ASUS has just announced its opened up pre-orders for its new TUF Gaming A14 laptop, which offers up to the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor.

The new ASUS TUF Gaming A14 gaming laptop is available for pre-order now for its Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, while the new Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 version will be available later this year. Inside, the brand-new 14-inch form factor laptop from ASUS is both lightweight, and powerful. It weighs in at 3.21 lbs and measures as thin as 0.66 inches, offering an ultraportable laptop with "superior gaming experiences despite its compact dimensions," adds ASUS.

Inside, the new TUF Gaming A14 laptop supports up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU with a maximum 110W TGP, far higher than many of its competitors, says ASUS, for an "exceptional gaming experience." There's also dual-channel LPDDR5 memory and two M.2 2280 SSD slots for lots of RAM and SSD storage options, with USB Power Delivery for easy on-the-go charging with your USB-C devices.

MSI is about to celebrate the first anniversary of AMD's flagship laptop CPU -- the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D processor -- inside of its new MSI TITAN 18 Pro AMD Edition laptop.

AMD launched its Zen 4-based Ryzen 9 7945HX3D processor inside of the ASUS ROG Scar 17 X3D gaming laptop last year, while MSI released its TITAN 18 HX laptop featured an Intel Core i9-14900HX processor, with a 55W TDP and up to 24 cores of CPU performance.

MSI has a few different TITAN 18 gaming laptop models for gamers, with differences in specifications depending on the region you buy them from. We have the current TITAN 18 HX laptop features the Intel Core i9-14900HX, but the new TITAN 18 Pro Ryzen Edition gaming laptop rocks the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D processor based on the Zen 4 architecture packing 16 cores and 32 threads that boost up to 5.4GHz, alongside AMD's kick-ass 3D V-Cache technology.

Today is National Camera Day, and to celebrate, Sabrent is offering some massive savings of up to 50% off a range of products, including SD cards, memory cards, card readers, external SSDs, tripods, and more.

Not only is Sabrent celebrating National Camera Day with some big savings on its products, the company has also just announced its newest product: the Rocket V60 microSDXC memory card, and that is also part if the discounts. Sabrent's new Rocket V60 microSDXC memory card is available in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB.

Sabrent says its new Rocket V60 microSDXC memory card is perfect for photographers, videographers, and everyday creators with minimum write speeds of 60MB/sec, Sabrent says it "ensures smooth and reliable 8K video capture and supports various devices with backwards compatibility".

Two new research papers used seismic shocks on Mars as a way of detecting asteroid impacts, and the results indicate Mars gets smacked 10 times more than previous estimates.

In one of the studies, researchers looked at some seismic data acquired by NASA's InSight Lander, which is currently out of commission, and found two massive asteroid impacts. These events occurred 97 days apart and were so large they created a football-sized field crate. Why is this important? Researchers believed an impact of this size would happen at a frequency of once or twice in a lifetime, but looking at the seismic data, it appears meteors make it to Mars' surface much more frequently than previously estimated.

The studies suggest that meteor impact rates across Mars are between two and ten times higher than previous estimates, and that estimates depend on the size of the meteor. Notably, InSight recorded seismic data for four years, from 2018 to 2022, and compared that data with new craters discovered on the surface of Mars by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The teams then connected the new craters to the seismic data, which enabled them to estimate the size of the asteroid that caused the crater.

The CEO of Microsoft's AI division has sat down for an interview where he touched on the sensitive subject of where the data comes from to train the popular emerging AI tools, such as ChatGPT, or Microsoft's Copilot.

Up until now, there hasn't been any transparency with the datasets used by companies such as OpenAI to train its neural networks, which power its popular AI tools. The ambiguity around where AI companies are acquiring these large swaths of data has led to several lawsuits, with owners of online content claiming OpenAI and Microsoft stole copyrighted content to train its AI algorithms, which are then used commercially.

Two authors have already sued Microsoft and OpenAI over using their work to train the AI models without their permission, while eight newspapers, along with the New York Times, have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft. The ambiguity around copyrighted content can be traced back to the grey area in current laws, which appears to be what AI companies are relying on to get away with taking data from any area of the internet they can.

