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Nintendo’s Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time features full voice acting for the first time, and a blind‑audition process was used to preserve iconic sounds. Director HokWai Ng said the team wanted new cutscenes to match the upgraded graphics while keeping familiar audio cues such as Navi’s “Hey!” and “Listen!” Series director Eiji Aonuma added that casting decisions were based solely on similarity to the original voices. Unexpectedly, one of the selected performers [...]

Motorola is reportedly preparing to revive its discontinued Moto One line, a mid‑range Android One series that vanished after 2018. A new device listed in the Wireless Power Consortium database shows a design similar to the upcoming 2025 Motorola Edge, with curved side panels and the brand’s distinctive top‑left rear camera module. The entry indicates support for Qi2 wireless charging using the Extended Power Profile, meaning the phone will charge wirelessly but lack built‑in magnetic attachment for [...]

Microsoft announced a major update to Windows 11 that targets devices with 8 GB of RAM, delivering up to 20 % faster responsiveness and up to 40 % quicker multitasking in internal lab tests. The changes focus on three pillars: smarter memory allocation, prioritizing user‑initiated actions, and reducing the memory footprint of core apps. New compression algorithms keep an additional 2 GB of active data in RAM, limiting swaps to slower storage. The OS now temporarily boosts priority for actions such as [...]

AMD’s datacenter GPU business remains far behind Nvidia’s, largely because AMD cannot secure enough high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) from Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, limiting production of its Instinct MI‑series accelerators. While AMD’s Instinct MI‑400 chips load more HBM than Nvidia’s Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, the memory shortage forces AMD to sell fewer units and hampers its ability to take market share from Nvidia. AMD does, however, erode Intel’s position in server CPUs, now holding just over a third [...]

RevenueCat’s 2026 Shipaton competition received 3,985 submissions, awarding first‑place honors in 20 categories. The Grand Prize went to Mio, a habit‑tracker that pairs self‑care tasks with a pixelated companion, praised for its revenue growth in a crowded market. Boop, a pet‑photo‑to‑sticker app, won the #BuildInPublic award after a real‑world “100 Boops” challenge. Nitelore captured the Best Game award for its neon‑styled arcade racer with robust art, effects and haptics. See as Me: Colorblind earned the Peace Prize [...]

The European Semiconductor Industry Association reported that global semiconductor sales hit $517.7 billion in Q3 2026, a 146.8% rise from the same quarter a year earlier and the strongest quarter‑on‑quarter increase of the year at 24.1%. Europe contributed $28.6 billion, up 102.5% YoY and 22.5% QoQ. The Americas led regional growth with 191.7% YoY, followed by Asia‑Pacific at 141.4% and China at 124.9%. Memory chips drove the surge, jumping 405.7% worldwide and 392.2% in Europe, fueled by AI data‑center demand [...]

Researchers from IBM Quantum, the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), and MIT introduced a neuro‑symbolic search framework that couples large language model agents with deterministic integer‑programming solvers to explore magic‑state distillation protocols. Their preprint, “Symmetry and AI‑assisted discovery of magic‑state factories,” reports 699 factory classes, 564 of which are previously unknown, achieving record‑low physical resource footprints for non‑Clifford state production. By proving that code distance ≥ 3 corresponds to selecting nonzero, pairwise‑distinct syndromes in a [...]

Digital storefront GOG will host its inaugural “GOG Showcase” on November 5, 2026, streaming live from its YouTube channel at 7 p.m. CET (1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT). The event marks the platform’s 18th anniversary and promises announcements of new game releases, upcoming storefront features, and additional surprises as GOG enters a new growth phase. Known for DRM‑free titles and faithful ports of classics such as Breath of Fire 4 and Dino Crisis, GOG has seen a surge in popularity by championing [...]