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Cyberpunk 2077 has so much going under the hood that the smaller things like full lip-sync for every single voiced character in all dubbed 10 languages needs to be highlighted.

The team at CD PROJEKT RED has used artificial intelligence (AI) in a way that hasn't been done at this level in a huge AAA game, ever: full lip-syncing of every single voice character in all 10 dubbed languages is a huge point for Cyberpunk 2077.

CDPR used the "JALI" artificial intelligence to provide lip-synced dialogue across the 10 languages, with AI handling the heavy lifting with the thousands of characters with voice lines in Cyberpunk 2077.

Impossible Foods is known for its plant-based meat, something that is made to taste like real meat -- and now the company is making a new Impossible Milk.

The company says that its new Impossible milk is still in the works, with Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown saying the new plant-based milk doesn't compare to the soy or other plant-based milks. Impossible Foods said this week that it is doubling its R&D team over the next year into more plant-based products, including milk and other initiatives.

Impossible Foods raised $700 million in 2020, and will use the major injection of funds into hiring new staff throughout the company. Brown explains: "We want the milk that a dairy milk consumer will choose".

NVIDIA has just announced that 12 games will be injected with beautiful RTX and DLSS technologies over the coming months, with some of the biggest games of the year included.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launches on October on November 13 while Cyberpunk 2077 launches on November 19. But on top of that list includes a bunch of other games, but standing out from those games is Enlisted -- a new squad-based MMOFPS with ray-traced global illumination and DLSS 2.0 technology.

Enlisted is also part of the Xbox Series X/S launch as a Game Preview title and timed console exclusive, the developer teased on Twitter saying that it will have ray traced global illumination, 4K 60FPS, and much more on Microsoft's next-gen Xbox consoles.

Exclusive: Phison's new E18 SSD controller is currently being stamped onto some test drives somewhere in the world, and we have an exlcusive sneak peak at some early benchmark numbers. Check this insanity out:

The Phison E18 SSD controller is pumping away here at 7.38GB/sec, with writes of 7GB/sec. We've been teased about this from Sabrent's next-gen Rocket 4 Plus SSD screaming along at 7GB/sec but now we have some real-world results from an actual Phison E18 SSD controller at past 7GB/sec up to 7.38GB/sec.

I've had my eye on Teardown for quite a while now, with the game made by Dennis Gustafsson and Emil Bengtsson -- a game that has some of -- if not the best environmental destruction physics I've ever seen in a game. Check out some Teardown gameplay:

Teardown will be released on October 29 for a cost of $20, with both a Campaign and Sandbox mode. The game is interesting from its voxel-based graphics and design, but it's the physical destruction that is almost industry-leading. It looks out-of-this-world good.

Anyone that remembers the PhysX days, the game Red Faction, and some of better Battlefield games with great environment destruction but teardown really lets you tear everything down, and so realistically.

COLORFUL has just unveiled another custom GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, with an even more limited edition version of its card -- but in the mid-range of its RTX 3080 offerings. This is the new COLORFUL GeForce RTX 3080 iGame Ultra:

The card has a full-sized custom PCB and super-unique style with awesome holographic stickers, requires 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and available in both white and black. COLORFUL is making both the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090 in its new iGame Ultra flavor.

COLORFUL is making sure this is a limited edition card, so I'm sure there will only be a few hundred cards made in total. The GeForce RTX 3080 is hard enough to buy as it is, so I'm sure this is going to be even harder. COLORFUL also doesn't make any other white graphics card, so this could be them tipping their toes in the white-graphics-card market.

ASUS has just unveiled its new GeForce RTX 3070 KO, with the special edition KO standing for 'Korean Origin' -- exclusive to the South Korean market.

The new ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 KO was made by a special team of designers and managers, who all took feedback from gamers in South Korean gamers on what they would love to see in a graphic card when it comes to design, noise, temperature, and pricing.

ASUS ended using the final design from 10 candidates to make the GeForce RTX 3070 KO graphics card, with everything from the card design itself, the color scheme, and the packaging from Korean culture.

NASA is teaming with Nokia to install 4G infrastructure on the moon, which would make it the very first cellular network on the moon.

