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Nanjing University Sets Up One of the First Metaverse Majors in China
27.9.2022
Nanjing University in China has reportedly launched one of the first majors in the country dedicated to the study of metaverse-related knowledge. The university, located in eastern China, stated that this new push is directed to impart new metaverse-related courses that will help more students...
University of Tokyo to Offer Engineering Courses in the Metaverse
27.7.2022
The University of Tokyo will offer a series of engineering courses using metaverse tech. The courses, which are projected to start being offered later this year, will introduce students to the subjects of engineering and will combine this knowledge with the skills to handle metaverse-based worlds...
The University of Tokyo to offer courses in the Metaverse
25.7.2022
The project has been launched to address the lack of skilled personnel working on rapidly evolving technologies in Japan
Good News! PC Gaming Prices Might Stop Being A Hellscape Soon
18.5.2022
With an ongoing chip shortage that’s impacting basically everything that requires silicon and, everyone’s favorite topic, cryptocurrency draining stock of GPUs, getting new tech toys lately hasn’t been as easy as it once was. At least, not without paying a premium. Fortunately, shifts in the crypto...
Nvidia Fined $5.5 Million For Failing To Acknowledge Crypto-Miners Juiced Its Profits
6.5.2022
Nvidia, producer of graphics cards since prehistoric times, has just been fined $5.5 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to divulge to investors how much of its 2017-18 revenue came about from crypto-miners.Read more
Official Formula 1 'Ethereum NFT Game' Shuts Down
5.4.2022
F1 Delta Time, an official NFT and crypto-powered racing game that launched back in 2019, closed its doors last month, leaving everyone who had spent money and invested in the project probably wishing they had done something else with their time.Read more
Big Horizon Forbidden West Patch Makes The Game Less Shimmery
30.3.2022
Developer Guerrilla Games has rolled out a massive patch for Horizon Forbidden West, purporting to fix more than a dozen quests, plus a litany of minor hiccups. It also aims to make the game less shimmery. Those who made it through the era of puddlegate unscathed should rejoice.Read more
Warehouse Employees Steal Over $35,000 Worth Of Video Cards
19.3.2022
Three men in Russia were reportedly arrested after stealing 20 Nvidia RTX 3070 TIs from a suburban warehouse. While they successfully made off with the video cards, a haul worth nearly $38,000 USD, they were arrested after trying to sell them to local pawn shops. Read more
How behavioral tokenomics could facilitate the creation of a circular economy
3.3.2022
Cointelegraph tech reporter Tom Farren visited Imperial College London to gain firsthand insight into its joint project with Iota and the potential use cases for DLT in the environmental space
Earthbound Getting An Excellent Casio G-Shock In Japan
20.1.2022
Casio has released a slew of limited and special edition watches over the years. As a proud owner of the Japanese-made GW5000-I JF, which sports a stainless steel case back, I’m a big fan of Casio and G-Shock. I also, like Earthbound (aka Mother), so when I heard the two were joining forces,...
Riot Games Sues Scammers Offering Folks Fake Jobs At The Studio
9.12.2021
A nasty scam has become more popular over the last few months. People desperate for work at popular game studios like Riot and Rockstar Games get an email from a recruiter asking them to apply. They do and eventually get the job only to realize it’s all fake, usually after losing money to...
Sony Shows The Future Of Next-Gen VR With Prototype Headset
7.12.2021
Today, Sony held an online event called Sony Technology Day to showcase different technology that the company is developing. One presentation showed Sony’s prototype for an 8K VR headset. Read more
Ocarina Of Time's Source Code Has Been Reverse Engineered
29.11.2021
In 2019, the source code for Super Mario 64 was reverse engineered, leading to all kinds of wonderful mods and even ports to systems like the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. Now it’s Ocarina of Time’s turn.Read more
A Truck Full Of Precious PC Graphics Cards Has Been Stolen
4.11.2021
According to EVGA, one of NVidia’s primary manufacturers, a shipment of GTX 30-series graphics cards has been stolen from a truck in California. I do not care how badly you think you need more frames per second, you should not rob a truck to do it. The frames just aren’t worth it. I promise...
Nintendo Finally Adds Bluetooth Audio to the Switch
15.9.2021
When the Nintendo Switch went on sale in March 2017, it did not have Bluetooth audio support. Now, thanks to Nintendo’s latest update, it does. Read more
Howdy Major
7.9.2021
Adam Middleton is an artist at Weta in New Zealand who has worked on stuff like Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell and Pacific Rim.Read more
RTX 3090 Owner Finds Old Glove Inside $1500 GPU
23.8.2021
Imagine this. You’ve just paid a ton for a new RTX 3090 Founders Edition GPU. You plug the card in, boot everything up and … wait, why is my super-expensive GPU running at 230 degrees?Read more
Animal Crossing Patch Adds Nothing, But Fixes...Cloud Formations?
10.8.2021
The latest Animal Crossing: New Horizons patch is here and it fixes *checks notes* clouds?Read more
Newegg Thanks Kid For Finding Graphics Card Lottery Loophole, Closes It
27.7.2021
Buying high-end gaming hardware is a pain in the ass at the moment. New Xbox Series X/S stock sells out fast. Early access to PS5 orders are pay-gated at places like Amazon and GameStop. And the graphics card market is, well, you know how it is. In this mess of timed-out shopping carts and Ebay...
EVGA Is Replacing All RTX 3090 Cards Killed By Amazon's New World
24.7.2021
Earlier this week, folks who were playing the closed beta for New World using a high-end EVGA RTX 3090 GPU began sharing stories that the expensive cards were getting bricked by the game. Now, it’s been confirmed that EVGA, the GPU maker behind the cards that failed, is going to replace all those...