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Intel Mesa Vulkan driver receives an unbelievable “100x” improvement to raytracing Lionel Landwerlin, a seasoned Intel Linux graphics driver engineer, opened the newest merge request after uncovering the extensive optimization of the hardware support. Once published, it has now been added to Mesa 22.2. The new alteration to the Intel ANV will allow for “scratch memory for Vulkan raytracing” to be “allocated to local memory, a.k.a. the local device memory for the DG2/Alchemist discrete graphics cards,” states Michael Larabel of Phoronix....

Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs Bugs, Production Woes, Vulnerabilities Among Countless Reasons For 2023 Delay The Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPU lineup for servers was meant to launch and compete with AMD’s EPYC Milan CPUs. Since their announcement, AMD has launched Milan, Milan-X, and will launch Genoa in the coming months. While we were expecting that Sapphire Rapids could ship around the same time as Genoa, that doesn’t seem to be the case as the launch is being pushed back to early 2023....

Intel recruits members of its community for mass testing of its Arc A7 lineup with free, indefinitely loaned, GPUs As hardware reviewers, we are intimately familiar with ILAs; basically any hardware unit you receive which is yours to keep for future testing comes under an indefinite loan agreement. The item stays “loaned” forever and you can essentially completely destroy it (as long as its in the name of science) but it will stay the property of the manufacturer for legal purposes....

After 18 years, we find more information about Intel’s infamous failure — the Pentium 5 processors First, let’s look a little closer into the two chips themselves. Tejas was the codename given to the microprocessor to be the successor to the Pentium 4 processor. Jayhawk was the Xeon variant of the abandoned Pentium 5 series. Intel’s Core formed the basis for power-efficient architectures. Netburst, the microarchitecture for the x86 processors, was launched in November 2000....

Apple releases iOS 15.7.2 and iPadOS 15.7.2 for iPhone and iPad with important security fixes With the release of iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2, Apple has released software updates for older devices as well. Though the iOS 16 updates are packed with new features and changes, you get pretty much nothing with the smaller 15.7.2 release. However, you do get important security fixes which are always nice to have. There’s nothing worse than using a phone or a tablet that makes your private information vulnerable....

iPhone 14 Models to Use 6nm 5G RF Chips Made by TSMC for Enhanced Battery Life Thanks to the Smaller And Less Power Hungry Chip According to a new report from the Economic Daily News, TSMC has obtained all orders for Apple’s 5G radio frequency or RF chips for this year’s flagship iPhone models. The new chips will be purportedly manufactured using TSMC’s 6nm process which was announced last year. The 6nm 5G RF chips are smaller in size and also consume less power, which will contribute to enhanced battery life on iPhone 14 models....

This update was released for both Windows 10 versions 2004 and 20H2. Its primary focus is to service the update channel to ensure users keep receiving new updates free of hassle. Installing this update will upgrade your builds to 19041.844 for v2004 and 19042.844 for v20H2. Also see: KB4601382 for Insider Preview Beta Channel KB4601382 for Insider Preview Dev Channel Visit this page to learn more about Microsoft Insider programs....

This time around, SNK is adding three characters from the Samurai Shodown series to The King of Fighters XV’s roster. Haohmaru, Nakoruru, and Darli Dagger will join the roster, and the three of them have a short gameplay trailer that you can watch below. Haohmaru’s attacks have a ton of hitstun, and his sword swings give him additional range over some of the melee characters on the roster. To say he’ll do a ton of damage will probably go unquestioned since KOF XV already deals with extremely high damage as it is, and you can very easily die from any stray hit from many characters....

It was largely priced in. Even so, Trump’s formal announcement of candidacy for the 2024 US Presidential elections is creating a favorable tailwind for the shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:DWAC), a SPAC that is slated to take the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) public via a reverse merger. We reported on the 07th of November that Trump was expected to formally enter the 2024 Presidential race on the 14th of November....

Download in HD ​​⬇️https://t.co/gyydhuuT1e pic.twitter.com/h97zjH5C1G — Mass Effect (@masseffect) November 7, 2022 Do make sure to download the video, as Twitter always wreaks havoc on image quality. If you download the video, the following text is readable in the bottom-left corner. Vacuum-dock Relay Construction Record / Monitoring Station Operated by Green Dagger Ltd. Properly of Deepspace Dhow SAV / Ship Captain: Sub-Navarach Soa’Rhal Zhillan-Jones For Interior Use Only SA —–314—- ////11_07_90_000_1000-201....

