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An Amazon delivery truck has been caught on video veering of the I-45 highway in Texas to seemingly by-pass bumper-to-bumper traffic.

The video was posted on TikTok by Camihardman and has since been viewed more than 13.7 million times. The video shows an Amazon delivery truck driving straight off the highway, over the grass, and reportedly through a shortcut to avoid the traffic. One user said, "I'd be the car behind. Truck drivers know what's up and I'd trust him to get us to a faster route."

Most of the people that have commented on the video are poking fun at Amazon and its delivery service, with one user saying, "We're sorry to inform you your package has been dela... will be arriving earlier than expected." The video also shows another vehicle following the road the truck was following. It should be noted that the creator of the video mentioned that she saw "probably 10 cars do it before them".

According to a new paper released by Microsoft's research department, Microsoft has made a move towards adopting cryptocurrencies.

According to the paper, Microsoft and researchers from Alibaba and Carnegie Mellon University have studied what is described as "a blockchain-based incentive system to bolster anti-piracy campaigns", per Cointelegraph. The new paper explored what this new system would be like on the Ethereum blockchain, with the project's main goal to create a system that ensures privacy but is also fully transparent.

The paper states the following about the research titled "Argus: A Fully Transparent Incentive System for Anti-Piracy Campaigns"; "We see this as a distributed system problem. In the implementation, we overcome a set of unavoidable obstacles to ensure security despite full transparency." Detailed in the paper is Argus and a watermark algorithm named "proof of leakage", which enables backtracing of pirated content all the way back to the source. If you are interested in reading more about how this system works, check out this link here.

A fourteen and nine-year-old brother and sister combo are making as much as $32,000 a month from cryptocurrency, and here's how.

According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, Ishaan Thakur, aged 14, and his sister Aanya, aged 9, began their journey's into the world of cryptocurrency after hearing their father discuss cryptocurrencies and their rise in value. Ishaan and Aanya started mining Ethereum on an old gaming laptop and reportedly was making $1,000 a month. With their profits, the brother and sister decided to invest in additional equipment to increase their profits.

According to the report from Dallas Morning News, with the help of their father, Ishaan and Aanya are now running an Ethereum mine that has 94 processors mining, with NVIDIA's RTX 3090 being the main graphics card being used. Originally, the crypto mine was inside of the Thakur's garage, but now that profits have increased, the family has decided to move the mine to an air-conditioned data center in downtown Dallas, Texas.

According to Fox News, a new report regarding UFOs will be released in the coming days, and it will contain the "most compelling" UFO evidence.

This year we saw US Intelligence Officials confirm in a report that they are unable to identify several encounters with UFOs, or as officials refer to them, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). Additionally, we also know that several pieces of contents from the report that was given to Congress were classified and not revealed to the public.

Since then, UFOs have been quite the hot topic, and now Fox News' Tucker Carlson will be revealing what is described as the "most compelling UFO evidence from Pentagon". Carlson will sit down with air and space experts as well as witnesses on the coming episode of Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Originals - The UFO Files: Chasing the Truth." The episode will be available to stream on August 19. For more information, check out this link here.

GAINWARD has just unveiled its new GeForce RTX 30 Phantom+ GPU series, with the flagship GAINWARD GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ "Golden Sample" graphics card.

The new Phantom+ series are being made in GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, and GeForce RTX 3090 variants from GAINWARD. The new GAINWARD RTX 3090 Phantom+ Golden Sample still has the same 1845MHz boost clock, 420W TDP, 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and 2.7-slot cooler as the regular Phantom.

GAINWARD has made the new RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS more black than the original card, but the same design is here. The front LED strip has been moved, with RGB logo lighting up the side of the card which should look great inside of a gaming PC.

Apple is expected to unveil its next-gen iPhone 13 smartphone series during its September event next month, but we all know that won't be all -- new iPad, new Apple Watch, and more.

We should expect the new 5G-pwoered iPhone 13 with its 120Hz OLED display that Apple competitor Samsung is making for the company, with the 120Hz ProMotion display to be one of the most impressive parts of the new iPhone. Apple stepping into the world of 120Hz refresh rates.

Not only that, but Apple's new iPhone 13 will also rock its new in-house A15 Bionic chip that will see more performance, efficiency, and % charts we all know and love during Apple events. But it won't just be the new iPhone 13 unveiled at the September event, but a new iPad mini, new Apple Watch Series 7, and more.

Intel made its ARC branding official today, with ARC being the Radeon to AMD and the GeForce to NVIDIA -- a new series of Xe-based GPUs in the new ARC series of discrete graphics cards.

