The documents are an aspect of Microsoft’s efforts to convince Brazilian regulators to approve its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The gaming giant disclosed that the Xbox One sold less than 58 million devices, or less than half of the PS4’s sales, as part of the proof. According to the court documents submitted to Brazilian Regulators: Microsoft also debunks concerns that adding Activision Blizzard games to Game Pass would be unfair to its competitors regarding its streaming service....

Build 22000.184 Build 22000.184 was released in the Beta Channel and is nothing but a bug-fixes update. It addresses two language-related issues within the OS along alongside acknowledging several other existing bugs that Microsoft is working to fix as we speak. This build will also be made available for commercial testing in the Release Preview Channel, making it the first-ever Windows 11 Insider build to be released in the Release Preview Channel....

Microsoft to Restructure 343 as Halo Infinite Lead Bonnie Ross Steps Down Last week, the company announced the cancellation of the local co-op in an official capacity. And if you thought that was a shocker, there’s more. Apparently, the developers are also removing speedrun strategies. But there’s some good news as well. They’re adding Forge after over a year of development. Previous titles in the franchise came with the feature already packaged in....

Windows OS Update Management is about to get a lot simpler for Microsoft Windows 10 OS Update Team. This also means Windows 10 OS Users can expect to receive fewer updates, and if Microsoft can, reduce the potential bugs and errors that increase with every update, be it Cumulative or Feature. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Update Catalog, And Update Management To Undergo Major Changes? Microsoft appears to be significantly tweaking the Windows Operating System’s update compilation and delivery mechanism....

You can think of blockchain as a record, an index that keeps a track of all liabilities, assets and transactions under someone’s possession or made by someone. How is it ‘different’, you may ask? Blockchain records cannot be changed in any way or form, how so you may ask again. Basically, the blockchain relies on heavy encryption and is decentralized, meaning it is not controlled by any entity thus, rendering all forms of illicit changing impossible....

NVIDIA’s next-generation GeForce RTX graphics cards are expected to launch before the current year ends. In other words, there’s still some time before AMD and NIVIDIA reveal their final products. However, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition allegedly leaked in the form of images. Surprisingly, there are ample indicators to prove the images and the design could be real. Now a German news publication has drawn some important design and specifications inferences based on the information obtained from its sources....

Twitter user Kopite7 recently (Via VideoCardz) shared some details on the upcoming SUPER cards, like the 3090S, 3080S, 3070S, and finally the 3060S. Coming to the rumored specs – RTX 3090 SUPER – 10752 CUDA Cores/ 24GB VRAM/ GDDR6XRTX 3080 SUPER – 8960 CUDA Cores/ 12GB VRAM/ GDDR6XRTX 3070 SUPER – 5888 CUDA Cores/ 8GB VRAM/ GDDR6XRTX 3060 SUPER – 5632 CUDA Cores/ 12GB VRAM/ GDDR6 Before we break it down into something that makes more sense, we will briefly discuss Nvidia’s SUPER line-up....

Bandages are commonly found in stacks of 5, usually in civilian houses. A bandage will take 4 seconds to activate, and will heal a players health by 10% over a period of 3 seconds. Bandage healing effect will not stack fully until the white bar is completely healed, and it will only heal a player up to 75% health. In order to avoid wasting bandages, you should activate your bandages after the white bar is halfway filled....

The newer chips are built on a more efficient and smaller 4nm process node as compared to the 12nm chip used by the old Snapdragon Wear 4100 Plus. This allows for efficient heat transfer and an overall reduction in the SoC size. As for the official numbers, Qualcomm promises 50% longer battery life and a 30% smaller and thinner design. Although, it is still unclear whether Samsung or TSMC‘s technology is being used....

Here’s the video of the new operators and the hard breaching gadget in action (via u/Zer0Bytes_): Secondary Hard Breach Gadget The first we officially heard of a new secondary gadget for Rainbow Six Siege’s attackers was during the Year 5 panel at the start of the year. Ubisoft acknowledged its existence, but didn’t go into any details about its functionality. As we can see in the video above, the new gadget takes a while to deploy, and is capable of opening up holes in reinforced walls similar to Thermite, Hibana, Maverick, and the new Ace....

