Acer unveiled its new Predator Triton 500 gaming laptop at IFA 2019, a new laptop rocking a 300Hz display -- just like the new ASUS Zephyrus S GX701.

The new Acer Triton 500 has a 15.6-inch 1080p 300Hz display that will be shipping in December for $2800, where inside it is powered by an Intel Core i7-8750H processor, and offer either 16GB or 32GB of DDR4.

It'll be powered by NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2060 or RTX 2080 with Max-Q, up to 2 x 512GB PCIe 3.0 x4 SSDs in RAID 0 for the speed freaks out there. I would definitely be going with the RTX 2080 Max-Q if it were up to me, because you're going to need as much graphics grunt as you can to hit 300FPS.

Netflix has just secured Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins for a multi-year overall deal that will see Jenkins get behind the camera to create original TV shows exclusive to Netflix.

Variety reports that the deal between Netflix and Jenkins is worth $10 million over 3 years, and pales in comparison to the huge 9-figure ($100M+) deals with the Game of Thrones writers and Netflix recently.

Netflix VP for Original Sales, Channing Dungey, said in a statement: "Her trailblazing work has pushed boundaries and she confidently tells stories that leave an unforgettable mark. We look forward to fostering her many ideas and helping them come to life".

Gears 5 is right around the corner (my 8K benchmarks have just finished, expect that over the weekend) but now it has been revealed that Gears 5 is the latest AAA game to have in-game inclusivity for LGBTQPIA+ gamers.

The game has a playable female protagonist, which is a first for the Gears franchise, but it also packs a bunch of Pride flags that represents the various LGBTQPIA+ identities in the gaming community.

Twitter user @ashiinu spotted the 19 Pride flags in Gears 5, with the Pride flags being in-game banners that can be styled to your multiplayer character load out.

We are getting very close to the official reveal of Google's new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones, with another leak in video form below:

The new video has the larger Pixel 4 XL being shown off in the quick hands-on, showing that the Pixel loses its notch replacing it with a large bezel at the top for the front-facing camera and sensors.

Google will ship its new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones with its just-released Android 10 operating system, and be powered by Qualcomm's super-fast Snapdragon 855 processor, 6GB of RAM, and faster 90Hz refresh displays.

AMD has released its new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.9.1 drivers, which are optimized for -- and including more performance in Gears 5.

Gears 5 will receive up to 8% more performance when in DX12 mode with the new Radeon 19.9.1 drivers, as well as other improvements and support in other areas. One of those is Vulkan, which receives improvements with the new 19.9.1 drivers.

Some other improvmeents include Radeon FreeSync being enabled on 240Hz displays on the Radeon RX 5700 series cards, and higher VRAM clocks at idle or on the desktop on the Radeon VII.

I'm going to do what no one in the press has yet: ask President Trump right here, "who is Q?" There, I said it. Now back to some not-so-regular programming: 8chan was taken down shortly after the recent mass shooting in El Paso, with site owner Jim Watkins releasing a video addressing the issue:

At the time, 8chan's host Cloudfare, terminated service of the site. 8chan quickly moved over to BitMitigate but then they were quickly shutdown and 8chan disappeared. Watkins was then subpoenaed to testify over the manifesto hitting 8chan first, except it didn't -- it was on Instagram first, but you won't read that in most stories.

Watkins took 8chan down after BitMitigate was shutdown, and would keep it offline until after his testimony to Congress. Anyone who is into "conspiracy theories" and hell, just reading the countless hit pieces on Qanon online, would know that there has been no new Q drops since 8chan was taken down.

Foxconn's first job once its factory in Wisconsin is built and operational will be an automated coffee robot for mall kiosks, airports (probably the best place) and office spaces of the future.

The Chinese giant teamed with Texas-based company Briggo to manufacture the new automated coffee machines. Foxconn will use its upcoming LCD factory in Wisconsin, which will make the coffee machines for Briggo, while seeking other contracts to build products for other companies.

Foxconn has been in hot water over its facility, which seems to be spiralling in mismanagement. The company is saying it'll have its factory complete in 2020, but it'll be smaller, and employ less Americans than the original plans.

Samsung is expanding its Galaxy Note 10 family as it launches the handset into different markets, and now there's a blockchain-focused Galaxy Note 10 "KlaytnPhone" exclusive to South Korea.

