Netflix has shared a trailer for the fourth and final season of its Castlevania animated series. https://www.techspot.com/news/89507-check-out-latest-trailer-final-season-castlevania-netflix.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Rumors that an RTX 3080 Ti card was in the works have been circulating since November. Alleged details of the card have changed since then; once believed to feature 20GB of GDDR6X, it seems Nvidia has instead opted for 12GB of GDDR6X at 19 Gbps. Virtually every month of 2021... https://www.techspot.com/news/89504-alleged-photo-msi-geforce-rtx-3080-ti-suprim.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
It was only last December that the New York Police Department began deploying a heavily modified Spot quadruped on missions in New York City. The department intended to use it in situations involving hazardous materials, bomb threats, and other situations where citizens' or officers' lives were at risk. The few... https://www.techspot.com/news/89496-nypd-rips-up-94000-digidog-contract-boston-dynamics.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Intel's Alder Lake chips, set to debut in the second half of this year, will bring the combination of larger high-performance cores and smaller high-efficiency cores to desktop x86 PCs. 2022's Raptor Lake, which also uses the LGA 1700 socket, will feature the same architecture. https://www.techspot.com/news/89490-ryzen-rumors-zen-5-use-alder-lake-style.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Last month, Google said it was "doubling down" on custom silicon in an effort to "boost performance and efficiency now that Moore’s Law no longer provides rapid improvements for everyone." To that end, the company hired former Intel head of Core & Client Development Group Uri Frank to lead a... https://www.techspot.com/news/89468-google-building-custom-silicon-youtube-video-transcoding.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The Galaxy Book Odyssey ships with a 15.6-inch TFT LCD display operating at resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 that’s driven by an 11th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7 processor, up to 32GB of DDR4X memory and up to 2TB of NVMe SSD storage. https://www.techspot.com/news/89483-samsung-galaxy-book-odyssey-first-feature-nvidia-rtx.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The ECI says its goal is to promote "meritocracy, fostering professionalism, and increasing diversity and inclusion in esports." Its board does consist of some big names in the industry, including Cloud 9 VP Donald Boyce, Evil Geniuses CEO Nicole LaPointe Jameson, Gen.G CEO Chris Park, and gaming personality Sean 'Day'... https://www.techspot.com/news/89474-company-offering-400-esports-certification-help-people-break.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
If you want to upgrade your iPad, you may find there are more options than ever before. The latest Pro models differ in more than size, and these add to the existing 8th-gen iPad, 5th-gen iPad Mini, and 4th-gen iPad Air. https://www.techspot.com/article/2243-which-ipad/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Rumors have surfaced that the second generation of Apple silicon is already in production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC). Nikkei Asia claims insiders familiar with the situation say the first allotments could ship as early as July. This timeline makes sense considering Apple has indicated that it wants to... https://www.techspot.com/news/89460-reports-indicate-apple-next-gen-m2-processor-has.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
CBC News obtained the 54-page document, provided by a "gaming insider," which is said to be part of a "Run Up to FIFA 21" internal presentation from last year. https://www.techspot.com/news/89455-leaked-documents-show-how-much-ea-values-loot.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The 3D games we play and love are all made up of thousands, if not millions, of colored straight lines, which inevitably will look jagged in our screens if not for smoothing anti-aliasing techniques. Let us explain in this new deep dive. https://www.techspot.com/article/2219-how-to-3d-rendering-anti-aliasing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Some users on Twitter were upset at the price increase, but it should not have come as a surprise. Last month Digital Music News reported that Spotify tested the price hike waters in the UK with a survey indicating rates 15- to 33-percent higher than current subscriptions. However, many are... https://www.techspot.com/news/89447-spotify-hiked-prices-uk-europe-us-likely-follow.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
As reported by Segment Next, Sony’s patent covers a technology that trains a bot in the user’s playstyle. The AI starts with a basic set of behaviors that evolve as it monitors the player’s actions and decisions. The result is a bot that plays in a way indistinguishable from the... https://www.techspot.com/news/89440-sony-patent-describes-ai-plays-games-you.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Not everyone is happy about the choice of host. “I am really beyond disappointed in SNL,” wrote Variety writer and editor Jenelle Riley. “They’ve learned nothing. A host should have some discernible talent other than … being rich? Or at least not be someone who lies about a takeover, spreads... https://www.techspot.com/news/89439-saturday-night-live-choice-elon-musk-host-proves.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
