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NVIDIA has had yet another record-setting quarter, with the GPU giant posting their fiscal Q1 2019 results with the company pulling in record revenues of $3.21 billion, representing a huge 66% increase compared to last year.

The company made $1.3 billion in operating profit, which is an even larger increase of 134% over last year, with gross margins pumped by 64.5%. NVIDIA says that the margin growth comes down to "higher value platforms in the GPU segment", meaning more high-end graphics cards were sold, with more profit made on each of them.

NVIDIA saw a huge increase in their GPU sales with $2.77 billion, a 77% increase year-on-year with most of the money being made on the gaming side of things with GeForce GTX 10 series cards. GTX 10 series sales represented $1.7 billion of that $2.77 billion, a 68% increase over last year.

UPS has announced that it has teamed with UK-based tech company Arrival, where the two will built 35 new state-of-the-art electric delivery vehicles.

These new EVs will be capable of up to 150 miles of range, will pack Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) which is designed to improve safety, and reduce driver fatigue. The international director for automotive engineering in the advanced technology group at UPS, Luke Wake, said that the new deal will help UPS make new ways to further reduce emissions.

Arrival CEO Denis Sverdlov said the new delivery EVs will feature a unique wrap-around front window that provides drivers with a far wider field of view, which is better for seeing the road, obstacles, bikes, and pedestrians.

Battlefield 5 will be one of the biggest games of 2018, and it seems EA and DICE will be kicking off the major announcements on May 23 according to the latest rumors.

A very dedicated Battlefield 5 fan has found a teaser website that was discovered after solving an easter egg in Battlefield 1 map Fort Vaux. A door was opened that led to a chamber where pipes were dripping in morse code. The teaser website features the #Battlefield hashtag, and a May 23 date.

The game will include a single-player campaign, with EA boss Andrew Wilson saying that BF5 will feature multiple maps and modes in the multiplayer side of things, as well as on-going services that will be enabled on day-one.

The hottest gaming monitor on the market is still in the making, but with each passing month we're getting closer to its release and now we're seeing a new listing for the ASUS ROG Swift PG27UQ.

ASUS might not show much off in its product name, but the ROG Swift PG27UQ is a 27-inch 4K 144Hz monitor with NVIDIA's G-Sync technology. The monitor is listed on sicomputers.nl for a huge $3000, but this will give you HDR10, 1000 nits of brightness, direct LED backlighting, and 384 zones with quantum dot film. We are all here for 3840 x 2160 at 144Hz, though... right?!

We should expect NVIDIA to fully unveil and have them showcased during Computex 2018 which is only a few weeks away, and I'm sure ASUS and Acer will be showing them off in force during the show.

Running backwards usually isn't a fun thing to do in a video game as most of the time it impedes your character in some form or another. Binx Interactive has turned that synopsis on its head with I Hate Running Backwards, which features Serious Sam and other iconic characters.

I Hate Running Backwards will force players into running backwards against hordes of enemies such as skeletal kleer, unstoppable werebulls, headless kamikazes and many more. All of which will be trying to overpower Serious Sam and his chosen partner that will of course have a endless supply of completely overpowered weapons.

I Hate Running Backwards will also be feauturing numerous other characters, Nuclear Throne's Crystal, Chicken-head from Hotline Miami Rambro and even Rambo from Broforce can be spotted. I Hate Running Backwards will be released on May 22.

A new trailer has been released for the Unreal Engine 4 powered hell experience, Agony. Madmind Studio has released the new trailer for their upcoming controversial title.

Recently we heard about the controversy of Agony arriving with a censorship option as the title was slightly to gratuitous. Now, a new trailer has been released and this time Madmind Studio has revealed the games story.

For those that are not aware of what Agony is based around, players will awaken as a tormented soul within the confines of hell. Being a soul allows for players to take command of demons and other forms of life that harbor in hell with you. Currently, Agony is planned for release on May 29th.

On a developer update post from Stunlock Studios, the first screenshots for Battlerite Royale have been released. Accompanied by the screenshots is also the developers focus for the upcoming game mode.

Peter Ilves took to the developers blog to shine a light for fans of Battlerite on the upcoming new battle royale gamemode. Ilves explains the developers goal when designing the new mode, "With 27 Champions out, we are quite satisfied with the current numbers of characters and moving forward we've decided to spend more time on balancing the game and putting more work into new ways of enjoying Battlerite. There will still be more champions and features coming this year, but at the moment we're investing in trying new gameplay experiences, and as such we're happy to present some details about our upcoming game mode, Battlerite Royale."