There is still the normal Galaxy Note 10, Galaxy Note 10+ and 5G-capable versions of Samsung's new Note, but South Korea gets the exclusive "KlaytnPhone" version. KlaytnPhone is the name of a blockchain platform made by Kako, a South Korean messaging company.

Samsung's SK-exclusive Galaxy Note 10 KlaytnPhone will have a crypto wallet built-in, as well as blockchain apps pre-installed. Kako will even be providing a "certain amount" of Klay, its own cryptocurrency, with each KlaytnPhone handset sold.

Unreal Engine 4.23 has been released, with Epic Games adding in the Chaos physics and destruction system into the new version of UE. A recap on what the Chaos High-Performance Physics and Destruction System is capable of:

Epic Games explains that Chaos lets "users can achieve cinematic-quality visuals in real-time in scenes with massive-scale levels of destruction and unprecedented artist control over content creation".

I hope this means the next wave of games feature an incredible amount of realistic destruction and use of physics, now that it is injected directly into Unreal Engine. Another big improvement is the introduction of ray tracing which took place in Unreal Engine 4.22, and is now improved in UE 4.23.

ASUS already had one of the best gaming smartphones on the market with its just-announced ROG Phone II, but it is already succeeded by an event faster model -- the new ROG Phone II Ultimate Edition.

The faster ROG Phone II Ultimate Edition rocks a huge 1TB of UFS 3.0 internal storage, and LTE speeds that will reach 2Gbps thanks to Cat 20 4G LTE support.

Qualcomm's super-fast Snapdragon 855+ powers the new ROG Phone II Ultimate Edition (and the normal ROG Phone II) that is cherry-picked, as well as a "special" Adreno 640 that is more powerful than the original.

The Nintendo Switch is apparently getting its own Wii Fit-style peripheral that makes working out into a game.

Remember Wii Fit? The Switch is getting its own hardware that essentially makes a game out of fitness...but it looks a lot more wacky and ridiculous than the Wii Fit. Today Nintendo teased what could be the Switch Fit, a new very barebones kit that includes a leg strap holster and a tension wheel.

The idea is simple: JoyCons are slotted in both the wheel and the holster for gyroscopic tracking and simulating various exercises. We see everything from Yoga to static stretches, ab workouts, tricep kickbacks, flutter kicks, hip adductor squeezes, chest squeezing, glute bridges, and a bunch of really silly variations of warm-up static runs. Ultimately it won't replace traditional exercise, but it makes it into a fun family-friendly experience with mini-games.

Nintendo launches 20 SNES games on Switch Online today, all 100% free for subscribers.

It's finally happening. SNES games are coming to the Switch's cheap $5 a month Switch Online subscription, and they won't cost anything extra. We originally thought SNES would be sold as part of an upgraded Switch Online tier, but Nintendo confirmed they're 100% free for all subscribers. We're happy to be wrong about this one.

The games, which include great SNES classics like Super Mario Kart, Super Mario World, Zelda A Link to the Past, Star Fox, F-Zero, and Super EDF, will be wrapped up in a separate 100MB download on the eShop. The games support awesome additions like save states, online play with other Switch Online members, cloud saves, and multiple screen display settings.

Dying Light 2 aims to one-up the original in every way, including overall world size, dynamic scope, and game-shifting consequences.

Today Techland outlined a bit more of Dying Light 2's expansive features and content, confirming the sequel's massive new open world dwarf the first game by four-fold. "Dying Light 2's game world will be four times bigger than the whole game world before," Techland Chief Technology Officer Pawel Rohleder told NVIDIA.

Rohleder goes on to expound on Dying Light 2's choice-driven system that has a direct impact on the world itself. You're no longer a part of the world, but an agent of change that molds the environments, maps, factions and overall societies with your actions.

It has been announced that the Fry's Electronics store in Palo Alto will be closing its doors in January. We reported only a couple of weeks ago that the chain they may be closer than ever to facing the fate of other brick and mortar retail chains.

According to an official spokesman for the electronics chain, the lease that Fry's Electronics has for the property is expiring on January 31, 2020. The store has been located at 340 Portage Avenue since 1990. The final day of business for the store has not been announced yet but will have to vacate completely by the end of January. Currently the chain has no plans to relocate in Palo Alto. Any plans to offer transfers to other locations for current employees have yet to have been disclosed.

