If you have ever played any competitive game, you should be well aware of the smurfing phenomenon that ruins the experience for anyone who isn't a top player. By creating alternate accounts, high-rank players return to the bottom of the competitive ladder, stomping through less experienced players for all sorts of reasons, often not very good ones. However, next-generation systems like the PlayStation 6 may solve this long-standing issue (while also improving cloud gaming), as Sony has patented new technology to detect players using secondary accounts to make ranked modes in competitive games fairer. "Systems and methods for using gameplay characteristics to […]

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NVIDIA Vera CPUs continue to showcase strong performance and efficiency against leading x86 chips across Agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA Vera CPU Early Adopters Are Seeing Higher Tool Speed Per Watt, Agentic AI Tasks Per Watt and More Memory/Core Bandwidth Per Watt The Vera CPU continues to disrupt the Agentic AI segment and has already been adopted by various AI firms. The reason for Vera's adoption at scale is a representation of the ongoing AI demand, which has moved from GPUs to CPUs in the Agentic era. Agentic AI workloads operate in loops, moving from GPU to CPU and back, often […]

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Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown released last week on PC and consoles, and all those who started venturing into the unknown on their ship have definitely noticed how the expansion is not as polished as the base game. Pearl Abyss was well aware of this, launching a multitude of minor patches and hotfixes to address the most glaring issues. Thankfully, one of the biggest issues - the significant performance drops in some areas - is starting to get addressed in patch 2.04.08. "Improved framerate drops in certain areas," is the very first improvement listed on the official patch notes shared by […]

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Microsoft has officially begun rolling out its redesigned XBOX PC app, promising substantial performance improvements and a more streamlined interface. According to the company's latest XBOX Wire announcement, the updated application is up to 60% faster to launch, while navigation and other everyday operations have also received significant optimizations. This follows our previous coverage in October, when Microsoft was reportedly testing a major overhaul of its XBOX PC app, internally codenamed Garrison. Early hands-on impressions from Windows Central and The Verge's Tom Warren suggested substantially improved responsiveness, particularly when browsing large game libraries. Microsoft has now provided official figures for […]

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Phantom Blade Zero launched last week on PC and PlayStation 5, and it's a rather polished release that has no glaring issues. However, S-Game has already released the first patch to iron out some kinks and introduce new features. In terms of new gameplay features, however, the development studio has yet to add anything significant, leaving it to modders to fill some of the gaps, making the experience even more engaging on PC even for those who already saw the end of Soul's journey. Unofficial Training Mode One gripe I had during my first playthrough (which was not enough to […]

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Microsoft is reportedly preparing a major Windows 11 overhaul for 2027, prioritizing performance and reliability over launching Windows 12. Microsoft is reportedly preparing a substantial Windows 11 upgrade for 2027, potentially making version 27H2 the operating system's biggest update since 24H2 in 2024. The company is also developing new default wallpapers, while its broader efforts to improve Windows performance continue. According to The Verge's Tom Warren, Microsoft intends to make Windows 11 27H2 a full operating system upgrade, replacing or substantially updating core components rather than simply enabling features already present on users' PCs. Windows 11 27H2 Could Introduce Major […]

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NVIDIA has spent the last several years trying to balance its status as the world’s dominant force in artificial intelligence with strict United States export regulations. Unfortunately, these efforts might not have borne fruit as the company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, now finds himself as the latest target of congressional investigators over potentially sensitive national security vulnerabilities. A coalition of U.S. House Republicans has formally requested that NVIDIA’s head honcho appear on Capitol Hill for a joint, closed door briefing to address foreign adversary espionage, which has materialized thanks to his interactions with a Megaspeed executive, Alice Huang, who is currently […]

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The two biggest parties in the consortium that bought Electronic Arts for $55 billion, Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's PIF, are back in business and trying to acquire Unity. The big news comes from Reuters, which claims that Silver Lake and PIF approached Unity's management about the possibility in recent weeks. Silver Lake and PIF reportedly evaluated Unity at about $25 billion, though that was before Unity's latest earnings report, which lifted its market ​capitalization to around $21.5 billion. Reuters adds that since the consortium approached Unity, the company, originally founded in Denmark and now headquartered in San Francisco, has […]

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Worrying about hit-and-runs or vandalism while your vehicle is parked in an unfamiliar spot can create constant anxiety, especially when setting up traditional 24-hour surveillance requires tearing open your car interior to hardwire messy cables into the fuse box. Those standard dash cams can often deliver blurry nighttime recordings and unreadable license plates when an incident actually occurs. Thankfully, with Baseus’ VD1 Pro 4K, you won’t have to face these terrible outcomes, not when you have a dual dash cam setup that not only supports incredibly crisp image quality but ships with all the necessary features you’ll need to maintain […]

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Some say the AI bubble has just popped, especially given the carnage unfolding across wide swathes of the market today. Many point to the Democratic sweep on Tuesday, and the ensuing likelihood of a broad-based moratorium on data center construction. And yet, a dispassionate analysis of this paradigm yields a relatively benign picture, one that posits that tens of gigawatts of new capacity would still come online in 2027. Over 20 GW of under-construction data centers have achieved a 75 percent completion rates, requiring only equipment installations and power First, let's discuss how the wheels seem to have suddenly come […]

