In his first major appearance since Facebook's stunning $16 billion acquisition of mobile messaging company WhatsApp last week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the Mobile World Congress on Monday to explain his plan for the company's future in mobile: "We want to create a dial tone for the Internet." See also: How Mark Zuckerberg Envisioned Facebook in 2004 Early in the address, Zuckerberg focused his attention on Internet.org , explaining some thought behind why he wants to bring cheap or free Internet to most of the world. "Most people in the world don't have access to the Internet at all," said Zuckerberg, dressed in his typically casual t-shirt and jeans. "After Facebook reached its milestone of connecting a billion people, we stepped back and thought, 'how can we change the rest of world?'" The project will be facilitated by several carrier partners around the globe, but Zuckerberg said he's still looking to add several more over the next few years. On the … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg: ‘We Want to Create a Dial Tone for the Internet’
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Nvidia DLSS support is coming to Outriders, Call of Duty: Warzone, and more
In brief: Nvidia's all-digital CES keynote kicked off today, and it was a pretty exciting one. The biggest reveal was the new GeForce RTX 3060, but the company also announced that its RTX, DLSS, and Reflex technologies will be coming to several existing and upcoming titles. Let's delve into those a bit below. We'll start with the games that are only set to receive DLSS (and not RTX or Reflex), of which there are currently two. First up is Call of Duty Warzone, Activision's immensely-popular free-to-play battle royale (available exclusively through the Battle.net client). The game is available now, but DLSS support is coming "soon," which probably means "sometime in the next couple of months," if we had to guess. We don't have any specific performance numbers to pore over here, but the new CoD Black Ops Cold War does support the tech. Since Cold War is running on a similar engine to Warzone, you might be able to look at the former's DLSS benchmarks to determine what sort of FPS … [Read more...] about Nvidia DLSS support is coming to Outriders, Call of Duty: Warzone, and more