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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 tracing support will arrive as a free update for all PC Minecraft users. “Ray tracing sits at the center of what we think is…
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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…
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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…
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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 is a midranger sporting a 21:9 tall 6.3” LCD panel with Full HD+ resolution with a punch hole for the selfie camera and…
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'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…
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Samsung Galaxy Note10+: first Exynos 9825 benchmarks

August 19, 2019
The Exynos 9825 is the industry’s first chipset built on a 7nm Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) process. Its predecessor, the 8nm Exynos 9820, as well as TSMC’s 7nm offerings are built on Deep UltraViolet (DUV) process, but that has run out of steam. In the future, foundries will…
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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 surprises for me has been the changes in the Reminders app. Over the years, I used several to-do/GTD/project management/task…
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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, it’s hard not to wonder if maybe Nokia was on to something. The…
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'Travis Strikes Again' comes to PC and PS4 on October 17th

August 18, 2019
You won’t have to own a Switch to play a modern take on the No More Heroes universe. Suda51’s Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Complete Edition is now slated to launch on PC (via Steam) and PS4 October 17th. The expanded title includes both the core top-down perspective game as well as its Black Dandelion and Bubblegum Fatale add-ons. Naturally, you can expect the over-the-top…
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