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Comparing the Very High and High quality presets was equally tricky depending on the level. Subtle changes can be observed throughout, but again, at times the advantage of using the Very High preset was very noticeable. Let’s take a look at a few comparison shots… At first the difference between the Very High and High quality shots are not that apparent. However if you look closer you can notice the shadowing around the walls and even the pavers on the ground are much better defined....

Dying Light 2 has received mostly above-average or good reviews from critics: PC Gamer gave it 84%, and its Metacritic score is currently 79. Some publications, IGN especially, noted that like so many sprawling big-budget games these days, there are plenty of bugs to contend with, one of which can actually block progression. Techland tweeted earlier this week that anyone who got access to retail copies of Dying Light 2 ahead of Friday’s release should hold off from playing it until the patch arrives tomorrow, allowing them to experience the game the way it’s meant to be played....

A 13G filing released today shows that on March 14, Musk purchased 73,486,938 Twitter shares, which represents a 9.2% passive stake in the company, of which he is now the largest shareholder. Interestingly, the news comes around one week after Musk tweeted out a poll to his 80 million+ followers asking, “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” The CEO wrote, “the consequences of this poll will be important” in a follow-up tweet....

The latest incident in Musk/Twitter saga saw the world’s richest person tweet that he is willing to complete the deal for the original $54.20 per share price—Twitter’s share price is currently $42.52. All the company needs to do is provide its method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real. Twitter has long said that less than 5% of accounts on the site are fake. Musk, however, believes the actual number is more like 20%....

“Congrats Giga Shanghai on making millionth car! Total Teslas made now over 3M” Musk tweeted yesterday, alongside a photo of plant workers celebrating hitting the milestone. It was just a few weeks ago that Musk revealed Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory had produced its two millionth vehicle. Tesla reported its Q2 earnings back in July. The company delivered 254,695 vehicles during the April to June period. While that marks a 26% increase over the 201,250 vehicles delivered in the second quarter of 2021, the figure for the preceding quarter (Q1 2022) stood at 310,048....

Reuters reports that Meta sent internal emails to Facebook and Instagram content moderators confirming a change in its hate speech policy. “As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as ‘death to the Russian invaders,’” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. Any calls for violence against Russian civilians remain off limits....

Since they aren’t ready to be on by default, it goes without saying that your mileage may vary when enabling them. Google warns that your browser might delete your data and your security could be compromised. It’s not unheard of for flags to cause browser crashes or blue screens, though some are inevitably riskier than others. With that said, we’ve tried to pick a handful of flags that seem relatively safe and yet useful to the average Chrome install....

Frore announced that laptops featuring its AirJet active cooling chips would hit shelves early next year. The tech aims to replace conventional notebook fans. The company claims AirJet can double CPU performance in some configurations. AirJet is a solid-state thermal solution that uses vibrating membranes to suck air into the top of the chip, push it into a copper heat spreader, and then force it out through the side. The system performs this task with around 1750 Pascals of back pressure, far more than typical laptop fans....

It utilizes a digital signal processing LSI (DSP) based on the latest semiconductor processes and is one-third smaller and lighter than conventional air-cooled equipment. Power consumption has also been cut to 120mW per transmission capacity (Gbps), and CO2 emissions are down 70 percent compared to conventional transmission systems. With the proliferation of 5G, AI, IoT and big data, the need for faster and faster data transmission tech is only going to grow....

Gainward’s GTX 760 Phantom consumed 5% more power than a standard model, which puts it in the same territory as the GTX 660 Ti and makes it slightly more hungry than the HD 7870 while requiring 12% less juice than the HD 7950. Unfortunately, we don’t have a reference GTX 760 to compare with the Phantom, but with a full load temperature of just 75 degrees, it’s obvious that Gainward’s cooler works well....

Lined up I have 22 games, most of which are very recent tiles and all have been tested at 1080p and 1440p. For comparison, we have not just the GTX 970, but also the GTX 1070, 1060, 1050 Ti, RX 480 and RX 470, so we should be able to work out exactly where the R9 390 slots into today’s landscape. For testing I have taken my old HIS Radeon R9 390 IceQ X2 OC graphics card, benchmarked it in the factory configuration and then again with a custom overclock....

Since last December, GeForce Now subscribers have been able to stream games in 4K HDR at 60 frames per second through the premium RTX 3080 tier, but only on Nvidia’s Sheild TV. Other devices were limited to a maximum resolution of 1440p, though at 120fps. The 4K option is available on GeForce Now’s Windows and macOS apps starting today. Nvidia has also brought 120fps streaming to more mobile devices, including the Samsung Galaxy S22, S22 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold3, Flip3, and the OnePlus 9 Pro....

Gigabyte’s card managed 52fps at 2560x1600, 11% faster than a non-overclocked card, a meager 2% faster than the GTX 580 and 5% slower than the HD 7970.

The heavily overclocked HD 7950 was 23% faster than an unmodified model with an average of 64fps at 1920x1200 in Just Cause 2. Aliens vs. Predator saw an 11% increase from our overclocked HD 7950, putting it only a single frame away from the HD 7970. The margin between our extra overclocked HD 7950 and the reference model grew to 24% in Battlefield 3, topping the HD 7970 by 5%....

Unfortunately, the R9 290 series’ Hawaii GPU remains in limited supply and you can expect to pay a 30% premium over AMD’s MSRP. We were initially excited about the R9 290X because of its $550 price, and things only got sweeter when the R9 290 arrived for $400. The latter could almost be seen as a must-have at that price. However, the R9 290 is currently $500 to $550 while Gigabyte’s R9 290 OC is $580 – the same price as the only other modified R9 290 listed, which is made by MSI....

The AMD A620 mention comes from an ECC listing Gigabyte filed last week. We don’t know anything concrete about this upcoming chipset since AMD has so far focused on the B650 and X670 platforms for its latest processors. Based on previous A-series specifications, we know AMD likes to disable overclocking support entirely, and cut off a good portion of PCIe, SATA, and USB connectivity in comparison to its mid-range B-series chipsets....

Google’s machine learning advancements regularly get the spotlight in the company’s keynotes. Now, it’s using more of this tech in the Chrome browser to handle web notifications for a more seamless web experience. Google looks to achieve this by adding a new ML model in Chrome that can predict when a user is unlikely to grant permission to a web page notification and will automatically silence this prompt. These predictions happen on-device, so while Chrome may take a bit more of your system resources, the computations are likely to be faster, and your data won’t leave your device....

Soon Google.com could change. According to 9to5Google, the company has been testing adding a row of cards to the bottom of the page. The screenshot above shows six cards. Staples like the weather and the news are on the sides, and in the middle are stock prices, links to shows and movies, and recommended websites. It’s a similar catalog to what you’d find in the Google Discover app. Even though it looks like a feed, it isn’t....

Powering the experience is a Google Tensor G2 processor alongside a Titan M2 security co-processor and 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM. Buyers can choose between models with 128GB or 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. The dual rear-facing camera array consists of a 50-megapixel Octa PD Quad Bayer wide camera with f/1.85 aperture and an 82-degree field of view as well as a 12-megapixel ultrawide shooter with f/2.2 aperture and 114-degree field of view....