For applications such as high frequency trading (HFT), search engines and telecommunications, it is essential that latency can be minimized. My previous article Optimizing Computer Applications for ...

Despite vastly more processing power, it takes longer for a signal from your keyboard to show up on your monitor than it did in 1983. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Microsoft engineer Dan Luu looks into computer keyboard latency / input lag in his latest tech blog post (via HardOCP). Spurred on by a feeling that modern computers "feel slower than the computers I ...

One of the issues that have since forever been giving Windows users problems is DirectX Graphics Kernel Latency issues. This glitch comes up mostly after a Windows Update and causes sound issues ...

With distributed workforces making connectivity more business-critical than ever, and with a growing number of internet of things (IoT) devices to support, controlling latency has never been more ...

2017: As the hardware world turns The year is almost over, and now it's time to look back on the last fifty-odd weeks. What happened in this year in hacking? 2017 will go down as the beginning of ...

Have you ever had that nagging sensation that your computer was slower than it used to be? Or that your brand new laptop seemed much more sluggish than an old tower PC you once had? Dan Luu, a ...

In the white birch forests near this Siberian city, a special school is grooming the children who will carry the Soviet Union`s reputation for mathematics and physics into the 21st Century. But these ...