NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have arrived at the International Space Station after a two-day trip.

Their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft docked with the Station's Poisk module at 5:52 AM EDT. When hatches between the Soyuz and Space Station opened at 8:20 AM EDT, the three crew members joined Expedition 49 Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, who have been aboard ISS since July. The International Space Station now has six occupants.

Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko will spend a little more than four months aboard the Space Station, and their return to Earth is scheduled for late February. The crew members will contribute to more than 250 research experiments ongoing aboard the space station, in diverse fields such as biology, Earth Science, human research, physical sciences and technology development.

Twitter, Spotify, Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, Etsy and many other popular websites went offline earlier today due to a massive cyber attack on the DynDNS, a world renowned Domain Name Servers (DNS) service provider.

Dyn issued a statement acknowledging the attack.

After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage. The conclusion of the historic scientific odyssey is planned for September 2017.

Now, the Cassini spacecraft revealed dramatic seasonal changes in the atmospheric temperature and composition of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The images show a vortex in the upper atmosphere over the south pole. Cassini also discovered gasses in this vortex that are otherwise quite rare in Titan's atmosphere.

Athena Coustenis, a member of Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer team at the Observatoire de Paris, explained the importance of this discovery.

Now that Nintendo's Switch console has been revealed, we all thought the crazy NX rumor war was over. But it looks like it's just begun: Nintendo only gave us a preview, giving us even more questions than answers. The Japanese console-maker has drip-fed specific tidbits like the Switch's lack of Wii U or 3DS backward compatibility and briefly talking about the tablet's battery life, but reports sprang up quite fast.

Considering there's tons of Nintendo Switch reports flying around such as handheld's mediocre battery life or the console enjoying extra processing power while docked, you'd think Nintendo would want to step in and clear things up. But Nintendo has zipped its mouth shut, and won't be revealing any new Switch info until 2017.

The Wall Street Journal's Takashi Mochizuki reports that Nintendo won't be reveal any more details about the Switch until 2017, including info about its games, specifications, pricing, or other major updates including region-lock, the possibility of Wii U games showing up on the Switch's eShop, Virtual Console games, or anything else.

Nintendo's new Switch console may perform better while docked for living room play than it does on the go.

Based on Nintendo's response to IGN, we recently reported that Nintendo's new Switch console dock wouldn't boost GPU or CPU performance, but it looks like we might've been wrong: three separate sources, including unnamed Ubisoft and Nintendo sources, have told Let's Play Video Games Editor-in-Chief Laura Kate Dale that the Nintendo Switch dock will provide a processing boost to the main tablet console.

BioWare has confirmed that Mass Effect: Andromeda will run at upscaled 4K 30FPS on Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro, but what about HDTV owners? Can we expect any enhancements in 1080p? Console architect Mark Cerny confirms HDTV owners won't be left out.

With Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro, devs have a ton of enhancement options for their games: they can enable different resolutions like native 4K and upscaled 4K with checkerboard rendering techniques, enable HDR, tweak frame rates to fit resolutions (like upscaled 4K 30FPS), add in 1080p 60FPS or even boost visuals in 1080p with supersampling.

Devs can also employ one or all of these enhancements into their games, but it's ultimately up to each dev. Rise of the Tomb Raider, for example, hits 4K 30FPS and 1080p 60FPS on PS4 Pro and even has an Enhanced Visuals mode at 1080p 30FPS.

UPDATE: Ubisoft sources have apparently told Laura Kate Dale, Editor-in-Chief for Let's Play Video Games, that the Nintendo Switch's battery only lasts 3 hours. There are other reports that the Switch has "mediocre" battery life, despite Nintendo's following statements and NVIDIA's customized Tegra chip, which may or may not be power efficient.

Given the accuracy of Dale's information leading up to the Switch's reveal, this could be factual, and may go against our speculations below.

The headline of this article has been updated to reflect the new information.

Nintendo has officially confirmed that it's new Nintendo Switch console-handheld hybrid has no physical backward compatibility support.

Although the NVIDIA Tegra-powered Nintendo Switch uses cartridges called Game Cards, the new platform won't play Nintendo 3DS cartridges, nor is it compatible with Wii U game discs. Nintendo told Famitsu that the Switch is "a completely new game machine" and "since the Nintendo Switch is not a Wii U or Nintendo 3DS successor machine, it will not play Wii U disc software and/or Nintendo 3DS cards."

