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Dicehunter · #**4671** 21-01-21, 01:34 AM

Gaben has stated there are multiple games in development at Valve and the huge success of Half Life Alyx was a big reason for it.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-...ign=socialflow

tgrech · #**4672** 21-01-21, 11:22 AM

Raspberry Pi have entered the microcontroller market!

What a price and feature set! Taking it straight to the Arduino's and ESP's

Already put my order in to get to grips with this one quickly, it looks like it'll be a popular choice

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/20/rasp...e-with-4-pico/

NeverBackDown · #**4673** 22-01-21, 06:33 AM

Youtuber VIK-on published a video on upgrading a RTX 2070 to 16GB of Samsung 2GB memory modules replacing the 8GB micron 1GB stack memory modules.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/yo...o-16gb-of-vram

Dicehunter · #**4674** 02-02-21, 04:01 PM

It's still EA so they have probably messed something up or monetized something via micro transactions but this could be good -

Dicehunter · #**4675** 05-02-21, 04:06 PM

A game called "On Air" coming out featuring a fair amount of ray tracing -

-Ray traced reflections
-Ray traced refractions
-Ray traced shadows

Apparently it's a Heavy Rain/Detroit Become Human style of game.

tgrech · #**4676** 09-02-21, 11:25 AM

Anyone see the new attack on CDPR? Not the first time for this type of thing for them iirc, but a hilarious note

https://twitter.com/cdprojektred/sta...48125403590660

Kleptobot · #**4677** 18-02-21, 11:51 AM

Not sure what other people think of this but Facebook has blocked news content in Australia

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc...ralia-56099523

Personally I think it is their service and they can do what they want with it. They don't owe people anything.

WYP · #**4678** 18-02-21, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kleptobot

Not sure what other people think of this but Facebook has blocked news content in Australia

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc...ralia-56099523

Personally I think it is their service and they can do what they want with it. They don't owe people anything.

I can't say that I have read up on it. I'm curious about how Facebook's feature works, as a ban only makes sense if Facebook were somehow taking content and not denying the producer revenue.

tgrech · #**4679** 18-02-21, 12:16 PM

Isn't this because Rupert Murdoch is trying to lobby their govt. to bring in laws to make social media sites pay when people share news articles?

Seems like it's a battle of Old media vs New media over who gets the profit from the clickbait tabloid articles brainwashing your gran

Dicehunter · #**4680** 18-02-21, 03:34 PM

Apparently Nvidia is limiting the hash rate of their upcoming 3060 to make them less desirable to miners.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/