Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
The Tensor G4 is the last chipset from Google that was fabricated by Samsung, as the Mountain View firm has been previously reported to shift to TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the Tensor G5. With the Tensor G6, which will likely launch two years from now, one report claims that Google has no intentions to leverage the 2nm technology because it will switch to the significantly improved ‘N3P’ variant instead. Despite transitioning to TSMC’s 3nm family of technologies, Google will still be a year behind the competition when it announces the Tensor G5 and Tensor G6 A report from Android Authority’s […]
The start of the new year could mean the end of the Apple Vision Pro, as the latest report claims that the excruciatingly expensive headset could stop being produced by the end of this year. It is likely that the technology giant had dotted an estimate on how many units would be shipped this year, and even though that figure would not be encouraging when deciding the future of this category, Apple has plans to introduce a low-cost model sometime in 2025 to help increase the momentum. Suppliers have produced enough components for up to 600,000 Apple Vision Pro units, with […]
A Rayman remake is currently in the works, and members of the recently disbanded Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown development team are said to be working on the game alongside the series' creator, Michel Ancel. As reported today by Insider Gaming, this remake, known internally as Project Steambot, is getting put together by a team located primarily at Ubisoft Milan, the studio behind many successful projects, including the Mario + Rabbids series. Members of the recently disbanded Ubisoft Montpellier studio, the team behind the latest entry in the Rayman series, Rayman Origins, and Legends, are part of the development team, and the […]
The recent yield problems with the Exynos 2500 suggest that Samsung may not mass produce the chipset fast enough to use it in its upcoming Galaxy S25 series, which is slated to launch in early 2025. The Korean giant’s woes surrounding its 3nm GAA process are hardly a closely guarded secret, with the company failing to attract new customers and losing millions of revenue in the process. Proceeding forward, a new report states that Samsung intends to cut its losses and shift focus on its second-generation 2nm node, which will be used for an unnamed Exynos SoC codenamed ‘Ulysses’ and designed […]
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was an early success for Ubisoft in 2024, or so it seemed anyway. It was the first relatively big game to launch this year and it got rave reviews, including Francesco's 9/10 on Wccftech: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown couldn't have brought back the series after its more than a decade-long hiatus in a better way. With an engaging story, well-crafted Metroidvania mechanics, and a touch of character-action game features in its combat system, Sargon's adventure will be remembered by fans for a long time, even with its minor issues. Unfortunately, sales haven't […]
The situation at Samsung has gone from bad to worse because employees are looking for more reasons to find opportunities outside of the Korean giant’s foundry business. Shortly after posting its Q3 2024 earnings guidance and issuing an apology regarding its poor performance for the quarter, there are all sorts of discouraging information surrounding Samsung, with the latest one being that around 200 engineers applied to SK hynix for a position that required experienced personnel. SK hynix only had vacancies for three people; Samsung engineers with little experience in the foundry business are also attempting to transfer Despite Samsung reportedly reducing […]
The chipset choice rumors for the Galaxy S25 series are going all over the place, as previously, it was rumored that Samsung would exclusively launch the upcoming lineup with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 as its Exynos 2500 will not be ready due to poor yields. Then again, we should brace ourselves for a potential twist in the future launch because a new rumor claims that the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus will arrive with the Exynos 2500, leaving the Galaxy S25 Ultra the only version to ship with Qualcomm’s high-end SoC. A previous rumor claimed that the base Galaxy […]
This year is the first time companies like Qualcomm and MediaTek have switched to TSMC’s 3nm technology to launch their cutting-edge chipsets. In the case of the Dimensity 9400, producing it using advanced lithography does not come cheap, forcing phone makers like Vivo to keep a healthy profit margin by increasing the price of its newest X200 series by 7.5 percent. This rising trend is expected to be exacerbated by the arrival of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, with its unveiling said to happen later today. Dimensity 9400 could undercut the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 with a lowered price, but […]
