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Steam Deck owners rejoice, for Valve has bestowed us with many gifts in the most recent SteamOS preview update, taking it to version 3.6.0. There are plenty of fixes and added features to enjoy, along with a graphics driver update that promises «many performance and correctness improvements».
Tekken 8 is, I am told, a very good fighting game. Not that I'd know too much about this sort of thing, as my reflexes are now old and haggard enough that I could be beaten by a well-trained dog that licks the buttons on command in anything that requires fast-paced controls. Sigh.
AI image generation is all the rage, and you could be forgiven for thinking with all this talk of AI PCs, NPUs and Nvidia H100s that it's only ultra-modern hardware that's up to the task. Turns out, however, that even the elderly Commodore 64 can get in on the action, thanks to some algorithm wrangling and a good dose of old-fashioned ingenuity.
It may have escaped your notice, but word on the street is that Nvidia is doing rather well of late. Fourth quarter earnings released earlier this year revealed gigantic revenue and net income figures thanks to surging AI demand, and now a recent report from Trendforce shows that the company has overtaken Qualcomm to become the biggest chip designer by revenue, too.
Sometimes, in the world of laptop design, it can be difficult to stand out from the pack. After all, when it comes down to the internals laptop manufacturers are pulling from the same parts bins, so when it comes down to making the right laptop purchasing decision for you, beyond what internal hardware you're getting for the price, when it comes to aesthetics they can all seem like much of a muchness.
AMD's laptop CPU naming schemes are, I can say with some confidence, difficult to parse even for those of us that make it our mission in life to keep track of them. So much so, in fact, that the company has previously resorted to handing out a decoder wheel to help poor hardware writers like myself make sense of various model number changes and code name variations.
Boston Dynamics' Spot has been around for a while now, and in that time we've seen the four-legged robot dance to music, be confused by doors, and inspire various levels of existential dread in regards to the inevitable robot uprising to come.
Hands up those of you that thought we'd be living in a far more science fiction-like future by now. Yep, me too. Still, it seems like some futuristic ideas that could be ripped straight from the pages of an Arthur C. Clarke novel might be in the works, as NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) has announced six concept studies that will be receiving additional funding and development, bringing them one step closer to reality.