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The answer is, yes, the SSD change will indeed come at a cost, but according to comments Valve provided to PC Gamer, it won’t be a big one. Basically, file transfer speeds will be slower in rare cases, but due to various hardware bottlenecks, the Deck wasn’t really using the full bandwidth of the 4x SSD most of the time and thus gameplay should be largely unaffected. As for why the change was quietly made, Valve chalks it up to a supplier issue....

The Saudi sovereign wealth fund, formally known as the Saudi PIF, remains sanguine on Lucid Group’s (NASDAQ: LCID) prospects, as illustrated by the fund’s most recent Form 13-F filed with the SEC. As per the latest filing, the Saudi PIF has maintained its gigantic 62.7 percent stake in Lucid Group, consisting of 1,015,252,523 shares. As of the end of June, the sovereign wealth fund’s stake in Lucid Group was valued at $17....

Here’s an overview of some changes planned by developers for this new edition. Q-Games Founder and Game Director Dylan Cuthbert said in a statement: Players are invited to explore over 40 enigmatic islands to mine resources, unearth treasure and begin rebuilding what was lost, all while collaborating with other Projection Clones online. The upcoming release of The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition also brings with it a series of new features that include multiple new islands to discover, an in-depth tutorial, never before seen items and new ways to play....

This comes after the game went through two closed beta tests and has been popular with players over in China. That said, the game has seen over three million pre-downloads, as well as the official Twitter page becoming a place for vague updates on the things going on in the game world. One of these includes yesterday’s update, which you can see below. Click on the image below to find out some important clues about #TowerofFantasy?...

While the Forge mode isn’t officially available within Infinite just yet, some players have managed to access the creation mode. Back in July of this year, a crafty user already recreated the iconic intro hallway from the legendary Silent Hills P.T. teaser, and we now have an amazing Toy Story recreation within Halo Infinite. Created by ‘Red Nomster’, this recreation features various elements from the original Toy Story, including the Pizza Planet Aliens, mister Potato Head, Slinky the dog, Red base, the doll house, wagon toybox, and whatnot....

Twitter Blue Rollout to Delay to Prevent Misinformation Spreading During the Midterm Elections The New York Times got its hands on an internal memo and the publication has said that the decision to delay its service was taken just a day after the update to the app. The decision was made because there were some internal and external concerns pertaining to the fact that the app might be misused by people with verified blue ticks, especially during the mid-term election....

A loophole enabled bac actors to find out if a phone number or email address was linked to an existing account by just entering the information into a log-in flow. A Massive Twitter Flaw Left 5.4 Million Accounts Vulnerable with the Data Sold for $30,000 “As a result of the vulnerability, if someone submitted an email address or phone number to Twitter’s systems, Twitter’s systems would tell the person what Twitter account the submitted email addresses or phone number was associated with, if any,” Twitter said in a blog post....

To begin with, the engineers are attempting to fix those dreadful stuttering hitches that often plague Unreal Engine 4+ games. Unreal Engine 5.1 is getting an Automated PSO Gathering feature to help with this long-standing issue. With the increasing emphasis in UE5 on DX12 and Vulkan, we’re focusing attention on solving the problem of runtime hitches caused by Pipeline State Object creation, which is inherent to those RHIs. The previous solution required a PSO pre-caching process, which could be burdensome for large projects and still leave gaps in the cache leading to hitches....

MAWI United, who developed the impressive Birch Forest Map released online last year, released today a new version of their Conifer Forest Biome from 2016, which runs on the new version of the engine by Epic. The new forest map uses custom scanned assets and procedural generation within UE5, and looks rather impressive, as showcased in the videos below. The Unreal Engine 5 Conifer Forest Biome demo can be downloaded by going here....

The good news is that the patch will be big. Stunlock provided plenty of details on what will be added and improved to the game ahead of the full release. One feature that we’re exploring is adding multiple floors (two or more!) to the castle. Castle servants is another popular feature we wish to explore further. We heard you desire new lands to explore, and we’re excited to bring more of Vardoran to you....

