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Microsoft Paint is a simple graphics editor that has been a part of Windows for decades, launching with the first version of the Operating System back in 1985. Released as a direct competitor to Apple's MacPaint for the Macintosh, the simple lo-fi MS Paint is a Microsoft Windows staple and, over the years, hasn't changed much, retaining its status as a simple-to-use and basic graphics editor.

It's no Photoshop, but fast forward to 2023, and Microsoft Paint is starting to make headlines thanks to new AI-powered features. In September, we reported on the app getting a one-click background removal function that was surprisingly powerful. And now, thanks to AI, Microsoft Paint can generate images using OpenAI's DALL-E via the app's latest addition - Paint Cocreator.

Available now for Windows Insiders, it might just be the easiest-to-use AI image generation tool on the market, thanks to Paint's simple and clean interface.

Elon Musk had some choice words to say about advertisers on X, where he said: "go f**k yourself" to anyone trying to blackmail him financially, in regards to the recent advertising boycott on X.

During the recent 2023 DealBook Summit in New York just hours ago, Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk sat down with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin. The topic quickly turned to the recent advertiser boycott on X, where Elon said: "If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f---yourself."He sat there for a minute while thinking, smirking, and then said in a more heightened voice:"Go. F---. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is."

He added: "That's how I feel... don't advertise" with people in the crowd laughing at Elon's response.

NVIDIA has recently posted record revenue numbers with a mind-boggling 1259% increase in net income year-over-year, with the CEO of TSMC now saying that NVIDIA will be the leader in the semiconductor business.

The news from NVIDIA and its revenue of $18.18 billion for Q3 2023, representing a 206% increase from the same quarter last year, and a 34% over Q2 2023. NVIDIA is an AI-focused company at this stage, dominating the AI GPU business with its H100 and upcoming H200 AI GPUs.

But now NVIDIA has the blessing of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and its CEO, Mark Liu, who recently said during a lecture by the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce that NVIDIA will soon lead in revenue in the semiconductor industry against its competitors like Intel, Samsung, and more.

Using the popular CrystalDiskMark benchmarking suite, Twitter/X user @GPUsAreMagic posted a result showcasing some pretty incredible results - a read speed of 182 GB/s and a write speed of 175 GB/s. You might think this was either fake or the app glitching, but with the tag CrystalCacheMark, the result comes from using the 32MB of 3D V-Cache on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU as a RAM disk.

Sure, with a capacity of 32MB (out of a total of 96MB of V-Cache on the 5800X3D), you're not talking about much in the way of storage, but 182 GB/s is the sort of read speed that makes the latest SSDs look like floppy disks from the 1980s. We're blown away by PCIe Gen 5 drives hitting 12GB/s, so seeing 182GB/s is insane.

Setting up and using the CPU's limited 3D V-Cache as a storage device requires an OSFMount tool, which allows RAM disks to mount image files in various formats. Not only that, but precise CrystalDiskMark settings needed to be used.

The mini PC market has returned in a big way in recent years, and if you've been following the space, then no doubt you've come across the competitive and powerful range from GEEKOM - a company that specializes in mini PCs to suit any need - and it's upcoming products could very well be little gaming powerhouse. And that's all due to them housing AMD's Ryzen 7 7840HS and Ryzen 9 7940HS processors.

These high-end mobile processors make up the flagship offerings in AMD's 'Phoenix' series, including Zen 4 architecture with AMD Radeon 780M graphics (12 CUs and up to 2.7 GHz clock speed). With the recent launch of the ROG Ally from ASUS, the Legion Go from Lenovo, and product companies like AYANEO, we've seen this type of APU - in Ryzen Z1 Extreme form - do some pretty amazing things.

With a Ryzen 7 7840HS or Ryzen 9 7940HS processor, GEEKOM's upcoming Mini IT13 PCs will undoubtedly be great little gaming boxes. The sort of device you could connect to a TV and treat it like a dedicated (and tiny) gaming console.

NVIDIA is cooking right now as it always is, working on the next-gen Blackwell GPU architecture that will debut in 2024, while we're hearing early rumbles of the next-next-gen Rubin GPU architecture that will drop in 2025.

