Oh, Apple isn’t the only new product announced this week. No. Sony has officially made its way to unveiling the long-awaited PS5 Pro, which has more power and fewer compromises.
Sony wants to reduce the gap between the fidelity and performance modes players are used to choosing from – either high frame rate or high resolution, and you can switch between the two in most AAA games on the PS5.
To do this, the PS5 Pro’s GPU has 67 percent more compute units and 28 percent faster RAM than the standard PS5. According to the console’s lead architect Mark Cerny, the new console will deliver up to 45 percent faster graphic rendering. Ray-tracing performance can be up to three times faster – often an optional feature toggle on games as it can also disrupt the frame rate.
Meanwhile, Sony’s AI-upscaling technology (i.e., similar to NVIDIA’s DLSS) is called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, or PSSR, which improves in-game assets without rescaling them. The new console includes a Game Boost tool to improve the performance of more than 8,500 backwards-compatible PS4 games.
The PS5 Pro is the same size as the not-so-small original launch model, but doesn’t have a disc drive model. That’s another added bonus to the $700 price tag. The good news is that it has a whopping 2TB of storage built in.
Australian PM wants to ban social media for kids
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to introduce a law that would prevent children under a certain age from using social media. Reuters reported that Albanese released his statement in a TV interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
The Australian government will begin testing age verification technology sometime this year. They also didn’t give a specific age range, but speculated that they would want to ban it for children under the age of 14 to 16 because “we know social media is causing social harm.”
Huawei’s triple-fold smartphone costs about three times the price of a smartphone
Huawei’s flagship foldable, the Mate XT, is the first triple-fold phone to hit the market and will start at 19,999 yuan (about $2,800) in China. That’s enough to buy an 11-inch iPad Pro, M3 MacBook Air, and iPhone 16.
The device can be folded accordion-style, with one hinge folding outward and the other inward, leaving one panel available to use as a 6.4-inch external display. When opened, it creates a 10.2-inch screen, much like the tablets we’re used to. It’s technically impressive, but financially prohibitive.