Microsoft has been pushing Windows users to conform to the operating system in the way they intend or, as the setup states, in the way the company "recommends." To achieve this goal, Microsoft has made it increasingly more difficult for users to dodge its services, which the large majority depend on using the operating system with a Microsoft Account.

In a new report from a Neowin user, Microsoft has seemingly been caught quietly changing the setup for Windows 11 in new devices, particularly with OneDrive, the company's cloud storage service. According to the user Microsoft has now automatically enabled OneDrive folder backup without asking the user's permission, meaning folders such as Desktop Pictures, Documents, Music, and Videos will automatically sync to a user's OneDrive account.

Previously, users would receive a Windows notification asking if they would like to turn on automatic folder backup in OneDrive, which is actually quite a good feature when it's used correctly - and with consent. However, it appears from reports Microsoft has just turned on the feature without asking anyone or letting anyone know, which has resulted in many users reporting their desktops filling up with green checkmarks appearing next to files and shortcuts - verifying those files have been uploaded.

A team of scientists have grown a smiling face from living human skin and placed it over a robot in what appears to be the first step in creating a real-life T-1000 from Terminator.

A group of researchers from Harvard University have taken a cultured mix of human skin cells grown in collagen and formed a face made of human skin. The face was then placed over a 3D-printed resin base, and according to reports, the skin contains what researchers are describing as the equivalent of the ligaments found in human and animal skin. These ligaments give our skin its durability, making it flexible, strong, and movable.

Michio Kawai at Harvard University designed these ligaments by perforating the aforementioned 3D-printed resin base, which allowed for extremely small V-shaped cavities to be filled with the living tissue. The living skin was then placed over a smiling robotic face that is only a few centimeters wide, with rods being connected to its base to enable movement. In one experiment the researchers made the robot smile for an entire month.

A scientist has unveiled what is being called the "Prison of the Future", and it involves inserting an AI implant in a prisoner's head that shows them artificial memories of the crimes they have committed, but from the perspective of their victim.

A proposal video of the virtual justice system, or neurological prison, was posted to Hashem Al-Ghaili's YouTube and Instagram account, who is a molecular biologist and science communicator. The video explains how the virtual prison would theoretically work, which Al-Ghaili is calling Cognify. In a nutshell, prisoners would be subjected to 10 minutes of intense AI-generated content that would be injected into the brain, DNA, and RNA - targeting each part linked to memory formation.

The content shown to the prisoner would be designed to invoke emotional states such as remorse or regret while also enabling the prisoner to experience what the crime is like from the perspective of the victim. The rehabilitation technique would only last several minutes, but to the prisoner, it would likely feel much longer, potentially even years. Not only will the prisoner visually experience the perspective of their victim, but they will also get a physical response that translates to the pain suffered by their victim. These memories are "designed to trigger consequences and trauma," the video added.

This week on The TT Show, after the tech explosion of Computex 2024 and the new game explosion of Summer Game Fest, the latest news from the world of tech, gaming, and science returns to its regular broadcasting.

Jak and Kosta open the episode by discussing the notoriously litigious record industry's new lawsuit against AI music generators and what this could mean for generative AI and media going forward. They also discuss the future of VR gaming as Sony seemingly pulls the plug on PlayStation VR 2. Is VR destined to remain a niche corner of the gaming industry?

Then there's the return of overclocker Vince 'Kingpin' Lucido and a new partnership with PNY that will see the return of high-end flagship GeForce 'Kingpin Edition' graphics cards. In the aftermath of EVGA's exit from the GPU business, this is great news for enthusiasts looking to pick up the best GeForce RTX 5090 when it launches later this year. Or early 2025, or whenever.

FromSoftware macabre maven Hidetaka Miyazaki reveals that he still takes great influence from Natoshi Zin, the director of the original King's Field games released in the 1990s.

FromSoftware's penchant for grueling dark fantasy is well known today, but that wasn't always the case. Back in the mid-1990s, the studio released King's Field, a first-person hack-and-slash action adventure game with strong RPG influences. The game is a nostalgic favorite among FromSoft faithful, but didn't manage to shake-up the market the way Dark Souls did--sales-wise, King's Field wasn't a huge hit, at least by today's standards. That being said, the original King's Field sold twice as much as FromSoft predicted, and laid the groundwork for what would eventually become the studio's immortal legacy.

