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Variants of COVID-19 reappear in Shanghai and Kunshan, causing lockdowns and affecting significant suppliers of top products from Apple and Tesla. Last month, China’s massive Shenzhen tech center had to go into lockdown because of another flare-up of COVID-19 in the location. A considerable number of inhabitants needed to follow rigid stay-at-home limitations and go through rounds of testing. Subsequently, a few industrial computer hardware and fundamental parts facilities are required to suspend creation....

The Latest Samsung Internet Beta is Bringing a Handful of Changes for an Improved Experience Samsung Internet 17.0 beta announces two new enhancements to Smart Anti Tracking, a privacy feature known for automatically removing tracking cookies. The first is “script-writable storage Tracking Position” which will remove all client-side cookies after seven days so it can minimize the user tracking/profiling. The second feature is that the Smart Anti Tracking feature will be turned on by default in certain regions such as the U....

South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics is purportedly investigating fraud at its chip manufacturing division Samsung Foundry. Samsung Foundry is only one of the two contract chip manufacturers in the world that is capable of producing semiconductors on the advanced 5-nanometer (nm) chip process. The efficiency of such processes is determined by what is referred to as a ‘yield’ in the semiconductor industry. A fresh report circulating in the Korean press is now claiming that executives at Samsung Foundry might have fabricated the data for 5nm and 4nm yields, in an effort to misplace the funds allocated by the company to improve chip manufacturing efficiency....

Samsung Could Be Aiming to Convince Biden to Let U.S. Companies Give the Manufacturer Orders for Its 3nm GAA Process U.S. President Joe Biden will reportedly arrive in Seoul for a three-day visit and according to Yonhap, that visit will include a tour of Samsung’s Pyeongtaek facility, which also happens to be the world’s largest and is located some 70 kilometers south of Seoul. Alongside Biden, Samsung’s Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong is also said to accompany him on tour to showcase the next-generation mass production process....

“Sausage-style” thermal paste application for GPUs results in five degrees difference above all other techniques. Igor Wallossek, owner and computer expert on the website Igor’s Lab, put all methods to the test to answer the question of the best process overall. The final result resulted in a difference of five degrees celsius compared to the least used methods. In the study by Wallossek on his website, he discusses how crucial proper thermal paste application is for large graphics cards....

64GB iPad Air with M1, 64GB Storage, USB-C and 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display Available for Just $559 Apple has a solid iPad lineup and there’s one for everyone out there. If you need something extremely powerful then the iPad Pro is there for you. If you need something low priced but does it all, the iPad 9 is there as well. But, if you need something in between that is extreme value for money and packed with power then the iPad Air is the way to go....

Stronghold Digital Mining reports having sold 26,000 crypto mining units to make up for the digital currency decline earlier this year Significant crypto mining operations have got into considerable debt in 2022. However, their mining hardware is still worth a hefty amount. The company has retained around 16,000 Bitcoin miners, using a hash rate capacity topping 1.4 EH/s and drawing around 55 megawatts in power consumption. However, SDIG maintains an optimistic future....

According to Dusk Golem, who previously leaked screenshots from an unannounced Silent Hill game, as well as Resident Evil Village information before official announcements, the screenshots have been taken from an internal demo pitch and are not representative of the final product in any way. VGC’s sources have corroborated Dusk Golem’s information, so it is almost certain that the final game will not look like it does in the leaked screenshots at all....

According to Syclonix, you can expect to find the following features in the Skyrim mod. Several of the aforementioned features can be checked out in these menu images shared by Syclonix. Of course, the creator also clarified that some of the features seen in the Shadow of Mordor/War games, such as hierarchies, power levels, showdowns, forts, and nemesis followers, won’t be replicated in this Skyrim mod due to obvious limitations....

A15 Bionic Running in the iPhone 13 Pro Max Still Commands Better Power-Efficiency Compared to Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Running Genshin Impact on both handsets, Golden Reviewer found out that the Xiaomi 12S Ultra achieves 57.7FPS with significantly improved efficiency than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 running in the Galaxy S22 Ultra, a flagship that obtained a measly 42.1FPS that also ran hotter. Note that the Genshin Impact gaming test was performed at the highest visual settings, with a 25-degree room temperature....

Plenty of leaks and rumors claimed that Sony would be revealing the release date of the God of War sequel last week, but reliable sources, including former Kotaku writer Jason Schreier, later said that the release date announcement was pushed back at the last moment. Unfortunately, it seems that this announcement delay didn’t sit too well with some ‘fans’ of the franchise, and some appear to have taken their frustration out on the game’s developers, including cinematics producer Estelle Tigani....

Shiba Inu (SHIB), a decentralized, meme-inspired crypto project, is laying down the requisite brickwork for its widespread adoption via the expanding avenues of utility for SHIB coin holders. Bigger Entertainment is one of the nine different entities that have promised to periodically burn Shiba Inu’s SHIB tokens in order to try to curb the native coin’s gargantuan supply in circulation, thereby paving the way for a sustainable increase in price....

The Star Ocean: The Divine Force playable demo allows players to experience a small part of Raymond’s story, starting from an attack on his ship, which forced him and his crew to abandon it in all haste. Following his dramatic escape, Raymond ends up on an underdeveloped planet where he meets princess Laeticia and her guard Albaird. Determined to find other crew members who may have crashlanded on this planet, Raymond enters an initially uneasy alliance with the two, not knowing he will get deeply involved in a war between two different kingdoms....

During the Sacred Symbol’s podcast, host Colin Moriarty also revealed some information on the game’s story, verified by Tom Henderson as posted on Insider Gaming. According to the new information, the game is apparently not even really in production yet, and the leaked story details are a controlled leak to gauge community reactions and help the studio recruit more developers. Apparently, Star Wars Eclipse’s main character will be called Sarah, a member of a humanoid race that has never appeared before in the Star Wars universe called The Zaraan....

As usual with EGS freebies, the offer will remain available until next Thursday (December 1st) at 5 PM. In case you’re unfamiliar with the game, it was developed by EA Motive (the same studio now working on the Dead Space remake and later scheduled to handle Iron Man). At launch, it received a 7.5/10 review score from our Nathan Birch. Ultimately, what I think I’m really missing is a focused co-op mode....

It will certainly be interesting to see what other types of companions Starfield will ultimately serve up. Will they also be robotic? Or are we getting a full range of different alien species to pal around with? Will they also serve different gameplay functions? Hopefully, Bethesda reveals more companions over the coming weeks and months. VASCO’s design is based on a standard Type-A bipedal chassis, capable of traversing rough terrain with all of the survival gear and payload capacity needed for extended overland journeys....

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service is unlikely to help protestors in the Islamic Republic of Iran from communicating with each other and the rest of the world during recent protests sparked by the death of a young woman. The protests, which started earlier this week, are the largest in Iran’s recent history, and the U.S Department of State voiced its support for the protestors when Secretary Blinken announced that his department will issue a general license to let firms provide services and software to enable improved Internet connectivity and privacy for the people of Iran....

Starlink’s Dependance On Falcon 9 Could Prove Costly If Starship Is Further Delayed According to Kuiper, it will use Blue Origin’s New Glenn, the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan Centaur and Arianespace’s Ariane 6 to launch the bulk of its satellites into orbit. All three rockets are yet to take flight, and all three of them are classified as heavy-lift vehicles. The smallest in the pack is the Ariane 6, which has a maximum payload capacity of roughly 48,000 pounds LEO....

The new screenshots, which can be found below, reveal the Dark Knight, Void Knight, and Ninja Expert Jobs, as well as Action Abilities, locations like Mount Gulg and The Ancients’ Towers, and more. A new post on the Official PlayStation Blog also delves deeper into the Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin Job System, how jobs have been adapted from their original iterations, and more. You can find the blog post here....

So, about this tournament. The game’s first-ever Super Tournament starts today and will be open every day. This competitive mode allows anyone in the beta to participate. The Super Tournament will have all the phases you’d expect, such as Qualifiers, Group Stages and Finals. The Super Tournament will take place on five regional servers. There’s $75,000 up for grabs each day, and the winner of the Finals period will be declared the overall winner, and the Top 10 teams will receive cash prizes....