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U.S. Senators Close to Inking $52 Billion Semiconductor Funding Plan

Home News (Image credit: Intel) According to a Reuters report, a group of four U.S. senators might unveil their $52-billion microelectronics industry backing proposal on Friday or early next week. The chip industry support plan is set to include funding of R&D and production and the establishment of national programs. The $52 billion five-year plan… Read more

Report: Intel Pushing ATX12VO Power Connector for 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs

Home News Corsair ATX12VO Adapter Cable (Image credit: Corsair) VideoCardz today shared a snippet of a document claiming to show Intel’s strong desire for motherboard vendors to adopt the ATX12VO power connector on future Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake LGA1700 motherboards. The ATX12VO is a 10-pin power connector that Intel has been pushing since a… Read more

Adata Tries to Ride the Chia Wave While It Can

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) It seems like Adata’s decided to lace up its boots, put on its cowboy hat, and ride the bullish Chia Coin market until it finally stops bucking. The company published a press release today extolling the virtues of its latest high-capacity SSDs and memory products in a bid to convince… Read more

Intel Uses AI to Make ‘GTA V’ More Lifelike Than Ever

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto V nearly eight years ago. The game was impressive at the time, but it’s starting to show its age now, especially in the graphics department. Intel’s Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL) took it upon itself to improve those graphics with a new method of making… Read more

Mass Effect Legendary Edition review: Revisiting the best RPG series ever made

(Pocket-lint) – We couldn’t have been more excited when we heard that the original Mass Effect trilogy was to be remastered for a new collection. But must admit to feeling slightly deflated when we realised the games weren’t to be remade completely. That means, while the graphics and gameplay have undergone extensive tweaking, they haven’t… Read more

Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 (15-inch) review: a big-screen entertainment machine

Samsung has released a number of Galaxy Books in the last few years. Despite generally being good devices with a recognizable brand name, most of them have remained Samsung-enthusiast purchases; none have truly entered the mainstream conversation. So it seems fitting that the Galaxy Book Pro 360 isn’t a direct sequel to any preexisting Galaxy… Read more

Volvo XC40 Recharge review: Electrified elegance

(Pocket-lint) – One of our very favourite electric cars ever is the Polestar 2. You might be wondering why on earth we’re mentioning that as a prelude to this Volvo XC40 Recharge review. Well, it’s simple really: they’re like long lost cousins (Polestar was once an arm of Volvo, which separated back in 2017). Anyway,… Read more

PSA: You can probably try Gmail’s new integrated Chat now

Google is rolling out the ability to access Chat messages right from Gmail to more iOS and Android users, after introducing it as a feature for Google Workspace users last July (via 9to5Google). It’s still a test feature, so getting access to it can take a bit of work, and it may not be available… Read more

Maybe it’s time for a HomePod fire sale, Apple

There’s been some buzz recently about how Apple is having problems getting rid of its HomePods, with the now-discontinued Siri speakers still being on sale two months after Apple announced their discontinuation. And yet, the speakers are still $300, which is only slightly lower than their launch price of $350. Apple: it’s time to put… Read more

Xbox is testing accessible chat options like transcription and speech synthesis

Microsoft has announced new text-to-speech and speech-to-text features for Xbox Party Chat, which aim to help make communication on the platform more accessible. The features are currently being tested through the Xbox Insider program. The speech-to-text feature puts a window on the screen with automatic transcriptions of what people in the voice chat are saying,… Read more

A podcast app is exposing subscribers-only shows

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The beauty and misery of private RSS feeds There’s only supposed to be one way to hear exclusive podcast content from sports host Scott Wetzel: by paying $5 a month to subscribe to his Patreon. But the show’s also been available on a smaller podcasting app for free…. Read more

A security researcher found Wi-Fi vulnerabilities that have existed since the beginning

The security researcher who discovered the Krack Wi-Fi vulnerability has discovered a slew of other flaws with the wireless protocol most of us use to power our online lives (via Gizmodo). The vulnerabilities relate to how Wi-Fi handles large chunks of data, with some being related to the Wi-Fi standard itself, and some being related… Read more

US Senator Wants to Know How Huawei Still Has Hard Drives

Home News (Image credit: Seagate) A senior U.S. senator on Tuesday filed a formal enquiry with three makers of hard drives — Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital — asking whether they complied with a regulation that requires them to obtain a license to sell HDDs to Huawei. Republican senator Roger Wicker this week decided to… Read more

Sony has 25 PS5 games in the works, including characters you’ve never seen

Sony is apparently looking to release more than 25 PlayStation 5 games under its PlayStation Studios brand. And “nearly half” of them will not be sequels or spinoffs, according to Wired’s interview with PlayStation Studio lead (and former Guerrilla Games managing director) Hermen Hulst. That could theoretically be a lot more games than the four… Read more

Asus ZenFone 8 review: an Android iPhone mini

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. After a couple of generations making phones with flip-out cameras and increasingly large displays, Asus has taken the ZenFone 8 in a totally different direction: small. The flipping camera concept lives on in the also-new ZenFone 8… Read more