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 first benchmarks of Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake "Arc" integrated GPU have been leaked and it shows performance on par with Radeon 780M. Intel Meteor Lake "Arc" Graphics Shows Comparable Performance To AMD's RDNA 3-Powered Radeon 780M iGPU In Leaked Benchmark The Intel Meteor Lake CPUs are expected to feature a major upgrade in the graphics department with the integrated Arc GPU core based on the Alchemist architecture. This new architecture will offer a huge upgrade over the existing UHD & Iris graphics chips that have been used for several years now on desktops and laptops. Now, we have our […]
There are deals, and there are rare deals, with this being one of them. Before Black Friday officially kicks, we have some early discounts for you, starting with the RTX 3080 Ti GPU found in the MSI Creator Z16P. Where most high-end machines sporting this graphics processor are in the significantly pricier range, on Amazon, you are getting the Z16P for just $1,599.99, and that too, with twice the standard RAM count, making it 32GB of DDR5 memory, along with 1TB of PCIe NVMe 4.0 storage. The MSI Creator Z16P sports a 16-inch QHD+ 165Hz IPS LCD panel that supports […]
The former NPD Group (now named “Circana”) has released its full North American sales data for October, and it was a bit of an up-and-down kickoff to the holiday season. Players spent $4 billion on games, additional content, and hardware in October, a 5 percent year-on-year decrease. The PlayStation 5 was the #1 console, followed by Switch and Xbox Series X/S, but hardware sales were down 23 percent year on year, with all consoles experiencing a double-digit decline in business. On the software front, there were winners and losers – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was #1 with a bullet, selling twice […]
As xAI was preparing to unveil its first Large Language Model (LLM) called Grok, Elon Musk boldly declared that the generative AI model "in some important respects" was the "best that currently exists." Now, we finally have the data to prove this claim. Kieran Paster, a researcher at the University of Toronto, recently put a number of AI models through the proverbial paces by testing them on a held-out math exam. Bear in mind that held-out questions, in data analytics parlance, are ones that are not part of the dataset that is used to train an AI model. Hence, a […]
Microsoft finally unveils its first batch of "homegrown" AI chips, the Azure Maia AI Accelerator and the Azure Cobalt ARM CPU targeted towards achieving cutting-edge computational performance. Microsoft Showcases First Custom AI & Compute Silicon: Meet The Azure Maia 100 & Azure Cobalt 100 Now, let's take a look at a few factors that actually led to Microsoft shifting to in-house AI solutions. The first is to stand out amongst competitors, since currently in terms of the "AI race", Microsoft is well ahead mainly since the company is well into integrating generative AI capabilities into all of its portfolio including […]
NVIDIA is announcing its brand new AI Foundry Services initiative to further accelerate AI while Microsoft Azure offers the latest Hopper instances. NVIDIA AI Foundry Services & Microsoft Azure's Hopper H100/H200 Instances Propel AI To New Heights Press Release: NVIDIA announced an AI foundry service, a collection of NVIDIA AI Foundation Models, NVIDIA NeMo framework and tools, and DGX Cloud AI supercomputing and services that give enterprises an end-to-end solution for creating and optimizing custom generative AI models. Using the AI foundry service, Amdocs, a leading provider of software and services for communications and media providers, will optimize enterprise-grade large […]
Invincible Presents: Atom Eve is the first original game based on the comic books series written by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, and it does an excellent job at presenting a compelling tale centered around one of the most interesting characters of the series, Atom Eve. Following our pre-release hands-on time with the game, we had the chance to talk with the game's Creative Director Jill Murray, discussing the game's excellent combat system, the influence the TV Show may have had on the game, the game's choices system, and more. Invincible Presents: Atom Eve is based on a popular […]
Instagram has one of the best implementations of close friends, an ability that lets you ensure that only people in your trusted circle can view your stories. It now appears that the company has decided to expand this feature to posts and Reels, as well, making it even better than before. Instagram wants you to have better control over your privacy and who sees your posts and reels Instagram has decided to expand the Close Friends feature to include Posts and reels. This will allow users to personalize their content a lot more. Facebook already lets you limit your posts […]
