The latter is said to be working on an augmented reality headset codenamed Project Iris. Should all go according to plan, it’ll ship sometime in 2024, say two unnamed sources as reported by The Verge. Sources told the publication the device, in development at a facility in the San Francisco bay area, looks like a pair of skiing goggles and will utilize outward-facing cameras. It’ll be powered by a custom Google processor and runs Android - at least, at this early stage of development....

When it isn’t busy making sleek laptops for gamers, Razer can come up with a laptop fine-tuned for enterprises that develop deep-learning applications for various fields such as medical research, manufacturing, and natural language processing. To that end, it has partnered with Lambda, a company with experience in deep learning hardware infrastructure and the most widely used ML software frameworks. For people who work in this area of expertise, a Linux workstation is a handy tool as most of these applications end up being deployed on Linux production servers....

All R9 280X cards allowed for a total system power consumption of between 50 and 53 watts at idle. The MSI R9 280X Gaming and HIS R9 280X iPower IceQ X² Turbo consumed roughly the same amount of power as a standard R9 280X at 2560x1600 in BioShock Infinite while the Asus R9 280X DirectCU II TOP and Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X OC R9 280X were around 6% more power hungry using up to 266 watts....

Mash (via VideoCardz) writes that the heist was carried out by two employees working at a warehouse owned by Russia’s largest online retailer, Wildberries. The video, complete with pounding Beastie Boys soundtrack, shows the two men wheeling unmarked cardboard boxes around the facility and leaving them hidden in a stairwell; it seems they stole the goods from a safe after pretending to collect an online order. We then see the men removing Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards from the boxes, taking the GPUs upstairs, and dropping them out of the window to a third person—there are conflicting reports over whether they also worked for the company—who was waiting below....

Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor said the Tagansky District Court handed down the fine as Google repeatedly failed to restrict access to banned content, with YouTube singled out as a prime offender. It said the video platform had not deleted “fakes about the course of the special military operation in Ukraine, discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation,” writes Reuters. Even before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia and Google regularly clashed over issues ranging from where the company stored its data to not removing certain websites from search results....

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War, many companies have suspended operations in Russia as a way to comply with trade restrictions and economic sanctions imposed on the country for beginning this war. Social media platforms have blocked the accounts of Russian state media, Apple has paused product sales at retail stores, and game publishers and streaming companies have closed off access to their services to Russian citizens, just to name a few....

One of our biggest concerns for this big benchmark was how we were going to configure each CPU. Normally we’d just test both using low latency dual rank DDR4-3200 CL14 memory, for an apples-to-apples comparison. But we weren’t convinced that’d make the most sense for these two CPUs, given AMD and Intel are pitching them as the ultimate gaming processors. As a gamer, you would only buy the Core i9-12900K because you want the best of the best, at least from Intel....

In my experience, Samsung’s earlier Galaxy S II models performed more smoothly and the global version of the Galaxy Note (sans LTE) is also a speedy performer. This leads me to believe that the software on this particular Note for AT&T is not fully optimized to take advantage of the hardware underneath. Samsung and AT&T have promised an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Galaxy Note, which will hopefully address the user interface lag that I have experienced with the device....

Samsung Display showed off the new prototype, called Flex In & Out, to The Verge. The big difference between this model and the current Galaxy Z Fold series is that it can rotate a full 360 degrees, allowing the screen to fold both inwards and outwards. According to Samsung Display’s Korean newsroom, the functionality maximizes “user convenience,” and the aspect ratio can be changed depending on the phone’s use. Additionally, the display comes with a water-drop hinge design....

The Samsung SM951 is the first SSD we have tested since looking at the Plextor M6e that can complete the Red Orchestra 2 game installation in 88 seconds, 1 second faster than the SSD 750 Series. The SM951 fell behind the Plextor M6e in our virus scan test at 34 seconds, though this meant that it was 4 seconds faster than the SSD 750 Series.

For the most part, the 960 Evo managed to match the 950 Pro, and in areas where the 950 used to show weakness, the 960 Evo shined. Not only that, but the 960 Evo doesn’t appear to suffer from throttling under heavy load, and of course, it comes at a lower MSRP. The 960 Evo series is slower than the 960 Pro as expected, but not alarmingly so, while its lower price makes up for the difference....