AMD has been eroding Intel’s share of the CPU market for years. The former’s chips are now found in 30% of Steam users’ PCs, while other reports have also shown team blue losing ground to its rival. https://www.techspot.com/news/89441-amd-dominates-amazon-best-selling-cpu-chart-despite.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The first commercial hard disk drive was shipped in 1956 https://www.techspot.com/trivia/61-which-company-invented-hard-disk-drive/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Last week, Russia’s GS Group and Philax announced their partnership to produce "at least" 40,000 motherboards and 50,000 monitors. While the latter are still under development, the motherboards are almost ready to go; they’ve passed all the tests, even gotten certified for government use, and are now available to pre-order... https://www.techspot.com/news/89437-russia-has-begun-producing-own-amd-b450-motherboards.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
If there's one thing that Microsoft has proven with its Surface 2-in-1s over the years is that there's definitely a market out there for devices that encompass the best of both worlds -- that of the laptop with its keyboard and clamshell-like construction, and that of the tablet with its... https://www.techspot.com/news/89433-apple-wont-merge-ipad-mac-despite-hardware-convergence.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The Linux Foundation has banned the entire University of Minnesota from contributing to the Linux kernel. The expulsion comes after researchers from the school published a paper titled "Open Source Insecurity: Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities via Hypocrite Commits." The paper details how Qiushi Wu and Kangjie Lu, both students at U... https://www.techspot.com/news/89429-university-minnesota-banned-contributing-linux-kernel.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Out of the five new apps available in the Epic Game Store, the most interesting one has to be Itch-io. With the indie video game store available to download on EGS, you can essentially download a game store from another game store to play games that aren't available in the... https://www.techspot.com/news/89427-epic-games-store-introduces-new-pc-apps-users.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
In CD Projekt's full earnings report, the company reveals that Cyberpunk 2077 sold 13.7 million copies last year—a pretty amazing figure for a game released on December 10. Most of these (56%) were the PC and Stadia versions, while 28% were for the PlayStation 4 and 17% for the Xbox One. https://www.techspot.com/news/89424-cyberpunk-2077-refunds-cost-cd-projekt-51-million.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Apple finally revealed that it is launching its AirTag tracking fobs on April 30. The device utilizes the company's expanded and improved Find My network to locate attached items with nearly pinpoint precision. However, the trackers have more versatility than Apple initially announced. https://www.techspot.com/news/89416-apple-reveals-airtag-inform-you-if-you-talked.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Mobile gaming has proved an immense source of income for developers and publishers. Taking Call of Duty: Mobile as a prime example, the mobile title has made about $10 billion in revenue during 2020, much more than most console and PC games do in their lifetime. https://www.techspot.com/news/89415-ea-developing-new-battlefield-mobile-game-scheduled-release.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Seagate has announced the new FireCuda Gaming HDD and Hub, both of which feature USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps speeds) and generous storage capacity inside sleek, lightweight enclosures. They're unlikely to shave minutes off your loading screen times but should provide a decent light show as you wait, while... https://www.techspot.com/news/89410-seagate-adds-external-gaming-hdd-hub-firecuda-range.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
AMD Fidelity FX is an open-source package of technologies with cross-platform support used to improve graphics quality without sacrificing the game's performance. FidelityFX already features eight technologies, including Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS), Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion (CACAO), variable rate shading (VRS), Stochastic Screen Space Reflections (SSSR), Denoiser, Luminance Preserving... https://www.techspot.com/news/89397-xbox-series-xs-consoles-now-support-amd-fidelityfx.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
In February, beta testers revealed that watchOS 7.4 would have a feature that would help Face ID unlock the iPhone. When combined with iOS 14.5, Face ID uses Apple Watch to authenticate the user when a face mask hinders facial recognition. The company said both operating systems would be available... https://www.techspot.com/news/89402-apple-iphone-mask-unlock-feature-finally-arrives-next.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
