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Money first, fun last: Former PlayStation president warns of gaming's creative decline
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
Former President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, Shawn Layden, says the industry has stopped focusing on making fun games and instead spends all its energy on monetization. Developers, or rather the middle management that oversees them, worry more about making the game fit into a subscription or microtransactional...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Insurance firms bet big on AI, but human touch remains in high demand
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
IBM recently shared some notable research regarding the current state of generative AI and its implementation in the insurance industry. Big Blue said there is an apparent "disconnect" between insurance companies' priorities and their customers. However, many consider AI technology essential to keep revenue flowing.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Euclid space telescope will produce the largest map of the universe ever
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
Euclid launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral on July 1, 2023, and sent back its first test photos just one month later. The telescope is equipped with a 600-megapixel camera tasked with mapping more than a third of the sky – out to 10 billion light-years – over the coming years...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Former Bethesda developer says studio could squash more bugs before release
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
Nesmith served as the lead designer for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, one of Bethesda Studios' most successful role-playing games. Skyrim is also one of the most complex – and bug-ridden – experiences in modern RPG history, which is why Nesmith still harbors some frustration toward the Maryland-based studio's development practices.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
Howells eventually realized what he'd done, but it was too late. His bag of trash from that day is believed to be at the local landfill, and is likely buried under several feet of garbage. Attempts to gain access to the landfill to excavate the missing drive have come up...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Intel faces scrutiny in China over alleged security risks and vulnerabilities in its chips
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
On its official WeChat account, CSAC claimed that Intel's chips are a threat due to their "frequent vulnerabilities and high failure rates." It added that the company's CPUs, including Xeon processors, have major defects when it comes to product quality and security management, indicating an extremely irresponsible attitude towards customers.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Analysts predict Arm CPUs will power 40% of notebooks by 2029
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
Semiconductor-focused analysis firm TechInsights says x86 currently accounts for 82 percent of the notebook processor market, while Arm's market share is around 18 percent. It expects Arm's footprint to grow to 20 percent by 2025 in the notebook market as more affordable Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered AI PCs hit the consumers.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Intel releases new XTU version, exclusively for Arrow Lake
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
Intel XTU is a performance tuning tool for overclocking, monitoring, and stress testing. Version 10 is exclusive to Core Ultra 200S processors and newer, while the previous version supports 14th-gen and older CPUs.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Air Force to put not-so secret X-37B space drone through advanced orbital tests
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
The US Space Force recently announced a significant development in the OTV-7 mission. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle will soon execute a series of aerobraking maneuvers, using Earth's atmospheric drag to adjust its orbit more efficiently. Officially, the goal of the test is to safely discard the X-37B's service module...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Emteq Labs unveils smart glasses that track emotions and eating habits
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2024
Emteq Labs has announced the development of Sense, which it says is the world's first emotion-sensing smart glasses.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »