Intel First To 16 Cores on Mobility Platform With Its Alder Lake Core i9-12900HX CPU The new Intel Core i9-12900HX CPU will provide 16-cores (in an 8+8 configuration) making this chip the first for Intel to offer such a high core count on the laptop segment. The laptop in question is the upcoming Lenovo 82TD and should be an absolute beast in terms of rendering and gaming performance. And yes, while 16 core laptops have existed from AMD, those were based on desktop parts and not mobile chips....

A piece published by Engadget praises the thermal management of the iPhone 14 Plus compared to the regular iPhone 14 while also stating that customers now have a choice to spend less on a large-screen iPhone. In a review by The Verge, the iPhone 14 Plus gets praise for the display size and battery. If you were dead-set on purchasing an iPhone that is under $1,000, this is one to get....

At Most, iPhone Production Is Expected to Be Hampered by 10 Percent J.P. Morgan analyst Gokul Hariharan wrote in a note dated Monday that iPhone production will not be affected immensely. The investment bank also says that Shenzhen represents less than 20 percent of the total iPhone production capacity for Foxconn. Zhengzhou, a transport and industrial hub of China, has a vast number of assembly plants, so Foxconn can simply ask to increase production in those facilities to make up for the loss in Shenzhen....

Well, possibly. Sakurai recently started a new YouTube channel, and his latest video is focused on Kid Icarus: Uprising. Sakurai provides lots of interesting tidbits, but the most intriguing moment comes at the end when he muses about the possibility of a Switch port (with a slightly-suspicious smirk on his face). “It sure would be nice to play Kid Icarus: Uprising on a home console. I wonder if somebody out there will port it?...

Fast forward about 25 years, and today, during the 2/9/22 Nintendo Direct, two Klonoa remasters, packaged as the Phantasy Reverie Series, were revealed, with a trailer. Both games are actually full remasters from the ground up, and you can watch the new trailer from Bandai Namco Entertainment below. Yes, you’re watching that correctly; Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, and Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil will be coming to modern consoles this year....

iPhone SE 3 is Almost as Durable as the iPhone 13, as Revealed in New Drop Test Apple says that the iPhone SE 3 is equipped with the “toughest glass in a smartphone.” Both the front and the back feature the new glass and the latest drop tests prove its durability against the iPhone 13 models. Allstate Protection Plan conducted a series of controlled drops and discovered that the new iPhone SE is indeed much stronger than its predecessors....

You’ll have the chance to opt out of the windowed games optimizations on a per-app/game basis, by the way. But we called this an optimization, so it does more than just unlock stellar gaming features. Flip model generally results in lower latency. Reducing latency means getting your game’s frames to the screen as fast as possible. In a separate blog post, Microsoft also revealed that the Xbox HDR Game Calibration App will soon be available on Windows, too....

Level Zero is an asymmetrical horror game coming to PC and consoles sometime next year and pits four stranded Scientists against two Creatures. Scientists are tasked with repairing the broken tools throughout the map, and Creatures, simply put, have to ensure no one escapes to tell the tale. You can watch the game’s trailer below. One of Level Zero’s main draws is that light itself is both a mechanic and the Scientists’ most powerful tool against the Creatures....

M1 Max has five more GPU cores than the M2 Pro, which is why it performs slightly faster In the Geekbench 5 Metal test, where certain tests are run to gauge the performance of a GPU, the M2 Pro obtains a score of 52,792. The model identifier is shown as Mac14,12, indicating that it is the same Mac mini whose CPU performance results leaked out yesterday. These scores may also highlight that the Mac mini has a sufficient cooling solution to effectively dissipate the heat generated by the M2 Pro, so it is possible that we do not see the same results from the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro when they officially launch and get benchmarked....