We've already heard about NVIDIA's upcoming 2025 GPU architecture as "X100" and its two siblings in "GX200" and "GX200NVL" on NVIDIA's 2024 GPU roadmap. Now we've got leaker "kopite7kimi" on X, where the leaker tweeted out a reply to a tweet about astronomer Vera Rubin, tweeting "Miss the Golden Age of Exploration". Which, with the capitalized letters, spelling "GAME," too.

NVIDIA has been constantly dominating the AI GPU industry with its current H100 AI GPU and upcoming beefed-up H200 AI GPU, which are both based on the Hopper GPU architecture. After that, we'll see the release of the next-gen Blackwell GPU architecture, powering the B100 AI GPU and GB200 AI GPU throughout 2024 and beyond.

Apple has been releasing new iOS 17.2 beta for a few weeks now and is roundly expected to release the update to the public before Christmas time. But while previous betas included a pretty cool new Apple Music feature, this latest beta - beta 4 - has removed it, suggesting that it might not make the final iOS 17.2 release after all.

The beta was released to developers yesterday and has been put through its paces ever since. And as MacRumors notes, the collaborative Apple Music playlists feature has been removed, although it is always possible that it will make a triumphant return. However, whether that return will be in a future iOS 17.2 release or in a later iOS 17.x update, we'll have to wait and see.

Other changes included in this new beta include hints at the possible removal of the ability to buy TV shows and movies in the iTunes app. That content will need to be bought via the TV app in the future, although the change hasn't been made just yet.

The Apple Card has been around for a few years at this point having launched in 2019, but it might not be around all that much longer. That's after a Wall Street Journal report claimed that the partnership between Apple and Goldman Sachs that makes the Apple Card possible is on the verge of being killed off.

The Apple Card is a Goldman Sachs-backed credit card that is entirely managed via the Wallet app on an iPhone and offers various cashback deals that are surprisingly competitive. But the card is only available in the United States four years after its 2019 debut, with little sign that it is going to expand beyond the country's borders. Now, the Wall Street Journal, says that Apple is pulling the plug on its credit card partnership with Goldman Sachs, with the deal possibly exited within the next 12 to 15 months. The exit would reportedly cover the entire consumer partnership, including the credit card itself.

However, it isn't clear what that would actually mean for customers of the Apple Card. Would they continue to be able to use their card with Apple picking up a new backer, or would their cards be converted to a standard Goldman Sachs credit card, and its management be moved away from the Wallet app entirely? That isn't yet known, but it seems that the decision to end the agreement is mutual.

The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the first iPhone to feature a 5x telephoto lens and it manages that by using an all-new tetraprism lens that bends light to artificially elongate the distance between the main lens and the camera's sensor. But that isn't all that makes the new lens so impressive, with one analyst noting that a specific change is already starting to set a trend among other companies.

Writing in a longer Medium post about the plans of Apple and other phone companies, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Ming-Chi Ming-Chi Kuo says that the use of a special lens construction is what makes the tetraprism so notable. Normally the multiple lenses used within a phone camera would be made of plastic, with those lenses designed to reduce distortion in the resulting photo. However, Apple's tetraprism changes things up slightly, using one glass lens and three plastic.

The result of that unorthodox setup is that the iPhone 15 Pro Max benefits from the better clarity of a glass lens without dealing with the problems of using a full-glass construction. Those problems could be greater potential for breakage and increased costs, not to mention more complicated manufacturing, for example.

Apple's iPhones and iPads currently use modems designed by Qualcomm, a company that it has been trying to ditch for years. As part of that process, it bought Intel's modem business back in 2019, handing over a cool billion dollars in the process. It's been working on turning that acquisition into modems that could be used in its devices ever since, with no success. The result? A new report claims that the company has given up on the project entirely and is starting to wind it down.

However, that report comes via a source that has had a limited track record with such things and bases their leaks on supposed supply chain sources. In this instance, the leaker claims that their information came from a "related company's source," which doesn't really help us know whether it is more likely or not. But we'll tell you what they said and let you make up your own mind on whether this leak can be trusted.

The leak comes via a post on the Naver blogging platform by a user that goes by the yeux1122 username. According to them, Apple has entered the stage of liquidating its investment in the 5G modems it's been developing for years. The leak goes on to say that the plans to use Apple-designed modems in the future iPhone SE 4 appear to have failed, hinting that the phone will use Qualcomm from here on out.

