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Half is a new binary floating-point type in .NET 5 Preview 7 to speed up ML workflows

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:24:01 +0000

The new Half type is composed of 16 bits and will be geared towards speeding up machine learning workflows by enabling faster computation and smaller storage requirements at the expense of precision. Read more...

Windows 10 finally being used by more than half of all Steam gamers, 17 months after launch

Usama Jawad — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 07:50:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest operating system is finally being used by more than half of all Steam gamers, 17 months after its official launch. All other iterations of the company's OS have seen a decline. Read more...

Fistful of Frags 1.2 Beta - Half Life 2 Mod

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:00:30 +0000

Fistful of Frags is a multiplayer modification for Source engine settled in the Old West. Its key features include: Fistful of Dollars game mode: original team oriented gameplay packed with fast paced... Read more...

Insurgency Beta 2.0e - Half Life 2 Mod

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:20:03 +0000

Insurgency (INS) is a total conversion modification using Valve Software's Source Engine. Insurgency immerses you, as the player, into an intense and realistic online combat experience. Set on the modern battlefields, Insurgency simulates modern infantry... Read more...

Empires 2.11 - Half Life 2 Mod

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:12:53 +0000

Empires is a revolutionary mod currently in development for Half-Life 2. It'll be combining the genres of first-person shooter and real-time strategy. Two key players will be present in each game, one player per team... Read more...

Fortress Forever mod for Half Life 2 ready for release

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:58:56 +0000

The highly awaited modification for Half-Life 2 called Fortress Forever is finally with us. It's based on the HL1 mod Team Fortress Classic and although not a direct port, has many of the features of... Read more...

CD Sales Drop, Digital Music Jumps In 1st Half '07

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:13:46 +0000

According to data from Nielsen SoundScan, U.S. sales of digital music albums grew by 60% to 23.5 million units in the first six months of 2007 but failed to offset the rapid sales decline of... Read more...

Google logs half of all US searches

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:46:09 +0000

Overall, Americans are searching more than they did a year ago: queries have increased by 11% since 2006. Google, the only search engine among the top five to gain market share, logged more than half... Read more...

Over Half of Second Life users come from Europe

Tue, 08 May 2007 23:09:05 +0000

Research firm comScore has found that throughout March, 61% of active Second Life residents were from Europe, compared to 19% from North America and 13% from Asia Pacific. Germany had the most Second Life residents,... Read more...

Over Half of Notebooks to Use Flash by Q4 2009

Wed, 02 May 2007 22:02:09 +0000

iSuppli Corporation has concluded that the use of NAND flash memory in notebooks is expected to increase sharply in the next few years: nearly 60% percent of the 40.1 million notebooks that will be shipped... Read more...

Nokia to shed 700 jobs, half in Finnish home

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:36:12 +0000

Nokia, the world's leading maker of mobile phones, has said it was taking "proactive steps" to improve efficiency in research and development, related sales, marketing activities and internal information technology operations. To start with, Nokia... Read more...

Half of Pirated Vista is Malware

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:21:36 +0000

According to security vendor DriveSentry, about half of downloads claiming to be free versions of Microsoft Windows Vista are in fact malicious Trojan horses. With Vista's consumer launch just days away, discussion boards and peer-to-peer... Read more...

New Super Mario Bros. sells past half million mark

Todd Tanner — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:17:16 +0000

Nintendo announced in a press release this afternoon that the newest Mario Bros. game "New Super Mario Bros." for the DS handheld system has just sold past the 500,000 mark in the United States. This... Read more...

PowerUser.TV e44: Pirate Bay, Half Life Add-On, and More!

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:01:13 +0000

This week the team discusses Dell's new 'luggable', a 20 pound laptop that transforms into a briefcase. Also Swedish police take down the bittorrent site Pirate Bay, Apple expands on their used computer equipment recycling... Read more...

Microsoft To Ship Longhorn Server In Second Half Of 2007

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:20:28 +0000

The next Longhorn server beta is due "shortly" but the final product won't ship until the second half of 2007. During his keynote at the Microsoft Management Summit 2006, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of... Read more...

Exec - Half of 360 Owners Will Use Live

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:36:07 +0000

Microsoft executive Robbie Bach predicts that half of Xbox 360 owners will signup for Xbox Live, even though only 2 million or around 10 percent of current Xbox owners are Live subscribers. However, his... Read more...

Intel's Pentium D Price Half That Of AMD's X2

Fri, 27 May 2005 13:16:09 +0000

As expected, Intel introduced three models of the Pentium D on Thursday: the 2.8-GHz Pentium D 820, the 3.0-GHz Pentium D 830, and the 3.2-GHz Pentium D 840. The three chips are priced at $241,... Read more...

Duke Nukem Forever to have better physics than Half Life 2

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:35:03 +0000

Swedish company Meqon, the firm behind the physics for 3D Realms' Duke Nukem Forever, have rekindled interest in the long-delayed game with a stunning demonstration of its latest physics technology. In a short... Read more...

Half Life 2: Aftermath

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:47:25 +0000

The news most of us have been waiting for has finally been confirmed: Valve is readying the first expansion pack for the unanimously acclaimed Half-Life 2. Provisionally titled 'Aftermath', the new adventures of Gordon Freeman... Read more...

Half of viruses written for criminal gain

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:43:56 +0000

Over half of all computer viruses, trojans and malicious code are created to steal sensitive information and make money, according to research released today. A report by IT security firm Symantec shows that 54 per... Read more...