The Entire Apple Silicon Transition Was Expected to Be Completed This Year, Suggesting That Both the iMac Pro and Mac Pro Would See an Unveiling in the Fourth Quarter of 2022 The prediction comes from none other than TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has finally joined the Twitter family. Giving his predictions regarding various Apple products, which included the launch of the 2022 Mac mini and 27-inch external display, he also provided his thoughts on the Apple Silicon iMac Pro and Mac Pro, claiming these would arrive in 2023 and not this year....

Mass Effect fans will remember the space station from the game’s 2012 Omega DLC, and this new graphical showcase has the game running in Epic’s new engine complete with Lumen for Global Illimunation and reflections, as well as Nanite for meshes. “A small section from the lawless, hollowed-out asteroid space station ‘Omega’ from Mass Effect, remade in Unreal Engine 5.0”, the YouTuber writes. “This is a fully dynamically lit scene – no light bakes – using Nanite for the meshes and Lumen for reflections and global illumination....

Google has finally released Matter for all of its products, including Android phones and Nest devices The main goal of Matter is to rid users of all the issues they face when connecting a myriad of smart home devices on the market. Having a single standard makes it easy for companies to implement and ensure that their devices are playing nicely with each other. You simply no longer have to stick to a single brand of smart home devices with this standard – A practice I wish other companies follow with different devices and services....

MediaTek Had a 48.1 Percent Market Share in the U.S. For Q4, 2021 The latest data from IDC’s quarterly mobile phone sales tracker states that MediaTek chips for Q4, 2021 had the highest market share in the U.S., making up 48.1 percent of all Android smartphones in the region. This made the company the biggest in the country, beating Qualcomm, who had a 43.9 percent market share in the same quarter....

Asobo is also working on the previously announced NVIDIA DLSS support, which is expected to be completed for Update 10 (scheduled for release in July) as well. Elsewhere in the live stream, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann revealed that Microsoft Flight Simulator has performed exceedingly well on the xCloud streaming service since it became available there to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers. Overall, player figures are much higher than they were last year....

Installing the update KB4598291 will change your current Windows 10 20H2 build to 19042.782. What’s new in KB4598291 This release is the second release of the year by Microsoft to the Beta and Release Preview channels. However, just like in the last release (KB4598242), it does not bring any new features. Nonetheless, it does carry out a lot of fixes and improvements that you need to install on your device....

A Microsoft spokesperson explained: This price reflects the content, scale, and technical complexity of these titles. As with all games developed by our teams at Xbox, they will also be available with Game Pass the same day they launch. As mentioned above, Microsoft is far from the first publisher to increase the price of next-generation games. The first to do so was Take-Two with NBA 2K21, though others soon followed, including Activision Blizzard (starting with Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War) and Sony (already with launch titles like the Demon’s Souls remake)....

We want to let everyone know that we are delaying the start of Season 1 & the release of Morty to a later date. We know this might be disappointing for some and want to assure our Community that we are dedicated to delivering new and exciting content that delights players. We’ll let you know the timing as soon as we can. We appreciate your patience & enthusiasm and look forward to unveiling Season 1 very soon!...

A second launch attempt of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was scrubbed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) earlier today after teams struggled for hours to deal with yet another hydrogen leak on a quick disconnect arm. A similar leak plagued NASA’s first launch attempt this Monday, but the agency’s teams managed to find a workaround at the time, only to cancel the launch later on after an engine cooling test failed....

Nest Wifi Pro is a Huge Upgrade With Wi-Fi 6E - Offers up to 6,000 Square Feet of Ultra-Fast Coverage Around the House For a common household, it doesn’t quite matter what sort of mesh system you end up going with. Pretty much all of them are great these days. But, if you want everything to be fast and robust all the time, then you need something with the latest Wi-Fi technologies....

The new title update is available globally now and packs numerous changes to FIFA Ultimate Team and FIFA World Cup. In addition, this new patch includes various gameplay improvements and fixes, including a change to stamina decay alongside some AI teammate and CPU controller player changes. Interestingly, EA also mentions that this latest update somewhat improves the game’s visual fidelity on Xbox Series S on some occasions. You’ll find the official release notes for FIFA 23 title update down below:...