Month: April 2023
PC sales are down due to cost of living crisis but this is good for gamers
It seems that PC and Mac sales haven’t escaped the shadow of the cost of living crisis, going by recently released sales numbers for the first financial quarter of 2023. According to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, PC global shipments totaled…
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Elon Musk says SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft is ready to launch soon
Last week, SpaceX announced it’s poised to launch the fully stacked Starship spacecraft for a first orbital flight test following a launch rehearsal this week and pending regulatory approval. Now SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is confirming it’s ready, with launch “trending towards near the end of third week of April,”…
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch will return for a third and final season in 2024
Star Wars: The Bad Batch is coming to an end. During this year’s Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm announced that the animated series has been renewed for a third and final season that will arrive on Disney Plus in 2024. The Clone Wars spinoff follows a group of experimental clone troopers,…
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Ampere’s new workstation could bring in a whole new dawn for developers
Ampere has slipped a new Altra developer kit into its catalog, with software creators firmly in its sights. Revealed in a tweet (opens in new tab) from the company’s head of edge, Joe Speed, the Altra Dev Kit (opens in new tab), described by the company as an IoT prototype…
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Apple’s M3 Chip might get a huge upgrade, and it’s just what Apple needs right now
There’s no question that Apple is hard at work on its latest next-gen silicon, the Apple M3 chip, but if a new report is correct, then it’ll be a lot more advanced than we realized. It has long been speculated that Apple would be going with TSMC’s 3nm process for…
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Florida Mayhem won the first Overwatch League pro-am tournament, but the amateurs were the bigger winners
Yesterday, the first round of Overwatch League play in 2023 concluded with the league’s first-ever pro-am tournament. Seven amateur teams from the North American and EMEA regions qualified for the right to play against the professional Overwatch teams of the west. Most Contenders teams are sorely under-resourced. They’re usually made…
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