It’s been a long time coming for Starfield players. Bethesda’s sci-fi take on Skyrim originally launched last summer, and while there have been some updates and improvements since then, it’s taken more than a year for the game to get its first major expansion. This lead-up means there’s a lot riding on Shattered Space — which is a perfectly fine addition to the game that also feels incredibly underwhelming. After a promising setup, it ends up mostly being more of the same.
Things start, as they so often do in expansions, with a distress call. This one leads you to a derelict space station that is brimming with ghostly apparitions and which eventually whisks you away to the home planet of the House Va’ruun, a religious sect that worships a giant serpent. There, you learn the Va’ruun have been beset by a calamity that has caused some members to disappear, others to turn into violent wraiths, and a number of other strange and disastrous happenings in and around their main city. After a ceremony that actually converts you to the church, your job becomes solving the mystery of the calamity and helping the House put things back in order.
(Note: you can technically access Shattered Space at any point after Starfield’s opening mission, but Bethesda recommends being level 35 or higher to get through it. I played on a New Game Plus save at level 32 and didn’t really have any problems.)
It’s a great premise that promises all kinds of cosmic horror. The planet you’ll explore is rendered in a garish red and purple, filled with strange glowing growths, bubbles where gravity doesn’t exist, and oddball creatures that would look right at home in No Man’s Sky. The main city — which looks like a cross between a frontier town and an ancient temple — is filled with people struggling through the turmoil, whether it’s lost loved ones, food shortages, or a crisis of faith.
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Shattered Space is also notable for being incredibly focused. While much of Starfield’s appeal has been the sheer scale of its universe, here, you’re limited to a single planet that’s dense with things to do and see. It’s reminiscent of the largely standalone Far Harbor expansion for Fallout 4.
This results in some great storylines, particularly in the sidequests, which have you doing everything from investigating a haunted orphanage to hunting down a livestock thief. At first, the religious sect seemed standoffish and difficult to understand. But eventually, it became clear that despite their complete isolation and belief in a big snake, they were all just people struggling to get by. Even the simple missions give you some new insight into the human side of this group, which, in the main Starfield campaign, is largely branded as a sect of violent zealots.
But how you do that is typical Starfield (and Bethesda) stuff. Quests have you fighting through dungeons, collecting or delivering items, and occasionally talking your way out of problems. There’s a new backdrop, but nothing much has changed in terms of the structure or moment-to-moment experience of Starfield. Those alien monstrosities are just more enemies to fight; the ghostly wraiths are just more soldiers shooting at you. At the very least, the fetch quests are a good chance to try out the new dune buggy.
There’s nothing particularly bad about Shattered Space. And if you’re just looking for more Starfield, that’s exactly what this is, only in one of the more visually and narratively interesting locations in the game. But after so much time, I can’t help but want a little more than just more. Shattered Space had the potential to be weird and creepy and different, but it looks like players will have to keep waiting for something that feels truly new.
In recent years, Samsung Foundry, the company’s semiconductor production division, has been struggling to compete against TSMC, its main rival. The South Korean giant has even lost big clients due to problems with poor wafer yields. Now, a new report suggests that Samsung Foundry may go public as a public company in the United States in search of capital injection.
Samsung Foundry may look to raise capital by going public in the United States
According to South Korean media, Samsung Securities, a financial services unit, concluded in a report that Samsung Foundry will be listed as a public company. The main reason reportedly stems from ongoing issues during chip production. These issues have led Samsung Foundry to suffer significant losses as clients moved to TSMC in search of more reliable factories. In fact, Samsung Foundry is expected to report operating losses of 500 billion won (approximately $385 million) for Q3 2024.
Qualcomm is one of the main names that turned to TSMC after recent negative experiences with Samsung. The American company relied on Samsung’s factories to produce the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, one of the most important chips in its history. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 even started a name change for the company’s SoCs, as it was the successor to the Snapdragon 888. Unfortunately, overheating and low efficiency issues inherited from Samsung’s wafers plagued the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
Then, Qualcomm moved the chip manufacturing to TSMC’s factories, now calling it Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. The hardware basically used the same design as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, but with higher CPU frequencies. The result was one of Qualcomm’s most popular and widely used chips in history for its raw power and efficiency. Since then, Qualcomm and TSMC have worked together on all subsequent Snapdragon flagship chips. Samsung still makes some mid-range Snapdragons, though.
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Samsung Foundry struggling to achieve decent yields
According to reports, Samsung’s 4nm wafer yield was 35%. That basically means that only 35 chips out of 100 were “usable.” Well, recent reports claim that Samsung’s 3nm wafer yield is somewhere between 10% and 20%. Samsung Foundry reportedly adopted Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistors for 3nm chip manufacturing earlier this year, but it is struggling to achieve high yield.