The US space agency has selected Nokia to deploy an "ultra-compact, low-power, space-hardened" wireless 4G network on the moon, which is part of NASA's plans to have a long-term human presence on the moon by 2030. Nokia secured itself $14.1 million, which will be installed remotely on the moon.

How exactly? It will be installed remotely on the surface of the moon using a lunar hopper built by Intuitive Machines in late 2022 according to Nokia. Nokia continued, explaining: "The network will self-configure upon deployment", while the 4G wireless network will provide "vital command and control functions, remote control of lunar rovers, real-time navigation and streaming of high definition video".

We all know about the mess that has been the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series launch, so it's good to hear rumors that AMD has been listening -- taking notes -- and preparing better the historic launch of its new Ryzen 5000 and Radeon RX 6000 series products.

The news is coming directly from RedGamingTech on YouTube, which had a document that is reportedly from AMD and sent to their partners to curb scalpers from ripping the Ryzen 5000 and Radeon RX 6000 series launch to shreds. It's great to see AMD making these moves ahead of time, a luxury they get to enjoy since they're launching after NVIDIA.

AMD has the following rules in place:

AMD's upcoming Big Navi GPUs will be using a good chunk of power, just like their NVIDIA Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series competitors -- with some hot new numbers from Igor's Lab.

The power numbers on Big Navi are early, but we're being told to expect the highest-end Navi 21 XT will have a TBP (Total Board Power) of 320W, while the Navi 21 XT GPU will use 235W on its own. But then we have custom Navi 21 XT-based Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards will use up to 355W, while the GPU itself will use up to 270W.

Now don't compare these directly against the GeForce RTX 30 series cards just yet, as AMD is using TBP and not TGP like NVIDIA does. AMD is using the same 320W here with the Navi 21 XT-powered (and what should be the) Radeon RX 6900 XT, as the GeForce RTX 3080 -- while the custom cards will use a bit more power, just like custom RTX 3080s.

Netflix's recent Q3'2020 earnings show strong increases in revenues, net income, operating income, and subscriber growth. The company expects this trend to continue and push total subscribers to 200 million.

Netflix just reported its Q3 performance and the results are stellar insofar as earnings. The company raked in $790 million in net income (+18%) on $6.436 billion in net revenues (+20%) in the three-month period ended September 30. Subscriber growth hit 2.2 million paid sign-ons, missing internal projections by 300,000 users. Netflix spent roughly $5.1 billion on marketing, costs of goods and services, tech costs, and other expenses, leaving $1.31 billion in operating income (+34%).

As of Q3, total paid subscribers sit at 195 million. The streaming titan expects this number to jump to 200 million by the holiday season in Q4 2020. APAC was the biggest contributor to Q3 subscriber growth--APAC region sign-ups were up 66% YoY and accounted for nearly half of the total market subscriber growth.

LG's new rollable Signature OLED R TV is now on sale in South Korea for a cool $78,000.

LG just introduced the world's first rollable 65-inch OLED TV to the market in a bid to shake up the display industry. The LG Signature OLED R sports a 65-inch 4K UHDTV display that removes the need for any wall mounting. Instead, the ultra-flexible display can hide by rolling up in a base.

The OLED panel moves up when needed, and has three modes: full view, where the display is rolled out all the way for complete picture viewing, line view, where the display is shrunk to a specific point so the viewer can also see objects or scenes behind the TV itself, and zero view, which is when the TV is fully rolled up in the base.

Players can now slice the storage-hungry behemoth that is Modern Warfare and reduce file sizes.

After months of increasingly gigantic patches that pushed the game to 250GB, Infinity Ward finally made good on its promise to shrink Modern Warfare's install size. Gamers can now carve up the game and only install modes they want to play. If you only play multiplayer, you can keep Warzone and Modern Warfare MP installed and remove campaign completely. Or you can keep campaign and nix multiplayer.

With the new season 6 update, users can modify existing installs or start a new install from scratch. The feature is similar to the custom install feature introduced with the Master Chief Collection on PC and Xbox One, which lets you select which games you want and which gametypes to install.

