Rockstar says GTA VI ships with full VR Mode on PC and next-gen consoles. Teaser footage showed cockpit car chases and a wrist-mounted UI, all running at 90 fps reprojection—finally, Vice City streets you can literally look both ways on.
Illustrator FluidMesh lets you bend complex wireframes like putty while preserving ratios and snapping labels. A phone-pic tech diagram morphed into portrait aspect in seconds—no pen-tool headache, all anchors editable.
🔧 Hardware: GeForce RTX 5090 Specs Teased
NVIDIA teased GeForce RTX 5090: 32 K CUDA cores, 30 Gbps GDDR7, and 500 W TDP. A leaked slide shows Cyberpunk path-tracing at 144 fps 4 K, plus a new zero-RPM idle fan mode to keep desks silent.
TypeScript 6.0 beta adds first-class pattern-matching that compiles to tight switch blocks. Refactoring a reducer cut eight branching chains and flagged missed cases right in VS Code. Expect speedy adoption before its September LTS.
📱 App: Snapchat SceneSwap Turns Selfies Into VR Rooms
Snapchat SceneSwap scans your selfie and drops you into a 3-D backdrop you can tilt-pan—think neon Tokyo or cozy cottage—rendered locally for instant Story uploads. No cloud lag, so remixing backgrounds feels as quick as flipping filters.
OpenAI’s Whisper 3 Realtime now handles 40-language call translation locally. On a mid-tier Android, café-noise Spanish flipped to English in under a second while CPU stayed low. No cloud, no lag—just slick privacy and clear conversations on the subway.
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🎮 Gaming: Elden Ring 2 Network Test Invites Roll Out
Elden Ring 2 Network Test emails landed overnight. Selected Tarnished get three-hour sessions this weekend in a volcanic realm featuring duo bosses and horse co-op. Builds wipe Sunday, so expect speedrunners to stream every secret wall before reset.
🎨 Graphic Design: Affinity Designer 3 Auto-Vectorizes Hand Sketches
Affinity Designer 3 quietly shipped Auto-Vectorize: snap a phone pic of a doodle and watch clean curves, smoothed corners, and layer groups materialize. Exporting SVG keeps anchor points human-readable—illustrators can finally skip tedious pen-tool tracing.
🔧 Hardware: RISC-V Phoenix CPU Hits 10 GHz Overclock
An overclocker pushed the open-source RISC-V Phoenix CPU to 10 GHz under liquid nitrogen, posting Cinebench scores rivaling Core i9 chips. The tiny 65 mm² die survived eight passes before crashing—serious headroom ahead of 3 nm mass production.
🖥️ Server: Ubuntu Pro Edge Offers Live Kernel Rollbacks
Ubuntu Pro Edge enables instant kernel rollbacks with pro undo-kernel. We intentionally broke a 6.9 patch; the node reverted in five seconds and pods never flinched. Late-night patch duty just got a snooze button.