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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken quite a lot of heat over his recent tweets that impacted the price of bitcoin, which has led to the price to trend downwards.

Now, American surfing legend Kelly Slater has taken to his Instagram story to put Musk on blast, claiming that the Tesla CEO is actually "bad for crypto", and that he hopes the "SEC is taking a good look at this (and all of them who might be buying the dip today and this week in their private accounts)." The statements from Slater come after Musk suspended vehicle purchases using bitcoin, citing the impact bitcoin mining has on the environment.

Since then, Musk has hinted towards Tesla selling its bitcoin holdings in the next quarter but clarified then clarified that Tesla hasn't sold any of its holdings. Slater goes on to say, "Elon Musk and Tesla Motors proudly bought $1.5B worth of Bitcoin for around $34K in Feb. Elon comes out this week and says BTC mining is bad for the environment and they dump their bitcoin for an estimated $804M in profits (but he's still pushing dogecoin, a useless s***coin)".

The price of Bitcoin (BTC), at the time of writing this, is currently in a downwards trend after a series of tweets from Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

On May 16, Twitter user Mr. Whale posted a tweet that stated, "Bitcoiners are going to slap themselves next quarter when they find out Tesla dumped the rest of their Bitcoin holdings. With the amount of hate @elonmusk is getting, I wouldn't blame him...". Musk replied to the tweet with a simple "Indeed", and later followed up with another reply to a post where he said that Tesla hasn't sold any of its Bitcoin.

You don't need to be a genius to see some sort of connection between the price of bitcoin and Musk's Twitter posts. The question that is raised now is how do you quantify the level of impact a single tweet from Musk can cause on the market, and is this healthy for the cryptosphere as a whole? Cryptocurrency is still in its infancy, and as it continues to grow and be adopted, answers to the above questions will undoubtedly be found as governments become involved.

GIGABYTE is preparing a new refreshed range of its GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards, with new Lite Hash Rate (LHR) editions on the way.

The new GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 series Lite Hash Rate (LHR) graphics cards should be available now, and you're not going to know the difference between them for the most part. The new cards are just the second revision (Rev. 2.0) of GIGABYTE's entire stack of Ampere-powered GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards.

In the feature pages for each of the Lite Hash Rate models, GIGABYTE lists everything that the GeForce RTX 3060 has: the Ampere GPU architecture, 2nd Generation RT Cores, 3rd Generation Tensor Cores, 12GB of GDDR6 memory, and then GIGABYTE's in-house WINDFORCE 3X cooling technology.

Oculus today revealed that Infinite Office, the company's VR productivity solution, would launch with the next Oculus Quest update. Quest Platform v29 will also introduce new casting features for content creators and add multi-user and app sharing support to the original Quest.

Oculus has been rapidly updating the Quest platform giving it new software features that makes the headset an even better value. The most recent update, v28, enabled 120Hz mode for some games and the ability to pair a Logitech keyboard. The next update doesn't have any significant firmware changes that alter the hardware operation, but Oculus still has a few cool features in the pipeline for Quest owners.

Infinite Office is one of the more significant changes with v29. Soon you'll be able to use your Quest 2 headset to get work done. It gives you a web browser, access to document editing and presentation tools, and gives you a real reason to connect a keyboard to the headset.

Sharp has unveiled its new Aquos R6 smartphone, a new flagship handset that is for the Japanese market and it has a single camera on the back in a sea of multi-camera rigs on the back of flagship (and even mid-range) smartphones.

The new Sharp Aquos R6 smartphone is powered by Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 888 chipset, and also has the world's-first Pro IGZO OLED 6.67-inch display with a dynamic refresh rate of between 1Hz and 240Hz. This way you get the best of both worlds: great battery life (lower refresh rates) and super smooth response for the OS and gaming (high refresh rates).

As for the resolution of the 6.67-inch OLED display, Sharp's new Aquos R6 smartphone has a resolution of 2730 x 1260 -- or WUXGA+ as the kids call it these days. Next to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 we have 12GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.

We are ramping right into the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards and their impending release, with some new information on AMD's upcoming Navi 23-based Radeon RX 6600 series of graphics cards.

AMD will be launching a couple of mid-range Navi 23-based cards in the Radeon RX 6600 XT and Radeon RX 6600 graphics cards, where thanks to new information from Igor Wallossek we know some juicy new information. We know the die size of the Navi 23 GPU is 235.76mm2 with a 35x35mm package that has the GPU die rotated on a 45-degree angle.

We should see Navi 23-based Radeon RX 6600 series graphics cards come in different TGPs ranging between 65W and 90W while notebook manufacturers will be able to choose which TGP variant they want to use in their gaming laptop design.

