Quite the surprise considering the game’s procedural nature and being quite demanding. On the game’s official blog, No Man’s Sky creator Sean Murray talked about the Switch port, and how it appeared to be near-impossible to bring the game to Nintendo’s platform on various occasions. “For the last couple of years, a couple of members of our small team have been secretly working on the Nintendo Switch version of No Man’s Sky”, Murray writes....

The wheels of the US justice system finally started rolling in earnest last week when FTX’s disgraced former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), was arrested by the Bahamian authorities on account of a sealed indictment shared by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. While initially it was believed that SBF would contest his extradition to the US, a few nights in Bahamian jail were apparently sufficient to remove any lingering delusions, with the former CEO of FTX now apparently in a rush to return to the US....

Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID), the company behind the Lucid Air electric vehicle, has again become a subject of the fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) narrative that is being propagated by its detractors in light of a new filing by Lucid Group’s CEO, Peter Rawlinson. — Warren Redlich - Come and Take It - Molon TSLA (@WR4NYGov) March 10, 2022 To wit, Rawlinson filed the requisite Form 4 with the SEC yesterday, disclosing the cumulative disposal of 7,981,919 shares of Lucid Group....

M2 MacBook Air Benchmarks On Par With M2 MacBook Pro But Outperforms Base Mac Pro Tower The latest Geekbench 5 results are spotted by Mr. Macintosh on Twitter for Apple’s latest M2 MacBook Air with 16GB of unified memory. The M2 MacBook Air features a single-core score of 1,899 and a multi-core score of 8,965. The M2 MacBook Air benchmarks reveal that the scores are more or less the same as the MacBook Pro model with an M2 chip....

New prediction does not mention if the 2024 MacBook Air with OLED will support ProMotion technology Ross Young’s subscribers were greeted with some pleasant news surrounding Apple’s 2024 MacBook Air. Although the 13.3-inch display is not going to change, the underlying technology is, shifting to OLED instead of gravitating to mini-LED. Unfortunately, Young did not mention if the new portable Mac will support ProMotion technology, which will be a plus since all of Apple’s devices with mini-LED have it....

Well, good news you Daisy freaks, Nintendo and Canadian developer Next Level Games have announced Mario Strikers: Battle League’s first free content update, and the princess who isn’t Peach or Rosalina is included. The update will also include the new Shy Guy character, another arena, and a set of knight-themed gear. You can check out a trailer for the Battle League update, below. It’s a decent selection of stuff, and the Daisy fans ought to be happy, although Battle League could use even more content....

The v1.1122.0.0 update brings, according to the official patch notes, various visual improvements to ray traced shadows, improved cutscene performance, and more. Various visual improvements to ray-traced shadows. Improved quality of certain objects in ray-traced reflections. Adjusted lighting in cutscenes to match the original game. Improved cutscene performance. Addressed a bug that could cause image corruption on Intel ARC GPUs when using Dynamic Resolution Scaling. Stability improvements and optimizations....

Dimensity 8100, Dimensity 8000 Get Support for LPDDR5X, Wi-Fi 6E, UFS 3.1 Storage and More There are a few differences to separate the Dimensity 8100 and Dimensity 8000. Both chipsets are mass produced on TSMC’s 5nm process, and both of them ship with octa-core processors in the 4 + 4 configuration. Four of those cores belong to the ARM Cortex-A78, while the remaining four belong to the Cortex-A55. The GPU is the Mali-G610-MC6....

Efficient Manufacturing Process From TSMC Likely Responsible for Dimensity 9200’s High Score The AnTuTu benchmark leak was shared by Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station, claiming that the final score belongs to the Dimensity 9200, which also features an Immortalis-G715 GPU. The newly designed graphics cores paired with the Cortex-X3 deliver a final score of 1,266,102, beating the M1 iPad Pro, which, according to AnTuTu’s rankings, obtained an overall score of 1,251,547....

Monarch Tractor utilizes the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier SoC for intelligence and energy efficiency in the company’s new tractor series The Monarch MK-V is the company’s introduction to smart tractors for commercial use. Monarch recently reported that the MK-V series would help reduce costs compared to standard tractors that utilize fuel, saving consumers $2,600/year. The company has created a complete 100% electric tractor that does not require the driver to perform the system operations....

