Apple to Launch a New Version of iMessage Alongside Its AR Headset With a Home View, Chat Room, AR Functionality, and More Leaker Majin Bu shared on Twitter that Apple is working on a version of iMessage with a boatload of new features like home view, video clips, chat room, and more. Additionally, the app will also feature “new chat features in AR” and will be released sometime next year alongside the company’s rumored AR Headset....

Apple is Launching Limited iPhone and AirPods Discount in China Later This Week If you reside in China, you will be able to take advantage of the promotion from July 29 to August 1. As mentioned earlier, Apple’s discounts will be applicable for the iPhone, third-generation AirPods, AirPods Pro, and Apple Watch SE (via Bloomberg). You can check out more details on Apple’s website. If you are wondering about the savings, check out the details below....

Apple iPad 9 with 64GB Storage, Touch ID, Apple Pencil Support and Wi-Fi Currently Just $279 There are a ton of reasons why you’d want an iPad and not anything else. We’ll give you just one reason - iPadOS. The software alone is the biggest reason why you should get an iPad as it gives you access to the best apps and games that offer best in class entertainment and productivity....

Tim Cook Confirms Apple Will Buy Chips For Future Devices From TSMC’s Arizona Plant According to a new report from CNBC, Apple plans to purchase chips from TSMC’s Arizona plant. Cook was in Arizona alongside U.S. President Joe Biden at the announcement of TSMC’s investments in the states. Cook stated, “thanks to the hard work of so many people, these chips can be proudly stamped Made in America.” TSMC was previously reported to manufacture 4nm chips for Apple in the United States when it opens in 2024....

Apple Is Not Expected to Launch Its First Foldable iPhone Before 2025 Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight, told CNBC in an interview that a folding iPhone launch will be a risky move for Apple. Not only will billions likely be poured into research and development, but it would need to be priced at a level that does not risk the sales output of the non-foldable iPhones. Currently, Apple’s most expensive handset is the iPhone 14 Pro Max, with the largest storage variant carrying a price of $1,599....

ASRock Intel Arc A380 Challenger ITX Graphics Card Drops Down To 1029 RMB or $150 US, Priced Lower Than RX 6400 In China Now Now just a few weeks later, the official ASRock retail outlet at JD.com has updated the price from 1299 RMB to 1029 RMB which makes it 1 RMB lower than the official MSRP. Do note that this price includes the added VAT so the actual price of the graphics card if it entered the US market, should be even less....

ASRock Readies AMD Freesync Premium-Ready Phantom Gaming Monitors, 34" and 27" Models In The Works As discovered by Momomo_US, ASRock is working towards entering the gaming monitor segment with two products under its Phantom Gaming lineup. These include the ASRock PG34WQ15R and the PG27FF. Both models were registered at Displayport.org, Consumer.Go.Kr and digital-cp licensing sites. The move to enter the gaming monitor segment is common for almost every board vendor as all major brands have their own gaming-focused monitor lineup....

The build quality is a combination of aluminum and plastic at various places to keep costs down, which is why you should not expect a Razer-like chassis at the price offered to you. Now, let us talk about why this gaming laptop is special; the hardware specifications. The TUF Dash 15 is armed with an Intel i7-12650H CPU, an SKU that features six performance cores and four energy-efficient ones, totaling 10, along with an RTX 3060 GPU with 6GB of GDDR6 VRAM....

But what about the full release of Baldur’s Gate 3? Well, Larian also has good news on that, as it’s apparently still on track for 2023 with Acts 2 and 3 currently being polished. “The good news is that we’re on track for release in 2023 – and we’ll have more on that in December. Acts 2 and 3 of the story are being actively playtested to ensure they’re up to the same level of polish and you’ll soon discover that there’s much more in the works (or already complete) than what you’ll encounter in an Early Access playthrough....

Apple’s Latest M2 MacBook Air With 256GB Storage Features Slower SSD Speeds in Benchmarks Due to a Single NAND Chip The base model of the M2 MacBook Air with 256GB of storage capacity features a single NAND chip and it will reflect in the benchmarks. However, the real-world performance might vary depending on the type of workload. It was uncovered last month that the base model of the M2 MacBook Pro with 256GB of storage featured up to 50 percent slower read speeds and up to 30 percent slower write speeds compared to the previous model with the same configuration due to a single NAND chip....