The city of Palo Alto is already working on plans for the site on which the building that Fry's Electronics occupies. The history of the building dates to 1918 when it originally operated as a canning company. The city hopes to complete their plan for the area by the end of 2020, but as of now the site's future remains uncertain.

The first teaser trailer for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has leaked online, with our first look in a tweet below:

The trailer shows us Harley Quinn just before she destroys a bunch of red balloons on the screen, with the red balloons and Quinn's quip of "I'm so f***ing over clowns" in reference to It Chapter Two, which just came out.

Warner Bros. produces both It Chapter Two and Harley Quinn, so it's a nice breaking of the fourth wall for Quinn to reference a franchise in the real-world. The trailer itself shows off some quick shots of the action, with quick glimpses of Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez).

Samsung is launching its updated Galaxy Fold in South Korea starting September 6, and into the US "in the coming weeks" says the company. Samsung will be offering a 5G-ready Galaxy Fold in select countries, too.

With the launch of the Galaxy Fold the company is offering something it's calling the "Galaxy Fold Premier Service" which will give you "direct access to Samsung experts who can provide you tailored guidance and support over the phone any time, any day. This includes an optional one-on-one onboarding session".

Samsung is providing the Galaxy Fold Premier Service inside of the cost of the Galaxy Fold, which will set you back a hefty $1980. So you'd kinda want that one-on-one service and direct access to Samsung with your Galaxy Fold, right?

Intel teased its all-core 5GHz beast a couple of months ago, but now we know that the new Core i9-9900KS will launch next month. The news was announced by ex-media and PCPer founder Ryan Shrout, who is now the new chief performance strategist of Intel.

Firstly, the new Core i9-9900KS was first unveiled at Computex 2019 and will offer up 8 cores and 16 threads at 4GHz, but will boost with all cores at 5GHz. Shrout used the new 9900KS to push the boot into AMD's neck with its current Ryzen 3000 series processors, saying: "The point is, we're not taking this sitting down, we see the competition, we see the landscape as it is".

He continued: "We're adjusting because we take these customers very seriously. And we want to give them the best product possible".

Apple is expected to unveil a trio of new iPhones on September 10, inviting the media to the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California for its big fall event taking place at 1PM ET / 10AM PT.

We should see Apple revealing new iPhones that will replace current handsets in the iPhone XS, XS Mac, and XR. We should expect the higher-end models to roll out with triple-camera rigs, as well as a rumored 120FPS-capable front-facing camera. I don't know why, but we might see it in the new iPhone.

Apple could move over to USB-C but it's expected right now that it will continue using the Lightning connector, unlike the new iPad Pro which moved over to USB-C.

Samsung has just unveiled its next-gen Exynos 980 chip, its first with an integrated 5G modem and SoC in a single chip with it made on the 8nm node.

The new Exynos 980 is a powerful 4G LTE modem but an even more powerful 5G with up to 2.55Gbps down, which would see you downloading at over 250MB/sec. Inside, the Exynos 980 also has the new Wi-Fi 6 standard, and comes in as an 8-core processor.

Samsung's new Exynos 980 has 2 x Cortex-A77 CPU cores and 6 x Cortex-A55 chips, joined by the Mali-G76 GPU for graphics and mixed reality experiences. Samsung is building in its neural processing unit (NPU) for on-board AI tasks, versus sending AI tasks to the cloud and back, it can all be done on-device.

One of my favorite games of all time is coming to the Nintendo Switch, with the Japanese giant announcing the news during its recent Nintendo Direct and Blizzard announcing it on the official Overwatch Twitter account:

We knew it was coming from the near non-stop leaks and rumors about Overwatch arriving to mobile on the Nintendo Switch, but now it is confirmed. Overwatch isn't the most graphically demanding game either, so it should match the lower-end specs of the Switch compared to something like The Witcher 3 which doesn't run so great on Nintendo's mobile console.

The Nintendo Switch version of Overwatch is a little special, as it has motion controls -- compared to the controller/keyboard and mouse setups of the console and PC versions of the game. Not only that, but you'll get a super bonus Widowmaker skin if you pre-order the game as well as 3 months of Nintendo Switch Online.