The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Artemis 1 launch has been scrubbed as the agency rushed to solve an issue with the rocket’s engines. The launch will see the Space Launch System (SLS) roar to the skies from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as it tests the platform that will form the backbone of a decades-long NASA effort to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon. NASA engineers kicked off the SLS’s tanking operations, which involve loading the rocket up with close to a million gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, an hour after midnight today Eastern Time after weather constraints pushed the timeline forward by 45 minutes....

Erick Boenisch, VP of NBA Development at Visual Concepts, said in a statement: The Jordan Challenge is an immersive experience unlike anything NBA 2K fans have seen, completely rebuilding the challenges from 2K11 and adding five new moments. Our team took everything into consideration when constructing this game mode; the arenas, the players, the uniforms, the broadcast, and the play style of the era have been accounted for in an effort to give fans a truly authentic and unique playable Jordan experience....

The Ad-Supported Netflix Subscription Tier Does Not Seem to Look Nice So Far Netflix’s co-CEO and Chief Content Officier Ted Sarandos has shared some details about the new tier during a recent earnings call. According to Deadline, Sarandos has talked about how the ad-supported Netflix subscription plan will be rolling out to users next year, and the company is partnering with MIcrosoft for the rollout. Sarandos has also gone ahead and confirmed that the ad-supported tier will not give users access to the entire library that Netflix has....

The details come from known Destiny leaker @DestinyTwoLeaks, and some details appear to be supported by Destiny leaker Ginsor as well. Earlier this month, @DestinyTwoLeaks posted a leak on PasteBin with new information about the next Destiny 2 expansion and season, and some parts of this leak appear to be in line with more recent leaks from Ginsor. “So I’ve recently received some news I think many of you would enjoy reading through”, @DestinyTwoLeaks posted earlier this month....

The brand-new patch for the Endurance update aims to fix numerous reported issues within the game, including memory-related crashes, visual glitches, and gameplay bugs. Down below you’ll find the full release notes for this update, as supplied by the developer. No Man’s Sky Endurance Update 3.99 Release Notes PC/PS5/PS4/Xbox Series/Xbox One Bug fixes A glass version of the freighter stairs is now available to research and construct. Fixed a number of issues with freighter customisation that caused areas of paint to be too small or to be incorrectly labelled as primary/secondary/tertiary....

“After applying the Nintendo Switch Sports update, players will be able to use a Joy-Con controller and the Leg Strap accessory (included with the physical version of the game, and also available to purchase separately) in full Four-on-Four and One-on-One Football matches. Using the Leg Strap, budding footballers can use a kicking motion in real life, allowing the game to turn those movements into in-game actions. Likewise, you can sprint in the game by moving your hands, as if jogging on the spot....

The main reason why the Switch sold gangbusters was due to the return of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle, which includes the console, the highly popular video game, and three months of Nintendo Switch Online. Thanks to this, the Nintendo Switch accounted for 42% of all consoles sold during the week. However, the Nintendo Switch saw sales volumes go way down over 2021’s Black Friday. Why? Because both Sony and Microsoft targeted this week with highly tempting offers....

Analyst Hints That There Might Be Plans to Introduce mini-LED to the Smaller iPad Pro, but It Might Not Happen This Year Though TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo earlier predicted that Apple is planning a mini-LED upgrade for the 11-inch iPad Pro, DSCC CEO Ross Young believes this product will not see a launch and provides a simple explanation in his tweet below. Despite the 12.9-inch iPad Pro being an expensive tablet at $1,099, one major differentiator for it is that mini-LED panel....

Massive 4-Slot NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Custom Graphics Card Spotted Within Lenovo’s Legion Gaming PC There are no details regarding the specific make or model of this custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card but it could be a Gigabyte design based on its look. The card features a quad-slot that Gigabyte has been making for the RTX 3090 Ti cards and a single PCIe Gen 5.0 plug can be spotted too....

DRIVE Thor is the successor to the company’s NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, comprising the latest computing technology to speed up industry deployment of smart-vehicle technology, focusing on automakers’ 2025 models. The first customer of NVIDIA’s new next-gen platform will be Geely-owned premium EV maker ZEEKR. The company will begin production starting in 2025. NVIDIA’s DRIVE Thor combines traditionally dispersed vehicle processes, including digital clusters, infotainment, parking, and assisted driving. The company anticipates higher efficiency in development and prompter application iteration....

