MMO Hype Train: Can Scars of Honor overcome its generic WoW clone identity?
Whenever I’m looking at an upcoming MMO project, I have the same pressing question: Is this a contender? As in, does this project have actual...
Ingenious father fixes dead RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor from an old radio — Saves worried son $120 in repair costs, GPU ‘works better than before’ now
A Russian family has just saved the house $120 in GPU repairs after the father fixed it with a salvaged capacitor from an old radio.
SpaceX Puts First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Into Orbit
This week, SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying 81 payloads into a sun-synchronous orbit. Among them was a softball-sized BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) cubesat, built by Miami-based startup City Labs, the world’s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite.
BOHR
Nintendo Kills Mario Kart Tour With No Standalone Offline Edition
As Sony is amidst a PlayStation disc-killing gaming preservation crisis of its own making, Nintendo has also put itself in the crosshairs of gamers by killing Mario Kart Tour, its mobile Mario Kart title. If you own Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe) or Mario Kart World already, you may not immediately see why that’s a big deal, but Mario Kart Tour does
OpenAI’s GPT-Live Lets ChatGPT Listen And Talk At The Same Time
Anyone who has spent time chatting with an AI assistant knows the rhythm. Speak, stop, wait, listen, repeat. OpenAI wants to retire that walkie-talkie cadence for good with GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models now powering ChatGPT Voice. Built on a full-duplex architecture, GPT-Live can listen and talk at the same time, which OpenAI
EverQuest explains the ‘personal loot’ ruleset for its August progression server, Lethar
A week ago, Daybreak announced something juicy coming to Classic EverQuest: a new time-locked expansion server. Called Lethar, it’s set to open August 26th, start...
Memory Prices Are Tanking PC Shipments, But There’s A Surprise Silver Lining
Look, we all know what time it is and so whenever a market research firm releases a report on the state of PC shipments, we pretty much know the gist of it. So it goes again, with Omdia’s latest reporting highlighting yet another quarterly decline in combined desktop, laptop, and workstation shipments, though hidden in the newest gloom and
While the U.S. flip-flops on chip sanctions, China is building its own chip supply market — export controls are creating conditions for a Sino-Russian chip trade alliance
As the U.S. makes up its mind on export controls for Chinese chips, China has been developing its own supply chain, and associated trade network.
NHTSA Slams Self-Driving Cars For Blocking Fire Trucks And Ambulances
A federal safety crackdown is forcing autonomous vehicle developers to deal with the ongoing problem of their driverless cars physically impeding emergency services and putting lives at risk.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued an urgent call to action, explicitly warning the industry that an automated vehicle
Warframe of Mind: In praise of Warframe’s optimistic nihilism
I had originally planned a very different column to run today, and it would have been part of Vague Patch Notes, but then Microsoft happened....