Take-Two Buys Borderlands Dev Gearbox For $460M, New Game Incoming

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [View this email in your browser]( [Take-Two Buys Borderlands Dev Gearbox For $460M, New Game Incoming]( By Alan Velasco on Mar 29, 2024 12:52 pm [Take-Two Buys Borderlands Dev Gearbox For $460M, New Game Incoming]( The Embracer group continues to shed development studios, this time selling Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two Interactive. Embracer Group originally acquired Gearbox Entertainment for $363 million with the possibility of the purchase being worth as much as $1.015 billion if Gearbox hit certain milestones. The current deal is valued at $460 [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Finally! Google, Not Apple, Reveals RCS Messaging For iPhone Is Coming Soon]( By Tim Sweezy on Mar 29, 2024 11:43 am [Finally! Google, Not Apple, Reveals RCS Messaging For iPhone Is Coming Soon]( The long-awaited announcement of when RCS messaging would become available on Apple’s iOS platform has come from an unexpected source, none other than Google. Until Google’s surprise and short-lived announcement, Apple had only remarked about the arrival as being “later next year,” following its announcement of RCS in November 2023. While [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Forget The Hops, AI Bots Could Brew Your Next Favorite Beer]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 29, 2024 10:43 am [Forget The Hops, AI Bots Could Brew Your Next Favorite Beer]( Conversing with an AI-powered chatbot or trying to beat it at chess can be fun and all, but researchers, scientists, and engineers have much bigger aspirations for artificial intelligence. You know, like brewing the perfect beer, as it turns out. Before anyone scoffs, brewing beer is serious business, and also a good challenge for AI training. Humans [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [China's RTX 4090D Secret: Overclockable to Match Banned RTX 4090 Performance]( By Thiago Trevisan on Mar 29, 2024 10:36 am [China's RTX 4090D Secret: Overclockable to Match Banned RTX 4090 Performance]( The stratospheric rise of NVIDIA in the data center and AI market has had some significant collateral side effects on the gaming market. It's not only in gaming products utilizing AI such as DLSS 3, but also in the availability of some of its GPUs. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090D, released in China to circumvent some of the bans that took place, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Japan SLIM Moon Lander Defies Odds And Survives Second Brutal Lunar Night]( By Tim Sweezy on Mar 29, 2024 10:32 am [Japan SLIM Moon Lander Defies Odds And Survives Second Brutal Lunar Night]( The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that its Smart Lunar Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had successfully reawakened following a chilling second lunar night, which equates to two weeks back here on Earth. SLIM was even capable of transmitting images of the surrounding lunar landscape, making the feat even more exciting [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [When Apple's iPad Pro With M3 Chip And OLED Display Will Finally Arrive]( By Alan Velasco on Mar 29, 2024 09:49 am [When Apple's iPad Pro With M3 Chip And OLED Display Will Finally Arrive]( Apple is aiming to unveil some new iPads soon, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman sharing that the company plans on releasing updated models as soon as early May, which would precede Apple's WWDC24 event. There are signs pointing to this timeline, with suppliers that work with Apple indicating that there is a ramp up in production lines. Gurman [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Vizio's 86-Inch 4K TV For $999 Joins The Budget Behemoth Party]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 29, 2024 09:25 am [Vizio's 86-Inch 4K TV For $999 Joins The Budget Behemoth Party]( Vizio is expanding its refreshed 2024 smart TV lineup with a ginormous 86-inch 4K model that's set to retail for just $999 when it releases next month. The announcement comes just just weeks after Walmart said it had reached a deal to buy Vizio for around $2.3 billion and is being pitched as a "refreshed brand identity" consisting of a "reimagined [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Zotac Unveils Small And Mighty AI Mini PCs With Intel And AMD CPU Options]( By Zak Killian on Mar 28, 2024 03:30 pm [Zotac Unveils Small And Mighty AI Mini PCs With Intel And AMD CPU Options]( When you hear the brand Zotac, your mind may immediately think of graphics cards, but the company was actually one of the real pioneers in the mini-PC space with its Zbox brand. Zboxes date back to 2011, predating even the original Intel NUC, and Zotac has offered a wide range of models sporting both Intel and AMD CPUs since the very beginning. 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