Peter Ilves continues and says that him and his team wanted to "stay true to Battlerite's action-packed gameplay while giving our players a fresh experience beyond the arena, with the added perk of exploration." If you are interested in the new coming gamemode check out the official developers update on the Battlerite website here.

NBA fans will be glad to know that NBA Playgrounds 2 has received the first gameplay trailer from the developers Saber Interactive, the trailer showcases the improvements the title has made when compared to the first game.

According to the above video, Saber Interactive have added new player models, brand new animation system, online ranking system, new season mode, new lottery pick power ups, dedicated servers, 4-player online, redesigned AI and more playgrounds.

NBA Playgrounds 2 will be released on May 22 for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC and Nintendo Switch. If you want to catch up on some older NBA Playgrounds 2 news check out the debut trailer that was released back in April.

Google has just blown the industry away with their new TPU 3.0, their next-gen custom-designed processor that is ridiculously over-powered to train machine learning systems.

TPU 3.0 is 8x faster than its predecessor, with the first TPU being released in 2015, the company has made leaps and bounds. A pod of TPU 2.0s packed ASICs that featured 64GB of HBM that pumped out 2.4TB/sec, which is pretty insane. In comparison, the Radeon RX Vega 64 with 8GB of HBM2 is capable of 512GB/sec memory bandwidth.

Google should be the new AI chip champion with its TPU 3.0 ready for TensorFlow use, as well as a refined push into the cloud from Google. The new TPU 3.0 chips are so next-level that they require and use liquid cooling to keep them cool, but provide a huge 100 PFLOPs of machine learning power... crazy stuff.

AMD might not be selling many (see none) Radeon RX Vega graphics cards to PC gamers and miners, but they are cutting Vega GPU cores into smaller amounts and sending them to Intel en masse to pump into their 8th-gen Core processors.

The latest product to feature Radeon RX Vega M GH graphics is the new Chuwi HiGame PC which the company is launching on Indiegogo with special pre-order pricing. Chuwi is offering two variants of its HiGame PC, one that rocks the Core i5-8305G processor, 8GB of DDR4 and 128GB of SSD storage for $1299 (or $999 for the special IndieGogo pricing).

The beefier Core i7-8709G model has the same 8GB of DDR4 but bumps the storage to 256GB for $1499 (or $1299 for the Indiegogo special).

Intel might be working on its first foray into GPUs in the last 20 years, but in the meantime they're continuing to dominate the market with their Xeon CPUs with some rather impressive results coming out of Stanford and the Dawn Benchmark and Competition.

The battle was between Intel's Xeon, Google's TPU v2 and NVIDIA's various GPUs including the Tesla V100. ImageNet used to take around 10 days to be trained, but now it can be done in just 31 minutes thanks to the super-powered Google TPU v2, representing an increase of a mind blowing 477x.

But it's not just brute speed as these companies and universties have to spend millions of dollars on hardware, so cost efficiency plays a big part, and that's where Intel kills it. Without using a GPU at all, Intel Xeon Scalable processors were able to process 10,000 images for just $0.02 and a latency of just 9.96ms.

EA's own upper management strongly underlines the veracity of previous Battlefield V campaign rumors.

A few months ago sources told VentureBeat that Battlefield V's campaign would once again be episodic, meaning every mission or sets of missions would change perspectives in a fresh location, and that the story mode would be complete with optional co-op. Now EA seems to hint these rumors were accurate.

In its most recent Q4'18 earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson said something quite interesting about the next Battlefield game: the exec referred to the game's "singleplayer stories," as in plural. Now this could be a generalization and refer to each mission as telling a different story or something along those lines...or...it could be an indicator that Battlefield V's campaign will have rotating, multi-perspective objectives and levels. The game is also supposedly set in World War II, and given Call of Duty WWII's tremendous success, this makes a lot of sense and offers DICE a natural progressive shift from Battlefield 1's established assets and toolset.

The new Middle Earth: Shadow of War DLC, Desolation of Mordor has been released by Warner Bros. Interactive and Monolith Productions. Also coming with the DLC is the removal of microtransactions.

Not to long ago we saw the cinematic trailer for Desolation of Mordor and today the DLC has been released. To go with the DLC we have a new launch trailer, new difficulty level, Nemesis enhancements and much more.

