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Apple announced earlier today that it has committed $450 million to support emergency satellite communication in the U.S., as part of its efforts to gain first place in a hot segment that has recently seen interest by none other than SpaceX’s Starlink. Apple’s latest smartphones, the iPhone 14 lineup, supports emergency satellite connectivity in partnership with Globalstar, and the company confirmed today that the service will use the mobile satellite service (MSS) frequency, band....

Apple’s M1 Pro Mac mini Scrapped In Favor of M2 and M2 Pro Chips In his latest Power On newsletter, analyst Mark Gurman suggests that Apple previously worked on a version Mac mini with an M1 Pro chip. The company intended to launch the Mac by the end of last year or earlier this year. It seems that the company is letting go of the M1 Pro chip for the Mac mini and replacing it with M2 and M2 Pro chips....

Apple Could Potentially Launch New Macs in March and The Rest in May or June at Its WWDC Event The news is shared by Mark Gurman in his latest Power On newsletter, suggesting that Apple is gearing up for “another round of Mac releases around May or June.” What this means is that the company will announce at least one Mac in a March event while the rest of the Macs will be announced later on in May or June....

First, let us talk about the exterior, with the ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 sporting an above-average build quality, and its primary 16-inch panel has been validated by Pantone for creative professionals. It has a 16:10 aspect ratio, which means that its resolution measures 1920 x 1200, supporting a 165Hz refresh rate with a 3ms response time. Not just this, but you also get a secondary 14-inch 4K touchscreen panel which you can use to drag certain windows to get more work done efficiently....

ASUS Readies At Least 22 AMD X670E, X670, B650E & B650 Motherboards For Ryzen 7000 CPUs We have already given our readers a detailed roundup of the ASUS X670E motherboard lineup here and as mentioned above, you can also check out a few B650/B650E motherboards here. As of now, ASUS is working on at least 22 motherboards for Ryzen 7000 CPUs, these include 9 B650(E) series & 13 X670(E) series products....

Original story: Get ready to smash some robots, because rumor has it the visually-impressive BioShock-inspired shooter Atomic Heart will be launching in February of 2023. This was first reported by WhatIfGaming, and the date is seemingly being vouched for by reliable insider The Snitch. While the game is the work of first-time developer Mundfish, its action looks impressive and the game features an array of visual bells and whistles, including extensive use of ray tracing, thanks to a partnership with NVIDIA....

RPCS3 ‘PlayStation 3 Emulator’ Dev Highlights The Performance Advantage of AVX-512 Enabled CPUs The blog was published by Whatcookie, one of the many developers on the RPCS3 Emulator project and compares how AVX-512 helps over standard AVX2 instructions. You can read the full blog here or to keep it simple, the main advantages of AVX-512 come in the form of: Larger register file New forms of old instructions Mask registers...

AYANEO 2 Geek Gaming Console Packs AMD Ryzen 6000 APUs With Zen 3+ CPU & RDNA 2 GPU Cores, Starting at $699 US The AYANEO 2 GEEK adds itself to the AYANEO family of handheld gaming consoles that offer a range of options based on Intel Alder Lake, AMD Ryzen 5000, and 6000 & Mendocino APUs onboard. The company has also offered a slew of graphics architectures from Intel and AMD, including the Intel Xe-LP, AMD Vega, and the RDNA 2 architecture from the company....

Not the most visually-appealing thing I’ve ever seen, but it’s designed to test your hardware, not be a grand artistic achievement. Relic of Life is part of Basemark’s new GPUScore benchmark suite. Two more benchmarks, “Sacred Path” for mid-level GPUs and “The Expedition” for mobile devices, are also planned. Basemark claims their benchmarks are run on a frame-by-frame basis, resulting in more consistent, repeatable results. Here’s more information on the Relic of Life benchmark… You know you can’t resist seeing how your system measures up....

Taking over for Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker will be longtime Director of Production Nathan Burlow, who will become Rocksteady’s new studio director. Darius Sadeghian will become studio product director. “I have some important news to share with you about Rocksteady Studios. Co-founders and studio heads Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have made the decision to leave the studio. We are very proud to have worked alongside Jamie and Sefton, who have led their talented teams to create some of the best games in the world....

iPhone 13 mini Has a Slightly Bigger Battery but Higher Resolution and Still Manages to Beat the 2022 iPhone SE Several iPhone models, including the iPhone 13, iPhone 12, and iPhone XR, were a part of the battery drain test, and though YouTuber Brandon Butch hinted that this test would be interesting, the results that you are about to see were expected. For one thing, the 2022 iPhone SE may not have outlasted the iPhone 13 mini due to the former’s small 2018mAh capacity, but there is one thing to note here....

