Invading minds and conjuring nightmares is also part of the job description as you work towards enacting revenge on Eleven and the small town of Hawkins. Netflix dropped season four of Stranger Things in two parts. Volume one premiered on May 27, 2022, as a seven-episode collection followed by the final two episodes on July 1, 2022. The season featured a powerful new villain, Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), as well as a cameo from horror legend Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare of Elm Street)....

Granted, Android tablets have managed to cut into Apple’s market share, but there hasn’t yet been a single device that could match the iPad on sales or popularity, or even come close. We were counting on ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ to drive Android tablet sales, but almost five months into the OS’ launch and very few tablets have received the update. In spite of this grim picture, there are good options out there that for one reason or another haven’t received as much attention from buyers....

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together was originally developed and published by Quest Corporation in 1995 for the Super Famicom, the Japanese version of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The title was ported to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation a year later before finding its way to North American audiences in 1998. It’d be another 15 years before Square Enix released a remake of the game for the PlayStation Portable....

The MBUX Hyperscreen that launched in the EQS sedan will be an optional extra in the electric SUV, set to debut on April 19. It covers virtually all of the front dashboard and includes the instrument cluster, infotainment, and passenger display in the design. The screen could be especially welcomed by those in the passenger seat, who get their own 12.3-inch OLED display and a control area that allows them to watch streaming content or TV while the vehicle is in motion....

Samsung Q900R Series It wasn’t even that long ago when 4K was touted as the next big thing, but at this year’s IFA, 8K televisions were a massive talking point. LG, Sony, and Sharp all had products on show that boasted this incredibly high resolution, and they looked spectacular, but Samsung’s Q900R series was something truly special Not only does this QLED television offer 16 times the number of pixels found in a standard HD TV, but it’s also got an incredible 4000 nit peak brightness....

Case in point, the average desktop computer contains over 10 different types of connections and often sports over 30 individual sockets. Whether you’re wanting to sort out SATA from M.2, or DVI-D from DisplayPort, welcome to our quick guide to sockets and ports – a run-through some of the most important and common connection systems found in today’s PCs, tablets, and smartphones. A Quick Word About Terminology Socket, port, connector, interface, slot, bus – all these words have specific meanings in the world of technology, but they’ve become somewhat intermingling over the years....

Tesla in the fourth quarter of 2021 produced 13,109 Model S and Model X vehicles as well as 292,731 Model 3 and Model Y variants for a combined 305,840 vehicles. That represents an increase of 28.6 percent compared to the 237,823 EVs that rolled off the assembly line in the third quarter. Deliveries in Q4 totaled 308,600 units, of which 296,850 were either Model 3 or Model Y variants. The remaining 11,750 consisted of Model S or Model X EVs....

Fortunately, that’s changing. The number of devices featuring Thunderbolt is growing with several options from LaCie, Promise, Buffalo and now Western Digital. As adoption of the interface grows, users will wonder if it’s worth investing in it. After all, USB 3.0 has only really started to gain serious traction this year despite the fact that most chipsets are yet to provide native support. Furthermore, it’s rare to come across a USB 3....

Thanks to the rapid rate of change in video games, both my job and the industry I cover are practically unrecognisable. This is largely what keeps me interested in video games, this pace of transformation: there is always something new to cover, and we’re always trying to find new ways to talk about it. When I started writing about video games professionally in 2005, the Japanese games industry was still near the top of its game....

As spotted by Tom’s Hardware, German retail giant Mindfactory has a PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT listed for €169 including VAT (at the time of writing), 35% less than its usual €229 MSRP. That new price converts directly to $189, and once Germany’s 19% sales tax is removed, the figure drops to $159. There’s also a dual-fan Fighter model for ten euros more. A quick look on Newegg shows two AMD Radeon 6500 XT cards for sale: a $253 XFX model and a $224 Asrock card, both of them above the $200 MSRP....