Intel has now publicly confirmed that it's working on AI-based supersampling technology, where in 2022 and beyond we'll see the new ARC series graphics cards taking on DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution).

Intel explains: "Upcoming Intel Arc graphics products are based on the Xe-HPG microarchitecture, a convergence of Intel's Xe LP, HP and HPC microarchitectures, that will deliver scalability and compute efficiency with advanced graphics features. Alchemist, the first generation of Intel Arc products, will feature hardware-based ray tracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling, and offer full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate".

ASUS has what should be the very best gaming smartphone in the world, with the introduction of the ASUS ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro gaming smartphones.

ASUS is powering its new ROG Phone 5s gaming smartphones with Qualcomm's tweaked Snapdragon 888+ platform, and it starts with... yes, starts with 16GB of RAM with an 18GB model on offer as well. But the bigger start of the show here is what will be the beautiful 6.78-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display with up to 144Hz refresh rate.

ASUS is offering 60Hz, 90Hz, 120Hz, and 144Hz on the new ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro -- so you can choose between PC-fast 120-144Hz, or use 60-90Hz for longer battery life. I don't know why you'd want to run the phone at anything less than the bleeding edge 120-144Hz, because that's what they're made for.

Intel has officially confirmed the name of its upcoming Xe-based graphics cards: Intel ARC -- which will compete against the AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce starting in 2022.

Intel ARC will launch next year starting with the DG2 series known as Alchemist, while the successor to Alchemist will be Battlemage... and after that we have Celestial and Druid. We should see the new Intel Xe DG3 GPU being Battlemage, currently in the ovens over at Intel.

The company also teased a picture of its first DG2 GPUs, with what should be the Intel DG2-128EU and Intel DG2-512EU. The bigger one will make its way into the flagship GPU on the desktop, while the smaller one will be baked into next-gen laptops in 2022 and beyond.

It looks like XFX is building out its new flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT Speedster ZERO WB, which uses an EK WaterBlocks cooler -- and a brand new PCB design, with more power for some overclocking fun.

We should expect AMD's super-expensive Navi 21 XTXH GPU, something I've heard the company is charging a damn hefty sum for the highly-binned GPU -- with triple 8-pin PCIe power connectors and a new custom PCB design.

But my gosh, look at that design -- I'm a huge fan of XFX using the Radeon RX branding with LEDs at the top of the card. But the new EK water block looks absolutely gorgeous, and I now need one in my life ASAP.

COLORFUL has just introduced two new B560-based Mini-ITX motherboards, and a new compact Mini-ITX graphics card that would go so well together in a small, but powerful Mini-ITX gaming PC.

The new COLORFUL CVN B560I Gaming Series mini-ITX motherboards come in the FROZEN and PRO variants, the FROZEN version coming in white and silver, the PRO version in black and silver. This will come down to the color scheme you're going with, as well as a new COLORFUL iGame RTX 3060 Mini OC graphics card.

I think COLORFUL's new iGame RTX 3060 Mini OC graphics card is more interesting, measuring in at just 182mm in length, and is a smaller dual-slot card that will fit into a tiny gaming PC. COLORFUL has the new B560 motherboards by its side, ready for that exact gaming PC.

Samsung has made its new foldable smartphones official, with the introduction of the new Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 smartphones announced and dropping in September 2021.

The new Galaxy Z Flip 3 will be the cheapest foldable smartphone yet, with the 128GB model coming in at just $999 while the 256GB model is $50 more at $1049. Both of them are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 SoC, and have 8GB of RAM.

Samsung's new Galaxy Z Flip 3 smartphone has an outer 1.9-inch Super AMOLED display (260 x 512) while the inner 6.7-inch Super AMOLED display (2640 x 1080) rolls out with 120Hz refresh for those super-smooth feels. You'll also have Android 11 + One UI 3.1 on the new Galaxy Z Flip 3, which will make for some of the best foldable OS + software combinations yet.

If Roblox Corp's latest buyout is anything to go by, the billion-dollar social game sensation Roblox may eventually get native voice and video chat at some point.

Roblox Corp today acquired Guilded, an interactivity platform designed to connect gamers with various options like voice and video chatting. The company didn't disclose exact terms of the acquisition and Guilded will remain an independent company.

While it's not explicitly confirmed by executives, it's implied Guilded's solutions may show up in Roblox in some form. As per a press release, Guilded's tech goes beyond chatting and communication to also include in-game bots:

Diablo fans find the Diablo II Resurrected beta lacking, especially when it comes to social and communication features.

