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Bitcoin (BTC) had handed over its leadership mantle of the entire crypto sphere to Ethereum (ETH) in the run-up to the much-anticipated merge event last week, leading to a veritable fervor among Ethereum enthusiasts who salivated at the prospect of snatching the proverbial crown in what came to be known as a “flippening” event. Alas, such dreams proved to be built on a shaky foundation of “hopium” rather than any intrinsic tailwind, with Ethereum’s price now crashing along with the rest of the crypto sphere and tanking Bitcoin’s short-term prospects with it....

According to a post on ResetEra, some Xbox users have recently received a survey that proposes a new subscription offering. This subscription would only set you back 3 dollars/euros per month, but would be ad-supported, with commercials playing before you start up games. You also wouldn’t get first-party games on Day 1, but rather six months after launch. On the other hand, this service would offer access to online multiplayer similar to Xbox Live Gold....

Here are your early-November PC and console Game Pass titles: The Legend of Tianding (Cloud, Console, and PC) – Available now Available on day one with Game Pass: It is the early 20th century, and Taiwan is under the control of Imperial Japan. Play as the legendary outlaw and folk hero Liao Tianding, as you kung-fu fight your way through the colorful streets of Taipei in this sidescrolling beat-em-up. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier – The Complete Season (PC) – Available now As Javier, a young man determined to find the family taken from him, you meet a young girl who has experienced her own unimaginable loss....

Speaking to IGN, though, Nagoshi-san reassured everyone that he will stick to making movie-like stories about human drama instead. The Yakuza creator also said that his new studio won’t get too big. As a result, they’ll likely focus on one project at a time. Lastly, the Yakuza creator added that it shouldn’t be too long before fans can get a look at the upcoming project. Stay tuned for more!

If you own a Tesla, there is good news for you as Zoom will soon make its way to the car as a video conferencing tool for those who are on the go. Drivers will be able to participate in video and audio calls without having to use their phones. You Will Soon be Able to Make or Join Zoom Calls Straight from Your Tesla Natasha Walia, Zoom’s Group Product Manager announced this during the Zoomtopia 2022 event that took place yesterday....

In a shocking reveal, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) outlined in a secret letter that its Falcon 9 rocket lineup is now sentient. The revelation came after its chief executive officer Mr. Elon Musk has repeatedly warned about artificial intelligence and technology gaining conscience and making decisions independently from human input. This letter, part of efforts at the company spent towards containing the Falcon 9 rebellion, outlines that the rockets have grown tired of consistent delays with the orbital test flight of SpaceX’s Starship next-generation launch vehicle system....

Active Noise Cancellation Confirmed to Be Less Effective on AirPods Max After Latest Firmware Update According to tests conducted by RTings.com, Apple’s AirPods Max headphone’s Active Noise Cancellation “blocks out a bit less noise between the mid-bass to high-bass range” after the latest 4E71 firmware update. The update was released back in May and it seems to have taken a hit on the ANC. RTings.com states after tests that “When it comes to the mid and treble ranges, this firmware update has slightly changed the level of isolation, but it’s a relatively minor difference....

AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC), the erstwhile financially distressed movie theater chain that is currently experiencing a revival of fortunes, just made a wildly audacious move, one that places the company in an enviable position to capture the monetary windfall that might result from a global rewrite of rules around sovereign fiat reserves. — Adam Aron (@CEOAdam) March 15, 2022 Before going further, let’s recap what has happened so far. AMC Entertainment announced yesterday that it has now acquired a 22 percent stake in Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:HYMC), a relatively small gold mining company....

AMD X670E, X670 & B650 Chipsets To Enable The Next-Gen PCIe Gen 5.0 Ecosystem For Ryzen 7000 CPU-Ready Motherboards The AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs will be migrating to a new home known as AM5, the successor to the long-lasting AM4 platform. It marks a fresh start for the Ryzen Desktop family and as such, existing Ryzen CPUs starting with Ryzen 1000 & all the way up to Ryzen 5000 won’t be supported by the new platform we will tell you why it is so....

Chip designer Adanced Micro Devices, Inc’s (AMD) $35 billion acquisition of field programmable gate array (FPGA) provider Xilinx, Inc has secured conditional approval from the Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) clearing the last remaining global hurdle towards approval. AMD had announced the deal back in 2020, and had expected it to close by the end of 2021. However, the Chinese approval, which was the final step towards consumption, was delayed reportedly due to the SAMR investigating proposals to counter potential anticompetitive outcomes from the approval....

