Xbox owners can now disable Quick Resume for specific games
… New Xbox boss Asha Sharma has pushed for engineering teams to work on highly requested features like disabling Quick Resume and the custom colors, my colleague Tom Warren has reported. …
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Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent
… The rise of AI development and adoption has created unprecedented structural demand for specialized, high-performance compute that the market is struggling to meet. …
Mercedes’ electric AMG GT 4-door coupe can go 0-60 in 2 seconds
The era of ultra-high performance Mercedes EVs is here. …
If I could only have one laptop for work and gaming, I’d get this one
… The Zephyrus G14’s game performance is of course easily bested by much bigger gaming laptops. Asus’ own Strix Scar 16, which costs $3,300, has a larger 240Hz Mini LED screen, and crushes the G14 with higher frame rates at the same high settings. …
Behold the crown jewel of outrageous gaming laptops
… I had no problem playing Marathon on the Zephyrus Duo and maintaining a solid 60fps on High settings at 2880 x 1800 with DLSS set to Performance. Switching the mode from Performance to Turbo bumped Marathon to over 70fps, with a peak of 80. …
Samsung’s flagship laptop is a MacBook Pro clone gone horribly wrong
… Windows laptop makers can’t compete with high-end Macs in raw speed. Intel and AMD don’t have any laptop CPUs that get close to Apple’s single-core performance, which is why a 10-core M5’s multicore performance can beat a 16-core Panther Lake chip. In related news, battery performance is uneven. …
This is MSI’s new Claw 8 EX AI Plus gaming handheld
… MSI says a new high-end linear motor has been introduced for faster and improved haptic feedback and “improved power efficiency” — though it didn’t mention how long you can expect the battery to last. …
Meta blames RAM shortage for $100 Quest 3 price hike
… Accessories will keep their current prices. “We’re making this change because the cost of building high-performance VR hardware has risen significantly,” according to Meta. “The global surge in the price of critical components — specifically memory chips — is impacting almost every category of cons… …
Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
… That can mean lower performance. …
Intel’s cheaper Panther Lake chips are for budget-friendly laptops
… They’re built on the same Intel 18A process as the higher-end Core Ultra Series 3 family of chips, but they have less of just about everything spec-wise. …