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Take-Two's CEO predicts streaming will 10x gaming's install base within three years
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
During Take-Two's first-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings call, CEO Strauss Zelnick put a number on it: he expects cloud gaming to reach commercial, low-latency viability within three years, potentially multiplying the effective installed base tenfold. He made the comments while addressing the rising cost of gaming hardware.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Asus' new monitor software lets you control brightness with your voice, or just let AI do it
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
Asus has announced a new update for its DisplayWidget Center software, adding agentic AI and other AI-based features. The tool, which is designed to manage and customize Asus monitors from within the traditional desktop environment, can now enable natural language interactions between users, IT administrators, and "compatible" AI agents for...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Flock's biggest investor also backs a company that can rewrite camera footage
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
Andreessen Horowitz, which led Flock's $275 million funding round in March 2025, has also backed Toka, an Israeli cyber-intelligence company that has reportedly developed tools capable of breaking into connected cameras and manipulating their footage.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Netflix brings 4K streaming to Chrome, but you probably don't qualify
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
Netflix's support for 4K streaming through Chrome on Windows was spotted last month. Now, the media giant has updated its documentation to explain exactly how subscribers can unlock the higher-quality option. However, the move will still leave many users behind, despite bringing 4K playback to the most popular web browser...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
RPCS3 just got a lot faster on Arm, after months of low-level optimization
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 is rolling out a major Arm64 upgrade, delivering up to 60% faster performance and 25% lower power draw on supported hardware. Demonstrated on an Ayn Odin 2 handheld, the optimizations make previously unplayable titles like Ninja Gaiden 3 run smoothly and extend across Arm64 builds on Linux, macOS, and Windows, from Apple Silicon to Snapdragon X laptops and handhelds.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Quake turns 30, and it just got two surprise expansions in one week
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
During QuakeCon's opening ceremony, id Software and MachineGames released Dawn of the Machine, a free expansion for the original 1996 Quake. MachineGames, the Swedish studio behind the modern Wolfenstein games and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, has previously developed two Quake episodes.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
SpaceX and Tesla plan their own natural gas power plants for massive $16.8 billion Texas chip factory
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
Riley Trettel, who oversees energy and data center development for SpaceX, said the companies will handle much of the project's power needs themselves.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
OpenAI's mysterious ChatGPT device is a $300+ doughnut-shaped smart speaker with moving parts
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
News of the device, whose journey began when OpenAI announced it was acquiring Ive's AI hardware startup io for $6.5 billion last year, comes from Bloomberg.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google's AI somehow knew a game secret that existed only in a private Google Doc
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
The issue began in the game's Discord server, where a player was asking Google's AI questions about Operation Octo. The answers sometimes included details the developer considered unusually specific for a small game.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Modded Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB VRAM is selling on eBay for $500
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
Budget users shopping for a path toward mid-range 4K gaming or heavy AI workloads might want to investigate a Hong Kong-based reseller. The vendor recently began offering Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti with double its original memory for less than its current average price.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »