Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is just days away from its October 25th release date, and Activision has finally announced how it’ll be running the in-game economy for the upcoming shooter. Specifically, Modern Warfare will be the first Call of Duty game to use a battle pass system, instead of the much maligned random loot boxes, to dispense content and cosmetics to players.
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Google Photos format loophole seems to give iPhone free unlimited storage for orig. quality photos, Pixel 4 left behind
October 17, 2019
One of the unique selling points for the Pixel smartphone lineup over the last few years has been free unlimited storage of original quality pictures with Google Photos. However, that changed with the Pixel 4 that was announced this week which won’t see that benefit.
Razer’s Blade 15 Studio Edition is now available, with a whopping 16GB of graphics memory
October 17, 2019
Razer’s new Blade 15 Studio Edition laptop is now available in the US and Canada. Its design fits right into the company’s lineup of gaming-focused laptops, but this one is built specifically for creative professionals who demand especially high-end specs and who have a…
Video understanding is an AI subfield that not only underpins systems capable of sussing out semantics automatically, like web-video classifiers and sport activity recognizers, but that’s at the cornerstone of robot perception and navigation systems. Unfortunately, devising machine learning models that take advantage of videos’ spatio-temporal information isn’t easy, nor is identifying those…    
    
Fortnite received a huge update on October 15 with the launch of Chapter 2, adding a new map to the battle royale shooter for the first time in the its sensational history. The excitement of Chapter 2 helped to give the mobile version of Fortnite a big financial boost…
It’s barely news at this point that Apple’s latest version of iOS is off to a strong start with users — just like iOS 10, iOS 11, and iOS 12, it didn’t take long for at least half of all iOS devices to switch to iOS 13. Apple announced late yesterday that 50% of all…
UK carrier O2 has activated its 5G network and announced a number of new plans if you want to try the next generation of wireless connectivity  the good news is that you wont have to pay any premium, the 5G plans cost exactly the same as the 4G plans. An Unlimited plan is available if you plan to download massive amounts of data quickly.
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Save $24 on the new Nintendo Switch with improved battery life
October 17, 2019
Nintendo’s new, slightly improved Switch console has vastly improved battery life over the original model. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading to this version, or are purchasing your first Switch, Amazon’s deal might appeal to you.
For a limited time, you can save…
Back in March, Google widely rolled out speed trap and accident reports in Maps for Android. The service today is adding more types of incident reporting while bringing the popular feature to iOS.
Similar to Waze, reporting incidents on Google Maps helps create a view of…
If you primarily use a Google Voice number, there are a few little roadblocks you’ve got to put up with. However, one of those is going away, as the latest Google Voice update for iOS adds better support for Siri.
 details that with this latest update, Google Voice users can take advantage of voice commands such as, “Hey Siri, call John on Google Voice.” Better…