Highly anticipated: With the Covid-19 pandemic disrupting the world economy and stopping product releases, concerns remain that the PS5 and Xbox Series X will be delayed beyond their “holidays 2020” launch dates. We’ve had reassurances that this won’t happen, and now AMD, whose hardware is found in the machines, has weighed in, saying that the next-

What just happened? Cyberpunk 2077 will be a very violent game aimed squarely at adults. With scenes of sex, drugs, and cruelty, there were concerns Australia’s notoriously tough Classification Board could ban it. But Aussies looking forward to the RPG no longer have to worry: It’s been given an R18+ rating and will release unedited on September 17.

Bandai Namco, which publishes Cyberpunk 2077 in Australia, confirmed the 18+ rating, which is classified

Something to look forward to: Are you missing your local Apple store? It could reopen later this month. CEO Tim Cook has said that a “few” of the outlets in the US could open in the first half of May, with stores in Australia and Austria set to reopen in the next two weeks.

Apple closed all of its China stores in early February over Covid-19 concerns. In early March, when the country recorded its first single-digit rise in infections since it started recording numbers,

In context: Elon Musk's SpaceX and Amazon's Blue Origin received some very positive news today. NASA has awarded both corporations lucrative contracts in exchange for their promise to design and develop human landing systems for the space agency's "Artemis" program.

As part of the program, one of these human landing systems (HLS) will be used to deliver the "first woman and next man" to the Moon's surface within the next four years : an

In a nutshell: The user manual for the upcoming Surface Earbuds recently popped up on the FCC's website along with various pictures of the outside and inside of the earbuds. This likely signals an impending release though $249 may be hard to swallow for some buyers.

We haven't heard much about Microsoft's Surface Earbuds since their announcement last October. The only meaningful news was that the release date was pushed to spring 2020. Now it looks like the company may be sticking with

In a nutshell: Nanotechnology is allowing electronics to get smaller and more compact. A new breatheable material developed by NC State contains eletrodes that can be used for anything from registering EKGs to controling your video games.

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a thin stretchable material that can be embedded with electronics. The scientists believe that the fabric has practical applications in the biomedical field, but tested it by playing a game of Tetris using a sleeve of the material as a controller, showing that it has practical use cases in the

Why it matters: For startups, the current economic climate poses additional challenges on top of the already high research and development costs. ARM's Flexible Access for Startups is the company's way to encourage these projects to continue by giving them free access to 75 percent of its chip portfolio.

ARM-based hardware is eating the world and is slowly permeating the PC desktop and server markets in the process. Hardware startups, however, are stuck between a rock and a hard place, and are forced to adapt

Eagerly awaited: The wait is over. Microsoft is finally ready to reveal what the Xbox Series X can really do. Next week it will livestream gameplay footage of several upcoming games for the console, including Assassin's Creed Valhalla. If you've been waiting to see how the new Box performs, be sure to set an alarm, so you don't miss it.

We already know that the Xbox Series X will look a bit like a refrigerator , only smaller. We also know most of the specs