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Marketing phones with gaming-centric features seem to be the latest trend in smartphone industry. Back in September 2019, Sharp Aquos Zero 2 smartphone touting 240Hz refresh rate display debuted in Japan. Now the phone has been unveiled in Taiwan with hopes that it will launch later in other markets worldwide too. It has a never before seen 240Hz refresh rate in 6.4-inch curved FHD+ OLED screen (1 billion colors) with Gorilla Glass 6 protection. 240Hz refresh rate is higher than most of the gaming desktop monitors out there. So you can very well imagine where smartphone technology is heading. The touch sampling rate is also 240Hz for blazing-fast touch input. Aquos Zero 2’s Dolby Vision and Dolby Panorama sound support further add to the gaming experience. Sharp Aquos Zero 2 has insane 240Hz refresh rate screen | Android Community

Razer is thrilled to unveil the latest innovation in desktop customization: the new Razer Axon Music Wallpapers. This groundbreaking addition to the Razer Axon software suite transforms everyday computing into an immersive audio-visual journey, perfectly aligning with our mission to enhance user experience across all platforms. Partnering with leading music industry icons such as Lofi Girl, The Jazz Hop Café, Blu Chip Records, Monstercat, and Celestial Aeon Project, this new feature integrates dynamic wallpapers that respond to music, bringing vibrant visuals and curated sounds to every user’s desktop. Whether you are gaming, working, or simply relaxing, the new Razer Axon Music Wallpapers adjusts to the rhythm of your favorite tunes, enhancing your environment and setting the mood with visually stunning displays. Razer’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of technology and design shines through with this latest feature, designed to extend the sensory experience on desktop beyond sound, offering a feast for the eyes as well. This initiative not only underscores our dedication to innovation but also enhances the way users interact with their digital environments, making it more engaging, personalized, and visually appealing. To kick off this exciting launch, Razer has collaborated with our music partners to host a series of promotional giveaways. These exclusive events, running from today until the end of the year, will give our community the chance to win special gifts and Razer products, celebrating the introduction of this mesmerizing new feature. Razer Axon Music Wallpaper is available starting today on Razer Axon. Join us in this audio-visual revolution where your music doesn’t just sound good—it looks good, too. Engage with your desktop on a whole new level, where functionality meets creativity, powered by Razer’s unwavering dedication to enhancing the user experience. Elevate your desktop with Razer Axon and turn your digital workspace into a dynamic canvas that dances to the beat of your own drum. Introducing Razer Axon Music Wallpapers – Transform Your Desktop Experience - Razer Newsroom

The ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard is designed for Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 200 series Arrow Lake-S desktop processors and utilizes the new LGA 1851 socket. This socket is compatible with existing cooling systems, facilitating easy integration into current computer setups. As the successor to the Z790 Apex, the Z890 Apex is built for high performance and supports overclocking. It exclusively supports DDR5 memory including CuDIMMs, which provides higher bandwidth and improved energy efficiency compared to previous memory types. Arrow Lake introduces significant improvements in memory support by integrating high-speed CUDIMM kits. ROG Z790 motherboards have already achieved data transfer rates exceeding 11 GT/s during intensive overclocking sessions. The new CUDIMM kits are designed to reach DDR5-10000 speeds out of the box, preparing systems for future memory advancements and ensuring compatibility with next-generation memory modules. This approach positions Arrow Lake as a platform capable of handling increasingly demanding memory performance requirements, suitable for both enthusiasts and professionals who need high-speed memory for their applications. To support the next generation of memory kits, ROG has developed a range of technologies aimed at optimizing performance. One key advancement is NitroPath DRAM, a redesigned DIMM slot architecture that reduces signal reflection, enabling higher memory speeds. This technology is included in the Extreme and Hero motherboard models, providing a solution for achieving faster memory operations while maintaining signal integrity. Additionally, the Advanced Extreme Memory Profile (AEMP) has been updated to support