Android has always had some degree of hardware acceleration for the UI, but as full acceleration reaches phones, there are some concerns. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...

Microsoft Office is a great software for Windows and I am guessing that quite a few of you may be using it on your system. This productivity suite contains many technologies built into it, and ...

Hardware acceleration enables you to shift the audio tasks from the CPU to the sound card so that the CPU isn't slowed down by audio requests and so that games and other audio-intensive applications ...

For anybody who did any kind of computing in the 1950s or 1960s, (or for that matter, in the 1970s or the 1980s), the advances that we’ve made in hardware are staggering. But if you do track them to ...

Hardware acceleration uses specialized hardware components of your computer to perform certain tasks more efficiently than the system’s main processor (CPU) alone could. This is particularly useful ...

Windows 10 Hardware Acceleration helps users in boosting Windows OS performance and run the applications hang-free. When it is enabled, certain tasks, especially heavy tasks like video rendering and ...

Microsoft is trying to put an end to the long running trade off between full disk encryption and fast solid state storage by shifting BitLocker’s heaviest work into dedicated silicon. Instead of ...

A primer for newbies and a refresher for veterans, Back to Basics is a regular feature examining some of the basic concepts and technologies involved with delivering online video. As more and more ...

Existing flash storage is power-hungry and wasteful of datacentre performance because its data allocation method is rooted in the distant past of spinning disk hard drives and their fixed block ...