ARM’s newest flagship GPU will offer hardware-based ray tracing, a first for the company. Announced today, the Immortalis-G715 promises a 15 percent performance boost compared to the firm’s previous generation of premium Mali GPUs. The performance improvement is courtesy of architectural improvements and a design that can accommodate up to 16 cores.
ARM already offered support for…
Google adding six Stadia Pro games for July 2022, including Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach
June 29, 2022
Following a big drop last month that tied with this year’s high, July 2022 will bring six games to Stadia Pro that are predominantly new to the platform.
It starts with Centipede: Recharged ($9.99) from Atari:
The original bug-blasting arcade game is back! Centipede…
Arm’s new Immortalis GPU sets the stage for more Android phones with ray-tracing support
June 29, 2022
Ray-tracing is the hot new thing in the gaming world, being a key part of modern PC GPUs and the latest generation of consoles. Now, Arm is making a push to make ray-tracing more popular on Android smartphones, with the new “Immortalis” GPU.
Arm Immortalis brings ray…
Google’s Wear OS platform has supported iOS from the beginning, but future support of Apple’s platform was in question with the debut of Wear OS 3. Now, we have an answer.
The Galaxy Watch 4 doesn’t support iOS
Rewinding back to last August, the Galaxy Watch 4 was the very first smartwatch with Wear OS 3 on board. And that’s continued until today.
The debut of the Galaxy Watch 4…
On the web, Gmail has long noted how much storage you’re using at the bottom of the page. A “Storage used” indicator is now on Gmail for Android and iOS to save you from needing to open another app or website for space management.
On the Gmail mobile apps, Google…
While modern-day smartphones are fantastic for keeping large files in the cloud, you will inevitably find yourself downloading at least some locally onto your device. Over time, that download folder can get larger and larger until your Android device almost can’t take…
Did you know there are free game trials on Stadia that don’t require you to sign up? In fact, there are several genuinely fantastic titles that are free to play. Here are the games you can jump into right now without an account.
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NEW Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
NEW Ben 10: Power Trip
NEW Cake Bash
NEW Far Cry 6
NEW One Hand…
Google seems to be preparing for car crash detection and other Pixel-exclusive Personal Safety features available on other Android phones.
About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the…
Google loses payments and commerce head behind the upcoming Google Wallet to Pinterest
June 29, 2022
News broke today that Pinterest cofounder Ben Silbermann is stepping down as CEO and that Bill Ready, Google’s former head of commerce and payments, will take over.
Bill Ready was most recently Google’s president of commerce, payments, and next billion users. The…
Kuo: Apple in-house 5G modem faces development woes, will use Qualcomm chips for iPhone 15
June 29, 2022
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released some interesting information on Twitter today. Kuo said that his latest supply-side surveys are indicating that Apple has been unable to develop a custom 5G modem of its own, in time for the 2023 iPhone series (iPhone 15).
Due to the apparent development delays, Kuo believes that Apple will resort to using Qualcomm modems for the 2023 iPhones once again.
