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Zuckerberg to Meta staff “there are probably a bunch of people at the company that shouldn’t be here” An ominous warning, Zuck says new policies will focus on “ruthless prioritization” and “modified performance standards” It’s been a tough year for Meta. The tech giant has faced plummeting stocks, hiring freezes, large-scale turnover, and a failed venture into the cryptocurrency space. In a recent Q&A with employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed changes in the company’s focus, management style, and employee expectations....

The Chuwi Lapbook Air is billed as an ultraportable 14-inch machine with a price tag of just $430. This puts it in the realm of some of the cheapest Windows laptops on the market of this display size. Chromebooks are also available for $400 or less, but let’s just put those over in the dunce corner for now, because we’re mostly interested in true Windows systems. So what does $430 get you?...

The AMD FX-8320E provided the best performance in Batman: Arkham Knight once overclocked to 4.6GHz, a frequency that afforded AMD’s chip a rather large 21% performance increase over its stock configuration. Using DDR4-2133 memory, the Core i3-6100 matched the Core i3-4360 and boosting the memory speed to 3000MHz only netted an extra 4% performance. The FX-8320E’s average frame rate performance isn’t bad in Metro Redux but the 1% and 0....

We still feel the GTX 670 is the best performance option available at 1920x1200, but with an average of 71fps across the games tested, some might argue it’s more than you need for the money. Therefore, staying true to our original parameters, the best value card for 60fps gameplay is the Radeon HD 7950. Our data tables below will help you digest how today’s graphics cards stack up. These findings are based on maximum visual settings for each title and the numbers will change drastically if you tweak visuals....

The RTX 2060 offers the best value within that group, and is poised to replace the GTX 1070 as the middle ground for great performance at a price that remains within reach of most enthusiasts. In the past few weeks we’ve seen requests on what’s the best GTX 1070 to buy replaced by what is the best RTX 2060 board. While some readers want to know which model is outright the best, others are more interested in best value or what options are suitable for Mini-ITX builds....

As with the Core i3-12300, the Core i3-12100 features four Golden Cove Performance cores and no Gracemont Efficiency cores. It also has eight threads, 12MB of L3 cache, a base frequency of 3.3GHz, and can single-core turbo to 4.3GHz. The Core i3-12100 retails for about $122 - $129, or around $100 for the F version that lacks integrated graphics. Art of PC put team blue’s chip up against AMD’s previous-gen Ryzen 5 3600, which features six cores, twelve threads, a 3....

The game is already listed in each store where you can pre-purchase it for $59.99. Those who do so will receive a couple of in-game items including bonus supplements to increase attributes like max health, crafting speed, weapon sway, listen mode distance and healing speed as well as extra parts to upgrade weapons and craft holsters at your work bench. The Last of Us Part 1 landed exclusively on the PlayStation 5 on September 2, 2022, and currently has a Metacritic score of 88 with a user score of 6....

Zelda is arguably Nintendo’s richest original IP. The first game in the series was created by Japanese designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, and launched in Japan on February 21, 1986 as The Hyrule Fantasy: Legend of Zelda before finding its way to North America more than a year later as The Legend of Zelda. Miyamoto’s inspiration came from time spent as a child exploring fields, caves and wooded areas in Kyoto....

Before launching a successful Kickstarter, Bates showed off a prototype of the original Arduboy back in 2014. It was essentially an open-source, business card-sized (1.6-millimeter thick) 8-bit Game Boy clone based on a stripped-down Arduino board, hence the name. The device also featured a capacitive four-way digital controller, two buttons, a coin-cell battery, and a tiny OLED display. The follow-up device, the Arduboy FX, offered more storage that could hold 200 games....

You probably haven’t heard of Osom (pronounced “awesome”), a company that sprung from the ashes of the Andy Rubin-led Essential after it shut down in 2020. The latter company succumbed after a few short years, as it ran out of money before it could align its vision with the general consumer trends in the smartphone market. Back in December 2021, Osom revealed it had been building a new phone using lessons learned from the failure of the Essential PH1....