Starfield has been a controversial release from Bethesda - as we've seen, the developer has been replying to negative reviews on Steam in an unusual step - and there are still issues with the game.

One of the most common complaints (and there are a few, admittedly) pertains to the AI which is shoddy in many respects, with enemies providing little challenge in combat.

The good news is that there's a fix for this, albeit an unofficial one by way of a mod that has just been released for Starfield.

Thanks to the advances in the APU space, namely with low-power mobile Ryzen processors from AMD. And with that, we've seen a recent resurgence in mini-PCs that can be used for a lot more than just basic network tasks, from being able to handle complex content creation apps to serving as portable media platforms and servers to even little game boxes that can sit next to a TV or monitor for compact PC gaming on a device a lot smaller than even an Xbox Series S.

AYANEO is a company known for making some of the most powerful and capable PC gaming handhelds on the market (recently covered the impending launch of the company's new AYANEO Slide), but its latest release is a mini-PC. More specifically, the AYANEO Retro Mini PC (AM01) - sets itself apart from the pack with a retro design that makes it look like a miniature classic Macintosh. And ti comes with interchangeable decorative magnets and a set of stickers to help you make your AYANEO Retro Mini PC your own.

Outside of the gorgeous retro look, the AYANEO Retro Mini PC design features a 35W silent heat dissipation system, so there's none of that loud, tiny fan sound found in many other mini PCs. The retro beige shroud encloses some decent hardware, with the AYANEO Retro Mini PC's entry-level ($150 early bird price) variant equipped with an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U, 8GB of DDR4 Dual Channel Memory, and 256GB of storage.

Microsoft launched Windows XP in 2001, and in the ensuing years, it has become one of the company's most celebrated versions of the iconic desktop operating system. A major shakeup to the overall Windows '95 and '98 aesthetic, XP's bright blue default theme was accompanied by its desktop wallpaper depicting Napa Valley wine country.

Windows XP also became one of the longest-supported and widely used versions of Windows and was one of those rare releases that outlived its successor. This interesting failure was Windows Vista. XP was so popular that the iconic default blue theme helped make the photo used for desktop wallpaper one of the most widely viewed photographs ever.

And for as vibrant and colorful as the image is - it's unedited. Affectionately called Bliss, the photo and Windows XP desktop wallpaper are the centerpieces for this year's Windows Ugly Sweater. Although this is purely subjective, I think this flashback to the early 2000s looks cool - so much so that I'd gladly wear it year-round.

Electronic Arts is seemingly working on new technology that allows players to input their voice into the game, which is then replicated/adopted by the in-game character.

The patent was discovered by VeryAliGaming and was originally filed back in October 2020, but only became public earlier this month. The patent reveals a rough outline for a new type of technology that's specifically designed to reproduce the speech of a player within a game through a system that includes a synthesizer module, a voice converter module, and a Vocoder module.

According to the patent, the technology is able to generate speech audio in the player's voice, while also capturing elements such as tone, emotions, and emphasis on specific words. It's interesting to consider playing a game such as Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, or perhaps a more plain RPG, with the main in-game character sounding exactly like you.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has pointed its instruments at the exoplanet named WASP-80 b, leading to the first time Webb has discovered methane in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

The discovery can be traced back to recently published findings in the scientific journal Nature, and also NASA's website where it explains that while methane has been detected in abundance within our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), it hasn't been discovered in the atmosphere of transiting exoplanets by space-based spectroscopy.

Webb honed its instruments on the exoplanet WASP-80 b, which researchers describe as a "warm Jupiter" as its similar in size and mass to the planet, but is approximately 1,025 Fahrenheit. WASP-80 b is located 163 light-years away from Earth within the constellation Aquila, and according to the researchers behind the study there is clear evidence for absorption from water and methane within the atmosphere of WASP-80 b.

NASA has taken to its YouTube channel to announce the discovery of 300 additional pulsars that are shooting out the most powerful form of known energy in the universe.

Pulsars are neutron stars that are spinning, and neutron stars are the leftover remains of a star that has gone supernova, the exhaustion of all its fuel, and its end-of-life stage. The corpses of a once bright star are neutron stars, and approximately 10% of all pulsars shoot gamma rays from their poles, making their discovery prominent. So, why do pulsars shoot the most powerful form of energy from their poles?

