2022 iPhone SE Doesn’t Ship with a Charger, But Here are the Best 20W USB-C Chargers Available Right Now It’s not a surprise at this point that the new 2022 iPhone SE does not ship with the charger in the box. But, you do get a USB-C to Lightning cable which is half the equation if you want to get into the world of fast charging. On Apple’s website, the company claims that you can charge the new iPhone SE from zero to 50% in just half an hour if you charge it using a 20W or faster USB-C charger....

3DMark is the foremost benchmarking suite for testing the graphics and stability of gaming hardware and systems. 3DMark offers tests such as Time Spy/Time Spy Extreme, CPU Profile, Wild Life, and more. The software is available on Steam for $29.99. With the introduction of Speed Way, the cost of the suite and the Advanced Edition is now raised to $34.99. If you own the 3DMark software from UL Solutions, you have the opportunity to purchase the Speed Way test as a downloadable upgrade for only $4....

Activision Blizzard is now being sued by New York City on behalf of their employees’ pension fund. Said pension fund is apparently heavily invested in Activision Blizzard, and the lawsuit alleges the publisher’s poor management has hurt that company’s value. The suit also takes embattled CEO Bobby Kotick to task, saying he was unfit to negotiate the publisher’s recent sale to Microsoft and that the deal was only struck so Kotick and management could “escape liability for their egregious breaches of fiduciary duty....

AMD Zen 4 Powered Full-Fat EPYC Genoa CPU Pictured: Features 12 5nm Dies For Up To 96 Cores Discovered within the TF AMD Microelectronics publication and discovered by @phatal187, the image shows an undisclosed AMD EPYC Genoa CPU without its massive heat spreader. This chip features a total of 12 CCD’s and while we don’t know how many of them are enabled on this part, such configurations will offer up to 96 cores and 192 threads....

As you would expect, Age of Empires IV also includes a variety of balance tweaks and minor fixes. You can check out the update’s full, unabridged patch notes, right here. Age of Empires IV is available on PC. Season 1 can be downloaded right now.

You can already wishlist the game on Steam. Check out the debut trailer and first official overview below. You are the commander. They are your weapon. Infiltrate large open levels and annihilate enemies with your squad, dispatching orders strategically and intuitively at the touch of a button. Tread carefully, as your foes will adapt their tactics to your actions while hunting you down because death is permanent. Forge unique paths for survival, uncovering shortcuts, creating safe zones, and setting up motion trackers in a persistent world where your actions impact levels forever....

AMD EPYC Milan-X CPUs and Microsoft Azure HBv3 VMs appear to be a perfect fit for cloud-based server usage, showing staggering performance upgrades Microsoft is not planning to change the pricing of the new HBv3 at this time, especially when they are handling the changes as an upgrade and not a complete suite offering. Microsoft realizes that Milan-X is exceptionally influential for large HPC workloads deployed across multiple VMs. However, Microsoft Azure is now handling higher competitiveness from Google Cloud Tau VM and other cloud providers....

AMD RDNA 3 Navi 31 GPU Allegedly Codenamed ‘Plum Bonito’ & Utilizes ‘Gemini’ Board Starting with the RDNA 2 lineup, AMD started using various fish names for its internal GPU naming scheme. The current-gen flagship, the RDNA 2 based Navi 21 GPU, was codenamed ‘Sienna Cichlid’ and it looks like the next-gen flagship, the RDNA 3 based Navi 31 GPU, will be following tradition & be known as ‘Plum Bonito’. Now Plum Bonito isn’t actually a fish but actually a dish made out of the fish....

AMD Might Be Cooking Up Another Low-End RDNA 2 Graphics Card, The Navi 24 Powered Radeon RX 6300 to compete with Intel’s integrated graphics The product is under the Beige Goby GPU codename because the device ID matches the same numerical layout as similar GPUs under the same moniker. The product line is a cost-friendly, low-level Navi 24 GPU identical to AMD’s RX 6400 and RX 6500 XT. There is some speculation that the new SKU could be a refresh of the two mentioned graphics cards from the company, placing the performance just under the RX 6400 series....

