4th of July Deal Saves You $40 on Apple’s M1 Powered iPad Air Tablet With 64GB Storage and Wi-Fi There was nothing wrong with the previous iPad Air at all, but Apple decided to take things up a notch with the inclusion of the M1 chip in the latest generation model. This makes the tablet way more powerful and with that it also becomes one of a handful of iPads from Apple that will support Stage Manager in iPadOS 16 when it becomes available later this year....

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has now announced its earnings for the first quarter of 2022, barely exceeding consensus expectations regarding its top-line metric. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) Earnings Release for the First Quarter of 2022 For the three months that ended on the 31st of December 2021, Intel reported $18.4 billion in non-GAAP revenue. The number exceeded consensus expectations by just 0.4 percent. (All figures are in billions of dollars) Here is the performance of Intel’s business segments in Q1 2022: Bear in mind that Intel has revamped its business segments, adding IFS or Intel Foundry Service, a fully vertical, standalone foundry business that offers a wide range of chip manufacturing services....

Intel LGA 1851 Socket To Feature Support For Meteor Lake & Arrow Lake Desktop CPUs The latest information on the LGA 1851 socket designed around the Intel Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs comes from Benchlife. A few days ago, it was reported that Intel could be using a brand new socket for its next-generation desktop CPUs. While it is true that there will be a new socket to replace the existing LGA 1700/1800 design, it won’t be the rumored ‘LGA 2551’ instead, it will be the Socket V1 with 1851 LGA contact pads....

Intel Showcases Arc Alchemist GPU Performance With XeSS, Raytracing & Hybrid CPU Combos This isn’t the first time we will be talking about Intel’s XeSS or Raytracing implementations but they did share some new details and performance metrics. Intel Arc Alchemist XeSS Technology (GDC 2022 Demo) Intel XeSS is a super-sampling technique that leverages Machine Learning to reconstruct a low-resolution frame into a high-resolution frame, running at a fraction of the cost of rendering at a higher resolution such as 4K....

You Can Easily Transfer Your eSIM From One iPhone to Another Using Bluetooth iOS 16 can be considered a major update considering the number of additions it brings to the table. If you have two iPhones or want to transfer your eSIM from your current to a new one, you can easily do so using Bluetooth in iOS 16. You will find the new feature in Settings on iOS 16 as “Set up eSIM....

Apple could also delay the iPad mini 7 launch to early 2024, possibly due to ongoing economic circumstances The prediction was made by TF International Securities analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, stating that Apple could begin mass shipments of the iPad mini 7 by the end of 2023. This statement suggests that the smaller slate could launch sometime in Q4 2023, but Kuo also says that there is a possibility that mass shipments will happen in the first half of 2024....

iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro Both Start at 128GB of Base Storage, and Apple is Not Charging Extra for the New Phones Either Needless to say, the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro are massive improvements over last year’s phones, and why wouldn’t they be? because obviously… newer phones. But rumors painted a slightly different image, suggesting that the phones will start at 256GB of storage with slightly bumped-up pricing....

Apple Could Potentially Launch The iPhone SE 4 With a Design Similar to The iPhone XR We are expecting the iPhone 14 Pro models to come with major changes, which include a new and improved ultra-wide sensor with larger pixels. In addition to this, the dual-cutout display with a larger camera bump on the back will make room for visual differences compared to the current models. In his latest episode of Geared Up podcast with Andru Edwards and Jon Rettinger (via AppleTrack), Jon Prosser claims that the next iPhone SE will feature the same design as that of the iPhone XR....

Reuters reports that Rome is planning to reveal an offer to Intel not only to receive money but “other favorable terms” to assist the company in the future of semiconductors and more, valued at close to $9 billion over the next ten years. Italy has also communicated with STMicroelectronics, MEMC Electronic Materials Incorporated, and Tower Semiconductor to influence and increase domestic chipmaking. These three companies are also on Intel’s radar to be purchased in the future by the company....

GameStop shares are currently up a healthy 28 percent over the past five trading days, with the sentiment around the stock benefitting from the much-hyped launch of the GameStop digital wallet earlier this week. On the 23rd of May, GameStop launched the beta version of an Ethereum-based and browser-supported digital wallet that would allow users to send, receive, and store cryptocurrencies (ERC 20 tokens and Ethereum) as well as NFTs conveniently....

Intel’s Arc Control gaming software is fused with the newest Alchemist GPU driver The previous driver we spoke about, 30.0.101.3276, does not add additional fixes to specific game titles like the recently reported one. This new 3277 update resolves several Intel Arc Control software issues. Furthermore, it is not essential to anyone who only plays on the Arc GPU and does not explicitly overclock the only desktop model capable of such, the Arc A380 GPU....

