As spotted by The Verge editor Tom Warren, the game’s latest preview version has seemingly been optimized for Xbox Series X|S, and packs early ray tracing support on Microsoft’s next-gen console. — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) March 28, 2022 Of course, Minecraft already supports NVIDIA’s lighting rendering technique on PC, but to date, this feature hasn’t been made available on Xbox. Going by this latest preview build, however, Xbox Series players will soon be able to enjoy Mojang’s popular building title with ray tracing....

MINISFORUM’s Latest Venus UM690 Mini PC Rocks AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX APU, RDNA 2 GPU Cores, USB4 Support Press Release: Minisforum has launched a new mini PC UM690 of its Venus Series. The new UM690 features AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, AMD Radeon 680M Integrated Graphics, DDR5 dual-channel memory, PCIe 4.0 SSD, and the most advanced USB4 Type-C port. It is also their first mini PC with AMD 6000 series CPU. AMD’s Ryzen 9 6900HX is one of AMD’s most powerful Ryzen 6000 processors, features 8 cores and 16 threads, with a maximum turbo clock of 4....

German Youtube channel ‘Digital Dreams’ has released a new graphical showcase, this time showing 2007’s Assassin’s Creed running on an NVIDIA RTX 3090 in 8K resolution with the creator’s own custom Ray tracing global illumination reshade preset. In addition, this showcase has the first installment in the Assassin’s Creed series playing on PC with some texture mods in place. The result is pretty great, although we could name some other titles from that era that look better nowadays with some mods in place....

Starting with the EVO 2022 announcement. Multiversus will hold a 2v2 tournament during the event scheduled to happen on August 5-7. While not a main stage event, players will be able to test out Multiversus and compete for a $100,000 prize pool for the Top 32 competing teams. You can see WB Games confirming this very fact below: — MultiVersus (@multiversus) May 12, 2022 Moving onto the upcoming Closed Alpha....

According to the game’s development team, this is the most impactful update to date and based on player feedback since launch, but also the game’s final patch. Aside from the above-mentioned GPU and CPU improvements, this new update also offers improvements to stability, as well as fixes to Steam achievements, audio, textures, art, and rendering. In addition, Steam Trading Cards have also been introduced. “We are incredibly thankful for all the support and feedback the community has given since the release of the Remastered Trilogy....

Like the game’s previous updates, the new patch is a minor one with the official release notes only mentioning a fix for an issue that caused memory leaks, which in turn, could result in either client crashes or decreased performance. “Thank you to everyone who reported the memory leak issue and assisted us greatly by sharing their setup information, we appreciate you taking the extra step”, the development team writes on Steam....

Intel, NVIDIA & AMD Bring Day-1 Driver Support For Vulkan 1.3 API on Windows & Linux Platforms NVIDIA Press Release: Many different platforms, same great performance. That’s why Vulkan is a very big deal. With the release Tuesday of Vulkan 1.3, NVIDIA continues its unparalleled record of day one driver support for this cross-platform GPU application programming interface for 3D graphics and computing. Vulkan has been created by experts from across the industry working together at the Khronos Group, an open standards consortium....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Now Available For 1859 Euros & RTX 4080 For 1399 Euros In Europe Following A 5% Price Cut The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 Founders Edition graphics cards have an official MSRP of 1949 Euros & 1469 Euros in the EU markets. The Founders Edition pricing reflects the VAT that is applied to all hardware products in the region but it looks like NVIDIA is officially easing down price points of their reference graphics cards....

NVIDIA H100 80 GB PCIe Accelerator With Hopper GPU Gets Listed In Japan For An Insane Price Exceeding $30,000 US Unlike the H100 SXM5 configuration, the H100 PCIe offers cut-down specifications, featuring 114 SMs enabled out of the full 144 SMs of the GH100 GPU and 132 SMs on the H100 SXM. The chip as such offers 3200 FP8, 1600 TF16, 800 FP32, and 48 TFLOPs of FP64 compute horsepower. It also features 456 Tensor & Texture Units....

NVIDIA’s Massive GeForce RTX 40 Founders Edition Cooler Allegedly Leaks Out, Coming To An RTX 4090 & RTX 4080 Graphics Card Soon! According to the leaker, this new cooler design that has been pictured will be part of the GTC ‘22 keynote that is to be held two weeks later. There are no details provided as to which card this is but the updated shroud and fan design do match the RTX 4080 cooler that leaked out a few days ago....