CUDIMMs, allowing users with standard memory modules to automatically fine-tune their memory configurations. This upgrade can enable significantly higher clock speeds without manual adjustments, simplifying the overclocking process and enhancing overall system performance. The motherboard's layout is optimized for ease of installation and upgrades, allowing users to configure their systems with minimal effort. With the recent announcement from Intel regarding the Core Ultra 200S series processors, the Z890 motherboard ensures compatibility, making it a suitable choice for users looking to leverage Intel's latest CPU advancements. Additional features of the Z890 include comprehensive connectivity options, including multiple USB ports, high-speed Ethernet, and advanced audio solutions, addressing to a wide range of peripheral and networking needs. The motherboard also supports various overclocking features, allowing users to fine-tune their system's performance parameters to achieve desired performance levels. ASUS's AI-based optimization tools further streamline the process of system tuning, providing intelligent adjustments based on the user's workload and performance requirements. These tools are designed to enhance system stability and efficiency without requiring extensive manual configuration, making high-performance computing more accessible to a broader audience. Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 processors utilize the new LGA 1851 socket, requiring an 800 Series motherboard for compatibility. To enable CPU overclocking, a Z890 motherboard is necessary. These processors maintain Intel’s high core counts, offering configurations with up to 24 cores through a disaggregated architecture. The design emphasizes performance cores (P-cores) with higher clock speeds for improved single-threaded performance, supported by efficient cores (E-cores) that provide strong multithreaded processing capabilities. The Series 2 processors include a neural processing unit (NPU) designed to handle neural network tasks efficiently, achieving a peak theoretical performance of 13 tera operations per second. This NPU is supported by Intel's Deep Learning Boost technologies, including Vector Neural Network Instructions and DP4A instructions, along with GNA 3.5 AI Processing, delivering optimized performance for artificial intelligence tasks from the start. The new generation of Intel CPUs also improves integrated graphics performance with the Xe LPG graphics architecture. This GPU architecture supports DisplayPort 2.1 and HDMI 2.1, allowing the connection of high-resolution displays without a dedicated graphics card, offering flexibility and efficiency in system design. In terms of expansion and connectivity, the ROG Maximus Z890 Apex offers numerous PCIe 5.0 lanes. It includes Gen 5 NVMe slots directly connected to the CPU, separate from the x16 PCI Express slot used for graphics cards, allowing for versatile hardware configurations. The motherboard is also equipped with multiple Thunderbolt ports, enabling fast data transfer and connectivity for various peripherals. These features make the Z890 Apex suitable for users who require extensive expansion options and high-speed data connections. The Maximus Z890 Apex includes networking options such as Intel 5Gbps Ethernet and WiFi 7, ensuring reliable and fast internet connections. Installation is streamlined with a pre-mounted I/O shield, which reduces setup time and minimizes the risk of installation errors. Additionally, the motherboard features Q-LEDs that display the status of hardware components, aiding in diagnostics and troubleshooting. Review: ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 APEX motherboard

‘Where’s Waldo’ meets Modern Art in this cozy hidden-object adventure. A handpainted cozy hidden-object adventure. Travel through surreal paintings. Collect items for their quirky inhabitants. Repair rips and solve casual puzzles. Help a dandy skeleton painter find his way home. This game is short but 100% FREE (no ads, no dlc's). You are a dandy, suit-wearing, art-loving skeleton, recently risen from the grave, with the ability to travel into and through paintings. Using this ability, you help repair rips in the paintings and find missing items for the people living inside of them. A slow paced relaxing experience filled with humor, surprising characters and beautiful hand painted art, carefully crafted from works by James Ensor, a Belgian Modern Art pioneer. The game was created with the support of the Flemish Government on the occasion of the Belgian EU Presidency 2024. Features: Hidden object adventure 5 unique worlds Hints when stuck Casual point & click gameplay Zoom-in for extra details Real hand-painted art Atmospheric relaxing sound Silly and quirky Slow-paced & relaxing Fit for ages 12-99 This is the sequel to 'Please, Touch The Artwork' which is available here: Please, Touch The Artwork 2 by Thomas Waterzooi

