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700,000 GPUs Shipped to Miners in the First Quarter of 2021

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) In a new report, Jon Peddie Research sheds some insight on the impact that cryptocurrency mining has had on AIB (add-in board) sales for the start of this year. Needless to say, AMD, Nvidia and their AIB partners have profited hugely from the high demand on the best graphics cards…. Read more

Here’s everything we know about Halo Infinite’s free multiplayer

343 Industries gave us a first glimpse at Halo Infinite’s free multiplayer mode yesterday, and now we’re getting even more information on how the weapons, armor, and sandbox experience will work. Halo Infinite is launching on Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S, and PC later this year, allowing friends to play the free multiplayer… Read more

Here’s a first look at Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode

343 Industries is back and ready to demo more Halo Infinite. Today at Microsoft’s Xbox + Bethesda showcase, we got a new look at the multiplayer side of Halo Infinite. The game will run at up to 120fps in this mode on the Xbox Series X, and offer classics like capture the flag mixed in… Read more

Inside the cryptocurrency scam vortex

On May 22nd, a crypto finance project called DeFi100 posted a message to its website: “We scammed you guys and you can’t do shit about it. HA HA. All you moon bois have been scammed and you can’t do shit about it.” Screenshots of the message immediately went viral on crypto Twitter (always anarchic, easily… Read more

Today I learned the PS5’s controller can buzz along to your music on Spotify

The DualSense controller for PS5 has great haptic feedback for games like Returnal and Demon’s Souls. But today I found out that it’s also good at humming along to tunes on Spotify when plugged into a PC. While browsing Reddit, I stumbled across an ancient thread from six months ago where a user explained that,… Read more

Go watch this incredible web series about a Cyberpunk Salad Merchant

After three years of production, Ian Hubert, king of the one-minute Blender tutorial, has uploaded the first episode of his sci-fi series, Dynamo Dream. And it’s been worth the wait. The series is a mix of live-action and CGI that follows a salad merchant on a seemingly normal day through the dense streets of the… Read more

Sorry Gamers, Ethereum Is More Valuable Than Ever

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Here’s a sentence that cryptocurrency enthusiasts and PC gamers will respond to very differently: Ethereum prices rose above $3,000 for the first time this morning. That’s good news for cryptocurrency enthusiasts who started mining Ethereum when it was first introduced. According to the Coindesk price index, Ether was trading at… Read more

Your Odds of Winning Newegg Shuffle Are Just 0.001%

Home News (Image credit: Newegg) It’s no secret that buying components is a basically a bloodsport at this point. In an attempt to let real people, rather than bots and scalpers, buy components, retailer Newegg instituted the Newegg Shuffle to create a lottery for a chance to buy parts. What are your chances, though? Newegg… Read more

Legal chatbot firm DoNotPay adds anti-facial recognition filters to its suite of handy tools

Legal services startup DoNotPay is best known for its army of “robot lawyers” — automated bots that tackle tedious online tasks like canceling TV subscriptions and requesting refunds from airlines. Now, the company has unveiled a new tool it says will help shield users’ photos from reverse image searches and facial recognition AI. It’s called… Read more

AMD inexplicably threw scalpers a bone with limited-edition Radeon RX 6800 XT ‘Midnight Black’ GPU

Because the world desperately needed another GPU people can’t actually buy, AMD decided to release a limited-edition “Midnight Black” version of its Radeon RX 6800 XT early Wednesday morning, where it sold out before most people even saw the card was there. You might be thinking: “Why would you release a limited-edition version of something… Read more

Steam survey suggests Nvidia’s RTX 3070 is actually trickling into the hands of gamers

Now that the street price of an Nvidia RTX 3070 is over $1,200, it’s temping to think scalpers, bots and cryptocurrency miners got them all — but the latest Steam Hardware Survey suggests at least some of them are making their way into gaming PCs, too. As TechSpot reports, the 3070 in particular appears to… Read more

Gigabyte Flagship Aorus RX 6700XT Elite Takes Flight

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) The Aorus RX 6700XT Elite is Gigabyte’s new flagship model for the newly released RX 6700XT GPU from AMD. The Elite is equipped with a triple-fan cooling system, ring RGB lighting behind the fans, and is the largest 6700XT you can buy from Gigabyte at this time. Perrhaps this card… Read more

What day is it? Twitter’s got you covered

What day is it? Wednesday? Can someone please tell me? I don’t have a paper calendar, so there’s no way to know. And I can’t trust Dieter. What’s that? There are Twitter accounts and bots that can tell me the days of the week? Perfect, I never stop scrolling. INT. STUDIO APARTMENT — AFTERNOON A… Read more

Cybersecurity firm says social media bots hyped GameStop during trading frenzy

A cybersecurity firm found that bots were promoting GameStop stock on social media before and after the stock’s frenzied rise last month, Reuters reported. Massachusetts-based PiiQ Media says social media bots promoted Dogecoin, GameStop, and other “meme” stocks in posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. The firm estimated that tens of thousands of bots… Read more

Upcoming Oculus Quest and Quest 2 games: VR experiences to watch out for

(Pocket-lint) – Looking for an excuse to buy an Oculus Quest 2? Or just wondering what games will be available to play? Then you’ve come to the right place. squirrel_widget_2679961 There are numerous VR experiences coming in the next few months. Fantastic games to add to the collection of already awesome games available on the… Read more