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M2 MacBook Air Features a Single NAND Storage Chip That Slashes SSD Speeds in Benchmark Testing The teardown of the new M2 MacBook Air is conducted by the YouTube channel Max Tech, showing how Apple has arranged the internals. While the form factor of the new M2 MacBook Air is similar to the previous version, Apple has ditched the wedged design in favor of a rectangular chassis, similar to the M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro models....

SK hynix Beings MCR DIMM Development: Minimum 8 Gbps DDR5 Modules For Servers Press Release: SK hynix announced today that it has developed working samples of DDR5 Multiplexer Combined Ranks (MCR) Dual In-line Memory Module, the world’s fastest server DRAM product. The new product has been confirmed to operate at the data rate of minimum 8Gbps, and at least 80% faster than the 4.8Gbps of the existing DDR5 products. Double Data Rate (DDR), a DRAM standard mainly used for servers and client applications, has been developed up to the fifth generation....

Early Cortex-X3 Samples Provide Little Performance Improvements Over Cortex-X2, but Power Consumption Has Increased Drastically A report seemingly originating from Taiwan states that Qualcomm, Samsung, and MediaTek have inspected early Cortex-X3 samples, and some tweaking might be in order. At the time of writing, the performance difference between Cortex-X2 is not exceptionally high, but power draw is. The reason for this disparity is that AI performance has increased by more than 100 percent, while basic IPC performance does not see a major impact....

A Change in Supplier Made All the Difference in Performance, Power-Efficiency, and AI Qualcomm was rumored to switch foundries from Samsung to TSMC, as the latter’s 4nm was reported to be superior in every way. That appears to be the case here because not only is the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 faster on its fastest core, but even the ones designed for power-efficient get a clock speed increase. This shows that switching to a better manufacturing process has a multitude of benefits....

IGN’s new findings are in the form of two interviews, one with director Morio Kishimoto, and another with Takashi Iizuka. First off, in the interview with director Kishimoto; he offered a few comments relating to why the game’s landscapes are “Open Zone”, rather than open-world, as well as what they are. He says: This implementation means that the game will be packed with content from puzzles to different action sections....

Yoshida-san namedropped Fortnite as one example of the Metaverse and then reiterated that Sony is planning to learn a lot from Bungie on live service games, of which over ten projects will be launched by March 2026. Sony’s acquisition of Bungie is currently being probed by the US Federal Trade Commission, which could slightly delay the closing. Still, the Japanese corporation estimates the acquisition will be completed by the end of this year....

In the past few days, I was able to experience a meatier chunk of the promising Soulstice, and the longer gameplay segment not only confirmed my opinion of the game but also made it even more positive. If there is one word that could describe the Soulstice experience, it’s tight. For those not in the known, Soulstice stars two sisters called Briar and Lute, who are part of an organization called the Order of the Ashen Blade, whose main goal is to dispatch the Wraiths that have invaded the Holy Kingdom of Keidas....

After its test prototype for the Starship launch vehicle caught fire last month, SpaceX has finally inspected the booster and shipped it back to the launch site. Starship is SpaceX’s 394 feet tall rocket that is central to the firm’s plans to not only conduct crewed and uncrewed flights to Mars, but also rapidly build out its Starlink satellite internet constellation. The company is currently building out prototypes of the rocket in its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas and at this front, its Booster 7 is thought to be the first of its kind to be ready to conduct an orbital test flight....

Seems like Nintendo is serving up a pretty nice collection of stuff – new content for Salmon Run is particularly appreciated. Here’s a bit more information about the Chill Season update… “Big Run is coming! This new game event brings a twist to the co-op survival action of the Salmon Run game mode. The first Big Run will take place when the Salmonids invade the Wahoo World stage later this year....

Recently, the SteamDB listing for Starfield was updated, giving the game a new release date of December 29, 2023. A new “package,” perhaps related to a season pass or other DLC, was also recently added then removed from the Starfield page. Clearly, something is going on behind the scenes with the page. Now, December 29, 2023 is very likely a placeholder date – that would be a very strange time to release a major game – but it could indicate that a late 2023 release is more likely than an early 2023 release for Starfield....

Rather, on February 25th the embargo for press reviews and impressions will lift. Additionally, Valve will send the first batch of order emails to reservation holders, allowing those users to finalize their purchase within the next three days. After that time, if no purchase has been made, the reservation will skip to the next person in the queue. Valve expects to actually ship the first units starting on February 28th....

Tablerone – no, not Toblerone chocolate – is a free browser extension designed for Google Chrome that provides, but is not limited to, quick ways to save multiple open tabs and organize your browsing sessions. It may not be one of the best-rated tab management extensions out there, but it gets the job done and once you are familiar with it, you may never want to switch to another tab manager....

Terra, the disgraced public blockchain protocol that was singlehandedly responsible for emitting whale-sized volatility jitters earlier this month, plunging the entire crypto sphere into a full-fledged panic mode, is now betting its proverbial house on the “genesis of a new blockchain”. As per the tweet from Terra’s official Twitter channel, the Terra ecosystem has voted to pass Proposal 1623: — Terra 🌍 Powered by LUNA 🌕 (@terra_money) May 25, 2022 This proposal will effectively create a new blockchain sans the eviscerated stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST)....

More Bad News Awaits for Everyone Looking Forward to Ad-Supported Netflix Plan According to Steve Moser’s findings, the ad-supported Netflix plan is not going to allow downloading content for offline viewing. Additionally, the app might prompt users to answer some questions so the app itself can personalize the ad experience and deliver more relevant ads. The text that Steve discovered in the mobile app states the following. We are not sure about when the plan is going to launch and how much will it cost....

— The Callisto Protocol (@CallistoTheGame) October 21, 2022 Striking Distance CEO Glen Schofield recently tweeted about the long hours The Callisto Protocol team were putting in, igniting another conversation about crunch in the industry. Hopefully, the game already going gold might mean there will be some rest for the no-doubt weary team over the holidays. Need to know more about The Callisto Protocol? Here are the game’s key features…...

With a new message shared on Twitter, Ubisoft confirmed that this new mode will be the main focus of the upcoming PTS that will go live tomorrow, April 1st at 2 AM PT / 5 AM ET. Pre-loading for the PTS begins today at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET. — The Division 2 (@TheDivisionGame) March 30, 2022 Details on the new The Division 2 play mode are scarce at the moment....

Honestly, aside from being free-to-play, I’m not exactly sure what sets The Division Heartland apart. It’s just The Division with a smaller map and what appears to be pretty questionable visuals. Perhaps the non-existent price tag will make the game a hit, but right now, I’m skeptical. Need to know more? Here’s an official description and key features… “The Division Heartland in an upcoming free-to-play multiplayer shooter. This survival-action game will take Division Agents to a new rural location, the midwestern American town of Silver Creek....

Apple’s Latest iPad 10 Features Slower Data Transfer Speeds Compared to All Other Models According to The Verge, the USB-C port on iPad 10 is limited to USB 2.0 speeds of up to 480Mbps for data transfer. What this means is that the data transfer speed on the latest iPad is the same as its predecessor, despite switching from Lightning to a USB-C port. In contrast, all other iPad models feature faster data transfer speeds....

Known modder ‘Halk Hogan’ announced the news via his YouTube channel yesterday. As some of you might know, The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project is one of the most popular mods for the game, and CDPR even went as far as to implement it into the recently-released next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The mod reworks the game with thousands of higher-quality assets, textures, and models alongside numerous improvements and fixes....

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