Apple has done something that they normally don't do: update a previous service with a higher quality feature, and didn't charge anything more for it... that's exactly what the company has done with Apple Music.

Apple Music will soon have lossless audio that will cost users no more per month, it will be included in their Apple Music subscription. Not only that, but Apple will be pumping thousands of Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos capable tracks onto Apple Music with more dropping on the service over time.

75 million songs on Apple Music with lossless quality are now available to every Apple Music subscriber, at no additional cost... from Apple... with no additional cost (again for emphasis).

It looks like today is another one of those days, where we find out and see more about the new Battlefield game... where we've just had a bunch of images from the purported Battlefield 6 trailer which you can check out below.

But then Battlefield leaker and one-man Battlefield marketing team guy, Tom Henderson, tweet out a puzzle: "words that rhyme with Soon" he says, are "30th June" and "Boom". He adds "IMAGINE if they did that" with the hashtag for Battlefield and a "haha" emoticon.

Now, a June 30 reveal of the trailer... and then EA just dumps the new Battlefield onto Origin out of nowhere, like it did with Apex Legends and we all know how that turned out. Apex Legends to make $750 million this year alone and has racked up 100 million players in the last 2 years.

We might not have the official Battlefield trailer in front of our eyeballs just yet, but that hasn't stopped images leaking onto the internet as usual.

Tom Henderson pulled out the pencils and paper for some awesome Battlefield sketches, with some people questioning his leaks from the artwork he presented as a one-man Battlefield marketing team. Well, after those leaks we heard purported Battlefield 6 music and more details.

But now we have new leaked images that were dropped into Tom Henderson's own Discord server, with the files named "meme.png", "sad.png", "times.png", "no.png", and "bucket.png". Henderson has himself confirmed the authenticity of the leaked images, while we see a couple of frames from the robotic dog in Battlefield that you are able to control.

Tencent is currently working on a cloud gaming platform, but unlike Amazon Luna or Google Stadia, Tencent's streaming service won't have a static controller. Tencent's ideas are bigger than its competitors.

Today at its annual conference, Tencent revealed a novel concept for a games controller that can transform depending on what type of game you're playing. The controller is modular and has two parts: The shell case and the actual guts of the controller with D-pads and face buttons.

The idea is to sell different controller faces for specific types of games, whether they be mobile or console titles. One design has a six-button layout that reflects popular touchscreen mobile games (Tencent also showed off a slew of mobile titles at the event including CrossFire HD and Digimon: New Century). Tencent's cloud game streaming service will offer both mobile games as well as traditional console experiences.

Starbreeze's latest Q1 2021 financials show a dramatic shift towards eventual profitability. The Payday publisher isn't out of the red just yet, but it's doing a lot better.

Starbreeze's losses shrank by a massive 95% in Q1'21. Starbreeze Q1 losses were -4.248 million SEK ($486,396 based on 3/31 conversion rates) as compared to -97,338 million SEK in Q1'20. They aren't profitable yet due to long- and short-term liabilities (debts) and increased development investment/spending. This reduction in losses was made possible by increased earnings, and Starbreeze also paid back most of its creditors at the end of 2020.

In Q1'21, Starbreeze made pretty good net sales based on continued strong Payday 2 monetization/engagement, primarily on PC. PC made up 88% of Starbreeze Games' net sales during the quarter (Payday 2).

YouTuber Skullzi has leaked yet another Starfield image, and this one is from a later playable build.

The sun is shining on another leaked image for Bethesda's new IP Starfield. The new screenshot isn't too climactic and is quite similar to the previous leaks, but this one is actually from a 2019 build of the game. The previous leaks were reportedly from a version made in 2018.

For comparison's sake, here's what Starfield looked like in 2018:

UPDATE:Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports that Starfield is "nowhere near done" and will release later than expected.

Starfield could be pegged for an early 2022 release on Xbox and PC, reports say.

A bit ago VentureBeat's Jeff Grubb "confirmed" Starfield would skip PlayStation consoles and be exclusive to PC and Xbox. Now Grubb is corroborating an off-the-cuff prediction from Kinda Funny's Blessing Adeoye about a Q1 2022 release for Starfield. Grubb's info has proven to be accurate in the past, especially with Nintendo news.

The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for the incredible pictures it takes of our solar system and surrounding galaxies.

NASA has recently taken to the Hubble Twitter account to post an incredible image of what is called a "cosmic cloud". NASA goes on to explain that this "cosmic cloud" or actually called an "emissions nebula", which is a bright "diffuse clouds of ionized gas that emit their own light." NASA states that the emission nebula seen in the above image is called NGC 2313.