It's interesting then to see that Hidetaka Miyazaki, the current president of FromSoftware and director of its most famous and well-celebrated games, takes great inspiration from those olden days of yore. In particular, Miyazaki says that he looks up to Natoshi Zin, the director behind the OG King's Field launched in 1994 on the PlayStation 1.

It's not just you. Hidetaka Miyazaki also has a tough time mastering video games...which says a lot because he's helped create some of the toughest games on the planet.

FromSoftware is known for one thing first and foremost: Making the type of video game that redefines the word difficult. After three Dark Souls games, the beloved PS4 classic Bloodborne, the challenging action-based Sekiro, and more recently Elden Ring and Armored Core 6, the studio has consistently one-upped their sadism with every successive release.

Elden Ring's latest expansion Shadow of the Erdtree is no exception. The DLC is terrorizing fans across all skill levels and giving everyone a collective reason to be afraid again. But it's not just you that finds FromSoft's games rigorous and tough as nails, or games in general--Hidetaka Miyazaki is the first to admit that he "absolutely sucks" at games.

There's a new online fad in town - however fleeting it may be - but this one marks itself out as one of the more left-field efforts we've ever seen: It's an online game (well, of sorts) called One Million Checkboxes.

It does very much what it says on the tin. You go to the game's web page, and you're faced with a vast grid, a seemingly never-ending swathe, of tick boxes, except it is, of course, finite, and there are a million of them.

They can't all be displayed on the screen at once (obviously), so the grid can be scrolled down, or there's a search box that you can use to jump to any area swiftly (just enter the number of a checkbox).

Although it has its own cloud gaming service in the form of Amazon Luna, today, the company has announced a new partnership with Xbox to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming (available as part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription) to select Fire TV devices in July.

The service will be compatible with Fire TV Stick 4K Max (2023) and Fire TV Stick 4K (2023) devices paired with a Bluetooth-enabled controller. As mentioned above, Xbox Cloud Gaming is part of Xbox Game Pass. It offers immediate access to games like Fallout 4, Forza Horizon, Starfield, and Senua's Saga: Hellblade II without a console or dedicated gaming hardware.

Like Samsung's Smart TV lineup, the Xbox app will be added to the Amazon storefront for Fire TV devices. After downloading, users will need to sign in with their Microsoft account. Those without a membership can test the service with access to Fortnite, Epic's popular free-to-play competitive shooter sandbox.

AMD launched its revamped latency reduction technology, Radeon Anti-Lag 2, in May. However, its debut with Valve's Counter-Strike 2 was part of an opt-in Technical Preview driver release, effectively a Beta release. With today's AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 24.6.1 update, Anti-Lag 2 is now official, with all Radeon GPU owners getting access to the technology - supported by Counter-Strike 2.

AMD notes that Anti-Lag 2 reduces latency by up to 40% when playing in 4K with the Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card and by up to 27% when playing at 1080p using the Ryzen 7 8700G processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics. At this stage, Anti-Lag 2 is still only supported by a single game, Counter-Strike 2, and there is no word on what other games might add support in the coming weeks and months.

The latest AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 24.6.1 driver release also adds day-one support and optimizations for two games: The First Descendant and Once Human. The former is a fast-paced, free-to-play action RPG shooter, while the latter is a multiplayer open-world survival game.

Qualcomm launched its latest-gen Snapdragon X series processors earlier this month, with two chips: the flagship Snapdragon X Elite and the Snapdragon X Plus. The new Snapdragon X Plus processor has been tested in Cinebench, with "severe battery drain". Check it out:

In a new video, YouTuber Luke Miani tested the new Microsoft Surface 7 laptop powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor, costing $999. Microsoft itself positions the new Arm-powered Surface 7 laptop against Apple's latest M3-powered MacBook Air... yet the YouTuber tested Cinebench and saw "severe battery drain" on the Snapdragon X Plus-powered Surface 7, compared to the previous-gen M2-powered MacBook Air.