GAA is a technology that increases the performance and power efficiency of the chips produced. However, it seems that Samsung Foundry has not been up to the task. Samsung was one of the pioneers in this technology, and not even TSMC has implemented it. The Taiwanese company is said to start using GAA in 2025 for the production of 2 nm chips. Had it done things right, Samsung Foundry could have gained a competitive advantage.
The base Galaxy S25 would use Mediatek chips
Interestingly, in June, Qualcomm’s CEO opened the door to working with Samsung again. Should a deal materialize, the South Korean company would take on a portion of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 production. However, potential negotiations will probably depend on Samsung Foundry solving its current efficiency problems. If Samsung Foundry fails to resolve these issues, some models in the Galaxy S25 series may ditch Exynos chips. Samsung is reportedly considering using Mediatek’s Dimensity 9400 as the base SoC for the Galaxy S25 in most markets.
Since Easter Sunday, I came home from work to find the my partner at the time took my two kids away ages 3 and 2 and for months now have been in family court, as hard as this experience has been, I have learnt a lot and learnt who you can trust or not, on a good note I have been lucky with the courts and what i have managed to get with my kids
Just wanted to do a recap of the homelab I once had at my house, I am keen and excited to be able to get my lab up and running once this court custody and property case can be over and done with
DADS fight for what is yours, especially when it is your kids, they deserve to be in your life, they are not only the mothers, they forget that and for sure lies apon lies will be told but at the end of it, they get exposed
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Despite the company’s recent decision to abide by the demands of the Brazilian Supreme Court, X still isn’t back online in Brazil — and according to Reuters, that’s at least in part because it paid its fines to the wrong bank. After weeks being banned in Brazil, X in late September named a legal representative for the country as ordered, and took down accounts the court accused of spreading misinformation and hate speech. Its final hurdle was to pay off the fines that it had racked up, reportedly amounting to roughly $5 million.
Citing Friday court filings, Reuters reports that X says it’s paid the fines and requested to have services restored. But, Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the funds went to the wrong bank, and the decision will have to wait until they’ve been transferred. X maintains that it paid its fines correctly, according to Reuters. X has been banned in Brazil since the end of August. While the company initially resisted the court’s orders, it recently changed its tune and said it was working with the Brazilian government to get the platform back online in the country.
Google is rolling out a new set of features aimed at making it less easy for thieves to access your data. That’s according to Mishaal Rahman, who posted on Reddit that the features are showing up in a new update after seeing that his Xiaomi 14T Pro phone now has Theft Detection Lock and Offline Device Lock, two of three features Google announced in May. Others say they only see the third one, called Remote Lock.
The flashiest of the new features is Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to lock your screen when it detects “common motion associated with theft,” like someone snatching your phone out of your hand. Meanwhile, Offline Device Lock locks a device’s screen when it’s offline for a while, and Remote Lock lets users lock their phone using only their phone number when they can’t log into Find My Device with their password.
So far, I’m not seeing any of the features on my own Pixel 6. You can see screenshots of the new features’ settings in the overnight Threads post from Rahman below.
Theft Detection Lock and Offline Device Lock are supported on any Android device running Android 10 and up, while you’ll need at least Android 5 for Remote Lock. If you don’t have the features yet, you can try updating Google Play Services, though Google tends to roll out new features over time, rather than to everyone at once, so, like me, you may have to wait.
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If the leaks to date are to be believed, the iPhone 16 Plus will be replaced by the iPhone 17 Air, and the latest rumor coming out of Apple‘s supply chain is that the 2025 flagship phone will have an upgraded display attached.
According to the usually well-informed DigiTimes (via 9to5Mac), Taiwanese display manufacturer Novatek could start mass production of its next-gen OLED screens during the second quarter of 2025 (April, May, and June).
These OLED screens are said to come with TDDI (Touch and Display Driver Integration) technology built in, which means the same chip handles both output and touch input – which then means thinner and more efficient screens.
And the first customer for these thinner, more efficient screens? Apple, quite possibly, according to DigiTimes. The link is described as “speculation” at this point, but the timings would match – and so would the introduction of a slimmer iPhone model.
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The iPhone 17 story so far
The iPhone 16 (Image credit: Future)
Besides the possibility of a thinner and lighter iPhone 17 Air (or Slim), we don’t know too much about the handsets coming next year. It’s still early days of course: our iPhone 16 review hasn’t been up for long, after the series was unveiled last month.
We have heard that the iPhone 17 could arrive with another new button – or rather, that the Action button and the volume buttons could be combined into one, at least on the Pro and Pro Max versions of next year’s handsets.
As for the two non-Pro models, they will apparently get screen upgrades that enable an always-on display option, as well as a variable refresh rate for smoother animations and transitions (on top of the other display upgrade covered above).
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It could be the iPhone 17 Pro Max that gets the most updates, however: we’ve heard that it’s going to come with more RAM, enhanced on-device AI capabilities, and an upgraded cooling system to further boost performance.
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