VESA Certified DisplayPort UHBR products are ensured to sustain the higher bit rates advocated by DisplayPort version 2.0 standards VESA also introduced VESA certified DP40 and DP80 UHBR cables, which assure display connectivity and operation at the most elevated implementation levels presented with DisplayPort 2.0. VESA certified DP40 cables must endow up to the UHBR10 link rate (10 Gigabits per second or Gbps) determined by DisplayPort 2.0, and support the complete four-lane operation, delivering a total throughput of 40 Gbps....

Samsung Clearly Did Not Want the Galaxy Watch 4 to Run on iPhones by Cutting off the Wear OS 3 Support Now, in a surprising turn of events, we now have confirmation that Wear OS 3 will have support for iOS, and users will be able to use it without any issues. Speaking to Wareable, Qualcomm has indeed confirmed that the upcoming Montblanc Summit 3 will indeed be compatible with iPhone, and for those wondering, the Summit 3 is the first non-Samsung smartwatch to run Wear OS 3....

We have already discussed the significance of a system driver and everything about them in a separate post. Today, our focus is purely on the chipset drivers. We shall be discussing what they are, why they are important, why it is important to update them, and how to do so. What is a Chipset Driver? Chipsets refer to the silicon-based electronic layout that controls the communication between the different devices and peripherals attached to the motherboard, such as the processor (CPU), GPU, RAM, hard drive, etc....

According to the latest tip from WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is preparing a new feature that will let you hide your online status from your contacts. The feature was first spotted on the beta build of WhatsApp for iOS a few weeks ago and now it is available on the Android beta channel, as well. However, it is not live in the latest beta release v2.22.16.12. The source has managed to get their hands on a screenshot of the in-development feature....

WhatsApp Brings Granula Control to Handle Your Privacy Settings In a recent tweet, WhatsApp has announced that they are rolling out comprehensive privacy control settings to all users. Up until now, you could choose to have your WhatsApp status, last seen, and about info visible to either everyone, your contacts, or completely hidden. However, now, you have one more option called My contacts except. With this option, users will be able to create a list of contacts that will not be able to see your profile picture, status, and other information, while it will be visible to everyone else....

Alongside many significant fixes and improvements, upgrading your Windows 10 operating system to build 19044.1739 will significantly improve the transfer speed of the files and folders you copy to and from other partitions and external storage devices. Moreover, another issue has been resolved where a user’s PC may become entirely unresponsive if they signed out of their Microsoft OneDrive account. Let us now see what other improvements are included and how to install this update....

Some of the new features to look for include PC reset with cloud download option, colorful text cursor indicator, backup data for OneDrive, Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) (also bringing support for ARM64 devices including the latest Surface Pro), network camera support, ability to rename virtual desktops, new Cortana app, updated network settings app etc. The list of improvements continues with GPU temperatures in the task manager, allowing network access to Windows Sandbox apps, search experience in File Explorer is powered by Windows Search, Safe Mode now supports logging in using the PIN....

The users on the Beta channel were earlier divided into 2 groups where one group received updates with the new features enabled (Build 22622) and the other with the features disabled by default (Build 22621). This flight does not include any new features but makes several fixes and improvements. Let us now discuss the new improvements in this flight and how you can install them. Reminder: The users who landed in the group with new features disabled by default (Build 22621) can check for updates manually and choose to install the update that will have the features enabled (Build 22622)....

NIO (NYSE:NIO), a major Chinese EV player that continues to expand its geographical footprint, seems poised to add a substantial tech premium to its valuation. As per a Weibo post that cited internal sources, the company is apparently in the research stage of full-fledged smartphone business to complement its NIO Life brand. Should this development materialize, NIO would be following in the footsteps of the EV manufacturer Geely which is also looking to launch its own branded smartphones....

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