Save Big Today and Own a Brand New Pair of AirPods for a Low Price of Just $99.99 Buy Apple AirPods (2nd Generation) Wireless Earbuds. - Was $159, now just $99.99 For $99.99, you get the AirPods with the iconic design, long stem and all. Just pop open the charging case lid near an iPhone or iPad and you’ll be paired in no time. Thanks to the inclusion of the H1 chip, these AirPods will switch between devices just like the more expensive models....

Path of Exile 2 was first announced nearly three years ago. Grinding Gear Games labeled it as a new campaign rather than an entirely new game, though it will feature many improvements such as a full engine overhaul. Path of Exile 2 is a new seven-act storyline that is available alongside the original Path of Exile 1 campaign. Both the old and new storyline lead to the same shared Atlas endgame....

Phison’s PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD Miss September/November Launch Timeframe AMD and Phison displayed the E26 master chip using the PCIe Gen5 SSD on AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs during the 2022 Flash Memory Summit earlier this year. The two companies demonstrated that the new SSD generation would allow for read speeds of 12.5 GB/s. The E26 control chip, working with the 3D-TLC flash memory, provides a bandwidth of 2400 MT/s along with the read speeds....

PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XTX Red Devil Graphics Card Teased Again: Quad-Slot & Triple-Fan Cooler With Triple 8-Pin Connectors Earlier this week, PowerColor teased its Radeon RX 7900 Red Devil graphics card. The design will be featured on both the XTX and XT models. The latest image revealed by PowerColor reveals the first full look at the graphics card which looks very powerful and just as big as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 series custom designs....

Defender Solis is the new Operator who will join the game. Her SPEC-IO Electro-Sensor gadget gathers crucial intel for a coordinated strategy. Solis can clearly analyze and identify Attacker devices, including drones, breaching devices, and more. Her gloves also allow her to interact with the gadget overlay and trigger a cluster scan. Solis is a medium-speed, medium-health Operator, carrying the P90 or an ITA 12L as a primary weapon and an SMG-11 as a secondary weapon....

Roam Free with the Cellular Apple Watch Series 7 and Pay Just $379 for it Today Buy Apple Watch Series 7 [GPS + Cellular 41mm] Smart watch w/ (PRODUCT)RED Aluminum Case - Was $499, now just $379 Once set up properly with your iPhone and carrier, your Apple Watch Series 7 will work just fine out in the wild even if you don’t have your phone with you. You can send and receive messages, make phone calls, stream music and do so much more....

[ORIGINAL STORY] Rumors regarding a Red Dead Redemption remaster or remake have swirled around for nearly six years. Our first such report dates back to September 2016, when Korean website Gamefocus.co.kr stated that Red Dead Redemption HD would be announced shortly for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, due to be released in early 2017. Of course, that never happened. Fans then got their hopes up for an unofficial remaster titled Red Dead Redemption: Damned Enhancement Project....

And last but not least, EU is also looking to impose 5-year security and 3-year OS updates for both iPhones and Android devices. Now, the latest effort from the EU focuses on making it easier for everyone to replace their phone battery, which was not as accessible previously. Phone battery replacement could be a breeze thanks to the EU but will Apple and Samsung budge? EU has proposed a new regulation to make the phone battery much more sustainable and reusable....

In what can best be described as a heated argument, former National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Scott Kelly and the head of the Russian space organization (Roscosmos) Mr. Dimitry Rogozin traded barbs with each other on the social media platform Twitter. Kelly is a veteran astronaut who has spent 520 days in space and commanded three expeditions onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Mr. Rogozin has been sharing heated arguments on Twitter in the wake of the ongoing invasion of the Eastern European nation of Ukraine by his country, and his latest saw him attract the attention of Kelly, who recommended that the former would have to find a job for the fast-food chain McDonald’s and that his statements were equivalent to a child throwing tantrums....

Samsung Removing the ‘Z’ Moniker from Foldable Phones Could Be Because of the Russia/Ukraine Conflict The latest report suggests that Samsung could be letting the Z moniker go forever and the upcoming foldable phones will be simply known as the Galaxy Fold 4 and the Galaxy Flip 4. The piece of information is coming from SnoopyTech and while we do not know why Samsung is dropping the Z moniker, there is a reason to believe that this could be because of the Russian/Ukrainian conflict that is going on....