Tech Spite

If you've been on the market for a brand new graphics card recently, there's a pretty good chance that you've either not been able to get one at all, or if you have, you've paid an absurdly high price for it.  Ever since Nvidia and AMD launched their recent GPU generations, graphics cards have been both absurdly expensive and incredibly hard to find, thanks to a global silicon shortage.  But now that Intel is getting ready to enter the discrete graphics card market with its Arc Alchemist GPUs, it's easy to get optimistic about the shape of the GPU market later this year. I have sour news for you, though, it's not going to be that easy.  While these new GPUs will surely alleviate some of the pressure we've been feeling, and may even see prices drop a bit, Intel is going to be victim to the same limiting forces as AMD and Nvidia.  (Image credit: TSMC) All about the manufacturing One of the main reasons the silicon shortage hit so hard in the com...

The 2022 Presidents' Day sales event is now less than a month away (Monday, February 21 , to be exact), which means there's no better time than the present to start preparing for this year's bargain bonanza. We've created this guide to tell you everything about the Presidents' Day sales event, plus today's best early deals on TVs, mattresses, appliances, and more. Presidents' Day sales mean massive discounts on home items, focusing on furniture and major appliances from retailers like Home Depot, Walmart, and Lowe's. You'll also find deals on kitchen appliances and vacuums as well as best-ever offers on mattresses with sitewide sales and free accessories from online brands like Nectar, Purple, Casper, and more. If you're looking for tech bargains, you'll also find President's Day deals on best-selling TVs, laptops, tablets, and headphones from retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, Dell, and Amazon. Below you'll find everything you ...

PlayStation maker Sony announced on Monday plans to acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion – an enormous acquisition likely to shake up the gaming universe. The announcement followed hot on the heels of the startling news last week that Xbox manufacturer Microsoft planned to take over Activision Blizzard – so the Japanese company countered with its own major gaming acquisition. The game development studio is best known for helping the Xbox platform launch back in November 2001 as the initial developer of the Halo series and more recently has been helming the hugely popular Destiny franchise - which is soon to release its next major expansion with The Witch Queen . This is a developing story so expect to see this page updated as more information is made available and as our contacts reply to our requests for comment. Bungie has officially acknowledged the announcement in a blog post . In it Pete Parsons, CEO and Chairman of Bungie explains that he sees Sony Interactive Entertainment as ...

Murals and other similar forms of art are often ephemeral. Putting them on the blockchain can give them life after they've been covered up or removed. from Wired https://ift.tt/fqFYVAUJt

Good sleep is vital, and for that you need a comfy place to rest at night. If you want that ‘place’ to be a luxury handcrafted Saatva mattress without the luxe price tag, then this deal is for you: save $250 on orders of $1,000 or more at Saatva thanks to our exclusive discount. It's available to use as of now until 6 February.  You can use this $250 saving on any Saatva product as long as your total order comes to $1,000 or more, but we’d use it on the Saatva Classic, a luxury innerspring hybrid that sits at the top of our best mattress guide. With $250 off, a queen size is reduced to $1,445 (was $1,695), which is competitive for a mattress of this quality. That’s also $50 more than what other customers will get on the Classic, though if you are looking to buy a more expensive Saatva, then the better Saatva mattress deal for you is a saving of up to $450 off orders worth $4,000 or more .  That's a big saving from a top-rated sleep brand, and we're unlikely to see an...

The wait is over – Paramount Plus has dropped the first official trailer for its highly anticipated Halo TV series, delivering what appears to be an epic and (mostly) visually faithful adaptation of the beloved video game franchise. The trailer also brings with it a release date: the Halo TV show will premiere on the Paramount Plus streaming service on March 24, 2022. The Halo TV series tells the story of the Human-Covenant War in the 26th Century, in which Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and his AI partner Cortana (Jen Taylor) attempt to stop the alien threat known as The Covenant and its genocidal campaign against humanity. While the upcoming TV adaptation seems to be sticking pretty close to Halo's basic fundamentals, it also appears to be taking a wildly different path in terms of its story. Before we go any further, you can check out the official trailer for the Halo TV series below. Analysis: a different Halo to what we're used to As previously explained by Fran...

Audio streaming giant Spotify has today responded to mounting controversy surrounding Covid vaccine misinformation by stating it will add content advisory warnings to any podcasts on the platform that cover the topic of the pandemic. In a blog post from CEO Daniel Ek, it was also announced that the service has published its ' platform rules ', the first time it's made public the content guidelines that it upholds for its content creators – both exclusive Spotify partners and any other contributor that shares on the platform. Among these guidelines, there is a section dedicated to disallowing "Content that promotes dangerous false or dangerous deceptive medical information that may cause offline harm or poses a direct threat to public health". Under this section, Spotify specifically cites the following as going against its rules: "asserting that [...] Covid-19 [...] is a hoax or not real", "promoting or suggesting that vaccines approved by loc...

The Samsung Galaxy S22 series is coming to Earth soon, with a February 9 launch date now confirmed , and the leaks and rumors have been coming in thick and fast for all three devices in the line. Rumored Galaxy S22 features - Announcement set for February 9 - Similar designs for the S22 and S22 Plus - A new, Galaxy Note-like design for the S22 Ultra - A glass back for all models - An S-Pen slot for the Galaxy S22 Ultra - Slightly different screen sizes to the S21 range - Big camera changes planned - Smaller batteries for all except the Ultra - Powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 or Exynos 2200 chipset - 1TB internal storage option for the Ultra These are to be the successors to 2021's Samsung Galaxy S21 , Galaxy S21 Plus and Galaxy S21 Ultra , but have also got the big boots of the Samsung Galaxy Note 21 to fill, with 2021's late-year flagship actually canceled, much to the chagrin of Samsung fans. The Galaxy S22 is therefore the next big flagship from Samsung, and ...