Nintendo's decision to nix backward compatibility with the Switch somewhat clashes with the company's recent move to meld past successes with new systems, as the Wii U can be booted up in Wii mode and function as a fully-fledged legacy Wii system. Nintendo has made it clear that it defines the Switch as a completely separate system from the Wii U, and the Japanese console-maker is keen on distancing the Switch as far as possible from its failed predecessor.

The Division has been an interesting adventure for both Ubisoft and gamers, but the company is planning a massive launch for its forthcoming v1.4 update for The Division, planned for release next week on all platforms.

Update 1.4 is now ready, launching on October 25 and thanks to gamers on the Public Test Server of the PC version of The Division, we're closer than ever. PTS gamers have been testing the new overhauls, updates, bug fixes, and changes for The Division with its v1.4 patch, so that the patch launches with [hopefully] no problems. Ubisoft is introducing something called World Tiers with v1.4, which enables players to globally change the difficulty of their world to match their gear scores and find better loot for their class level.

The new system will hopefully fix the progression system for players at level 30, making the game feel like it has direction, instead of being bored as you scale higher and higher through levels. Ubisoft has completely reworked time to kill, with GameRant reporting: "Ubisoft has completely reworked time to kill, improving player health for extra survivability while reducing enemy health to make them less of a bullet sponge especially at higher difficulties".

AMD is ready for the latest games with their new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.2 drivers, which include support for Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, Civilization VI, Serious Sam VR Early Access and Eagle Flight VR. Grab the new drivers right here.

Not only that, but we have a new CrossFire profile for Civilization VI, fan issues on the Radeon RX 400 series graphics cards have been fixed, updates for the CF profile for BF1 have been provided, and some crashes in Gears of War 4 have been fixed - especially when using high resolution and quality configurations in specific maps. Here's the full changelog for RSCE 16.10.2:

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.2 Highlights

NVIDIA is looking to really secure the mid-range graphics card market with the impending release of its GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, priced at $109 and $139, respectively... but AMD isn't taking the mid-range battle sitting down.

AMD is reportedly preparing a most cost effective Polaris 10 GPU that will handle the fight against the GTX 1050 Ti, but with the Radeon RX 470 priced at $179... what will the price of the new card be?

VideoCardz is reporting that AMD is readying a Radeon RX 470D, which will rock 1792 stream processors. The first AIB partner to tease their RX 470D is XFX, with their new RX 470D Black Wolf graphics card, which looks pretty slick. XFX's website teased: "Brand new Polaris graphics Radeon RX470D non-public version, take you into the VR new horizons!"

Nintendo announced their next-gen Switch console in the last 24 hours, their new exciting console that's powered by a custom Tegra processor made by NVIDIA. But how much is the new Nintendo Switch console?

Australian game retailer EB Games has a placeholder price of AUD $999 for Nintendo Switch, which works out to $762 - very expensive, and more expensive than the Xbox One S, or PS4 Pro. It's a placeholder price, with rumors of a $350 ish price on Switch circling around right now. I would expect Switch to cost $499 in Australia and $349 in the US, but seeing the $1000 price on Switch in Australia had me in cold sweats. EB Games has placeholder prices on Switch, and the next-gen games - these prices will drop, but I'm sure Australian gamers are crying into their hands at that $999 list price right now.

EB Games is also listing Nintendo Switch games at AUD$119.95, or around USD$91.

AMD has posted their Q3 earnings, reporting revenues of $1.3 billion for the quarter, beating analysts expectations of $1.21 billion for the three-month period.

AMD is riding record semi-custom SoC designs that made it into Microsoft's new Xbox One S, as well as their upcoming Xbox Scorpio console, and Sony's new PS4 and PS4 Pro consoles. The company also reported higher GPU and mobile APU sales, but were partially offset by client desktop processor and chipset sales.

Lisa Su, AMD's president and CEO said in a statement: "Our third quarter financial results highlight the progress we are making across our business. We now expect to deliver higher 2016 annual revenue based on stronger demand for AMD semi-custom solutions and Polaris GPUs. This positions us well to accelerate our growth in 2017 as we introduce new high-performance computing and graphics products".

AMD is reportedly preparing a monster graphics card for 2017, with WCCFTech reporting that the company is working on a $10,000 graphics card - yes, you read that right, a $10K graphics card.

The new $10K graphics card is reportedly called Dracarys, which translates to "dragon fire" in High Valyrian, a language used in HBO's mega-hit TV show 'Game of Thrones'. The new graphics card is reportedly already in prototyping stages and is expected to be unveiled at the Supercomputing 2016 event next month. As for what's inside, it is shaping up to instantly make its mark in history with some beefy specs.

