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 ...

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 ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. In response, Microsoft's Program Manager Lead for Web ...

A recent post on Microsoft’s Building Windows 8 blog explains how DirectX 11.1 and hardware acceleration improves UI performance and maximizes battery life. A recent post on Microsoft’s Building ...

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 ...

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 ...

There may be a growing number of laptops designed for gaming, and they may be getting thinner and lighter. But they’re still pretty expensive… and quite frankly, overkill for non-gaming activities. So ...

With a few about:config tweaks, you can turn on Firefox's built-in hardware acceleration and improve both graphical performance and the look of your fonts. If you have a decent graphics card (DirectX ...

Dianne Hackborn, part of Google’s Android engineering group, has taken to the company’s Google+ social network to distribute some “true facts” about Android’s graphics and rendering. She’s clearly ...

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, ...