The Elder Scrolls Blades launch is scheduled for later this year. Announced at E3, the upcoming Elder Scrolls mobile and PC title boasts impressive graphics and full VR support. In a recent interview with GameReactor, Bethesda VP Pete Hines explained Bethesda’s top priority with the game; player choice. Player Choice in The Elder Scrolls Blades […]
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Skype previews texting feature for PCs
Skype has given Insiders on Android a sneak peek of an upcoming feature called “SMS Connect.” Windows Blog Italia has spotted an option in the latest version of Skype Preview’s settings that would allow you to send and receive texts using Skype on Mac or Windows PC. Say, a friend texts you on your Android […]
Gmail For Mobile Gets Confidential Mode: What It’s For And How To Use It
Back in May, Google rolled out an update for Gmail that introduced desktop users to “Confidential Mode,” and now that feature is coming to the Android version as well. The official Twitter account of Gmail has confirmed that the feature is indeed coming to mobile. It lets users put a self-destruct mechanism to conversations to […]
Google is working on native hearing aid support for Android
In partnership with Danish firm GN Hearing, Google is currently developing a protocol to enable native hearing aid support in Android. The open specification will allow users with hearing impairments to connect their aids to their phone for a better user experience. With 466 million affected by hearing loss globally, it could even be said […]
Next Windows 10 update nearing completion as it gets its official name
The last few Windows Insider preview builds of Windows 10 have offered few new features and have instead focused on fixing bugs. The latest build, released today, takes a step toward completion: it has changed the operating system’s version stamp. Until now, the previews have called themselves version 1803, the release from earlier this year. […]
How Google’s location-tracking issue affects you
Watching Twitter and Facebook commit reputational suicide over the past 20 months has been as painful as it has been entertaining — entertaining in the sense that all anyone had to do was let the companies be themselves. The cost has been terrible, on democracy, the free press, at-risk populations and soon, I’ll wager, on […]
A step closer to a theory of quantum gravity
A new approach to combining Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity with quantum physics could come out of a paper published in the journal Nature Physics. The insights could help build a successful theory of quantum gravity, something that has so far eluded physicists. Magdalena Zych from University of Queensland in Australia and Caslav Brukner from […]
Samsung SmartThings Wifi: 5 things you should know
Samsung wants to tame your smart home and end your WiFi deadspots, with its new SmartThings Wifi mesh router system. Promising not only smoother internet access for things like online gaming, streaming media, and general browsing, the mesh networking system also integrates an IoT hub that could leave you spending less time jumping between apps […]
NVIDIA’s New High-end Quadro RTX First to Include VirtualLink VR Port
Today at SIGGRAPH 2018 NVIDIA announced ‘Turing’, their next-generation GPU architecture aimed at real-time ray tracing, and the first high-end GPUs built atop it, the Quadro RTX 8000, 6000 and 5000. The cards are the first to include the recently revealed VirtualLink port, a new connection standard specially designed for next-generation VR headsets. Ray tracing—a […]
Another step forward on universal quantum computer
Researchers have demonstrated holonomic quantum gates under zero-magnetic field at room temperature, which could enable the realization of fast and fault-tolerant universal quantum computers. A quantum computer is a theoretical machine with the potential to solve complex problems much faster than conventional computers. Researchers are currently working on the next step in quantum computing—building a […]
Schwarzites: Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
The discovery of buckyballs surprised and delighted chemists in the 1980s, nanotubes jazzed physicists in the 1990s, and graphene charged up materials scientists in the 2000s, but one nanoscale carbon structure—a negatively curved surface called a schwarzite—has eluded everyone. Until now. University of California, Berkeley, chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by […]
Spotify explores letting users skip ads
Spotify may expand an option for users of its ad-supported music streaming service where they can choose to skip ads. The option is currently available to all users of its ad-supported service in Australia, Spotify confirmed in a statement. The idea behind the option is allowing its users to personalize the advertising they hear or […]