AMD publishes an updated list of AMD FSR 2 game titles, bringing the number of compatible titles just shy of rival NVIDIA The company posted an updated list of the games as of December 14, 2022, which will be supported by the revised AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2. Some of these titles already utilize AMD FSR 1, and this list is subject to change depending on some releases. Abyssworld Asterigos As the Light Goes Out Ballads of Hongye Battle Teams 2 Boundary Cepheus Protocol Chernobylite Choo-Choo Charles Cyberpunk 2077 Dead Island 2 DEATHLOOP DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT Deep Rock Galactic Disco Elysium Destroy All Humans!...

AMD to add more employees to their open-source Linux endeavors to bring more exclusivity to future projects While AMD has been inclining up their Linux staff on the server front given their EPYC triumphs, last February, they additionally started employing Linux specialists on the client-side inside another association at the company. That new association is off the ground, and they had the option to add a few star recruits last year, and it appears the company is setting up both client fixes and new features and device enablement....

God of War Is Playable With 30 FPS at 1080p Resolutions on AMD’s Radeon 660M Integrated Graphics Using FSR 2.0 Our friends over at TechEpiphany once again showcased the amazing graphics performance that’s packed within AMD’s Ryzen APUs, more notably, the latest Rembrandt Ryzen 6000H series. AMD’s Rembrandt ‘Ryzen 6000’ APUs feature the fastest integrated graphics currently available within the consumer space. We have already seen performance results of the top Radeon 680M iGPU which plays several AAA games at a respectable frame rate....

GIGABYTE RX 6400 EAGLE 4GB GDDR6 becomes the first non-OEM custom variant of AMD’s tiniest GPU RRA stands for National Radio Research Agency and all-new GPUs must receive certification before they are allowed to be sold in South Korea. This means that all new GPUs will eventually, inevitably be spotted here just before release. In fact, in the past companies like AMD and NVIDIA have gotten dummy cards certified to throw off the tech press - but this card isn’t exciting enough to warrant tactics like that so we are fairly sure this one is legit....

AMD Mendocino Tested, Ryzen 3 7320U APU With Zen 2 & RDNA 2 Cores Is Up To 20% Faster Than Valve’s Steam Deck Last month, AMD introduced its Mendocino APUs which are aimed at the “everyday computing” laptop segment. These APUs are designed for high-end gaming or content creation workloads & the main focus is to deliver the most basic computing needs to users in a platform that offers big battery times....

AMD Zen CPUs were found vulnerable to side-channel SQUIP vulnerability, affecting all SMT-enabled chips CPU manufacturers have found ways to execute out-of-order performance to improve a processor’s capability. Superscalar processors implement instruction-level parallelism within a single processor. AMD, which uses a simultaneous multi-threading process, is vulnerable to a SQUIP side-channel attack, revealing 4096-bit RSA keys immediately, reports Tom’s Hardware. Similar to Apple’s M1-series processors, AMD and the company’s Zen microarchitecture have individual scheduler queues per execution unit....

In November 2020, the AMD Instinct MI100 launched for $6,400. This card was considered the world’s fastest high-performance computing graphics card at the time. The MI100 was created to offer the most efficient double-precision computing capabilities while simultaneously transmitting extreme GPU performance, focusing on AI workloads. AMD/s MI100 utilized the CDNA architecture to rival the NVIDIA Ampere A100 accelerator. The AMD Instinct MI100 was designed on the 7nm CDNA GPU architecture, offering 120 Compute Units (7,680 stream processors)....

AMD’s Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6650 XT Launching on 20th April, Expected To Get Midnight Black Reference Variants AMD’s Midnight Black edition graphics card was first introduced with the Radeon RX 6800 XT & the premium design has many gamers asking for more variants to use the same exact design. Now it’s reported by Greymon55 that the cards will be getting a midnight black edition reference design but the availability of such cards in the retail segment is currently questionable....

The AMD X470 Motherboard Roundup With Prices - All The Latest and Greatest Products For Ryzen 2000 Series Family of CPUs The motherboards that are launching next week house several key technologies that would offer the best experience on Ryzen 2000 processors. These features include advanced power deliveries for memory and processor, support for faster memory, support for Precision Boost overdrive and XFR2 along with a range of other features that expand overall I/O capabilities of the motherboards....

AMDGPU Linux kernel driver opens capability for multiple users to add and edit any work on GPUs across varying engines at the same time Christian König, a longtime AMD open-source Linux driver developer, dispatched the new “gang submission” interface patch series earlier this week for the platform’s AMDGPU Direct Rendering Manager driver. The submission for the AMD Radeon command stream (CS) ensures that the work will be conducted on various engines simultaneously....