Hardware acceleration uses specialized hardware components of your computer to perform certain tasks more efficiently than the system’s main processor (CPU) alone could. This is particularly useful ...

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 ...

When it comes to Linux distributions, Slackware could well be called the archetype. It's not just one of the longest-serving releases at nearly 20 years old -- it's designed to be "pure" and cut back ...

Chrome's resource hogging has been known to reduce even relatively powerful computers to a chug. Although improvements have been made over the years, there's no getting around the fact that modern ...