Xiaomi announced today the Inter-Transfer Alliance group, where it is joined by Oppo and vivo to create an AirDrop-like service for file transfer. The platform is currently in open beta and will allow devices from different manufacturers to exchange photos and documents with a simple swipe or click.
According to the company, the exchange of files wouldnt use a lot of battery nor would it use 4G…
Minecraft will get ray tracing for Nvidia RTX graphics cards
August 19, 2019
Minecraft is about to get a major graphics overhaul, thanks to real-time ray tracing support for any player using a Nvidia RTX card. Microsoft and Nvidia made the joint announcement today at industry trade show Gamescom in Cologne, Germany early Monday morning, and ray…
NVIDIA ray-tracing on 'Minecraft' looks surprisingly cool
August 19, 2019
Minecraft‘s blocky world might be the last place you’d think would need more realism. However, NVIDIA and Microsoft have announced that they’ve done exactly that, bringing RTX ray-tracing powers to the world-building game. “In normal Minecraft, a…
NVIDIA ray-tracing on 'Minecraft' looks surprisingly cool
August 19, 2019
Minecraft‘s blocky world might be the last place you’d think would need more realism. However, NVIDIA and Microsoft have announced that they’ve done exactly that, bringing RTX ray-tracing powers to the world-building game. “In normal Minecraft, a block of gold just appears yellow,” said Minecraft’s Saxs Persson, “but with ray tracing turned on, you really…
Motorola One Action to arrive in India on August 23
August 19, 2019
Last week Motorola One Action was unveiled with three cameras, one of them with an ultrawide angle lens with 1080 at 60 fps video recording and 16 MP sensor for shooting action videos.
Now we learn the phone will hit India through Flipkart starting August 23.
The new phone…
'Rainbow Six: Siege' adds a 'Fortnite' style Battle Pass
August 19, 2019
Ubisoft can’t resist the siren’s call of introducing Fortnite-like Battle Passes in Rainbow Six: Siege. On top of unveiling the details of Year 4’s third season (more on that in a bit), the company has outlined plans for Battle Passes in its tactical…
Samsung Galaxy Note10+: first Exynos 9825 benchmarks
August 19, 2019
The Exynos 9825 is the industrys first chipset built on a 7nm Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) process. Its predecessor, the 8nm Exynos 9820, as well as TSMCs 7nm offerings are built on Deep UltraViolet (DUV) process, but that has run out of steam.
In the future, foundries will use EUV to drop below 7nm 5nm chips are already on their roadmaps. So, Samsung Galaxy Note10+s is just a proving ground…
Comment: Is the Reminders app ready to be considered a true task manager in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina?
August 18, 2019
I made the decision a few weeks ago to install the beta of macOS Catalina. It’s still pretty buggy, but since I enjoy testing out new features (and writing about them), I am willing to deal with the crashes and incompatibility throughout the summer. One of the biggest…
Flashback: Nokia N-Gage - the gaming phone ahead of its time
August 18, 2019
Sometimes a company launches the right product at the wrong time. The Nokia N-Gage is remembered simply as a failure today, but seeing how in 2019 companies are tripping over themselves to launch gaming phones, its hard not to wonder if maybe Nokia was on to something.
The…
Last week we asked you a few questions. Are you getting a Samsung Galaxy Note10+ or Galaxy Note10 and if you would pay the premium for a 5G model or stick with LTE.
Now the results are in and they are a bit surprising. Last year 19% half of you said they’d get a Galaxy Note9 but this year the results are flipped. Half of you said they’re looking at competing phones, rather than the…
