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Nvidia has announced that it has invested nearly US$52 million to build the UK's most powerful supercomputer, which is expected to be operational by the end of 2020, and will be made available to healthcare researchers and academics.

Not everybody needs powerful computers – mini PCs can be great for work, media centers, or some modest gaming. Minisforum is now unveiling the EliteMini H31G, a small PC with a dedicated GPU that should let it run some more heavy-duty games.

Nvidia has confirmed that it's acquiring UK chip designer Arm from Japanese owner SoftBank in a US$40-billion deal made up of a combination of shares and cash, though the move is yet to undergo regulatory scrutiny.

This year is big for new generations of gaming tech, with new consoles on the way. Now Nvidia has revealed its new generation of GPUs with the GeForce RTX 30 series, the beefiest of which can play games in 8K resolution at 60 frames per second (fps).

Intel's 10th Generation Core processors are here to power this year's computing machines, and the Republic of Gamers from Asus has jumped right in with a dual-screen gaming powerhouse called the Zephyrus Duo 15.

At IFA 2019 this week, Asus unveiled the most graphically-powerful laptop ever – the ProArt StudioBook One, boasting a frankly ridiculous 24 GB GPU.

As ubiquitous as IPS LCD screens have become, its main disadvantage so far has been a slower response time, but now LG claims to have fixed that problem. At the E3 expo this week, the company has unveiled two new gaming monitors with a zippy one-millisecond response time.

Artificial Intelligence promises to revolutionize many fields, but few as important as healthcare. With that in mind, Nvidia and King's College London have teamed up to build and train an AI platform to interpret radiological scans for hospitals across the UK.

nVidia's GauGAN app can turn your MS Paint-like sketches into a range of staggeringly realistic fake photo scenes - in real time. To get there, it uses fascinating new machine learning technology that pits two neural networks against each other to optimize results.

Nvidia has unveiled a new entry-level graphics card for its recently-released RTX 20 series. The RTX 2060 has the same focus on ray tracing techniques as the RTX 2070, 2080 and 2080 Ti, but strips away some of the higher-end features to bridge the gap between last generation and the new one.

To speed up the creation of virtual environments, researchers at Nvidia have taught artificial intelligence systems how to generate and detail new virtual cityscapes, by training neural networks on real video footage.

It's taken a couple of years, but 21-year-old drone entrepreneur George Matus has finally got his flagship Teal One drone into production. Fast, compact and smart, the Teal One packs an Nvidia Jetson TX processor and has its own app platform to enable AR, autonomy and deep learning applications.