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How to preorder the Samsung Galaxy Note 20

August 19, 2020
Samsung announced its new Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra phones at its Unpacked 2020 online event. At this point, The Verge’s Dieter Bohn has now published his full review of the larger Note 20 Ultra. You can read that here or watch the video component of the review above. I’m just here to tell you where you can preorder them. Oh, and if you’re curious about when you can preorder the new…
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GamingNews

EA Play hits Steam on August 31st

August 19, 2020
After a delay, EA Play, the subscription service formerly known as EA Access, will be available on Steam starting August 31st. The platform allows you to play Electronic Arts&apos back catalog of titles as much as you want and check out its newest games before buying…
AI & RoboticsNews

Researchers claim their AI can hear if a speaker is wearing a mask

August 19, 2020
Researchers at Duke Kunshan University, Wuhan University, Lenovo, and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou claim to have developed an AI system that detects whether a person is wearing a mask from the sound of their muffled speech. They say that in experiments, it achieves 78.8% accuracy on one metric, demonstrating that sound could be a useful means of enforcing mask-wearing during the…
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GamingNews

EA Play subscription service is coming to Steam on August 31st

August 19, 2020
EA’s subscription service is coming to Steam very soon. Today, the publisher announced that the recently renamed EA Play will launch on Steam on August 31st. This marks the fourth platform on which the service will be available, following the PS4, Xbox One, and EA’s own Origin storefront on PC. Previously known as EA Access, the service gives subscribers the ability to play some of the…
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Torchlight III is coming to Switch

August 19, 2020
Nintendo announced today during its Indie World Showcase stream that Torchlight III is coming to Switch later this year. Torchlight III has been in early access on PC since June. The action role-playing game started life as Torchlight Frontiers, an MMO. It then morphed into…
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Nintendo’s Indie World delights with multiple games launching

August 19, 2020
Nintendo livestreamed one of its Indie World Showcase presentations to Twitch and YouTube this morning. This comes as fans continue to harbor anxiety about the future of the Nintendo Switch’s lineup. So far, the publisher has only revealed Pikmin 3 Deluxe for the fall, and…
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How Nexon is expanding its PC online games to mobile

August 19, 2020
Nexon is a lucky online-only video game company with five major franchises that have generated billions of dollars in revenues over the years. That’s the payback from being the first company to launch a free-to-play online game — the Kingdom of the Wilds, released on the PC in 1996. And by the end of this year, all five of those major franchises will be available on mobile devices, Nexon CEO…
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