At the beginning of April it was announced that microtransactions will be removed from Shadow of War. Included within this update is the removing of the microtransactions that plagued Shadow of War, for anyone that is even interested in this title it is available on PC, Xbox One and PS4.

BioWare's title Anthem has finally had its release month announced, March 2019 is the pipeline for the upcoming title.

Before this announcement the only knowledge of BioWares' title release date was that it was going to be released in calendar Q1 of 2019. During Electronic Arts' financial conference call the plans for the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2019 was revealed.

The Chief Financial Officer, Blake Jorgensen announced the release month for the title, revealing that Anthem will be released in March of 2019. According to Jorgensen, EA is "very excited" about Anthem's release as the title will be a "extremely unique" experience that hopefully gamers "really enjoy playing."

Funcoms open world survival game Conan Exiles has been updated and fully released, the developers have announced the title has already achieved 1 million copies sold.

Funcom has rolled out a massive update for Conan Exiles across all of the titles platforms, the update debuts the title to its full release and has improved the game in numerous ways. Examples of the content included within the update are more than double map size and several more mechanics.

To go with the titles full launch the developer has released a gameplay video showcasing the two new biomes, the Swamp biome and the Volcano biome. If you are interested in picking up Conan Exiles, check out the official Steam page here.

At the end of March we learned that Milestones MotoGP 18 will be releasing on June 7th, now the developer has released the first gameplay trailer for the upcoming title.

The above video has showcased the official 2018 MotoGP season, as well as some improved features that are planned to create more immersion and realism for players.

MotoGP 18 will be arriving with brand new AI, bike physics and tire management system. All of which are designed to bring a better simulation to racing players. MotoGP 18 will be releasing on June 7th on the Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC.

I really don't see how people think they'll achieve anything good out of doing things like this, but you might remember the Romanian World of Warcraft player that hacked Blizzard's servers, who has now been sentenced and fined.

Calin Mateias hit the World of Warcraft servers between February and September 2010 with a series of DDoS attacks, so much so that the FBI stepped in to help out in an investigation that spanned an entire year. Mateias was indicted in 2011, and hasn't come back to Romania, instead extradited to the US last November and then in February, he pleaded guilty to "intentional damage to a protected computer".

Mateias was sentenced by United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II with one year in federal prison and fined $29,987 in restitution to Blizzard, which he has already paid.

Messenger is losing its boss after four years on the job, with David Marcus moving onto bigger and better things in the world of blockchain technology, staying with Facebook.

Marcus said in a note that he would be "starting from scratch" with Facebook's work into blockchain technology, while he doubles his presence in the cryptocurrency world as he is on the board of directors of Coinbase. Instagram's Kevin Weil will be joining Marcus, too.

In the note, Marcus said:

We already know that Uber is working on a flying taxi service, but the ridesharing giant has just teamed with NASA to sign the Space Act Agreement that will see them making a traffic control system for flying vehicles.

Uber and NASA were already working together, but these new plans will see NASA will take Uber's plans to dominate the skies, and then test them in Texas airspace. Uber will provide NASA with everything they need, with the US space agency simulating issues like air traffic and collisions with routes flying over the skies of Dallas to Fort Worth, and LA.

Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate explains: "NASA is excited to be partnering with Uber and others in the community to identify the key challenges facing the UAM market, and explore necessary research, development and testing requirements to address those challenges. Urban air mobility could revolutionize the way people and cargo move in our cities and fundamentally change our lifestyle much like smartphones have".

Bill and Ted 3 has been rumored more times than I can count, but now the third movie in the series has been confirmed and will officially see Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reprising their iconic roles.

The creators of the Bill and Ted series are also back, with Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon writing the script while Galaxy Quest director Dean Parisot will shoot the movie. Reeves and Winter said: "We couldn't be more excited to get the whole band back together again. Chris and Ed wrote an amazing script, and with Dean at the helm we've got a dream team!"

As for what Bill and Ted 3 might end up as, the synopsis sounds like quite the ride: "Bill & Ted Face the Music will see the duo long past their days as time-traveling teenagers and now weighed down by middle age and the responsibilities of family. They've written thousands of tunes, but they have yet to write a good one, much less the greatest song ever written. With the fabric of time and space tearing around them, a visitor from the future warns our heroes that only their song can save life as we know it. Out of luck and fresh out of inspiration, Bill and Ted set out on a time travel adventure to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe as we know it. Together with the aid of their daughters, a new crop of historical figures, and some sympathetic music legends, they find much, much more than just a song".