Why GTA 6 Carries A Heavy Burden And Could Be The Most Important Game Launch Ever

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [View this email in your browser]( [Why GTA 6 Carries A Heavy Burden And Could Be The Most Important Game Launch Ever]( By Alan Velasco on Mar 15, 2024 12:45 pm [Why GTA 6 Carries A Heavy Burden And Could Be The Most Important Game Launch Ever]( Grand Theft Auto 6 is still a year away assuming it doesn’t encounter any delays, but the gaming industry is pinning an absurd amount of hope on it. Less than three months in, 2024 has been a rough year for the games industry, with various studios closing and thousands of layoffs across companies big and small. It’s in this environment that [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [StopCrypt Ransomware Evolved: Most Widespread Threat Now Avoids Detection]( By Nathan Ord on Mar 15, 2024 12:30 pm [StopCrypt Ransomware Evolved: Most Widespread Threat Now Avoids Detection ]( StopCrypt ransomware is one of the most prolific yet underreported ransomware families due to its usual target of individuals rather than high-profile businesses or larger entities. We may not see this strain of ransomware in the United States as much, but it is still a threat regardless, and an evolving one at that. Researchers have now uncovered [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [ASUS Unveils Zenfone 11 Ultra With A Giant OLED Display And Snapdragon Inside]( By Ryan Whitwam on Mar 15, 2024 12:01 pm [ASUS Unveils Zenfone 11 Ultra With A Giant OLED Display And Snapdragon Inside]( The ASUS Zenfone line has been fulfilling the dreams of small phone lovers in recent years, but that's over with the release of the Zenfone 11 Ultra. This is a giant Android 14 smartphone, packing the latest Qualcomm silicon, a beefy battery, and an expansive 6.78-inch OLED screen. If the latest Zenfone looks familiar, that's because it's [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [OpenAI’s Figure 01 Talking Robot Demo Is Eerily Mind-Blowing]( By Tim Sweezy on Mar 15, 2024 11:52 am [OpenAI’s Figure 01 Talking Robot Demo Is Eerily Mind-Blowing]( Attention all humans: Figure AI, in collaboration with OpenAI, is well on its way to developing a humanoid robot capable of taking over the world. OK, while it may not be ready to take over the world (yet) the company’s Figure 01 robot running a new Visual Language Model (VLM) does put on a mind-blowing demonstration in a new video. Figure [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Calling All Gamers, Pong Creator’s Auction Features Unreleased Atari Cosmos Prototype]( By Tim Sweezy on Mar 15, 2024 10:42 am [Calling All Gamers, Pong Creator’s Auction Features Unreleased Atari Cosmos Prototype]( An incredibly rare prototype of the Atari Cosmos from the collection of Pong creator Allan Alcorn is up for auction. Also up for auction is a handful of other iconic Atari video games, such as a Pong arcade game, and a Space Race arcade game. While games like Space Invaders and Pong are extremely simplistic by today’s standards, they were [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Maingear Is Selling Delidded Core i9-14900KS Gaming PCs And Yes, With A Warranty]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 15, 2024 10:33 am [Maingear Is Selling Delidded Core i9-14900KS Gaming PCs And Yes, With A Warranty]( Intel's latest flagship processor, the Core i9-14900KS, is a beastly slice of silicon as we discovered in our review. It also needs ample cooling to take full advantage of the binned chip's full potential. To help with that, boutique builder Maingear is offering a delidded option on some of its desktops when configuring them with Intel's top [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Google Just Upgraded Chrome's Real-Time Security On PC And iPhone, What About Android?]( By Alan Velasco on Mar 15, 2024 09:33 am [Google Just Upgraded Chrome's Real-Time Security On PC And iPhone, What About Android?]( Google Chrome users are about to get a more secure browsing experience thanks to some updates coming to desktop and iOS. Google Safe Browsing will be getting real-time, privacy-preserving URL protection, while useful additions are coming to Password Checkup. Android users will need to wait a little bit, as these upgrades will be making their [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Apple Buys AI Startup DarwinAI Ahead Of iOS 18 And Next-Gen iPhone Launch]( By Thiago Trevisan on Mar 15, 2024 09:28 am [Apple Buys AI Startup DarwinAI Ahead Of iOS 18 And Next-Gen iPhone Launch]( Apple has acquired DarwinAI, showing a relentless push into the segment for what will be a very competitive future in the space. In years past, performance expectations were all based on the brute force that hardware could produce. Faster CPUs, more powerful GPUs, and increased capabilities for components such as RAM were the main focal points [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [FCC Raises Minimum Broadband Speed By 300% And It's About Time]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 15, 2024 09:23 am [FCC Raises Minimum Broadband Speed By 300% And It's About Time]( At long last, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed a vote to raise the minimum high-speed fixed broadband speed threshold, increasing the baseline download benchmark from 25 megabits per second (Mbps) to 100Mbps. 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