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On September 14 residents that happened to be looking at the night sky saw a streaking ball of light move from one side of the sky to the other.

What was initially believed to be some piece of space junk or possibly a SpaceX Starlink satellite falling back to Earth, was determined to be a high-speed meteor that entered Earth's atmosphere, according to the United Kingdom Meteor Network.

Reports indicate that the meteor entered the planet's atmosphere at a ridiculous speed of 31,764 mph, and after researchers conducted analysis with the 172 different cameras located around Britain it was determined that the meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Wales, the Irish Sea, Belfast and Ireland. So, how big was this fireball?

A study on the Mars meteoroid impacts titled "Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight" has been published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Researchers from Brown University have analyzed seismic waves detected by the seismometer of NASA's InSight Mars lander, which were associated with four meteoroids crashing into the surface of Mars in 2020 and 2021. The meteoroids crashed into the planet in the Elysium Planitia region and impacted between 53 and 180 miles (85.3 to 289.7 kilometers) away from InSight.

The first meteoroid to strike Mars entered the planet's atmosphere on September 5th, 2021, before it exploded into at least three fragments, each resulting in a crater on Mars' surface. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) satellite later flew over the impact sites, successfully located them, and captured close-up images of the craters. Earlier data revealed additional meteoroid impacts from May 27th, 2020, February 18th, 2021, and August 31st, 2021.

The world's largest live-streaming platform is experiencing a heavy amount of controversy following the unraveling of the biggest scammer on Twitch.

Former Team Liquid member and streamer Slicker has been exposed for scamming his followers and fellow content creators out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. As outlined by the YouTube investigator Coffeezilla, Slicker admits to scamming numerous individuals by borrowing money from them and never returning it despite promising to do so.

Slicker borrowed the money from people to fuel his gambling addiction, which, following Slicker's admission, sparked a large debate on social media surrounding the victims and the larger impact of gambling being present on Twitch. Streamers such as Ludwig and xQc have offered to help pay back the money owed to Slicker's victims, which now totals more than $300,000, according to Coffeezilla.

The University of Michigan has officially begun commissioning experiments to make the Zetawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (ZEUS) fully operational.

Researchers are preparing to use the laser to fire light pulses at an experimental target designed to receive more frequent pulses but at lower peak power. This first experiment will see the laser firing with a power output of 30 terawatts (30 trillion watts), about 1% of ZEUS' designed maximum power, and roughly 3% of the power of the most powerful lasers currently in the United States. Its maximum power output is expected to reach three petawatts (3,000 terawatts).

Russian citizens are flocking to the world's largest search engine to ask one simple question - "How to leave Russia?".

Ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's now-canceled nation address, Russian citizens took to Google on Tuesday to ask the search engine "how to leave Russia", according to the Mozhem Obyasnit Telegram channel. The canceled speech from Putin was rescheduled to Wednesday this week as the Kremlin have indicated that it will respond to the claims that the nation has suffered significant losses in the Ukraine war and how its response could directly impact everyday Russians.

The peak of the Google search queries happened at around 6 pm Moscow time on Tuesday, with the Mozhem Obyasnit Telegram channel reporting that Russians located in the east of the country, bordering China, showed a particular interest in getting results on how to leave Russia.

The Pentagon has launched a "sweeping audit" on how it conducts clandestine psychological operations online after growing concern from the White House and federal agencies.

A new report from The Washington Post reveals that social media companies such as Twitter and Facebook have identified and removed fake accounts that are suspected of being created and run by the US military. The accounts in question violated the platforms' policies, and as a result, Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, has now instructed that a full accounting report on all psychological operations online will be provided to him by next month.

WAPO reports that Twitter and Facebook have taken down more than 150 accounts and media sites that were in violation of the platform's policies. Two officials familiar with the matter spoke to WAPO on the condition of anonymity, and said that the majority of the account removals occurred within the last three years, with some even being as recent as the Russian/Ukraine war as the account/s were spreading anti-Russian narratives that cited "the Kremlin's "imperialist" war in Ukraine and warning of the conflict's direct impact on Central Asian countries," wrote WAPO.

Twitter is preparing to question SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk under oath for the very first time, as the world's second-largest social media platform plans to ask Musk why he decided to abandon the deal to purchase the platform.

Elon Musk decided to back out of his $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter, which sparked legal action from Twitter that Musk and the social media platform are now engaged in. Musk decided to back out of the deal to purchase the social media platform by arguing that Twitter intentionally misrepresented the number of users on its platform, and simultaneously misrepresented its total number of bot/spam accounts.

