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The recent memory shortage hasn’t just been an issue for mobile and PC manufacturers. The gaming industry is also struggling as Valve, Sony, and Nintendo face higher memory costs and tighter supply. The crisis is driven primarily by AI data centers consuming a massive share of global DRAM and HBM output. Industry …

Nintendo is set to show off its long-awaited Switch 2 next week, but fans are already trying to work out what will come next. According to one rumor, the Switch successor could hit shelves as early as June, with a focus on first-party games for the first several months. Games …

Despite its modest computing power, the Nintendo Switch has become the best-selling current game console. The upcoming Switch 2 will get a big speed boost, but don’t expect it to leave other consoles in the dust. With a bit of data mining, one forum user has found processor specifications for …

The ancestors of both mammals and birds became warm-blooded at the same time, some 250 million years ago, in the time of the end-Permian mass extinction, according to new research from the University of Bristol. Posture shift at the end of the Permian period, 252 million years ago. Before the …

You’ve probably seen many images over the years that represent a black hole, but none of them are actually images of a real black hole (including the one above). They’re all artist’s renderings, or possibly a real image of the superheated gas around a black hole. Astronomers around the world …

Nintendo’s new hybrid handheld / living-room console is inevitably going to suffer more damage than its strictly living-room relatives; you don’t see too many people lugging a PlayStation 4 around with a built-in display, after all. A new report suggests that the Switch has problems over and above some intrinsic …

Ever since Nintendo announced the Switch, it’s been cagey about the exact details of the platform. That’s nothing new for the company, which frequently goes out of its way to obfuscate its own hardware’s capabilities. But there’s been some question as to whether the Switch contained a bog standard Tegra …

A cache of CIA documents was dropped on the internet two weeks ago via WikiLeaks. It was a huge volume of data, some of which detailed CIA tools for breaking into smartphones and even smart TVs. Now, Cisco has said its examination of the documents points to a gaping security …

According to an international team of researchers led by University College London and King’s College London, the discovery of a ‘molecular switch’ that causes the mucosal inflammatory diseases ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and celiac disease, could lead to effective new treatments for these autoimmune conditions. The discovery is reported in …

Nintendo will unveil its Switch hardware this evening at 11 PM, with a small number of consoles up for pre-order beginning at 9 AM on Friday morning. We’ve heard a great many rumors about the platform, its capabilities, price, and battery life over the last few months, ever since Nintendo …