With Intel unveiling its new Intel Core Ultra 200S desktop processors and Arrow Lake's imminent arrival, we've also seen an onslaught of new motherboards for the new Z890 chipset announced. Multiple impressive boards are coming; however, the new ASRock Z890 Taichi AQUA might just be the one to turn a few heads - especially when you look at the rear IO and its features.

ASRock says that with this board, you've got "plenty of Type-C," but if you glance at the rear IO panel, you'll notice that it's exclusively USB Type-C with ten ports available - including dual Thunderbolt 4 ports. By not including even one or two traditional USB Type-A ports, this is a deliberate design choice by ASRock and one that is impressive. Type-C is the future, after all.

The front IO or case supports up to four USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A connections, so there is some support if you need one. Standing out from the pack doesn't stop with USB Type-C; the ASRock Z890 Taichi AQUA has another trick up its sleeve.

The Nintendo Museum officially opened its doors earlier this month. The Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan facility showcases products, iconic designs, characters, and more from Nintendo's long and storied history, from its humble beginnings as a maker of playing cards to its ascension as a videogame giant.

From lesser-known products like the Love Tester toy from the late 1960s through to the first Game & Watch handhelds to the rise of the Nintendo Entertainment System and its 16-bit follow-up, the Super Nintendo - it sounds like an incredible place to visit. And somewhere where you can go hands-on and interact with attractions and exhibits.

There has been a lot of buzz and excitement surrounding the opening of the Nintendo Museum in Japan. However, a new post by X user @ChrisMack32 adds an interesting layer to the interactive exhibits. Nintendo, the company that actively shuts down and pursues legal action when it comes to emulating its games and hardware on a PC, is apparently using a Windows PC to emulate the Super Nintendo.

The exponential growth fueled by the demand for even more sophisticated artificial intelligence-powered models has resulted in supporting technologies getting an upgrade as well.

One of those sectors is networking, as these AI models need consistent, low-latency communication capabilities, fast data transfer speeds, and programmable features. AMD has unveiled a new solution to this growing problem, and it's called the Pensando Pollara 400. This fully programmable Ethernet-ready network interface card (NIC) is capable of pushing 400 Gbps and is specifically designed for AI cluster networking, which predominantly comes in the form of large-scale large language models (LLMs).

Unfortunately, the expansive, power-hungry nature of AI systems is outpacing the developments of Ethernet, meaning manufacturers are now turning to AI-tailored networking solutions such as the Pensando Pollara 400. According to AMD, its new NIC is designed around GPU-to-GPU communication and is tailored for data transfer within AI networks. Moreover, AMD believes its Pensando Pollara 400 will be capable of providing buyers with up to sixfold performance boost for AI workloads.

At Tesla's Cybercab event last week, the company made headlines for not only its new vehicles, but it's humanoid robots that were roaming around the event interacting with the public.

Numerous videos of the robots interacting with guests in various ways have begun circulating online, with some impressive footage showing Tesla's Optimus robots serving drinks, answering questions, dancing, and playing games. Footage of these Optimus robots responding to guests was particularly impressive as the response time was almost identical to that between two humans conversing.

Typically, when verbally interacting with a voice-activated device, there is a noticeable gap of time between the question being asked and the answer, as the device needs time to process the request, generate its response, and then speak it. However, Optimus's responses were near-perfect timing-wise. However, there was a reason for that as each of the Optimus robots were being remotely operated by humans who were responding to questions asked to them by guests via headsets.

An entirely new organism has been created by combining living cells with dead cells, birthing what is being called a "third state" of existence.

A team of researchers penned a new study review in the journal Physiology where they detail a method to achieving this state that is separate from life and death, which they believe will challenge many scientists' general understanding of cell evolution. According to the study's co-authors, biologists Peter Noble and Alex Pozhitkov, who explained in The Conversation, cells are capable of mechanisms even after the death of the host organism, and a widely known example of that is organ transplants.

The biologists set out to determine what it takes to trigger cell activity after an organism has died, and according to the study, cells can be reactivated into multicellular organisms through various stimuli, such as nutrients, oxygen, bioelectricity, or biochemical cues. The team found that skin cells extracted from deceased frog embryos were capable of adapting to new conditions and spontaneously reorganizing into multicellular organisms called xenobots. The researchers wrote these xenobots were capable of mechanisms far beyond their original predetermined biological roles.

The trailer for Amazon's upcoming anthology animated series that will aim to feature the world's most popular video game characters leaked online via Telegram.

Unfortunately for those interested in the show, Amazon has since launched a DMCA takedown notice that has resulted in the leaked trailer for "Secret Level" being taken down. However, as with all things posted on the internet it's contents were quickly analyzed, copied and pasted elsewhere. The new TV show will have a 15-episode first season that will be coming to Amazon's Prime Video streaming service. Tim Miller and Blur Studio will head the show, the team behind "L0ove, Death & Robots."

The TV show will incorporate legendary video game characters from popular franchises such as SEGA's Mega Man, Warhammer, God of War, Destiny 2, Titanfall, Halo, and many more. At the moment, the only official trailer released for Secret Level can be found above, but the recently leaked trailer, which has now been pulled down, revealed a star-studded cast is coming to the show. Something that was previously and still is unannounced.