Thanks to the partnership, the Gaming Hub will be the world’s first Smart TV platform to include the Xbox app on Smart TVs. Additionally, thanks to Xbox Game Pass, users will be able to play new games on day one of release from Xbox Game Studios and enjoy iconic franchises from Bethesda Softworks and more. Won-Jin Lee, President and Head of the Service Business Team at Samsung Electronics said the following in a press release: Meanwhile, Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming added the following: We are excited to deepen our partnership with Xbox by adding the Xbox app to Samsung Gaming Hub, which now gives Samsung Smart TV users access to hundreds of Xbox Game Pass games....

Bitcoin is crashing today amid a resonant cry from various quarters of the financial media, gleefully announcing the death of the world’s largest cryptocurrency for the umpteenth time and then some. As we’ve noted a number of times in our posts, a typical bear market for Bitcoin sees its price crash around 80 percent relative to the preceding all-time high. It is for this reason that we expect Bitcoin to bottom somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000, provided that the trough coincides with a flush in the S&P 500 index towards the $3,400 price level....

A new trailer that has been shared online today confirms that Flaming Espinas, an Espinas subspecies originally introduced in Monster Hunter Frontier Season 2.5, will be added to the game with the second title update that is scheduled to go live in late September. A fierce and fiery frontier awaits in the form of Flaming Espinas, flying into Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak as part of free Title Update 2 in late September....

China’s First Gaming GPU, Moore Threads MTT S80, Benchmarked In Games: Good For eSports But Lacks Driver Support & Loses To An RTX 3060 The Moore Threads MTT S80 is purely focused on gamers. It features 4096 MUSA streaming cores and runs at 1.8 GHz, providing users with 14.4 TFLOPs of compute performance. While gaming is its focus, the graphics card can also be used for 3D rendering and AI processing....

Mordhau Survival RPG is a large game mode and map mod in which you have persistent progress between logins. You will start no better than a peasant, but you are able to work your way up in the world by either becoming an unbeatable duelist, an opportunistic raider, a master craftsman, a scheming trader, or even just a simple hunter in the woods. Your objective in the game mode is open-ended and there are a number of gameplay systems you have at your disposal that should help aid you in your goals; an in-depth crafting system, an honourable & dishonourable PvP system, bandit hunting PvE contracts, dynamic flora and fauna spawning, and an expansive armor & equipment system with special bonuses....

The game launched in late 2008 for the PlayStation 3, delivering heart-pounding off-road action through sixteen original tracks featuring a healthy mix of locales such as jungles, beaches, caves, and mountainsides. MotorStorm: Pacific Rift also added a new gameplay feature related to the traversal of rivers and waterfalls: water would cool engines, but going in too deep inevitably slowed down racers. There were also plenty of vehicle types to choose from, ranging from the likes of Buggies and ATVs to Monster Trucks and Bikes, and each of them was fun to drive around....

B660 & 13th Gen Overclocking? MSI Makes It Possible With Its B660M Mortar MAX WIFI Motherboard, Up To 5.8 GHz OC Achieved on Intel Core i5-13600K So let me tell you first why this news is big for existing MSI B660M Mortar MAX WIFI Motherboard owners. When Intel launched its 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, they were only overclockable on the Z790 or Z690 motherboards. Owners of the mainstream B660 series motherboards, despite having clock-gen support on a few models, weren’t able to overclock the latest chips due to a BIOS lock....

NASA’s Orion spacecraft has exceeded expectations as it enters the 15th day of its flight confirmed officials earlier today during a press conference. The ship is currently orbiting the Moon, and it is part of the Artemis 1 mission which is a test flight that will test its different systems. During its journey, Orion reached the farthest point away from Earth for a spaceship designed to fly humans - a crucial achievement due to the complex design when compared to other spacecraft particularly due to the stringent life support and communications requirements....

Back to today’s releases, Insiders aren’t only receiving a new Preview Build, but also getting the ISO files (download from here) for today’s build, and also getting Version 11.2203.30.0 of Media Player for Windows 11. Windows 11 Insider Build 22598: Changes and Improvements Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22598: Fixes Known issues in Windows 11 Build 22598 Microsoft is also starting to roll out a new update to Media Player for Windows 11 (Version 11....

Yesterday we already covered a console comparison video following the release of patch 1.5, and today we wanted to share another comparison video from YouTube tech channel ‘ElAnalistaDebits’. This channel has been doing amazing work for quite some time now and really deserves praise for its top-notch comparison videos. The new video compares the game with patch 1.5 running on PC with an NVIDIA RTX 3080 and 3050 GPU, to the game running on the next-gen consoles....