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US consumers spent $9.1 billion on video games in Q3 2019

TechSpot News | Nov. 7, 2019, 9:40 a.m. | Original

In brief: It shouldn't come as a surprise, but the latest report from marketing research company NPD Group, Games Market Dynamics: U.S. , serves as a reminder of the enormous size of the video games industry. The report estimates a staggering $9.18 billion was spent by US-based consumers on gaming content, hardware and accessories during 2019's third quarter (July to September).

In its press release , the NPD Group included a number of highlights from

AMD's 3rd-gen Threadripper is now official, starting at $1,400 for 24 cores/48 threads

TechSpot News | Nov. 7, 2019, 9 a.m. | Original

Highly anticipated: 3rd-gen Threadripper is now official starting with a 24-core, 48-thread part that will set you back a handsome $1,400 and only goes up from there, for what is likely going to be insane core heavy performance. We also have news of a new $50 Athlon CPU. Finally, the 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X arrives on November 25, which means a lot for those on the AM4 platform

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AMD continues to erode Intel's CPU market share

TechSpot News | Nov. 7, 2019, 8:29 a.m. | Original

A report from market analyst firm Mercury Research shows that AMD is experience growth in all segments of the industry, thanks in no small part to its popular 7nm Ryzen 3000 processors. Team red is still far behind Chipzilla overall, but it’s steadily stealing market share away from its rival.

Pilot accidentally triggers hijack alarm, causes major security incident

TechSpot News | Nov. 7, 2019, 7:59 a.m. | Original

The incident took place at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport earlier this week. Reports say an Air Europa pilot on a plane bound for Madrid triggered the hijack alarm just before take-off.

Court filings show Facebook's leveraged its data policies to thwart potential rivals

TechSpot News | Nov. 7, 2019, 7:32 a.m. | Original

Recently, Congress asked big tech companies to supply internal documents for a broad antitrust probe into their affairs. In the case of Facebook, lawmakers want to know more about high ticket acquisitions and how its social graph has contributed to its growth.

SteamDB says Valve could be working on a Google Stadia competitor

TechSpot News | Nov. 7, 2019, 6:59 a.m. | Original

Given the massive collection of titles on Steam, now that even EA has decided to make a comeback, Valve's gaming distribution platform certainly isn't short on developer support and would only need them to be legally on-board if it decides to compete in the cloud gaming space.

Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Graphics Benchmark: What You'll Need to Play

TechSpot News | Nov. 7, 2019, 6:05 a.m. | Original

Launched on PC a year after it debuted on consoles, Red Dead Redemption 2 is still a big release that deserves a detailed benchmark analysis, much like what we've done for other titles this year like Borderlands 3 where we compared over 60 GPUs, Metro Exodus, and most recently Fornite...

TechSpot News | Nov. 7, 2019, 5:20 a.m. | Original |

Ahmad Abouammo, a US citizen who left Twitter in May 2015, was arrested on Tuesday. Ali Alzabarah, a Saudi citizen, fled the US a day later after being confronted. A third individual, Saudi citizen Ahmed Almutairi, acted as an intermediary between Saudi officials and the Twitter employees, writes the Washington...

Adobe's About Face AI can identify if a photo was altered

TechSpot News | Nov. 6, 2019, 6:19 p.m. | Original

Working with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Adobe has created a tool that uses its signature Sensei AI to detect if and how a photo has been altered. The company claims that it is twice as accurate at detecting manipulation as humans.

China announces online gaming restrictions for Chinese youth

TechSpot News | Nov. 6, 2019, 5:44 p.m. | Original

The six guidelines were announced in infographic form, and they're all written in Chinese -- since most reliable translation services are not yet able to transcribe images, credit goes to CNN for providing the information in plain English.

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