Nvidia’s RTX 2000 series of graphics cards brought along several hardware changes that enabled Ray Tracing support in games. The new Turing based graphics cards packed special cores in them which were dedicated to this process and were known as RT Cores. The purpose of the RT cores was to specifically handle all the graphical computation that was required to make real-time Ray Tracing possible in games. Nvidia also supplemented the cards with extra CUDA cores to increase the raw power of the cards, while also adding a new set of cores known as Tensor Cores....

DoorDash in a blog post related to the data leak, states, “We recently became aware that a third-party vendor was the target of a sophisticated phishing campaign and that certain personal information maintained by DoorDash was affected.” This is actually quite common, where big companies who outsource work to smaller firms are affected when the third-party vendors are targeted. These third-party vendors are often smaller companies, having fewer security controls than their bigger business partners....

The problem seems to occur because the Intel Optane Memory application was installed on the systems which cause the issue when the necessary caching drivers are not installed on your system by the manufacturer. Thus, when the Intel Optane Memory Pinning pops up, there are only a handful of solutions that you can implement. But before we get into that, let us first discuss the cause of the said error message....

Today, flagship phones like the Samsung Galaxy S20 come with massive 4,000 mAh batteries, and even budget phones like the Realme 5i pack a whopping 5,000 mAh powerhouse. A phone with, say, a fully charged 4,500 mAh battery will still have 30-50% in the tank after an entire day’s worth of moderately heavy use and zero battery-saving measures implemented. What do you do with all that extra battery then? Well, you could just use your phone to charge your other devices....

Zen4’s Pricing Do bear in mind, this is just the tray version (without a cooler and a box). The prices may initially look really high, but these are in CAD (Canadian dollar). On converting them to USD, we get: R5 7600X = 423.99CAD or $330R7 7700X = 613.99CAD or $479R9 7900X = 777.99CAD or $600R9 7950X = 1,140.99CAD or $900 That’s a massive price bump from Zen3. The R5 7600X is way out of the 200 dollar category....

As it turns the problem is seen generally while launching the game so there are ample chances a corruption in the game installation or the recently downloaded items like mods, or custom content is causing the problem. Additionally, after investigating we find out there are other culprits as well for the Sims 4 freezes on the loading screen, so we have put together the list of reasons along with the troubleshooting solutions to solve the error....

SIDENOTE: It is always a good idea to ensure that all software, drivers and devices are up to date before upgrading to Windows 10. It eliminates so many issues during later stages of Windows 10 usage. The steps below will help in correcting the NVIDIA crashing error. Custom installation of Latest Drivers Download the latest copy of the NVIDIA graphics drivers that your computer has. If you so wish, you can do it from another PC and then save it in the flash drive....

There can be many factors that cause the B200 error on a Canon printer but the following can be easily marked as the main ones: 1. Power On the Printer After Opening the Cover of the Print Head Bay A temporary glitch of a Canon printer may cause the B200 error as the printer is failing to communicate with the essential hardware printer modules. Here, powering on the Canon printer without its cover may solve the problem....

You can use the under-mentioned solutions if your Surface Pro won’t turn on but before that, check if connecting the Surface Pro to a charger solves the issue. Also, check if lightly patting the lower portion of the Surface Pro or using the bend technique (place the device on a flat surface and slightly pressurized the edges of the screen) resolves the issue. Furthermore, check if disconnecting all the devices from the Surface Pro sorts out the problem....

Best X299 Motherboards X299 motherboards allow up to double the amount of memory bandwidth than mainstream motherboards, offer many higher-core processors up to 18-core Intel Core i9-9980XE, and usually come with more ports and slots. We will be looking at the best X299 motherboard in this article which will provide you with a lot of attractive features. ASUS ROG Rampage series motherboards are the premium motherboards for HEDT systems and offer top-of-the-line performance and features....