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- Nintendo has sold 538 million handhelds to dateNintendo has sold a whopping 537.81 million handhelds to date thanks in part to the Switch's incredible cumulative sales numbers.May 16, 2022 10:22 AM CDT
- Elon Musk says you are being manipulated by Twitter's algorithmSpaceX and Telsa CEO Elon Musk has announced that Twitter's algorithm is manipulating you in many ways 'you don't realize.'May 16, 2022 12:33 AM CDT
- Intel: yeah, our Arc A770, A750, A580, A380, A310 models are comingIntel's latest Arc GPU drivers list unannounced desktop GPU models: Arc A770, A750, A580, A380, and A310 models teased just now.May 15, 2022 9:59 PM CDT
- EK's new waterblocks give me a woody: walnut wood tops look amazingEK's new signature CPU waterblocks (both AMD AM4 + Intel LGA1700) get a beautiful new walnut top treatment, check them out!May 15, 2022 8:27 PM CDT
- AUO teases next-gen brutally insane 480Hz laptop + desktop displaysAUO demonstrates next-gen ultra-high 480Hz refresh rate displays: 24-inch 1080p 480Hz desktop + 16-inch 1080p 480Hz laptop.May 15, 2022 6:43 PM CDT
- Switch helped Nintendo make $62.8 billion since launchThe Nintendo Switch's massive success has helped the company earn nearly $63 billion from video games since its launch in 2017.May 15, 2022 2:30 PM CDT
- NASA has detected the largest Marsquake ever recordedNASA's Mars InSight lander has detected the largest Marsquake yet on the Red Planet, at magnitude-5 on the moment magnitude scale.May 14, 2022 6:01 AM CDT
- Human eyes have been revived after death, responding to light againResearchers have revived neuron cells in the retinas of both human and mouse eyes, restoring some electrical activity with light.May 14, 2022 2:45 AM CDT
- AMD Instinct MI300: first-gen exascale APU with Zen 4 CPU + CDNA 3 GPUAMD Instinct MI300 is being touted internally as the 'first generation Instinct APU' packing a next-gen Zen 4 CPU and CDNA 3 GPU.May 13, 2022 9:00 PM CDT
- Elden Ring is bigger than Call of Duty Vanguard in the United StatesElden Ring is so popular that it beat Call of Duty Vanguard's sales in the United States, despite COD's three-month head start.May 13, 2022 2:39 PM CDT
- New NASA video shows best-known black holes and their stellar victimsA new video by NASA compares the size and orbital periods of 22 confirmed X-ray binary systems containing confirmed black holes.May 13, 2022 5:34 AM CDT
- Scientists have now grown plants in lunar soil for the first timeResearchers have grown Arabidopsis plants in lunar soil collected by NASA astronauts over fifty years ago on Apollo moon missions.May 13, 2022 4:01 AM CDT
- NVIDIA's new GeForce Game Ready 512.77 WHQL drivers are hereNVIDIA's new GeForce Game Ready 512.77 WHQL are here for Evil Dead: The Game, and Dolmen and Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong.May 12, 2022 7:46 PM CDT
- Remedy to push players to the edge of madness in Alan Wake 2Remedy promises that Alan Wake 2 will be a cerebral, mind-breaking psychological horror game with strong character development.May 12, 2022 3:33 PM CDT
- Dead Space remake release date is in January 2023The new Dead Space remake will release in January 2023, Electronic Arts today announced, but the game is still in pre-alpha.May 12, 2022 1:49 PM CDT
- Starfield's 2023 delay hits Xbox hype hardStarfield went from a release date in 2022 to a 6-month release window in 2023, and Xbox fans aren't happy about the delay.May 12, 2022 9:38 AM CDT
- SpaceX's Starship spotted with strange-looking payload doorSpaceX's Ship 24 Starship prototype currently in development has been spotted with a strange-looking and possibly damaged hatch.May 12, 2022 4:01 AM CDT
- Russian oligarchs that weirdly died this year had two things in commonAll of the Russian oligarchs who have mysteriously passed away throughout this year have had two weird things in common.May 12, 2022 2:33 AM CDT
- 'Glide Breaker' hypersonic missile interceptor in the works by DARPAThe U.S. Department of Defense's DARPA is developing divert attitude control systems (DACS) for intercepting hypersonic missiles.May 12, 2022 1:02 AM CDT