With the new iPad Pro, Apple’s tablets are said to offer performance on par with some of its M1-powered MacBooks. They also have a price tag to match. For those who opt for the 12.9-inch version of the tablet with 5G and 2TB storage, which comes with 16GB of RAM,... https://www.techspot.com/news/89393-highest-spec-new-ipad-pro-costs-2400.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The meme cryptocurrency is on a winning spree. After a surge in interest earlier this year, mostly because of Elon Musk's tweets, Dogecoin jumped from ~$0.0075 on January 27th to ~$0.36 as of today. This translates into a massive 4,800% increase in less than three months, leading many to stop... https://www.techspot.com/news/89377-you-can-now-buy-pc-components-newegg-using.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Polaroid has put its modern instant camera on a diet. https://www.techspot.com/news/89380-polaroid-go-shrinks-down-everything-people-love-about.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Chinese retail website Taobao recently listed two monitors—a new version of the Samsung Odyssey G9 and a new Acer EI491CRG9—both of which appeared to carry a DisplayHDR 2000 logo, indicating they will reach 2,000 nits brightness. https://www.techspot.com/news/89371-vesa-there-no-thing-rumored-displayhdr-2000-certification.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Twitter early in the pandemic said it would allow employees to work from home indefinitely. Now, Facebook is doing something similar. https://www.techspot.com/news/89361-facebook-follows-twitter-allow-employees-work-home-permanently.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
On most browsers, the history is a list of all the previous web pages that the user has visited, showing the URLs and the date the user has accessed them. In the case of Chrome, you can access your history through the three dots on the top right corner of... https://www.techspot.com/news/89357-chrome-new-memories-feature-brings-new-way-check.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The test flight was fully autonomous. Due to the vast distance between Earth and Mars, it’s simply not possible with today’s technology to fly Ingenuity in “real time.” https://www.techspot.com/news/89356-nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-completes-historic-first-flight.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Amazon had already bet big on a Lord of the Rings series when it paid $250 million to secure the rights to the franchise in 2017. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the company would spend roughly NZ$650 million (~$465 million) on the first season—initial reports claimed Amazon would spend $500... https://www.techspot.com/news/89352-amazon-lord-rings-tv-show-cost-465-million.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Earlier this month, Intel’s Core i7-11700K, along with several 10th-gen CPUs, all saw price drops. That chip is currently only sold by third parties on Amazon at a price higher ($454) than the usual $420, though some Micro Center stores have a few left at $399.99. Note that the latter... https://www.techspot.com/news/89351-intel-rocket-lake-prices-fall-pre-binned-chips.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Today we're testing the newly supported Resizable BAR feature on Nvidia GeForce GPUs by benchmarking an Asus ROG Strix RTX 3080 OC graphics card. How does it compare to AMD's SAM implementation? https://www.techspot.com/review/2234-nvidia-resizable-bar/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Caught in the camera’s lens are a handful of pallets, each containing a dozen boxes of maybe a hundred GPUs. The well-protected crate is labeled with the 3090 and aforementioned 3080 Ti. The cardboard boxes contain GeForce GT 710’s and Radeon RX 580’s. https://www.techspot.com/news/89347-boxes-rtx-3080-ti-12gb-gpus-have-photographed.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The DDR5 memory standard released by JEDEC set clock speeds between 4,800 MHz and 6,400 MHz, but SK Hynix and Samsung have already promised more than that. Samsung stated that its DDR5 memory would go up to 7,200 MHz, and SK Hynix went a step further claiming it would reach... https://www.techspot.com/news/89341-memory-maker-aims-develop-ddr5-modules-clocked-over.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden publicly criticized Amazon and 90 other companies that pay little or no federal income tax despite earning a significant profit. He also promised to put an end to the practice and close a loophole in the tax code that allows big tech companies to... https://www.techspot.com/news/89339-tech-companies-including-amazon-google-uber-they-agree.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Though it's odd that Huawei is focusing on the tech this far in advance, nine years is hardly an impossible timeline to get 6G up and running. The first 4G LTE smartphone, Samsung's Galaxy Indulge, released on February 10, 2011, and the first 5G smartphone, the Galaxy S20, released 9... https://www.techspot.com/news/89332-huawei-looks-beyond-5g-announces-plans-launch-6g.