AMD will reportedly have over 1TB of on-board graphics memory, similar to how its high-end professional Radeon Pro SSG works, but Dracarys is "far more integrated" and a lot "closer to the metal" compared to the Radeon Pro SSG. There is 20TFLOPS+ of FP16 performance thanks to the Vega 10 GPU on Dracarys, providing twice the GPU horsepower than the Radeon Pro SSG.

After dropping the first eye-popping teaser trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar Games has apparently teamed up with Sony to give PS4 owners early access to in-game content.

According to the PlayStation Blog announcement post, the early in-game content doesn't seem like anything major.

Rockstar has confirmed that Red Dead Redemption 2 will have a "brand new kind of online multiplayer," but we're guessing its a mix of GTA Online microtransactions and Watch Dogs 2 style drop-in drop-out multiplayer. It turns out PS4 owners are only getting access to some online content in RDR2, so Xbox One owners shouldn't feel too spurned just yet.

After yesterday's press conference, where Elon Musk unveiled that all Tesla cars ordered from this point will have a fully self-driving hardware, Tesla's CEO promised to share soon a video showing Tesla's capabilities with the new system.

The video, according to Musk, is the reason why the announcement was delayed from Sunday to Wednesday. But, as promised, Musk shared the video shortly after the announcement in which you can see a Tesla navigating a complex urban environment.

The video shows a Tesla car on a home-to-work route without any assistance from a driver, who is still required to sit in the driver's seat by law. You can see the car driving smoothly on the roads, stopping at red lights and letting people cross the road. In the end, the driver exits the car, which then goes to find an empty parking place and eventually park itself.

The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which is in Mars' orbit, received the data sent from Schiaparelli lander, the ESA confirmed on Wednesday. However, the fate of the Schiaparelli lander, named after the Italian astronomer from the 19th century, is currently still unknown.

Early indications from both the radio signals captured by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), an experimental telescope array located near Pune, India, and from orbit by ESA's Mars Express, suggested the module had successfully completed most steps of its 6-minute descent through the Martian atmosphere. But the signals stopped shortly before the module was expected to touch down on the surface. It is still unclear if the Schiaparelli lander survived the landing or crashed.

"Following yesterday's events we have an impressive orbiter around Mars ready for science and relay support for the ExoMars rover mission in 2020," said Jan Wörner, ESA's Director General.

Xiaomi is the fourth biggest phone manufacturer in the world, and their phones regularly get positive consumer response.

Now, Xiaomi has announced that they sold one million phones in India, which is one of their most important markets, in only 18 days.

"When we entered India, there was extremely fierce competition. We have achieved such extraordinary growth in India firstly because of our vision to bring innovation to everyone with our high-quality products at incredible prices", said the company's CEO Lei Jun.

Razer today unveiled its new high-end Razer Blade Pro ultrabook that's aimed at replacing your enthusiast desktop rig.

With the Razer Blade Pro, Razer packs in ultra-performance desktop-grade components in a sleek, ultra-slim form factor. The Razer Blade Pro rocks a 17.3-inch IGZO UHD 3840 x 2160 G-Sync display with multi-touch and 100% RGB Adobe color with up to 170 degree viewing angles, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 video card, an Intel Core i7-6700HQ quad-core CPU at up to 3.5GHz, 32GB of DDR4 RAM at 2133MHz, and up to two 1TB PCIe M.2 hard drives.

The ultrabook also rocks a full mechanical keyboard with Razer's Ultra-Low-Profile Mechanical switches and Razer Chroma color lighting. In order to efficiently manage heat, Razer's new ultrabook is outfitted with a custom cooling solution, made up of "dynamic heat exchange" and "vapor chamber" technology to effectively dissipate heat.

Nintendo's new Switch system, which melds handheld and console gaming into one unified platform, may have its own dedicated record button just like Sony's DualShock 4's Share button.

Instead of the PS4's Share button that uses a single button to start and stop in-game video recording, Nintendo's new Switch hybrid console may have two buttons for start and stop. The high-res image above shows off the Nintendo Switch's detachable Joy-Con controllers joined up with the Joy-Con Grip, and looking closely on the left-hand side of the controller, we see what appears to be the universal symbol for "record," aka a circle in a box.

The more traditional Switch Pro Controller appears to show the same "record" (circle outlined by a box) symbol and "stop" (a square), further hinting that these could be controls for the Switch's dedicated video recording feature. The Record button would begin recording, and the Stop button would stop recording.