Apple first introduced the ability to shoot with the ProRes codec on the iPhone 12 Pro, but with the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, along with the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, owners can now shoot in Log.

Unfortunately, with these new and impressive codecs, iPhone owners are at risk of reaching capacity when shooting in higher resolutions, particularly at 4K. Dockcase has set out to remedy this problem by providing a simple NVMe SSD enclosure that can attach to the back of an iPhone via MagSafe.

The Dockcase Smart MagSafe M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure features 100W PD passthrough charging so you can keep your smartphone charged while on a shoot, support for up to 2TB of storage, a read-only mode, SSD health monitoring software, and power loss protection, which provides 3 seconds of power loss protection to ensure all data is correctly saving to the storage solution.

NVIDIA stock closed at a new record high on Monday, topping $3.39 trillion and is expected to topple Apple as the most valuable company in the world sitting at $3.52 trillion market cap.

The rise in NVIDIA stock is driven by the unstoppable success of its AI GPUs and its newly-launched Blackwell AI GPUs including the B200 AI GPU and GB200 AI servers, which can't be fabbed by TSMC and made quick enough, with an expected $210 billion in revenue from Blackwell chips alone in 2025.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently said that Blackwell AI GPUs are "in full production" and that the demand for them "is insane". TSMC is one of the key partners for NVIDIA and its runaway success in the AI market, with the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer set to enjoy a massive 40% increase in its quarterly profits, and expected to make that report later this week.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has plans to increase NVIDIA headcount from 32,000 to 50,000 staffers, with 100 million AI assistants to "increase the company's overall output".

CNBC's Power Lunch picked up on a recent podcast with Jensen, where the media outlet reporrted that Jensen doesn't think that AI will eliminate jobs, and that the company is embracing AI (obviously, they're the AI leader) with 18,000+ more staffers and 1 million AI assistants.

What will the AI assistants do? They'll help run the new AI models and launch AI applications, which are being built by and around NVIDIA. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang also praised Elon Musk for the speed at which he's building a supercomputer in 19 days, which he says "typically takes about 3 years to build".

NVIDIA's upcoming mid-range Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 5070 12GB graphics card should offer 5% more performance in rasterization, and 5-10% uplifts in RT over the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER according to fresh leaks.

In a new video from leaker Tom at Moore's Law is Dead, we're hearing that the new GeForce RTX 5070 will launch with 12GB of GDDR7 memory and have 5% more performance in rasterization over the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and up to 5-10% more performance in games with ray tracing (RT).

Not only that, but MLID teases that he's heard that NVIDIA is going to release the GeForce RTX 5070 with 12GB of GDDR7 memory, but a beefed-up RTX 5070 18GB will launch with faster GDDR7 memory modules and 50% more VRAM.

Overwatch 2 Season 13 is nearly here, bringing map reworks, systems updates, the enchanting Mythic Spellbinder Widowmaker skin, and all of the tricks, tre

Blizzard has revealed the changes that are being made to Competitive Play and matchmaking with the launch of Overwatch 2 Season 13, with multiple multiplayer tweaks, the annual Halloween Terror event, and more. Overwatch 2 Season 13: Spellbinder launches on October 15, featuring a new Battle Pass, new game modes and events, and a collaboration with the popular anime series My Hero Academia.

Once Overwatch 2 Season 13 is live, players will be able to jump right into the new Halloween Terror event, which will run through to November 4, with a bunch of improvements, tweaks, and adjustments made to Overwatch 2's various game modes which you can deep dive into here.

The Intel Core Ultra 200S Series for desktops has been formally announced and is on track to launch later this month, with the new Intel Core Ultra 7 265K and Ultra 9 285K leading the pack. As we've seen with all of the new Z890 motherboards being announced for the Core Ultra 200S Series, DDR5-9000 will be very easy to achieve with Intel's latest CPUs.

Intel CPUs and motherboards have been at the forefront of pushing faster one-click XMP memory overclocking. With new Z890 motherboards, we're getting to the point where many users will have access to DDR5-10000 if that's what they want.

However, UNIKO's Hardware over on X spotted that the faster DDR5 memory speeds could be limited to K-Series processors. As seen on the RAM support page for ASRock's new Z890 Taichi motherboards, Arrow Lake non-K CPUs, which are due for release early next year, will top out at DDR5-7200. It's a notable step down but probably not that big of a deal for most.

PC gaming handhelds like the ROG Ally, Legion GO, and Ayaneo KUN all run Windows 11 with custom overlays and UIs to make navigating Steam and accessing system features as easy as possible. However, Windows 11 was never designed for handheld and controller navigation, which puts pressure on Microsoft to accommodate this new and growing market.

The good news is that Microsoft is updating Windows 11 to make it more PC gaming handheld and controller-friendly, as seen in Windows 11 Build 22631.4387, which is available to Insiders. It's a long overdue update you'd assume was already available: the ability to navigate the on-screen keyboard with a gamepad or Xbox controller.

