Softbank announces it's buying a $2 billion stake in Intel as the Trump administration reportedly considers a 10% slice of the bright blue chipmaking pie

Softbank announces it’s buying a $2 billion stake in Intel as the Trump administration reportedly considers a 10% slice of the bright blue chipmaking pie

What a difference a few days makes. After reports indicated that the US government was in talks to take a stake in Intel late last week, a new Bloomberg report says the Trump administration is eyeing up a hefty 10% stake in the chipmaker—while Japanese investment giant Softbank has announced it’s buying a $2 billion…

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Top 14 News Stories of 2014

Looking back at another wild year in the tech sector Two years ago, the world was supposed to end, based on the Mayan calendar. And last year, we heard about the death of the PC ad nauseam. Of course, neither of those things happened, setting up yet another event-filled 12 months of technology news that…

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Bethesda steps in again to calm down hype around Starfield news next week, saying Todd Howard’s EA College Football 26 skills are his ‘only visionary power’

Starfield didn’t quite land as the next big Bethesda game—I mean, it did about as well as you’d expect from any game from the studio, but critical and community response hasn’t signposted the sort of longevity the developer might’ve come to expect from, say, Skyrim. Last week, its composer Inon Zur said that despite this…

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Rez Infinite: Enter Area X

Ever since we offered a glimpse of the new content we’re making for Rez Infinite at the end of our debut trailer, and again as part of my GDC talk and PlayStation.Blog post, people have been asking me: What is Area X? Finally, today, I can answer. As with everything to do with Rez Infinite,…

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Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 513: Doomed Days

Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 513: Doomed Days

Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, everybody! Sid, Brett, and Tim are back this week to discuss the release date reveal and new trailer for Ghost of Yōtei. This episode also includes interviews with Doom: The Dark Ages Director Hugo Martin and Days Gone Remastered Creative and Product…

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A simple check with a magnet was the final clue that made Thermal Grizzly realise it had been hit by a 40,000 euro metal scam

Last month, we reported on how the rapidly increasing cost of copper was potentially going to impact the PC industry, as explained by Thermal Grizzly’s Roman ‘Der8auer’ Hartung. Now he’s back again on the subject of copper, but this time highlighting a more alarming and depressing side of the current market: industrial-scale material fraud. Hartung…

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464 parties have already finished the new permadeath Honour Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3, but it’s also killed 34,000 player-characters so far

Larian recently revealed some more of the stats it’s been sneakily gathering while we’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Among them, the revelation that 33% of Halsin romancers requested he boink them in bear form. Honestly, you people. Just as shocking in its own way is finding out that 464 parties have earned themselves a golden…

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