After Payday 3’s disastrous launch, Starbreeze partners up with an Australian studio to lend its ‘expertise in release management’ to a Fortnite Island

Payday 3 is in a rocky state. Its launch was dreadful, its fans are angry, and its promised patch keeps getting punted further and further into the future (though for what sounds like a good reason). There’s only one thing to do if you’re a developer in this dicey situation: launch a Fortnite Island. It’s…

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A GPU datacentre company agreed to buy a cannabis business last month in what could be described as a new joint venture

In a move that may bring new meaning to the term “cloud-computing”, HyperScale Nexus Holding Corp, a business centred around providing Nvidia H100 GPUs for AI and HPC markets, entered into an agreement to acquire the Colorado based American Cannabis Company inc last month. The company describes itself as providing industry specific advisory and consulting…

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Microsoft Word hits the big Four-O and if you can remember the first version, you’re officially ancient

Long before GPUs and multicore processors were a thing, Microsoft decided to enter the lucrative world of business software with its word processing application, Word. If you’re wondering just how long ago that was, well the ubiquitous electronic typewriter celebrates its 40th birthday this week. Word first appeared in 1983, an era when Intel’s most…

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