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Dawn of War IV Is Coming to GeForce NOW, and DLSS 5 Hits War Thunder

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is coming to GeForce NOW, DLSS 5 reaches War Thunder and Where Winds Meet, plus 10 more cloud games this week.

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MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ vs Claw 8 AI+: What's the Difference?

Claw 8 EX AI+ vs Claw 8 AI+: chips, graphics cores, SSD size, microSD Express, Bluetooth, weight and US prices, from MSI's and Intel's spec sheets.

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NVIDIA App Automatic Shader Compilation: Should You Turn It On or Off?

What NVIDIA's Automatic Shader Compilation does, when it's worth switching on, where the setting is and what it won't fix, from NVIDIA's own notes.

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NVIDIA App AI Agents and MCP Server: What It Can Do and How to Turn It Off

What the NVIDIA App's AI agent setting does, what its local MCP server can change on your PC, and how to switch it off, from NVIDIA's own docs.

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Hogwarts Legacy Gets DLSS 5 on GeForce NOW, and World of Warcraft: Forever Streams With Add-ons

Hogwarts Legacy gets DLSS 5 neural rendering on GeForce NOW, WoW: Forever streams with about 100 CurseForge add-ons, and eight games join this week.

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AMD's Gaming Sales Fall 40% While AI Chips Power a Record $13.4bn Quarter

AMD made a record $13.4bn in Q3 2026 as AI data centre sales nearly doubled, but its console chip and Radeon business fell 40% to $773m.

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Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Now Costs $385 After a Fourth Memory Price Rise

The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 goes up $80 to $385, more than three times its $120 price a year ago. The 16GB Compute Module 5 rises $40; the Pi 500+ holds.

AI Agents Can Now Steer a SETI Radio Telescope in the Search for Alien Signals

AI Agents Can Now Steer a SETI Radio Telescope in the Search for Alien Signals

At the Allen Telescope Array, AI agents now point the dishes, fix bad data and scan for signals from a plain-language request, on NVIDIA GPUs.

AMD's Helios AI Racks Are Running at Meta, and AMD Is Putting $1bn Into Meta's Shares

AMD's Helios AI Racks Are Running at Meta, and AMD Is Putting $1bn Into Meta's Shares

Meta is testing AMD's Helios racks and will get a custom Instinct GPU, while AMD invests $1bn in Meta's stock offering, a day after NVIDIA's $3bn.

Apple's iMac Gets the M6 Chip and Wi-Fi 7, From $1,499

Apple's iMac Gets the M6 Chip and Wi-Fi 7, From $1,499

Apple's 24-inch iMac moves to M6 with up to 12 CPU cores, Wi-Fi 7 and faster storage. Seven colours, from $1,499, arriving from 6 November.

SK hynix Posts a Record Quarter and Says the Memory Shortage Will Last Until 2030

SK hynix Posts a Record Quarter and Says the Memory Shortage Will Last Until 2030

SK hynix topped 100 trillion won in quarterly revenue for the first time and expects AI-driven demand for memory to outrun supply through 2030.

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Why RAM and SSD Prices Are Rising, and What It Means If You're Buying

AI data centres are soaking up memory. How much RAM and SSD prices have risen, whether they will go down, and what it means if you are buying.

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NVIDIA Engineers Are Building Robot and Factory Simulations by Talking to AI Agents

NVIDIA shows AI agents building working simulations from plain-language instructions: warehouses from scans, robot tests from CAD files and more.

Phantom Blade Zero Joins GeForce NOW as Nine More Games Arrive

Phantom Blade Zero Hits GeForce NOW, With World of Warcraft: Forever Next on 4 November

Phantom Blade Zero streams on GeForce NOW from today, one of nine games added this week, and World of Warcraft: Forever lands on 4 November.

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NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops Add Nemotron Transcription, GPU Controls and New Games

NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops start at $2,599, adding Nemotron speech tools, GPU resource controls and support for Phantom Blade Zero and Minecraft RTX Remix.

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C-BRAIN and NVIDIA Use AI to Accelerate Alzheimer’s Research

C-BRAIN and NVIDIA are building AI tools to analyse Alzheimer’s data, with case studies reporting research tasks completed in minutes instead of weeks.

NVIDIA Launches Minerva AIOps Platform for AI Factory Monitoring

NVIDIA Launches Minerva AIOps Platform for AI Factory Monitoring

NVIDIA launches Minerva, an AIOps platform that combines GPU, network, storage and workload data to detect issues and help keep AI factories running.

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Kazakhstan Expands AI Infrastructure as NVIDIA and Firebird Back Local Development

Firebird is expanding AI infrastructure in Kazakhstan, with a first phase targeting 2027 and a proposed second phase bringing potential capacity to 500MW.