AMD Radeon RX 6400 Graphics Card Enters The DIY Market, An Entry-Level & Low-Power Design For Budget Users The AMD Radeon RX 6400 has so far been an OEM-only variant but there were reports that it could enter the DIY market rather soon. Now the graphics card is being listed by various retailers around the globe. As expected, the AMD Radeon RX 6400 is based on the Navi 24 GPU core and based on the TSMC 6nm process node....

A First In Two Years! AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT Drops Below MSRP, Available For $899 US at Newegg It may be a one-off thing but it’s real. AMD’s custom Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming OC model which had a $249 US premium over the reference MSRP of $999 US, is now available below the MSRP at just $899 US. This graphics card is actually listed for $949.99 US but the retailer is offering a $50....

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Offers The Same Performance As Ryzen 7 5800X For $150 US Less In Leaked Benchmarks It took AMD time to offer more mainstream and affordable options within the Ryzen 5000 family based on the Zen 3 core architecture. The 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake lineup really pushed them in releasing several new SKUs including the brand new Ryzen 7 5800X3D which is aimed directly at Alder Lake’s gaming capabilities....

AMD Threadripper PRO 5995WX Is The Ultimate & Fastest CPU Ever In Passmark Benchmark, All Thanks To The Power of 64 Zen 3 Cores The AMD Threadripper PRO 5995WX is a beast of a chip. It is based on the 7nm Zen 3 architecture and features a total of 9 chiplets which include 8 CCDs and a single IO die. Each of the CCDs is fully configured with 8 Zen 3 cores each for a total of 64 cores and 128 threads....

AMD FSR 2.0 To Feature Twice The Performance of Native Resolution With Ray Tracing Without Dependence Machine Learning Cores, Launching at GDC 2022 Videocardz managed to get hold of the new slides for FSR 2.0 which will be unveiled at GDC 2022 on 23rd March however the initial introduction is said to take place on 17th March. According to the available information, FSR 2.0 will extend on the existing version of AMD’s FiedilityFX Super Resolution technology and feature an advanced temporal upscaler....

AMD Zen 5 CPUs Based on The Next-Gen TSMC 3nm Node Might Face A Potential Delay, Alleges Report The report states that the TSMC 3nm process node has been prioritized by two big companies, Intel & Apple, who have invested a lot in acquiring the next-gen process node and are marked as a ‘VIP’ customer for the process. There are also other customers including AMD, NVIDIA & MediaTek who are also hoping to get access to the 3nm node but they are not expected to start until the end of 2023 which means that production for the next-gen products based on the process will be pushed into either 2024 or 2025....

As reported by Dutch paper De Volkskrant, the hotel, which is housed inside one of Amsterdam’s iconic monumental buildings, is one of the buildings that is being featured in Activision’s latest Call of Duty installment. Following a shootout, the building ends up in ruins with black smoke coming from the main entrance. Although the buildings inside Modern Warfare II have been renamed as to avoid legal issues, the hotel remains undeniably recognizable....

The MacBook’s Glass Material Will Be Present on the Keyboard Deck, According to the Patent, and Provide a More Enjoyable Typing Experience The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently granted Apple a patent for a possible future MacBook that is constructed with glass. According to Patently Apple, this material would be used on the keyboard area and will include bendable flat glass. This type of glass could be a stronger variant but still sport a level of thinness and flexibility to alter its shape slightly when small amounts of force is applied to the keyboard, such as when the user is typing....

Apple Maps to Reportedly Have Ads, but They Will Likely Be Displayed in a Non-Intrusive Way Since Apple focuses on user experience, ads on Apple Maps will likely not be displayed in the traditional banner style like most websites and apps show. Instead, those ads are expected to be a part of paid search results. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote in his Power On newsletter that work has begun to launch ads in the future....

Coming as to why you should save money and get the iPhone 13 Pro Max? It is every bit as capable as its successor, the iPhone 14 Pro Max. Though it features a notch, it touts a triple rear camera array that shines in both image and video capture. It also sports the higher-binned version of the A15 Bionic, the same one powering the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus....

M1 Was Offered up to an 8-Core GPU, Whereas New M2 Starts With the Same Number of GPU Cores With the exception of the new MacBook Pro, the redesigned MacBook Air with the M2 for the least expensive model, features an 8-core GPU. Assuming you are disappointed that Apple has maintained a practice of not revealing the entire picture during the official announcement, there is some silver lining in all of this....