On today’s You Asked: Do 8K TVs for gaming make sense now? When is it time to replace a TV? How does the way a TV makes a picture match up with how our vision works? And which is better at upscaling: the game console or TV? 8K TVs for gaming: Do we want them … now? @adamparker1504 asks: With the PS5 Pro offering 8K gameplay, I can imagine the PS6 and next-gen Xbox targeting 8K resolutions....
If you buy an official case for yourOnePlus 13, you’ll find something unexpected in the box. It’s a sliver of flexible plastic, shaped like something you hang on a hotel room door when you don’t want the maid to come in, and although your first instinct will be to throw it away with the rest of the packaging, don’t do it. You may end up needing it. What does it do?...
Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey have come up with an unexpected way to produce electricity without using fossil fuels: A mushroom covered with bacteria. The “bionic mushroom” was announced in the journalNano Lettersand has captured the imagination of the public due to its wacky creativity. Bacteria have been of interest to energy researchers for years due to their ability togenerate oxygen,process oil spills, and generate electricity....
Ubisoft’s latest multiplayer title,Buy Now,immediately impressed us with sensational visuals and unique styling at E3 2016. The brutal fighting game is like a complex, carefully timed game of rock-paper-scissors, and we’ve enjoyed playing every time weget our hands on it. We sat down with the open beta build the weekend before the official launch to find out whether it held up in terms of graphical fidelity, and just as importantly, how well it runs....
Summary Matthew Lewis is interested in returning for the upcomingHarry PotterTV show, but he isn’t trying to rush an appearance. Lewis featured as Neville Longbottom in the original movies and played a significant role in the last installment. Since the franchise came to an end, Lewis has starred in various British movies and TV shows. Neville is still his most prominent role, and Lewis has occasionally returned to Neville as a video game voice actor....
Summary Elizabeth Taylor’s 1963 historical epicCleopatrais brutally assessed by an expert, who calls the film’s big naval battle scene “overall terrible.” The most expensive movie ever made at the time of release, Taylor’s sprawling star vehicle about the exploits of the famed Queen of Egypt became notorious as one of the all-time flops in film history. Contributing to the movie’s inflated $31 million budget was an epic scene of naval warfare, set during the Battle of Actium, where the forces of Roman emperor Octavian defeated the combined fleets of alliesQueen Cleopatraand Mark Antony....
Cryptocurrency mining wasa major driving forceof add-in board (AIB) graphics card sales in 2020, and that trend is continuing in 2021. Anew report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR)says that miners purchased around 700,000 high-end and midrange cards in the first quarter of the year, totaling a market value of around half a billion dollars. JPR calculated the number of cards sold by using the trending attach rate of graphics cards and the actual attach rate of graphics cards....
Summary 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?starBig Ed Brownis all set to get a makeover in 2024, a year after his split fromLiz Woods.Big Ed from San Diegonow lives in Arkansas, where he wanted to start a new life with Liz.Big Ed and Lizwere about to get marriedin August 2023. However, he knew the marriage would end in divorce, and itwould have been Liz’s third divorce. He canceled their wedding without telling her....
The morning commute was a little rougher for iPhone users on Friday, June 15: Apple’s Maps app went down for users worldwide. As the default navigation app for both iOS and MacOS, the outage affected millions of users. Apple first acknowledged the problem at 8:48 a.m. ET, after Twitter users started complaining of problems online. Apple’s Support Page listed issues with both “Maps & Routing Navigation” and “Map Search.” Details concerning the cause of the outage were not listed, though we contacted the Map app team and will update our coverage as we learn more....
WithBlack Fridayjust 15 days away, Amazon’s sales engine is revving up for the online retailer’sBlack FridayandCyber Mondayevents. We’ve already seen a significant uptick in sales and promotions on Amazon’sHappy HoliDealspage. In addition to the site’s usual Today’s Deals and Lightning Deals, Amazon announced a slew of limited-time product and service sales and promotions. Happy Home HoliDeals Beginning now and running through November 21, Amazon’s Happy Home HoliDeals promotion will highlight sales in sections....
AMD has reported its Q2 2024 financial results, and they present an interesting narrative of successes and challenges. The company’s gaming hardware, however, is continuing to experience a substantial decline. Despite an overall 9% year-over-year revenue increase for AMD, the gaming graphics division plummeted by a staggering 59% in the second quarter of 2024, a clear indicator of the difficulties the company is encountering in this highly competitive market. AMD attributes the drop “primarily due to a decrease in semi-custom revenue....
AMD might really go all-out during CES 2025 this January. According to a known leaker on theChiphellforums, AMD is readying a slew of consumer products, ranging from more X3D desktop CPUs to handheld chips andRDNA 4 graphics cards. Here’s what we have to look forward to. The tantalizing bit of gossip comes from Zhangzhonghao, a leaker who’s been known to discuss new releases ahead of time. Starting with laptops, AMD is reportedly set to release next-gen Kraken (or “Krackan” as referred to by this leaker) Point APUs alongside Ryzen AI Max (or Strix Halo) and, lastly, Fire Range CPUs....
At Microsoft’s October 2 event, the company showcased some of thelatest and greatest partsof its Windows 17 July 2025 Update. But a never-before-seen feature was also demoed that would let you use Android apps right on your computer. Asnoted by ZDNet, the new ability, being dubbed as app mirroring, lets you continue apps from an Android phone right on your PC. During the brief on-stage demo, Microsoft reps quickly showcased how you can continue a Snapchat conversation without the need to open the app on an Android phone....
