ProteanTecs, which provides an AI platform to monitor chip reliability, today closed a $45 million funding round. The company says the fresh capital will bolster its go-to-market strategy and operations as it seeks to scale worldwide.
Chip design and manufacturing is a high-risk, high-reward pursuit. Mistakes made during the earliest phases are often enormously costly — chip fabrication plants…
The latest season of Fortnite is here, and in it some of the biggest Marvel heroes join forces to help save the battle royale island.
The new season — technically Chapter 2: Season 4 — is dubbed “Nexus War,” and it’s a comic book-style event where major characters…
Microsoft assigns Bungie veteran to help ship Halo Infinite
August 27, 2020
Joseph Staten, a veteran of the Halo series, has returned to the franchise and will work on the campaign for the upcoming Halo Infinite. The news was first reported by Bloomberg, and Staten confirmed the move on Twitter.
“I’m thrilled to join @Halo to help them ship Halo…
Canon releases FW 1.1 for EOS R5, with bug fixes and improvements to video shooting time
August 27, 2020
Canon has released firmware 1.1 for the EOS R5. Alongside a flurry of minor bug fixes, the new firmware also promises to improve video shooting times. We’ve had the new firmware for a few days, and prepared a test.
Check out Jordan’s take on the new firmware in the video, above, and see below for Canon’s official description of the changes in FW 1.1.0
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Hands-on with iOS 14 beta 6 changes and features
August 27, 2020
This week, Apple released the sixth beta for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, and like last week’s beta 5 release, beta 6 includes several new changes and features. Watch our hands-on video walkthrough for a look at what’s new.
What’s new in iOS 14 beta 6?
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Ricoh releases Silver Edition version of its Pentax K-1 Mark II DSLR, three D FA* lenses
August 27, 2020
Ricoh has announced the limited release of a Silver edition of its Pentax K-1 Mark II DSLR as well as, for the first time ever, silver versions of its D FA* lenses.
The limited-edition camera is identical to its black counterpart, complete with a 36MP full-frame CMOS sensor…
Dan Bunting of Treyarch and Dan Vondrak of Raven Software revealed the long-awaited Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War, a sequel to 2010’s Call of Duty: Black Ops.
In a recent press briefing, the game development leaders described the new game, which debuts on PC and current generation consoles November 13. It’ll also be available on the next-generation consoles when they arrive, and players…
Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War gameplay: Stealth inevitably erupts into weapons-hot action
August 27, 2020
Activision‘s Treyarch and Raven Software studios today showed off the gameplay for their long-awaited Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War, a sequel to 2010’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. In this game, you play as CIA operative Russell Adler hunting a Soviet spy who has…
Wargaming has launched World of Tanks: Blitz, its free-to-play multiplayer mobile game, today on the Nintendo Switch. The announcement represents a first for collaboration between Nintendo and Wargaming, as well as Blitz’s first console appearance.
World of Tanks: Blitz…
Highlights of the unwanted Nintendo Direct Mini
August 27, 2020
Well, the rumors were right … kind of. We got a new Nintendo Direct this week. Sadly, while I was hoping for a giant show featuring first-party games like those 3D Mario remakes that the winds (and colleague Jeff Grubb) have been whispering about for months, we instead got another showcase of third-party games.
And, yes, there are plenty of nice looking titles in this digital roundup. But it’s…