The new trailer, which has been shared during today’s Digital Event, showcases returning monster Seregios from Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, new subspecies like Aurora Somnacanth, whose breath attack will now freeze hunters instead of putting them to sleep, and Magma Almudron. The new Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak trailer also confirmed some of the new features and mechanics that will be added to the game next month. A new quest type called Follower Quests will be introduced by the expansion, allowing players to go on a hunt with NPC hunters from both Kamura Village and Elgado....

For those who haven’t been keeping up, MultiVersus is now up to 16 characters, including Finn and Jake (Adventure Time), Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Harley Quinn (DC Comics), Bugs Bunny and Taz (Looney Tunes), Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo), Steven and Garnet (Steven Universe), Arya Stark (Game of Thrones), Tom & Jerry, the Iron Giant, and Reindog (an original character). Datamining of early test versions of the game has also potentially revealed characters ranging from Gandalf, to Rick from Rick & Morty, to LeBron James, although take all that with a grain of salt....

Well, during the latest episode of his GrubbSnax show, insider Jeff Grubb provided an encouraging update on the game. Apparently, the new Need for Speed is on track to arrive in 2022, and will now be a next-gen console exclusive… Grubb also mentioned some things he’d heard about the game’s setting, although he seems less sure about these particular rumors. Of course, as always, take this with a grain of salt for now....

Netflix wants you to pay an additional $3 if you are sharing passwords outside your household At the time of writing, Netflix has approximately 2233 million subscribers worldwide, and on top of the 223 million, 100 million households have access to the streaming service through shared passwords. The platform has been very lenient towards password sharing and its crackdown on those who share it; the plans are now slightly changing. Based on a report from The Wall Street Journal, Netflix will soon introduce a feature that will give users an additional $3 on top of their subscription fee if they share their password with someone not in the same household....

The new footage, which can be found here, has been taken from the game’s beta, so it is not representative of the final game’s quality. Still, with the game not having a set release date, it will be more than enough to make the wait for its launch more bearable. Diablo IV will be the first new main entry in the series for a while, and it will come with plenty of new features that will spice up the experience a lot, such as a massively expanded Sanctuary, better character customization, and more....

As reported by Press Start, the CFI-1200 series model is now being sold in Australia, and it is identical to the models currently available on the market in terms of features. The only difference is in the weight of both the Standard and Digital Editions, which now weigh 3.9kg and 3.4kb, respectively. It is not yet clear how this was achieved. While we do not know if Sony has started selling the new PlayStation 5 model in other regions, we do know that the Japanese company will start selling it in its home country from September 15th, as reported by @Renka_schedule....

In another interesting tidbit from the Q&A, Furukawa admitted they’ve only announced a “portion” of their software roadmap for the next year, hinting some surprises may still be in store… You can get more details on Nintendo’s latest financial results and sales milestones, right here.

NVIDIA tackles the wasted work problem with the Carbon Negative Heating Consortium NVIDIA starts with talking about the “Wasted Work” problem. Homes are heated either using gas or electric heaters (and rarely, heat pumps). Considering heat is the end product of pretty much all work done (computations) anyways, this is energy that could have been used to do valuable calculations before being wasted as heat. Based on the profitability rates of today’s crypto, NVIDIA estimates that 1500 watts is sufficient to generate roughly $500 in profits (after accounting for your energy bill)....

NVIDIA Claims 2x Higher Performance & Almost 3x Efficiency For Ampere A100 GPUs Versus AMD’s Instinct MI250 NVIDIA has already announced its next-generation H100 GPU based on the Hopper graphics (GPU) architecture which will be shipping to customers later this year. The Hopper GPU will be delivering an estimated 26x increase in performance over the Pascal P100 which was released six years ago & that’s 3x faster than the trajectory offered by Moore’s Law....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB Graphics Card To Feature 115W TBP With More Efficient GA107 GPU Currently, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB graphics card features the Ampere GA106 GPU core. The GA106-150 SKU features a very cut-down variant of the full GA106 chip and packs 2560 cores & an 8 GB memory running across a 128-bit bus interface. Now the latest report from Igor’s Lab talks about a new variant of the card coming soon that will feature the GA107 GPU as was rumored back a few months....