Friday 23 March 2018

PC Build - Build a PC for live streaming gameplay – DIY in 5 Ep 74


For the ultimate streaming setup, many pros use two PCs: one to run the game and one to handle broadcasting the Twitch stream. In this video, we’ll be doing it all from one PC. There are some great pre-built PCs out there specifically made to do this, like the CyberPowerPC ProStreamer or the Alienware Area 51. Packing that much functionality into one case does increase the price, though. Let’s break down the hardware you’ll want to consider if you’re planning on streaming solo. When it comes to streaming, your CPU does most of the heavy lifting. You’ll be relying on your processor to encode video, run chatbots, loyalty point notifications, music players, etc. and you want to do it all while avoiding dropped frames, which cause a not-so-nice viewing experience for your audience. You’ll want to allocate a large amount of your budget for a good GPU for streaming in high definition. To output 720p or more at 60fps, you’ll want to choose a CPU with multiple cores, beefy clock speeds and hyper-threading as a bonus. If you’re building a budget streaming rig and are fine with streaming at a lower quality than 720p or dropping below 30fps then this can be achieved with even an i5 or its AMD equivalent by optimizing your broadcast settings, capturing video from a console, minimizing the number of windows you have open while streaming and avoiding CPU-intensive games. If you are someone who likes to have apps like Spotify, chat bots, Discord, loyalty points, and Steam open in addition to OBS and the game you’re streaming, then RAM will be another important piece of the puzzle. Most streamers typically will use around 4GB of RAM while streaming so make sure your system has at least 8GB. If that’s not in the budget, then don’t use these extra apps to keep stream stutter to a minimum. If you stream low-CPU usage games, or capture gameplay from a console, then you may be able to save a pretty penny by forgoing a dedicated GPU and get a better experience by putting those savings into a better CPU. For triple-A titles, though, a good GPU is a very important piece of the puzzle if you plan to stream and broadcast from the same PC. Future-proof your streaming setup by picking a motherboard that has extra slots for later expansion. Find a storage drive you can record on locally that is large enough to archive your streams. You’ll also want to find a case with good noise dampening so your audience doesn’t hear the case fans on your stream. Gauge the PSU you want to use be heading over to http://pcpartpicker.com to calculate your power needs for the different setups you’re envisioning. This site also allows you to compare component prices & reviews. Let us know what your favorite game to stream is and feel free to shoutout your channel in the comments. Subscribe to Kingston: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=KingstonTechMemory

MK750 | Recording Custom LED Profile


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Affectiva’s Automotive AI could keep distracted and drowsy drivers from causing accidents


Affectiva this week announced its Automotive AI platform for monitoring humans. If the idea of a robot watching you while you drive bothers you, consider that most accidents are caused by distracted drivers. An AI that knows whether you’re paying attention or not could potentially save as many lives as one that does the driving for us. Even with driverless cars on the roads now, it’ll take at least a decade for the kind of massive fleet rollouts the experts predict. For better or worse, people are going to remain behind the wheels of at least some cars for a…

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Tumblr confirms 84 accounts linked to Kremlin trolls

Tumblr has confirmed that Kremlin trolls were active on its platform during the 2016 US presidential elections. In a blog post today the social platform writes that it is “taking steps to protect against future interference in our political conversation by state-sponsored propaganda campaigns”. The company has also started emailing users who interacted with 84 accounts […]

YouTube is still plagued with disturbing kids videos

There's a section of supposedly kid-friendly YouTube that's rife with odd and often disturbing videos. But though YouTube began actively addressing the issue last year, there still appears to be a problem. Just a few days ago, Business Insider report...

Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook pages after #deletefacebook

Elon Musk apparently wasn’t aware that his company SpaceX had a Facebook page. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has responded to a comment on Twitter calling for him to take down the SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk official pages in support of the #deletefacebook movement by first acknowledging he didn’t know one existed, and then […]

Craigslist kills personal ads after Senate sex trafficking vote

Craigslist has put the kibosh on one of its most iconic sections this week, following the passage of the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act. The controversial bill, which passed with a 97-2 vote, essentially holds sites accountable for hosting content related to sex trafficking. While Craigslist has maintained the links to sections on its […]

Google makes it easier to run high-performance workloads on its cloud platform

Hyperscale cloud platforms from the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google are great for running the kind of high-performance computing (HPC) projects that scientists in academia and the industry need for their simulations and analyses. Many of the workloads they run are, after all, easily parallelized across hundreds or thousands of machines. Often, though, the […]

The best blood pressure monitor for home use

By Stacey Higginbotham This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commissions that support its work. Read the full article here. After spend...

