Part of Minecraft's charm has always been its simple, blocky, pixelated aesthetic. With more items than ever and some retextures over the years, vanilla Minecraft looks slightly less grassroots than ...

Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...

Intel and Nvidia showed off their respective AI-powered texture-compression technologies over the weekend, demonstrating impressive reductions in VRAM use while maintaining texture quality, or even ...

Forward-looking: Intel is pitching a new way to pack game textures that leans heavily on neural networks but still nods to traditional block compression. The company's Texture Set Neural Compression, ...

Ranpak Holdings Corp., together with its subsidiaries, provides product protection solutions and end-of-line automation solutions for e-commerce and industrial supply chains in North America, Europe, ...

PCWorld reports that neural texture compression from Intel, Nvidia, and AMD could drastically reduce game file sizes and VRAM usage for PC gamers. Intel’s TSNC technology compresses textures up to 17X ...

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Packing for a trip always feels like a dance between art and science—and attempting to pack light complicates things even further. All of that “just in case” stuff quickly adds up—and before we know ...

After months of testing, we selected 11 running vests as standouts in six categories. The Patagonia Slope Runner Vest earned the title of best all-around for its lightweight comfort, convenience, and ...

More than six months after the launch of the iPhone 12 series, Apple unveiled a new first-party MagSafe accessory in the form of a wireless battery pack. The MagSafe Battery Pack has a 1,460 mAh ...

I would go wild for a nano-texture iPhone, but the option just doesn’t exist yet. Instead, I’m using the Mothca Matte Series screen protector on my iPhone 17 Pro. Speaking from experience, I recommend ...