February 5, 2025

Hardware

AMD’s gaming revenue for PlayStation, Xbox, and Radeon fell 58% in 2024

TL;DR: AMD achieved record revenue of $7.7 billion in Q4 2024 and $25.8 billion for the year, driven by data center products and Ryzen CPUs. However, Gaming revenue fell 59% year-over-year in Q4, with the segment becoming the smallest in AMD’s portfolio. Despite this, AMD’s Gaming segment remains profitable. Thanks to data center products, AI hardware, and Ryzen CPUs crushing it in the client space, AMD’s Q4 2024 financial results saw its overall revenue grow

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Hardware

Switch 2 launch to have ‘head start’ with ample supply, Nintendo says

TL;DR: Nintendo is working to avoid shortages of the upcoming Switch 2 console by ramping up production to meet high demand, especially for the Holiday 2025 sales period. Nintendo wants to avoid shortages of its new Switch 2 console and tells consumers it is working hard to produce enough systems to meet high demand. VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES The Switch is reaching peak market saturation and Nintendo is ramping up a new console successor.

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Hardware

AMD’s big RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9070 reveal event is coming in late February

TL;DR: AMD plans to reveal details about the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT at a press conference in late February 2025. The event will cover specs, pricing, and performance, focusing on improved ray-tracing and AI-enhanced FSR 4 Super Resolution. The launch is expected in March, following NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti releases. Although it’s not official, the latest word on AMD’s big RDNA 4 reveal event is that the company

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Hardware

Nintendo to support original Switch as long as demand exists, President Shuntaro Furukawa says

TL;DR: Nintendo plans to continue producing and supporting the original Switch as long as there is consumer demand, even with the upcoming release of the Switch 2. While the Switch 2 is fast approaching, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa confirms that the company will keep supporting and selling the original console as long as consumers buy in. VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES Eight years in, the Switch is finally starting to wind down. The Switch is

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Hardware

Overclockers UK expects new GeForce RTX 5090 shipments in the next 3 to 16 weeks

TL;DR: UK gamers face a wait of 3-16 weeks for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards, with Overclockers UK sold out due to high demand and limited stock. Pre-orders have ceased. NVIDIA partners report stock issues, with NVIDIA controlling chip distribution. NVIDIA declined to comment on the shortages. UK gamers will have a couple of months of waiting before they see new flagship NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards from hitting their shores, with retailer

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AI

ML Feature Management: A Practical Evolution Guide | Towards Data Science

In the world of machine learning, we obsess over model architectures, training pipelines, and hyper-parameter tuning, yet often overlook a fundamental aspect: how our features live and breathe throughout their lifecycle. From in-memory calculations that vanish after each prediction to the challenge of reproducing exact feature values months later, the way we handle features can make or break our ML systems’ reliability and scalability. Who Should Read This ML engineers evaluating their feature management approach Data

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Exclusive: Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes | TechCrunch

On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do.  But when they rolled out the telescopes that night at PlaneWave’s manufacturing facility, he was stuck waiting.  “It took them quite a long

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