Month: June 2023

Apple’s latest Sherlock targets your grandparents’ tech

For a lot of developers, watching WWDC is a trepidatious affair where they wait to find out whether they’ve been “Sherlocked” — that is, their apps have been outmoded by Apple building their features into its operating systems. We saw it this year when Apple announced Journal, which many have…

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OpenAI reportedly warned Microsoft about rushing GPT-4 integration into Bing

OpenAI warned Microsoft early this year about rushing the integration of GPT-4 into Bing without further training, according to The Wall Street Journal. Although Microsoft forged ahead anyway, the alert proved prescient as early users noticed “unhinged” behavior in the Bing AI tool. (The most memorable examples included arguing, plotting…

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Phasmophobia is finally coming to consoles with early access announced

In an exciting surprise announcement the genre-defining horror game Phasmophobia will be coming to consoles with early access announced for later this year.  In a typically creepy short trailer you can see a player walk through all the familiar sites we PC users are familiar with. However, this time the…

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Game director for Avowed wants you to play it – obviously

The Xbox Extended Showcase is spotlighting the exciting new action RPG Avowed with its game director Carrie Patel talking us through the universe and its connections to Pillars of Eternity.  While it has been confirmed that Avowed will share a universe with the Pillars of Eternity in the world of…

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There’s an awesome lifesized Mech-themed PC right now — but you can’t buy it

If you didn’t think it was possible for PC builds to get any cooler, then feast your eyes on this one-of-a-kind gaming machine that’s shaped like a giant mech. Meet the Machine Origin, a collaborative effort between OTK Games and Blue Horse Studios that resulted in this glorious custom scratch-built…

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AMD unleashes 128-core Epyc ‘Bergamo’, trounces Intel’s most expensive CPU

AMD has unveiled its first cloud optimized processor, the EPYC “Bergamo” with up to 128 Zen 4c cores and 82 billion transistors in a single socket at its Data Center & AI Technology Premiere event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The top-of-the-range processor, the Epyc 9754, is aimed at cloud…

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