On the other side of the fence, Twitter has alleged that Musk is attempted to get out of the deal for economic reasons, and that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has been attempting to gather insider information from Twitter to build his own competing platform. Both parties are now engaged in a lawsuit that will go to litigation privately in a law office in Delaware on September 26 and September 27, with the possibility of the trial extending an additional day to September 28.

It has been a very tough year for US tech companies with COVID-19-related supply chain shortages across various industries and an overall market downturn.

Most US tech giants are already making decisions like cutting hiring rates to brace for the market downturn, and while most US tech giants have felt the pressure one way or another, there is no one that has felt it more than Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Bloomberg has reported that Zuckerberg has lost a considerable amount of his net worth across 2022, with the publication reporting that the Facebook founder has lost a whopping $71 billion throughout the year, leaving his current net worth at $55.6 billion.

While $55.6 billion is certainly a lot of money, Zuckerberg has moved down to the 20th richest person in the world - his lowest spot on Bloomberg's ladder since 2014. For context, Zuckerberg was the third-richest person in the world just two years ago, meaning that the Facebook founder has lost more than half of his net worth this year. What caused this?

NVIDIA announced its huge upgrade in DLSS 3 upscaling technology with its Ada Lovelace GPU architecture reveal, where GeForce RTX 40 series GPU owners are in for a real, real huge performance leap with DLSS 3.

Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the best-looking games on PC, and it is super-powered with ray tracing enabled and then performance-boosted with DLSS 2.x but the new update coming for the game will insert DLSS 3 that will drive performance on RTX 40 series GPUs through the roof.

CD PROJEKT RED will push out a new update for Cyberpunk 2077 that will add a new Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode that will boost the level of detail in the already beautifully-detailed game even higher. We have NVIDIA RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) which will make every single neon sign, street lamp, car headlight, LED billboard and TV accurate ray-traced lighting and shadows, bathing objects, walls, passing cars and pedestrians in accurate colored lighting.

NVIDIA has unleashed its next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, with 3 new GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards announced... and monster performance teased.

During the recent GeForce Beyond broadcast, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said that the team has been testing Ada in the labs and have pushed it to some lofty limits. Jensen said: "we've overclocked Ada to past 3GHz in our labs".

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is a monster, where it's up to 2x faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti thanks to Ada Lovelace's new DLSS 3-ready AI upscaling technology. The next-gen AD102-300 GPU features 16384 CUDA cores and a GPU boost clock of 2.52GHz with 24GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 21Gbps bandwidth on a 384-bit memory bus for 1TB/sec+ memory bandwidth.

Inno3D has just unveiled a few new interesting GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards, with the new flagship GeForce RTX 4090 iCHILL Frostbite graphics card.

The new Inno3D GeForce RTX 4090 iCHILL Frostbite features a tiny design that comes in at under a dual-slot, with the design of the cooled allows the components to be even closer by reducing the thickness of the thermal pads underneath.

Inno3D used software to simulate how water flowed, which provided the company with a more efficient design that also packs digital aRGB LEDs that will make for a sleek look inside of your gaming PC. The new GeForce RTX 4090 iCHILL Frostbite uses copper in its water coolers that are nickel-plated which boosts acid resistance and stops the nickel plating from peeling off, just like the previous-gen Frostbite card.

Now that the cat is out of the bag when it comes to NVIDIA's next-generation Ada Lovelace GPU architecture and new GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards, ZOTAC is here with 9 new custom GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards.

ZOTAC has three of each model: GeForce RTX 4090 24GB, RTX 4080 16GB, and RTX 4080 12GB graphics cards in AMP Extreme AIRO, Trinity OC, and Trinity variants. ZOTAC is using an all-new aerodynamic-inspired design for its new ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards, as well as more key innovations that push the limit in gaming performance, cooling efficiency, noise levels, and durability.

The new flagship ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme AIRO graphics card features a counter-rotating fan design that provides smooth airflow, extreme power phase design for stable power delivery and a strong metal die-cast backplate that provides improved durability.

NVIDIA might have unveiled its next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU architecture during its GeForce Beyond broadcast, where we were introduced to a trio of new GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards, but now we are getting more details on the new flagship AD102 GPU.

The next-gen NVIDIA AD102 GPU will be at the center of the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, with AD102 packing up to 76.3 billion transistors, with a die size of 608.4 mm². NVIDIA's new Ada Lovelace GPUs are being made on TSMC's new 4N process node, with 2.78x the transistor density of its current-gen GA102 "Ampere" GPU made on Samsung's custom 8nm process node.

