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An investigation has been launched into a space object that crashed through the roof and both floors of a two-story house in Naples, Florida.

The object smashed through the roof of Alejandro Otero's home in Naples, Florida, on March 8. At the time, Otero wasn't home, but his son was. Notably, the home's Nest camera managed to capture the sound of the object crashing through the roof, with the time stamp being 2:34 pm local time (19:34 UTC). That timestamp is an important piece of information as it's around the time when US Space Command recorded the reentry of a space junk that was traced back to the International Space Station (ISS).

US Space Command recorded space junk reentering Earth's atmosphere at 2:29 pm EST (19:29 UTC), and this object was on track to land somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, near southwest Florida. Furthermore, the space junk was depleted batteries from the ISS and was attached to a cargo pallet that was originally planned to be returned to Earth safely. However, due to several delays, the pallet missed its opportunity to be returned back to Earth, and instead, NASA decided to launch it from the ISS with the goal of an unguided entry. The launch occurred in 2021.

In the world of video game consoles the PlayStation 2 has long held the title for the most sold console of all time, but was the official number right?

In the most recent episode of the PlayStation Podcast, which featured former PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan, the number of PS2 unit sales was revealed to be underreported. Previously, unit sales for the PS2 placed the iconic console at approximately 155 million units, which was reported back in 2012, but now the official number has been revealed, and according to the former official, it's at 160 million units, a difference of about 5 million.

While that number may seem like a negligible difference, it makes all the difference when the Nintendo Switch is closing in on the crown with 139 million units sold. It's good to finally know a definitive number for the unit sales of the world's best-selling console, as previously it was rough estimations. It remains to be seen if Nintendo's handheld will break through the 150 or even 160 million unit sale barrier before Nintendo releases the successor to the popular handheld.

LG has unveiled its new line-up of Ultragear gaming monitors that feature gorgeous OLED pixel technology, high resolutions and refresh rates.

At CES 2024 numerous companies unveiled new line-ups of OLED gaming monitors and LG was one of them, being no stranger to the gaming monitor market with its line of impressive Ultragear displays. Now, the company has launched its line of Ultragear displays, with new these new gaming monitors arriving in various sizes and specifications.

Starting off we have the LG Ultragear 45GS95QE-B, a 45-inch curved gaming monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms response time, and a resolution of 3440 x 1440. As for connectivity, the 45GS95QE-B features two HDMI 2.1 ports, a DisplayPort, USB hub, and USB upstream and downstream ports. This gaming monitor will cost $1,699. Next is the 39GS95QE-B, a 39-inch display that has the same specifications as the 45GS95QE-B, with the only difference being the size and the price of $1,499.99.

The AI boom is in full swing, with Microsoft and OpenAI teaming up to build a $100 billion AI supercomputer, Amazon planning to spend $150 billion on data centers, and Meta planning to install 50,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs by the end of 2024. These are mind-boggling projects, and with powerful GPU hardware at the heart of them, you can be sure that the power bills will be astronomical.

Governments and big tech are aware of the "AI power issue" and are looking at nuclear energy as a potential solution. US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm spoke with Axiom to confirm that it plans to accelerate discussions with companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to host "small nuclear plants" next to their massive data centers.

"AI itself isn't a problem because AI could help solve the problem," Granholm said, nodding toward the AI boom as a good thing.

OpenAI has decided to make ChatGPT even more accessible than it already is, as users now don't have to make an account to use the artificial intelligence-powered tool.

TechCrunch has reported that starting today users will no longer have to make an account to access the world's most popular AI-powered chatbot, with the company behind the tool, OpenAI, telling the publication that the even freer version will use the same large language model as logged in users, but with some changes. Searching for chat.openai.com will now bring users to an open conversation with ChatGPT, but unlogged in users won't get access to the AI's full range of features such as saving chats, using custom instructions, and more.

Notably, users without an account will still be able to disable OpenAI using chats for training its model, which can be achieved by heading to the question mark in the lower right-hand side, clicking "settings" and then navigating to the disable data tracking toggle. Furthermore, the even freer ChatGPT will come with "slightly more restrictive content policies," which are seemingly not specified. When asked by TechCrunch and OpenAI spokesperson responded with the below message.

