During our visit at the famous IFA trade show in Berlin we noticed a new concept: IFA Next.  IFA Next is an innovation hub bringing together researchers, industry professionals, start-ups and retailers for a dynamic transfer of knowledge, information and business ideas. A complete hall was covered with innovative ideas and start-ups.

Activision and Treyarch have released a new trailer for Call of Duty Black Ops 4, dedicated to its PC version. Publisher Activision Blizzard claims it is putting a lot of energy into the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. According to the companies, the game will be fully optimized on the PC and will support ultra-wide screens and multi monitors, is designed for mouse and keyboard, and will support 4K resolutions and uncapped framerate.

With the upcoming Apple keynote in September (date to be announced) new rumours arise about the new 2018 iPhone models. Earlier leaks confirmed that 3 new models will be released. The first is said to be a second-generation version of the iPhone X, with the same 5.8-inch OLED display.

NASA released two VR applications that make it possible to hang around in space. Both applications were made to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of the launch of the Spitzer Space Telescope. In those 15 years, the telescope was able to obtain a variety of interesting facts about space and made some beautiful images as well. 

The new generation of Threadripper CPUs have proven to be real performers, but aside from their higher core clocks and some other tweaks they are not so different from the first generation of threadripper CPUs. AMD has recently lowered the prices for Gen1 CPUs, making them a very very interesting option. 

DICE and EA released a new multiplayer gameplay trailer for Battlefield 5. The game is the successor of Battlefield 1 and takes place in the World War 2. Battlefield 5 was first announced at the end of May and will release on October 19th. According to the trailer, it'll be the first time in Battlefield that players will be able to use and assemble a set of customized soldiers, vehicles, weapons, ... .

Logitech has come up with a new kind of mouse in their MX series. The mouse is vertically positioned with an angle of 57 degrees and would be able to relieve stress on the wrist of the user. The MX vertical will have a sensor supporting up to 4000 dpi.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has started production of 7nm chips for commercial use in smartphone SoCs and is already preparing for 5nm chip production in 2019. It seems that TSMC received new orders that require 7nm and 5nm process solutions next year. The orders come from AI chip developers.

At the GeForce Gaming Event 3 days ago, Nvidia announced a new line of graphics cards including the RTX 2080Ti, RTX 2080 and RTX 2070. The graphics cards are based on the new Turing architecture and use RT-cores for 'Ray tracing'. These RT-cores would make it possible use realtime ray tracing in games.

After almost 4 months since the last dlc, the release date of the final DLC of South Park: The Fractured But Wole has been announced. It will be available on July the 31th for the price of 12 dollars (or for free if you have the season pass).

Researchers from NVIDIA, Aalto University and MIT developed a new deeplearning method with which they can remove a significant amount of noise from photos. To correct the photo, they only need the corrupted version.

Players will continue their journey in the Star Trek universe with Star Trek: Bridge Crew – The New Generation on board of the Galaxy Class spaceship: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701D. The iconic bridge let players continue to  test their fighting abilities against the stealthy Romulan-fleet and the dangerous Borg in the Ongoing Voyages-mode.

After six movies and multiple games, Lord of the Rings will now get its own TV series. The one who has been tasked to produce this long anticipated TV show is Amazon Studios. They bought the rights in November 2017 for 250 million dollars.

The former AMD designer and Chief Architect of the ZEN architecture, Jim Keller, left AMD about a year ago. In the meantime, he joined Tesla to work on AI hardware as head of the department. Latest reports tell us that he left Tesla to fully focus on designing processors at another company. 

Researchers at NVIDIA have been working on an indredible deep learning method that can edit images and can reconstruct corrupted images. When a certain image has missing pixels or holes, the AI is able to fill up the holes and reconstruct a realistic image.