NVIDIA's new AD102 GPU has up to 18432 CUDA cores, up to 568 4th Gen Tensor Cores, and up to 142 3rd Gen RT cores while NVIDIA's new Ada Lovelace GPU architecture features Shader Execution Reordering (SER) which makes rasterization operations much, much faster: offering up to 25% more gaming performance.

NVIDIA has finally detailed its next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, with the new GeForce RTX 4090, RTX 4080 16GB and RTX 4080 12GB graphics cards... and now the RTX 6000 workstation GPU.

The new NVIDIA RTX 6000 workstation GPU is based on the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, with up to 2x to 4x the performance of the previous generation RTX A6000 workstation card based on the Ampere GPU architecture. NVIDIA designed the new RTX 6000 for neural graphics and advanced virtual world simulation as well as Ada generation AI and programmable shader technology.

This makes the NVIDIA RTX 6000 workstation GPU the best choice if you're building for the metaverse and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprice, with the very latest generations of render, AI, and shader technologies all spooled into a huge 48GB of GDDR6 ECC memory.

2K Games support today announced that a hacker has gained accessed to its helpdesk platform and is sending out malware to consumers.

Following the widespread Grand Theft Auto 6 leak, another Take-Two Interactive studio has been hit by a cyberattack. This time it's 2K Games, the studio behind one of the most lucrative video game franchises on the planet with the annualized NBA 2K series.

2K Games support has issued a formal statement warning consumers and users not to open any emails or click on any links that they receive from 2K support addresses. These messages and links contain malware that will infiltrate users' computers.

Uber and Take-Two Interactive are currently working alongside the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track down a hacker responsible for multiple data breaches.

Just a few days ago a hacker gained access to Rockstar Games' private database and stole 3GB worth of restricted Grand Theft Auto 6 footage and information. GTA 6 leaks spread like wildfire, and the hacker known as "teapotuberhacker," also took credit for the massive Uber security infiltration that happened on September 16.

Uber has since issued an official update saying that they have been a victim of Lapsus$, a hacker collective known for breaking into many corporate company databases including those from Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, and NVIDIA. It's believe that Lapsus$ is behind the Rockstar Games hack as well.

Star Citizen has now broken $500 million in crowdsourced funding, with over $77 million generated in 2022 so far.

Star Citizen continues its galaxy-spanning budget as one of the most expensive video games in the history of the industry. The long-running space sim has broken half a billion in total funding through pledges and in-game purchases over the past 10 years, making it one of the largest independent game investments on the market.

At the time of writing, Star Citizen has raised $500.067 million and there are over 4 million players. Star Citizen managed to raise over $77.121 million throughout 2022 so far.

Electronic Arts and Marvel have announced a business collaboration to work on several new game projects.

The leaks were right: EA is working on a new Iron Man game and a handful of other titles too. "This is an exciting new collaboration between Marvel and Electronic Arts, with Iron Man being the first of several new games," EA's Motive studio said during today's Iron Man announcement.

This lends credence to earlier reports that EA is also working on a new Black Panther game, but nothing has been announced or confirmed on other projects.

ASUS is asking us to "ascend to new heights" with the new GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards, with the company detailing new ROG Strix and TUF Gaming designs.

The company has just unveiled new Ada Lovelace GPU-powered offerings in the form of GeForce RTX 4090, GeForce RTX 4080 16GB, and GeForce RTX 4080 12GB graphics cards. The new flagship ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 is here to topple your games and benchmark charts.

The new custom ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card features a 3.5-slot design, with ASUS going back to the drawing board for the heat sink design of its new ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090. ASUS says there's a new vapor chamber, 30% more surface area for heat dissipation when compared to the ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3090.

MSI has unveiled its new fleet of custom GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 series graphics cards, with new members of the SUPRIM, SUPRIM LIQUID, GAMING TRIO, and VENTUS cards here to be detailed.

The new MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM is the new flagship Ada Lovelace card from the company, cooled by the TRI FROZR 3S thermal solution, something MSI calls its "most advanced air cooling system". MSI cools the RTX 4090 SUPRIM by dissipating heat from critical board components with TORX FAN 5.0, up to 10 Core Pipes, Airflow Control finds featuring new Wave-curved 3.0 edges, and air antegrade fins.

MSI is outfitting its new custom RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 16GB graphics cards with a vapor chamber, while the RTX 4080 12GB gets a massive nickel-plated copper baseplate. MSI will be using its business-as-usual brushed aluminum on the exterior of the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 16GB SUPRIM X graphics cards, while the backplate impart an armored aesthetic while reinforcing the length of the card.