The brand new update is being deployed across all platforms as we speak, and alongside the above-mentioned changes, it packs various bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and balance changes. For this first planned map rework, DICE has made changes to the Kaleidoscope map, including a revised playspace to add more cover, improved flow across the map, and more. In addition, new areas have been introduced onto the map. The next launch map that will receive an overhaul is ‘Renewal’....

There are already three YouTube videos of Bayonetta 3 running at 4K resolution and 60 frames per second, which is a significant leap over the limitation imposed by the Switch hardware. Digital Foundry reported that the game runs at dynamic 810p when docked and dynamic 480p when in handheld mode. The frame rate doesn’t fare better either, as even with these low resolutions, Bayonetta 3 doesn’t always run at 60 frames per second on Nintendo Switch....

While not a major leaker, SyluxHunter did successfully predict some Nintendo announcements before they happened. For example, he wrote one day early that the Direct Mini would feature Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, Persona 3/4/5, and NieR Automata among others. He also predicted the Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp delay, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe getting a DLC, and even Cyberpunk 2077 launching its next-generation update in February. Of course, you should still take the rumor with a grain of salt....

Created by German team MAWI United GmbH, this tech demo shows a highly detailed forest using custom photogrammetry scans and featuring Epic’s new Lumen Global Illumination tech alongside Unreal Engine 5’s new virtualized geometry system, Nanite. According to the creators of this demo, the forest is entirely procedurally generated, and game developers are allowed to download the used assets from here. Like Epic’s official Matrix Awakens tech demo, the new ‘Broadleaf Forest’ Unreal Engine 5 demo can be downloaded....

Renewed and Unlocked Google Pixel 4 XL Smartphone Available for a Crazy Low Price of Just $214.99 A smartphone doesn’t have to be expensive at all. If you know where to look then you can save a ton of money on yesteryear’s flagship which is still a very viable option this year, and more years to come. Such a smartphone is the Google Pixel 4 XL and it is available right now, belt buckle and all, for a low price of just $214....

The most interesting tidbits come from CAPCOM’s outlook for the next fiscal year, though. The Japanese company is planning to break further records with estimated sales of 37 million units, of which 30 million would take place outside of Japan. CAPCOM is expecting to sell 27 million units with catalog games and 10 million units with new games, which brings us to the next slide, where the company reveals plans to release multiple major games in the fiscal year 2023 (due to end in March 2023)....

New ‘Pro’ Mode Could Change UI Elements When the iPad Pro Is Connected to a Keyboard, Trackpad, or External Display Apple’s iPadOS might cater to a few percentage of users, but Mark Gurman believes that with this new ‘pro’ mode, the iPad Pro could offer more, but only when external accessories communicate with the tablet. According to the Bloomberg reporter, iPadOS is just an expanded version of iOS. As for what this ‘pro’ mode would offer, Gurman suggests the following....

During their latest earnings call (thanks to Video Games Chronicle for the transcription) CD Projekt Red’s Michal Nowakowski spoke further on the future of Cyberpunk 2077 and its expansion. It seems one of the big goals of Phantom Liberty is to push the abilities of next-gen consoles without having to worry about last-gen restrictions (the expansion won’t be playable on Xbox One/PS4). Nowakowski also promises CDPR is going to remain committed to CP2077, with new “content” and “experiences” in addition to the upcoming expansion....

Speaking on Twitter, CD Projekt Red Senior Community Manager Amelia “Lilayah” confirmed that the team will show quite a few things later today on the latest REDstreams, but New Game Plus won’t be among them. — Amelia “Lilayah” (@Lilayaah) September 5, 2022 Cyberpunk 2077 Lead Level Designer Miles Tost further elaborated on the matter, highlighting how introducing a New Game Plus mode isn’t just about allowing players to start the game again while keeping progress intact, as such a mode requires a massive amount of work: It’s rebalancing the entire game (enemies, equipment, items) and tons of testing/tweaking; there’s many skill checks in gameplay and dialogues, what happens here?...