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Microsoft Surface with 4 under-display camera sensors

Microsoft develops under-screen camera with 4 color filters for Surface devices. When the camera is turned off, an adjustable logo or avatar will be displayed. Many technology companies are currently working on under-display camera technology for smartphones and other portable electronic devices, including Microsoft. However, the US software manufacturer seems to take a slightly different… Read more

Tesla delivers the first 25 Model S Plaid sedans

A lucky 25 customers received Tesla’s redesigned Model S “Plaid” at an event hosted by CEO Elon Musk in Fremont, California on Thursday night. The Silicon Valley automaker has billed this new $130,000 version of the Model S — first announced in January and originally slated to ship in March — as the “quickest production… Read more

New Video Shares Details About AMD’s 3D V-Cache Tech

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD’s announcement of its new 3D V-Cache chip stacking technology for Ryzen processors was easily the most surprising announcement for PC enthusiasts at Computex 2021, and today the company has shared a few more details via its YouTube program The Bring Up, which you can see embedded below. The high-level… Read more

Frontier Communications is getting sued by record labels for not disconnecting pirates

Frontier Communications, an ISP that serves around 3 million subscribers, has been sued by Warner, Sony, and Universal’s record labels for allegedly not taking action against its users who pirate music (via Ars Technica). The record labels allege in their complaint (PDF) that not only did Frontier fail to disconnect people who repeatedly pirated, but… Read more

Xbox’s Summer Game Fest event featuring more than 40 demos starts June 15th

Microsoft is hosting another Summer Game Fest event to give you a chance to play demos of some unreleased Xbox Series X / S and Xbox One games. This year’s event is coming up soon, running from June 15th through June 21st, and there will be more than 40 demos to check out, the company… Read more

A Lord of the Rings anime movie is headed to theaters

New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers Animation are working on a new Lord of the Rings movie that’s bound for theaters, with an anime twist (via Variety). The movie will be called The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, and it will cover the history behind the fortress at Helm’s Deep —… Read more

Intel Offers $2 Billion for RISC-V Chip Startup SiFive: Bloomberg

Home News (Image credit: Intel) According to Bloomberg’s sources, Intel has offered $2 billion for startup chip designer SiFive, though neither company has officially acknowledged the offer. SiFive is the leading designer of chips based on the open source RISC-V architecture that has coincidentally attracted much more interest in the wake of Nvidia’s ongoing acquisition… Read more

Pack 12 M.2 SSDs Into Your DVD Bay With Icy Dock’s New Enclosure

Home News (Image credit: IcyDock) Icy Dock this week announced a new M.2 enclosure that can house up to 12 M.2 SSDs and is the size of a single, 5.25-inch optical drive bay. You can install the ToughArmor MB872MP-B directly into your best PC case — if you still have a case that even supports external… Read more

Google Uses AI to Design Chips, Creating Machine Learning Ouroboros

Google researchers published a new paper in Nature on Wednesday describing “an edge-based graph convolutional neural network architecture” that learned how to design the physical layout of a semiconductor in a way that allows “chip design to be performed by artificial agents with more experience than any human designer.” Interestingly, Google used AI to design… Read more

Partner RTX 3070 Ti Cards Reach up to $1,000

Home News (Image credit: Newegg) The RTX 3070 Ti is out, and at this point, it almost feels like official retailers (or maybe Nvidia’s AIB partners) are scalping us, too. It’s not uncommon to see new graphics cards going for over twice their MSRP on eBay and other aftermarket sites on launch day, but now… Read more

Apple iOS 15 will feature a new ‘Spatialized Stereo’ mode

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Apple made several major Apple Spatial Audio announcements at its WWDC developer conference this week, but it seems to have held back a key feature, reports 9to5Mac. On Wednesday a Reddit user spotted a new function called ‘Spatialized Stereo’, hidden in the iOS 15 beta. The feature is said to… Read more

Watch the first gameplay trailer for Elden Ring, coming January 21st 2022

Elden Ring, the long-awaited action RPG made in collaboration between FromSoftware and writer George R.R. Martin, has finally shown new signs of life. We got a surprise trailer today at the end of the Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live event as well as a release date. January 21, 2022 is when you’ll be able to… Read more

Among Us is getting a hide and seek mode, visor cosmetics, and a fifth map

Among Us is getting a new hide and seek mode, visor cosmetics, achievements, and a fifth map, developer Innersloth announced at Summer Game Fest on Thursday. However, there wasn’t a date shared for any of those updates, so it’s not clear when you might be able to check them out for yourself. In a blog,… Read more

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is a fantasy game starring Andy Samberg and Wanda Sykes

Borderlands developer Gearbox and 2K Games announced a new fantasy shooter called Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on Thursday at Summer Games Fest. It has an all-star cast, including Andy Samberg, Will Arnett, Wanda Sykes, and Ashly Burch. The new game is set to launch in early 2022. At the event, Burch, who voices Tiny Tina in… Read more

Death Stranding is getting a director’s cut on PS5

Hideo Kojima stopped by this year’s Summer Game Fest to announce a surprise: Death Stranding is not only coming to the PS5, but it’ll be an enhanced director’s cut of the game. Unfortunately, there’s no real detail about the new version, but an early glimpse hinted at some additional stealth elements, similar to Kojima’s work… Read more