Category: Technology

The ongoing Covid-19 outbreak has forced millions of people to shelter in place and work from home. The same holds true for the team monitoring and controlling NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover as the space agency has sent many of its employees home to help combat the spread of the virus. NASA saw the move coming […]

When Nintendo’s ever-popular Switch console first hit the market, the company struggled to keep units on store shelves. Now, during the Covid-19 epidemic, it seems Nintendo is facing a second wave of demand. Over the course of March and April, Switch stock seems to have plummeted. This has made it incredibly difficult to grab one […]

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX GPUs have been out for quite some time now, and though more and more games have begun to support the real-time ray tracing tech they enable, their value proposition is still a bit shaky. Nvidia wants to sweeten the pot a bit now, though, with its new “RTX Voice” plugin. This plugin […]

Launching the project in the midst of a global pandemic may seem almost “disrespectful” (his words, not mine), but according to Wolfram, he also thought it could serve as an “intellectual distraction.” And remember, Newton conducted some of his best work while under quarantine during the bubonic plague. Perhaps today’s modern minds – and by […]

The Northrop Grumman Mission Extension Vehicle One (MEV-1) has docked with the Intelsat 901 satellite, restored it, and pushed it into the right orbit. The formerly retired communications satellite is now fully operational and in use. Northrop Grumman’s recent mission introduced a lot of firsts: the MEV-1 is the first spacecraft designed with repair functionality […]

AMD is said to be working on Zen 2-based quad-core CPUs to compete with Intel’s upcoming 10th generation Comet Lake-S Core i3 processors in the entry-level segment. Both chips will reportedly feature four cores / eight threads, a single CCX with 16MB of L3 cache, 2MB of L2 cache and clocks of 3.9GHz and 4.3GHz, […]

Crysis originally hit the market back on November 13, 2007, just about a year after the notorious Windows Vista plagued PCs around the world. The game still looks gorgeous after all these years, managing to look like it belongs in this console generation. But it still needs to be remastered. Badly. Luckily Crysis Remastered is […]