Asus India exec Arnold Su told Techlusive that the new gaming handheld will “focus more on gaming” — what a Yo Dawg quote! — but will still be focused on Windows rather than, say, SteamOS. I wonder why.
The first Ally was a bit tortured but not a bad product overall, unless we’re talking about the cheaper, weaker version.
AMD is axing the stream-and-monitor-your-own-PC-games feature, and its announcement made me laugh:
For users that game remotely with AMD Link, one important announcement is that AMD is ending support for the AMD Link software application
No kidding! Did you use it? I preferred the hardware-agnostic Steam Link, but there’s also Moonlight and Parsec. Nvidia also axed its similar GameStream feature in 2022.
We told Framework we had several different stability issues, so I was a little frustrated to see the company’s CEO suggest I only encountered one... but I’m happy to say Framework will send The Verge a final production unit with quite a list of hardware and software fixes!
The DPC_Watchdog_Violation freeze, at least, does seem to be fixed in my testing with a newer BIOS.
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Not only did Intel’s consumer chips see 33 percent gains ($8.8B revenue), the CFO said on today’s earning call that “customer inventory levels have normalized” and Intel saw “record performance notebook shipments in the quarter.”
While PCs were down in 2023 overall, they got close to pre-pandemic numbers of 260-270M shipments globally, and Intel’s bullish on AI upgrades.
Intel says it hit its goal of $3B in cost-cutting in 2023, and made $2.66B in profit in Q4 (up from $796M loss this time last year).
It was a polarizing outcome even within the courtroom, according to The Japan Times and live coverage from the Asahi Shimbun.
Here’s a very little something we wrote in 2017 about what made KyoAni special, and The Hollywood Reporter’s devastating but uplifting 2019 feature on the tragedy is still worth a read now.
Former TechCrunch EIC Matthew Panzarino got to touch it — something we’d heard was beyond the reach of mere mortals who don’t work for Disney Parks.
It looks just as mindblowing as ever. I am so damn jealous. Here’s how the lightsaber likely works.
While Carvana escaped its seeming plunge into bankruptcy and is now trading for $45 a share, the used car seller now has one fewer competitor. Vroom is technically still around but is now pivoting to just do auto financing and AI analytics for auto retail, laying off 90 percent of the company’s employees as it exits the used auto business.
HP CEO Enrique Lores on live television, addressing a class-action lawsuit against his company for blocking third-party ink:
“We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges.”
Ars Technica, while basically calling bullshit, explains: “HP argued that ink cartridge microcontroller chips, which are used to communicate with the printer, could be an entryway for attacks.”
Maybe stop putting smart DRM chips into cartridges, then? Also, read this.
[Ars Technica]
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