ASUS announced the ROG Keris II Ace ultralight gaming mouse at CES 2024. This mouse follows up on the excellent ASUS ROG Keris Wireless AimPoint we reviewed in 2022. The Keris II includes several upgrades, notably the reduced ultralight build, which is now just 54 - 20 grams lighter than the original.

In addition, the optical sensor has been upgraded to the new ROG AimPoint Pro, which features 42,000 DPI sensitivity with less than 1% deviation and can accurately track on glass. With ROG Polling Rate Booster and ROG SpeedNova wireless technology, you can get up to 4,000 Hz polling rate over wireless and 8,000 Hz in wired mode.

Interestingly, ASUS has made significant changes to the shape. The new esports professional-tested ergonomic shape includes a higher bump on the body compared to the original and most gaming mice with

Following the source code for Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto V leaking online in December, a group of modders is attempting to get the iconic game to run on the Nintendo Switch, Android and Linux.

The fansite GTA Focal has reported a group of modders that took to X to share their progress on March 28 are attempting to get the 2013 game to run on the Nintendo Switch. The video posted to the platform formerly called Twitter shows the title in a loading screen that is repeatedly plagued with error messages. One video shows the Nintendo Switch running the loading screen and then multiple errors popping up, while the other shows a screenshot of an Android error message.

It should be noted that Grand Theft Auto V was originally designed to run on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which means the Nintendo Switch should have hardware powerful enough to run GTA 5. However, it isn't as simple as just plugging in the leaked source code into a different platform and then expecting it to work, as the Nintendo Switch and Android devices have completely different hardware configurations.

Ahead of a new generation of discrete GPU hardware for gaming, especially when a release is expected within months, not years, a steady stream of information arrives from known sources and leakers. On the Radeon front, several credible sources have confirmed that AMD won't be releasing a flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX killer for its upcoming RDNA 4 generation. Instead, AMD is focusing on the mid-range and competitive markets.

The reasoning for this comes down to AMD's next-gen chiplet design not being ready, so it will instead release monolithic Radeon RX 8800 XT, RX 8700 XT, and Radeon RX 8600 XT GPUs. Today, we've got some performance expectations from known Radeon leaker @All_The_Watts over on X - albeit in cryptic form.

As you can see, we get emojis instead of actual words - a fun presentation that, although posted on April 1, is not an April Fool's joke. The rumor, as deciphered, is straightforward, offering performance info for Navi 48 (Radeon RX 8800 XT) and Navi 44 (Radeon RX 8600 XT).

TSMC chairman Mark Liu and TSMC chief scientist Philip Wong have co-written a new piece about the road towards a 1-trillion transistor GPU.

The two Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) executives pointed to the importance of advanced semiconductor packaging (CoWoS, SoIC, etc.) and the vital role silicon photonics will play in boosting data transfer speeds between chips. The two TSMC executives wrote that if the AI revolution is to continue at its current pace, "it's going to need even more from the semiconductor industry."

Within 10 years, the TSMC executives said we'll need a 1-trillion-transistor GPU, which is a GPU with 10x as many transistors as today. NVIDIA's new Blackwell B200 AI GPU has 208 billion transistors with a chiplet design, and two separate GPUs with 104 billion transistors per chip. 1 trillion transistors will be incredible to see roll out in front of our eyes over the next 5-6 years.

Intel's first-generation Core Ultra 100 series CPUs made their debut inside laptop processors codenamed Meteor Lake, but the next-gen Core Ultra 200 series will be desktop processors based on the next-gen Arrow Lake CPU platform.

In a new post by hardware leaker and tech reviewer "Golden Pig Upgrade," we hear that Arrow Lake will power Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 200 series. In contrast, the Core 200H series will be an upcoming Raptor Lake-H Refresh offering. Intel had the Core 100U series powered by Raptor Lake-U, so it's a similar move by Intel with the Core 200H (dropping the Ultra name).

We've been covering all of the rumors for Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs, which are expected to feature Lion Cove and Skymont CPU architectures on the new chip. We've heard that the Arrow Lake-S desktop processors -- Core Ultra 200 series -- will NOT have any Hyper-Threading support, as they will lack LP E-Cores while tacking on a dedicated NPU (Neural Processing Unit) for AI workloads, just like Meteor Lake has for laptops, Arrow Lake will deliver (more) for desktops.