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AI hardware has continued to evolve at a dizzying pace over the past few years, resulting in creating misery for consumers as far as the DRAM shortage goes, but there could be an even bigger problem on the horizon that data centers or governments simply aren’t equipped to handle; addressing the power infrastructure. As frontier AI models demand larger clusters to be trained on, the power density is scaling to mind-boggling heights. The latest visual data highlights NVIDIA’s upcoming Kyber rack system, built around the Rubin Ultra NVL576 platform, and the numbers reveal a looming crisis for enterprise server farms. Here’s […]

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Technology venture capitalist Gene Munster believes that NVIDIA's financing deals, through which the firm lends to its customers to enable them to establish their AI infrastructure, are not a Ponzi scheme. Munster made the remarks during the Zero Hedge podcast, where he compared the deals to the environment in the Dotcom bubble era of the 90s and pointed out the differences. Gene Munster Says Circular Contracts Of The 90s Aren't Similar To NVIDIA's Capital Financing Deals Because Of Massive Future Upside NVIDIA's vendor financing agreements, which the firm has outlined are worth at least $108.5 billion, involve it helping some […]

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As promised in last week's franchise-wide update, Ubisoft has now released Update 1.8.0 for Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Its size varies quite a bit depending on the platform: The patch's highlight is, of course, the long-awaited addition of the New Game Plus mode. Players can begin a new playthrough with their existing character progress after they have completed the Holy Day Quest, which is the last quest of the Hamtunscire region. This isn't quite at the point of the game's true ending, but given the gargantuan size of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the developers decided to allow players to start their NG+ […]

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GTA 6 is only two weeks away from its release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and Rockstar Games decided to mark the occasion by sharing a new gallery of 39 screenshots that almost look like a flex for the developer, as the stunning attention to detail they show is unprecedented among current-generation games. The 40 new screenshots provide a great look at the new entry in the series, focusing not only on the protagonists, Jason and Lucia, but also on a wide range of NPCs, vehicles, locations, and more. Taking a deeper look at these screenshots reveals the insane level of detail […]

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This is the lowest it has gone down since its relaunch, and if you are already rocking an AM4 platform, this is the best upgrade you can gift yourself. AM4's Best Gaming Processor Dropped to Just $279 at Micro Center, While Newegg Gives Away a Free PSU With it At Just $319 AMD's relaunched Ryzen 7 5800X3D just got a heavy discount at a few major retailers. The processor, which was reintroduced a few months ago at $349, is now sitting at around $300 or below at some retailers, and some are even bundling a free component. At Micro Center, […]

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Applying liquid metal to gaming laptops is always a nerve-wracking experience, even more so when a qualified technician ends up botching the job on premium machines like the Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI. One customer describes his experience as a nightmare because, in an attempt to resolve his gaming laptop’s thermal throttling, the company personnel not only forgot to apply paste to the CPU, but also used a knife to spread the paste on the GPU. Needless to say, the Predator Helios Neo 16S AI continued to overheat. Lack of technician training can result in improper gaming laptop servicing, […]

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After his earlier comments discussing potential plans for TSMC's 1-nanometer chip production factory, the chairman of Taiwan's National Science Council, Cheng-Weng Wu, has discussed details about resource planning at the Nanke Sharon Park in Tainan, Taiwan. The minister's comments had hinted that the 1-nanometer site might be located in the Tainan region at the IEEE Asia Solid State Circuits Conference and his latest remarks, as per the Taiwanese media, were made in Taiwan's parliament. Taiwan's Technology Council Minister Shares Tainan Science Park Could Also Target Sub-1-nanometer Chip Manufacturing Process Technologies TSMC's 1-nanometer technology, which is dubbed the A10, is perhaps […]

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Discord is preparing one of the most significant technical overhauls in its history, abandoning the Chromium-based Electron framework in favor of a native application written in Rust. An early Windows 11 build reportedly uses just 290 MB of RAM, a considerable improvement over the existing desktop client, which can sometimes consume several gigabytes. The transition was confirmed on X by Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who explained that the company has been using Rust since 2018 across its infrastructure, voice technology, and portions of the existing application. "That means Electron goes away, and so does React Native, mobile keeps […]

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We have another budget mini PC from MSI, which runs on the Intel Core 3 Series processors. MSI Powers its New Ultra-Compact Cubi NUC WCG Mini PC With up to Intel Core 7 350 While Offering Dual LAN Ports and WiFi 6E for Flexible Connectivity Earlier this year, MSI debuted its first Panther Lake-based Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG Mini PC that operated on high-end offerings such as the Intel Core Ultra 9 386H. Despite such a powerful SoC, the mini PC retained an ultra-compact form factor, with its chassis measuring only 0.51 liters in volume. The company has today introduced […]

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NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX launched 20 years ago, offering the CUDA architecture for the first time, which fundamentally changed the graphics industry. NVIDIA's Historic GeForce 8800 GTX Launched Today, 20 Years Ago, & Its CUDA Architecture Went On To Revolutionize Graphics, Accelerated Computing, & AI There was a time when NVIDIA and AMD used to be neck-and-neck with each other in terms of GPU market share. That was the case through the majority of 2000s but then NVIDIA introduced its GeForce 8 series family and along with it, the one graphics card that changed the market forever, that card was […]

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