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Apple’s new Siri AI will work only on newer Apple devices with recent Apple silicon, meaning many older iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches will miss out. The rebuilt assistant was announced as part of Apple’s next Apple Intelligence push, but access depends heavily on the chip inside your device. The new Siri AI is designed to be far more capable than the older

The MSI Claw 8 EX AI is set to launch on June 23 with Intel’s new Arc G3 Extreme chip, giving the handheld gaming market a fresh alternative to AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme. Ahead of release, an Intel engineer shared a look at the device’s internals, showing how MSI and Intel arranged the motherboard and cooling layout to make the new handheld more competitive.

The Acer Swift Go 16 AI is currently on sale for $699.99 at Best Buy, making it one of the more interesting Windows laptop deals for buyers who want a large OLED display, modern Intel Panther Lake hardware, and everyday productivity performance without crossing the $1,000 mark. The discount cuts $300 from the laptop’s regular price and puts it close to MacBook Neo pricing

Google Earth now has a free Flight Simulator mode on the web, giving anyone a simple way to fly over satellite mapped terrain directly from a browser. The feature is available globally and can be launched from the View menu in Google Earth, with keyboard and mouse controls for basic flight. This is not the first time Google Earth has offered a Flight Simulator.

Gears of War: E-Day will not need extreme PC hardware to run, according to the newly shared minimum and recommended system requirements. The game lists 12GB of RAM and an RTX 2060 as part of its minimum setup, which is far lower than many players feared after seeing its Unreal Engine 5 visuals. The Coalition has built a strong reputation for technical work with

God of War Laufey is reportedly targeting a first half of 2027 release window, which could place the game close to Santa Monica Studio’s familiar March or April launch period. Sony has not announced an official release date yet, but the reported timing suggests the game may be much closer than some fans expected after its reveal. The game, previously rumored as God of

Stranger Than Heaven is changing the familiar Yakuza style brawler formula by moving combat inputs to the shoulder buttons and replacing traditional Heat moves with stamina based counterattacks. The Summer Game Fest 2026 demo focused only on combat, but it showed that Ryu ga Gotoku Studio is trying to make fights feel more deliberate, heavier, and more reactive than its older street brawls. The

NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has become much more expensive, with official marketplace listings now showing the 96GB professional GPU at $13,250. That is a sharp jump from the roughly $8,000 launch period pricing, making the card more than 60 percent more expensive than it was only a few months ago. The increase affects both the standard RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition and

Intel is reportedly preparing another Raptor Lake refresh for early 2027, with the new lineup informally being called Raptor Lake Next. The move appears to be tied to rising demand for DDR4 based platforms, as expensive DDR5 memory continues to make newer desktop platforms harder to justify for budget focused buyers. The reported plan would keep Raptor Lake alive even as Intel prepares Nova

AMD is using the MacBook Neo to make a direct gaming compatibility argument, claiming Ryzen based Windows laptops can run all of the top 20 PC games while Apple’s budget MacBook can only run five of them natively. The comparison is unusual because the MacBook Neo is not really designed as a gaming laptop, but AMD is using it to highlight the wider Windows

The IQUNIX EV63 Ghost in the Shell is a premium 60 percent magnetic keyboard that combines fast Hall Effect performance with one of the most striking anime themed designs currently available. It keeps the core foundation of the standard EV63, but adds custom Ghost in the Shell styling, KEYTOK PBT keycaps, translucent accents, quieter Nova switches, and deep customization for competitive gaming. At $249,

NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra GB300 has delivered a major performance jump in a new agentic AI benchmark, showing up to 20x better performance per megawatt than the older H200 Hopper platform. The result highlights how quickly AI hardware is moving from basic model serving toward large scale agent workloads, where many AI agents must run at the same time while handling reasoning, coding tasks, tool

Intel’s upcoming Z990 chipset is reportedly moving deeper into PCIe Gen5 support while using a smaller die than Z890, according to new leaked details about the company’s next generation LGA 1954 motherboard platform. The chipset is expected to power high end Nova Lake desktop motherboards, with more Gen5 connectivity, higher power draw, and stronger I/O options than current Intel 800 series boards. The new

Intel’s cancelled Arctic Sound 2T GPU has resurfaced online, giving hardware watchers a rare look at one of the company’s abandoned Xe HP data center graphics projects from its older roadmap. The chip reportedly features a dual tile design with four HBM2E memory sites, showing how ambitious Intel’s GPU plans were before the company moved away from that architecture. The sample appeared after a

AMD’s Advanced Shader Delivery technology can cut shader loading times by more than 95 percent in supported games, making some titles start much faster on Radeon powered systems. The feature is now expanding beyond the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds to more AMD RDNA based devices, including desktops, laptops, and handheld gaming PCs. Shader compilation has become one of the most annoying parts of modern

The ASUS Vivobook 14 is currently discounted to $659.97 at Amazon, giving buyers a practical Windows laptop with 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a bundled Plusera 8 in 1 Hub. It is aimed at students, office workers, and home users who want a reliable productivity machine without paying premium ultrabook prices. The laptop normally lists for $839.99, so the current price cuts

Microsoft’s unreleased Moonraker smartwatch still feels ahead of its time a decade later because it showed how close the company was to building a colorful, Windows Phone inspired wearable before the Apple Watch reshaped the category. The device never launched, but it remains one of the most interesting “what if” products from Microsoft’s mobile era. Moonraker was originally a Nokia project before Microsoft acquired

Windows laptops are more competitive than they have been in years, but choosing the right one is still confusing for many buyers because the market is crowded with too many models, too many processor names, and too many spec combinations. Microsoft is not fully to blame for that, but it could make the buying process easier with clearer certification labels for different laptop tiers.

Monster Crown: Sin Eater is a creature collecting RPG that takes clear inspiration from Pokémon, but it adds enough darker storytelling, monster fusion, open progression, and strong pixel art to stand on its own. The game is available now on Xbox Series X and S, PC, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch, giving fans of monster taming games another option beyond the usual big names.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has received a major 3.1 title update that adds the Eternal Ferrystone, new Portcrystals, cheaper travel options, quality of life improvements, and a long list of bug fixes ahead of the Dark Arisen DLC expansion. The update is part of Capcom’s larger plan to improve the base game before the expansion launches on October 9, 2026. The biggest change is fast