Meta Wants You to Appreciate Your Favorite Instagram Creators with an Option to Gift Them According to a Meta spokesperson, the company is in the process of testing a feature called “Gifts.” Although the feature seems to be in work, the prototype feature is currently only being tested internally. The feature was first spotted by Alessandro Paluzzi back in July. The developer found a toggle under a menu called “Content Appreciation” on Instagram, with the feature at the time being called a way for fans to send a token of appreciation to a creator....

Intel Confirms Full Arc Desktop Graphics Card Lineup Ramp, Shipping Arc A770 16 GB & A750 8 GB To Reviewers Soon! It’s definitely been a long wait and while drivers may not be in their best state, Intel has given the green light and the company states that it has started receiving the top Arc 7 series graphics cards with packaging, ready for final testing before sampling with the press. The Arc 7 series will include both the Arc A770 16 GB and Arc A750 8 GB graphics cards....

Intel Core i9-12900KS 5.5 GHz CPU Wrecks AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X In Leaked Single & Multi-Core Benchmarks While the Intel Core i9-12900KS doesn’t launch until next month, it’s already been listed and being sold by various retailers. Some lucky buyers have got their chips early and proceeded to take snaps of the packaging while others have posted benchmarks. Reddit user, Seby9123, is one such person who managed to get the chip and has posted the first benchmarks of the retail unit....

Intel Raptor Lake-HX CPU Family To Feature World’s Fastest Core i9-13980HX Laptop CPU With 24 Cores & Up To 5.6 GHz Clock Frequency So far, we know about five Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake-HX Laptop SKUs which were leaked a while back. The lineup was initially going to feature up to a Core i9-13900HX with 24 cores, 32 threads & up to 5.4 GHz clock speeds but Intel has decided to design a ‘Halo’ SKU which will sit a tier above & offer the fastest performance of any laptop CPU out there....

Intel Meteor Lake-S CPUs To Feature 6 Performance Cores, Arrow Lake-S With 8 P-Cores On LGA 1851 Socket According to an internal Intel chart, the details of their 14th Gen and 15th Gen Desktop CPUs have leaked out. We know from previous reports that Intel is preparing a new socket known as “V” that will offer support for at least two generations of desktop CPUs, the Meteor Lake-S and Arrow Lake-S....

Intel’s Alder Lake-N CPUs Mark The End of Pentium & Celeron Brands, Intel Processor N200 & N100 Detailed Besides the Core lineup, the Intel Pentium and Celeron series mostly serve the entry-level CPU market on desktop and mobility platforms. The 12th Gen Alder Lake family got its share of the Pentium & Celeron chips but that comes to an end with the upcoming Alder Lake-N series that might be the first to step away from the older branding and adopt the new “Processor” CPU branding....

Intel Pushing Motherboard Manufacturers To Release 700-Series Chipset Motherboard With Only DDR5 Memory Support To Increase Adoption Rate According to a report by TechpowerUp, it is stated that motherboard makers are being pushed by Intel to release their next-gen motherboards based on the 700-series chipsets with DDR5 support only. The upcoming lineup of motherboards, which we talked about a few days ago, will hit shelves alongside the 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPU lineup....

Intel Core i9-13900K ‘Raptor Lake’ ES CPU Is 20% Faster Than Core i9-12900K ‘Alder Lake’ In Multi-Threaded Benchmarks The Intel Core i9-13900 ‘Raptor Lake’ CPU tested is an engineering sample like the one we saw earlier. It features an 8+16 core configuration. These include 8 P-Cores based on the Raptor Cove and 16 E-Cores based on the Gracemont core architecture. The Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake CPU carries 16 MB of L2 cache for the P-Cores (2 MB per core) and 16 MB of L2 cache for the E-cores too (4MB per cluster of 4 cores)....

Intel’s High-End Arc A730M Can Hardly Catch Up To NVIDIA’s RTX 3060 in Games, Gaming Performance Slightly Better Than An RTX 3050 It was known that the Intel Graphics software division has lagged behind severely versus the team that is designing the actual hardware. The hardware team has had GPUs up & running since the previous year but the software team has yet to release a driver that is fully tuned to unlock Arc’s true potential....

After discussing the inner workings of XeSS, Intel engineers briefly showcased the technology used in the upcoming Soulslike game Dolmen during the presentation. Gabriel Ferreira (CTO and Lead Programmer at Massive Work) joined the presentation to reveal that Intel XeSS was easy to integrate and helped the studio reach 60 frames per second with ray tracing enabled in Dolmen. Lucas Xavier, an Environment Artist from Massive Work, also talked briefly about the benefits of using XeSS in Dolmen....

