Galaxy S27 Ultra Won’t Embrace Silicon-Carbon Battery Due To Manufacturing Costs, But That Doesn’t Mean Samsung Isn’t Evaluating A Bigger Capacity

Samsung is still uncomfortable with the prospect of switching to silicon-carbon battery technology for the Galaxy S27 Ultra, but its hesitance has more to do with increased manufacturing costs rather than the uncertainty of the batteries themselves. Thankfully, a new rumor claims that the Korean giant is evaluating a higher capacity for its top-tier flagship, and hopefully, it will end up competing with the iPhone 18 Pro Max.

At present, @phonefuturist has discussed on Telegram that the reason Samsung steers clear of silicon-carbon


Bloober Team Ditches Cronos Survival Dread for Aggressive Combat as Lazarus Lands on PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2

Today, Polish developer Bloober Team has unveiled the first gameplay footage and a developer diary for Cronos: Lazarus , and the new DLC looks like a deliberate shift in tone and pace from the base game, Cronos: The New Dawn . Rather than preserving its slower survival-horror rhythm, the expansion pushes the action toward a faster, more aggressive style built around pursuit, tactical positioning, and a more combat-forward version of the Warden's journey.

The story is focused on one of the most recognizable figures from

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Obsidian Reportedly Returns To Fallout After 15 Years, As Xbox Shields Studio From Rumored Restructuring Wave

Despite the smashing success of the Fallout TV show on Amazon, Xbox and Bethesda failed to capitalize on it with a new entry in the series. Although the studio headed by Todd Howard is unlikely to work on a new entry in the franchise until The Elder Scrolls VI is out on PC and consoles, another development studio, Obsidian Entertainment , is reportedly working on a Fallout project, and are reportedly safe from the upcoming restructuring, despite a fresh report suggesting they too were in Xbox's crosshairs.

"Xbox is looking


Intel Expected To Restart Supply Of 10th, 12th, 13th, And 14th Gen Processors In Mainland China

Intel will reportedly focus more on the previous-gen processors to fulfill the current demand in the PC market.

Roughly a month ago, we reported that some vendors are now restarting the production of DDR4 platforms , i.e., DDR4-compatible motherboards. This is to ensure the market gets DDR4 motherboards in sufficient quantity, as expensive DDR5 memory has made it unfeasible to build DDR5 systems on a budget. More reports are surfacing confirming the same report, and Intel appears to have prepared accordingly

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Apple Is Swapping The Faster TLC For Slower QLC Storage In iPhone 18 Pro Duo’s 1TB And 2TB Models, While Charging Sky-High Prices

Apple is expected to materially increase the price of the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. Even so, it is stealthily downgrading the higher storage variants of its upcoming Pro duo, especially when it comes to the flash storage, increasing the relative attractiveness of the 256GB and 512GB storage variants.


Final Fantasy VII Revelation Leak Exposes 7 DLC And Story Expansion Pass, As Square Enix Plans Are Revealed Early

Final Fantasy VII Revelation is set to conclude the Remake trilogy during Spring 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and Nintendo Switch 2, but Square Enix's post launch plans were exposed today by database tracker updates on the Epic Games Store , suggesting the story will continue past the ending of the base game with additional content.

The leaked listing , which has been last modified on June 2, a few days before the game's official reveal during this year's


Sony’s Discless Future Also Implies that the PlayStation 6 Won’t Launch Before the End of 2028, Says Analyst

Yesterday's big news put Sony in the spotlight, as the Japanese corporation announced its intention to stop making PlayStation discs starting in January 2028 . Later in the day, a rumor from Windows Central suggested Microsoft is gearing up to follow suit with its next-generation Project Helix Xbox , though it remains unconfirmed for the time being.

As for Sony, though, it had to deal with significant online backlash, especially once players understood that this meant the PlayStation 6 would inevitably be disc-less-only

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AMD RX 7900 XTX Prototype Surfaces With Red PCB, But GPU-Z Reads Just 16 GB Instead Of 24 GB

For the first time ever, we got to see an engineering sample of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which comes with just 16 GB VRAM.

A Redditor was extremely lucky to find a pre-production sample for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. This is a rare find, and as per the user u/Shav_tech, he found the prototype at the marketplace at a low price. This is the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, the flagship RDNA 3 GPU

A close-up of the back of an unbranded GPU displaying a red circuit board with various chips, pins, and connectors.
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Overclocker Breaks 13,600 MT/s Barrier By Pushing His Corsair DDR5 To A Whopping $13,606 MT/s On Z890 AORUS Tachyon Duo X ICE

Popular overclocker "saltycroissant" just dropped another world record and this time, he's the first one to break the 13,600 MT/s barrier.

Seeing existing memory overclocking world records getting broken isn't anything new, but this is the first time someone has pushed the DDR5 speed past 13,600 MT/s or 6800 MHz. This is the official record as per the entry on HWBot and CPU-Z, and this positions the overclocker "

The image shows a submission detail with saltycroissant's Memory Frequency Score of '6802 MHz with DDR5 SDRAM Vengeance LP', ranked 1st in both World Record and Global Rank among 2822 entries.
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Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Could Get Cutscene-Level Quality Visuals On PC, As Modder Doubles Down On Global Illumination

Earlier this week, modder dddd5 released the Shader Injector mod for the PC version of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth , addressing the flat lighting issues the game has had since its release and that remain one of the biggest visual issues of the second entry in the Remake series by Square Enix . Not content with having already competently addressed one of the biggest issues of the game, the Shader Injector mod is set to receive some significant improvements in the future, including bringing cutscene-like visual quality into regular gameplay via runtime API call

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