Apple Reportedly Ices Its Camera-Equipped AirPods Pro That Were Supposed To “Change The World”

Apple was aiming to " change the world " with its upcoming camera-equipped AirPods Pro. Yet, this supposedly revolutionary product has apparently again fallen foul of that near-constant bane of Apple's recent existence: its lagging AI capabilities.

We first reported back in February that Apple was working on a new camera-equipped AirPods Pro . Do note that Apple received a patent back in July 2025 for leveraging cameras - akin to the Face ID's dot projector - in proximity detection and 3D


GMKtec Launches EVO-X3, Powered By AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Up To 126 TOPS Of AI Power, Starting At $3600

GMKtec has launched another powerful machine for local AI workloads, but it does more than that.

Popular mini PC and hardware maker, GMKtec, has been launching numerous mini PCs for a while. The company has a dedicated lineup for AMD and Intel-based mini PCs, and has already launched powerful mini PCs based on the latest AMD Zen 5 architecture. The latest addition is the EVO-X3 mini PC, which isn't the only one to boast the flagship Strix Halo CPU.

Apart from the EVO-

A presentation slide showcasing the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 16 cores, 5.1 GHz speed, and 126 TOPS, alongside Radeon 8060S integrated graphics, support for external GPUs via OCuLink, GMKtec Claw+Wrangler AI agent, and features such as USB4, Wi-Fi 7, dual 8K output, and a full-metal blade design.

Square Enix Shareholder Derails 46th Meeting to Praise The Adventures of Elliot, As Publisher Hints At Future Of Final Fantasy

A widespread sentiment within the gaming community is that shareholders are the ultimate evil , having forced the worst practices in video games such as microtransactions and pushing for trends like live service games without having never picked a controller up in their lives. However, Square Enix’s 46th Annual Shareholders Meeting proved that some of them do, in fact, play video games, as one shareholder took advantage of this corporate meeting to praise The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales , the first HD-2D action RPG now


Samsung Is Increasing LPDDR And Commodity DRAM Prices By Over 20% In Q3 After Hiking By 90% In Q1 And 50-60% In Q2

There is no end in sight to the relentless memory 'chipflation,' with Samsung pursuing aggressive price hikes for server- and mobile-critical LPDDR modules for the third consecutive quarter of the ongoing year, entailing devastating consequences for the wider consumer electronics industry.

According to South Korea's ZDNET, Samsung is currently negotiating with commodity DRAM customers with an express goal of hiking its prices by up to 20 percent quarter-over-quarter in Q3.

This comes as Samsung raised its commodity DRAM prices by 90


Apple’s Dual-Foundry Approach To Reach Fruition Much Faster Than Anticipated, As Company Plans To Adopt Intel’s 18A Process For The Base iPhone 18’s A20

Intel has been named Apple’s second foundry choice, but that was to leverage the chipmaker’s 18A-P process for the upcoming M7 . What no one could have foreseen was the latest rumor claiming that the base iPhone 18, which is said to feature the A20, will be mass produced on the 18A node, but that’s what the latest Tata leak has suggested. Assuming this claim is true, it highlights Apple’s increasing problems with relying on TSMC

Base iPhone 18's A20 rumored to be fabricated on Intel's 18A process

Sony Fans Rally 30,000 Signatures to Save PlayStation Discs, but Factory Retooling Already Signals a Lost Fight

Sony 's industry-changing decision to stop producing PlayStation discs from January 2028 has gamers still reeling from the consequences. The future of console gaming looks inevitably digital-only , both for the PlayStation 6 and, if rumors are to be believed , for the next Xbox console, too.

Even if digital sales now account for over 80% of the total, there's still a fairly sizable user base that purchases retail, and they obviously aren't happy with this choice . Kotaku pointed

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Steam Machine User Faces First Case of Red Line of Death “RLOD” On His Unit Just 20 Minutes In, Indicating a GPU Failure

The first case of a Steam Machine encountering a Red Line of Death (RLOD) has been reported and indicates a GPU failure.

Anyone who has ever owned an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 should remember the RROD (Red Ring of Death) and YLOD (Yellow Light of Death), which were encountered when the hardware failed to boot.

The current consoles do feature their own system failure visualizers, such as PS4's and PS5's BLOD/WLOD, but RROD was infamous, as the

A close-up of an Xbox 360 console showing the infamous 'Red Ring of Death' light.
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Intel Nova Lake Desktop CPU Lineup To Include Two 18-Core Models With bLLC, Coming In 125W and 65W Flavors

Intel's Nova Lake Desktop CPUs will include two 18-core models featuring a single compute tile and large bLLC.

The Intel Core Ultra 400S series or Nova Lake-S Desktop CPU lineup will come in various shapes and sizes . Each segment will consist of multiple options to choose from, such as Single-Compute Tile, Dual-Compute Tile, bLLC, non-bLLC, Unlocked, and Non-K models. We have talked about the initial lineup before, and as per the latest


SpaceX Can Unleash A Brutal Bidding War Upon AT&T, Verizon, And T-Mobile As The FCC Dangles 160 MHz Of Prized C-Band Spectrum

That SpaceX retains vast cellular ambitions is no longer a secret. After all, the satellite giant has tried and failed to enter into a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement with the so-called Big Three - AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile - that could have allowed it to deploy direct-to-device (D2D) satellite-based connectivity services with ease.

Yet, the FCC is now dangling 160 MHz of the prized upper C-band spectrum, which gives


Moon Studios’ Thomas Mahler Draws a Clear Line on AI: Use It for Repetitive Tasks, But Not for Art/Storytelling

The debate over AI use in game development has raged across the industry over the past year or so, with some developers swearing they'd never touch it , others openly embracing it , and quite a few placing themselves somewhere in the middle .

Epic famously opened the gates to Claude , Gemini , and other LLMs with Unreal Engine 5.8 (and 6 )'s MCP server, with a mixed reception from the development community. In our recent exclusive interview with Thomas Mahler , CEO of Moon Studios and Game Director

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