Today, Nvidia is releasing what it calls its "SHIELD Software Experience Upgrade 8.0," for the Shield TV. That's an overly complicated way of saying the Shield TV is getting upgraded to Android 9 Pie, and the update is rolling out as we speak. For the record, the Shield TV launched with Android 5.1 and has seen four years of major software updates.

Not the single-cable solution we’d been promised

We checked the weather this morning and sure enough, Hell hasn't frozen over. Instead, something even less likely happened today—Intel announced it is working with rival AMD to build a new Core processor with custom Radeon graphics inside the chip package, with an emphasis on gaming performance.

Don't bother checking your calendar, we are still in November and this is not an April Fools' Day prank. After a report in The Wall Street Journal broke the news in the early hours of the morning, Intel posted an official announcement confirming the collaboration, and explaining its reasoning.