When it comes to gaming performance, the Ryzen 3 CPUs look as though they will provide decent performance for mid-range GPUs as they maintained well over 60fps at all times in our Battlefield 1 benchmark. Performance was comparable to the Core i3-7350K in this title, though it was a good bit slower than the Core i5-7500. Much the same is seen when testing with Mafia III, where the Ryzen 3 1200 and 1300X struggle against the Core i3-7350K though they are clearly faster than the G4560....

In March, Sony outlined its upcoming PlayStation Plus tiers and prices but left a lot of blanks, promising more details to come. On Monday, it fulfilled its promise with an announcement listing dozens of games from every PlayStation system (except the PlayStation Vita) available on day one. The new tiers arrive on May 24 in Asia, June 2 in Japan, June 13 in the Americas, and June 23 in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand....

On Tuesday, at the Gamescom Opening Night Live press conference, Sony unveiled the DualSense Edge controller — a new PlayStation 5 controller to answer Microsoft’s Xbox Elite controller. The Edge’s feature list promises a similar high-end experience, offering more customization options than a standard controller. Microsoft released the Xbox One Elite controller in 2015. The premium-priced controller allows players to tune its feel and behavior with several new functions. Users can use a companion app to reassign buttons, adjust stick sensitivity, and customize trigger behavior....

Technically-speaking we’re looking at a 5.2-inch IPS TFT LCD panel with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, resulting in a pixel density of 424 PPI. Sony brands the panel itself as “Triluminous”, which appears to refer to the display’s wide color gamut, and “Live Color LED” apparently describes a new LED backlight technology. Oh, and there’s also the “X-Reality Engine” to top it all off. By choosing IPS Sony solved one of the major issues with the Xperia Z and Z1’s displays: viewing angles....

One of the main things Sony promises to achieve with the Xperia Z5’s camera is ultra-fast focusing, with the company claiming its hybrid autofocusing system can achieve focus in just 30ms. This is a pretty impressive feat for a camera without a dedicated autofocusing system (like LG’s laser-assisted system in the G4), but is it this fast in practice? In short: not really. Throughout my time with the Xperia Z5, the camera was pretty fast at focusing on subjects near and far, but it didn’t feel any faster than the G4, Galaxy S6 or iPhone 6s, even in side-by-side comparisons....

This app has too many animations which drains battery, so I don’t use it. Using Wi-Fi drains battery life, so I just rely on 3G. Bluetooth drains a lot of battery life so I turn it off, even though I wear a Fitbit everyday. I just turn it on once a day at home to sync. I don’t download apps because I’m afraid they will kill my battery. The first is clearly ridiculous, yet came from an intelligent person....

This week, an anonymous source told Czech gaming website Vortex that members of Stalker 2 developer GSC Game World went to Prague to apply for a business license. The studio is currently based in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, which has been under constant attack since Russia invaded the country. The initial reports came from Retro Nation’s Pavel Dobrovsky and others involved with the Czech gaming industry. Pavel Barák of the Czech Game Developers Association said the group entered negotiations with GSC after it considered fleeing Ukraine for a neighboring country....

Also read: Star Wars Battlefront: Graphics & CPU Benchmarks Star Wars: Battlefront is a large-scale multiplayer shooter loosely set during the original movie trilogy. You can fight as Rebels against Imperial walkers on Hoth. You can try to defeat Rebels on Endor with your fellow Stormtroopers. You can fight as Princess Leia against Boba Fett on Tatooine. It is, for the most part, a multiplayer first-person shooter with the sights and sounds of George Lucas originals....

Other interfaces have challenged USB 2.0 over the years but none have been successful in dethroning it. IEEE FireWire was developed by Apple in 1995 and has seen several revisions, ultimately making it faster than USB 2.0. But outside of the high-end audio/video segment, FireWire has garnered little mainstream support. A similar fate can be expected for eSATA, a promising variation of the internal SATA connection that was introduced in 2004....