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Xbox profits revealed in new FTC leak

Xbox profits revealed in new FTC leak

Newly leaked documents reveal our first real look at Xbox’s profits. 4 VIEW GALLERY – 4 IMAGES Microsoft is very selective in what data it releases on its various divisions. This includes gaming, which is now Microsoft’s fourth best-earning business in terms of revenue with $15.4 billion earned in FY23. Every quarter, Microsoft will report …

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NASA confirms a pristine asteroid sample will arrive on Earth this week

NASA confirms a pristine asteroid sample will arrive on Earth this week

NASA has announced that the first asteroid sample collected in space by the agency will be arriving on Earth by the end of the week. The space agency took to its website and social media channels to announce when it will begin its live coverage of the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer …

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Microsoft reveals its intention to buy Nintendo, but there’s just one big problem

Microsoft reveals its intention to buy Nintendo, but there’s just one big problem

Leaked documents between a Microsoft head and a senior Nintendo employee have revealed Microsoft’s intention to purchase Nintendo. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Emails between Phil Spencer, the Head of Xbox, Takeshi Numoto, Executive Vice President & Commercial Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, and Chris Capossela, EVP & Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, revealed …

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Elon Musk’s brain-chip company Neuralink officially receives approval for human trials

Elon Musk’s brain-chip company Neuralink officially receives approval for human trials

Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink is officially looking for its first human participants in an upcoming study, the first of its kind for the company. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The search for study participants follows an independent review board evaluation that granted the company approval to test its product on humans over …

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Microsoft AI researchers accidentally expose 38TB of data to GitHub

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally expose 38TB of data to GitHub

A staggering 38 terabytes of data was accidentally leaked by Microsoft AI researchers on the website called GitHub, according to a cloud security company report. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The new report released by Wiz, a cloud security company, among the leaked files, were two entire backups of workstation computers that contained confidential …

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Google has built an AI-powered microscope designed to identify cancer cells

Google has built an AI-powered microscope designed to identify cancer cells

Google has created a prototype AI-powered microscope that is designed to assist doctors in locating potentially cancerous cells and other pathogens. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The new type of microscope is called an “Augmented Reality Microscope” (ARM) and was birthed out of a relationship between Google and the Department of Defense. Reports indicate …

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Leaked Nintendo Switch 2 specs reveal how powerful the next-gen console may be

Leaked Nintendo Switch 2 specs reveal how powerful the next-gen console may be

Nintendo Switch 2 rumors are swirling following the leak that developers were shown the next-generation console at Gamescom 2023, and now we are starting to hear more that back up previous predictions. Rumors started after select developers were shown The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running near 4K at 60FPS on the next-generation …

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Top 5 winners of the 2023 astronomy photo of the year contest

Top 5 winners of the 2023 astronomy photo of the year contest

The winners of the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s 15th year of astronomy photography have been announced, and the images are nothing short of incredible. 7 VIEW GALLERY – 7 IMAGES The world’s largest astrophotography contest consists of more than 4,000 separate submissions from 64 different countries, with each of the submissions going into a selection of …

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Intel’s new Meteor Lake powered Core Ultra CPUs are coming this December

Intel’s new Meteor Lake powered Core Ultra CPUs are coming this December

Intel has lifted the lid on the first Core Ultra Meteor Lake chips, which will first hit the laptop market this December – and it’s a major shake-up to the design, manufacturing, and capabilities found in Intel CPUs. 6 VIEW GALLERY – 6 IMAGES Meteor Lake and the new Core Ultra chip rebranding is more …

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Intel to bring 3D-Stacked Cache to its CPUs but it will be different from AMD’s 3D V-Cache

Intel to bring 3D-Stacked Cache to its CPUs but it will be different from AMD’s 3D V-Cache

At Intel’s big Innovation 2023 event, CEO Pat Gelsinger confirmed that the company would adopt a 3D Cache approach for CPUs in the future – though it won’t be a part of the upcoming Meteor Lake roadmap. The confirmation came during a Q&A session where someone asked if Intel was considering adopting something similar to …

