M Is Capable Of 160
In Memoriam: VGA 406
Intel Gets Called Out Again For Their M.I.A. 3.0 X.Org Driver 110
AMD: It's Time To Open Up the GPU 152
Google May Be Developing Consumer Virtual Reality Hardware 27
How OpenGL Graphics Card Performance Has Evolved Over 10 Years 115
BBC Confirms 50% Bitrate Savings For H.265/HEVC Vs H.264/AVC 110
After Years of Serving X11, X.Org Stands To Lose Its One-Letter Domain 140