GamingNews

Fortnite is finally getting better spatial audio

October 18, 2019
One of the reasons I couldn’t get into Fortnite was the sound. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has an excellent and accurate sound model, and that made it difficult to move to another game that doesn’t. In Fortnite, it was difficult to tell where attacks were coming from. That is changing in the battle royale shooter, because developer Epic Games is introducing a new option called “3D…
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Sonic & Knuckles turned a problem into success 25 years ago

October 18, 2019
Sonic & Knuckles is what happens when you make the best out of a bad situation. The Sega Genesis 2D platformer is celebrating its 25th anniversary today. But Sonic & Knuckles only exists because of time and memory constraints. Sega had planned for everything that’s…
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Blizzard is banning people in its Hearthstone Twitch chat for pro-Hong Kong statements

October 18, 2019
In February, Blizzard announced a new Hearthstone e-sports program, called the Masters Tour, to pit the game’s best players against each other for a chance to win the acclaim of the internet (and potentially a lot of money). A European leg of the tour is currently happening in Bucharest, and you can catch the action over on Twitch. But there’s a catch: anybody who posts anything pro-Hong Kong…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Why Google still needs the cloud even with on-device ML

October 18, 2019
Google held its big annual hardware event Tuesday in New York to unveil the Pixel 4, Nest Mini, Pixelbook Go, Nest Wifi, and Pixel Buds. It was mostly predictable because details about virtually every piece of hardware the company revealed at the event were leaked months in…
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Twitch viewers can subscribe to streamers on iOS

October 18, 2019
Twitch users on iOS can now subscribe to their favorite streamers directly from the app. It’ll offer the same benefits of subscribing on desktop, including ad-free viewing, sub badges, channel emotes and sub-only chat, as well as supporting the partner or affiliate…
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Samsung Galaxy Note10+ 5G gets an update, likely a fingerprint issue fix

October 18, 2019
It was recently discovered that all smartphones from Samsung with the ultrasonic fingerprint reader, meaning the Galaxy S10, S10+, S10 5G, Note10, Note10+ and Note10+ 5G have a security flaw that lets unregistered fingerprint to unlock the device if you use some third party screen protectors. Samsung promised to fix it and here’s the first phone to get the patch – the Galaxy…
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Some of the best cases for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10

October 18, 2019
The Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ are fantastic smartphones with a truly gorgeous design that you might want to protect with a case or multiple cases. Considering just how much screen is on display and how expensive the Galaxy Note 10 is to buy, making sure it is protected…
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Play Store redesign begins rolling out on Android TV

October 18, 2019
Following the Android revamp in August, Google is now beginning to roll out a Material Theme for the Play Store on Android TV. Compared to the current iteration, the redesign is gorgeous and makes use of full bleed cover art and large text. For starters, there is a Google Play icon and wordmark in the top-left corner. This is followed by Apps, Games, and My apps being at the right instead of those…
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