10 Things You Need to Know About Nioh 2
Nioh 2 lets players create their own half-human, half-demon protagonist, master a variety of weaponry, and slay feral Yokai in 16th century Japan. Here are 10 things you need to know about Nioh 2. Sponsored by Sony Entertainment. #ign
OLED-power link jumps from useless 50Mb/s to useful 1Gb/s
17 with 16 posters participating In the world of data centers and high-speed computing, distance and time are killers. The distance between memory and CPU actually matters. The distance and communication speed between different nodes in a data center can be …
James Bond Kevlar case makes cheap Nokia phone look bulletproof
Part of a James Bond partnership announced by HMD Image: @rquandt Images of what appears to be a new 007-branded Kevlar case for HMDs Nokia 6.2 phone have leaked online, and it almost makes the midrange handset look bulletproof. The images were posted to Tw…
Startup founders are building companies on WhatsApp
In Asia, where I work as a partner at an early-stage VC, startups are regularly rolling out a minimum viable product (MVP) and then transacting on messaging apps. Companies like shoe brand Portblue, AI e-commerce company Sorabel and Sama, an online recruitme…
Tim Cook’s trick for making iPhones is now at risk from the pandemic
In 2011, it suddenly became much more difficult to buy a Ford in three specific shades of red. Those colors, as well as one called tuxedo black, relied on a gleaming pigment called Xirallic, which was made by a German company, Merck KGaA, in Onahama, Japan.…
Sony’s PS5 Silence Is Deafening -Gen Console Watch
Welcome back to Next-gen Console Watch 2020, our new show following all the news and rumors on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. This week we’ll discuss what Ghost of Tsushima’s release date might tell us and the possibility of two different PlayStation 5 …
Apple reopens all stores in China as coronavirus wanes
Apple has reopened all of its stores in China as the deadly coronavirus outbreak wanes there. The tech giant’s 42 branded stores across mainland China were due to open for business Friday, according to a company spokesman. Apple had shuttered its Chinese sto…
Microsoft Your Phone now supports cross-platform copy and paste and RCS on the latest Samsung phones
Microsoft and Samsung partnered up to bring us an enhanced version of the Your Phone service that connects Android phones with Windows machines. The Korean company promised to add even more exclusive improvements to the syncing utility for the Galaxy S20 and …
Microsoft moves its 2020 Build developer conference online
May is traditionally a month of big developer conferences, with Facebook F8, Google I/O and Microsoft Build often happening within the same two-week period. But not this year. After F8 and I/O were already canceled in favor of online events, Microsoft is now …
Coronavirus could force ISPs to abandon data caps forever
Pressure from the global pandemic has broadband companies loosening the arbitrary restrictions on the connections users pay for and this may be the beginning of the end for the data caps we’ve lived in fear of for decades. Here’s why. The coronavirus threat …
Epic Games buys UK facial mapping startup Cubic Motion
Epic Games announced today that it’s buying Cubic Motion, a computer vision startup that’s been building out a platform for capturing more realistic facial animations with a complex camera rig and software platform. The game studio behind Fortnite and the Un…
Amazon asks all employees to work from home, if they can
Amazon issued guidance Thursday in response to the COVID-19 outbreak recommending that global employees who are able to work from home to do so through the end of March. We continue to work closely with public and private medical experts to ensure we are tak…
Google employee in Bangalore tests positive for coronavirus
Google said on Thursday that an employee at its office in Bangalore, India has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus and the firm has asked all the other employees in that office to work from home on Friday out of abundance of caution. We can confirm …
E-plane VoltAero tests new Safran electric motors
VoltAero is testing new Safran electric motors on its Cassio e-plane. The electric-hybrid airplane has a few tricks up its sleeves. VoltAero tested Safrans new ENGINeUS smart electric motors on its Cassio airframe. The VoltAero electric and hybrid nine-seate…
CAA Removes ‘Optional’ From Work-At-Home Mandate; Offices To Empty For Minimum Two Weeks Over Coronavirus Concerns
EXCLUSIVE: CAA is now telling its staff to stay home, no ifs, ands, or buts. The agency has implemented a plan for all worldwide employees to work remotely, with offices essentially closing at end of business today. Deadline broke last night that a version of…
Call of Duty: Warzone’s best mode is Plunder
When Infinity Ward first announced that it was making a free-to-play Call of Duty game called Call of Duty: Warzone, it focused its marketing around Call of Dutys take on battle royale. But while battle royale mode might get people in the door for Warzone, th…
How to clean your iPhone to kill the new coronavirus and other germs
With people around the globe taking extra precautions to prevent infection from the new coronavirus, including increased hand washing, wearing masks (even if theyre not advised if youre not already sick), and avoiding large crowds, theres one item that nearly…
French watchdog to fine Apple over anti-competitive behaviour, sources say
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s competition watchdog is set to fine iPhone maker Apple (AAPL.O) next Monday over anti-competitive behavior in its distribution and sales network, two sources close to the matter said on Thursday. One of the sources said the compet…
Apple Accident Just Confirmed Its Radical iPhone Upgrades
Apples 2020 iPhone plans are genuinely exciting with leak after leak pointing to some of the best upgrades in years. And now Apple has accidentally confirmed two of the biggest. 2020 iPhone 12 concept Ben Geskin Apple iPhone 12: Everything We Know So Far …
