On Tuesday, prominent Fortnite leaker Hypex posted a screenshot of the game in a first-person view. Currently, the massively-popular multiplayer shooter only has a third-person perspective. The only information available so far is that it is in early development, so it likely won’t appear for a while. Hypex suggests it could be a good fit for the popular non-building mode Fortnite introduced in March. Combining the two would make Epic’s battle royale more like its most successful peers — PUBG and Call of Duty: Warzone....

This week Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney confirmed that Fortnite won’t support the Steam Deck. While responding to questions on Twitter, Sweeney said Epic isn’t confident in the current level of compatibility between its anti-cheat solution and the Steam Deck. Simply running the game on the device isn’t the problem. The Steam Deck uses the Linux-based Steam OS, while Fortnite runs on Windows (it used to have a Mac version)....

The Radeon RX 6800 looks to be well stocked these days and can be snapped up for just below the MSRP (currently fetching around $550). Same goes for the RTX 3070 Ti which is readily available at the moment, starting at $615. The RX 6800 wasn’t a particularly popular product, though that was in large part due to availability issues which saw AMD focus on the 6800 XT and 6900 XT during the past few years of the crypto boom....

The GeForce GTX 1080 hit retail shelves on May 27th, and, unsurprisingly, sold out in short order. Now, as I write this two weeks later, major online retailers such as Newegg list over half a dozen GTX 1080 models, most of which are still sold out. Among the sold out graphics cards you will find the new Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming. It’s a triple fan cooled 1080 that also boasts a redesigned PCB....

The first Ultrabook specification was based on the Huron River platform using the Sandy Bridge architecture. This specification required a minimum battery life of 5 hours, a resume from hibernation time of 7 seconds, and the laptop’s body could be no more than 18mm thick for 13.3" models and 21mm thick for 14" models. The use of solid-state drives and unibody chassis were also encouraged (but not part of the specification) to help meet these criteria....

The headline on this article uses the Roboto sans-serif font, which we use extensively across TechSpot, and is part of the Roboto family, downloadable from Google Fonts. That family now has a serif version that its designers say should be more readable on various screens and even in print. Typeface designer Greg Gazdowicz and his team at Commercial Type describe Roboto Serif as a minimalist design that doesn’t scream that it’s a serif font....

The GBoard stick version keyboard is, of course, more of a jokey project than a real product the company is launching—Google Japan has added all the technical specifications to a Github page so anyone with access to a 3D printer can build one themselves. The associated video explains that after years of focusing on the ‘key’ part of keyboard, Google Japan wanted to look at what is “next to the key,” which in Japanese translates to staff or bar....

On Thursday, a food delivery drone in Australia struck an 11,000-volt power line, caught fire, and cut power to around 2,000 homes and businesses in the area. The drone belonged to Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Local utility company Energex said that power was only interrupted for about 45 minutes because workers did not have to remove the drone from the lines. “We didn’t actually have to get the drone off, as such, it actually caught fire and incinerated itself,” Energex spokesman Danny Donald told The Age....

But with new GPU launches, like the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti which launched this month, we get a good opportunity to revisit prices, see how those new products are slotting in the overall market, and look at demand. So let’s start there, with the RTX 4070 Ti, a product that’s received lukewarm feedback from reviewers and prospective buyers for the most part. This stems from the fact that the 4070 Ti increased in price substantially compared to the RTX 3070 Ti....

Turning on the advanced graphics features sees the GTX 980 suffer an 18% performance loss while the R9 290X was 24% slower dropping down to 45fps. The R9 295X2 was still good for 59fps, though the GTX Titan X was faster at 64fps. At 4K the GTX 980 and R9 290X are virtually wiped out, managing around 30fps. The GTX Titan X saw a 38% loss when going from 2560x1600 to 3840x2160, while the R9 295X2 and GTX 980 SLI cards dropped less than 30% of their performance at 2560x1600....