The Leica Leitz Phone 2 Can be Yours for a Little Under $1,600 But I Wouldn’t Advise That This is not the first time Leica has made a phone, though. The company previously made the Leica Leitz Phone 1 and the sequel is borrowing most of the hardware from another Japanese phone but this time around, you have some really nice Lecia-Esque twists that you are getting in the phone. I mean… the company has introduced a metal cap to cover the camera module on the back of the phone....

Active Noise Cancellation Confirmed to Be Less Effective on AirPods Max After Latest Firmware Update According to tests conducted by RTings.com, Apple’s AirPods Max headphone’s Active Noise Cancellation “blocks out a bit less noise between the mid-bass to high-bass range” after the latest 4E71 firmware update. The update was released back in May and it seems to have taken a hit on the ANC. RTings.com states after tests that “When it comes to the mid and treble ranges, this firmware update has slightly changed the level of isolation, but it’s a relatively minor difference....

AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC), the erstwhile financially distressed movie theater chain that is currently experiencing a revival of fortunes, just made a wildly audacious move, one that places the company in an enviable position to capture the monetary windfall that might result from a global rewrite of rules around sovereign fiat reserves. — Adam Aron (@CEOAdam) March 15, 2022 Before going further, let’s recap what has happened so far. AMC Entertainment announced yesterday that it has now acquired a 22 percent stake in Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:HYMC), a relatively small gold mining company....

AMD X670E, X670 & B650 Chipsets To Enable The Next-Gen PCIe Gen 5.0 Ecosystem For Ryzen 7000 CPU-Ready Motherboards The AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs will be migrating to a new home known as AM5, the successor to the long-lasting AM4 platform. It marks a fresh start for the Ryzen Desktop family and as such, existing Ryzen CPUs starting with Ryzen 1000 & all the way up to Ryzen 5000 won’t be supported by the new platform we will tell you why it is so....

Chip designer Adanced Micro Devices, Inc’s (AMD) $35 billion acquisition of field programmable gate array (FPGA) provider Xilinx, Inc has secured conditional approval from the Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) clearing the last remaining global hurdle towards approval. AMD had announced the deal back in 2020, and had expected it to close by the end of 2021. However, the Chinese approval, which was the final step towards consumption, was delayed reportedly due to the SAMR investigating proposals to counter potential anticompetitive outcomes from the approval....

AMD publishes an updated list of AMD FSR 2 game titles, bringing the number of compatible titles just shy of rival NVIDIA The company posted an updated list of the games as of December 14, 2022, which will be supported by the revised AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2. Some of these titles already utilize AMD FSR 1, and this list is subject to change depending on some releases. Abyssworld Asterigos As the Light Goes Out Ballads of Hongye Battle Teams 2 Boundary Cepheus Protocol Chernobylite Choo-Choo Charles Cyberpunk 2077 Dead Island 2 DEATHLOOP DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT Deep Rock Galactic Disco Elysium Destroy All Humans!...

AMD to add more employees to their open-source Linux endeavors to bring more exclusivity to future projects While AMD has been inclining up their Linux staff on the server front given their EPYC triumphs, last February, they additionally started employing Linux specialists on the client-side inside another association at the company. That new association is off the ground, and they had the option to add a few star recruits last year, and it appears the company is setting up both client fixes and new features and device enablement....

God of War Is Playable With 30 FPS at 1080p Resolutions on AMD’s Radeon 660M Integrated Graphics Using FSR 2.0 Our friends over at TechEpiphany once again showcased the amazing graphics performance that’s packed within AMD’s Ryzen APUs, more notably, the latest Rembrandt Ryzen 6000H series. AMD’s Rembrandt ‘Ryzen 6000’ APUs feature the fastest integrated graphics currently available within the consumer space. We have already seen performance results of the top Radeon 680M iGPU which plays several AAA games at a respectable frame rate....

GIGABYTE RX 6400 EAGLE 4GB GDDR6 becomes the first non-OEM custom variant of AMD’s tiniest GPU RRA stands for National Radio Research Agency and all-new GPUs must receive certification before they are allowed to be sold in South Korea. This means that all new GPUs will eventually, inevitably be spotted here just before release. In fact, in the past companies like AMD and NVIDIA have gotten dummy cards certified to throw off the tech press - but this card isn’t exciting enough to warrant tactics like that so we are fairly sure this one is legit....