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The Water Temple room where you face Shadow Link in Zelda: Ocarina of Time has become the defacto testing grounds for Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 emulation, as it was originally in a sorry state, lacking reflective water, fog, and other effects. The January update made some improvements, but according to Twitter user MondoMega the area finally looks how it’s supposed to, with both reflections and fog present. — MondoMega (@Mondo_Mega) February 25, 2022...

Apple Could Have Dropped in-Screen Touch ID Due to Increased Costs, Complexities of Using This Technology, and the Existence of Face ID In Mark Gurman’s paid version of his Power On newsletter, MacRumors reports that Apple’s Face ID feature will remain the only way to unlock your iPhones, including the iPhone 15 family. Though Apple itself has not provided any reasoning for not bringing back Touch ID, the likely reality is that a minor percentage of iPhone users actually miss it....

However, there is one thing that we still do not know for sure about the device and that is the specs. Sure, we have heard rumors in the past about how the Nothing Phone 1 will be a mid-ranger. The Nothing Phone 1 Looks to be an Effective Mid-Range for Everyone Who Wants Something Different Well, today, we have our hands on the specs of the Nothing Phone 1 and indeed, it is a mid-ranger but with some quality internals....

NVIDIA, ARM & Intel Set Eyes On FP8 “8-Bit Floating Point” For Their Future AI Endeavors In theory, this new cross-industry spec alignment between these three tech giants will permit AI models to work and function across hardware platforms, speeding the development of AI software. Artificial intelligence innovation has become more of a necessity across both software and hardware to produce sufficient computational throughput so that the technology can advance. The requirements for AI computations have increased over the last few years, but more over the previous year....

Chipmaker NVIDIA Corporation officially reported its earnings results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2023 earlier today on market close. The results matched the company’s preliminary earnings that shook the market and sent several stocks tumbling down, as NVIDIA confirmed $6.7 billion in revenue for a 19% sequential drop and a small 3% annual growth. NVIDIA’s chief financial officer Ms. Colette Kress explained that the drop to lower sales of her company’s gaming products, in what she described as a tough macroeconomic environment....

NVIDIA Ada Lovelace Flagship GPU Rumored To Feature AD102-450 GPU With 18176 Cores, 48 GB “24 Gbps” GDDR6X Memory & 800W TBP This isn’t the first time that such a high-end Ada Lovelace GPU SKU has been talked about. The previous rumor, which also came from the same leaker, reported on a Titan-Class graphics card within the Ada Lovelace GPU lineup which would feature some insane specifications. Once again, this isn’t the fully enabled AD102 GPU while the previous variant was mentioned as a 900W TBP SKU with the full 18432 CUDA Cores....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 LHR crypto mining unlock is now accessible on Linux systems The exciting aspect of this development is both teams, well known in the crypto mining community for each group’s mining software, were capable of unlocking the LHR limiter from NVIDIA at almost the same time. There is speculation that the two groups may have shared information about the method in question. In February of last year, NVIDIA created the LHR limiter for their graphics cards to dissuade crypto miners from using the cards in such a large capacity....

The speculation surrounding the updated memory module is that it would offer the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Non-Ti graphics card both higher memory bandwidths and faster speeds. Additionally, the TDP would also increase. The Lenovo NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6X GPU features 3,584 CUDA cores with a boost clock frequency of up to 1,780 MHz. Also, the maximum power consumption of the graphics card is 170W. Another inconsistency from the Slovakian retailer is the GDDR6X memory frequencies....

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Notebook GPU Is Just As Fast As The RTX 3080 Notebook & Titan RTX Desktop Graphics Cards The latest entry was spotted within the Geekbench 5 OpenCL benchmark where the laptop GPU was featured on an MSI Vector GP66 (12UGS) laptop. This is one of the latest 12th Gen laptops introduced by MSI at CES 2022 and rocks some impressive specifications such as an Intel Core i7-12700H 14 core CPU, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti notebook GPU....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 ‘Ada Lovelace’ GPU Configurations Leak Out: AD102 With 144 SMs, AD103 With 84 SMs, AD104 With 60 SMs, AD106 With 36 SMs, AD107 With 24 SMs Recently, NVIDIA got hacked and hackers were able to steal over 1 TB of confidential information which has started leaking out. Some information that has leaked out in the public already includes a bypass for the LHR technology, source code for DLSS technology, & codenames of next-gen GPU architectures....