Cinebench was run not once but twice for 10 minutes (a total of 20 minutes), during which time the Surface 7 laptop went from 100% battery to just 65%. Battery drain aside, the YouTuber did note that the Snapdragon X Plus-powered Surface 7 was beating out the M2 and M3-powered MacBook Air laptops in CInebench.

AMD's FSR 3.1 update is here, and it's debuting in five first-party PlayStation games on PC - Horizon Forbidden West, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man Remastered, and Spider-Man Miles Morales. AMD confirms that FSR 3.1 support will also arrive with God of War Ragnarok's highly anticipated PC port.

Announced earlier this year, AMD's FSR 3.1 update 'brings significant improvement' to the quality of FSR upscaling while also decoupling AMD's frame generation technology so it can be enabled with other upscaling technologies like DLSS and XeSS. AMD's FSR 3.1 upscaling and frame generation are platform-agnostic and work on GPUs from all major vendors.

The exciting thing for Radeon owners is the image quality improvements for FSR upscaling, with AMD noting that FSR 3.1 improves temporal stability, reduces flickering and shimmering, and features less ghosting. AMD provides the following example of the improvements with a video of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart with FSR 2.2 compared to FSR 3.1.

GeForce Game Ready Driver 556.12 is here, with the big update being day one support for The First Decendant - a new free-to-play four-player co-op action RPG shooter powered by Unreal Engine 5. The game is set to be a visual showpiece, including several real-time ray-traced lighting effects (ray-traced reflections, ray-traced ambient occlusion, and ray-traced shadows), DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction, NVIDIA Reflex, and NVIDIA DLAA support.

The latest GeForce Game Ready Driver also "gets your system ready" for PAYDAY 3's upcoming DLSS 3 Frame Generation implementation as part of the new Boys in Blue update. Performance-wise, DLSS 3 will deliver 2X improvements when playing the game in 4K, with everything from the GeForce RTX 4070 and up hitting triple digits.

The latest driver also adds more Optimal Settings for games, automatically adjusting in-game visual settings to maximize performance and fidelity. It's a part of the legacy GeForce Experience app and the new NVIDIA App, which is still in beta.

Capcom is bringing back an iconic zombie game, and it's not an entry in the Resident Evil franchise. Xbox 360-era classic Dead Rising is getting the remake meets remaster treatment, with the publisher teasing Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and presumably PC.

This will be the second remaster of the game. However, as the teaser trailer depicts, there are massive improvements to the game's visuals. Details are a bit light at the moment. Capcom is set to lift the lid on the remaster next week, but the expectation is that it's being called a Remaster because outside of the visuals, the core game will remain relatively unchanged.

In the original Dead Rising, players take control of photojournalist Frank West, who is investigating a mystery at Willamette Mall. The mystery turns out that 'thousands of zombies have taken over a mall,' with players given 72 hours to uncover the truth while slaying zombies with various weapons and vehicles.

The continued dominance of the AI market is driving the DRAM memory industry into chip shortages, as the AI and HBM markets eat up all production capacity.

In a new report from MyDrivers, the general-purpose DRAM memory chip industry might see shortages as the AI hype is forcing DRAM manufacturers like SK hynix and Samsung to all-in with HBM production and enterprise storage, leaving DRAM in a cold, dark room... for now.

The capacity utilization rates for DRAM have stooped to an all-time low in the markets because DRAM manufacturers are too busy enjoying the insatiable demand for HBM. DRAM manufacturers have already scaled down their DRAM production by a "huge margin" from the previous condition of the markets, so the sudden boost in demand will create a domino effect of issues down the road for these companies... that not too long ago were in a state of inventory correction for the last few quarters.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has recently said that its upcoming Blackwell GPU architecture will be the most "successful product in their history and for the entire history of computers".

The new comments on the upcoming Blackwell GPU architecture were made during NVIDIA's Annual General Meeting, with NVIDIA shareholders sitting down to discuss the company's future. Jensen said that the future of AI markets is bright and "green' and that we can expect AI automation to explode into a $50 trillion (yeah, that's with a T) market in the future.

Blackwell won't just be limited to the AI GPU market with B100, B200, and the GB200 Superchip, but we can expect the Blackwell GPU architecture to find gamers' wallets with the GeForce RTX 50 series, led by the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080.