Revealed at Google’s annual I/O developer conference today, the Pixel Buds Pro are Google’s answer to other “Pro” earbud offerings from Samsung and Apple. Priced at $200, the Pixel Buds Pro are more affordable than other high-end wireless buds on the market while still boasting key premium features. For example, the Pros are the first Google-branded earbuds to feature Active Noise Cancellation. The company says this tech is supported by custom speakers and a “custom 6-core audio chip” running algorithms tuned by its audio engineering team....

Igor’s Lab conducted a test on the RTX 3090 Ti that involved undervolting the card, which has a 450W power consumption, down to 300W. Igor achieves this by adjusting the power limit to 300W using OC tool MSI Afterburner and adjusting the VF curve. He duplicated the curve of the RTX A6000, which also has a 300W max power draw and features the same GA102 die—though it uses GDDR6 instead of GDDR6X memory....

It’s hard to pinpoint today just how much impact Home of the Underdogs (HotU) had, especially in an age remasters and HD remakes are a fashionable way for publishers to make money. But there was a time when “games as a service” wasn’t a thing. MMO’s existed, but once a game was published, that was basically it. Publishers moved on. As a gamer, that meant you would sometimes read about a game online, or in a magazine, and it’d simply never be available locally....

The HD 5870 averaged just 21fps at 1080p, making the 6970 almost 50% faster. The 7970 delivered impressive gains over the 6970 at 65% faster, the 7970 GHz Edition was another 12% faster and the R9 290X topped that by 30% with 74fps. Increasing the resolution to 2560x1600 didn’t change the margins much with the exception of the 5870 vs. 6970, as the older 5870 was again very much limited by its 1GB memory buffer....

What AMD’s done with Ryzen is impressive, but they’re also a big part of why the past, almost a decade, has been very slow on the CPU front. But now that things are getting seriously competitive we feel Intel needs to change some stuff, stuff we’ve been asking them to improve on for years. Last week we were in Taiwan attending Computex, a very PC-centric trade show, and found ourselves discussing a few areas where Intel as well as AMD and Nvidia need to improve to become more consumer friendly....

Today’s high-end graphics cards are not the slim components they once were. With their fat heatsinks and fans, GPUs like Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 turn the flat into a townhouse condo. However, the YouTube channel Optimum Tech (OT) used a water-cooling mod to turn the Nvidia behemoth into a slim folio-sized card. Optimum Tech said this is probably not an ideal solution for most PC builds, but water cooling is a bit niche anyway....

Installed inside a large ATX case with reasonably low air-flow and a 21C ambient temperature, the worst motherboard of the pack saw its VRM peak to just 60C, while the best, MSI’s Creator, peaked at just 49C. Coming in second was Asus’ ROG Zenith II Extreme, running 2C hotter than the MSI, followed by Gigabyte’s Aorus Xtreme, running another 3 degrees hotter. Despite coming second by what we consider a negligible margin – we’ll emphasize that we were not looking for an outright winner – whether the board peaks at 49C of 51C doesn’t matter, both are very satisfactory results....

It was back in July when Ubisoft announced the cancelation of four in-development games, including Splinter Cell VR and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Frontline. Three more unannounced titles are joining the discarded pile, bringing the total to an expensive seven cancelations in one financial year. Explaining its reasons for the move, Ubisoft pointed to Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and Just Dance 2023 not performing as well as expected....

SCMP reports that China on Saturday told livestreaming platforms to step up governance on how under-18s use their services. The news comes just weeks after reports revealed the country was preparing to slam its $30 billion livestreaming industry with new regulations. Last month, it launched a new campaign to clean up the “chaos” within the sector. The policy changes, issued by four regulators including the National Radio and Television Administration and the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), prohibit livestreaming platforms from offering tipping services to minors....

Volvo’s truck manufacturing division has just announced that it’s testing vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The company claims these trucks will have an operational range of up to 1,000 km (621 miles), a refueling time of under 15 minutes, and a total weight (including freight) of over 65 tons. If those figures are accurate, it sounds like an attractive alternative to battery-powered electric semis for long hauling. For comparison, the Tesla Semi has an advertised range of up to 800 km (497 miles) and will reportedly take over 30 minutes to charge at a megawatt charging station....