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iPad 10 Features a Landscape Camera, Which Is Space Taken up That Could Have Been Used to Charge the Apple Pencil Wirelessly With no physical home button present, Apple’s iPad 10 relies on a side-mounted power button that also doubles as a fingerprint reader. While a design change is always welcome, according to iFixit’s findings, perhaps one of the biggest complaints from customers is the way they have to charge the Apple Pencil....

iPhone 14 Could Switch to eSIM Completely as Technology Adoption Picks up Pace In the United States, carriers are planning to embark on a cardless future. The Wall Street Journal stated that Apple stopped including a physical SIM card in the box with the launch of the iPhone 13. Moreover, some Android smartphone manufacturers decided to let go of the physical SIMs altogether. While Apple will not make physical SIM cards redundant for existing users, the company could potentially introduce an eSIM model for the iPhone 14....

Pricing Leak Shows the Base iPhone 14 Will Cost Around $967 in China A sheet of paper originating from Weibo shows all iPhone 14 models, along with the display size and resolutions. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro share the same panel size and resolution, just like the larger iPhone 14 Max and iPhone 14 Pro Max. This is significantly different than the iPhone 13 series, where resolutions varied between the Pro and non-Pro models....

Apple Apparently Intends to Replace iPhone 14 Plus Units With ‘Pro’ Models Production, Since Demand Remains Consistent for Them Unexpectedly sluggish sales have forced Apple’s supply chain partners and channel operators to reduce iPhone 14 Plus production by 40 percent. Earlier, we reported that Pegatron, one of Apple’s assembling partners, had to reduce orders by up to 90 percent and freeze a hiring spree just three days after announcing that it would start recruiting more employees....

iPhone 14 Pro Max Won a Total of 15 Display Performance Awards, While the iPhone 13 Pro Max From Last Year Secured 12 In its meticulous testing, DisplayMate gave the iPhone 14 Pro Max an A+ rating, and given the number of awards it has won, the flagship’s LTPO OLED panel sets the benchmark for near-visually perfect panels. Apple has made further improvements to the display, allowing the refresh rate to reduce its value from 120Hz to 1Hz (previously, it could only be reduced to 10Hz on the iPhone 13 Pro Max) to conserve battery life....

The Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series’ major selling points involve completely remastered graphics and visuals, adjustable difficulty settings, and even two-player co-op capabilities. This new remaster is aiming to please the hardcore platforming enthusiasts and newcomers to the genre. Mike Chang, Senior Director of Digital Marketing and Business at Bandai Namco, said the following: To celebrate the announcement, Bandai-Namco has also released a few screenshots that show off the remasters and the graphical updates that can be expected to be found in the compilation....

The past few months have not been kind to Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) shareholders, with the stock registering a loss of nearly 60 percent so far this year. However, Saudi Arabia now appears to have come to the rescue of Lucid bulls with a gargantuan order for EVs. — Lucid Motors (@LucidMotors) April 26, 2022 To wit, the government of Saudi Arabia has officially entered into a purchase agreement with Lucid Group for at least 50,000 vehicles over a 10-year period, with an option to purchase an additional 50,000 units over the same timeframe and bringing the entire quantum of order to a whopping 100,000 units....

Display Sizes of the M2 iPad Pro Lineup Are Likely to Remain Unchanged, With the Largest Version Sporting the Same 12.9-inch Panel The update comes from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who states the news in the tweet provided below. Earlier, the reporter mentioned in his Power On newsletter that the official announcement would happen in a matter of days. Given that the M2 iPad Pro series will likely sport an unchanged design and will not tout anything extraordinary except for a chipset upgrade, the launch may happen through an Apple Newsroom press release....

Micron Delivers the World’s Most Advanced Client SSD Featuring 232-Layer NAND Technology Press Release: Micron Technology, Inc., (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is shipping the Micron 2550 NVMe SSD to global PC OEM customers for use in mainstream laptops and desktops. The 2550 is the world’s first client SSD to ship using NAND over 200 layers. Delivering performance that eclipses the competition1 through its density and power advantages, 2550 provides users with responsiveness and the low power consumption needed to extend battery life for work and home PCs....

That’s what Bloomberg reporters Leah Nylen and Dina Bass now write in a new report based on a source familiar with the matter. We’ve included a part of Bloomberg’s article down below (the full article is behind a paywall). In a bid to win regulatory approval for its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc., Microsoft Corp. has offered rival Sony Group Corp. the right to sell Activision blockbuster Call of Duty as part of its gaming subscription service....