The first benchmarks of Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake "Arc" integrated GPU have been leaked and it shows performance on par with Radeon 780M. Intel Meteor Lake "Arc" Graphics Shows Comparable Performance To AMD's RDNA 3-Powered Radeon 780M iGPU In Leaked Benchmark The Intel Meteor Lake CPUs are expected to feature a major upgrade in the graphics department with the integrated Arc GPU core based on the Alchemist architecture. This new architecture will offer a huge upgrade over the existing UHD & Iris graphics chips that have been used for several years now on desktops and laptops. Now, we have our […]
There are deals, and there are rare deals, with this being one of them. Before Black Friday officially kicks, we have some early discounts for you, starting with the RTX 3080 Ti GPU found in the MSI Creator Z16P. Where most high-end machines sporting this graphics processor are in the significantly pricier range, on Amazon, you are getting the Z16P for just $1,599.99, and that too, with twice the standard RAM count, making it 32GB of DDR5 memory, along with 1TB of PCIe NVMe 4.0 storage. The MSI Creator Z16P sports a 16-inch QHD+ 165Hz IPS LCD panel that supports […]
The former NPD Group (now named “Circana”) has released its full North American sales data for October, and it was a bit of an up-and-down kickoff to the holiday season. Players spent $4 billion on games, additional content, and hardware in October, a 5 percent year-on-year decrease. The PlayStation 5 was the #1 console, followed by Switch and Xbox Series X/S, but hardware sales were down 23 percent year on year, with all consoles experiencing a double-digit decline in business. On the software front, there were winners and losers – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was #1 with a bullet, selling twice […]
As xAI was preparing to unveil its first Large Language Model (LLM) called Grok, Elon Musk boldly declared that the generative AI model "in some important respects" was the "best that currently exists." Now, we finally have the data to prove this claim. Kieran Paster, a researcher at the University of Toronto, recently put a number of AI models through the proverbial paces by testing them on a held-out math exam. Bear in mind that held-out questions, in data analytics parlance, are ones that are not part of the dataset that is used to train an AI model. Hence, a […]
Microsoft finally unveils its first batch of "homegrown" AI chips, the Azure Maia AI Accelerator and the Azure Cobalt ARM CPU targeted towards achieving cutting-edge computational performance. Microsoft Showcases First Custom AI & Compute Silicon: Meet The Azure Maia 100 & Azure Cobalt 100 Now, let's take a look at a few factors that actually led to Microsoft shifting to in-house AI solutions. The first is to stand out amongst competitors, since currently in terms of the "AI race", Microsoft is well ahead mainly since the company is well into integrating generative AI capabilities into all of its portfolio including […]
NVIDIA is announcing its brand new AI Foundry Services initiative to further accelerate AI while Microsoft Azure offers the latest Hopper instances. NVIDIA AI Foundry Services & Microsoft Azure's Hopper H100/H200 Instances Propel AI To New Heights Press Release: NVIDIA announced an AI foundry service, a collection of NVIDIA AI Foundation Models, NVIDIA NeMo framework and tools, and DGX Cloud AI supercomputing and services that give enterprises an end-to-end solution for creating and optimizing custom generative AI models. Using the AI foundry service, Amdocs, a leading provider of software and services for communications and media providers, will optimize enterprise-grade large […]
Invincible Presents: Atom Eve is the first original game based on the comic books series written by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, and it does an excellent job at presenting a compelling tale centered around one of the most interesting characters of the series, Atom Eve. Following our pre-release hands-on time with the game, we had the chance to talk with the game's Creative Director Jill Murray, discussing the game's excellent combat system, the influence the TV Show may have had on the game, the game's choices system, and more. Invincible Presents: Atom Eve is based on a popular […]
Instagram has one of the best implementations of close friends, an ability that lets you ensure that only people in your trusted circle can view your stories. It now appears that the company has decided to expand this feature to posts and Reels, as well, making it even better than before. Instagram wants you to have better control over your privacy and who sees your posts and reels Instagram has decided to expand the Close Friends feature to include Posts and reels. This will allow users to personalize their content a lot more. Facebook already lets you limit your posts […]