Homesteading on an alien world in your giant mech is fun, even if it currently stops a bit short. Who wouldn't want their own frontier world with just your friends, an agricultural mech, and a chatty satellite AI for company, setting out to build yourself a life on a planet untouched by human activity — but possessed of a deeper mystery? That's the pitch on Lightyear Frontier, a cozy crafting exploration game with a unique mech-based twist to its farming. I mean, mechs for civilian use are hardly a new concept, but I can't actually remember a game giving it a proper shot like this. Lightyear Frontier does its best at its Early Access launch, delivering a fun romp around an alien world that's a bit short on story but goes long on customization and decoration. Unsurprisingly, the mech itself provides a lot of the fun here. It takes what would otherwise be a pretty predictable crafting and exploration game and gives it a new point of view — quite literally! You can get used to the scale, but jumping out of your mech immediately reminds you that the trees you tower over are still properly sized, or that the alien chicken creatures you enjoy feeding are as tall as a person. The mech driving is well done, too — this is a big, stompy piece of equipment, and if you've ever driven an older diesel tractor you'll recognize the clattering sound of that engine in Lightyear Frontier's Farmech. However, I am always sad to see a static, non-functional control panel in a digital cockpit. Lightyear Frontier's biggest conceit is that it's a purely peaceful game. There's absolutely no combat here, and no real time pressure either — it's designed from the ground up as a chill experience. There are in-game days that tick by, but you're not required to sleep in a bed at night or anything, and there are no time limits to run up against. It delivers well on that angle as I found its relaxed pace to be pretty soothing. In fact, if you try to rush or optimize your way through it you'll probably stress yourself out for no reason. Lightyear Frontier is at its best when I realized it just wanted me to explore, find stuff, and enjoy myself. It's a game as much about taking in its nicely handcrafted, open alien world, building cool stuff and decorating it as you go, as it is about farming and crafting. The beginning is a little slow though, even with the intended pace in mind. Your starting, no-upgrades mech feels a bit sluggish when it's not sprinting, and you can't sprint if you're over your inventory limit… and the starting inventory limit is pretty low, which kinda hurts the giant super-strong robot vibe for me. That, and the storage boxes are a pain to manage, since Lightyear Frontier lacks that now-quite-mandatory feature where crafting stations pull from nearby storage for you. Nonetheless, once I got a few upgrades and unlocked some larger storage I forgot all about those first slightly frustrating hours. Frankly, that’s because it's just really fun to stomp around and break stuff. The details in the mech's tools and equipment are delightful twists on the themes of giant robot stuff. I loved shattering rocks and trashing trees with the giant chainsaw-slash-stake-driver, which only gets stronger and more destructive as you get more upgrades. Trees are planted with a huge sapling cannon to plunge seeds into the earth, while crops are sown by a scattershot seed machine gun that later gets a lock-on function. There's also the two tread-based modes: One's a path-breaking modification that lets you satisfyingly roll out dirt or stone paths, which then actually make you travel faster, while the other is a plow that lets you place freeform planting spaces for your crops across the surface of the world. My favorites, though, were the two most dual-function tools. The first, a giant vacuum, lets you pull up weeds and mature crops with remarkable speed. The second, a water spraying cannon, is initially a fairly weak blast hose that later becomes a long-distance stream that can charge up spheres of water and hurl them as soil-moistening explosions. And when you run out of water? Just go vacuum up more. Those two tools are also vital because they're used to clean up the world around you. Your satellite buddy PIP-3R (that's Piper) narrates as you explore, but the world you're on had some previous inhabitants that left behind a huge mess of ground pollution. That wells up in the form of gooey gunk piles and a breed of mutant weeds that not only kill off surrounding vegetation but spread on the wind — occasionally even threatening your own farm. It's