BitTorrent Gets First Round of Financing

By Ian Bell September 27, 2005

If Kazaa and Napster can become a viable business, so can BitTorrent right? The popular peer-to-peer (P2P) developer has stated they will partner up with Doll Capital Management to lead a Series Aventure funding initiative worth $8.75 million dollars. The investment will help to globally commercialize their technology to turn it into a legitimate business. "While BitTorrentalready has become the de facto protocol for cooperative distribution on the Internet, DCM shares our belief that BitTorrent will become the ideal platform for both independent publishers and theworld’s leading media companies alike," said Bram Cohen, founder and CEO of BitTorrent. "We are committed to working with content creators and distributors to shape the future of mediadistribution, and to provide our users with a great product that brings their favorite videos, audio and software to their door-step." BitTorrent has more than 45 million users making itone of the largest P2P networks in the world. BitTorrent’s size has made the company a target for the RIAA and other industry organizations, but due to legalities, BitTorrent has dodged the bullet so to speak. In related news, look for Microsoft to enter theP2P market using a DRM-based technology.

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How to know which Mac to buy — and when to buy it

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If you’re in the market for a new Mac (or Apple display), there’s a lot of choice ahead of you. Maybe you're interested in a lightweight MacBook Air from the selection of the best MacBooks -- or maybe one of the desktop Macs. Either way, there’s a wide variety of Apple products on offer, including some external desktop monitors.

Below you'll find the latest information on each model, including if it's a good time to buy and when the next one up is coming.
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AMD Ryzen AI claimed to offer ‘up to 75% faster gaming’ than Intel

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AMD has just unveiled some internal benchmarks of its Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor. Although it's been a few months since the release of the Ryzen AI 300 series, AMD now compares its CPU to Intel's Lunar Lake, and the benchmarks are highly favorable for AMD's best processor for thin-and-light laptops. Let's check them out.

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Lossless Scaling is a $7 Steam app that's flipped the idea of frame generation on its head this year. Similar to tools like Nvidia's DLSS 3 and AMD's FSR 3, Lossless Scaling offers frame generation. However, it works with any game, and with any graphics card, and it can triple or quadruple your frame rate with this frame generation. And now, the app is going further with a feature that even DLSS 3 and FSR 3 don't have.

The developer posted the 2.12 beta to Steam on Wednesday, and it adds a couple of new features. The big one is a resolution scale for LSFG, the tool's own machine learning-based frame generation algorithm. This allows you to decrease the resolution of the input frames, leading to a very minor quality loss in exchange for a fairly large performance boost. The resolution of the game doesn't change at all. You're basically giving the frame generation algorithm slightly less information to work with.