- Google Pixel tablet sneak peek: drops in 2023 with Google Tensor chipGoogle gives 'sneak peek' at next-gen Pixel tablet, powered by Google Tensor chip and 'designed to complement your Pixel phone'.May 11, 2022 8:50 PM CDT
- Top Gun: Maverick experience coming to Flight Simulator this monthMicrosoft Flight Simulator is getting its awesome Top Gun: Maverick tie-in expansion, which drops into the game on May 25.May 11, 2022 6:22 PM CDT
- PlayStation Plus subs drop and most gamers still aren't subscribedPlayStation Plus subscribers have dropped in Q4 2021, and most PS gamers aren't subscribed, but network services spending is up.May 11, 2022 12:11 PM CDT
- Sony has sold nearly 1.89 billion PS4 and PS5 gamesSony has sold nearly 2 billion games combined across both PS4 and PS5, comprising almost half of historic PlayStation software.May 11, 2022 10:24 AM CDT
- Sabrent announces high-perf Rocket DDR5 U-DIMM: 16GB + 32GB DDR5-4800Sabrent Rocket SB-DR5U-16G and SB-DR5U-32G announced: high-performance DDR5 RAM in DIMM + SO-DIMM form factors for next-gen PCs.May 11, 2022 8:33 AM CDT
- Watch this drone fly around a stadium making hot dog deliveriesThe first-ever food and beverage deliveries at a sporting event have been achieved by Purdue University, Levy, Valqari, and USOG.May 11, 2022 5:04 AM CDT
- 84% of PS Plus Premium's huge 740 game library is still unknownSony announced a bunch of games included with its new PlayStation Plus three-tier subscription plans, but most are still unknown.May 16, 2022 9:47 AM CDT
- Russia fails miserably at recent 'classified' space launchRussia has reportedly failed to deliver a 'classified payload' of military purposes to lower-Earth orbit via the Angara-1 rocket.May 16, 2022 12:02 AM CDT
- AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU: possible 24C/48T, up to huge 5.4GHz CPU clocksAMD's next-gen Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series CPUs could have flagship 24-core, 48-thread monster at 5.4GHz with Ryzen 9 7950X.May 15, 2022 9:22 PM CDT
- NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 40 series GPU: 'early Q3' launch teasedNVIDIA's new Ada Lovelace GPU family, the GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards could be here in 'early Q3' says latest rumors.May 15, 2022 7:45 PM CDT
- Square Enix invests record $792m in game dev, new studios, blockchainSquare Enix's production account reaches a record $792 million in FY22 as the company spends more money than ever on new projects.May 15, 2022 6:07 PM CDT
- The Dune game we always wanted is in development right nowIt sure sounds like Funcom is making the Dune video game that we've always wanted, complete with sci-fi RPG elements and mroe.May 14, 2022 9:19 AM CDT
- This algae-powered computer system has run continously for over a yearResearchers have created a system that uses photosynthesis from Synechocystis algae to power a microprocessor for a year straight.May 14, 2022 5:25 AM CDT
- Apple is reportedly testing future iPhone's with USB-C ports, finallyApple is reportedly testing USB-C technology in its iPhones in favor of Lightning which will likely be seen no earlier than 2023.May 14, 2022 1:51 AM CDT
- Intel XeSS launches on May 20, while GPUs are still MANY months awayAction RPG 'Dolmen' will support Intel XeSS super-resoltuion technology when it launches... on May 20... without a GPU. LOL.May 13, 2022 8:19 PM CDT
- Elden Ring sells 13.4 million, beats Bandai Namco's forecast by 235%Bandai Namco had no clue that Elden Ring would be such a success, and originally expected 4 million copies of the game sold.May 13, 2022 1:58 PM CDT
- Fastest logic gates ever made could make computers 1,000,000x fasterResearchers have demonstrated the previously theoretical lightwave electronics in new logic gates operating at femtosecond speeds.May 13, 2022 5:03 AM CDT
- AMD teases free game bundle, without saying which games: but why?AMD has an 'Upcoming Radeon Raise the Game' bundle coming... announced already... but no games were confirmed. What is going on?!May 12, 2022 9:00 PM CDT
- NVIDIA teases Computex 2022 keynote for May 23, don't expect a new GPUNVIDIA to 'present how AI is powering the enterprise data center and the latest products and technologies for gamers and creators'May 12, 2022 7:23 PM CDT