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Nintendo job listing confirms that the Switch 2 will feature custom NVIDIA DLSS support

Nintendo job listing confirms that the Switch 2 will feature custom NVIDIA DLSS support

It’s been a very busy couple of weeks regarding the still-to-be-announced Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console, with rumors pointing to a 2024 release for Nintendo’s next-generation hardware. First, several sources revealed that Nintendo showcased the new hardware at Gamescom to select developers with 4K DLSS-powered demos of The Legend of Zelda and Unreal Engine 5. …

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Assassin’s Creed Mirage PC requirements revealed, will only support Intel’s XeSS Super Sampling

Assassin’s Creed Mirage PC requirements revealed, will only support Intel’s XeSS Super Sampling

The next installment in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise, due for release on October 5, will see the series return to its roots by focusing on stealth, investigations, and assassinations in a single detailed location – Baghdad in the year 861. And with the release right around the corner, Ubisoft has outlined what to expect with …

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Cheaper ASUS ROG Ally with a non-Extreme Ryzen Z1 chip is here, but it might not be worth it

Cheaper ASUS ROG Ally with a non-Extreme Ryzen Z1 chip is here, but it might not be worth it

ASUS has finally launched the cheaper version of its popular ROG Ally gaming handheld, with the USD 600 model sporting a different chipset in the form of the non-Extreme AMD Ryzen Z1 APU. Outside of this, it retains the same impressive 7-inch 120 Hz 1080p display, 512GB of internal storage, and 16GB of DDR5 memory. …

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FTC not involved in Xbox leak, agency says it’s not to blame for biggest leak in game history

FTC not involved in Xbox leak, agency says it’s not to blame for biggest leak in game history

Microsoft is responsible for accidentally leaking incredibly sensitive information about its Xbox games business, not the FTC, the Commission says. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES On September 15, a wave of documents and files were uploaded to the FTC v Microsoft court exhibits list. These files included information about Xbox and Microsoft’s post-merger plans. …

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Mortal Kombat 1 on the Nintendo Switch looks very different to the PS5 and Xbox versions

Mortal Kombat 1 on the Nintendo Switch looks very different to the PS5 and Xbox versions

Mortal Kombat 1 is the latest entry in the long-running fighting game franchise, and it’s available to play on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Nintendo Switch. A reboot and sequel, it brings back classic characters and a rich cinematic story to experience alongside the over-the-top violence and gore. 9 Here’s a look at …

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GeForce RTX 5090 will be 1.7X more powerful than the RTX 4090 and feature a 2.9 GHz Boost Clock

GeForce RTX 5090 will be 1.7X more powerful than the RTX 4090 and feature a 2.9 GHz Boost Clock

Although the GeForce RTX 4090 is still considered to be the absolute pinnacle (and overkill) of modern gaming GPUs capable of delivering triple-digit 4K performance, rumors are already swirling around NVIDIA’s next-generation GeForce RTX 50 hardware – specifically the flagship GeForce RTX 5090. 2 The GeForce RTX 5090 is rumored to be 1.7X more powerful …

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Intel Arc driver adds support for Cyberpunk 2077 expansion and boosts classic game performance

Intel Arc driver adds support for Cyberpunk 2077 expansion and boosts classic game performance

Intel’s latest driver non-WHQL driver release for Arc graphics (version 31.0.101.4826) not only supports some of the biggest PC game releases on the horizon but also dips into the back catalog to boost performance for a few classics. Namely, Hitman Absolution and Bioshock Infinite, two titles getting a sizable bump to 1080p performance when running …

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NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell GPUs for HPC and AI will use chiplet design

NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell GPUs for HPC and AI will use chiplet design

NVIDIA’s next-generation GPU architecture, codenamed Blackwell, is the successor to the current Ada Lovelace generation and the beginning of a new era of GPU design for the company. This is due to Blackwell being used for both the company’s data center and AI side in addition to consumer GPUs for PC gaming and creators – …

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