In the image, we can see in the center a bright star. This star is named V565 and shows a "silvery, fan-shaped veil of gas and dust". The right-hand side of the image is dull, and this dullness is caused by a dense cloud of dust. If you are interested in reading more about this story, check out the NASA website here. As for other space news, Hubble recently dropped some stunning images of Jupiter that showcases a hellish planet.

Two brothers who have remained annoymous have told CNN that they became millionaires almost overnight with one simple investment.

The two brothers named Tommy and James who are 38 and 42 years-old, respectively, invested into Shiba inu coin, which is a parody coin of the now extremely popular cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Any cryptocurrency is a gamble as the market is extremely volatile. But while volatility is risky there is also the chance of making high levels of profit. James and Tommy each purchased $200 worth of Shiba coin back in February.

Tommy said, "My mother and sister were skeptical but they each put in $100, too. After a few weeks, when it was up about 300% they put another $100 in each, and then it kept going up." In total, the group put $7,300 into the cryptocurrency. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the brother's main source of income - wedding videography - basically came to a halt. In April the brothers' investment reached $100,000, and continued to climb higher. "We woke up the next morning and it doubled. We were like, 'Oh my god,' Then it went up to $700,000 and I told my brother it's going to hit a million. I kept refreshing my phone."

If you didn't know, spacecrafts of any kind are meticulously built in rooms that are sterile so organisms that could potentially contaminate an object or planet can't be transported there.

Even though spacecrafts such as NASA's Perseverance rover are built with such precision and cleanliness, they could still be carrying microbes that may potentially contaminate a planet's biosphere. According to Cornell University geneticist Christopher Mason, "It turns out that clean rooms might serve as an evolutionary selection process for the hardiest bugs that then may have a greater chance of surviving a journey to Mars."

Mason goes on to say that some microbes could hitchhike a ride to Mars and then be discovered by researchers, which could "spark misguided research into the universal features of life or Martian life." Additionally, Mason says that researchers should be able to tell where the microbes originated, and that data from these discoveries could eventually lead to therapeutics being created.

Recently we have been hearing more and more about UFO sightings, and now a new video that was taken aboard a US Navy ship has shocked onlookers.

The video, which can be seen above, shows black and white footage of a Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) hovering parallel to the ocean. Navy officers can be heard observing the object, with one of them saying, "Whoa, its getting close!" The object appears to have "flashed" before dropping straight into the ocean. Navy officers can be heard saying "It splashed", "splashed".

According to The New York Post, the video was taken on a mobile phone inside the ship's Combat Information Center, a classified location on the vessel that doesn't allow phones for obvious reasons. The video was taken aboard the USS Omaha back in July 2019, and was uploaded to investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell's YouTube channel. Corbell also said to The Post that following the disappearance of the object the US Navy sent a submarine down to search for the object, but nothing was found.

Military forces around the world have adopted drones in their arsenals, and as a result, the US has begun building a weapon that will counter drones if an enemy decides to attack with them.

The US military is currently developing a high-powered microwave weapon that has been dubbed as Tactical High Power Operational Responder or THOR. The weapon is designed to defend against aerial drone attacks that could otherwise cause military bases a hard time if an enemy decided to use them in an attack. THOR doesn't use any bullets or rockets. Instead, it uses high-power microwaves that can cause the electronics to fry in the drones.

The US military imagined a swarm of attack drones were flying towards a military base. Deploying THOR on these drones would cause many of them to be impaired in a variety of different ways. Some drones would have their electronics fried, others would fall to the ground, and others would stop moving altogether. What is most impressive is that all of this happens immediately and completely silently. If you are interested in reading more about THOR, check out this link here.

NASA is upgrading its data transfer speeds next month, which will allow researchers to transmit data between Earth and space.

NASA will soon be launching its Laser Communications Relay Demonstrations (LCRD) that is teed up to replace radio frequency communications that NASA has been using since the 1950s. NASA has decided to upgrade its data transfer speeds because space missions are now requiring things such as 4K video capturing, which has a much larger file size.

For example, with current radio frequency systems, it would take around nine weeks to send a complete map of Mars back to Earth. With NASA's new laser technology, that same map of Mars would only take about nine days to get back to Earth. NASA has said that this new laser communications technology will allow for 10 to 100 times more data to be transmitted back to Earth. For more information on this story, check out this link here.

A few weeks ago, it was announced that Bill and Melinda Gates are divorcing, and since then, reports have surfaced regarding why they have divorced.

Last week, a report from The Wall Street Journal suggested that Melinda was considering divorcing Bill for two years before the divorce was official. The Journal also suggested that the main speculative reason behind the divorce was that Melinda was upset with Bill's close friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

According to people who had knowledge of his companies and financial dealings and told The New York Times, Bill had pursued other women who worked at Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At the moment, six former employees of Gates have said that the billionaire's actions caused them to feel "uncomfortable".