NVIDIA and Deutsche Bank have announced a partnership on a plethora of AI projects to offer services for banking, including avatars, risk management language models on a larger scale, and detecting fraud, according to Gil Perez, Head of Cloud and Innovation Network at Deutsche Bank. The partnership will be exploring uses cases to support Deutsche Bank’s strategic ambitions to 2025 and beyond. NVIDIA joins forces with Deutsche Bank to enhance services in the financial sector with artificial intelligence Deutsche Bank has used AI for categorizing payments, safety, and dynamic pricing, which has been a more enclosed approach and less full implementation....

Bandai Namco also released a brand new ‘Memories’ trailer, embedded below. One Piece Odyssey is due to be released on January 13th, 2023 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X. Check out our recent Wccftech hands-on penned by Kai Powell to get his first impressions on the game. A new RPG from the hugely popular manga and anime series ONE PIECE, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series!...

RegiStar is an Excellent Good Lock Module to Super Charge Your One UI 5.0-Powered Galaxy Phone According to a post on the Samsung Community forums, the RegiStar module is available for all Galaxy devices running One UI 5.0. If you are in the supported regions, you can go ahead and download it from the Galaxy Store by following this link. Once downloaded, you can go ahead and reorganize the settings menu on your Galaxy smartphone or tablet, the module also lets you add or remove items from the menu and organize the order in which the items show up in the menu....

AMD to release flagship Radeon RX 7900 series GPU, delaying AIBs as far back as two weeks With NVIDIA’s launch, the playing field was different. We saw some retailers selling or displaying cards before the GeForce RTX 4090 street date launch. AMD’s partners, however, appear to be running into a roadblock for launch. The only AMD partners publicly announcing their custom designs are Sapphire, PowerColor, and ASUS. Sapphire teased the RX 7900 NITRO graphics cards yesterday, PowerColor revealed its custom Red Devil version four days ago, and ASUS with its TUF series at the beginning of the month....

As reported by Persona Central, the biggest addition made to both games is Quick Save, which will allow players to save their game at any time. The other additions include enhanced visuals, the ability to change difficulty at any point in Persona 3 Portable, and an album feature in Persona 4 Golden that will allow players to watch story and Social Link events again. Atlus also shared a presentation video that details the new features included in the upcoming modern ports of Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden....

Face Unlock Option Does Exist in The Pixel 6 But You Cannot Use It A Redditor managed to find the face unlock option while setting up a Pixel 6. The user has reported that the face unlock choice appeared when you have to choose a screen lock; basically, the screen lets you choose from various methods of unlocking your phone. The “Face” option showed up with choices such as password, Pattern, or PIN....

The Pixel 7a Looks a Lot Like its Predecessors, With Thicker Bezels and a Familiar Layout Today, we have two images showing how the Pixel 7a looks, and honestly, the apple does not fall far from the tree. The Pixel 7a renders are coming as a courtesy of OnLeaks in association with SmartPrix. Based on the images provided to us, the phone looks a lot similar to the predecessors, and that is not essentially a bad thing as the original phones had the guts to do something different in terms of the design, even if it was polarizing....

Since I/O 2022 in May, we have been aware of the fact that the Pixel Watch will be available in silver, gold, and black. While the first two colors are going to be on the shinier and reflective side, the latter one has always looked more muted. Pixel Watch Colors Will Vary from Region with the Best Color Being Available in Certain Regions Google Taiwan has spilled the beans and mentioned today that the Pixel Watch’s black color is going to come in a “matte black stainless steel case....

Microsoft has offered to continue making Activision’s games available on PlayStation only until 2027 (Microsoft, para. 3.27). Likewise, in public comments just on October 26, Microsoft said that it plans to offer Call of Duty on PlayStation only “as long as that makes sense.” A period until 2027 – or some other (possibly shorter) time that Microsoft unilaterally determines “makes sense” to Microsoft – is badly inadequate. By the time SIE launched the next generation of its PlayStation console (which is likely to occur around [redacted]), it would have lost access to Call of Duty and other Activision titles, making it extremely vulnerable to consumer switching and subsequent degradation in its competitiveness....

The rumors started with insider Tom Henderson doing a bit of informed speculating about a possible March PlayStation event, and fellow leaker Nick Baker weighed in, saying he’s heard Sony does indeed have a show in the works and it’s going to be “the good one.” — Nick (@Shpeshal_Nick) February 23, 2022 So, what might this show include? Well, Henderson has posted a thread sharing some of the details he’s heard that led him to believe a March show must be happening....