Half Life 2 Possibly Banned in Australia?

Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:45:05 +0000

The Pan European Games Information (PEGI) age rating system has given Half Life 2 an R(18+) rating.This means that minors are unable to purchase the game in numerous countries like Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,... Read more...

Half Life 2 Possibly Gone Gold?

Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:47:26 +0000

Thanks to FatCat for posting this in the BPN. After an influx of Half life 2 going gold rumour articles, Gamespot has walked into the euphoria and said the same thing. Is this bascially a... Read more...

Sony's Blu-Ray Discs to Have Half the Production Cost of DVD

Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:33:55 +0000

Sony announced yesterday that it has developed Blu-Ray (BD) disc production technology that will be enable the company to produce Blu-Ray discs at half the cost of DVDs. Instead of using glass plates for production... Read more...

Half Life 2 Interview

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:46:45 +0000

This was my first visit to Seattle, and for that matter VALVe software as well. I arrived there Thursday afternoon with loads of anticipation and a fistful of questions sent in by our Planet Half-Life... Read more...

Playable Versions of Half Life 2 and CS: Source July 31st!

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:29:26 +0000

HL2World.com is delighted to confirm that a playable version of Haf-Life 2 and Counter Strike: Source will be on hand at this year's G-Phoria. Valve's Doug Lombardi today confirmed with HL2World.com that both versions will... Read more...

AMD's dual core Toledo to sample first half 2005

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:14:09 +0000

AMD ROADMAPS seen by the INQUIRER at the now famous Porcupine pub show that AMD will release its desktop Toledo dual core 939 pin chip at 90 nanometres and using SOI in the second half... Read more...

All Computers sues Intel for half a billion dollars

Thu, 20 May 2004 15:21:55 +0000

A Canadian firm wants half a billion US dollars in damages against Intel as well as a permanent injunction and is claiming that Chipzilla's technology is based on a patent it owns. The firm said... Read more...

Sasser author also had a hand in Half Life 2 Code theft?

Mon, 17 May 2004 19:40:23 +0000

Thanks LOC; Seems the German police really did pluck a major player from the scene... "Last week the German police arrested the creator of the Sasser worm. It received less coverage, but nearly... Read more...

Half Life 2 WinHEC Demo Unleashed

Tom Warren — Thu, 06 May 2004 04:13:13 +0000

As far as I know we are the only guys that noticed the fact that Half Life 2 was demo'd at WinHEC 2004 and the only ones to record the whole thing, although the actual... Read more...

Micron says half of revenues to come from Asia

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:10:51 +0000

Micron Technology Inc. said it anticipates more than 50 percent of its revenue would be generated in southeast Asia within a few years with China, Hong Kong and Japan accounting for a significant portion of... Read more...

China takes half of Intel's Asia sales ex Japan

Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:04:23 +0000

China has consolidated its position as Intel Corp's number two market since surpassing Japan last year, and now accounts for more than half of regional consumption ex-Japan, its Asia Pacific chief said on Thursday. ... Read more...

Java Desktop System "for Half the Price of Microsoft,"

Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:53:04 +0000

With Microsoft deciding to withdraw support for Windows 98 from December 23, Sun Microsystems has decided to hawk its desktop software — Java Desktop System — at a 50 per cent discount to any offer... Read more...

UPDATE: Half Life 2 Beta Leaks To All, Release Date Delays?

Tom Warren — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:52:06 +0000

Originally the source code leaked in a 32meg package last week. The leak spelt the beginning of an investigation into how this could have happened. The result? A flurry of forums across the internet all... Read more...

IE Gets Blame for Theft of Half Life 2 Code

Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:56:29 +0000

Security experts are blaming known but unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer for the theft and distribution of the source code for a much anticipated new video game. The source code for Valve Corp.'s... Read more...

ATI programmer's name in Half Life code no mystery

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:09:19 +0000

PEOPLE WHO HAVE ANALYSED the leaked code of Half Life 2, as reported earlier, say that an ATI programmer's name, Guennada Riguer, is liberally sprinkled throughout the game code. But that, said ATI today, means... Read more...

Half Life 2 Source Code Leaked

Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:38:26 +0000

Quoted from Slashdot: Pyroman[FO] writes "There is the Half Life 2 source code floating around the net right now. It looks to be about a month old. There's no official word from... Read more...

NVidia responds to Half Life2 performance numbers.

Marcel Klum — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:04:51 +0000

Over the last 24 hours, there has been quite a bit of controversy over comments made by Gabe Newell of Valve at ATIs Shader Day. During the entire development of Half Life 2,... Read more...

Half Life 2: First Benchmarks

Marcel Klum — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:28:27 +0000

Thanks Civilian for posting this on our forum. Gamers Depot brings you the first benchmarks of Half-Life 2 on both NVIDIA and ATI hardware. These scores confirm our reports last week that NVIDIA... Read more...

Half Life 2D Developers Interview

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:56:39 +0000

Half Life 2D is the fans version of the Half Life game, to keep them happy before the long awaited release of Half-Life 2. GfxLab has gained an exclusive interview with the developers working on... Read more...

Half Life 2 Screenshots

Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:02:20 +0000

In a preview of Half Life 2 over at Game (video game store chain here in IE+UK) their are a quite a few new screenshots, well vidcaps judging by the quality still impressive none the... Read more...