‘Morning Show’ Shuts Down Production Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Coronavirus continues to impact Hollywood. The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, is taking a two-week hiatus out of concern for the virus. While no one on set is known to be sick or has tested positive, the shutdown is meant to b…
Subaru Impreza Rally Car Converted To Street Use Is An Epic Sight
For rally fans, few machines are as legendary as the Subaru Impreza 22B STi from the late 1990s. The car featured in this video looks like a 22B it has the wide fenders, the big wing, and the epic louvered hood that we know and love. It’s not a 22B, nor is it…
This hidden Google Maps trick helps protect you from the coronavirus
Google Maps has a few handy features that can help users deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic, including a built-in tool that will let you order food from inside the app.As long as restaurants support the feature and as long as they’re st…
Apple could announce new MacBook models with scissor-switch keyboards soon
According to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could unveil new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor-switch keyboards. MacRumors first noticed the report; TechCrunch obtained the research note as well. Apple updated the big MacBook Pro…
Doing deals through Zoom? These investors have some tips
Investors are turning to remote-only meetings to combat COVID-19, which was officially declared a pandemic yesterday. The novel coronavirus is already spreading via community contact in the Bay Area; an employee of South Park Cafe, a popular hub for techies …
Clobbered by coronavirus econ news? Here’s an in-depth, 90 day rewind
Theres just been a torrent of economic news since the first identification of patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China in early December 2019 until the declaration of a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday. Investors have fled the pu…
Coda CEO Shishir Mehrotra on the future of the document
Productivity tools have been a white-hot space, with new startups seeming to nab funding on a daily basis. Coda has been one of the more impactful productivity tools, pitching a richer and deeper collaborative document builder. The startup has picked up $60 …
Europe’s Deliveroo and Glovo switch on contactless delivery during COVID-19 pandemic
European on-demand food delivery startups are starting to add ‘contactless’ deliveries in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Earlier this month U.S. startups including Postmates and Instacart added an option for customers to choose not to have their meal h…
Revolut lets you purchase gold
Fintech startup Revolut has introduced a new trading feature for premium users. Starting today, Premium and Metal users can access gold exposure from the app. Revolut works with a gold services partner (London Bullion Market Association) so that money that y…
Google is working on a native printing and scanning app for Chrome OS
Print Management App Enables the print management app that allows Chrome OS users to view and manage their native print jobs. #print-job-management-app The app’s development is still in its very early stages, but it will apparently show you your recent pri…
Intel chips faces damaging new LVI flaw
A new security flaw in Intel processors has been disclosed by vulnerability researchers at Bitdefender as well as by a team of academics from universities around the world. The flaw has been given the name Load Value Injection or LVI for short and it represe…
Google’s Objectron uses AI to track 3D objects in 2D video
Coinciding with the kickoff of the 2020 TensorFlow Developer Summit, Google today published a pipeline Objectron that spots objects in 2D images and estimates their poses and sizes through an AI model. The company says it has implications for robotics, self-d…
Apple Limits AirPods and Apple Watch Try-Ons in Retail Stores to Prevent Coronavirus Spread
Apple is scaling back Apple Watch and AirPods try-on options at some of its retail stores as part of an effort to cut down on the spread of coronavirus, reports Business Insider. Customers can still ask to try on Apple Watch and AirPods models, but emplo…
Veteran Blizzard Dev Who Worked On WoW, Diablo, And Overwatch Has Left The Studio
One of Blizzard’s most veteran developers is moving on. Michael Chu, who first joined Blizzard in 2000 and most recently served as the lead writer for the Overwatch series, has announced he’s leaving Blizzard to pursue something new. In a blog post, Chu said…
Mortal Kombat 11
Watch as the Kombat Kast breakdown the hotly anticipated arrival of Spawn in Mortal Kombat 11. #ign#mk11
‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ Hits the Battle Royale Sweet Spot
Ever since the battle royale craze took flight in 2017, the Call of Duty franchise has been tripping over itself to catch it. The last Call of Duty, Black Ops 4, asked battle royale fans to pay a huge $60 compared to other games bargain price of zero dollars.…
A new Witcher game will begin development “immediately” after Cyberpunk 2077 is released
Work is set to begin on a new Witcher game once Cyberpunk 2077 launches, CD Projekt president Adam Kiciski has revealed. Kiciski told a group of journalists (via Eurogamer Poland /PSU ) that a “relatively clear concept” has already been staked down for t…
Salesforce’s ProGen trained on 280 million amino acid sequences to learn to generate proteins
This week, a team of scientists at Salesforce published a study detailing an AI system ProGen they say is capable of generating proteins in a controllable fashion, such that it could unlock new approaches to protein engineering. If their claims pan out, it co…
Overwatch League Cancels All March And April Events Due To Coronavirus
Overwatch Leagues planned migration of teams to their respective cities for a full season of home and away games has hit yet another big obstacle. After isolated cancellations of events in China and South Korea, the league has now pulled the plug on all live …
Slack calls are having ‘connectivity issues’
Slack has confirmed that “Slack Calls are experiencing some connectivity difficulties right now.” The company said it is working to resolve the issue “as quickly as possible.” The difficulties coincide with the push from tech companies to move workers to remo…