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After spending six months in space, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Raja Chari provided an update about his physical condition yesterday evening. Chari was part of the NASA-SpaceX Crew-3 mission that took to the skies on board SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in November last year and returned to Earth earlier this month. Crew-3 was Chari’s maiden spaceflight and the astronaut was a fighter pilot serving with the United States Air Force when he was selected by NASA for astronaut training in 2017....

Intel open-source i915 graphics driver to be replaced with new, Xe-based graphics kernel for better optimization and broader adoption in previous architectures The i915 graphics driver was initially introduced during the 915G Northbridge chipset generation. Now, developers are looking into updating the i915 graphics kernel with a Xe-based kernel graphics driver that will help support integrated and discrete Intel graphics cards with an estimated launch as quickly as next year. This new DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver will begin supporting Xe graphics and 12th Generation graphics and will continue to support the i915 driver once the new manager is in place....

Now, Inflexion Games has been featured in the latest PC Gamer magazine issue, revealing new juicy details about Nightingale. The Canadian developers have said that the game includes several renowned historical figures, such as two-time Nobel winner Marie Curie, American journalist and world trip record-breaker Nellie Bly, and plenty more as NPCs. NPCs in Nightingale will also eventually be recruitable by players, as outlined by the studio. Neil Thompson (Art and Audio Director): Nellie Bly was an interesting character in that period, a very independent and resourceful woman at the time, and meeting her gives players an opportunity to just delve deeper into the world and into the lore....

Hello Games is far from done with No Man’s Sky, though, as revealed by founder Sean Murray to IGN. The Guildford-based independent studio is also working on a new game, as announced back in September 2020. Not much is known about it other than it’ll be a huge and ambitious game like No Man’s Sky (though no direct sequel), whereas the puzzle game The Last Campfire (released in August 2020 on PC, consoles, and iOS) was much smaller in scope and scale....

NVIDIA GeForce & AMD Radeon GPU Prices Now Just 10% Over MSRP: Graphics Cards In Stock Everywhere! In the latest report by 3DCenter, we can see that the GPU prices for both NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards continue to fall which shouldn’t be a surprise as that’s the trend we have witnessed since the end of 2021. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series prices now average at around 14% over MSRP while AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series averages with a selling price of 6% over MSRP....

NVIDIA Fired Back at Hackers By Encrypting Its Stolen Data & Installing Malware On Hacker Machines Vx-underground states that LAPSU$, an extortion group, operating out of South America is claiming responsibility for the cyberwar attack that infiltrated NVIDIA’s servers a few days ago. It is claimed that over 1 TB of NVIDIA’s proprietary data was exfiltrated however NVIDIA was quick to react and successfully managed to breach the hackers with its own response....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Takes Up Best Selling GPU Spot At Newegg Followed By RTX 4090 In A Close 3rd Spot This news does come as a surprise as recent reports have shown that the GeForce RTX 4080 has had lacking sales throughout the marketplace. Newegg reports that the store’s top seller is the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming OC graphics card ($1,269.99). Interestingly enough, the previous generation graphics cards, such as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti models, remain a favorite in the top 5 spots with consumers due to the lower pricing found in the RTX 30 series GPUs....

Ten days ago, Golden Reviewer uploaded a video showing the Genshin Impact game running at a resolution of 7K on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. His PC specs are listed below: Intel Gen Core i7-10700KF Asus Prime Z490-P motherboard 64GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 RAM MSI GeForce RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G GPU Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB Golden Reviewer is running the above Genshin Impact test at 6880 x 2880 resolution with the graphics settings to the highest quality throughout....

Chip designer NVIDIA Corporation pre-released its earnings report for its second fiscal quarter earlier today, with the results showing large drops in revenue over the company’s Q2 guidance. NVIDIA is one of the last companies to post its results in an earning season, and the report serves to avoid major shocks to investor confidence and the stock market on the back of poor results that also plagued Intel Corporation in its latest quarter....

The narrative RPG is set in 16th century Bavaria and allows players to experience a journey through the eyes of Journeyman Artist Andreas Maler during a time of great social unrest. Check out the announcement trailer down below: “Players will become entangled in a series of murders that span over 25 years”, the description of the game reads. “It will be up to the players to investigate and interrogate the townsfolk to make their own decisions, where the consequences will impact the town for years to come....

