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Razer’s concept gaming chair will heat your butt up before cooling it down
<p>Razer is always a source for good, weird fun during CES week. The gaming peripheral giant kicked off CES 2025 with a handful of Monday morning announcements, including a new take on its mesh chair. Built around the company’s well-received Razer Fujin Pro, Project Arielle adds heating and cooling to the mix. As the chair’s […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 71 min read


Acer’s new gaming handheld is ridiculously large
<p>Acer unveiled two new gaming handhelds at CES 2025. The company clearly believes that bigger always means better, as it is pushing the physical limits of gaming handhelds with an enormous 10.95-inch display. Named the Nitro Blaze 11, the device comes with an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS processor — a CPU originally designed for laptops […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 72 min read


Acer’s new gaming handheld is ridiculously large
<p>Acer unveiled two new gaming handhelds at CES 2025. The company clearly believes that bigger always means better, as it is pushing the physical limits of gaming handhelds with an enormous 10.95-inch display. Named the Nitro Blaze 11, the device comes with an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS processor — a CPU originally designed for laptops […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 72 min read


Nvidia unveils $2,000 RTX 5090 GPU
<p>As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs. The centerpiece of the line is the RTX 5090. The card bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor but now sports 92 billion transistors, 4,000 AT TOPS, 380 ray-tracing TFLOPS, and 1.8 TB/s bandwidth. The 5090 […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 72 min read


Nvidia unveils $2,000 RTX 5090 GPU
<p>As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs. The centerpiece of the line is the RTX 5090. The card bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor but now sports 92 billion transistors, 4,000 AT TOPS, 380 ray-tracing TFLOPS, and 1.8 TB/s bandwidth. The 5090 […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 72 min read


AMD unveils new chips for laptops, desktops, and gaming handhelds at CES 2025
<p>At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, AMD unveiled a slew of new chips destined for devices ranging from desktops to gaming handhelds. AMD is riding high coming into this year’s CES. The company commanded a 28.7% share of the desktop CPU segment in Q3 2024, up 9.6 percentage points compared to the same quarter the […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 64 min read


AMD unveils new chips for laptops, desktops, and gaming handhelds at CES 2025
<p>At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, AMD unveiled a slew of new chips destined for devices ranging from desktops to gaming handhelds. AMD is riding high coming into this year’s CES. The company commanded a 28.7% share of the desktop CPU segment in Q3 2024, up 9.6 percentage points compared to the same quarter the […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 64 min read
People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
<p>CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where users type the characters they see in a box amid other squiggles); image recognition (you’re selecting, say, all the squares in a grid with a bicycle image); and checkbox […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 11 min read
People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
<p>CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where users type the characters they see in a box amid other squiggles); image recognition (you’re selecting, say, all the squares in a grid with a bicycle image); and checkbox […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Jan 11 min read
TuSimple pivot from self-driving to AI animation is complete with CreateAI rebrand
<p>TuSimple has completed its pivot away from autonomous trucking to AI animation and gaming with a rebrand. The company shall henceforth be known as CreateAI. The rebrand comes as TuSimple is embroiled in controversy over the company’s plans to move its remaining U.S. assets to China to fund the new business, which it initially announced […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 19, 20243 min read
Decart nabs $32M at $500M+ valuation to build AI tech and ‘open world’ apps
<p>A young startup that emerged from stealth less than two months ago with big-name backers and bigger ambitions is returning to the spotlight. Decart is building what its CEO and co-founder Dean Leitersdorf (pictured above, right) describes as “a fully vertically integrated AI research lab,” alongside enterprise and consumer products based on the lab’s work. […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 19, 20245 min read
Decart nabs $32M at $500M+ valuation to build AI tech and ‘open world’ apps
<p>A young startup that emerged from stealth less than two months ago with big-name backers and bigger ambitions is returning to the spotlight. Decart is building what its CEO and co-founder Dean Leitersdorf (pictured above, right) describes as “a fully vertically integrated AI research lab,” alongside enterprise and consumer products based on the lab’s work. […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 19, 20245 min read
Agave, the startup behind Find the Cat, finds $18M
<p>A startup out of Turkey that has built a hit casual mobile game where you have to find cats in Where’s Wally-style drawings of increasing complexity has now found something else: $18 million in funding. Agave Games, the creator of Find the Cat, will be using the Series A to build out its team and […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 17, 20244 min read
Epic Games to preinstall its game store on ‘millions’ of devices with new Telefónica deal
<p>Epic Games is partnering with Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunication providers in the world, to preinstall the Epic Games Store on all new compatible Android devices on its network. Telefónica services Spain, the U.K., Germany, and Latin America. The company says the partnership will bring the Epic Games Store to “millions” of phones, marking […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 12, 20242 min read
Epic Games to preinstall its game store on ‘millions’ of devices with new Telefónica deal
<p>Epic Games is partnering with Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunication providers in the world, to preinstall the Epic Games Store on all new compatible Android devices on its network. Telefónica services Spain, the U.K., Germany, and Latin America. The company says the partnership will bring the Epic Games Store to “millions” of phones, marking […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 12, 20242 min read


Realize Music’s ‘Sing’ wants you to sing out loud by yourself in VR because it just feels good
<p>Aimed at maintaining well-being, Sing is a VR app that you can sing out loud with when you’re home alone. </p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 12, 20244 min read


Realize Music’s ‘Sing’ wants you to sing out loud by yourself in VR because it just feels good
<p>Aimed at maintaining well-being, Sing is a VR app that you can sing out loud with when you’re home alone. </p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 12, 20244 min read
YouTube is testing multiplayer mini-games
<p>YouTube is experimenting with multiplayer mini-games under its collection of lightweight, free games dubbed “Playables.” Currently, Ludo Club and Magic Tiles 3 support multiplayer mode. “We’re beginning to test a new multiplayer feature for a few select games on YouTube Playables. Multiplayer on Playables lets you play games in real-time with other users,” the company […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 10, 20241 min read
YouTube is testing multiplayer mini-games
<p>YouTube is experimenting with multiplayer mini-games under its collection of lightweight, free games dubbed “Playables.” Currently, Ludo Club and Magic Tiles 3 support multiplayer mode. “We’re beginning to test a new multiplayer feature for a few select games on YouTube Playables. Multiplayer on Playables lets you play games in real-time with other users,” the company […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 10, 20241 min read
$72M distributed to Fortnite customers FTC says were tricked into making unwanted purchases
<p>The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced that it’s sending the first round of payments to consumers tricked by Fortnite maker Epic Games into making unwanted purchases, with refunds totaling over $72 million. The settlement, first announced in December 2022 and finalized in March 2023, fined the game $245 million for its “counterintuitive, inconsistent, […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Dec 9, 20242 min read
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