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Bungie will be beta testing Destiny 2 cross-play next week

Last week, Bungie accidentally switched on cross-play in Destiny 2, a feature that wasn’t expected to roll out until later this year. The feature was quickly disabled, but now the studio is ready for a proper beta test. Between the 25th and 27th of May, Bungie will be officially testing cross-play in Destiny 2, allowing… Read more

Blackouts in Taiwan: Foundries & DRAM Makers Unaffected, Chip Packagers Halt Ops

Home News (Image credit: Future) Taiwan started a rotational electricity blackout across the country on Thursday following a major incident at a coal-fired power plant in southern Taiwan that caused its shutdown. The outages have not affected TSMC, the world’s largest contract maker of chips, other foundries, and DRAM makers. However, chip packaging houses had… Read more

Activision confirms Sledgehammer as lead studio for Call of Duty 2021

Matthew Wilson 18 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Activision is finally opening up about its plans for Call of Duty in 2021. During a financial call that took place last night, the publisher confirmed that Sledgehammer Games is leading development for this year’s game. Speaking on this year’s plans, Activision Blizzard COO,… Read more

Call of Duty 2021 is apparently in trouble, ‘recovery roadmap’ already planned

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming This year’s Call of Duty game could be in some trouble. According to a notable leaker, the game has been encountering development issues for sometime now and as a result, Activision has reportedly lowered its expectations for the release and already has a ‘recovery… Read more

GlobalFoundries Owner Eyes $20 Billion Valuation for IPO

Home News (Image credit: GlobalFoundries) Mubadala Investment Co. has started preparations for GlobalFoundries’ initial public offering (IPO), which is expected in late 2021. As chip demand is surging and the industry is suffering from shortages, GlobalFoundries’ business is expected to thrive. Bloomberg reported this week that Mubadala has initiated talks with potential advisers about an IPO of… Read more

Memes have broken the brokerages

In retrospect, stock memes were inevitable. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of brokerages weren’t ready. Vanguard, Charles Schwab, and Fidelity Investments, among others, have been experiencing outages, The Wall Street Journal reports. None of the brokerages would tell the WSJ specifically why the outages were happening. Also, Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade are restricting… Read more

Amazon bans Oath Keepers and Three Percenters groups from charitable shopping program

After pressure from activist group Sleeping Giants, Amazon has banned groups tied to the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters militia movements from its AmazonSmile charity program, the company tells The Verge. Members of the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters have been arrested for their suspected involvement in the January 6th attack of the… Read more

CES: Robot pets and drones: Japan's startup scene discovers the virtual CES

The American electronics fair CES, together with the Berlin IFA, has become an important place of pilgrimage for gadget fans. With the pandemic, the happening was pushed into virtual space. But that now enables interested parties from Japan to introduce themselves to the world without much travel. Nippon’s foreign trade organization Jetro managed to steer… Read more

Intel Launches 35W Tiger Lake Quad Core H35 Processors for New ‘Ultraportable Gaming’ Segment

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel announced four new 11th-Gen Tiger Lake H-Series processors at CES 2021, but they aren’t the eight-core 45W models we expected. Instead, Intel has developed quad-core Tiger Lake ‘H35’ chips with a 35W TDP and defined a new laptop segment, dubbed “ultraportables,” to house them. These chips will serve as… Read more

AIDA64 receives support for upcoming Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards

João Silva 42 mins ago Featured Tech News, Graphics, Software & Gaming AIDA64’s latest beta release notes show that the diagnostic tool has received support for a plethora of unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series cards, including the RTX 3080Ti, the RTX 3060, the RTX 3050, and multiple RTX 3070/3060 Mobile graphics cards. As the… Read more

Star Trek: Discovery goes where the series has never gone before

For the first time in nearly 20 years, there are multiple new Star Trek shows you can watch at once. There’s the Next Generation sequel series Picard for those feeling nostalgic; for fans looking to undo a few buttons on their Starfleet uniforms and maybe even drink a beer, there’s the off-kilter animated comedy of… Read more

Oculus Quest 2 review: is it the ultimate VR headset?

A few days ago we received a copy of Oculus Quest 2 and we have tried some of the features. We were overall very satisfied with this new headset, which represents the improvement of both the first Quest and the Rift S, while the VR remains critical in some aspects by Rosario Grasso published on… Read more

Star Wars Squadrons Benchmark Test & Performance Analysis

Introduction Star Wars Squadrons is the answer to everyone—including us—craving a modern reboot of the thrilling Star Wars X-Wing space fighter combat SIM experience from the 1990s. Until now, the Star Wars gaming experience was restricted to the forgettable multi-player FPS-focused Battlefront series, and the vastly better Jedi: The Fallen Order single-player action title. An… Read more