“Web 3 Gaming will be the future,” Polium wrote on social media to celebrate the announcement. “The console will be powerful enough to run high-performance games and will be easy to use for a traditional gamer who doesn’t understand Web 3.” — Polium (@Polium__) July 2, 2022 For the unversed, Web3 has become a catch-all term for the vision of a new, better version of the World Wide Web for the past year or so....
Opera Crypto Browser is now available on iOS After arriving on Android, Windows, and Mac; Opera Crypto Browser has now arrived across iOS as well. This will give iPad and iPhone users an unparalleled experience with an assortment of features built-in to the browser. The app is based on crypto and Web 3 technologies. The developers have joined hands with Nervous, Solana, Polygon, Handshake, Unstoppable Domains, Celo, and ENS to make the browser a truly collaborative reflection....
In an email sent to customers, the company said its systems were compromised in late July 2022, which was discovered by them on or around August 4, 2022. During their ongoing investigation, Samsung found that an unauthorized third party had acquired the personal information of its customers from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems and exfiltrated it out of its network. However, no consumer devices and in-app control interfaces were affected....
What happens when you challenge a series of extremely dexterous hackers to hack your bank accounts and other mediums? Well, it can result in unspeakable damage, particularly if the hacker gets the notion that he can get rich by performing a couple of evil tricks up his sleeve. It was the time when YouTube channel content uploader Kevin Roose possibly learned the biggest lesson of his life by daring two hacking experts to spend a couple weeks trying to gain access to his life, as long as they agreed not to steal money or reveal his secrets publicly....
Snapchat is one of the most popular social media platforms that has definitely stood the test of time. Sadly, there was never a web version of Snapchat. Furthermore, using Snapchat on a PC via an emulator also didn’t work well. Luckily that changes today with the release of the long-awaited Snapchat for Web. As the name suggests, using Snapchat Web users can easily access and use Snapchat on their desktops and laptops, without using their mobile phones....
To demonstrate this concept in the real world, the Japanese tech giant started public road testing in Europe in December 2020 and started verification tests of the safety and user experience of the imaging and sensing technology installed inside and outside the vehicle, and the human-machine interface (HMI) system. To further develop the above efforts, Sony on Tuesday at the CES 2022 announced and exhibited an SUV-type prototype vehicle (Vision-S 02) as a new form factor, as it enters a new phase of Vision-S development....
The company said that it is also officially re-launching the China Hero Project programme, which was brought to a halt due to COVID-19. For those unaware, China Hero Project is the incubation project initiated by SIE (Sony Interactive Entertainment) to help China local developers create good console games. According to a report published by Reuters, Sony is planning to invest more than 1 million yuan ($140,080) in each China-developed game that the company incubates through its programs....
The news about the arrest was released by the City of London Police through their official Twitter handle. He remains in police custody. pic.twitter.com/Zfa3OlDR6J — City of London Police (@CityPolice) September 23, 2022 While the city police department has not released any further information about the person in custody, popular ex-Reuters journalist Matthew Keys wrote based on unknown sources that the 17-year-old’s arrest was “related to intrusion on Rockstar Games and possibly Uber Technologies” and “was done in concert with an investigation conducted by the FBI, according to a source with knowledge of the matter....
Recently, Riot Games celebrated the one-year anniversary of Valorant, and as a special surprise, the company has announced that a new version of Valorant is coming out for mobile devices. During the announcement Valorant executive producer Anna Donlon stated that, “One of our top goals this first year was to earn the trust and respect of the global FPS community, and to prove to them that Valorant will always uphold the fundamentals of a truly worthwhile competitive tac-shooter....
“The next step for us is mouse [and] keyboard…This is platform-level support, so it has nothing to do with us. Obviously, mouse and keyboard works for our sim. So the platform team is working on this. I know I can’t give a date because it’s the platform team. I don’t know their dates, but it’s coming.” Now, Microsoft on Tuesday has officially announced that keyboard and mouse support will be coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) users on PC in the near future....