Samsung Galaxy Book Pro Laptop With NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 GPU & Intel Core i7-13700H CPU Spotted Samsung’s next-gen Galaxy Laptop, the SAMSUNG_NP960XFH, has leaked out over at Pugetsystems and features two unreleased hardware components. The first is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 GPU & the second is the Intel Core i7-13700H CPU. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU is going to be the successor to the RTX 3050 Laptop GPU which is a widely popular and entry-level gaming solution for laptop gamers....

UK’s Biggest Tech Retailer, OCUK, Lists NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, RTX 4080 16 GB & RTX 4080 12 GB Custom Models The UK-based retailer has listed a total of 18 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series custom models which include 16 RTX 4090 graphics cards and one RTX 4080 16 GB / RTX 4080 12 GB. The retailer offers a wide variety of custom designs to select from including Gigabyte, KFA2, MSI, PNY, Palit, ZOTAC, Inno 3D, and ASUS....

Cyberattack Targeting NVIDIA Completely Compromises Parts of Its Business, Company Rep States They Are Currently Investigating The Incident Update: NVIDIA has allegedly managed to breach the hackers by inflicting them with ransomware and successfully encrypting its stolen data of over 1 TB. In their exclusive report, The Telegraph reports that the cyberattack was initiated at the same time as the Russian cyber warfare division started their offensive against Ukraine. All Nato allies have announced major sanctions on Russia and this could potentially be why Russia has decided to target major companies such as NVIDIA....

NVIDIA Unveils Hopper GH100 GPU Lineup: Featuring DGX H100, DGX SuperPod H100 & H100 PCIe Accelerators The NVIDIA DGX H100 and its various iterations such as the POD and EOS are aimed at the AI market, accelerating machine learning and data science performance for corporate offices, research facilities, labs, or home offices everywhere. NVIDIA DGX H100 System Specifications With Hopper GPU, NVIDIA is releasing its latest DGX H100 system. The system is equipped with a total of 8 H100 accelerators in the SXM configuration and offers up to 640 GB of HBM3 memory & up to 32 PFLOPs of peak compute performance....

This new DLC, titled “VOID Riders,” is the first of two DLC expansions, with multiple new locales and lots of new collectible cosmetics and gear. The game’s expansion also has a brand-new trailer to go with it, and you can watch that below. The VOID Riders expansion’s main plot is as follows, quoted from Private Division: This expansion, priced at $9.99, allows players to skate through newer levels of Sunshine Valley, Cloverbrook, and Burntrock, but with a brand-new mechanic; beams from the UFO can alter jump momentum, allowing for much bigger jumps and payoffs from going airborne, and mastery of this tool will make for quite the visual spectacle....

Here’s a bit more information about Outward: Definitive Edition… Outward: Definitive Edition launches on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5 on May 17. Those who already own the base game and the Three Brothers DLC will be able to upgrade to the Definitive Edition for free. As an ordinary adventurer, you’ll have to hide or defend yourself against threatening creatures, brave hazardous environmental conditions, protect yourself against infectious diseases, and make sure you get enough sleep and stay hydrated....

Rollback netcode has become a very essential feature for fighting games in today’s day and age. Fighting games over the years have begun to implement the feature more aggressively over the years, especially after the COVID pandemic limited the availability of in-person events. Thanks to it, players have been able to experience smoother matches with other players from across the globe. Now, this lauded feature will be available on the PlayStation and Steam versions of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax....

Google Cannot Catch a Break as Pixel 6a Gets Unboxed Once Again Malaysian YouTuber Fazil Halim has gone ahead and posted a detailed unboxing of the Pixel 6a. We are talking about an 11-minute video that offers a closer look at the phone’s design as well as everything that comes with the box. The video also talks about the key features of Pixel 6a, including the cameras, camera features, software, performance, and for added bonus, a comparison with Pixel 6 Pro....

New Battery Health Features for Pixel Phones Have Been Added in Android 13 QPR1 beta 2 While checking what is new in Android 13 QPR1 beta 2, Esper senior technical editor Mishaal Rahman stumbled across various changes, including an addition of the Pixel battery health feature. Now, it is not as easy to view as one would assume because you would either have to search in Settings Intelligence or Settings Services to look for this feature....

Well, according to insider Tom Henderson, who’s delivered the goods on Sony hardware in the past, a more significant revamp of the PlayStation 5 is in the works for 2023. This new PS5 is apparently codenamed the “D chassis” internally (following the A, B, and C chassis models). Per Henderson, the big difference is this model will offer a detachable Blu-ray disc drive, potentially simplifying the current situation in which Sony offers two PS5 SKUs – one with a disc drive and one without....