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iOS 16 to Come With a Major Redesign and Improvements to Notifications and Health Tracking In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggested that iOS 16 will come with a major redesign. In addition, iOS 16 will also add significant improvements to the notifications screen and health-tracking features. As mentioned earlier, Apple will announce iOS 16 at its WWDC event in June. The event invites have already been sent out for a digital gathering....

Face ID Stopped Working For Some Users After Updating to iOS 16 At this point, the number of users affected by the issue is unclear. However, a Reddit thread that started two months ago shows a growing number of users who have reported that Face ID on their iPhone stopped working after updating to iOS 16. The original poster of the thread shares the error message that reads, “Face ID is not available, try setting up Face ID later....

Halide Believes That the Issue Is Being Caused by a Broken Image Shift Stabilization Module Responding to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who mentioned that Apple was working to issue a fix to address the fault, the pro-camera app developer for the iPhone and iPad, Halide, replied that a broken image shift stabilization module was causing the problem. Halide’s response is after watching a YouTube video published by content creator Luke Miani below, who also experienced the same vibration issues as several others when using third-party apps....

iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max Improve Without the Notch as the Pill-Shaped Cutout Now Shows Alerts and Other Notifications Not only do users get more screen real estate with the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro by the removal of the notch, the new pill-shaped cutout now displays essential information such as notifications. Apple is calling this change ‘Dynamic Island’ and it can also show AirPods notifications, Face ID alerts, and other useful text....

Less Expensive iPhone 15 Models to Feature the A16 Bionic, According to Fresh Rumor The A17 Bionic will likely be mass produced on TSMC’s 3nm architecture, though it is not confirmed which variant will be used. Given Apple’s history of requiring massive chip shipments, TSMC will likely supply the very best it has in its possession. Unfortunately, these chips are not going to come cheap, so to make its products financially viable, Apple will likely only incorporate the high-end parts in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, according to Weibo user Mobile phone chip expert....

Going by the launch timeline, the iPhone 15 will likely feature Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon X70 baseband chips The latest report from DigiTimes that was spotted by MacRumors states that TSMC will develop chips used for the upcoming Snapdragon 5G modem. According to an earlier teardown of the iPhone 14 Pro, the flagship featured a Snapdragon X65 modem, which only means that the iPhone 15 series will be treated to the Snapdragon X70 in 2023....

Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) is currently in a genuine gamma squeeze, bolstered by a relatively benign macroeconomic investor sentiment and copious fuel in the form of sky-high short interest that is now being exploited through large-scale, short-dated call buying activity. Before going further, it is pertinent to understand what is a gamma squeeze. When investors purchase a large amount of short-dated call options, dealers – who have to take the opposite side of these trades – hedge their resulting short exposure by buying the underlying stock....

Kent, Washington based aerospace firm Blue Origin has released a new video showcasing its BE-4 rocket engine. The BE-4 is one of the most powerful rocket engines in America right now, and soon it will be the most powerful rocket engine in the U.S. after Aerojet Rocketdyne’s beast liquid hydrogen engine, the RS-68, is potentially retired in 2024. The BE-4 will currently power two rockets. One will be Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, and the other will be the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan rocket with the Centaur upper stage....

Accointing lets you track, manage and report all your cryptocurrency transactions in one place and easily file your taxes. With over 300 integrations, you can access them using the mobile app or on your desktop. Use them to import all of your crypto transactions and automatically calculate your wins and losses. Accointing has an efficient dashboard and crypto tracker, both on mobile and desktop. Analyze your performance and deep dive on your transactions in real-time with an amazing user experience....

Intel’s Xeon Platinum continues to lack in performance & efficiency benchmarks on Linux compared to AMD’s 4th Gen EPYC Genoa CPUs AMD graciously sent the EPYC 9374F processor to Larabel to run through the same benchmarks. Not only did he test the high-performance EPYC processor, but tested the performance against the two last-gen chips and two Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake CPUs, which offer 40 cores each. During his tests, the power consumption was much less than any of the processors previously tested by the Linux expert....