GIGABYTE is preparing to launch a limited-edition GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, with only 300 units to be made. The AORUS GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Xtreme ICE will boast the highest out-of-the-box overclock of all RTX 4080 SUPER cards, with an impressive Boost Clock speed of 2700 MHz. This is roughly 6% higher than the reference Boost Clock speed of 2550 MHz and 30 MHz higher than the ROG Strix model.

Unlike other Xtreme models from GIGABYTE, the AORUS GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Xtreme ICE is air-cooled via the company's WINDFORCE system that includes a vapor chamber, "Bionic Shark Fans," and plenty of heat pipe action. This info comes from a leaked GIGABYTE presentation for the new GPU via @I_Leak_VN on X., showcasing the GPU's design, goals, and specs.

GIGABYTE also lists the AI performance for the AORUS GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Xtreme ICE in its slides, with its 885 AI TOPs performance being considerably higher than the reference RTX 4080 SUPER's 836 AI TOPs.

The Witcher 4, codenamed Polaris, is currently in development at CD Projekt RED. The game is set to kick off a new trilogy of Witcher games. Elsewhere, the developer and publisher is also working on a single-player Cyberpunk 2077 follow-up as its US-based studio.

With all the recent fuss surrounding Capcom releasing microtransactions for fast-travel and other things for its single-player RPG Dragon's Dogma II, CDPR has explicitly stated that there'll be none of that for its games.

As part of an investor chat with CD Projekt Red Chief Financial Officer Piotr Nielubowicz and others, someone asked whether the studio would introduce microtransactions in its future titles. Via outlet Stockwatch.pl (translated by Google), his answer is straightforward. "We do not see a place for microtransactions in the case of single-player games," Piotr Nielubowicz responded.

ASUS originally launched the slower of its two ROG Ally gaming handhelds -- the ROG Ally with AMD's Ryzen Z1 APU -- at $599, but quickly dropped down to $499. Now, that same gaming handheld is $200 off, discounted down to $299 at BestBuy.

AMD's Ryzen Z1 APU comes in two forms: Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, the Z1 has 6 cores of CPU power and a significant downgrade in GPU abilities.

The AMD Ryzen Z1 non-Extreme comes with just 4 x RDNA 3-based Compute Units, while the Ryzen Z1 Extreme features 12 Compute Units, 300% more. The $100 difference between the two gaming handhelds meant you'd be silly to buy the gimped ROG Ally for $100 less when for $100 more you're getting 2 more CPU cores and 3x the GPU power.

Minisforum just officially launched its new V3 tablet powered by AMD's new Hawk Point APU, but the company had plenty of new Mini-PC designs to show off under their newly-announced AtomMan branding.

The company is shifting some of its focus to creating high-end Mini-PC systems based on AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA hardware, with the first of these new systems expected to be available for pre-order on May 20. One of those new systems is the Minisforum AtomMan UM890WE, a new high-end Mini-PC with an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS APU.

Inside, the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS APU features 8 cores and 16 threads that boost up to 5.2GHz, 16MB of L3 cache, 8MB of L2 cache, and a TDP of up to 45W. On the integrated GPU side of things, we've got the Radeon 780M, which features 12 compute units with the GPU boosting up to 2.8GHz. Minisforum's new AtomMan AI Mini-PC comes in a small 3.5L chassis, and is water-cooled... very cool, pun intended.

Will GTA 6 run at 60FPS or 30FPS? Digital Foundry speculates that GTA 6 will hit 30FPS on both the PS5 and the PS5 Pro, but the tech experts are careful to say they aren't totally positive what Rockstar will target.

Digital Foundry has better clarified its stance on Grand Theft Auto 6's theoretical frame rates on the PS5 and the new upgraded PS5 Pro.

A recent episode of the DF Direct Weekly podcast delves into the team's thoughts and insight on GTA 6's expected performance on the base PS5 and the Pro, explaining why 30FPS seems more likely for the crime sim.

Minisforum has officially launched its V3 "3-in-1" tablet, which is powered by AMD's new Ryzen 7 8840U "Hawk Point" APU, which comes in at 6999 RMB (or around $960 USD).

The company is the first in the world with an AMD AI-powered 3-in-1 tablet, packing the latest Ryzen 7 8840U "Hawk Point" APU that sees 8 cores and 16 threads of Zen 4-based CPU power built on the 4nm process node and featuring a base clock of 3.30GHz and a max boost clock of 5.1GHz.