- Alan Wake TV show in production at Walking Dead network AMCThe Alan Wake TV show is still in development, and Remedy Entertainment is currently collaborating with AMC for the series.May 12, 2022 2:53 PM CDT
- Codemasters and Criterion team up for new Need for Speed gameRacing pros at Codemasters are teaming up with Criterion Games to lay out the future of the Need for Speed game franchise.May 12, 2022 11:35 AM CDT
- Astronomers observed a white dwarf X-ray explosion for the first timeThanks to pure coincidence, the eROSITA telescope has captured the first-ever views of an X-ray explosion from a white dwarf star.May 12, 2022 6:38 AM CDT
- Pilot collapses and passenger with 'no idea how to fly' lands planeA frantic passenger with 'no idea how to fly' was forced to take over the plane as the pilot had collapsed during the flight.May 12, 2022 3:34 AM CDT
- Pentagon calls out Putin and a 'game changer' play that he'd regretThe US Secretary of Defense has called out Vladimir Putin, saying that Russia's president may not want to engage in any bold moves.May 12, 2022 1:32 AM CDT
- Elon Musk is now being investigated by the US governmentThe US government has opened an investigation into SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk over his recent $44 billion acquisition.May 12, 2022 12:51 AM CDT
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 latest spec rumor: 24GB GDDR6X @ 21Gbps, 600W+NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4090 rumored specs: PG137/139-SKU330, AD102-300 GPU + 24GB of GDDR6X @ 21Gbps and 600W of power.May 11, 2022 8:07 PM CDT
- PS5 supply issues: Sony expects to ship 18 million PS5s in 2022 - 2023Sony plans to introduce nearly 20 million PlayStation 5 consoles onto the market in 2022-23, representing a huge sales blitz.May 11, 2022 3:26 PM CDT
- PlayStation 5 hits 19.3 million sales amid supply constraintsSony's next-gen PlayStation 5 has sold 19.3 million units throughout launch in 2020 to March 2022, is selling slower than PS4.May 11, 2022 11:17 AM CDT
- PlayStation 4 shipments crash to lowest point in console's historyShipments of Sony's PlayStation 4 have significantly crashed throughout the year, falling to their lowest point of all time.May 11, 2022 9:48 AM CDT
- The largest floating solar farm in Europe will start making power soonEurope's largest floating solar farm will begin producing electricity in July, situated on the Alqueva reservoir in Portugal.May 11, 2022 6:59 AM CDT
- WMO says Earth has a '50:50 chance' of breaching temperature milestoneThe World Meteorological Organization says there is a ~50% chance the annual average global temperature exceeds 1.5°C soon.May 11, 2022 4:43 AM CDT
- YouTuber buys $3 million of a crypto coin, 1 day later worth $1,000A very well-known YouTuber invested $2.8 million into a cryptocurrency coin, and 24 hours later his investment is worth $1,000.May 16, 2022 1:32 AM CDT
- This Unreal Engine 5 sizzle reel will have you drooling, upgradingQuixel have been playing around with Unreal Engine 5 with some truly amazing results: joined by their own Quixel Megascans tech.May 15, 2022 10:49 PM CDT
- AYANEO2 handheld: Ryzen 7 6800U APU + GPU is 2x faster than Steam DeckAYANEO2 announced: AMD Ryzen 7 6800U 'Rembrandt' APU + RDNA 2 GPU that's twice as fast as Valve's portable Steam Deck console.May 15, 2022 9:07 PM CDT
- Twitter legal called Elon Musk, complained he violated his NDAElon Musk says Twitter legal called him, complaining that he 'violated their NDA by revealing the bot check sample size is 100!'May 15, 2022 7:02 PM CDT
- Switch hits 107.65 million sales, #3 top-selling Nintendo hardwareThe Nintendo Switch has reached 107.65 million shipments to date, cementing as the third top-selling Nintendo product of all time.May 15, 2022 3:21 PM CDT
- Sony to distribute Bloober's new games, possibly includes Silent HillLayers of Fear dev Bloober Team has sign a 'significant distribution agreement' with Sony, and it could include Silent Hill.May 14, 2022 7:29 AM CDT
- Insane Tesla Model 3 mod turns the car into an offroad electric tankGerman YouTube group, The Real Life Guys, have modded a Tesla Model 3 to add chain tracks, affectionately dubbing it the Model T.May 14, 2022 3:19 AM CDT
- Take-Two's $12.7 billion Zynga merger may close later this monthTake-Two Interactive's massive $12.7 billion merger deal with Zynga is expected to close later this month, possibly on May 23.May 13, 2022 9:55 PM CDT
- Nintendo announces 10-for-1 stock split to boost share volumeNintendo has announced a substantial 10-for-1 stock split to massively increase share volume by more than 1 billion shares.May 13, 2022 3:43 PM CDT
- Twitter deal paused: Elon Musk wants to evaluate spam, botsElon Musk says 'Twitter deal temporarily on hold' as he questions Twitter over spam accounts, 'still committed to acquisition'.May 13, 2022 7:41 AM CDT
- NASA's Curiosity rover just spotted an alien-looking doorway on MarsNASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has spotted a peculiar sight on the planet, shaped like a doorway, possibly from a shear fracture.May 13, 2022 4:32 AM CDT
- AMD next-gen Zen 4 CPU rumors: huge 15-24% faster IPC than Zen 3AMD's new Zen 4 is a 'bigger deal than Zen 3 was' and has higher all-core boost CPU clocks, 15-24% IPC improvement over Zen 3.May 12, 2022 8:15 PM CDT
- AMD Zen 4 'Raphael' CPU: 8-core CPU @ 5.2GHz with RDNA 2 GPU testedAMD's next-gen Zen 4-based 'Raphael' Ryzen 7000 series CPU tested: 8C/16T @ 5.21GHz with integrated RDNA 2 GPU gets benched.May 12, 2022 6:53 PM CDT
- One of the best games of 2017 is free on the Epic Store right nowOne of the best mind-bending, weird, and memorable video games released throughout 2017 is free on the Epic Games Store right now.May 12, 2022 2:27 PM CDT
- Astronomers release first-ever image of our Milky Way's black holeThe Event Horizon Telescope has released the second-ever photo of a black hole, now of Sagittarius A* in the Milky Way galaxy.May 12, 2022 10:59 AM CDT
- Scientists answers the question of why aliens haven't visited us yetA Fermi Paradox solution may involve alien civilizations either collapsing or prioritizing homeostasis instead of space travel.May 12, 2022 5:41 AM CDT
- Twitter founder reacts to Elon Musk's decision to unban Donald TrumpThe co-founder of Twitter has commented on Elon Musk's decision to bring back former President Donald Trump's Twitter account.May 12, 2022 3:02 AM CDT
- New jaw-dropping Mars images showcase the Red Planet's complex historyA new set of images of Mars look like someone has run their fingernails across the surface of the Red Planet to create trenches.May 12, 2022 1:11 AM CDT
- Promising AI traffic light system could mean the end of traffic jamsAston University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system to manage traffic more efficiently at intersections.May 12, 2022 12:31 AM CDT
- Intel 14th Gen Core 'Meteor Lake' CPU: standard, high-density die shotIntel shows off its 14th Gen Core 'Meteor Lake' CPU in standard + high-density die packages: Intel makes CPU tiles, TSMC makes GPU.May 11, 2022 7:20 PM CDT
- PlayStation stats: Third-party game sales dwarf first-party salesThird-party games sell far beyond more copies than first-party games on PlayStation, with 86% of sales being third-party.May 11, 2022 2:38 PM CDT
- PlayStation made $7.59 billion from microtransactions in FY21Sony's PlayStation platform made nearly $7.6 billion from microtransactions, expansions, DLC, and in-game content in FY21.May 11, 2022 10:55 AM CDT
- Gotham Knights is PS5, Xbox Series X/S exclusive, skipping last-genWB's next Batman game is an action-RPG with four characters, lots of combat and loot, and it's skipping last-gen consoles.May 11, 2022 9:13 AM CDT
- NASA's famous telescope snaps a stunning galactic portraitNASA has published a stunning galactic image taken by a famous telescope that has been operating for more than 30 years.May 11, 2022 6:33 AM CDT
- Neurotech company founder tests his own brain scan helmet on ketamineBryan Johnson, the founder of neurotech company Kernel, tested his company's brain-scanning helmet after having received ketamine.May 11, 2022 4:22 AM CDT
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