When you browse Web pages with extensive use of graphics or moving images, your computer's central processing unit handles all the work in processing and loading the graphics. If you have a high end ...

Chrome's resource hogging has been known to reduce even relatively powerful computers to a chug. Although improvements have been made over the years, there's no getting around the fact that modern ...

It's only available in the Dev and Canary builds of Chrome, and very few pages support it—for now. But if you want to get hardware acceleration running in Google's browser, it's just a simple command ...

Not so fast, Internet Explorer! We know that you have great things in the works for IE 9-- including Direct2D GPU acceleration, the 2D / vector graphics API that we first laid eyes on in Windows 7.

AMD on Wednesday said its Fusion integrated graphics APUs and Radeon discrete GPUs will leverage Internet Explorer 9's built-in hardware acceleration capabilities, which Microsoft showcased on Monday ...

Java is a programming language that allows developers to write once and deploy everywhere -– from high-end gaming desktops to smartphones. Its OS-agnostic and widespread nature is one of its strongest ...

A powerful video editor takes great strides with GPU acceleration, but it needs to speed things up even more to compete with Adobe Premiere Pro. If there’s one thing that stifles creative energy with ...

Google and Mozilla both seem to content to chase higher version numbers, but we don't mind looking the other way as long as they bring useful features along for the ride. Google today released the ...

VMware, as a virtualization platform, provides various features or options to enhance the functionality and performance of the VMs. One such option is 3D acceleration, which helps us enhance our ...

Next Thing Co’s PocketCHIP is a $69 handheld computer built around the company’s $9 CHIP. The extra money pays for all the things that make the PocketCHIP a mobile Linux device, including the display, ...

Raspberry Pi has long been a proving ground for creative hacks that stretch low-cost hardware far beyond its original brief, and graphics performance is one of the most contested frontiers. The idea ...