Windows has featured an on-screen keyboard for touch screens for several years; however, until now, you could only navigate and use it with a controller. The great news is that Microsoft has made the system similar to how gamers use the on-screen keyboard on an Xbox console.

NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 5070 will launch with 12GB of GDDR7 memory, but rumor has it we'll see the new RTX 5070 in an 18GB GDDR7 edition.

In his recent "September Loose Ends" livestream, leaker Tom from Moore's Law is Dead said that he has heard rumbles of NVIDIA preparing a beefed-up GeForce RTX 5070. Initially, the GeForce RTX 5070 will launch with 12GB of next-gen GDDR7 memory, but we will see the RTX 5070 18GB emerge in the future, we could even see it as the RTX 5070 SUPER 18GB.

NVIDIA launched its newer GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER offering an average of 5% faster performance in rasterization, and 5-10% more performance in RT (ray tracing) over the RTX 4070 Ti non-SUPER.

We all thought banking and military security was impenetrable? That was, until Chinese researchers used a D-Wave quantum computer to execute what they claim as the first successful quantum attack on widely used encyption algorithms which pose a "real and substantial threat" to the banking and military sectors.

In a new report by the South China Morning Post picked up by The Quantum Insider, which I saw posted on X which you can see embedded above, the Chinese quantum computer has cracked multiple SPN algorithms, which is "way bigger than cracking the ENIGMA code, the future of encryption is at stake" we're warned.

We have thought that the digital world is secure, especially in a during and post-COVID world where in many countries across the world they pushed hard into the all-digital, all-cloud life. Well, now we have Chinese scientists led by "brainiac" Wang Chao from Shanghai University has "just pulled off a stunt that should have the NSA, the White House, and every crypto bro out there sweating bullets" says Huo on X.

TSMC's list of 3nm customers is growing, with AI added to the 3nm project list with AMD's upcoming Instinct MI350 AI accelerator series, and NVIDIA's next-gen Rubin R100 AI GPU.

In a new report from Ctee citing investment bankers, TSMC will fab the new MI350 series and Rubin R100 series AI chips in the second half of 2025, joining 3nm customers with Apple, Intel, MediaTek, and Qualcomm... as well as AMD on its CPU side making chips on TSMC's 3nm process node (already, and more into 2025).

The full list of TSMC's 3nm project list includes the Apple M4, Apple A18 and A18 chips for the iPhone, MediaTek's new Dimensity C-X1 (auto chip), Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen4 chip, Intel's new Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs, AMD's new Zen 5 CPUs and upcoming Instinct MI350 series AI accelerators, and finally, NVIDIA's next-gen Rubin R100 AI GPU (which will sport future-gen HBM4 memory).

Xbox Game Studios just got its second new boss in about a year's time.

Xbox's Matt Booty used to lead the group's stable of developers under the Xbox Game Studios banner, but he was promoted to Xbox President of Game Content and Studios following the $70 billion Microsoft-Activision merger. Alan Hartmann, previously the head of Forza developer Turn 10, was then promoted to lead Xbox Game Studios.

Now Hartmann is retiring at the end of November, and Rare boss Craig Duncan is taking on the mantle. Xbox exec Matt Booty explained the news in a memo that was acquired by The Verge:

Windows 11 has run into more trouble with its 24H2 update, with fresh revelations that the upgrade is causing serious problems with internet connectivity in some cases.

Windows Report highlighted the issues (as flagged by PC World) and there are posts from people who have upgraded to Windows 11 24H2 complaining about internet-related woes for both wired and Wi-Fi connections with 24H2.

There are various reports on Microsoft's Answers.com forum, with a lengthy thread containing some 60 replies underlining that this isn't an isolated issue. (At the same time, it may not be all that widespread, either - as there isn't an overwhelming volume of posts).

The Destiny mobile game is real, but Bungie didn't actually develop it.

Back in 2018, Chinese mobile gaming juggernaut NetEase injected $100 million into Bungie to fund the studio's "bold vision." Now we know what the investment was for--NetEase was licensing the Destiny franchise for a mobile game.

Today, NetEase announced Destiny: Rising, a new mobile shooter RPG set in Bungie's landmark sci-fi universe. Rising doesn't take place in any known timeline, though, and will have its own characters, timeline and story. Pre-registrations are now open.

Call of Duty is officially coming to cloud game streaming services this month, marking a new era for the landmark video game series.

Call of Duty has made over $31 billion in lifetime revenue, and a big part of that is because the games really weren't permanently made available on game subscription services. Titles have showed up on PS Plus, and Call of Duty briefly popped up on NVIDIA's GeForce Now streaming service, but for the most part gamers have had to pay $20 - $70 just to access the titles. That doesn't include the billions generated through microtransactions.

All of that changed when Microsoft acquired Activision for $70 billion. The company made clear its intent to bring mega-hits like Call of Duty to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service, a move that could devalue the franchise in the short-term, but deliver strong service-oriented subscription revenues in the long-term. Now Microsoft has announced that Call of Duty games are also coming to cloud gaming in a bid to deliver the live service-driven game to consumers who may not have gaming consoles or PCs.