Electronic Arts‘ EA Sports and FIFA are launching a new esports competition and media event, dubbed the EA Sports FIFA 20 Global Series Road to the FIFA eWorld Cup. The tournament will have a $3 million prize pool.
The idea is to enhance enthusiasm for the soccer game’s esports competition and entertainment for players and viewers alike.
“We’re super excited. Our competitive gaming is in…
In-home cameras that beam footage to cloud storage are inherently more prone to compromise than those that record locally. No matter the encryption scheme at play, there’s always a risk of captured clips taking an unintended detour on their way from a router to the…
EA is encouraging its users to switch on two-factor authentication, which it calls “Login Verification,” by offering them a free perk in return. Anybody who switches on the security feature within October will get a free month of Origin Access Basic, its…
One of the great new additions with the iPhone 11 lineup is an ultra wide camera that allows users to capture a much greater field of view without needing an external lens. Read on for how to use the ultra wide camera on the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro including how to manually dial in your focal length.
The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro have a new Camera app that includes exclusive features like…
The console gaming world could be about to get a lot more open. For a long time, Sony was resistant to let people play PS4 games with their friends on other platforms. It cracked open the door with a cross-play beta for Fortnite a little over a year ago, and now it’s…
Apple’s third-generation AirPods have been rumored for almost as long as the current second-generation version, though the specific features and design changes have remained ambiguous — noise cancellation and water resistance were said to be likely candidates. Today’s…
Call of Duty: Mobile has reached 20 million installs and has earned $2 million so far, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
The mobile version of Activision Blizzard’s hit shooter franchise launched on October 1 for Android and iOS. Some of those numbers from Sensor Tower come from the game’s soft launch period before October 1, but the majority are from the last 36 hours.
Call of Duty…
Natural language processing (NLP) — the AI subfield dealing with machine reading comprehension — isn’t by any stretch solved, and that’s because syntactic nuances can enormously impact the meaning of a sentence or phrase. Consider the paraphrase pairs “Flights from…
Rumors about new Apple AirPods with noise canceling aren’t exactly new, dating back a couple of years. But now a glyph found in iOS 13.2 reveals what the new AirPods with noise canceling will look like.
They remind me of Apple’s old in-ear headphones, but wireless…
Surface Laptop 3 hands-on: Bigger, yet more refined
October 2, 2019
While we loved the original Surface Laptop, last year’s sequel wasn’t a huge improvement design-wise. The Surface Laptop 3 is another story entirely: it forgoes the Alcantara fabric around the keyboard for polished aluminum, and there’s a larger 15-inch model with a custom AMD chip and Radeon Vega graphics. It may not have the 2-in-1 capabilities of the Surface Pro or Book, but…
