Splinter Cell and the tie-in novels are stories of a single person, Tom Clancy. We’re looking at the adventures of its protagonist, Sam Fisher, and see what we’ve been missing from the FPS story-driven game series. In these Ubisoft games, each entry got great review scores (an 8/10 average) and moderate commercial success. However, Splinter Cell is far from the popularity of Ubisoft’s multiplayer shooters like Rainbow Six Siege. Also, Tom Clancy wrote seven Splinter Cell books....

U.S. tech giants are keen for their Taiwanese AI server manufacturing partners to set up in Mexico, according to a new report published by theWall Street Journal. The idea has proven attractive to giants like Foxconn, and geopolitics aside, it would move manufacturing closer to U.S. tech firms. Mexican expansion plans will also benefit from the attractive United States of America, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA) free trade agreement established in 2020....

The Malwarebytes service’s CPU usage should be minimal when the program is idle. During a scan, it should stay between30-50% usageon most systems. If the CPU usage exceeds these values, your Malwarebytes installation is likely problematic. This could meanmisconfigured settings,buggy versions, orantivirus conflicts. As a band-aid solution, you canend the Malwarebytes Service process via the Task Manager. That shouldget the CPU usage low enoughto let you try the solutions provided below....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Montech Century II Gold 1050W delivers solid electrical performance and thermal efficiency in a reasonably styled package. While not perfect, it justifies its modest price with quality components, balanced features, and a 10-year warranty—though some design choices limit its full potential. ATX 3.1 / PCIe 5.1 compliant 10-year warranty Excellent value for money Good ripple suppression Full protection features Hybrid fan mode Very good power quality...

The HD audio ports on the back of your PC, are connected directly to the motherboard. This is the optimal place to connect audio devices. If you cannot hear the audio from these ports, it may indicate faulty hardware or connections. However, you cannot rule out software related issues such as audio settings, services or drivers. Before we begin, ensure to insert the audio output and input connectors into the proper ports, green and pink respectively....

MSI’s Mystic Light assists in customizing your favorite colors and effects on any compatible MSI RGB peripherals. Although this greatly improves the aesthetics of your gaming setup, this feature may malfunction or sometimes disappear fromMSI Center or Dragon Centerwithout any particular reason. Generally, MSI Mystic may stop working due to conflicts in the MSI software itself. Or you may even experience these troubles due to compatibility, drivers, and hardware issues....

MSI seems to have taken its zero-cable PC builds to the next level by eschewing typical component orientation and I/O port access. The company showed off a Project Zero X build atCES2025 featuring a back-connect system inside a beautiful panoramic case. First launched in 2023, Project Zero is a collection of MSI-made motherboards and cases that shift cables and connectors to the backside of a desktop PC. The goal is to make desktops look nicer by eliminating the clutter of cables and wires....

In France, a startup called Biomemory claims to be the first to market with a storage card that can store a single kilobyte of DNA for a fee of €1,000 Euros [h/tBlocks & Files]. We don’t need to say the service price is pretty expensive for data storage in 2024. Or…ever. We used to just write these things down, you know. Anyway, Biomemory claims that its DNA storage method offers some compelling benefits, which could be worth the outlay....

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has introduced a new1.1aAdaptive-Sync Display standard that addresses the emerging market of dual-mode monitors like theLG 32GS95UE. The new spec builds on the 1.1 standard, ensuring certified dual-mode monitors provide a high-quality experience in their native resolution and high-refresh-rate modes. “Dual-mode” is the unofficial name for the functionality of a new wave of gaming monitors. As the name suggests, these new dual-mode monitors offer two different visual experiences, with one prioritizing display resolution and the other prioritizing refresh rate....

Spectral Compute hasintroducedSCALE, a new toolchain that allows CUDA programs to run directly on AMD GPUs without modifications to the code, reportsPhoronix. SCALE can automatically compile existing CUDA code for AMD GPUs, which greatly simplifies transition of software originally developed for Nvidia hardware to other platforms without breaking any end user license agreements. Spectral’s SCALE is a toolkit, akin to Nvidia’s CUDA Toolkit, designed to generate binaries for non-Nvidia GPUs when compiling CUDA code....

Codenames of two upcoming CPU architectures have been implemented into AIDA64’s latest version.Version 7.70.7500implements preliminary support for AMD’s Zen 6 and Intel’s Wildcat Lake architectures. Zen 6 is AMD’s successor to Zen 5. The new architecture is rumored to finally improve Ryzen’s CCD core count from eight cores to12 cores for the regular cores(not the “c” cores). Assuming this happens, it’ll represent the first core count increase of AMD’s Ryzen CCD (Core Complex Die) ever for its traditional/regular cores....

Nvidia’s latest driver-based frame generation technology (RTX 50-series exclusive) now supports all three major gaming APIs. A user on theNvidia subredditconfirmed that Smooth Motion stealthily received an update allowing the technology to supportVulkantitles in addition to DX11 and DX12. In addition, Vulkan support will allow Smooth Motion to work with emulators, bringing frame generation to older games that are emulated through Proton or DXVK. Smooth Motionis Nvidia’s competitor (or counterpart) to AMD Fluid Motion Frames (or AFMF/AFMF2)....

In a bid to avoid massive import tariffs on expensive AI hardware expected to be imposed by the Trump administration, Nvidia has teamed up with its partners tobuild AI servers in the U.S. The company and its manufacturing partners plan to build plants for AI servers in Texas. More broadly, Nvidia and its partners aim to create an AI server supply chain that will span from chip production and packaging to servers that are ready to deploy....