Xiaomi announces Civi 4 Pro smartphone in China
First one to get Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC
Xiaomi announced the new Civi 4 Pro smartphone in China. The new Civi series phone comes with some rather unique features and it is actually the first smartphone based on Qualcomm's recently announced Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC.
Qualcomm officially announces Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 SoC
With Cortex-X4 Prime core and on-device AI
Qualcomm has announced its latest mid-range chipset, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, giving it a single Cortex-X4 Prime core and adding on-device AI capabilities, pushing it much closer to the flagship Snapdragon 8 series SoCs.
One for Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Outpost: Infinity Siege
AMD has released its latest AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 driver which adds support for Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Outpost: Infinity Siege, new HYPR-Tune support for a couple of games, and fixes several issues seen with earlier driver releases.
More games announced and more get RTX enhancements
Nvidia has announced that Dragon's Dogma 2 and Alone in the Dark are coming to Geforce NOW this week. Previously, Nvidia announced several new big titles that will be coming to Geforce NOW and launching with Nvidia RTX enhancements.
Intel releases ARC 101.5379 Beta driver
Optimizations for a couple of new games and performance improvements
Intel has released the latest version of its Arc GPU driver, the 101.5379 Beta, which brings Game On support for a couple of new games including Diablo IV Ray Tracing Update, Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and The Legend of the Condor Heroes, as well as performance improvements across Intel Arc A-series graphics products and Intel Core Ultra with Intel Arc GPUs.
Warning about AI's "irrational exuberance"
Are we heading for a tech bubble burst?
Cloud Native Computing Foundation boss Priyanka Sharma told the gathered throngs at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe that AI is in a phase of "irrational exuberance" and people are getting too excited too soon.
Ubisoft teams up with Nvidia
Aims for more interesting NPCs
Ubisoft's Paris R&D centre is working with Nvida to explore the possibilities of generative AI within gaming.
Employment crisis in tech industry
So much for the skills gap
Since the current year's commencement, over 50,000 employees have been dismissed from upwards of 200 technology firms, as reported by the tracking website Layoffs. fyi.
EU prepares for a showdown with Apple and Meta
The Good, the bad and the ugly
EU's competition watchdog, Margrethe Vestager, has issued a stark warning to tech titans Apple and Meta regarding their latest fee structures, suggesting they could stifle the consumer freedoms promised by the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
MacOS Sonoma 14.4 update wipes file histories
It is not as if you needed those files right?
In a classic Jobs’ Mob programming gaffe, the latest macOS Sonoma 14.4 update has unleashed a bug that's wreaking havoc on iCloud Drive's versioning system.