It’s not exactly the best time to go hunting for the best new or used graphics cards, but things appear to be slowly improving. Prices are nowhere close to MSRP, but they are the lowest we’ve seen in a year. Availability has also improved, mainly due to a decrease in cryptocurrency mining profitability. Another potential reason for this positive development is that the supply chain is gradually recovering from the pandemic-induced factory shutdowns, the energy crunch in China, and a shortage of chips and other components caused by a combination of unrelenting demand and manufacturers building stockpiles for future use....

When testing the maximum stable overclocks in Battlefield Bad Company 2, we found the HD 6870 IceQ X Turbo X was 6% faster. The HD 6850 IceQ X Turbo has more ample gain room as it received a 14% performance increase versus the factory overclock. The HD 6870 IceQ X Turbo X was just 2% faster in Crysis Warhead once we overclocked further, while the HD 6850 IceQ X Turbo was 14% faster....

Graphics results aren’t surprising. Again we’re looking at a 30 percent improvement over Core M, but we’re still firmly within the zone of integrated graphics performance. At 1080p, this laptop is suited to playing basic games, but if you want to play anything more serious (like Tomb Raider), expect to play at low quality levels. Newer and more graphically intensive titles will be essentially unplayable. In the 256 GB model I received to review was a Samsung NVMe PCIe MZVLV256 solid state drive....

While you can get Spectre x360 models with both Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs inside, my review unit was loaded with the Core i7-8550U, a highly popular CPU in modern ultraportables, and 16GB of RAM. Its four cores have a base clock of 1.8 GHz and boost between 3.7 and 4.0 GHz depending on how many cores are utilized. Like previous 7th gen parts, it’s a 15W CPU built on a 14nm process....

Bill Gates unveiled the first HP TouchSmart at CES in 2007 and we’ve seen a number of updates throughout the years since. The latest rendition sports some serious hardware and a slightly revised design but had it not been for some corporate restructuring at HP, the unit likely would never have seen the light of day; but I digress. HP supplied us with their TouchSmart model 520-1070 which they described as the star of their current all-in-one lineup that features a lighter, thinner design and an upgraded version of HP’s Magic Canvas software....

On the other hand, I’ve never been impressed with HTC’s mid-range offerings. Phones in the $300 to $400 bracket need compelling hardware or software to stand out, particularly against older flagships that so often occupy these price points. I’ve rarely seen a phone from HTC – or any other manufacturer for that matter – that meets this criteria. The One X9 is a classic example of a mid-range handset. It has marginally better hardware than budget offerings - a 5....

Typing messages and emails on the HTC Sensation’s on-screen QWERTY keyboard was mostly very quick and easy, thanks to the large display. However, I still had plenty of instances where I hit the wrong letter, and plenty of other instances where the text prediction system turned a correct word into an incorrect one. Overall, text entry wasn’t a hassle on the Sensation and didn’t cause me much grief. If a larger keyboard is required the handset can be turned to landscape mode for an even larger QWERTY keyboard, or users can opt to use the T9 trace system, which is switched off by default....

The Titan is HTC’s latest range-topping Windows Phone 7 handset. It certainly lives up to its name, being titanic in size and sporting a huge 4.7-inch display. Couple this with a 1.5GHz processor, an 8 megapixel camera, and the latest version of Windows Phone (7.5 “Mango”) and you’ve got yourself a recipe for one heck of a handset. Not only is the Titan’s display the largest that HTC has put on a phone, but it’s also the largest display you’ll find on any Windows Phone 7 handset....

GPU performance is strange here, as it seems HTC is deliberately downclocking the GPU to conserve power. The Google Pixel XL, which uses the same SoC and the same Adreno 530 GPU, achieves 19 percent more performance on average. This margin can jump to as high as 35 percent in some situations, such as in GFXBench’s off-screen performance tests. Similar margins were seen when comparing the U Ultra to other Snapdragon 821 devices....