The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

Hardware Valve owns up to inaccurate Steam hardware survey findings, saying 'VRAM on some graphics cards was not reported correctly' Graphics Cards Resident Evil Requiem's path tracing is tough on ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

Hardware A fraction of the most popular PC games over the past year use hardware-level ray tracing, which is far fewer than I'd predict just 24 months ago Hardware The latest Steam beta lets you give ...

The engineers on Microsoft's DirectX team are always busy bees, constantly working on one improvement or another. Today, the team announced that it's taking initial steps to get rid of a perennial ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Function Health CEO Jonathan Swerdlin Many people have low-level risk factors, such as early signs of heart disease, smoldering inside their body. But ...

TL;DR: Real-time ray tracing is now standard in AAA games, with Path Tracing emerging as the next visual breakthrough, enabled by technologies like DLSS, Neural Rendering, and DirectX Raytracing 1.2.

Microsoft has released Agility SDK 1.616, which includes support for Opacity Micromaps (OMM), a new feature in DirectX Raytracing that boosts performance. Back in March at the Game Developers ...

Function Health said it acquired full-body MRI scanning company Ezra. Function offers a $499 annual subscription where members complete more than 160 blood tests and track their results over time.

Function Health, a preventive health and longevity startup, acquired Ezra to integrate Function’s lab testing capabilities with the company’s artificial-intelligence-powered full-body scans, combining ...

Forward-looking: Recent big game releases appear to confirm that ray tracing and path tracing are the future of graphics rendering. However, these techniques remain prohibitively computationally ...