Pulsars, like neutron stars, are extremely dense, with only a teaspoon of a neutron star weighing about 4 billion tons, or as much as 10,000 Empire State Buildings. This density, combined with its extremely strong magnetic field, creates funnels at the pulsar's poles. These funnels accelerate particles to incredible speeds, creating two beams of light from their poles. Since the poles of the magnetic field aren't aligned with its axis of spin, the beams of light are shot into random directions in space.

The time has finally arrived, or at least it's just around the corner, as Elon Musk has revealed a date for when Tesla's Cybertruck will begin shipping out to customers.

In what seems like a road that was plagued with delays, the Tesla Cybertruck is expected to hit the streets sometime soon as Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to his personal X account to announce that deliveries will start this Thursday. Tesla has been developing the Cybertruck for the past four years, and during that time, it has been taking refundable deposits of $100, which Musk claims has now exceeded over a million interested buyers. Musk has also said that it would take Tesla five years to complete its backlog of orders at its current rate of manufacturing.

However, Musk has previously stated that Tesla plans on ramping up production of the Cybertruck over the coming years, with the hopeful target of hitting 200,000 Cybertruck's manufactured per year. Musk revealed these stats last month, saying Tesla should be able to manufacture 250,000 Cybertruck's in 2025. Furthermore, Elon Musk only recently let comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan fire an arrow at the side of a Cybertruck door to demonstrate it's bullet proof design. If you want to see that video, check out this link here.

It was only recently that Elon Musk let comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan fire an arrow at the door of an unreleased Tesla Cybertruck, and now we are seeing some unannounced features in the wild.

A new video that was originally posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, showcases two unannounced features of the Tesla Cybertruck: the wake-up light sequence and the raising of the entire vehicle to medium ride height. The above video shows the light sequence taking place when the driver opens the Cybertruck's door, and then once the driver is in the vehicle, the whole Cybertruck begins to rise from low to medium ride height.

This shift in suspension isn't new for vehicles, but it is the first time we've seen it used in public with the Cybertruck. What is the point of this feature? To assist the driver in getting into the vehicle, hence why it is placed in low mode when it's parked. The only concern that seems to be prominent from the video is how high the medium ride height setting is, with one X user writing, "That's medium? Want to see what high looks like!".

The iconic videogame franchise Fallout is getting the prestige TV treatment, with the first season set to debut on Amazon's Prime Video streaming service on April 12, 2024. Until now, full details on the adaptation have been kept under wraps, and outside of a few leaked set photos, we haven't had much to go on.

Thanks to an in-depth reveal at Vanity Fair, we now have a lot of Fallout TV series info to chew on. The story is a brand-new one and not based on any of the games - and it's canon, according to Bethesda's Todd Howard, who serves as an executive producer on the show. With Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy at the helm, the duo behind HBO's Westworld, the good news is that the dark humor of the Fallout games will be a big part of the post-apocalyptic story being told.

On that front, the main character will be Lucy, plates by Ella Purnell, "an optimistic Vault Dweller with an all-American can-do spirit" who will venture outside the Los Angeles-based Vault 33 for the first time in her life after "her peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when people harm her loved ones."

CD Projekt Red has revealed through its financial earnings report for Q3 FY2023 that the majority of developers at the studio have transitioned over to the new installment in the Witcher series - Witcher 4.

The most recently released earnings report revealed some key details about the studio's inner workings, along with the distribution of developers across the various projects being worked on. The below graph shows the rough percentage of how many CD Projekt Red developers are working on the following projects from December 2022 to October 2023: Phantom Liberty, the upcoming Ultimate Edition of Cyberpunk 2077, general Cyberpunk 2077 support, project Sirius, GWENT, The Witcher 3 Next-gen, and the Witcher 4 - codenamed Polaris.

For those who don't remember, CD Projekt Red announced that it was working on a new installment into the Witcher series back in March 2022 and that the Witcher 4 will be using Unreal Engine 5. Additionally, CD Projekt Red said back in September last year that it was planning on releasing three new games in the series to match the first Witcher saga, with developers currently working on the first game of the second Witcher saga (Witcher 4).