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OpenAI has just announced it's rolling out a new memory feature into ChatGPT so that the AI chatbot will remember your past conversations, commands, and requests.

The new memory feature being baked into ChatGPT is coming soon and has been a long time coming. One of my major faults with ChatGPT is that it doesn't remember your conversation, forcing you to re-prompt things. It would be fantastic to remember everything, like an artificial intelligence would... not a limited AI model.

OpenAI explained on its website: "We're testing memory with ChatGPT. Remembering things you discuss across all chats saves you from having to repeat information and makes future conversations more helpful. You're in control of ChatGPT's memory. You can explicitly tell it to remember something, ask it what it remembers, and tell it to forget conversationally or through settings. You can also turn it off entirely. We are rolling out to a small portion of ChatGPT free and Plus users this week to learn how useful it is. We will share plans for broader roll out soon".

Samsung is reportedly gearing up to open up production lines for its 8th-generation OLED panels, with the South Korean electronics giant acquiring the required equipment to get the lineup and operational.

A new report suggests that Samsung isn't making the new OLED panels exclusively for Apple and its next-gen MacBook Pro laptops, but rather, it is trying to get contracts with other laptop makers, including Dell and HP. Samsung will accept delivery of new evaporator equipment from Canon Toki in Japan next month, with the new OLED production facility expected to be operational in the second half of 2025.

Samsung could provide its new OLED panels to new customers like Dell and HP, and not Apple, for its new MacBook Pro laptops, which will provide Dell and HP with high-quality OLED panels that you'd expect on an expensive new MacBook Pro from Apple. Apple isn't expected to change over to OLED panels for its next-gen MacBook Pro laptops for at least the next few years, so Samsung needs customers for its new OLED panels in 2025.

The latest version of FurMark has just been released, with v1.3.8 adding support for NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series graphics cards and more.

FurMark's new v1.38 release supports NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics cards. AMD doesn't miss out with its new Radeon RX 7600 XT, also supported by FurMark, thanks to the update.

If you're unaware of what FurMark is, it's a stress-testing tool that's not aimed at gamers... but rather helps you push your graphics card to the max when you're overclocking it. You might want to see its stress point -- the maximum GPU boost clock or maximum VRAM frequency -- using FurMark to run in the background. This is a great thing for GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series graphics card owners.

Ryzen Master Tuning Utility now supports AMD's new Ryzen 8000G "Hawk Point" APUs, thanks to its new update that you can download here (206MB download).

AMD's internal Ryzen Master software has been updated to v2.13.0.2908 and supports the just-released Ryzen 8000G "Hawk Point" series APUs, which can also be overclocked (even though they're APUs and not pure CPUs).

The new Ryzen Software update doesn't just support the new Hawk Point APUs but also has a new feature that makes using the software easier for consumers. AMD's Curve Optimizer is a utility inside of Ryzen Master that lets consumers play around with performance by tuning the exact amount of power being fed into the chip.

Sony's beefed-up PlayStation 5 Pro console could cost just $499 without a disc drive, according to the latest rumors.

The upgraded PlayStation 5 Pro console has been teased and leaked for a while now, with leaker Moore's Law is Dead confirming some of the leaked specs and now a tease of some ultra-good pricing. Sony could launch the upgraded PlayStation 5 Pro console without a disc drive for just $499, dropping the price of the PlayStation 5 Slim console to $449 or even $399.

The costs of making the original PlayStation 5 back in 2020 would've been higher, and Sony isn't changing much of the hardware inside of the PS5 Pro, so it shouldn't cost more to make.

Microsoft's next-gen Xbox has been in the headlines for all the wrong (and I guess, some right) reasons this week... and now we're hearing that Microsoft "just f***ed" Intel over the chip contract for the next-gen Xbox.

The news comes from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, who had sources from within Microsoft and Intel give him some news nuggets for the next-gen Xbox console. The first source was reportedly from Intel, who said: "Dude, Microsoft just f***ed us (Intel). I guess now we know that their "letters of intent" mean absolutely nothing. I have no idea if AMD got the contract back, but this left a bad taste in my mouth... and from what I hear we aren't the only company annoyed by the games they're playing lately".

Another source, this time from Microsoft, told MLID: "I (Microsoft) honestly have no idea what's going on with management here anymore. We are at least a year behind Sony in SoC development by now, and it almost seems like upper management's seen some metric that's making them doubt our ability to compete with another generation".

Intel has teased the development of a new technology that will be featured in its next-gen Lunar Lake mobile CPU architecture, with new sharpening filters that are smarter than existing filters.

The new approach would provide developers and gamers with the ability to tweak the sharpening effect on a per-region basis instead of applying sharpening to the entire image. Intel wants to focus on specific areas inside of the frame that wouldn't otherwise benefit from additional sharpening.

You don't want to oversharpen areas that don't require it, like backgrounds, for example, where this new sharpening filter would make games -- and even other apps -- have better image quality. An Intel engineer explained that adaptive sharpening won't just apply to games but to images and video software being run inside the operating system.

Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC reportedly shares the same CPU cluster, but the new Gen5 chips will sport new "Pegasus" CPU cores.

The latest rumors on Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 are coming from @For_Ataraxia on X, who says that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 features custom "Phoenix" cores, but the new Gen 5 chip will have upgraded "Pegasus" cores. Both of the SoCs will keep the same 2+6 CPU cluster, with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 featuring performance cores only and possibly up to 4.0GHz speeds.

We should expect Qualcomm to continue using just performance cores for its upgraded Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC, with another leaker saying that both of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Gen 5 chips will have the same "Slice" GPU architecture. These are just leaks, and things can change at a whim... Qualcomm might go in a different direction with its GPU, especially if it wants to better fight the likes of Apple and Samsung in future SoC designs.

AMD is getting ready to reintroduce Anti-Lag+ technology for PC gamers with Team Red's graphics cards.

The news broke on X (formerly Twitter) when somebody (TheRazerMD) asked a question about when AMD might be planning on bringing back Anti-Lag+, which is a tech to combat input lag (much like NVIDIA Reflex, Team Green's rival take).

AMD's Frank Azor, who is Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions & Marketing, responded to say that yes, it was inbound again, and that Anti-Lag+ is "coming soon" in fact (hat tip to VideoCardz on this one).

File this under 'w' for worrying, but a Redditor has reported an invasion of red fire ants inside their PC, with the insects apparently eating the GPU alive, we're told.

The story goes like this: Redditor Thejus_Parol says that they noticed rising GPU temperatures with their Zotac GTX 1060.

When investigating what might be going on, checking if the fans could have malfunctioned, they discovered "ants marching on my GPU and on top of my case" and even coming out of the graphics card's heatsink.

NVIDIA's RTX 4090 GPU seems to be coming down in price (finally), though we're only witnessing some initial rumblings of this - but there should be some bigger price falls to come soon enough.

Those looking for the most powerful desktop GPU on the market have been pretty much out of luck in recent times, what with NVIDIA RTX 4090 pricing spiralling upwards.

That's been happening ever since the ban in China on the RTX 4090, resulting in more stock being shipped to Asia - even now, post-ban - with the RTX 4090 D alternative variant seeming to have failed to capture the attention of Chinese buyers in the way NVIDIA hoped it would.

Sony misses its holiday PlayStation 5 sales target and has now reduced its total-year hardware forecast by 4 million units.

The PS5 just can't seem to catch up to the PS4. Sony today announced its Q3'FY23 earnings and gave an update on total PlayStation console sales. The company expected to sell 25 million consoles throughout FY23--an incredibly ambitious record-breaking number that would've made history for the PlayStation brand.

Sony has now downwardly adjusted this target to 21 million units following the console's holiday performance, when it was made clear that the company wouldn't achieve the lofty goal. Throughout the Holiday 2023 period, Sony shipped 8.2 million PlayStation 5 consoles, pushing total PS5 shipments to 54.8 million.

Reports indicate that Microsoft has rolled out a new requirement for Outlook users on Windows 10 and Windows 11, and some users may not be very happy about the change.

According to MSPowerUser, Outlook users on the aforementioned operating system versions will now be required to download and install Microsoft Edge to access Outlook emails. The move is certainly a strange one, with some users expressing concerns that Microsoft is forcing adoption of its internet browser in an attempt to increase Edge's dwindling market share. However, it remains unclear if the requirement was intentional or simply a technical requirement to run the updated version of Outlook.

The requirement was first noticed by Reddit users who were shown the above error message, which reads, "The new Outlook for Windows needs Microsoft Edge to be installed". Reports indicate that the culprit of the problem can be traced back to Outlook using Microsoft Edge Webview 2 for specific web functions. While the majority of Outlook users will already have Edge installed on their device, a portion of users who decided to uninstall the browser due to deeming it bloatware will have to reinstall it to access their emails via Outlook.

If you are an individual that is constantly moving around, say commuting from work or university back to home and enjoy a nice relaxing video game to pass the travel time, you need a backpack to carry all of gear.

ASUS has literally got your back with its latest offering called the ROG Ranger Gaming Backpack 16, a backpack that has been designed with a gamer in mind as it contains all of the storage expectations that a gamer would want. The 18L backpack features an interior equipped to transport a 16-inch laptop along with other storage compartments such as side pockets for smaller peripherals, space for a headset, keyboard and power cables.

The backpack is also equipped with side pockets that can be used for umbrella, drink bottles or other smaller accessories. There is also a storage section located on the rear of the backpack that is designed to conceal valuable items such as keys, wallets, or identification. Furthermore, ASUS has thought of comfort, writing on its website listing that it comes with side-mounted collars designed to conform to the shape of the wearers neck and back, reducing the side-to-side motion as the wearer walks.

The parent company of Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, which owns the rights to Dungeons & Dragons, reported the licensing agreement with Larian Studios, the developers and publisher of the immensely popular Baldur's Gate 3, earned the company $90 million, and is being viewed as an indicator of the demand for more D&D-based games.