a fun little twist on weeding to catch them out of the air before they choke out your crops. Cleaning up the world unlocks more regions to explore, like thicker forests, twisty mountain paths, and coastal plains. You’ll get new resources from each one that are then used to build additional equipment and buildings, as well as unlock more mech upgrades — like a stronger hose to wash down bigger goo piles and clean up even more new regions. It'll also attract attention from neighbors who are full for character, like a traveling trader who visits for a few hours each day to buy your stuff. There's another character — a plant science enthusiast who needs regular deliveries of produce and supplies — but I wasn't able to interact with him due to a bug that developer Frame Break tells us is getting fixed in an upcoming patch. As for those ancient inhabitants that left all the ruins and mess? Well, I'm not saying it was aliens, but… You can explore the old ruins around the map, all of which send you on a kind of prop hunt in old buildings or caves that unlock new alien-themed stuff to build. Cleaning up the world also gets you bits of lore about what the ruins might have been for and commentary from Piper. This Early Access story is the weakest part of Lightyear Frontier, and quite disappointing in relation to the rest of the experience — not because it's outright bad or anything, but because it's very short and very sparse right now. It took me about 15 hours to clean up the world and get to the rather abrupt, pretty unfulfilling end, which is quite literally a popup screen saying the campaign is over as of its Early Access launch. I can clearly see where this will be expanded and improved over time, but right now that ending comes when things are just getting going. A short or open-ended story isn't a sin in a game like Lightyear Frontier, it just has to be paced in such a way as to deliver a real arc or end that feels like it's feeding into the post-story activity of building a larger farm and unlocking all the decoratable stuff. After all, I "finished" in 15 hours but spent another five excitedly exploring the new areas I had just unlocked, getting more mech upgrades and making the new buildings and decorations I now had access to. Speaking of decorations, there are a lot of them, and I was happy to do all kinds of customizing. You can get different parts for your mech, and even mix-and-match them or paint them to create custom looks. You can also build all kinds of neat little doodads to place around, decorating the world with outposts and campsites. It's hard to feel too disappointed by a game where you can make a garden of odd rock sculptures and then decorate it with even odder alien rock-plants. Lightyear Frontier is already a fun farming and crafting game that takes some pretty simple genre basics and makes them exciting again by putting you in a big ol' stompy robot suit. Things can start a little slow and the story definitely ends too early as of its Early Access launch, but the charming world to explore and make your own outshines its current limitations. Lightyear Frontier Early Access Review - IGN

A charming nautical adventure that refines the original’s clever turn-based combat It’s kind of an odd shift for a sequel to go from an outer space setting to a nautical one, but SteamWorld games have never shied away from being kind of odd. In fact, it’s their whole thing. There are direct connections between the silly swashbuckling story of SteamWorld Heist 2 and the original from 2015, but those take a while to show up – instead, much of Heist 2 feels completely separate as it gives you control of a submarine and a crew full of goofy robots in a colorfully cartoony ocean. This adventure takes place on a surprisingly large overworld map that’s packed with so many tough and tactically deep turn-based missions and lighter side activities that burning through them all took me around 40 hours. The plot that ensues is appropriately light and fun, revolving around our borderline-competent one-armed captain, Quincy Leeway. He’s trying to escape the shadow of his famous mother and gathering a crew to discover the source of a rusty corruption that’s poisoning the water. I wouldn’t call any of the surprises shocking or its characters especially memorable (I suspect they’d be easier to love if their dialogue were fully voiced) but its robotic heart is firmly in the right place. What is memorable is the music, for which the relentlessly charming band Steam Powered Giraffe returns with 15 delightfully catchy original songs that play when you’re visiting taverns between missions. I often found myself hanging around a little longer than I needed to in order to let them finish a verse about how nice it is to be a robot before heading back to my ship. SteamWorld Heist 2’s 2D turn-based tactical gameplay is very similar to the original, but the controls are notably smoother (albeit still a little wonky on mouse and keyboard). Moving your team of one to five bots (depending on the mission) around a side-scrolling level to line up shots and snag loot within their two-action turns is a tricky challenge of efficiency, and having to escape an endlessly increasing stream of enemies as you complete a specific objective rather than just trying to clear the map gives a lot of missions a thrilling finale. SteamWorld Heist 2 Review - IGN