Starting from this series, Xiaomi series flagships will now feature models available in two sizes. Powered by the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro will feature industry-leading DisplayMate A+ OLED displays and powerful imaging capabilities. Let’s have a look at the specifications of Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro models: DISPLAY: Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro both will feature the highest-ever Display Performance Grade of A+ from DisplayMate....
The new feature called “Live Rings” will display a luminous red ring with the word “Live” around a channel’s profile picture when live streaming on the platform. Clicking on the channel avatar will directly take users to the live broadcast. — Neal Mohan (@nealmohan) February 18, 2022 Similar indicators for channels that are live streaming are already available on other social platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. While TikTok adds a pulsing ring effect on a channel’s profile picture to notify the user that it is live streaming, Instagram displays a colorful ring around the profile pictures of live streaming accounts....
Listening to the curated playlist while going on and about with your work, assignments, homework has been a habit for many of us. While some resort to low-fi hip hop channels on YouTube, some of the others stay hooked to discovery on Spotify and Apple music. Music aficionados often curate playlist on their favorite music streaming website to stream the songs, symphonies they fancy and would tune into them whenever they would feel like....
Called Reading Sidekick, this innovative Alexa feature is aimed to make reading more fun and help kids ages 6 to 9 become strong readers. It makes it easy for kids to read independently by exploring the stories they want to read, when they want to read. This feature will help kids grow into confident, independent readers, especially as they are still developing their reading skills. It is basically designed to complement the time kids spend reading with grownups....
Well, you will be surprised to know that a Taiwanese tech enthusiast Tsaik recently overclocked an enormous 64-core/128-thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 595WX processor to 5.15 GHz all-core, completely crushing the Cinebench R23 world record. The overclocked CPU managed to achieve a multi-threaded benchmark score of 116142 completely destroying the previous record holder Splave’s Threadripper 3990X by 105170 points. At the time of writing this article, there’s no consumer/retail version of Threadripper PRO 5995WX....
AMD Zen 4 is a significant increase from the existing Zen 3 architecture, which contains up to 64 cores. In other words, it is double than what AMD offers in its current EPYC 7003 line-up. The following image shows the 64-core layout of the EPYC 7703 (AC) processor: While previous reports suggested that AMD Zen 4-based processors will have over 64 cores, the new CPUs will now reportedly feature up to 128 internal cores and 256 threads, room for up to 16 CCDs powered by the Zen 4 core architecture as well as support 12-channel DDR5-5200 memory....
Since yesterday, Apple Mac users have been hit by a first ever fully functional ransomware called KeRanger. KeRanger spreads through a infected version of the Transmission BitTorrent client for Mac. Ransomware, one of the fastest-growing types of cyber threats, encrypts data on infected machines. The ransomware then asks victims to pay ransom in bitcoins to get an electronic key so they can decrypt the encrypted data. Windows run PCs have normally been the target of ransomware authors but this is the first time that ransomware is targeting the Apple’s closed OS X operating system....
The aim was to release an Android-based BlackBerry-branded 5G phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard in “the first half of 2021” in North America and Europe. For those unaware, OnwardMobility, which is a company focused on building secure mobile solutions for government and enterprise customers, has acquired the rights to manufacture BlackBerry-branded phones. With no signs of the 5G BlackBerry smartphone arriving in the first half of 2021, it looked like the device had been kept on the back burner....
Back then, the electric car maker said that it was buying the cryptocurrency for “more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash.” It also added that it will accept bitcoin in exchange for its products “subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt.” Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk on Wednesday has formally announced that the company’s electric vehicles can now be bought using bitcoin....
Mr. Musk plans to make millions by selling the robot in near future for a price tag of $20,000. During the event, the robot walked up to people and waved his hand but no complex movement or task was showcased as musk stated that he, “didn’t want it to fall on its face.” — Tesla (@Tesla) October 1, 2022 During the event Musk stated that, “Our goal is to make a useful humanoid robot as quickly as possible,” he further added, “Optimus is designed to be an extremely capable robot made in very high volume, probably ultimately millions of units, and is expected to cost much less than a car....