A new patent has surfaced (thanks to the folks at Game Rant) that describes a system, whereby players would validate ownership of a physical game on a system with a disc drive (including last-gen consoles), then through the internet or a local area connection, validate it on another discless system. You would then be able to either directly transfer the game’s data from the disc-enabled system to the discless one or download it from the Xbox Store/Network on the discless system....

MONTECH unveils the new TITAN GOLD power supply series to support new ATX 3.0 and PCIe 5.0 connectors for the NVIDIA RTX 40 series GPUs The new TITAN GOLD from MONTECH utilizes one hundred percent Japanese capacitors with a temperature rating of 105°C to ensure users will have reliable power for the individual system and fantastic stability. The new PSU maintains an ultra-low noise through the FDB (Fluid Dynamic Bearing) fan that aids with zero RPM modes during low tolerance uses....

MSI Rolls Out Z690, H670, B660 Motherboard BIOS Firmware To Support Intel’s Next-Gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs MSI will be gradually rolling out the BIOS firmware for its entire list of 600-series motherboards as it ensures full support for Intel’s next-gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs which are supposed to launch later this year. Currently, MSI has rolled out the BIOS for the following Z690, H670, & B660 boards: The motherboard manufacturer will also be rolling out the latest BIOS firmware for the remaining Z690, H670, and B660 lineup in the coming weeks which will allow users to be ready for the 13th Gen chips at launch....

MSI Gives The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti A Stealthy Look With Its Brand New ‘Black Trio’ Custom Graphics Card Design All-black and stealthy graphics cards are becoming more common in the custom DIY marketplace. AMD recently introduced its Radeon RX 6000 RDNA 2 refresh which features an all-black reference design and there have been new takes of such designs in the custom solution market too. Now MSI has come up with a brand new design for its GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card known as the Black Trio....

AMD’s Ryzen 7000 ES Desktop CPU Spotted Running On A Next-Gen MSI B650 AM5 Motherboard In a picture tweeted by @9550Pro (HXL), we can see an off-screen BIOS display that shows the motherboard with the MAG B650 naming scheme. The MAG series motherboards are designed exclusively by MSI and are the most entry-level in their motherboard family. While we can’t say which specific MAG variant this is (Mortar, Bazooka, Tomahawk), we can see that it is based on AMD’s B650 chipset which will be part of the next-generation AM5 platform....

You’ll have the chance to sign up for the raffle starting today through next Sunday. On Monday, April 11th, we’ll randomly select the lucky winners. Do note that you need to be located in North America due to shipping limitations. Good luck! Nacho Customz x Cooler Master MM720 Mouse Giveaway [NA Only] By the way, we previously reviewed the regular version of the MM720, rating it 9.3 out of 10....

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Orion spacecraft reached its closest point around the Moon earlier today as the space agency kicked off the ship’s outbound trajectory correction flyby early in the morning eastern time today. Orion took off on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket last week in a highly anticipated mission that kicks off efforts to develop a sustained human presence on the Moon. The mission, officially called Artemis 1, is an uncrewed test flight of Orion which aims to check all of its systems as it journeys the farthest for any human rated spacecraft and returns to Earth early next month....

It’s only the latest in the increasingly ambitious pipeline for the VR-only developer (which just released the action/adventure title Fracked, previously available on PSVR, on the PC). To learn more about the upcoming Ghostbusters VR game and nDreams’ thoughts and plans around the future of Virtual Reality, we had a long and interesting conversation with founder and CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh. First of all, tell us about nDreams. We just announced a few months ago that we’ve raised 35 million from the Aonic Group, which is helping us grow and scale very fast....

Created by ‘SOSUINEPSIXUYU’, this modification improves the quality of items such as food, tools, cables, vending machines, forks, spoons, plates, furniture, and trash by improving the level of detail on said items. As expected, this somewhat could affect performance, but this depends on the setup used. Installation of this new mod is a breeze and only requires users to extract the downloaded file(s) in the “Cyberpunk 2077\archive\pc\mod” folder. We’ve included some comparison screenshots down below, so judge for yourself whether this mod is worth a try....

Ahead of the event, we joined a press presentation with Inflexion Games where the developers talked a bit about some key aspects of the game. To begin with, unlike most survival games, there won’t be many different servers that split the community. It will be instead one universe where everyone can play together. At the early access launch, Nightingale will support up to six players at any time, though there are plans to expand that number later....