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Perseverance Takes Its First Drive on Mars
Perseverance finally took its first drive on Mars late last week, covering a total of 21.3 feet (6.5 meters).

Nvidia Wins Billion-Dollar Crypto Mining Lawsuit
Nvidia has won a lawsuit brought against it by multiple investors who claimed the company had deliberately and recklessly misrepresented the provenance of over a billion dollars in crypto-mining sales. We still have an ongoing GPU disaster in the PC channel.

Could Nvidia’s DLSS Help the Nintendo Switch Hit 4K Resolutions?
Could Nintendo use DLSS to help the Switch hit 4K resolutions?

New Study Proposes Warp Drive That Might Actually Work
Physicists have speculated on the possibility of a real warp drive for years, but a new paper lays out a vision for a warp drive that might actually work. We still don't know how to build it, but at least we know why we can't build it.

Blizzard’s Diablo II Remaster Will Support 20-Year-Old Save Files
Blizzard is working on a remastered version of Diablo II, and it will be very faithful to the original. How faithful? Blizzard producer Matthew Cederquist confirms save files from the original game will work with the remaster, allowing you to finish the quest you started two decades ago.

Pentagon May Dump $10 Billion JEDI Program Over Microsoft, Amazon Fight
The government is so tired of fighting with Amazon over the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that went to Microsoft, it'd rather just quit than move forward with litigation.

EU Wants 20 Percent of Semiconductor Manufacturing by 2030
The EU may unveil a plan to boost its share of leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing by up to 20 percent of the market by 2030.

Senators Call for 100Mbps Minimum Broadband Standard
Multiple US senators are calling for the US to adopt a 100 Mbps upstream/downstream broadband standard in 2021. The pandemic has shown a light on holes in US infrastructure, especially in rural areas.

AMD Will Support Smart Access Memory on Ryzen 3000 CPUs for Gaming
AMD's Resizable BAR / Smart Access Memory feature is coming to Ryzen 3000 CPUs based on the Zen 2 architecture.

New Nintendo Switch With Larger Samsung OLED Rumored for This Year
This device will allegedly feature a larger Samsung OLED and support for 4K gaming in docked mode, but that might complicate things for developers.

SpaceX Starship Prototype Explodes Following Perfect Landing
SpaceX is running through Starship prototypes like they're growing on trees. Just a few weeks after its last rocket exploded following a hard landing, the company succeeded in landing a Starship rocket after its test flight. Sadly, the vessel exploded several minutes later.

Cryptocurrency Miners Are Reportedly Ruining the Laptop Market, Too
According to a new report, cryptocurrency miners aren't just buying up desktop PC GPUs — they've started hoovering up gaming laptops as well.