So far I've found the Diablo II Resurrected is an amazing experience. The graphics are incredible, the lighting is immaculate, and it's great looking at all the old acts, characters, monsters, items, and of course abilities completely reborn in HD. That being said, the beta does have major problems. We know the D2R beta is just that--a beta that doesn't represent the final game. But some design decisions seem permanent, including the awful in-game chatbox design and minor issues with making/joining games.

It seems like fans agree. A number of Diablo II fans who pre-ordered D2R or get into the early access beta say they aren't impressed with the game's interaction features.

Electronic Arts has made over $16 billion from live services in the past eight years, and digital revenues are becoming more and more important for the publisher.

EA's billion-dollar empire is built on digital. The past decade has shown a few clear trends for Electronic Arts: Digital is dominating, game sales are becoming less relevant, and live services are meaningful for both short-, medium-, and long-term earnings. Case in point: Live services made up 81% of EA's FY21 digital net revenues. EA has flexibly adapted to a more digital-oriented marketplace and diversified its earnings to rely on in-game purchases rather than raw game sales. As a result the company has become a leading force in the industry.

Over the past 8 years from FY14 through FY21, the games-maker has made a whopping $16.5 billion from live services. Live services made up 42% of EA's total $38 billion net revenues across the 8 years, and over 63% of digital net revenues for the period. Live services have grown 292% over the past 8 years and represent a CAGR of 19%.

As the second most-used games engine in the industry, Unity will help define gaming's new metaverse concept and usher in a new era of 3D gaming--at least that's what CEO John Riccitiello hopes.

Photo: Jon Radoff

The metaverse is on the horizon and has big potential for gaming. It's a nebulous term that combines modern technological trends under one interconnected ecosystem, similar to how the internet is the core for services, gaming, communication, monetization, and entertainment.

UPDATE: Activision confirms the August 19 reveal for Call of Duty Vanguard:

BREAKING NEWS: This year's mainline WWII-themed Call of Duty will be revealed on August 19 in a special Warzone event, Sony has confirmed.

A new advertisement on the PS5 PlayStation Store has outed Call of Duty Vanguard's reveal plans. According to the listing, Vanguard will be announced on Thursday, August 19 at 1:30PM within the free-to-play Warzone. While Activision nor Sledgehammer have yet to confirm the news, we'll probably hear more today or tomorrow about the event.

Our solar system features eight planets, and each of these planets is very distinguishable as they are all quite different.

During the time that humans have been exploring our solar system and the space beyond it, NASA has captured some incredible images of our local planets. Most of the images can be attributed to NASA's Voyager 1/2 missions which are still currently traveling through the dark void of interstellar space.

The images that you will find below show off some of the most noticeable aspects of the planets in very high detail. As humans advance and our technology becomes more powerful to view the cosmos, we will develop a deeper understanding of these planets in our solar system, as well as the billions of other planets in our systems. For now, though, let's admire what we have achieved so far.

Two pilots of two separate aircrafts reported spotting a UFO flying through the sky before mysteriously vanishing out of sight.

One of the planes that have reported spotting the UFO was a Canadian military aircraft that was en route towards Cologne, Germany, from Ontario. According to Steffan Watkins, an aviation and shipping researcher who looked at the flight records from the military plane saw that the plane climbed 1,000 feet in altitude during the reported time of the sighting.

The other plane was a commercial plane from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flying from Boston to Amsterdam, and according to the report, the pilot spotted a green UFO flying through the sky before vanishing over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on the Atlantic coast of Canada. It should be noted that these sightings by two separate pilots come during the Perseid meteor showering, which could mean the "UFO" was actually a meteor. However, this isn't confirmed.

One satellite has experienced a strange "anomaly" that has caused it to begin plummeting down towards the surface of Earth.

The satellite named Measat-3 has been in orbit for nearly 15 years, but unfortunately, on June 15, it experienced an issue that researchers are yet to understand. The issue has caused the communications satellite to be knocked out of service, and now Measat said, "Further testing and recovery efforts found that the satellite could not re-enter service. The satellite will be de-orbited in the following weeks."

According to ExoAnalytic Solutions, a space tracking company, the satellite began tumbling in its own orbit since July 1, and according to Bill Therien, ExoAnalytic Solutions executive vice president of engineering, "It's rare to see one come back from this stage". It should be noted that when the satellite begins to re-enter Earth's atmosphere, it will burn up before reaching the surface, not endangering any lives. For more information on this story, check out this link here.