The Minisforum V3 tablet is equipped with a 14-inch screen, offering a 2.5K resolution and a high refresh rate of 165Hz, complemented by 32GB of RAM and a substantial 2TB of storage. It's powered by the "Ryzen 7 flagship chip," specifically the Ryzen 7 8840U, which brings 8 cores and 16 threads of Zen 4 processing capability, along with 16MB of L3 cache, 8MB of L2 cache, and clock speeds ranging from a 3.3GHz base to a 5.1GHz boost.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its developing artificial intelligence (AI) that is "trustworthy for the Defense Department" in making life-or-death recommendations to warfighters, said Matt Turek, deputy director of DARPA's Information Innovation Office.

At the Center for Strategic and International Studies event, Turek said that AI, machine learning, and autonomy are being used in "about 70%" of DARPA's programs in "some form or another." The push into the arms of advanced AI development is such a priority to "prevent an unexpected breakthrough in technology" or a "strategic surprise" by enemies that could be (probably) developing advanced AI capabilities.

DARPA is looking for "transformative capabilities and ideas from industry and academia," according to Turek; with DARPA getting these capabilities and ideas to various challenges teams from the private sector can win millions of dollars in prizes. DARPA recently held the Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge, using generative AI technologies including large language models (LLMs) to automatically discover and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software, some of which is used as critical infrastructure in the United States.

Sabrent has just refreshed its Rocket 4 Gen4 SSD family with new DRAM-less, single-sided SSDs in both 1TB and 2TB capacities, with the 4TB model coming soon.

The new Sabrent Rocket 4 Gen4 SSDs have some new toys to play with inside: Phison's new PS5027-E27T DRAMless 4-channel SSD controller and Kioxia's BiCS6 2400MT flash array. This means that Sabrent ships its new Rocket 4 SSD with no on-board DRAM, half the channels of its PCIe Gen4 flagship predecessors, and in the words of our Storage God Jon Coulter, this "power-sipping single-sided masterpiece is overall the best performing PCIe Gen4 SSD Sabrent has ever delivered. Impressive".

The full potential of PCIe 4.0 technology can be realized with a single-sided SSD that doesn't put out much heat, making it the perfect super-fast Gen4 SSD for your PC, laptop, or PlayStation 5 console. We're looking at up to 7.4GB/sec (7400MB/sec) reads and up to 6.4GB/sec (6400MB/sec) writes, while up to 1000K/950K random IOPs. As Sabrent says, why compromise when you can have it all?

Remember in 2022 when astronomers snapped the very first photograph of the supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) located at the center of the Milky Way galaxy? A team of astronomers have pointed their instruments at the region of space once again, capturing a new image of the enigmatic phenomena.

The first-ever image of the Sgr A* was captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, which is a global network array of radio observatories, and now astronomers have fired up that telescope again to measure the black hole's magnetic fields in polarized light for the first time. The image showcases a magnetic field structure that's strikingly similar to what astronomers observed in 2019, with the very first photograph of a black hole located at the center of the galaxy, Messier 87 (M87).

These results were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and suggest that these strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes. Additionally, astronomer observations of M87 revealed powerful jets of material being shot out of the supermassive black hole, and these recent observations of Sgr A* indicate it could be releasing similar jets, despite Sgr A* being 1,000 times smaller than the black hole located at the center of M87.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) resulted in the asteroid called Dimorphos being shattered and knocked off its original orbit, a groundbreaking mission that proved Earth has the capabilities of redirecting an asteroid should one ever pose a threat to our planet.

The test was more than successful with NASA being able to prove that a kinetic impactor is capable of changing the orbit of an asteroid, therefore changing its overall trajectory. For those that don't know, NASA launched a vending machine-sized spacecraft at an asteroid system that contained two space rocks, Didymos and Dimorphos.

Dimorphos, the smaller of the two, is orbiting its larger companion asteroid Didymos, and after the collision of the DART spacecraft, which was traveling at extremely high speeds, Dimorphos' orbit was reduced its orbit time around Didymos by 32 minutes and 42 seconds. Additionally, the impact resulted in Dimorphos' shape being completely changed. Now a new paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, details the possibility of pieces of Dimorphos entering Mars' thin atmosphere and making it down to its surface where it would create craters.