Halo Reach, Halo, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST and Halo 4 will all run at high-end optimized performance on Xbox Series X, with options up to 4K 120FPS in every game.

Today 343 Industries finally confirmed the Master Chief Collection will be significantly optimized on the Series X/S consoles. The massively ambitious Halo: Infinite may be delayed to 2021, but the Series X will basically open up a new dimension of play with classic Halo games running at an ultra-responsive 120FPS at up to 3840 x 2160 resolution. You'll need a TV that supports HDMI 2.1 and 120Hz to take advantage of this feature, though.

No exact details on performance were revealed--i.e. GPU equivalency like The Coalition's Gears 5 that ran at RTX 2080 levels of perf at High settings--but 343i confirms 120FPS will be available in both multiplayer and campaign. The optimizations will of course be free for anyone who already owns a copy of MCC on Xbox One.

It's official: SK Hynix is buying Intel's storage business for $9 billion.

Semiconductor titan SK Hynix has purchased Intel's NAND segment in a sweeping $9 billion deal. The South Korean memory-maker will spend $7 billion upfront to acquire three parts of Intel's business: NAND SSD IP and employees, NAND components and wafers including R&D employees, and the Intel Fab 68 plant in Dalian, China. Intel will keep the Optane brand.

SK Hynix will spend the additional $2 billion once the deal closes in 2025, and Intel will continue designing manufacturing flash memory at the Dalian plant until closing.

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Facebook's new Oculus Quest 2 must be selling like crazy because VR developers are reporting massive gains in daily sales. It's not just SideQuest reaping the benefits of a bigger audience.

Quest 2 hit the market on October 13, and developers immediately noticed significant increases in their sales numbers. Many games are seeing 2x to 10x the sales they were getting before the new headset shipped. And free games are seeing record numbers of concurrent players.

Rec Room's developers said that they say 2.5x the number of players on Quest 2's launch compared to Quest's launch last year. And it took only a few hours for the number of Quest 2 Rec Room players to exceed the number of Quest Rec Room players.

We are getting our first pictures of AMD's new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs, with the entire family of Zen 3-powered chips smiling for the camera. Check them all out:

The picture was tweeted by HXL (@9550Pro) with the Ryzen 9 5950X + Ryzen 9 5900X + Ryzen 7 5800X + Ryzen 5 5600X all pictured here in a tray. They're retail CPUs getting ready to be sent to an OEM or board partner, so they can go into new PCs.

Seeing them all at once leads me to believe we should see good quantities of not just the flagship Ryzen 9 5950X processor, but the entire stack of Zen 3 chips. I'm confident the new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs are going to be very popular, with numbers higher numbers available at launch -- unlike the GeForce RTX 30 series.

An indie developer figured out how to capture mixed reality VR video without a computer, and all you need is a Quest and an iPad. The project is still a work in progress, but you can try it now.

Mixed reality video capture is one of the best ways to share your VR gaming experience with others, especially if you want to broadcast the footage on your favourite streaming platform. With mixed reality video, you can embed yourself in real-time within the video stream to make it look like you're inside the game, just like it feels when you're playing a VR game.

Traditionally, you would need a powerful computer with a webcam or captured video camera and software like OBS to blend the feeds. But with the new Reality Mixer app from GitHub user Fabio914, you can capture amazing mixed reality content with just two mobile devices: An Oculus Quest 2 and an Apple iPad.

Pimax VR announced that it secured $20 million in a Series B funding round. The company said the new investment would give it the resources to speed up its R&D and production efforts. The additional resources will also fund improvements to Pimax customer support.

Things are looking up for Pimax recently. The company is shipping its new Pimax 8KX ultrawide headset to pre-order and Kickstarter backers. The Kickstarter backer boxes are about to go out the door, it's Sword controllers are almost ready for primetime, and the company said that sales of its current lineup of headsets are strong. The new influx of cash from the recent Series B funding will set Pimax up to put gasoline on the fire and accelerate the business.

Robin Wang, the company's founder, said the investment would allow the company to move quickly and offer a better product and improved customer service.