The Daily Grind: Do you believe failed games are often ‘rugpulls’ and ‘money burners’?
After Highguard collapsed, I saw a lot of anger from online gamers that revolved around a specific strain of thinking: They genuinely believe the company...
STMicro to deploy humanoid robots to its legacy fabs in Europe — over 100 humanoid robots to be used for routine and physically demanding tasks in fight for efficiency
As cheap Chinese chips threaten to invade various sectors of the economy in Europe, STMicroelectronics is on track to improve the efficiency of its own fabs
Chinese GPU vendor Zephyr has cancelled its single-fan RTX 4070 Ti Super due to VRAM price hikes — memory shortage is forcing a pivot to an SFF RTX 4070 Super instead
A single-fan RTX 4070 Ti Super had been in the works at Zephyr, a Chinese vendor, for a while, and it was close to completion, with even thermal testing data publicly released. Unfortunately, the memory crisis has gotten to Zephyr as well, and it has cancelled the project, choosing to instead develop an RTX 4070 Super instead.
Flabbergasted GPU repair wizard highlights dangers of liquid metal after leak kills entire RTX 5070 Ti — user-applied TIM spread to every crevice of the PCB, physically cracking and shorting out the core
An RTX 5070 Ti with user-applied liquid metal died because the TIM leaked out everywhere and shorted multiple components, eventually killing the core as well. Despite being part of a “repair” video, there’s nothing really here to fix, as most of the important ICs would need to be replaced or at least reballed.
Profane Delays Multi-Region Playtest, Launches Monthly Fight Pub Combat Event
Rather than go dark while waiting on a delayed playtest, Profane's developers are launching monthly community arena sessions called the Fight Pub. Go to Source...
MMO Week in Review: Pre-seasoning Elder Scrolls Online
Elder Scrolls Online officially launched update 46 this week, the calm before the storm of the season content that kicks off in April. This first...
Subnautica 2 shows off its highly modular and customizable base building system
There’s a watershed moment in survival sandboxes that we’re going to refer to as “the box graduation.” If you’ve played this sub-genre before, you can...
The MOP Up: Stars Reach teaches you how to roleplay alien species
Is it premature for an upcoming sandbox MMO to teach you how to roleplay a couple of its alien races? Whether or not it is,...
ChatGPT Helps Create AI Cancer Vaccine That Shrinks Dog’s Tumor
A man named Paul Conyngham successfully developing “a custom mRNA cancer vaccine” with the help of ChatGPT that shrunk a tennis ball-sized tumor in his dog’s hock by 50%. Martin Smith, an associate professor of computational biology and director of the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics at the University of NSW then thought, “If we can do this
Save over $100 on this feature-rich Asus AM5 motherboard with Wi-Fi 7, USB4 & DDR5-8000 support — TUF Gaming X870-Plus is on sale for just $170
Asus launched this motherboard at $310 in late 2024, and since then its MSRP has gone down to $280, but you can score it for 40% less than that on Amazon right now. For that price, nothing really comes close in terms of performance, features, and reliability.