OnePlus 8 8GB + 128GB gets a 64% discount (now available for just $249) and OnePlus 8T 12GB + 256GB gets a 46% discount (now for just $399). The OP8T offer is valid on Aquamarine Green and Lunar Silver on both the unlocked and T-Mobile variants (limited stock). Specs of OnePlus 8T (now $399; $749 retail) Specs of OnePlus 8 (now $249; $749 retail $699) For more details, check out the product page....
The Vivo X90 Series Will Have Three Phones With Vivo X90 Pro+ Featuring the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, and Sony IMX989 Sensor The Vivo X90 series was supposed to be going official in December, later this year. However, after a leaked video surfaced online, Vivo decided to change the announcement date, and now the entirety of the series is going to go official on November 22nd, just a week from now....
The iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX), an exchange-traded note that aims to closely track the price of the CBOE Volatility Index or VIX, appears to be gearing up for an explosive rally, amplified by retail traders banding together on the popular Reddit forum, WallStreetBets. Before discussing the factors behind the ongoing bullish impulse in VXX, let’s take a quick refresher course. Exchange-Traded Notes or ETNs are complex financial instruments issued by a number of megabanks across the globe....
And here’s a (somewhat overenthusiastic) developer overview video. Need to know more? Here’s the official Blizzard Warcraft Arclight Rumble description… California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) has filed suit against Activision Blizzard, alleging widespread gender-based discrimination and sexual harassment at the Call of Duty publisher. You can get more detail on that unfolding story here. Action Strategy Gameplay - Warcraft Arclight Rumble brings you frantic mobile action strategy combined with meaningful progression and customization....
Truth be told, Warhammer 40K Darktide and Marvel’s Midnight Suns are just the tip of the iceberg for what sounds like a packed December for GeForce NOW users. For example, Battlefield 2042 is also joining the service, so RTX 3080 members can play DICE’s game (now up to its Season 3, Escalation) with RTX and DLSS enabled, just like with Warhammer 40K Darktide. Additionally, Battlefield 2042 features a special reward for GeForce NOW users....
Yoichi Take, Game Director and President of Toylogic, stated: From the beginning, our mission was to create a game players will fall in love with after the first match. Be it the strategic challenge, the thrill of the combat, or the excitement of creating that perfect character deck, we wanted to make Warlander for everyone. A game that doesn’t only offer competitive fun every time you spawn but one that requires true leadership skills and tactics to master....
Developed by Everstone Studio and published by NetEase Games for the PC platform, Where Winds Meet is set in China during the twilight period of the Ten Kingdoms. It features highly ambitious gameplay mechanics that go beyond the traditional combat-focused action/adventure genre, supporting many different playstyles. Where Winds Meet also includes both single player and multiplayer modes. Following the strong excitement generated by the debut trailer showcased at Gamescom 2022 Opening Night Live, we reached out to the development team of Where Winds Meet with a plethora of questions....
The big takeaways are that Xbox Game Pass subscribers play more than average, and most games, particularly back catalog titles and indies, get a nice boost from joining the service. Per Microsoft, Game Pass subscribers play 40 percent more titles and explore 30 percent more genres after joining. They also like to spend, shelling out for 50 percent more in-game purchases than the average player. New games released Day 1 on Xbox Game Pass get a 3....
Xiaomi 2022 Book Pro laptops use Intel Alder Lake CPUs and choices of Intel or NVIDIA discrete GPUs The company plans to reinvigorate the line with newer CPUs, GPUs, & next-gen displays, offering the Intel Gen Core i5-1240P Alder Lake CPUs with four Performance Cores and eight Efficient hybrid cores. This processor is low in power, only using 28 to 64 W power consumption. Xiaomi is upgrading its CPU architecture for this new line, improving from the Tiger Lake-H35 processors prevalent in the company’s Book Pro line from 2021....
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) chief executive officer Mr. Elon Mus has shared new footage of the company’s Starship next-generation launch vehicle platform ahead of a presentation that he intends to deliver from Boca Chica, Texas later today local time. Starship is SpaceX’s under development rocket that sits at the heart of its plans of interplanetary missions, alongside aiming to provide the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with the crucial capability of landing humans on the Moon later this decade through the Artemis program....
You Asked for it and Twitter is Finally Going to Deliver on a ‘Edit Tweet’ Button - Feature Will Go Under Testing with Twitter Blue Users First A few days back Elon Musk ran a poll on Twitter asking whether or not the social media platform should have an Edit button. Obviously, the answer was a resounding yes. But today, Twitter has confirmed that the company has been working on an Edit button for a long, long time....
TSMC to Have Various 3nm Tiers Planned for the Future, Less Expensive iPhone 16 Models May Use First-Generation 3nm Chips in 2024 A Morgan Stanley report covered by Charlie Chan’s team and spotted by Economic Daily News talks about TSMC’s 3nm expansion plans. Unfortunately, the chip wafer manufacturer is said to reduce the production capacity of its cutting-edge node from 80,000 wafers down to 60,000 wafers per month. Even then, that is a massive output, most of which is going to be used by Apple for its iPhone chips in 2024....
Tipster Does Mention That These Capacities Are Unconfirmed, but Given Apple’s Practice, It Is Difficult Not to Believe These Figures With the ‘mini’ version not lined up for a release, Apple will have no excuse to use smaller-sized batteries in every iPhone 14 model launched. According to the image shared by ShrimpApplePro, that appears to be the case, though he does suggest his audience to treat those numbers with a pinch of salt....
This new Alone in the Dark game is a reimagining of the very first franchise installment released in 1992. Players will return to Derceto Manor, a mental hospital for the wealthy located in 1920s countryside Louisiana. Just like in the original game, there will be two playable protagonists to pick from: Emily Hartwood, whose uncle has gone missing, and private investigator Edward Carnby, who is trying to help her. According to THQ Nordic, they’ll offer not only different perspectives but also completely different levels and cutscenes....
AMD Corrects Its Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPU & AM5 Platform Power Ratings: Up To 170W TDP & Up To 230W Package Power Update: Robert Hallock has confirmed that the AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs will have SKUs that go up to 170W TDP and 230W PPT. He also states over at Reddit that the 16-Core prototype that is used at Computex 2022 was not fused to specific power/TDP values but was operating in a range below the 170W TDP figure....
Instruction-based sampling support for upcoming AMD Zen 4 processors under Linux review The previous and current patch series for the new AMD Zen 4 family have had basic and lackluster terminology. With the latest patches under review, users can rest assured that the Zen 4 Linux support is currently taking effect and will be apparent in all-new patches and updates to the open-source operating system. Zen 4 is set to enhance instruction-based sampling by creating an additional data source extension and a new L3 cache miss filtering ability....
AMD publishes patent for GPU chiplets application to create better utilization of shader technology The new patent published by AMD opens more insights into what the company plans to do with next-level GPU and CPU technology in the coming years. At the end of June, fifty-four patent applications were revealed to be sent for publishing. It is unknown which of the over fifty patents published will be utilized in AMD’s plans....
AMD RDNA 2 Refresh Rumors: Radeon RX 6950 XT On Track, RX 6750 XT & RX 6650 XT In Q2 2022 In the latest information posted by Moore’s Law is Dead over at Twitter, the leaker states that AMD will be introducing three brand new graphics cards as a part of its RDNA 2 Refresh lineup. The new cards include the previously leaked Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, and also mention the RX 6650 XT....
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X & Ryzen 5 7600X “Alleged” Performance, Ryzen 9 7950X CPU Overclocking Rumors Update: The leaker has also posted alleged multi-core performance numbers for the two chips which we have listed below. Starting with the performance numbers, we have Greymon55 who has revealed the Cinebench R23 single-core figures for the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X “Zen 4” CPUs. The exact numbers have not been mentioned so the final performance may vary but according to the leaker, the Ryzen 7 7700X should score in the 2000 points range while the Ryzen 5 7600X should fall within the 1900 points range....
AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Phoenix Point’ 8-Core CPU Shows Up, Features 8 Zen 4 Cores For Laptops The AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Phoenix Point’ APU was spotted by Benchleaks and TUM_APISAK. Both leaks come from the same database, which is MilkyWay@Home. The same database was the first to list down AMD’s Zen 4 Desktop CPUs in 8 and 16-core flavors. While there’s no specific information in the listing that states that this is a Phoenix Point chip, the OPN code ‘100-000000709-23_N’ points out that it is indeed a Phoenix Point SKU....
