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r/WallStreetBets has been made private

The WallStreetBets subreddit, which has seen a significant increase in attention in recent days following the meteoric rise in GameStop’s stock driven in part by traders on the forum, has been made private. Reddit confirmed to The Verge that the subreddit’s moderators were the ones to make it private. If you try to access the… Read more

Apple says there are now over 1 billion active iPhones

Apple says there are now more than 1 billion active iPhones, an enormous milestone for the company that speaks to the phones’ continued success and longevity. There are now 1.65 billion Apple devices in active use overall, Tim Cook said during Apple’s earnings call this afternoon. The milestone had been approaching for a while. Apple… Read more

Netflix is getting Tomb Raider and Skull Island anime series

Netflix is working on yet another video game adaptation with a new Tomb Raider anime in the works. We don’t know much about the series just yet, but it will take place after the events of the recent trilogy reboot. (That series wrapped up with 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider.) And there’s more anime… Read more

Reddit’s GameStop traders turn their attention to AMC stock

Reddit traders who have successfully profited off GameStop (GME) stock are now turning their attention to struggling movie theater chain AMC. Reddit board r/wallstreetbets has helped push GameStop stock to record levels in recent days, with the stock closing up 92 percent yesterday alone. It’s part of a chaotic, meme-fueled effort to create an organized… Read more

OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s next company is literally called Nothing

Carl Pei, the OnePlus co-founder who parted ways with the company last year, has announced the name of his next venture: Nothing. It describes itself as a “London based consumer technology company” and counts the likes of iPod inventor Tony Fadell, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and YouTuber Casey Neistat as investors…. Read more

Micron: 1α Process Technology to Reduce Costs By Up to 40%

Home News (Image credit: Micron) Micron on Tuesday announced its new 1α fabrication process for DRAM. Initially, the company will use it to make DDR4 as well as LPDDR4 memory, but over time it will be used to produce all types of the company’s DRAM. The manufacturing technology promises tangible decreases in DRAM costs, but… Read more

AMD Nashira Summit GPU Spotted, Possibly RDNA3 with a Multi-Chip Design

Home News (Image credit: AMD) A new AMD GPU codenamed Nashira Summit has just been spotted and benchmarked in Ashes of the Singularity. Not much is known about Nashira Summit, but we suspect it could be a mid-range RDNA2 product, or quite possibly RDNA3. At the moment, there is very little detail about Nashira Summit… Read more

AMD Threadripper Pro Listed at $6,000 for 64 Cores, $3,000 for 32 Cores

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD recently announced that it’s Threadripper Pro processors will come to retail outlets, but the company hasn’t listed the official pricing yet. Seeing these chips come to retail outlets is a nice addition after they debuted for the first six months in uber-expensive pre-validated systems, like the Lenovo ThinkStation P620… Read more

Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS

An American real estate investor, a Canadian investor and a former Israeli Air Force pilot are paying $55 million each to be part of the first fully private astronaut crew to journey to the International Space Station. The trio will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule early next year, with a veteran NASA… Read more

Best Mario games you can play in 2021: Get a dose of platforming magic

(Pocket-lint) – Mario is one of gaming’s true greats, an iconic mascot who’s starred in more masterpieces than we care to count down the years, each of them doing something radical to take platforming games forward. Top Nintendo Switch games: Best Switch games every gamer must own There are so many games in his history,… Read more

MSI’s GS66 Stealth proves the RTX 3080 can handle QHD just fine

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I had hoped that MSI’s GS66 Stealth for 2021 would look and feel a little different than last year’s model — not that the 2020 version was particularly busted in any major way. In fact, the previous… Read more

YouTube has paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and others over the last three years

YouTube has paid out more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and media organizations over the last three years, according to a new letter published by CEO Susan Wojcicki. In Wojcicki’s first letter to creators of 2021, the CEO spent some time addressing YouTube’s growth. The number of new channels that joined the company’s Partner… Read more

Rejoice! Amazon’s new app logo isn’t another icon in a white box

Image: Apple’s App Store It looks like Amazon is rolling a new app icon on iOS, and unlike countless other recent app redesigns, it isn’t just a logo dropped inside a white background! Rejoice! The new icon cleverly takes cues from perhaps Amazon’s most recognizable “product” — its shipping boxes and their bright blue tape…. Read more

XMG and Schenker Get Very Specific on Max-Q for RTX 3000 Series

Home News (Image credit: XMG) The European laptop vendor that sells XMG and Schenker laptops has sent a statement to reporters about recent confusion regarding gaming laptop listings and whether or not Nvidia’s Max-Q technologies were specified. “We always list Max-Q in the spec sheets and product texts and provide detailed information about the TGP… Read more

Apple has a new head of hardware engineering in latest executive shuffle

Apple’s hardware team is getting its biggest shakeup in nearly a decade, as Dan Riccio — who served as the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012 — transitions to “a new role” at the company. He’ll be replaced as Apple’s head hardware engineer by John Ternus, who led the hardware team designing… Read more