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IBM’s first 2nm chip previews the processors of tomorrow

IBM has revealed what it says are the world’s first 2nm process chips, giving a brief preview of the technology that might eventually power the smartphones, laptops, and gadgets of the future. The big jump here is in transistor count. Compared to today’s 7nm chips, the new IBM technology features dramatically more transistors, thanks to… Read more

Salad Builds Mining Supercomputer by Using Gamers’ PCs

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Salad started in 2018 as a decentralized computing infrastructure that uses gamers and gaming PCs to mine the Ethereum blockchain in exchange for items like gift cards, redeemable game codes, subscriptions, DLC and more. But now, Salad’s community of users has grown so large that all its processing power is… Read more

The Division is getting a free-to-play game and mobile version

Ubisoft announced that it’s developing a free-to-play game set in The Division’s universe, called The Division Heartland. The company also announced that a Division mobile game is in the works. The announcement is light on details, so it’s not clear yet whether the game will be a battle royale style like Call of Duty: Warzone… Read more

Substack introduces publication sections for newsletters so writers can ‘grow their media empire’

Newsletter publishing platform Substack has introduced publication sections for its newsletters, which will allow writers “to create and manage multiple newsletters or podcasts within a single main publication,” the company announced Thursday. “As your publication grows, you might start to expand what you offer to readers,” Substack explained in a blog post. “For example, you… Read more

Sony Reportedly Prepping PS5 With 6nm AMD CPU

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) According to a report on DigiTimes, Sony’s manufacturing partners are preparing to start production of a redesigned PlayStation 5 model in about a year from now. The new model is expected to be cheaper to build, which will enable the company to cut the price of its latest console,… Read more

FCC’s net neutrality rollback overwhelmed by bogus industry comments, investigation finds

The New York attorney general’s office issued a report Thursday confirming that some of the US’s largest broadband providers engaged in a massive campaign to flood the Federal Communications Commission with fake comments in the run-up to the commission’s 2017 order to roll back net neutrality. The attorney general’s multi-year investigation found that fake comments… Read more

Microsoft would like to remind you the Xbox definitely makes money

A Microsoft executive has admitted that the company doesn’t earn any profit on sales of Xbox consoles alone. The admission came as part of the Epic v. Apple trial yesterday, confirming what we’ve known for years: Microsoft sells Xbox consoles at a loss. Asked how much margin Microsoft makes on Xbox consoles, the company’s head… Read more

The Nintendo Switch can’t be stopped

Nintendo Switch sales were up 44 percent percent from January to March compared to the same pandemic-impaired quarter from a year earlier. Today’s numbers bring total Switch sales to 28.83 million for the fiscal year, up 37 percent compared to the 21 million Switch consoles the company shipped the year prior, and beating the company’s… Read more

Gamescom 2021 will once again be an all-digital event

Mustafa Mahmoud 12 hours ago Featured Tech News, Online, Software & Gaming 2020 saw many of the industries biggest events either get cancelled outright, or translated into a digital format, due to the global pandemic caused by COVID-19. Despite many advances in moving towards combating the virus, it would seem many event organisers are not yet… Read more

Activision is tripling the size of its Call of Duty studios

Mustafa Mahmoud 14 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Call of Duty is one of the biggest franchises in all of video games, with over 400 million copies sold. This doesn’t even include Warzone and COD mobile, each of which have over 100 million players. In order to keep up with its size… Read more

Epic Games Store expected to become profitable by 2024

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming A few weeks ago, we learned that Epic Games had spent around $330 million on obtaining Epic Games Store exclusives so far. Now, thanks to testimony given during the first day of the Epic Games v Apple trial, we know that the Epic Games… Read more

Chia Coin’s Initially High Prices Could Cause a Storage Shortage

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) After about a month of preparation, following the initial mainnet launch, cryptocurrency Chia coin (XCH) has officially started trading — which means it’s possibly preparing to suck up all of the best SSDs like Ethereum (see how to mine Ethereum) has been gobbling up the best graphics cards. Early… Read more

DJI Mavic Air 2 vs Mavic Air: What’s the difference?

(Pocket-lint) – It seems an age since DJI first introduced the Mavic Air to the world. Since launching it released the Mavic Air and the Air 2S, ‘Mavic’ moniker is no more. The aim has always been the same: to bring powerful capabilities to users in a smaller, more affordable drone than its more premium… Read more

Apple to ship an 8-inch foldable iPhone in 2023, according to report

2023 could be the year of the foldable iPhone, reckons renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In an investor note seen by MacRumours, Kuo claims that Apple is beavering away on a folding iPhone with an 8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display. He even goes so far as to say the tech giant will ship 15 to 20… Read more

Apple exec suggested cutting App Store commission to 20 percent as early as 2011

Phil Schiller, the Apple executive in charge of the App Store, raised the possibility of the company cutting its 30 percent commission rate to 25 or even 20 percent back in 2011 in response to competition. Schiller floated the idea in an email to then Apple CEO Steve Jobs and head of Apple services Eddy… Read more