Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

IBM was a big player in the early days of personal computing. In 1981, IBM introduced the "PC," followed by the PC-XT in 1983 ...

Does your laptop have switchable graphics? You know, both an integrated graphics chip that sips energy and gives you long battery life along with a discrete GPU (graphics processing unit) that offers ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the good old days (10 or so years ago), buying a live-to-air graphics system was much simpler ...

Hockey fans have noticed something different on select NHL telecasts this season. Along with the usual graphics, Fox’s regional networks have been displaying something else (for most of the game) up ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have invented a display technology for on-screen graphics that are both visible and haptic, meaning that they can be felt via touch. The screens are patterned with tiny ...

And after practice and design for nearly eight years, I'm still blown away by their power to communicate. See what I've learned in that time is that graphics are like a form of language, and it takes ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Graphics are an essential component of programs and commercials. Even a drama has opening titles ...

It's pretty clear right now that Nvidia's 50-series cards are the talk of the town, and if you're looking to pick one up we've found discounts on models from the entry-level 5060 to the mighty 5090.

Graphics cards aren’t what they used to be—and that’s a good thing. Nvidia’s ferocious GeForce GTX 1080 blows the pants off its predecessor in sheer, overwhelming performance while actually drawing ...

In a surprising move, AMD has reentered the mobile phone graphics market with a development and licensing contract with Samsung Electronics. Although it’s not directly called out in the press release, ...

"Fallout 4" will be one of the biggest games of 2015. And the game's developer, Bethesda Game Studios, offered an inside look at the graphics technology powering the game. One of the biggest inherent ...