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RuneScape goes survival mode in Dragonwilds adventure
Jagex just announced a brand new game called RuneScape: Dragonwilds. You can add it to your Steam wishlist right away to find out when it launches. The game brings you to Ashenfall, a forgotten land where dragons have awoken. Your job includes gathering stuff, building shelters, learning skills, and making tools to stay alive. The main goal asks you to beat the Dragon Queen. You might play by yourself or team up with three friends. This adventure runs on Unreal Engine 5 and lets you use powerful magic that changes how you interact with everything around you. Cast spells to chop down trees super fast or fix broken armor with nature energy. The game happens on a continent nobody has seen before called Ashenfall. This secret place stayed...
Rapidus gets NEDO green light for 2nm chip plans
Japan's NEDO just approved Rapidus Corporation's plans and budget for 2025. The approval covers two big projects about making advanced 2-nanometer chips. These projects focus on cutting-edge semiconductor technology and faster production times. They also include work on chiplet design and packaging for these tiny, powerful chips. Rapidus started the first project back in 2022. They built a manufacturing center called IIM in Chitose, Hokkaido. Their engineers traveled to IBM in America to learn how to mass-produce these advanced chips. The company installed special EUV machines and started running their clean room. They met all their targets for last year. The second project began in March 2024. It aims to create larger chiplet...
NVIDIA 5090 Cards Get Extra ROPs and Extra Speed
NVIDIA messed up quality control on their $2,000 GeForce RTX 5090 cards. Many buyers found that their expensive cards had only 168 ROPs instead of the promised 176. This 8 ROP shortage cut performance by about 5%. That stinks when you pay two grand for a graphics card. But here comes something wild – some cards actually have more ROPs than they should! We tested an ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 LC graphics card with 192 active ROPs. This card uses the full GB202 chip capabilities, running 16 more ROPs than normal specs allow. Our test sample arrived recently, and we haven't finished all the tests yet because we're updating our testing methods with fresh games and drivers. The ASUS card comes factory overclocked thanks to its liquid...
Micron hikes memory prices as demand drives costs
Micron told customers it plans to charge more for memory through 2025 and 2026. They can't make enough to meet the growing demand for their products. The company sees major increases in demand for DRAM, NAND flash, and high-bandwidth memory. Memory prices have started bouncing back after being very low for a long time. Big suppliers cut back how much they made, which helped prices go up over the past year. Prices will keep rising as data centers, AI projects, and electronics makers fight over limited memory supplies. Micron told their business partners that AI and computing needs forced them to raise prices. They asked these partners to share detailed plans about what they'll need to help manage production during these tight times...
Microsoft and ASUS team up for a cool handheld gaming device
Microsoft and ASUS plan to team up on a new handheld gaming device. Recent ads show what's coming next. The video reveals an ASUS ROG Ally and an Xbox controller joining together into one unit that turns into a cartoon character. This partnership brings Microsoft's games and ASUS's portable tech skills together. The project has a secret name—"Project Kennan." Xbox leaders said earlier that this would take 2-3 years to make. But new reports say we might see it hit stores late next year. They could even tell us more about it mid-year. After Steam Deck became popular, both companies speeded up their plans because more players wanted these small gaming computers. The machine looks mostly black. We don't know much else about what's inside...
Copilot adds voice and image tweaks for all PCs
Microsoft has started bringing its Copilot+ features to more computers beyond just Snapdragon X devices. The company recently added these AI assistant tools to laptops running Intel and AMD chips. They also announced a new feature called Voice Access that will first work on Qualcomm Snapdragon systems before coming to Intel and AMD computers later. These changes came in the March 27 Preview update (KB505365). The privacy-troubled Recall feature remains missing from Intel and AMD plans. The Windows Experience Blog tells us that people who use AMD and Intel computers can finally access several AI tools. These include Live Captions, Cocreator, Restyle Image, and Image Creator. These features work on machines with Intel Core Ultra 200V and...
SADC at 45 and still going strong
Today marks 45 years since the Southern African Development Community started its work. The group began on April 1, 1980, when leaders signed the Lusaka Declaration that created the Southern African Development Coordinating Conference. This organization later became SADC after officials signed a new treaty on August 17, 1992, in Windhoek, Namibia. The group continues to push for teamwork and growth among countries in Southern Africa. The SADC office said it remains focused on helping people across the region. It follows something called SADC Vision 2050, which aims to create peace and fairness for everyone. This plan hopes to make the area more competitive and industrial, giving citizens better lives with more freedom. The organization...
Another suspect faces trial in farm robbery case
The courts added another person to the case about robbing Wicknell Chivayo's relatives. Bigboy Nampungo, only 27 years old, faced a Harare judge recently. He stands accused of armed robbery but has not entered any plea yet. This makes him the ninth suspect to appear for this crime. The theft targeted Alfa and Omega Farm, where Wicknell's in-laws live. During the attack, robbers stole $85,558 in cash and property valued at $3,900 from the family. The farm belongs to Gerald Gara Muteke, a 36-year-old farmer in Marondera.
Razer Skibidi headset makes sense of Gen Alpha talk
Razer just launched a wild new headset that's about to make family conversations way less awkward. Meet Skibidi - a crazy smart translator designed to bridge the massive language gap between parents and their internet-obsessed kids. Teenage and Gen Alpha slang moves faster than trending TikTok dances, and parents constantly feel like their kids are speaking a completely different language. The Skibidi headset fixes that problem by using super-advanced AI to crack the code of internet speak in real time. Packed with 1,337 unique language processing algorithms, this device can transform the most confusing teenage mumbo jumbo into something resembling normal human communication. Whether you're trying to figure out what your kid just said...

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