Apple’s New iPad Air 5 Features a Stretch-Release Battery Pull Tab For Easy Repairs and Replacement The news was shared by the repair website iFixit, suggesting that the new iPad Air 5’s battery comes with stretch-release battery pull tabs for easier removal and replacement. In contrast, the previous models feature a completely glued-in battery which was quite difficult to remove. Moreover, it required a solvent like an isopropyl that technicians commonly use to loosen the grip of the adhesive under the battery....

iPhone 14 Pro Models Are Reported to Feature 8GB Of RAM, Same as Samsung’s Galaxy S22 The news was shared in a post from “yeux1122” on the Korean blog Naver, suggesting that the iPhone 14 Pro models will feature 8GB of RAM. The post cites supply chain sources, suggesting that the memory components have been confirmed and mass production is accelerating. The source has a mixed track record and it all depends on Apple if it sees to continue with its plans till the launch....

Judas is a narrative sci-fi shooter with a decidedly BioShock-esque tone to it, but it looks like it will be much more open-ended. You’re a passenger on a doomed starship full of colorful characters, and it’s up to you to recruit a team and find a way to escape. Doesn’t sound easy, but then, you don’t have a lot of other options. You can check out the first teaser trailer for Judas, below....

LG creates a 27-inch UltraGear OLED esports gaming display with a swift 240Hz refresh rate and 0.03 response time LG’s new esports gaming display is fashioned with a screen resolution of 2560 x 1440px and a four-narrow edge form. The 27GR95QE gaming display by LG offers users a 10-bit depth of color, a 1,500,000:1 contrast ratio, full support for HDR10, factory color calibrated, a pixel-pitch of 110.8 PPI, and a DCI-P3 color gamut of 98....

M1 MacBook Pro Beats The New M2 MacBook Pro in Speed Test Comparison Possibly Due to The Different NAND Storage Chip The M1 and M2 MacBook Pro models part of the test are both 256GB variants. The M2 MacBook Pro with a higher storage configuration would perform differently. However, if you are looking to buy the base model of the M2 new MacBook Pro, check out the real-world speed test below....

Apple’s Entry-Level MacBook Pro With M2 Chip to Launch Later This Year Without ProMotion Technology Mark Gurman shared new details on the entry-level M2-powered MacBook Pro model in his Power On newsletter. He suggested that Apple will launch the M2 MacBook Pro model in November of this year. We have previously heard that the M2 MacBook Pro will be a successor to the 13-inch variant with an M1 chip. The M2 chip will be more powerful than the M1 but it will fall behind the company’s M1 Pro and M1 Max....

Apple’s macOS 13.1 Ventura update arrives with new Freeform App and HomeKit improvements - download it today macOS 13.1 has been in beta for quite a while now, and today we can finally download the complete version of the software on our compatible Mac. But before we do that, here is everything new in this release: There are two things important in this release - first is the new Freeform app that is designed with creative collaboration in mind, and second, HomeKit gets a huge improvement which makes everything faster than before....

Another such game will be joining the program today, Martha Is Dead (a game we’ve reviewed prior), and not only is Intel XeSS being added, but AMD’s FidelityFX 2.1 (or FSR) will also be added to the game. A new trailer was released to celebrate the added features, which you can watch below. You can read an excerpt of our Martha Is Dead review by Wccftech writer Rosh Kelly: ”Martha is Dead is an actively sinister game....

MediaTek Aims to Squeeze Every Bit of Performance as It Can From the Dimensity 9000 Plus, but Those Improvements Are Minor Like the Dimensity 9000, the Dimensity 9000 Plus is built on TSMC’s 4nm architecture, so smartphones bearing the new SoC will see power efficiency improvements. Eight cores are present in the latest silicon, with the Cortex-X2 witnessing an increase in clock speeds. However, the remaining cores are running at the same frequency, and if you want to see a breakdown of all cores, those details are as follows....

GameStop (NYSE:GME) and AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC), the stocks that ushered in a retail-driven mania around downtrodden equities, appear to be back in vogue after having endured a brutal pummeling throughout much of 2022. As an illustration, GameStop shares are now up over 44 percent, while AMC Entertainment shares are up over 25 percent in the past five trading days. Is this trend sustainable? Let’s find out. A Number of Bullish Intrinsic Factors Lie at the Heart of the Ongoing Surge in GameStop (NYSE: GME) and AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) Shares We had highlighted the growing preference for put options in the runup to GameStop’s high-stakes Q4 2021 earnings last week....

At least, that’s what financial outlet Seeking Alpha now reports based on a Dealreporter item, which, allegedly, cited sources familiar. According to the report, the Microsoft/Activision deal is now moving toward a filing with Europe’s antitrust regulator, the European Commission. The exact timing isn’t known, but apparently, “the antitrust regulator hasn’t singled out major issues after a thorough prenotification.” Microsoft is said to have told Dealreporter that it remains confident that the deal will be finalized in the company’s FY2023....

MSI SPATIUM Goes Mainstream With M450 Gen 4 NVMe SSDs: Up To 1 TB Capacities, 3600 MB/s Read Speeds & DRAM-Less Design Press Release: MSI is announcing the launch of a new Gen4 PCIe NVMe model to its SSD category - SPATIUM M450 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2. This new product allows MSI to continue to refine its identity as a high-performance PC brand and grow its product ecosystem by expanding SPATIUM, our high-performance storage category....

MSI’s MPG X670E Carbon WiFi & Pro X670-P WiFi Motherboards Listed By Italian Retailers There are various Italian retailers that have listed the two motherboards as discovered by resident Twitter Leaker, Momomo_US. Three Italian retailers which include Eurotronic, TekWorld & City Web Shop have the motherboards listed but do keep in mind that once again, these are preliminary lists with early prices which do not reflect the final MSRPs. The prices also include a +22% VAT for Italian market regions so that’s also accounted for....

Trio of MSI’s Intel B760 Motherboards Leak Out: VRM & PCB Details For Next-Gen Tomahawk, Mortar & ITX Edge The MSI Intel B760 Motherboard lineup will include several DDR5 & DDR4 options to select from. Our leak focuses on the ATX Tomahawk, mATX Mortar & mITX EDGE designs. All 3 motherboards come with brand-new features and a slight refresh over the existing designs so let’s get straight into the details. Just yesterday, we saw the MSI MPG B760 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4 motherboard leak out....

Two new videos were released for the upcoming martial arts soulslike from Chinese indie developer Game Science. The first video offers six minutes of in-game cutscene featuring bits of very captivating cinematography. In addition, the video packs some great music and a great overall atmosphere. Be sure to check out this new official video down below. The second video is from NVIDIA and offers eight minutes of exclusive 4K gameplay with ray tracing and Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS)....

Updated MacBook Pro Models May Not Feature a 3nm M2 Pro or M2 Max After All Apple still has plenty of product releases to go before 2022 draws to a close, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman believes that the following will materialize in the coming weeks. Strange enough, Gurman’s Power On newsletter did not specify a low-cost iPad 10 launch, and since we have been hearing quite a lot about it, we figured that it would be included in the reporter’s list....

It Is Possible Apple’s Only Semiconductor Partner, TSMC, Was Facing Difficulty Ramping 3nm Production A machine translation on the Korean blog Naver from the account yeux1122 states the following regarding the latest rumor: The individual did not provide the reason why the new MacBook Pro models have been delayed, but we might have a hunch that it can be traced back to Apple’s chief chip supplier, TSMC. Earlier, the Taiwanese giant was reported to have received a large order from Apple to mass-produce the M2 Pro and M2 Max chipsets for the upcoming portable Macs....

The Japanese company confirmed with a new post on the official PlayStation Blog that the event will stream tomorrow at 2 PM Pacific, 5 PM Eastern, 11 PM CET. The show will be around 20 minutes long and it will mostly focus on games coming from Japanese publishers. A March State of Play has been rumored for some time now, and a report shared online yesterday suggested that the event could have been delayed due to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia by a couple of weeks....

Confirmed with a new trailer shown during today’s Nintendo Direct Mini, the new version of the action role-playing game by Square Enix and Platinum Games, which will run natively on the console, will include all of the DLC content released for the original release. Additional costumes exclusive to the Nintendo Switch release will also be available at launch, on October 6th. You can check out the NieR Automata: The End of YorHA Edition announcement trailer below....

‘Nope’ Is Consumers Reply To The $1199 US NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Graphics Card, Lower Stock Than 4090 & Still Stocked Up At Retailers In our own review, we found the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 to be an impressive card in terms of gen-over-gen performance and power efficiency, however, the price that NVIDIA is asking for is simply absurd. The 4080 launched at $1199 US, making it the single largest price bump we have ever seen on an ‘80’ class GeForce graphics card....