Author: Randall

AMD fires back at ‘Super’ NVIDIA with Radeon 5700 price cuts

[ad_1] AMD just unveiled its new Radeon 5700 line of graphics cards with 7nm chips at E3 last month, and with just days to go before they launch on July 7th, the company has announced new pricing. In the “spirit” of competition that it says is “heating up” in the graphics market — specifically NVIDIA’s […]

MoviePass temporarily shuts down service to work on its app

[ad_1] Hi! Due to maintenance related issues, MoviePass services have been put on a temporary hold. Once we have resolved these technical problems, the service will be live again. We estimate this process will take several weeks. We sincerely appreciate your patience. — MoviePass (@MoviePass) July 3, 2019 MoviePass says it will credit customers for […]

Research group says America’s favorite TV size is now 65 inches

[ad_1] One main reason for that seemingly odd trend is that manufacturers hoarded vast inventories of TVs ahead of a planned 25 percent tariff on Chinese products. However, the US and China cooled their trade war somewhat after a meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping at G20, with Trump confirming the US […]

New trailer for ‘Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution’ is full of Pokémon nostalgia

[ad_1] The original Pokémon The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back was a hit with children but a critical flop, though it still has a strong pull of nostalgia over a whole generation of Pokémon fans. Particularly in Japan, where the movie was received better than it was in the West. The new version, Pokémon: Mewtwo […]

Gogoro brings its on-demand electric scooter rentals to Taiwan

[ad_1] The Taiwan-based company already sells its Smartscooters in Taiwan, and it operates ridesharing programs in Berlin and Paris. In those cities, Gogoro works with Coup (a subsidiary of automotive-parts supplier Bosch). In Taiwan, GoShare will be fully owned and operated by Gogoro, and the pilot fleet will include about 1,000 Smartscooters. The GoShare app […]

VW will reportedly share its electric car platform with Ford

[ad_1] The companies are poised to talk about extending the partnership at a July 11th meeting, according to one of the sources. Neither VW nor Ford is willing to discuss the finer points of negotiations, although spokespeople for both said they were making progress. If the agreement holds, this could have a far-reaching effect on […]

Konami says Sony made the call to drop ‘PES 2019’ from PS Plus freebies

[ad_1] “This decision was made by Sony and so please make an inquiry to Sony,” Konami bluntly told GameSpot. When Sony announced the swap, the European brand manager for PES told the same publication that Konami was caught by surprise. “I cannot really tell you what happened because I just found out today, in the […]

IHMC’s Atlas robot can navigate its own way through tight spaces

[ad_1] When Boston Dynamics created the Atlas robot for a DARPA challenge in 2013, it could walk but its steps had to be determined by a human operator and inputted through a user interface. The robot has been considerably improved since then and has shown an impressive degree of agility, but it still had a […]

Extreme E reveals the car that will race across glaciers and deserts

[ad_1] The machine is an absolute beast. It uses a niobium-reinforced steel alloy tubular frame and chunky 940mm wheels with, depending on the terrain, winter or summer tyres supplied by Continental. The racing juggernaut weighs 1,650kg and can go from nought to 62MPH (100KMH) in 4.5 seconds. That already-impressive time can also be achieved at […]