New Intel 14th Gen price leak is good news for our wallets

Images claiming to show the setup process of the new PlayStation 5 console have seemingly confirmed that a one-off internet connection will be required to pair its new detachable disk drive.

Generative artificial intelligence has become a major discussion point in 2023, but we generally hear about its consumer-focused or business-focused applications. However, generative AI is not just limited to this space as it has made a strong impact in academics and research fields as well. A new report has highlighted that a group of researchers have developed an AI tool that can potentially predict deadly viruses before they can appear. This model can be crucial in predicting COVID-19-like pandemic situations ahead of time, and enable governments and the healthcare industry to be better prepared.

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.

Hexworks are making some pretty comprehensive adjustments to fantasy Soulslike RPG Lords of the Fallen, rejigging the AI so that enemies won't pursue you quite as far when you run past them, and patching how the New Game Plus options work to give players more control over the difficulty curve. The game's latest patch, out now, allows you to choose whether to progress to a harder NG+ setting after finishing a run, or restart at the same difficulty threshold while retaining your character and progression.

Lords of the Fallen developers Hexworks are still busily carving a path through the game’s various bugs and performance issues. The latest Lords of the Fallen update, Patch v.1.1.207, is a thrilling litany of technical gremlins that have now been tracked down and slaughtered.

It’s a good time to be an Apex Legends fan at the moment. With the ongoing Halloween event and an upcoming Post Malone collab, the game feels like it’s getting some newfound interest. However, to make the excitement last it looks like we’re getting our 26th hero in Conduit for Season 19. While she’s been making appearances in the background lore of Apex Legends, we’re finally getting some concrete evidence. Thanks to a few solid leaks, there’s some more information on Conduit’s abilities for Season 19, and we got the details below.

In the latest 10.2 PTR build, 3 mounts (Spectral Gryphon, Spectral Wind Rider, and Zhevra) previously only obtainable from Recruit-a-Friend or Scroll of Resurrection are now listed as Trading Post items with associated Trader's Tender costs. It's still unknown when exactly these mounts will be available on the Trading Post, but players will now have another avenue of collecting these mounts if they missed their initial promotion.

The Mobile Battle.net shop has teased an unreleased 12-Month subscription offer! The last 12 month sub bundle was released on November 1st, 2022 which means it is about time for another one! On the Battle.net mobile shop, there's a new header at the top that teases a new 12-month subscription offer but it DOES NOT appear to be available yet. This looks to contain multiple new mounts for both Retail and Classic WoW!

League of Legends is host to many alternate dimensions, including one where its champions are incredibly successful and popular musicians. The experiment started with Pentakill, who have put out some respectable metal albums, and continued through to bands like the hip-hop group True Damage and the K-Pop sensations K/DA. There’s a new kid on the block, and it’s Heartsteel, a boy band made up of a collaboration between League of Legends champions and real world musicians.

With just about every motherboard model on the market supporting RAM overclocking, it takes something new to stand out from the crowd now. Enter stage left Asus with its DIMM Flex feature in its latest Z790 ROG lineup, that is supposed to allow for more performance or stability, depending on how hot everything is running.

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has always pitched its mobile Pokémon game as a social experience. But when you’re actually playing it, it’s just your lonely trainer on-screen, walking the virtual world of Pokémon Go and catching ’em all.

After weeks of leaks and rumours, Intel has officially announced its 14th Generation of Core desktop CPUs, starting with a total of six new models. There's the Core i9 14900K, i7 14700K and i5 14600K, along with KF variants missing the iGPU component. Prices for each one are the same as the previous generation and you're getting a bit more clock speed, an update to the i7 configuration, and that's mostly it.