Sony and Universal Locked in Bidding War Over Metroid Movie Rights as Nintendo Shops Pitch

According to movie insider , Nintendo is pitching a movie based on its sci-fi franchise Metroid . V Scooper added that Sony Pictures and Universal Pictures are fighting to win the rights to produce it:

Metroid, last I heard a few months ago, was still in a bit of a push between studios, no updates since. Sony is one of the stronger contenders for Metroid, Universal is also fighting for it, both are leaning for live action but this could change.

Both studios have experience adapting Nintendo IPs to the

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Google Is Reportedly A Major Intel Foundry Customer, Will Use EMIB Advanced Packaging For Next-Gen TPU

Google's next-generation TPUv8e AI chip will reportedly utilize Intel Foundry's EMIB packaging, marking a series of wins for Intel in recent days.

Intel has been in the limelight for the past couple of days as it buisnesses gain traction from the recent surge in Agentic AI, which has led to CPUs becoming the hottest commodity after GPUs and memory.

Now, reports are coming from Taiwanese outlet, , that Google will leverage Intel's EMIB technology for its next-generation TPU chip. Intel Foundry


Creative Assembly Quietly Drops Alien: Isolation 2 Teaser After 11 Years, Abandons Cathode Engine for UE5

A few hours ago, British developer Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA have posted what looks like a teaser trailer for Alien: Isolation 2 on the official YouTube channel of the first game.

The teaser is only 25 seconds long, and most of the video is pitch black, but you can see the Creative Assembly and 20th Century Studios (which owns the IP) logos. The trailer is titled " False Sense of Security ," and its description reads: " A feeling of being safer than one really is

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NVIDIA Taps Taiwanese Nanya Technology’s LPDDR5X Memory For Vera Rubin Platform, Offering 3x Capacity & Over 50% Bandwidth Boost

Taiwan-based manufacturer is reportedly the country's first to offer LPDDR5X memory for NVIDIA Vera Rubin platforms as the green team diversifies its supply chain to power its Agentic AI powerhouse.

NVIDIA will require a lot of memory, both low-power and high-bandwidth, to fuel the growing needs of Agentic AI with its Vera Rubin platforms .

We know that NVIDIA's Vera Rubin makes use of two types of memory. The Vera CPUs use LPDDR5X DRAM while Rubin GPUs use HBM4 DRAM .


TSMC 3nm & 2nm Wafer Output To Be Boosted By 20% By The End of 2026 As Supply Crunch Continues

TSMC's production lines are being expanded to accommodate more wafer capacity, with a key focus on the new 2nm and 3nm lines.

Recently, AI firms announced that they will be expanding their compute capabilities big time . This massive expansion means that more chips will be required as these are multi-year projects that will address current & future needs.

TSMC, being the leading semiconductor maker, has been enjoying this extra demand, but at the same time, the production lines continue to get hammered as they are


OpenAI Building A Custom Smartphone Processor With Qualcomm and MediaTek, Targeting 300-400 Million Annual Smartphone Shipments to Dethrone Apple’s iPhone

It seems the ongoing AI mania will not relegate the good ol' smartphone obsolete after all, judging by the purported collaboration between OpenAI, Qualcomm, and MediaTek on a custom smartphone processor, raising huge red flags for Apple's iPhones in the process.

We already know that OpenAI has been working on a range of consumer-oriented AI devices. These include AI-powered earbuds that bear the internal codename "Sweetpea" and might retail under the "Dime" brandname. The device would purportedly rely heavily on cloud-


This Unique 10,000mAh AirVolt Powerbank From TORRAS Is Super Sleek And Has Two Attached USB-C Cables, All For $50.99 On Amazon [43% Off]

Bulky powerbanks with a ton of juice bring a decent level of utility to the table, but carrying them is an encumbrance, whether it is in your hand or shoved in your pocket. Also, imagine the weight when you have to attach a cable to it while connected to the phone or tablet?

Thankfully, the TORRAS AirVolt solves both of these complaints by offering a sleek alternative with a 10,000mAh capacity, meaning that it has sufficient juice to deliver multiple full charges. Best of all,


iPhone 18 Pro Max Is Proof That Apple No Longer Believes Thicker Devices Are Aesthetically Unattractive, As Long As There Are Benefits

The era of thinner iPhones was finally put to rest when Apple introduced the iPhone 17 Pro Max , its thickest flagship to date. While some might conclude that the Cupertino firm has lost its design ‘mojo’ with this release, the flagship also sports the largest battery for any of the company’s releases, with the iPhone 18 Pro Max said to take it up a notch in both dimensions and internal specifications. A comparison between Apple’s latest and upcoming flagships shows that thicker devices are in fashion thanks


MOREFINE Crams A Desktop RTX 5060 Ti Into A $1,099 Pocket-Sized eGPU With Thunderbolt 5 And OCuLink

This is one of the handful of eGPUs that come with the latest Thunderbolt 5 interface, closing the gap with PCIe interface.

Hardware maker MOREFINE has introduced its brand new external GPU dock called the G2, which brings the Blackwell-based NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB desktop GPU for powering mobile devices. This is one of the handful of external GPU docks that bring dual GPU connectivity options, including both Thunderbolt and OCuLink, offering a more versatile experience.

Apart from popular eGPU makers like ASUS


AMD Has Stuffed Ample Cores And Cache In Its Ryzen 9 9950X3D To Tackle Gaming & Multi-Core Workloads; Best Of All, This CPU is Now $125 Off On Amazon

The success of AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D eventually materialized the Ryzen 9 9950X3D , offering more cores and cache for those who can get the more demanding work finished in the least amount of time and can pay for the privilege of owning one of the best gaming desktop CPUs on the market. Fortunately, today isn’t the day when you’ll be forced to fork over a premium because Amazon has slashed $125 from the total, meaning