Leafcutter ants are fungus-growing ants that share the behaviour of cutting leaves which they carry back to their nests to farm fungus. Next to humans, leafcutter ants form some of the largest and most complex animal societies on Earth. In a few years, the central mound of their underground nests can grow to more than 30 m (98 ft) across, with smaller radiating mounds extending out to a radius of 80 m (260 ft), taking up 30 to 600 m2 (320 to 6,460 sq ft) and converted into 3.55 m individuals. Leafcutter ants are any of at least 55 species[1][2][3] of leaf-chewing ants belonging to the three genera Atta, Acromyrmex, and Amoimyrmex, within the tribe Attini.[4] These species of tropical, fungus-growing ants are all endemic to South and Central America, Mexico, and parts of the southern United States.[5] Leafcutter ants can carry twenty times their body weight[6] and cut and process fresh vegetation (leaves, flowers, and grasses) to serve as the nutritional substrate for their fungal cultivates.[7] Acromyrmex and Atta ants have much in common anatomically; however, the two can be identified by their external differences. Atta ants have three pairs of spines and a smooth exoskeleton on the upper surface of the thorax, while Acromyrmex ants have four pairs and a rough exoskeleton.[8] The exoskeleton itself is covered in a thin layer of mineral coating, composed of rhombohedral crystals that are generated by the ants.[9] Amoimyrmex and Acromyrmex differ in that Amoimyrmex lacks tubercles on the first gastral segment, and recent phylogenetic evidence shows that Amoimyrmex diverged before the other two genera of leafcutter ants.[4] Leafcutter ant - Wikipedia

The classic definition of muscle cars has changed over the past several decades. Although the definition is altered, these cars are still the go-to monsters for drag racing fun. When you think of a muscle car, you might picture V-8-powered machines with big power and performance from the 1960s and early 1970s, but we’ve got ten modern muscle cars that can take you to the end of a quarter-mile in a hurry. The desire to go as fast as possible from one place to another is instilled in our adrenaline, which rushes forward to provide focus and strength when required. Once you step behind the wheel of these ten muscle cars, that adrenaline rush, coupled with the smell of burning rubber and exhaust fumes, provides an intoxicating cocktail of speed, power, performance, and fun. 10 - 2023 Ford Mustang Mach 1: An Excellent Drag Racing Muscle Car The 2023 Ford Mustang Mach 1 is the best of what the Mustang offers. The Mach 1 delights you during the drive, engages your skills on the road, and can be a lot of fun to drive. It’s a great choice to begin our list of some of the best muscle cars for drag racing. 9- 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody: Thundering V-8 Power The Hellcat engine, coupled with the Dodge Challenger name, has become a recipe for muscle car success in many drag races. The SRT Hellcat Widebody is the basic formula for a car offered in several versions, especially when you review the seven Last Call models from Dodge. 8 - 2024 Ford Mustang GT: More Coyote Power Than Ever The 5.0-liter Coyote V-8 engine is one of the most well-respected V-8 engines in the muscle car world. Ford added more power and performance to the Mustang GT, adding more to this power plant and giving this car items to make it last much longer on the drag strip. 7 - 2023 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack: Big Hemi Power For Muscle Car Dominance The biggest Hemi V-8 engine in the Dodge Challenger lineup resides under the hood of the R/T Scat Pack model. This big naturally aspirated engine strikes fear in the hearts and minds of those that hear this amazing Challenger roaring at the drag strip. If you’re looking at this Challenger to create the best muscle car for drag racing, choose the automatic transmission, adaptive dampers, and Dynamics package to enjoy 20-inch wheels and six-piston Brembo brakes. The R/T Scat Pack could be the best muscle car at the drag strip. 