Apple Intelligence requires a capable A-series or M-series chipset with a powerful Neural Engine and 8GB of RAM as the bare minimum to run generative AI features, so many iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus owners were likely livid when they found out that their one-year devices that cost a decent chunk of change would not be supported. Apple likely does not want to make this a habit of pushing customers away, especially when it has yet to roll out the first wave of features, which is why the technology giant might not proceed with an iPad 11 launch this year. […]
The journey of developing its first custom chipset started with the Surge S1, which Xiaomi debuted in the Mi 5c around seven years ago. A Surge S2 never materialized, likely because of the Herculean task of developing an in-house silicon. Fortunately, the Chinese firm’s determination never wavered, and according to the latest rumor, the company has not just resumed working on a custom solution but has successfully completed the tape-out of its first 3nm SoC. However, there could be various obstacles that impede Xiaomi’s progress, which we will discuss below. Being a firm of Chinese origin, it is unclear if […]
One day before the yearly CitizenCon event, Tom Henderson published an expose on Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, painting a relatively bleak picture of the game's future. According to Henderson, CIG employees working on stuff that needed to be ready for CitizenCon were asked to work on weekends, too. After employee complaints, CIG changed the policy to allow for Sundays off, provided they had already worked 56 hours that week. Needless to say, the mood isn't great, and there are deep-seated issues to be found. Firstly, funds seem to have dwindled despite Star Citizen raising a record-breaking $790 million. […]
Earlier this month, The Verge's Tom Warren revealed that Microsoft is finally allowing users to stream their own games through Xbox Cloud Gaming next month. Now, Warren has shared additional information on Microsoft's plans for Xbox Cloud Gaming. The cloud streaming service formerly known as Project XCloud has long lagged behind its competitors in terms of latency and quality. Whereas NVIDIA GeForce NOW started offering 4K resolution support years ago and Boosteroid has followed suit recently, Xbox Cloud Gaming is still limited to 1080p resolution with low bitrates, resulting in much worse visuals. According to Warren, Microsoft is taking steps […]
The Tensor G4 is the last chipset from Google that was fabricated by Samsung, as the Mountain View firm has been previously reported to shift to TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the Tensor G5. With the Tensor G6, which will likely launch two years from now, one report claims that Google has no intentions to leverage the 2nm technology because it will switch to the significantly improved ‘N3P’ variant instead. Despite transitioning to TSMC’s 3nm family of technologies, Google will still be a year behind the competition when it announces the Tensor G5 and Tensor G6 A report from Android Authority’s […]
The start of the new year could mean the end of the Apple Vision Pro, as the latest report claims that the excruciatingly expensive headset could stop being produced by the end of this year. It is likely that the technology giant had dotted an estimate on how many units would be shipped this year, and even though that figure would not be encouraging when deciding the future of this category, Apple has plans to introduce a low-cost model sometime in 2025 to help increase the momentum. Suppliers have produced enough components for up to 600,000 Apple Vision Pro units, with […]
A Rayman remake is currently in the works, and members of the recently disbanded Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown development team are said to be working on the game alongside the series' creator, Michel Ancel. As reported today by Insider Gaming, this remake, known internally as Project Steambot, is getting put together by a team located primarily at Ubisoft Milan, the studio behind many successful projects, including the Mario + Rabbids series. Members of the recently disbanded Ubisoft Montpellier studio, the team behind the latest entry in the Rayman series, Rayman Origins, and Legends, are part of the development team, and the […]
The recent yield problems with the Exynos 2500 suggest that Samsung may not mass produce the chipset fast enough to use it in its upcoming Galaxy S25 series, which is slated to launch in early 2025. The Korean giant’s woes surrounding its 3nm GAA process are hardly a closely guarded secret, with the company failing to attract new customers and losing millions of revenue in the process. Proceeding forward, a new report states that Samsung intends to cut its losses and shift focus on its second-generation 2nm node, which will be used for an unnamed Exynos SoC codenamed ‘Ulysses’ and designed […]
