Rodrigo Duterte, the controversial mayor of Davao City, appeared to win the presidential election in the Philippines on Monday night, besting four challengers despite a campaign marred by rape jokes, death threats and various obscenities ... Under Philippine election law, the candidate with the most votes wins even without a clear majority. As of 1 a.m ... Duterte insists his forces only use deadly force when encountering violent resistance....
Russian PresidentVladimir Putin is apparently well admired in his country, but a poll shows he is also respected beyond the boundaries of his own nation, Newsweek reports.Although the Kremlin’s violent foreign policy is noteworthy, Putin ranks as the sixth most-admired man in the world in an annual survey by pollster YouGov – that’s five places higher compared to his 2015 result ... Globally, U.S ... Former U.S ... U.S....
In the Western popular imagination -- particularly the American one -- World War II is a conflict we won. It was fought on the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, through the rubble of recaptured French towns and capped by sepia-toned scenes of joy and young love in New York. It was a victory shaped by the steeliness of Gen.Dwight D ...It's a grand moment, but few of the world's major leaders will be in attendance ... Copyright....
Pakistani Police have arrested 13 people suspected of burning a girl alive. The arrest was made on Thursday last week. The people arrested belonged to a tribal council in Pakistan. The girl was left unconscious after being drugged. She was kept in a van which was set in fire outside Islamabad... Replug. In Pakistani village, there is anger, but mostly shock, after the brutal "honour killing" of 16-yr-old girl https.//t.co/8vx9QBpDSN....
Article by WN.com Correspondent DallasDarling. Believe it or not, our brains are hard-wired to take ideas such as momentum and trajectory and apply them to political and social events that have nothing to do with physical movement ... Likewise, and on the heels of winning a resounding majority of the last 15 state primaries, Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders won Indiana, unexpectedly surprising former U.S ...Meanwhile, from Feb ... 40.....
At Dreamhack in Austin, Texas this past weekend, Nvidia finally lifted the veil on their upcoming leap in graphics card technology, dubbed the GTX1080. Running off their new Pascal architecture, the GTX 1080 aims to be the pinnacle of graphics card performance ... "The GeForce GTX 1080 is almost irresponsible levels of performance" pic.twitter.com/LdRWMhwGZE ... Specs and price for the GeForce GTX 1070....
Last week, Nvidia announced a new, powerful graphics card, the GTX1080 built on the new Pascal architecture ... TI, GTXTitan X and now the GTX 1080 compare....
The NVIDIA GeForceGTX1080GPU was shown running id Software’s Doom at 200 frames per second (fps) ... What was pleasantly surprising was that the crowd got a sneak peek at the GTX 1080 running the upcoming Doom title with an uncapped frame rate ... In the demo, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080 GPU ran the game at an HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 with the graphics settings set to Ultra ... The GeForce GTXTitan X retails for $1000....
When Nvidia revealed the monstrous GeForce GTX1080 and GTX 1070, based around the company’s new 16nm PascalGPUs, one tidbit sowed confusion in its wake. What was an “Nvidia Founders Edition” of the card? Nvidia announced that the GTX 1080 Founders Edition would cost $700, or $100 more than the GTX 1080's starting MSRP, while the Founders Edition version of the $380 GTX 1070 would cost $450 ... ....
Nvidia unveiled its latest graphics card, the Nvidia GeForceGTX1080, during DreamHack in Austin, Texas. It's the first GPU based on Nvidia's Pascal architecture, and is built with a focus on the demands of next generation displays and VR performance. Thanks to the new architecture, the GeForce GTX 1080 offers major performance improvements over Nvidia's Titan X. "It's insane. The 1080 is insane," Nvidia CEOJen-Hsun Huang said ... ....
Last week, Nvidia caused some confusion with references to the 'Founders Edition' variants of its GTX1080 and 1070, so now that company has explained the branding in full. The post Nvidia Founders Edition GTX cards will launch before standard versions appeared first on Digital Trends... ....
Nvidia has announced the May release of its new GeForce GTX1080GPU that it says is ready for immersive, next-generation virtual reality experiences ... ....
Nvidia has bumped up performance in virtual reality for its Pascal cards, with the introduction of a number of new, advanced features which will really leverage what the new generation of hardware can do. The post The GTX1080 isn’t out yet, but Nvidia has already updated VRWorks appeared first on Digital Trends... ....
Nvidia have unveiled their next top-end GPU, the GeForce GTX1080, which they say can draw lots of really nice pictures really fast. Look, I’m sure Jeremy and his Week in Tech will have more to say about that soon, but what’s interesting to me is the software they announced alongside it ... ....
As a matter of fact, the GeForce 8800GTX, which came out a decade ago, can still play the overwhelming majority of modern games out today with playable frame rates ...Nvidia's recently revealed GeForce GTX1080 and 1070 GPUs look like super powerful graphics cards that are killer deals on paper ... If you wanted to jump into the deeper end of the pool and game at 1440p, you’ll probably want a GTX 980 or an R9 Fury....