Jeff Vinik invests $12 million into Dreamit Ventures, joins board

Real estate investor and Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik has expanded his relationship with Dreamit Ventures through a new $12 million investment into the early stage fund and accelerator, announced earlier this week. The deal will also see Vinik joining Dreamit as a Partner and a member of the Board of Directors. Vinik was […]

DOJ Indicts 9 Iranians For Brazen University Cyberattacks

A new indictment asserts a long string of attacks against hundreds of universities and private companies, in which Iran pilfered more than $3 billion worth of intellectual property.

Spotify says 2 million users suppressed ads on its free service

Earlier this month, Spotify revealed that it had begun cracking down on people using hacked versions of apps. These apps allowed users with free accounts to suppress advertising and take advantage of paid features. Now, Spotify has disclosed just how...

Dropbox soars more than 40% in its debut as a publicly-traded company

It’s a big day for Dropbox — the first marquee Web 2.0 name to go public this year and one of the biggest since Snap last year — which made its public debut today, with the stock soaring nearly 43% to around $30 in its first moments of trading. Today’s debut for the enterprise-slash-consumer company […]

The digital revolution is letting us down. Here’s how we change that


As you’ve probably heard before, we’re in the middle of a digital revolution. Slowly we’re also beginning to realize that this smart new world is out of control. As the Cambridge Analytica scandal made clear, our privacy is being invaded and we know that many of our jobs are threatened by automation. But there’s no turning back the clock. How do we navigate and secure ourselves for this unsecure future? Andrew Keen is the author of several books criticizing the rise of the internet and digital technology. Among them are, “The internet is not the answer” and “Cult of the…

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Apple is reportedly working on a 'foldable' iPhone for 2020

Apple changes its iPhone designs slowly and reluctantly, so folks were pretty surprised to see the famous notch in the iPhone X. That might be nothing compared to what it has planned for 2020, though, if you're willing to buy into a new rumor. A Merr...

Researchers find a new material for quantum computing

Rumors of commercial quantum computing systems have been coming hot and heavy these past few years but there are still a number of issues to work out in the technology. For example, researchers at the Moscow Institute Of Physics And Technology have begun using silicon carbine to create a system to release single photons in […]

Bitcoin Cash still trails behind SegWit when it comes to transaction volume


The war on Bitcoin is far from over. In spite of attracting wide adoption when it first launched back in August last year, it appears that Bitcoin Cash still lags behind Bitcoin’s SegWit soft fork when it comes to overall transactions processed. The research arm of cryptocurrency exchange desk BitMEX found that SegWit has 31.5 percent more cumulative transaction volume than Bitcoin Cash. SegWit (a portmanteau for ‘Segregated Witness’) was introduced in August 2017 as an improvement protocol designed to solve the blockchain size limitation. After this update, users had the option of using SegWit and upgrading their wallets, which provides the…

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How to become a better public speaker on your own time


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Could Google’s ‘Smart Sound’ be more than just a gimmick?

Welcome to your living room, the latest battleground for tech companies vying for your allegiance. What started as Amazon staking its claim with the Echo line of smart speakers now includes competition from Google and Apple, too. It's not just tiny s...

Baidu will start autonomous driving tests in Beijing

This week, China gave tech company Baidu, Inc., which wants to be known as China's version of Google, the go-ahead to start autonomous driving tests in Beijing's suburbs, according to Reuters. China is looking to compete with other countries with sel...

HBO’s Silicon Valley gets the VR treatment for Season 5

For a long time, we’ve heard that VR is three to five years from becoming mainstream. While that premise remains questionable, HBO’s Silicon Valley is celebrating its fifth season with the launch of a VR experience called Silicon Valley: Inside the Hacker Hostel. The experience will be available on the HTC Vive, and will offer […]

The NEEO universal remote is a modern Logitech Harmony alternative

The advanced universal remote market is not a very crowded market. In fact, for a while now, Logitech’s Harmony line has been pretty much the only game in town. Newcomer NEEO wants to upset that monopoly with its new NEEO Remote and NEEO Brain combo ($369), which is a system that can connect to just […]

DOJ indicts nine Iranians for state-sponsored hacking effort

This morning, the Department of Justice announced that nine Iranians have been indicted for an alleged hacking campaign affecting 320 universities around the world, 144 of which were US institutions. The individuals are believed to have been working...