Two of the latest no-strings-attached Epic Games Store giveaways, from the same studio that brought you Ghostwire: Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush.
Other EGS freebies this week: Eternal Threads and Tandem: A Tale of Shadows.
I kid, I kid: it’s the Apollo 16 lunar soil scoop, an awesome vari-angle shovel with spring-loaded buttons, which just sold at auction for $874,998. One of those buttons attached it to an extension pole that’s reportedly still sitting on the Moon.
The Smithsonian has one like this too, though it’s apparently not on display.
My full hed is “Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless,” but that’s not what I see in every desktop browser with every keyword I’ve tried. The important last word gets cut off.
I doubt there’s any foul play: Google’s robots truncate our Verge headlines regularly, and I can see the full headline on mobile! It’s just amusing to think readers will come in expecting a rather different story.
AMD’s Anti-Lag Plus feature got gamers banned — but it looks like that’s getting fixed. The game’s October 19th patch notes reads:
Added a startup check for incompatible AMD graphics drivers. We will now begin reversing VAC bans for affected players
Also: “Fixed a bug in Windows 11 Auto HDR that led to smokes intermittently disappearing”.
[www.counter-strike.net]
The Silicon Valley and surrounding parts of Northern California just got an alarming message on their phones — a severe earthquake!
You’d be forgiven for assuming it was just a test. But no, the USGS’ ShakeAlert test is scheduled for tomorrow at 10:19AM, not today at 9:29AM, and there really was an earthquake. But it was quickly downgraded to a 4.1 — not a 5.7 as originally detected.
Previously exclusive to Nvidia’s RTX 30 and RTX 40 series cards, the company’s RTX Video Super Resolution technique for Chrome, Edge and VLC is now adding RTX 20 cards, too.
Nvidia says version 1.5 also “improves the quality even further to avoid over smoothing and increase the level of detail and can now enhance video when played back at native resolution.” Here’s the company’s FAQ:
[nvidia.custhelp.com]
The DLSS 3.0 technique arrives today to dramatically increase perceived framerate by imagining lots of new frames, and the the speedy Naraka’s a good candidate — particularly since it already has Nvidia Reflex to soften the blow to latency. It’s part of a new GeForce driver today. AMD’s got similar tech, but also some catching up to do.
[www.nvidia.com]