Hasbro's financial report, while being somewhat somber with the admittance of a 15% revenue dip, contained some nice statements for fans of D&D-based video games. Looking at the financial report, we can see Wizards of the Coast and digital gaming segments increased its revenue by 10%, which was "driven by [an] increase in licensed digital gaming revenue behind Baldur's Gate 3 from Larian Studios and Monopoly Go! from Scopely."

Hasbro's chief financial officer Gina Goetter said during an investor call that Baldur's Gate "had another healthy quarter" and earned "around $90 million of revenue" for the year in totality. Goetter went on to say that its expected revenues from Baldur's Gate 3 will taper down throughout 2024, but there is the expectation that revenue will continue to trickle in for many years to come. "We expect a long tail into 2024 and beyond for this mega-hit."

The Nintendo Entertainment System or NES was arguably the system that kickstarted the videogame industry as we know it today - with many of Nintendo's iconic franchises like Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and many more making their debut on this 8-bit system. As a piece of hardware, though, the NES is pretty ancient compared to the devices we have today - with only 2KB of RAM and an additional 2KB of VRAM.

So, "Can it run Linux?" is an interesting question because the answer is no. However, that hasn't stopped the YouTube channel DeCrAzYo from trying to find a way. Relying purely on the aging Nintendo hardware without slapping a Raspberry Pi into a cartridge led him to a Linux-adjacent operating system called LUnix, or 'Little Unix,' created for the Commodore 64.

As the Commodore 64 has 64KB of RAM compared to the NES's 2KB, a lot of work was required to get it up and running natively on an NES console.

Last week, the Sun released an extremely powerful solar flare, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped an incredible image showcasing the fiery outburst.

The solar flare occurred on February 9 and was an X-class solar flare, the most intense classification given to solar flares. These powerful blasts from our local star can cause some problems on Earth, and as you can probably imagine, the larger the blast, the bigger the problems. Luckily, in this case, the solar flare occurred on the side of the Sun facing away from Earth, with solar physicist Keith Strong mentioning this point on X by writing, "Goodness knows how big this flare would have been if it had happened this side of the sun."

Solar flares such as this one are often accompanied by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), a large wave of plasma that erupts into space in a specific direction similar to a wave. These CMEs can cause disruptions on Earth if their trajectory lines up with the planet. CME impacts result in geomagnetic storms that can cause many problems for Earth-orbiting satellites, power grids, radio signals, and GPS satellites.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made some big statements at the recent World Government Summit recently held in Dubai, where he said AI is the future of economics and that there'll be $2 trillion worth of data centers powering the future of AI.

Huang added: "We are in the beginning of this new era and what's gonna happen is there's a trillion dollars worth of installed base in data centers around the world and over the course of next 4-5 years, we'll have 2 trillion dollars worth of data centers that will be powering software around the world and all of that is going to be accelerated and this architecture for accelerating computing is ideal for this next generation of software called generative AI".

It's not surprising that Jensen believes the data center market will explode into a gigantic $2 trillion market in the next 4-5 years, which will be the driving force behind the future of everything AI. NVIDIA is leading the pack here, where they're not only commanding an estimated 90% of the AI GPU market, but the company has seen its market capitalization explode over the last few months... adding $650 billion to see NVIDIA with a commanding $1.78 trillion market cap at the time of writing.

Ubisoft's open-world co-op pirate game Skull and Bones has been a long time coming; development began in 2013, and now, just over a decade later, the game is finally making its debut on PC and consoles. On day one, PC gamers will be pleased to know that the game will feature Ray-Traced Global Illumination to enhance lighting with DLSS 2 Super Resolution support to boost performance on GeForce RTX-powered rigs.

Unfortunately, there is no DLSS 3 Frame Generation, but with the latest GeForce Game Ready 551.52 WHQL drivers offering optimizations for the game - odds are it will run smoothly. Or, you'd hope so, considering how long it has been in development.

What has arrived with DLSS 3 Frame Generation (and DLSS 2 and DLAA) support this week is the latest action RPG from celebrated studio DON'T NOD and publisher Focus Entertainment - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden.

NVIDIA blasted past a $1 trillion market cap last year, but now it's sitting on an incredible $1.78 trillion market cap... that's a $780 billion (yeah, with a B). It hasn't even been a year... and the company hasn't even launched its beefed-up H200 AI GPU, or next-gen B100 "Blackwell" AI GPU.

NVIDIA's stock has surged an incredible 400% since the beginning of 2023, but the $700 billion+ of added market capitalization -- to put it into other terms -- makes Tesla stock look puny in comparison. Tesla has a market capitalization of $576 billion at the time of writing.

The Kobeissi Letter posted on X: "NVIDIA, $NVDA, is now the 4th most valuable public company in the world, worth $1.84 trillion. Today, NVIDIA's market cap passed both Google and Amazon for the first time in history. Since January 1st, NVIDIA has officially added $650 BILLION in market cap. That's more than the entire value of Tesla in less than 6 weeks. Truly incredible".