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was an early success for Ubisoft in 2024, or so it seemed anyway. It was the first relatively big game to launch this year and it got rave reviews, including Francesco's 9/10 on Wccftech: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown couldn't have brought back the series after its more than a decade-long hiatus in a better way. With an engaging story, well-crafted Metroidvania mechanics, and a touch of character-action game features in its combat system, Sargon's adventure will be remembered by fans for a long time, even with its minor issues. Unfortunately, sales haven't […]
The situation at Samsung has gone from bad to worse because employees are looking for more reasons to find opportunities outside of the Korean giant’s foundry business. Shortly after posting its Q3 2024 earnings guidance and issuing an apology regarding its poor performance for the quarter, there are all sorts of discouraging information surrounding Samsung, with the latest one being that around 200 engineers applied to SK hynix for a position that required experienced personnel. SK hynix only had vacancies for three people; Samsung engineers with little experience in the foundry business are also attempting to transfer Despite Samsung reportedly reducing […]
The chipset choice rumors for the Galaxy S25 series are going all over the place, as previously, it was rumored that Samsung would exclusively launch the upcoming lineup with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 as its Exynos 2500 will not be ready due to poor yields. Then again, we should brace ourselves for a potential twist in the future launch because a new rumor claims that the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus will arrive with the Exynos 2500, leaving the Galaxy S25 Ultra the only version to ship with Qualcomm’s high-end SoC. A previous rumor claimed that the base Galaxy […]
This year is the first time companies like Qualcomm and MediaTek have switched to TSMC’s 3nm technology to launch their cutting-edge chipsets. In the case of the Dimensity 9400, producing it using advanced lithography does not come cheap, forcing phone makers like Vivo to keep a healthy profit margin by increasing the price of its newest X200 series by 7.5 percent. This rising trend is expected to be exacerbated by the arrival of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, with its unveiling said to happen later today. Dimensity 9400 could undercut the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 with a lowered price, but […]
Apple Intelligence requires a capable A-series or M-series chipset with a powerful Neural Engine and 8GB of RAM as the bare minimum to run generative AI features, so many iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus owners were likely livid when they found out that their one-year devices that cost a decent chunk of change would not be supported. Apple likely does not want to make this a habit of pushing customers away, especially when it has yet to roll out the first wave of features, which is why the technology giant might not proceed with an iPad 11 launch this year. […]
The journey of developing its first custom chipset started with the Surge S1, which Xiaomi debuted in the Mi 5c around seven years ago. A Surge S2 never materialized, likely because of the Herculean task of developing an in-house silicon. Fortunately, the Chinese firm’s determination never wavered, and according to the latest rumor, the company has not just resumed working on a custom solution but has successfully completed the tape-out of its first 3nm SoC. However, there could be various obstacles that impede Xiaomi’s progress, which we will discuss below. Being a firm of Chinese origin, it is unclear if […]
One day before the yearly CitizenCon event, Tom Henderson published an expose on Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, painting a relatively bleak picture of the game's future. According to Henderson, CIG employees working on stuff that needed to be ready for CitizenCon were asked to work on weekends, too. After employee complaints, CIG changed the policy to allow for Sundays off, provided they had already worked 56 hours that week. Needless to say, the mood isn't great, and there are deep-seated issues to be found. Firstly, funds seem to have dwindled despite Star Citizen raising a record-breaking $790 million. […]
Earlier this month, The Verge's Tom Warren revealed that Microsoft is finally allowing users to stream their own games through Xbox Cloud Gaming next month. Now, Warren has shared additional information on Microsoft's plans for Xbox Cloud Gaming. The cloud streaming service formerly known as Project XCloud has long lagged behind its competitors in terms of latency and quality. Whereas NVIDIA GeForce NOW started offering 4K resolution support years ago and Boosteroid has followed suit recently, Xbox Cloud Gaming is still limited to 1080p resolution with low bitrates, resulting in much worse visuals. According to Warren, Microsoft is taking steps […]