Google Shows Off the Pixel Watch Once Again and Reveals New Details The new video titled Design of Google Pixel Watch shows the smartwatch from various angles, and even though we have seen several images of this smartwatch in the past, this is the first time we get a proper look at the watch itself along with the twist-lock strap mechanism. For those interested, the video is right below. The video also shows some of the new watch faces that the Pixel Watch is going to come with....

The new trailer provides an overview of the game’s new features, characters, regions, Terastallization, starting Pokémon, and more. Be sure to check it out down below: Nintendo officially announced the new entry in the franchise back in February of this year during Pokémon Day 2022. Aside from the two different Switch versions, Nintendo also announced a special Nintendo Switch – OLED Model: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Edition. Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon VioletDeveloped by GAME FREAK inc....

ONE-NETBOOK A1 Pro Mini PC offers “every use-case” for any IT-business professional ONE-NETBOOK assures IT professionals that the performance of the ONE-NETBOOK A1 Pro can run various significant engineering applications. The website does mention that the pocket PC can handle 3D drawing software, including Creo Parametric — an integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solution created by Parametric Technology Corporation using parametric, feature-rich, associative solid modeling software. ONE-NETBOOK hopes to take the burden off IT professionals to operate, debug, and maintain systems more effectively and efficiently....

According to a tip from Yogesh Brar, the company is also going ahead with the launch of the OnePlus 10R and the OnePlus 10 Ultra later this year. The former is expected to launch sometime in May while the latter is supposed to arrive sometime in September. OnePlus Seems to Have a Busy Year Ahead with 3 OnePlus 10 Phones and 3 OnePlus Nord Phones Coming Out At the time of writing, we have absolutely no information on the specs but it is safe to say that the OnePlus 10R would be the cheaper version of the Pro variant while the Ultra would be the highest-end in the series....

While a lot of us waiting for the global release of the OnePlus 10 series, the OnePlus Nord 2 CE is a good phone for anyone who is looking to get an affordable device for themselves. The OnePlus Nord 2 CE is a Minor Refresh of a Very Popular Smartphone It should not come as a surprise that the OnePlus Nord 2 CE ships with a 6.43-inch FHD+ 90Hz AMOLED display that is protected by Gorilla Glass 5 along with an optical in-display fingerprint scanner....

ONEXPLAYER Mini AMD Edition launches in China and carries the AMD Ryzen 7 5800U processor The Onexplayer Mini by One Notebook is not fashioned with the latest CPU technology but offers adequate performance for lower-processing games. Competitor Valve officially launched its anticipated Steam Deck portable console offering RDNA2 graphics processing. AyaNeo Next and Onexplayer Mini benefit from being smaller in size but unfortunately carry hefty price tags for both handhelds. The new One Notebook Onexplayer Mini (AMD variant) features a Ryzen 7 5800U processor with 8-cores and 16-threads and a boost clock reaching up to 4....

Only it works with a bit of a twist; it’s all about competitive and social gameplay. The list of games is extensive, and much of it is about getting in touch with other players, playing with or against each other, and just having fun. Fun; something sadly missing in many games, particularly online ones, in recent times. You can also play on your own too if you like. So what are the games available on Piepacker?...

Pixel 6a to Feature 6GB RAM, Mali-G78 GPU, Implying It Is a Watered-Down Version of the Pixel 6 The leaked Geekbench benchmark spotted by MySmartPrice shows that the Pixel 6a is running Android 12, with the ‘Motherboard’ category revealing the codename bluejay, which is the exact same name assigned to the mid-ranger. The single-core and multi-core scores are what you would expect from a smartphone touting Google’s Tensor chip, and though the results are not impressive compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 or Dimensity 9000, these are alarming numbers on just paper only....

Pixel 7 Pro Barely Manages to Scrape Past the 800,000 Score Mark Despite the improvements that Google is expected to make, it is disappointing that the Tensor G2, which is actually made on Samsung’s 4nm architecture, fails to finish the AnTuTu benchmark on a high note. In the tests run by Gadgetfull BD, who also managed to show the Pixel 7 Pro’s design on Facebook, the flagship crossed an overall score of 800,000, securing a total of 801,116....

The news comes directly from the emulator’s developers, who also posted a detailed guide on how to set up the game, even though Pokémon Legends: Arceus should already run on default settings. — Ryujinx (@RyujinxEmu) January 27, 2022 If you’re still having troubles running Pokémon Legends: Arceus smoothly, you can try to enable the following: Download the latest version of Ryujinx here: https://ryujinx.org/download/ Make sure your graphics drivers are not older than 472....