Best and Worst CPU Best: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Worst: AMD Ryzen XT range In 2020 we saw two major CPU launches from both of the big brands. In April, Intel launched their 10th generation Core series, otherwise known as Comet Lake, which included a massive slew of new parts such as the Core i9-10900K, Core i7-10700K and Core i5-10600K. While Intel did increase the maximum core count on offer from 8 to 10 cores, and slightly increased peak frequencies, this didn’t change the conversation too much about where and when you should buy Intel or AMD CPUs....

Screw Apple, you say. You don’t need to enter their closed system to taste sweet mobile bliss! Look, you have a perfectly fine Android handset or tablet on your person. It’s still wrapped in plastic, even. Once you remove that protective layer, it’s Fun City! We’ve got you covered on games, you non-conformist rebel. Download the ones below onto your device and be proud. Google’s mobile OS keeps proliferating on more and more handsets and the games hitting that hardware keep getting better....

Frontier is in a class of its own. It has 9,408 HPE Cray EX235a nodes, each powered by an AMD Trento 7A53 Epyc 64-core CPU equipped with 512 GB of DDR4, and four AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs / accelerators each equipped with 128 GB of HBM2e. Summed, the system has 602,112 CPU cores and 8,138,240 GPU cores in total, and 4.6 PB of both DDR4 and HBM2e. In May, Frontier joined the TOP500 as the first supercomputer to break the exascale barrier after it completed the HPL benchmark with a score of 1....

At 1080p using the medium quality settings we already get a sense for just how demanding The Witcher 3: Wild Hint really is. The performance above isn’t that much faster than what we saw when benchmarking GTA V using the maximum quality settings with normal textures. That said, for a minimum of 30fps gamers need only a Radeon HD 7850 or GeForce GTX 660 Ti. Those shooting for a minimum of 60fps are going to need some serious firepower – think GTX Titan or R9 290....

At the 2022 Tokyo Game Show, Tassei demonstrated a hardware attachment for streaming PC games to a Nintendo Switch over Wi-Fi. The device – called the Steam Card – looks promising, but Tassei still needs a partner to help mass-produce and distribute it. The Stream Card is about the size of a Nintendo Switch game card and fits into the system’s card slot. It consists of a Wi-Fi module and what Tasei told 4Gamer is similar to a System-on-a-Chip, which performs some local processing to bring the signal to the handheld....

Borderlands - October 20 (PS3, 360), October 26 (PC) - Borderlands is Gearbox Software’s upcoming science fiction first person shooter/RPG, in which players explore the hostile planet of Pandora in search of alien technology and other secrets. Dragon Age: Origins - November 3 (PC, 360), November 17 (PS3) - Described as a ‘spiritual successor’ to the Baldur’s Gate series, Dragon Age: Origins is an action RPG that claims to deliver a dark heroic fantasy story that will be told on an epic scale with mature themes....

The canister was developed in conjunction with subsidiary Woven Planet Holdings. It measures roughly 16 inches in length and is seven inches across with a target weight of 11 pounds. The automaker conceded that most hydrogen today is generated with fossil fuels and is used to refine petroleum and make fertilizer. In the future, however, Toyota believes hydrogen will be created using very low carbon emission techniques and will be used in a wider array of applications....

The Radeon HD 6990 is back on top as we test with Civilization V and at 5040x1050 we found it to be 19% faster than the GeForce GTX 590. This margin is reduced to just 9% in favor of the Radeon at 5760x1200 and then finally 6% at 7680x1600. Still we were impressed to find both graphics cards averaging over 30fps at 7680x1600 in this DirectX 11 title. Also check out our complete Civilization V GPU/CPU performance report Dragon Age II We used Fraps to measure frame rates during a minute of gameplay from Dragon Age II’s first single-player level....

The GTX 660 Ti SLI configuration averaged 48fps when testing with Battlefield 3 at 5040x1050, which put it 7% ahead of the HD 7850 Crossfire setup, 12% above the HD 7970 and 23% over the GTX 680. On the flip side, the dual AMD GPUs managed to outperform the two single-GPU cards by 5% and 15%, respectively. Moving up to 5760x1080, the GTX 660 Ti pair delivered 5% better results than the HD 7970 and 15% better than the GTX 680, while our Crossfire configuration edged ahead of the single-GPU flagships by a similar amount....