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for all of us there Intel's next gen gaming graphics cards code named battle
mage could be alive after all a shipping
manifest spotted by Twitter user Joseph K 972 listed a product designated Intel
BMG b580 which is either the name of the
successor to Intel's Alchemy based a580
or meaningless text the devil planted to deceive us but there are other signs
previously accurate leaker Golden Pig upgrade posted on WBO indicating Intel
would be at least demonstrating battle mage's performance in December and
others have agreed data Miner Tomas
gonsky fueled Intel GPU rumors even more
by spotting references to Intel's follow-up to battl Mage Celestial for
now that's all these are rumors but they're encouraging given that recent
comments by Intel CEO Pat gillinger made it sound like his company is getting out
of the discrete GPU game and even if it's not you might want to temper your
predictions people thought the first Arc gpus would take AMD and NVIDIA down a
notch and they were pretty good at
encoding video gaming got a lot better with driver updates but I'm going to get
ready for Intel to subvert expectations once again and launch a graphics card
for spreadsheet power users they don't have one yet just it's just for them
announcing battle mage in December may help Intel avoid being overshadowed by
NVIDIA who's expected to reveal their RTX 50 Series gpus at CES in January
accordingly reports are emerging of RTX 40 series GPU stocks dwindling NVIDIA's
board partners are apparently shipping final Badges of the RTX 4080 super and
4070 super while the 4060 might stick
around a little longer production of the China specific RTX
490d specially built to avoid us sanctions has apparently been done for
some time and with no desire to be subject to whatever sanctions the US
decides to put on the RTX 50 Series PC
partner one of the world's largest graphics card manufacturers behind
Brands like Zotac in3d and
manle with an ey has ironically cowardly
fled from Hong Kong moving their headquarters to Singapore the US can't
sanction them there and if they show up to try they'll get arrested for chewing
their gum too loudly or something but is NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture
underlying the RTX 50 Series ready for prime time after insisting that
corporate customers like Microsoft and meta use NVIDIA's in-house server rack
design instead of building their own the company's Blackwell data center gpus
have apparently been overheating reportedly due to that very inh house
design being unable to properly cool 72
chips at once but I'm sure those overheating issues won't carry through
to NVIDIA's famously well- cooled Flagship gaming gpus that have barely
had any heat related issues except for all the times you're thinking of Google
is reportedly planning to slowly replace Chrome OS with the Android operating
system taking over Chromebooks from the inside out like Corps fungus
assimilating an ant which is always discomforting to see poor ants
thankfully no one cares about Chromebooks which is partially why Google has been explicitly planning to
do this since June but an Insider source told Android authority that this
chromeos Android hybridization is
turning into full Android assimilation meaning we're looking at a future full
of Android laptops Google sources also
told Android authority that a new pixel tablet 2 is on the way with a keyboard
case and Android headline says their
Insider source them off to a high-end
pixel laptop with a premium build code named snowy being developed at Google
neither Outlet confirmed whether their Google sources were friends and perhaps
often had free lunch together in the Google cafeteria because that's
irrelevant to anyone but me if this news about Android laptops is relevant to you
I guess you can go build a risk 5 powered framework laptop with a new main
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link in the description now quick bits absolutely care what you think about
them but they will never admit that valve added support for NVIDIA's dlss 3
with frame generation and Optical flow AI to the experimental version of its
proton compatibility layer last week as well as adding playable status for a
slute of new games and fixes for games like Doom maternal Jedi Outcast and most
importantly Skull and Bones dlss support means Linux Gamers with NVIDIA graphics
cards have one less technical issue to spend inordinate amounts of time trying
to solve although I'm not sure whether that's what they actually want this
might be bad news for them Microsoft's new marketing campaign is in full swing
which consists almost entirely of showing devices that are obviously not
an Xbox and saying defiantly this is an
Xbox some people have taken this to mean there won't be any more Xbox Xboxes but
Phil Spencer told Rolling Stone that there will definitely be future consoles
called Xbox it's just hard to know exactly what he means by that when
there's now Billboards everywhere calling a laptop an Xbox for your lap
cringe replies Twitter user volt dweller
that is not an Xbox that is a laptop you
can't pull the wool over these eyes I know what an Xbox is I am not an
Xbox much of the internet has celebrated
casio's newest device which gear Patrol says belongs to a burgeoning watch Trend
which is I guess making watches for your finger and it's honestly fair to call it
a trend at this point because casio's ring watch comes shortly after timx also
launched a frankly much uglier one I'm I
don't I'm sorry timx that's right casio's crw
0011 Jr is a ring that looks like a
watch and is actually also a watch complete with alarms and a stopwatch
function unlike the Rings they released last year that resembled but were not
actually watches I have to imagine volt Diller was also mad about that this is
not a watch who watches those not me AI
search company perplexity is trying a new way to make themselves useful now
the llm powered service can apparently be trusted to buy stuff for you or at
least for perplexity Pro subscribers said subscribers can click the new buy
with Pro button to have the AI automatically fill in your saved
shipping and billing information and check out with select products from
select Merchants which perplexity says just made shopping online 10 times more
easy and fun and I would like to see the math on that so you're thinking
perplexities got to be taking a cut of these sales right but a spokesperson
told The Verge that they don't and that right now quote there's no commercial
element involved here they're just so
passionate about shopping the AI got you chicken thighs instead of a toothbrush
worth it what a thrill and to celebrate halflife 2's 20th anniversary valve
released a freaking 2hour documentary about the project revealing some
interesting details about why the Cliffhanger ending of halflife 2 episode
2 wasn't carried on within episode 3
Lord Gabe Newell himself explained that although they quote could have shipped
it it wouldn't have been that hard continuing the story just to finish it
would be quote copping out of their obligation to Gamers to provide some
meaningful gameplay Innovation and can I just say no Gabe went on to say he
couldn't figure out why doing episode 3 was pushing anything forward the story
it be pushing the story forward I want to know Gabe throw a reverse gravity gun
in there or something just finish the story anyways I better tell you to come
back on Wednesday for more Tech news before I say anything to the Lord of PC
gaming that I might regret you do not want to mess with anyone with wraparound
prescription glasses that he looks in that he could do something bad and
they're not even Oakley they're Nikes it's another level