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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Don’t expect affordable Nvidia Blackwell gaming GPUs to arrive anytime soon.

    Nvidia just said it won’t begin to ramp production of its new Blackwell GPUs until its fourth fiscal quarter, which begins in November.

    Nvidia just reported a record $30 billion quarter, and the vast majority of it ($22B) was data center compute... will it set aside some of its latest and greatest for gamers instead of AI? If so, I wouldn’t bet on prices being low.

    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Marc Andreessen’s family has been sitting on land just miles away from that “California Forever” city he’s trying to build.

    It’s only 730 acres — a drop in the bucket compared to the 60,000 he’s already invested in. But Margaux MacColl and Verge alum Sean O’Kane’s reporting explains how Silicon Valley real estate made Andreessen’s in-laws rich, and hints that history may be repeating itself here.

    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Despite what this black and white photo suggests, John Williams is still alive.

    But that won’t stop the legendary film composer from getting his own documentary film about his life and career, produced by (and featuring interviews with) Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Ron Howard, and many more.

    “Music by John Williams” will premiere at AFI Fest on October 23rd and hit Disney Plus on November 1st.

    Four Verge staffers independently saw this promo image and feared we’d lost an icon.
    Four Verge staffers independently saw this promo image and feared we’d lost an icon.
    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Threads is getting ads sooner or later — here’s what they might look like.

    Meta told TechCrunch it’s not actually testing ads in Threads yet, but it’s getting more underpinnings in place — now including this “Sponsored” badge that might appear next to an advertiser’s (or sponsored creator’s) username. It was spotted by developer Alessandro Paluzzi.

    Threads boss Adam Mosseri confirmed in April that ads are coming; last we heard, it might not be till next year.

    Spot the “Sponsored” label.
    Spot the “Sponsored” label.
    Image: Alessandro Paluzzi (Threads)
    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    The OLED-toting Zotac Zone handheld is indeed available for preorder — just not in the US.

    We held off on a story ’cuz we couldn’t initially find it on preorder, but here it is at Scan UK and Overclockers UK and Germany’s CaseKing, for example.

    What about the US? Zotac told Tom’s Hardware it isn’t offering preorders here. Can’t imagine it beats ROG Ally X for the same $800 with a much smaller battery inside... but twin trackpads and OLED intrigue me!