6 - 2023 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1: Superior Speed From A Chevy Muscle Car When Chevrolet created the latest ZL1 Camaro, it set records at Nürburgring, which caused European automakers to pay attention to an American muscle car in a new way. This Camaro ripped off a fast lap time of 7:16.04 with the 1LE track package included. 5 - 2020 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500: Where A Pony And Cobra Combine The 2020 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 is easily one of the best muscle cars for drag racing. It is the most powerful Mustang ever made, at least until the new generation models arrive in 2024. This powerful machine is a fitting challenger to the Dodge and Chevrolet muscle cars. 4 - 2023 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Jailbreak: Taking Us Back To the Old Days The 2023 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Jailbreak is meant to bring an air of nostalgia to the muscle car world. This amazing sedan is not only a fast and capable drag racer, but it also includes parts that come from other trims, reminiscent of how customers could order muscle cars in the early days. 3 - 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock: Is It Really The Demon Lite? The 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock has been the topic of many muscle car conversations. This Challenger has a Redeye hood and the same Hemi V-8 with a red engine block and red eye in the badges to give it away. Still, the Super Stock is its own animal in the muscle car world. 2 - 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon: Angry Drag Racing Muscle Car Performance Dodge took the Hellcat name and turned it up several notches to bring us the Demon. The Demon was offered for one year and could deliver up to 840 horsepower when fueled by racing gasoline. This incredible Challenger has a racing package with special wheels and adjustments. 1 - 2023 Chevrolet COPO Camaro: Ready To Dominate The Drag Strip Chevrolet brought back the COPO Camaro name or 2023, offering professional drag racing teams a new and powerful car to rocket down the track. This amazing Camaro is only made for the drag strip and won’t be seen on public roads. 10 Best Muscle Cars For Drag Racing

The bad blood has remained even though the characters have largely changed. Most notably, Young is still a key part of the rivalry and if there's one thing he relishes, it's giving Knicks fans a little something extra each time they play. The Atlanta Hawks guard had 23 points, 10 assists and 6 rebounds in a 121-116 win Wednesday night against the visiting Knicks. It marked his seventh career 20-point, 10-assist game vs. the Knicks (regular season and playoffs), the most by any player against New York since Young entered the NBA in 2018-19, according to ESPN Research. During an on-court interview after the win, Young had a simple message for the New York fans at State Farm Arena. "I hope these New York fans find their way to the exit real real quickly," he said. "Boo, take y'all asses home." The Hawks amplified the trolling by resharing an Atlanta Falcons post that celebrated their 27-21 win over the Dallas Cowboys. The original bandwagon-fan joke was transformed into a triple threat that mocked three of sports' largest fan bases at once: the Knicks, Cowboys and the New York Yankees in one post. The timing was particularly sharp, coming just days after the Yankees' World Series defeat to the Dodgers. Young has often been enemy No. 1 for Knicks' fans since the teams faced off in the first round of the 2021 Eastern Conference playoffs. He averaged 29.2 points and 9.8 assists as Atlanta eliminated New York in five games. At the end of Game 5, Young memorably took a bow at center court and waved goodbye to the New York crowd after icing the game at Madison Square Garden. Since then, Knicks fans haven't been shy about their treatment toward the All-Star guard, chanting "F--- Trae Young" at various events, even if Young isn't playing against them. On an episode of Paul George's podcast in August, Young called the chants "super funny" while sharing an interaction with a fan and his reaction to the crowd. "I'll never forget this young little girl ... just giving me the finger like right behind the scorer's table. ... There's a lot of photos of me looking in the crowd just smiling," Young said. "That's kind of my reaction. I'm just looking at the reactions of all these people just flipping me off. Ten minutes in the first quarter, I ain't do nothing." New York will surely remember Young's trolling from Wednesday night. The Knicks and Hawks next play each other in New York on Jan. 20. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/42239579/atlanta-hawks-trae-young-falcons-troll-new-york-knicks-yankees-cowboys