Orders are now open for Meta Glasses, a new lineup launched in partnership with EssilorLuxottica and sold under Meta's own name for the first time. The AI-powered wearables carry over the core features from the earlier Ray-Ban and Oakley models but start at $299, undercutting the entry-level Ray-Ban Meta by...
Valve is working with Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to make SteamOS run on any PC hardware
SteamOS has spent most of its life as a closed ecosystem, optimized almost exclusively for Valve's own devices. That's beginning to change. The company recently updated its Arch Linux-based OS to broaden hardware compatibility, and the move is backed by active collaboration with some of the biggest names in the......
Microsoft is selling new 8GB Surface laptops that don’t qualify as Copilot+ PCs
The 8GB Surface Pro starts at $849, while the new Surface Laptop variant is priced at $949. Both are powered by the original Snapdragon X Plus SoC, include 256GB of storage, and are otherwise identical to the first-generation 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop. They are available now on......
MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ sets a new performance bar with a very expensive handheld
Early reviews praise the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ for pushing handheld performance, with Intel's Arc G3 Extreme outperforming current AMD rivals in many tests. However, at $1,800 and lack no OLED display, it's a very tough sell. Read Entire Article
LG claims its OLED panels deliver perfect color and brightness accuracy
LG Display recently announced that its OLED panels can accurately reproduce colors and brightness levels as content creators intended. The Korean manufacturer is the first company to pass a new Intertek certification program, and says it will use the achievement to better communicate the benefits of its display technology to......
Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off
The Wall Street Journal reports that Polymarket paid at least 10 influencers over the past several months to post videos in which they pretended to win hundreds of thousands on fake wagers. The Dow Jones, which publishes the Journal, currently has a data partnership with Polymarket. Read Entire Article
Valve confirms FSR 4 for Steam Machine, AMD releases FSR 4.1 for RDNA 3 GPUs
Screenshots posted on X by YouTuber and XR analyst Brad Lynch appear to show that Valve is already testing support for FSR 4.1 upscaling in the Proton Experimental build for SteamOS. According to a SteamDB entry dated June 22, AMD has added FSR 4.1.1 INT8 DLL files to Steam, suggesting......
The founder of Eidos-Montréal says the game industry has been taken over by spreadsheets and lost its soul
D'Astous in a recent interview said that game development has changed significantly. The modern gaming business somewhat resembles the cyberpunk setting depicted in the Deus Ex series, with a handful of mega-corporations pulling the strings and controlling most of the industry's money. Unfortunately, C-suites are no longer interested in creativity....
Valve’s Steam Machine is here: starts at $1,049 for 512GB or $1,349 for the 2TB version
Under the hood, the Steam Machine packs a semi-custom AMD platform: a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 CPU clocked up to 4.86GHz, an RDNA 3 GPU with 28 compute units and 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM running at up to 2.45GHz within a 110W envelope, 16GB of DDR5 system RAM, and either......
Anthropic’s Mythos AI reportedly cracked NSA classified systems in hours, that would explain the ban
"Not in weeks, but in hours" Read Entire Article