This week on the TT Show, Jak and Kosta finally discuss their recent trip to MSI's factory in Shenzhen, China. There, they saw MSI's new Z890 boards up close, Intel's latest Core Ultra 200 Series CPUs, and even watched as thousands of MAG Z890 TOMAHAWK WIFI boards were being made.

With new motherboards and chipset technology, a lot of cool new tech will make you want to upgrade - especially when it comes to flagship motherboards like the new MSI MEG Z890 ACE. With Arrow Lake and Intel Core Ultra 200 Series CPU benchmarks starting to show up and full reviews and availability coming later this month, it won't be long before the complete picture is known.

With the new Z890 motherboards also ready for the next generation of graphics cards, this week we learned that NVIDIA could be announcing three GeForce RTX 50 desktop graphics cards at CES 2025: the GeForce RTX 5090, GeForce RTX 5080, and GeForce RTX 5070.

With Intel unveiling its new Intel Core Ultra 200S desktop processors and Arrow Lake's imminent arrival, we've also seen an onslaught of new motherboards for the new Z890 chipset announced. Multiple impressive boards are coming; however, the new ASRock Z890 Taichi AQUA might just be the one to turn a few heads - especially when you look at the rear IO and its features.

ASRock says that with this board, you've got "plenty of Type-C," but if you glance at the rear IO panel, you'll notice that it's exclusively USB Type-C with ten ports available - including dual Thunderbolt 4 ports. By not including even one or two traditional USB Type-A ports, this is a deliberate design choice by ASRock and one that is impressive. Type-C is the future, after all.

The front IO or case supports up to four USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A connections, so there is some support if you need one. Standing out from the pack doesn't stop with USB Type-C; the ASRock Z890 Taichi AQUA has another trick up its sleeve.

The Nintendo Museum officially opened its doors earlier this month. The Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan facility showcases products, iconic designs, characters, and more from Nintendo's long and storied history, from its humble beginnings as a maker of playing cards to its ascension as a videogame giant.

From lesser-known products like the Love Tester toy from the late 1960s through to the first Game & Watch handhelds to the rise of the Nintendo Entertainment System and its 16-bit follow-up, the Super Nintendo - it sounds like an incredible place to visit. And somewhere where you can go hands-on and interact with attractions and exhibits.

There has been a lot of buzz and excitement surrounding the opening of the Nintendo Museum in Japan. However, a new post by X user @ChrisMack32 adds an interesting layer to the interactive exhibits. Nintendo, the company that actively shuts down and pursues legal action when it comes to emulating its games and hardware on a PC, is apparently using a Windows PC to emulate the Super Nintendo.

The exponential growth fueled by the demand for even more sophisticated artificial intelligence-powered models has resulted in supporting technologies getting an upgrade as well.

One of those sectors is networking, as these AI models need consistent, low-latency communication capabilities, fast data transfer speeds, and programmable features. AMD has unveiled a new solution to this growing problem, and it's called the Pensando Pollara 400. This fully programmable Ethernet-ready network interface card (NIC) is capable of pushing 400 Gbps and is specifically designed for AI cluster networking, which predominantly comes in the form of large-scale large language models (LLMs).

Unfortunately, the expansive, power-hungry nature of AI systems is outpacing the developments of Ethernet, meaning manufacturers are now turning to AI-tailored networking solutions such as the Pensando Pollara 400. According to AMD, its new NIC is designed around GPU-to-GPU communication and is tailored for data transfer within AI networks. Moreover, AMD believes its Pensando Pollara 400 will be capable of providing buyers with up to sixfold performance boost for AI workloads.

At Tesla's Cybercab event last week, the company made headlines for not only its new vehicles, but it's humanoid robots that were roaming around the event interacting with the public.

Numerous videos of the robots interacting with guests in various ways have begun circulating online, with some impressive footage showing Tesla's Optimus robots serving drinks, answering questions, dancing, and playing games. Footage of these Optimus robots responding to guests was particularly impressive as the response time was almost identical to that between two humans conversing.

Typically, when verbally interacting with a voice-activated device, there is a noticeable gap of time between the question being asked and the answer, as the device needs time to process the request, generate its response, and then speak it. However, Optimus's responses were near-perfect timing-wise. However, there was a reason for that as each of the Optimus robots were being remotely operated by humans who were responding to questions asked to them by guests via headsets.

An entirely new organism has been created by combining living cells with dead cells, birthing what is being called a "third state" of existence.

