Topping the Valve Steam’s Best of 2020 list are the usual suspects like Destiny 2, Counter-Strike, Grand Theft Auto 5 and Terraria, but there are a surprising number of newcomers like Among Us and Cyberpunk 2077 that were released just a few weeks back. Like clockwork each year, Valve releases its list of the top-played […]
An ultrawide lens is the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G’s distinguishing camera hardware addition, and at launch, it could be used to take wide astrophotography shots. With Google Camera 8.1 in November, that capability was quietly removed. Astrophotography lets you take pictures of the night sky and can be activated by visiting the Night […]
To all of you who got a new Apple device for Christmas, congrats! But you might have had some difficulty setting up and signing in to iCloud along with other Apple users. First reported by Apple Insider, as of Saturday morning, Apple’s system status page was showing “some users affected” by an issue that began […]
Apple isn’t the only major brand removing the charger from the box of its latest flagship phone. As noticed on Reddit, Xiaomi has announced that its upcoming Mi 11 phone won’t include a charger. The rationale is familiar. Many people already have old chargers on hand, and this answers demands for a “more environmentally friendly” […]
So you’ve been given or bought yourself an Apple Watch for the holidays. Congrats! Whether you’re a first-time smartwatch user or just new to watchOS, wearing an Apple Watch can feel like a big change in your daily life. You don’t want to just strap it on and rely on the default settings either — a device as […]
The Mayflower carried some of the first European settlers across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, 400 years ago this year. To commemorate the anniversary, another vessel is recreating that voyage, with the help of artificial intelligence. “We don’t know how it’s going to go. Is it going to make it across the Atlantic?” software […]
Two weeks after the troubled launch of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red is facing a class action lawsuit. But the filing isn’t on behalf of players who may feel burned over a pre-release cycle that hid the state of the game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Rather, it’s on behalf of investors. Yesterday, the Manhattan-based […]
intel’s Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs which include the Core i9-11900K, Core i9-11900 & Core i7-11700 have been spotted at Chiphell Forums (via Harukaze5719). All three chips are part of the 11th Gen family and feature 8 cores with 16 threads. The leaker points out that these three chips are early engineering samples & hence feature much lower clock […]
Depending on the earbuds, set up could be as simple as bringing the Bluetooth accessory near your Android phone. This is made possible by Fast Pair, which Google updated in recent weeks to take after iOS. Since Fast Pair’s launch in 2017, the process has started with a standard notification that includes a thumbnail of […]
OnePlus is rumored to launch its next-gen smartphone lineup – the OnePlus 9 trio – at some point in March next year. So far, we’ve seen leaked renders and live images of a OnePlus 9 pre-production unit, and some of its key specifications have been leaked as well. Now, a fresh leak has shed some […]
Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work. Google’s new review procedure asks that researchers consult legal, […]
Zoom has become one of the most popular conferencing platforms, both for private and business use. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has only helped fuel the app’s fame, making it pass more than 500,000,000 downloads on the Play Store. However, now that vaccines are starting to roll out to the masses, the prospect of returning to […]