June Wan, the Technology Editor of ZDNet, noticed that Apple increased the price of the iPad 10 to $449, which will make it difficult for some consumers to justify as they look to reduce their spending in an economy that is ravaging their finances. WIRED, too targets the iPad 10’s price, saying that it is difficult to justify a $120 price hike from the iPad 9, which features a starting price of $329....

Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra Lost to Apple’s iPhone 13 in Benchmarks But The Real World Performance Might Vary The iPhone 13 series is powered by the company’s A15 Bionic chipset while the Galaxy S22 Ultra features Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip. Both chipsets are quite capable in their respective ways but Geekbench 5 benchmarks lean towards Apple’s chip. The test was conducted by PCMag, revealing a multi-core score of 3,433 for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip and 4,647 for the A15 Bionic....

Due to Lockdown Situation in China, Apple’s iPhone 14 Max Might be Delayed by Three Weeks Yesterday’s report came from Nikkei Asia, citing that one out of four iPhone 14 models will not be released immediately. What this means is that the delayed iPhone 14 model might take a few more weeks to hit the market. Apple’s supply chains in China have taken a hit due to lockdowns. While the restrictions are easing, it might take a while before production resumes at its normal pace....

Alleged iPhone 14 Pro Display Schematics Reveal The True Size of the Pill-Shaped and Circular Cutout The image appeared on the Chinese social media website Weibo that aims to show the iPhone 14 Pro’s potential display schematics. The display schematic shows how big the pill-shaped and circular cutouts will be on the upcoming iPhone 14 Pro models. What this means is that the iPhone 14 models will ditch the notch in favor of the hole-punch display....

iPhone 14 Pro Max Beats Google Pixel 7 Pro and Galaxy S22 Ultra in New Battery Life Test - Video The battery life test is conducted by PhoneArena, comparing the iPhone 14 Pro models with the Google Pixel 7 series and the Galaxy S22 Ultra. The experiment involves a series of tests which includes a simulation to mimic typical web browsing. As can be seen in the video shared below. The iPhone 14 Pro Max and the iPhone 14 Pro took the first and second spots in the battery life test against Google’s latest offering and the Galaxy S22 Ultra....

Apple’s 16 Bionic Chip in iPhone 14 Pro to Feature Minor Upgrades Over iPhone 13’s A15 Bionic It was previously reported that Apple’s A16 Bionic chip will be manufactured using the same process as the A15 Bionic chip. ShrimpApplePro also suggested that a gigantic performance leap is expected for the M-series of chips. Now, Ming-Chi Kuo is corroborating the same rumors in a Twitter thread, suggesting that the A16 Bionic chip will only bring minor upgrades against the iPhone 13 Pro’s A15 Bionic chip....

That said, there was at least one juicy hint – at around the 4:40 mark in the new trailer, we see multiple shots of a mysterious forest, and if you look closely, you’ll catch what looks to be a “foot” of an Imperial walker in the background. Perhaps an AT-ST or even AT-AT (the former would be more of a fit for the leafy Endor-like environment). — xenosaga (@xenosaga7) April 10, 2022 Of course, Disney owns Star Wars now, so adding it to the Kingdom Hearts crossover craziness would make sense....

The new trailer, which can be watched below, provides a gameplay overview, highlighting the many improvements the developer added to the second entry in the series over the original. A Plague Tale: Requiem, the sequel to the critically acclaimed A Plague Tale: Innocence by Asobo Studio and Focus Entertainment, revealed a Gameplay Overview Trailer. The game will also be present at Gamescom from August 24–28, with a demo to play at the event on the same dates....

Acer & Intel Join Hands To Offer The Best Arc A770 Custom Graphics Cards, Meet Predator BiFrost With 16 GB VRAM & 280W TDP A few weeks back, Acer teased its Intel Arc A770 Predator BiFrost graphics card and now, the card has officially hit retail, at least in Taiwan. The Predator BiFrost variant is currently listed at the Acer Taiwan store for $12,900 NTD which equals $404 US. Considering that the Intel Arc A770 16 GB Limited Edition graphics card costs $349 US, Acer is charging a $55 US premium but we have to consider the Taiwanese taxes which should mean that the pricing is more realistically $25-$30 US higher than the reference model in which case, this is pretty good but it also ends up matching the RTX 3060 Ti and RX 6700 XT prices which are better in performance....

Apple to Launch New AirPods Pro 2 in the Second Half of 2022 With No Stem and an Upgraded Chip According to Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple will discontinue the first-gen AirPods Pro after launching the AirPods Pro 2. Originally, Apple announced the AirPods Pro in October of 2019 which makes them almost two and a half years old. The third-generation AirPods have lower demand compared to its previous model. Henceforth, Apple had to cut down orders by at least 30 percent....