GamingNews

'Fortnite' made a historic $1.8 billion in 2019

January 5, 2020
Fortnite won its chicken dinner in 2019 by grossing $1.8 billion in sales, more than any single-year sales total in videogame history. While the game itself is technically free-to-play, Epic Games offers a $10 per month Battle Pass as well as myriad in-game item purchases — from clothing and weapons to dance mores and player reactions — to keep the game’s 125 million active…
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MobileNews

2019 Winners and Losers: Motorola

January 5, 2020
Another year is passing by and Motorola kept on pushing entry and midrange phones. We also got a break from the norm with the company’s long-awaited foldable phone – the rebord Razr. Let’s see what was good and not so good for the storied company in the…
MobileNews

LG's G9 may pack four cameras while keeping the headphone jack

January 4, 2020
LG may have a simple approach to fighting the next Galaxy S phone — offer a no-nonsense flagship. Well-known tipster OnLeaks and CashKaro have shared CAD-based renders of what they says is the G9, and it appears to be a slightly refined take on the G8X that revolves…
AI & RoboticsNews

US limits AI exports over fears it will fall into Chinese hands

January 4, 2020
The US government’s concerns about Chinese involvement in tech are leading to significant restrictions on AI. The Commerce Department is instituting a rule on January 6th that will require companies to obtain a license if they want to export certain AI-powered geospatial imagery software to other countries besides Canada. Not surprisingly, officials are worried that the technology (which…
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MobileNews

Realme X2 and X2 Pro get December security patch and Dark Mode toggle with latest updates

January 4, 2020
Realme released a software update for the X2 Pro in China last week that brought along a Dark Mode toggle and December 2019 security patch to the flagship. The rollout has now expanded to India, but the update comes with a tad different changelog. You can check it out below: Security Android security patch: December 2019 Launcher Added click the blank area to back to the launcher on recent…
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MobileNews

New Nokia retro phone may be coming by the end of the month

January 4, 2020
News came in yesterday that the follow-up to the Nokia 9 PureView, an alleged Nokia 9.2, has been delayed to allow for the use of the newer Snapdragon 865 chipset. Well, it appears that we might be in for a consolation phone release in the meantime in the form of a new Nokia ‘original’. This is the 4th year I buy new shoes in anticipation of #CES and #MWC and it looks like this will…
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