HDMI 2.2 can carry uncompressed 4K video at up to 240Hz, something that currently requires Display Stream Compression (which as we've shown however, is not a big limitation). It can also reach 4K at 480Hz using 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, and handle uncompressed RGB 8K at 60Hz. Read Entire Article
A 35-year-old copyright rule could let Ultima’s creator make a new game EA can’t stop
Garriott says he has tried several times over the years to bring Ultima back with EA's help, but each effort stalled before anything concrete happened. "Every decade or so, I tried to work with EA on a revival of Ultima," Garriott told Inside Games' Brian Gaar. "They always seemed interested......
Cyberpunk’s disastrous launch still haunts CD Projekt Red, but hopes The Witcher 4 can win players back
The Cyberpunk 2077 story is a familiar one. Following the disastrous launch in 2020, CDPR released numerous patches, eventually giving us the game we were expecting. The brilliant Phantom Liberty expansion briefly pushed Cyberpunk 2077 to an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam, something unimaginable a few years earlier. Read Entire...
Scientists made espresso with sound instead of heat, and most drinkers couldn’t tell the difference
Developed by engineers and food scientists at UNSW Sydney, this new method is called "ultrasonic espresso" and replaces heat with mechanical energy. It runs at room temperature, using sound waves to pull flavor from finely ground coffee, and reaches espresso-level intensity in under three minutes despite the cold-water start. Read...
Yann LeCun says xAI is “kind of a failure” – and the whole AI industry might be headed for a reset
LeCun, who previously served as Meta's chief AI scientist, didn't mince words. "xAI is kind of a failure, frankly, because the founding team has" departed, he said, pointing to a steady stream of exits over the past year. Several co-founders have left the company since it launched, leaving open questions......
Windows 11 26H2 continues Microsoft’s shift to smaller and faster updates
This approach dates back to Windows 11 24H2, released in October 2024, which marked the last traditional feature update. Since then, Microsoft has kept new versions on the same underlying platform. In practice, 25H2 and now 26H2 mostly exist to extend support timelines rather than add new capabilities. Read Entire...
Nothing scraps next CMF phone after memory prices make it too expensive
Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis, the executive behind the CMF line, said the firm had been working on a successor to the CMF Phone 2 Pro, but current memory costs made the device impossible to release without undermining the point of the brand. Read Entire Article
A modder is finally bringing seamless co-op to Dark Souls II, over a decade later
A well-known FromSoftware modder named "Yui" is working on a new seamless co-op mode for Dark Souls II. The mod is planned for release on the Scholar of the First Sin edition, which includes all previously released DLC and several enhancements to the base game. In a recent post, Yui......
Scammers are selling fake RTX 4090 graphics cards with plastic GPU dies and missing memory
In a video posted on the Chinese social media platform Bilibili, well-known PC hardware dealer Brother Zhang claimed that he was recently scammed into buying a counterfeit second-hand RTX 4090 for 1,500 yuan (around $221). According to Zhang, the card appeared to be a normal RTX 4090 at first glance,......
Palworld’s studio won’t use generative AI because “gamers don’t want it”
The debate around AI-generated assets in games is heating up, and Pocketpair has already taken a clear stance. The Japanese studio, best known for Palworld, says it is not using generative AI in its games, arguing that potential customers are rejecting "fake" assets and other AI-generated content. Read Entire Article