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The Ryzen 7 5800U is AMD's answer to Intel's Tiger Lake and is their fastest available chip for ultraportable and ultrathin laptops. This is the first Ryzen Mobile 5000 U-series processor to land in our office. https://www.techspot.com/review/2235-amd-ryzen-5800u/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The flaws all pertain to how these TCP/IP stacks handle DNS servers. While they found no evidence that these holes have been used in the wild, hackers could potentially utilize them to crash a network or infiltrate a victim's infrastructure allowing them remote control. These implications could be catastrophic for... https://www.techspot.com/news/89325-over-100-million-iot-devices-servers-vulnerable-because.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Google has been pushing to move the entire web to HTTPS for years by, among other things, labeling all HTTP sites as “Not Secure” and only allowing encrypted pages to download secure files. It appears the plan is working: 97 of the top 100 websites now default to HTTPS, while... https://www.techspot.com/news/89318-chrome-90-here-https-new-default-protocol-better.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
In case you aren't in the loop, Half-Life: Alyx modders have been looking for ways to remove or reduce the game's VR dependencies since its March 23 release. These mods seek to "flatten" the experience in some way and make the game fully playable on traditional input devices, such as... https://www.techspot.com/news/89315-half-life-alyx-no-vr-mod-gets-impressive.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Available in black and white, the new Amazon Echo Buds offer significant upgrades over their predecessors. They are 20% smaller, lighter, and supposedly more comfortable. Amazon reduced the size of the outer casing and introduced a vented design to relieve ear pressure. https://www.techspot.com/news/89307-amazon-new-echo-buds-smaller-lighter-improved-noise.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Mattel developed a gaming system called Intellivision in the late 1970s, around the same time that the Atari 2600 launched. However, it made such an impression that the iconic console was never forgotten and is, in fact, making a comeback. https://www.techspot.com/article/2210-intellivision/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
As reported by PC Gamer, Before Your Eyes is a unique game in which players control the narrative using blinks picked up by a webcam. It has an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Stream and received plenty of glowing reviews from critics. As you might imagine, this story of a soul's... https://www.techspot.com/news/89300-steam-user-gets-refund-amazing-game-because-short.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Epic Games bumped up its equity valuation to $28.7 billion following a $1 billion round of funding. The company announced it gained an additional $200 million investment from Sony. This increased valuation comes despite recent reports that Epic has lost as much as $330 million throwing money at the Epic Games Store. https://www.techspot.com/news/89294-epic-games-completes-successful-1-billion-investment-round.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Between now and 2025, Nvidia aims to release six generations of hardware. Two of them will center around GPUs: Ampere Next and Ampere "Next Next." We assume these architecture names aren't final, but the cards are set for release in 2022 and 2024, respectively. https://www.techspot.com/news/89279-nvidia-ampere-next-gpus-set-arrive-2022-ampere.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Ever since unveiling it in 2017, Boston Dynamics has taught its quadruped robotic dog Spot to do many things. It can open doors. It can clean the house, weed the garden, and skip rope. After releasing an SDK and Spot to the public, others have gotten in on the training.... https://www.techspot.com/news/89278-goofy-robot-modder-has-taught-boston-dynamics-robodog.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Baseball game MLB: The Show has been a first-party exclusive franchise for Sony's PlayStation consoles since 2006 when it first launched on the PS2. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that The Show 21 is coming to Xbox on April 20, just one day after it hits PlayStation consoles, and the... https://www.techspot.com/news/89272-mlb-forces-sony-san-diego-studio-release-mlb.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
The Core i5-11400F coupled with a B560 motherboard make for an interesting build configuration, as it's significantly cheaper than the Core i5-11600K/Z590 and less than the cost of the Ryzen 5 5600X. https://www.techspot.com/review/2232-intel-core-i5-11400f/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, of Wichita Falls, was arrested on Thursday after attempting to buy what he believed were C4 explosives but in reality were inert devices from an undercover FBI officer, reports The New York Times. https://www.techspot.com/news/89265-man-arrested-over-alleged-plot-blow-up-amazon.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger