Google has a history of publishing this information for free on the web in the form of a frequently updated pie chart. The pie chart would have values assigned to each version of Android. However, the data did not really help Google all that much as people started contrasting Apple’s faster adoption rate for the new version of IOS. With time, Google stopped updating the chart to a point that it was taken down....
Apple Announces iPadOS 16 With a Wide Range of Apps, new Multitasking Interface, Reference Mode, and Much More iOS 16 is a major update considering the number of changes it brings to the table. Similarly, iPadOS 16 brings enhanced multitasking tools to the platform which will bring the iPad a lot closer to the Mac. Let us start by discussing the apps. The Weather app is finally coming to the iPad and developers will soon get a weather API to build their support in the app....
TSMC Will Manufacture 4nm Chips For Apple in the United States in 2024 According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, TSMC’s $12 billion chip plant will manufacture 4nm chips in 2024. At this point in time, the facility is under construction and expected to open in 2024. Initially, TSMC’s Arizona facility was slated to begin production of 5nm chips. However, with pressure from Apple and other companies, TSMC is open to manufacturing 4nm chips as soon as it begins production....
Apple Watch Pro to Come in a Single Size, Reportedly Getting the Biggest Display for an Apple Wearable The ‘Pro’ moniker means the significant physical changes will be the primary selling point of the Apple Watch Pro since it is not rumored to ship with new sensors and will use the same SoC as the Apple Watch Series 7. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claims that the changes in dimensions will not favor everyone’s preference, and he also mentions that pricing could range from $900 to $1,000, likely depending on which version you purchase....
Due to regulation changes in the European Union, Apple’s begun work on a project that will “allow alternative app stores” on iPhones and iPads, according to a Bloomberg report. This breaks the 15-year tradition that iOS products had and could launch about as early as iOS 17 when that releases next year. However, for the time being, this feature will only be available in the EU (and its respective countries)....
ASRock Gives A Spin To Its Intel Arc A380 Graphics Card In Various Games & 3DMark Benchmarks Launched last week, the ASRock Intel Arc A380 graphics card is a small form factor solution for the ITX segment. The GPU is based on the Alchemist ACM-G11 SKU, featuring 8 Xe-Cores or 1024 ALUs. The card comes rated with a 500W PSU requirement and features a single HDMI 2.0b and three DisplayPort 2....
ASUS Gears Up For ‘The Pinnacle of Performance’ Event on 9th May, Can Introduce Fastest Laptops Powered by Intel Alder Lake-HX CPUs There is a rumor that the new ASUS product line will compose of next-gen premium professional notebooks utilizing the upcoming Alder Lake-HX series of CPUs. The company has already released its ROG and ROG STRIX lineup of laptops based on the Alder Lake-P laptops so it makes sense to push for even higher performance with the new Alder Lake-HX parts The event itself is planned to be live-streamed on the 9th of May at 12:00 PM (EDT)....
Carefully re-created body textures with adjusted specularity that is more in line with Arkham Knight’s material work; Realistic skin bumps. Hair normal map now lines up with hair strands; Completely overhauled normal map; Damage areas more closely resemble Arkham City; Seamlessly replaced shirt material You can download Asylum Reborn (whose weight is 319 MB) from Nexus Mods, but that’s only part of the full visual overhaul guide. There’s also an Advanced Launcher that features support for the Asylum Reborn HD Texture Pack and also unlocks graphics settings unavailable in the regular game, such as: Batman: Arkham Asylum was the first game in the acclaimed series of games by Rocksteady and Warner Bros....
Take this with a grain of salt, but Xbox news Twitter account Idle Sloth is now claiming Battlefield 2042 and FIFA 22 will be hitting EA Play/Xbox Game Pass next week. — Idle Sloth💙💛 (@IdleSloth84) April 28, 2022 As mentioned, Battlefield 2042 has struggled since it release, with its first season of post-launch content not arriving until sometime this summer. That said, some improvements and new features have been rolled out, including an improved scoreboard and voice chat (yes, the game launched without voice chat)....
First, the Bandai Namco-produced title aims for an early Spring 2023 release date in Japan (no particular month was disclosed). Meanwhile, the game will have a network test on January 14th and 16th, 2023. The updates don’t stop there, though, as The Game Awards, which happens on December 8th, will have a Blue Protocol announcement. Something notable about the second part is that, in the stream replay, the Game Awards section was spoken in English, and mentioned overseas fans....
NIO stock had surged on Monday when the Chinese EV manufacturer had expressed willingness to enter into a surprise partnership with AMD to expedite the automaker’s deep learning process. Well, NIO is apparently now suffering from a classic case of buyer’s remorse, with the company repudiating its partnership with AMD today. As a refresher, AMD had posted a video on Weibo to announce that NIO would use EPYC processors within its HPC (high-performance computing) platform in order to speed up the automaker’s deep AI learning process and reduce the product development cycle....
China Gears Up For Its Domestic Gaming-GPU Revolution By 2025, Muxi’s First 7nm Chip Already Taped Out Muxi, (Muxi Integrated Circuit Shanghai Co Ltd), a chipmaker hailing from Shanghai, China, was incorporated back in 2020 and has been offering high-performance AI and general-purpose chips to the China domestic market. While China is slowly narrowing the gap between Intel and AMD within the CPU segment, there’s still a wide gap in GPU performance....
A very interesting video shared on YouTube by Gaming on Linux reveals how the preset isn’t working properly at all, as the game runs better with the Medium preset on Steam Deck. Reloading Cyberpunk 2077, it then says it’s preset to Ultra. So I set it to Steam Deck again and run benchmark to see really low performance. Then I set it to Low, go back to the menu, then back in and set again to Steam Deck and run then benchmark again, and it’s the best performance I’ve seen yet....
Save $20 on the Bose SoundLink Flex and Pay Just $129 for a Limited Time Only on All Color Options There are millions of Bluetooth speakers to choose from but nothing is quite like the Bose SoundLink Flex. It’s absolutely minimal when it comes to design and features and focuses on the one thing that matters the most to everyone - sound. Though some might argue that the $149 price might be a little on the high side, but when you hear this thing just once, you’ll realize that it’s definitely using wizardry instead of physics to manage this much bass in such a tiny package....
M2 iMac Concept Envisages Dark Color Options With Black Bezels and a Larger 27-Inch Size The concept of the M2 iMac is shared by the designer Parker Ortolani on Twitter, envisioning a new look in darker color options. The darker outlook is imagined in Starlight, Green, Starlight, Pink, and Blue. To be fair, the new colors look quite stunning compared to the pastel colors on the current M1 iMac. Other than this, the designer also conceptualized two sizes of the M2 iMac with a 24-inch and 27-inch model....
Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25182: Fixes Windows 11 Preview Build 25182: Known issues For more details, head over to the official blog post.
Since its global release last week, Blizzard’s all-new massively multiplayer online action RPG has been downloaded more than 10 million times. The news was announced through the game’s official Twitter account just now. “Shoutout to the heroes of Sanctuary”, the tweet reads. “In just one week, Diablo Immortal is the biggest launch in franchise history. Thanks for slaying with us.” In just one week, Diablo Immortal is the biggest launch in franchise history....
Apple Seeds Beta 1 of iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, watchOS 13.1 Ventura, and watchOS 9.2 to Developers For Testing Purposes To install iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 beta 1 on your compatible iPhone and iPad models, you will have to download the proper configuration profile from the Apple Developer Center. Once the profile is installed, beta updates will be available over the air on your device. At this point, it is unclear what the latest beta has in store for developers....
You Can Now Download Safari 15.6.1 Update with Extremely Important Security Fixes if You’re Using macOS Catalina or Big Sur If you refuse to update to macOS Monterey, or your Mac simply does not support the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system, there’s an important Safari update waiting for you. Bumped to version 15.6.1, this new update to Safari is available for both macOS Catalina and macOS Big Sur users....
The confirmation seems to align with the latest rumors from Jeff Grubb, who stated that Dragon Age 4 could release in late 2023 at the very earliest. BioWare also said farewell to Christian Dailey, the project’s Executive Producer ever since early 2018. At the same time, the blog post highlights the team of veterans that’s now in place working on Dragon Age 4. More information on Dragon Age 4 will be shared later in 2022 through blog posts and social content....