Well, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has stepped into the fray, with new information that seems to support Kamiya’s stance that Taylor wasn’t telling the whole truth. Schreier has reportedly seen documents that indicate Taylor was offered $3000 to $4000 per session to voice Bayonetta 3, with five sessions likely being required. That means Platinum was actually offering Taylor between $15,000 and $20,000 to return for Bayonetta 3, which is well above standard rates for video game voice acting....

Ah, but the story took a major turn on Tuesday, as Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier stepped into the fray with new information that supported Kamiya’s stance that Taylor wasn’t telling the whole truth. Taylor was reportedly offered $3000 to $4000 per session to voice Bayonetta 3, with five sessions likely being required (so $15,000 to $20,000 for the whole job). Apparently, Taylor turned down Platinum’s offer, asking for a “six-figure sum” and residuals from sales of the game....

Save $50 on the Amazing Beats Studio Buds with Active Noise Cancelling, Up to 24 Hours of Battery Life and IPX4 Rating If you use an iPhone then it’s pretty obvious that you should get AirPods. But, if you sit on the Android side of the fence then you will be amazed to learn that Apple has a product that is actually tailor-made for you - Beats Studio Buds. These are true wireless earbuds with active noise cancelling and feature everything that is great about the AirPods except that it caters to a slightly more wider audience....

You often see limited partnerships when something hits a level of high popularity. We’ve seen Game of Thrones whisky and beer. I remember the Tru Blood orange drink (it was surprisingly nice). Peaky Blinders at least made sense for its partnership and branded Irish Whiskey. Borderlands isn’t at its height of popularity, which immediately makes this strange, but another aspect is that this has been described as a long-term partnership....

Laws of physics dictate that a gravy train can’t continue in perpetuity. Even so, the Cramer curse has been a veritable fount of market-beating alpha for well over a decade. Now, though, with the imminent launch of a dedicated Inverse Cramer ETF (SJIM), Wall Street is finally paying homage to the potential of inversing the stock recommendations by the CNBC host Jim Cramer. We have been consistently hammering home the point that Jim Cramer represents the consensus view in the market, representing a perspective that rarely – if ever – generates returns in excess of the market....

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest fund is the poster child of post-pandemic mania around profitless tech stocks. However, with the Federal Reserve now actively draining excess liquidity from the financial system and hammering risk assets via a hawkish interest rate increase trajectory to tamp down the wealth effect pervading the American economy, thereby setting the stage for an eventual moderation in the ongoing inflationary impulse, the ARK Invest fund is naturally facing a devastating bloodbath....

China’s largest chipmaker, the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has copied the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) chipmaking designs for the 7-nanometer chip manufacturing technology according to a research report quoted by the Taiwanese press. SMIC’s 7nm process, which first surfaced in 2020, has made it into a Bitcoin mining computer, which was torn down by TechInsights earlier this week to confirm that the company has started producing semiconductors with the advanced technologies, allowing it to catch up with the world’s largest chipmakers such as U....

A blog post shared last month on the Square Enix official website has been recently updated, as discovered by Reddit user Takazura, confirming that it will not be possible to switch between the original and remastered soundtracks. As such, the remaster will feature only the refined soundtrack. Given how some of the refined tracks we have heard so far differ quite a bit from the original, the fact that Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition will not feature the original soundtrack is definitely disappointing....

More & More NVIDIA AIB Partners Offer White-Colored GeForce RTX 4090 & RTX 4080 Graphics Cards Over the last couple of weeks, several NVIDIA AIBs have launched their latest white-colored cards. Manufacturers such as ASUS, GALAX, ZOTAC & AXGaming have revealed their new designs & these cards do look spectacular and a great fit for white-colored PC cases which are very popular among gamers. Colorful seems to be following this white-colored graphics card trend and has announced its brand new GeForce RTX 4090 & RTX 4080 Vulcan OC designs that come in a sleek and very premium white color design....

Colorful’s iGame DDR5 Memory Modules To Hit Over 7800 Mbps Transfer Rates, CVN & BattleAX Series In The Works Too Just like its graphics card lineup, the Colorful DDR5 memory series will consist of three families, the iGame, CVN, and BattleAX. Colorful has only given a teaser but it looks like the iGame DDR5 series will be the most premium kit followed by the more gamer-focused CVN designs with RGB LEDs & finally, we have the BattleAX series which will provide a unique aesthetic....