After a vague plot description leaked in February, Netflix has formalized plans for a series set in the world of Resident Evil. The new, live-action adaptation, simply titled Resident Evil, will carve out a fresh story while incorporating elements familiar to fans of the franchise. Written by Andrew Dabb (Supernatural), the new series will take […]
ProteanTecs raises $45 million to apply AI to chip design and performance monitoring
ProteanTecs, which provides an AI platform to monitor chip reliability, today closed a $45 million funding round. The company says the fresh capital will bolster its go-to-market strategy and operations as it seeks to scale worldwide. Chip design and manufacturing is a high-risk, high-reward pursuit. Mistakes made during the earliest phases are often enormously costly […]
Daily Deal: This Neat Gaming Chair Will Rub Your Back After A Hard Day's Work
Long gaming sessions can be a pain if you don’t have a good chair or desk to support you. That’s why features like adjustable lumbar support and monitor stands are so important–if you can tweak your setup to match your specific needs, then you can game comfortably for longer. Thankfully, Newegg has a pair of […]
Best Gaming Laptop Of 2020 — Alienware, Razer, Lenovo, And More
Gaming laptops have long felt like a compromise compared to the PC gaming desktops, but that compromise gets smaller every year. For a long time, integrated graphics cards struggled to keep up in terms of speed, and laptop heat could melt a desk if someone played a high-powered game for too long (at least, that’s […]
Bosch and Ford will test autonomous parking in Detroit
Ford, Bosch, and Dan Gilbert’s real estate firm Bedrock today detailed an autonomous parking pilot scheduled to launch at The Assembly, a mixed-used building in Detroit, in September. Leveraging Bosch sensors that monitor driving corridors and their surroundings to guide vehicles to and from assigned spaces, Ford plans to demo how its cars can self-drive […]
Nvidia quietly launches the GeForce MX450 with PCIe 4 support for laptops
You can bet the entire PC world will be nervously eating every single word Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says next Tuesday, when he is expected to finally announce the next generation of GeForce graphics cards, based on the company’s cutting-edge Ampere architecture. Today’s surprise release arrived with much less fanfare. The latest GeForce MX chip—Nvidia’s […]
WattBuy calculates electricity cost and carbon footprint for most U.S. homes
WattBuy specializes in energy intelligence, and it has come up with a way to calculate the electricity cost and carbon footprint for almost every home in the U.S. The Seattle company has created a database that lets consumers enter their address on its website and using machine learning provides them with an instant estimate of their […]
Get An i9 Processor At A Great Price For A Limited Time
If you’re looking at building a gaming PC or just upgrading your CPU, then Newegg has an excellent deal on a great 9th-gen i9 processor. The Intel i9-9900K Coffee Lake processor is down to $400 with promo code EMCDPFG42. It’s the same processor we used in our PC build guide and is more than enough […]
Microsoft researchers use Bing data to track shifting human needs during the pandemic
Research about the pandemic has mostly focused on epidemiology, but health data alone can’t inform policies — decisions should ideally take into account the impacts on communities. Driven by this maxim, Microsoft researchers developed a framework to characterize the changes in people’s physiological, socioeconomic, and psychological needs during the pandemic. After applying the framework to […]
Samsung Note 20 Pre-Orders Get 3 Months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
With the full range of xCloud services launching on Android next month, Samsung is having a neat promotion for the upcoming Note 20 smartphone and Galaxy Tab S7 tablet. Pre-orders for either device get $150 in Samsung credit while supplies last. You can then apply that credit to a new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Bundle, […]