A16 Bionic Nearly Breaks Past the 5,500 Multi-Core Score Barrier, With No Competitor in Sight The updated scores were shared by ShrimpApplePro, though we think he made a mistake in his tweet as he has written ‘14 Plus VS iPhone 13 Pro Max’, and since both phones share the same chipset, which is the A15 Bionic, their single-core and multi-core scores would have been similar, but that is not the case here....

As reported by Twitter user Zalman, Danish retailer Coolshop, who correctly revealed the Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition release date before an official announcement had been made, recently changed the game’s release date to February 24th, 2023. While the exact date is weird, as it would be exactly one year after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, it now seems more likely that the game will slip into 2023, also considering how packed the Nintendo release schedule is for the coming months....

The update will include two new civilizations that will be available for free: The Ottomans and the Malians. Players will be able to lead the mighty Malians of West Africa as one of the wealthiest trading nations of all time as you focus on strong economic prowess in mining and investing in gold. Here’s a look at the upcoming civilizations in Age of Empires IV: Alternatively, they can assemble one of the longest-lasting empires in history with the Ottoman civilization and its well-trained military force, which features the largest gunpowder siege weapon available – the Great Bombard....

Apple’s Latest AirPods Pro 2 Teardown Shows Internals, Repairability, and Much More iFixit’s latest teardown of the AirPods Pro 2 offers a look at the internals of the earbuds as well as the charging case. The teardown confirms that the AirPods Pro remains unrepairable and damages the case when trying to access the internal components. Since the case breaks if you try to open it up, battery replacements are impossible for the most part....

AMD AM4 Platform continues to be supported by the company with the promise of updates & confirmed new motherboard designs AMD AM4 currently supports five architectures, four process nodes, and 125 processor items. Dr. Lisa Su and the company affirmed that motherboard fellows for AMD have constructed another 500 new board designs that will be compatible with the previous generation. What will come of the AM4 technology when AM5 is on the horizon?...

AMD creates a new CPU Design Center in New York to assist with hiring CPU developers and GPU design teams Mike Evans of AMD posted a screenshot to give the public and potential hires a general idea of the positions available on the AMD website. The entries for AMD’s CPU section seek to employ several verification engineers, a CPU core performance architect, and a senior Infinity Fabric verification engineer. Given the diversity and nature of those positions, we might be looking at establishing another R&D site ready to expand and extend into the future....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 & AMD Radeon RX 6000 Graphics Cards Prices Continue To Improve & Several GPUs Available Below MSRP In the latest report by 3DCenter, we can see that the GPU prices for both NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards continue to fall which shouldn’t be a surprise as that’s the trend we have witnessed since the end of 2021. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series prices now average at around 6% over MSRP while AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series averages with a selling price of 2% over MSRP....

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6650 XT Graphics Cards Gaming, Raytracing, RSR Benchmarks & Price Positioning Confirmed In the previous two leaks, we have covered the official specifications and the official synthetic tests for all three cards. Now our final post will give a rundown on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT & RX 6650 XT gaming performance which includes results at various resolutions for each tier....

Intel’s Raptor Lake Core i7-13700K & Core i5-13600K CPUs Disappoint In Leaked Gaming Benchmarks, Lose To AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X The latest benchmarks of Intel’s Raptor Lake Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K CPUs come from Bilibili’s content creator, Extreme Player. The leaker has already shown us benchmarks of the retail Raptor Lake CPUs including the Core i9-13900K, Core i7-13700K, and Core i5-13600K. For these latest benchmarks, Extreme Player put the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X to the test against Intel’s current 12th Gen and upcoming 13th Gen CPUs....

AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ Desktop CPUs Allegedly Have A Maximum Boost Frequency ‘Fmax’ of 5.85 GHz Earlier this week, AMD corrected and confirmed a few more details regarding its Ryzen 7000 CPU lineup, codenamed Raphael. The company confirmed that the TDP of its top Ryzen 7000 CPUs will indeed be 170W and the maximum package power of the AM5 (LGA 1718) socket will be rated at 230W. The company also confirmed that the gaming demo showcased during Computex 2022 was of a 16-core prototype that was running at 5....