A team of researchers penned a new study review in the journal Physiology where they detail a method to achieving this state that is separate from life and death, which they believe will challenge many scientists' general understanding of cell evolution. According to the study's co-authors, biologists Peter Noble and Alex Pozhitkov, who explained in The Conversation, cells are capable of mechanisms even after the death of the host organism, and a widely known example of that is organ transplants.

The biologists set out to determine what it takes to trigger cell activity after an organism has died, and according to the study, cells can be reactivated into multicellular organisms through various stimuli, such as nutrients, oxygen, bioelectricity, or biochemical cues. The team found that skin cells extracted from deceased frog embryos were capable of adapting to new conditions and spontaneously reorganizing into multicellular organisms called xenobots. The researchers wrote these xenobots were capable of mechanisms far beyond their original predetermined biological roles.

The trailer for Amazon's upcoming anthology animated series that will aim to feature the world's most popular video game characters leaked online via Telegram.

Unfortunately for those interested in the show, Amazon has since launched a DMCA takedown notice that has resulted in the leaked trailer for "Secret Level" being taken down. However, as with all things posted on the internet it's contents were quickly analyzed, copied and pasted elsewhere. The new TV show will have a 15-episode first season that will be coming to Amazon's Prime Video streaming service. Tim Miller and Blur Studio will head the show, the team behind "L0ove, Death & Robots."

The TV show will incorporate legendary video game characters from popular franchises such as SEGA's Mega Man, Warhammer, God of War, Destiny 2, Titanfall, Halo, and many more. At the moment, the only official trailer released for Secret Level can be found above, but the recently leaked trailer, which has now been pulled down, revealed a star-studded cast is coming to the show. Something that was previously and still is unannounced.

Apple first introduced the ability to shoot with the ProRes codec on the iPhone 12 Pro, but with the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, along with the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, owners can now shoot in Log.

Unfortunately, with these new and impressive codecs, iPhone owners are at risk of reaching capacity when shooting in higher resolutions, particularly at 4K. Dockcase has set out to remedy this problem by providing a simple NVMe SSD enclosure that can attach to the back of an iPhone via MagSafe.

The Dockcase Smart MagSafe M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure features 100W PD passthrough charging so you can keep your smartphone charged while on a shoot, support for up to 2TB of storage, a read-only mode, SSD health monitoring software, and power loss protection, which provides 3 seconds of power loss protection to ensure all data is correctly saving to the storage solution.

NVIDIA stock closed at a new record high on Monday, topping $3.39 trillion and is expected to topple Apple as the most valuable company in the world sitting at $3.52 trillion market cap.

The rise in NVIDIA stock is driven by the unstoppable success of its AI GPUs and its newly-launched Blackwell AI GPUs including the B200 AI GPU and GB200 AI servers, which can't be fabbed by TSMC and made quick enough, with an expected $210 billion in revenue from Blackwell chips alone in 2025.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently said that Blackwell AI GPUs are "in full production" and that the demand for them "is insane". TSMC is one of the key partners for NVIDIA and its runaway success in the AI market, with the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer set to enjoy a massive 40% increase in its quarterly profits, and expected to make that report later this week.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has plans to increase NVIDIA headcount from 32,000 to 50,000 staffers, with 100 million AI assistants to "increase the company's overall output".

CNBC's Power Lunch picked up on a recent podcast with Jensen, where the media outlet reporrted that Jensen doesn't think that AI will eliminate jobs, and that the company is embracing AI (obviously, they're the AI leader) with 18,000+ more staffers and 1 million AI assistants.

What will the AI assistants do? They'll help run the new AI models and launch AI applications, which are being built by and around NVIDIA. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang also praised Elon Musk for the speed at which he's building a supercomputer in 19 days, which he says "typically takes about 3 years to build".

NVIDIA's upcoming mid-range Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 5070 12GB graphics card should offer 5% more performance in rasterization, and 5-10% uplifts in RT over the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER according to fresh leaks.

In a new video from leaker Tom at Moore's Law is Dead, we're hearing that the new GeForce RTX 5070 will launch with 12GB of GDDR7 memory and have 5% more performance in rasterization over the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and up to 5-10% more performance in games with ray tracing (RT).

Not only that, but MLID teases that he's heard that NVIDIA is going to release the GeForce RTX 5070 with 12GB of GDDR7 memory, but a beefed-up RTX 5070 18GB will launch with faster GDDR7 memory modules and 50% more VRAM.