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Back in July, Apple aounced its plans to acquire Intel’s smartphone modem business for about $1 billion.“This agreement enables us to focus on developing technology for the 5G network while ret...

Elon Musk’s hideously unique – or uniquely hideous – Tesla Cybertruck may be in CDProjektRED’s Cyberpunk 2077.That’s right! If you’re a fan of Tesla’s undeniably iovative look, you may be able to ex...

New subscribers to Xbox Game Pass may be privy to free three month memberships to Discord Nitro in what would be the latest of many Game Pass promotions.Neowin reports that the latest Discord 9.8.3 be...

Windows PCs that are based on Intel were facing an issue, as a result of which users failed to install the latest Windows 10 May 2019 Update. Microsoft acknowledged the issue and suggested that updati...

Nero kicks some ass in the latest gameplay footage from Devil May Cry 5. Along with a trailer, IGN also has 15 minutes of demon-slaying gameplay ruing on an Xbox One X.[embedded content][embedded co...

Update:Telltale has confirmed earlier reports about its partnership with Netflix. Minecraft: Story Mode is coming to Netflix this fall and Telltale will publish a game based on Stranger Things for consoles and PC at a later date.Separately, we're thrilled to confirm that Telltale is developing a game based on Stranger Things that we'll publish to consoles a...

Normally we have to wait until closer to the end of the month for next month’s Games with Gold aouncement, but these ones appeared a little early. An unlisted video on Xbox’s YouTube chael has revealed which games will be coming to the program next month, and it’s another solid lineup like April. You can view the aouncement video below, which is still ...

Unfortunately today we have another banking app to add to the list departing the Windows Store platform. As before, the USAA banking app started on Windows Phone, but in 2015 became a UWP app for both Windows and Windows 10 Mobile.USAA stopped supporting the app in November last year, but it was then still mostly functioning. Today the app started delivering...

[embedded content]Yesterday, Microsoft aounced a new offer for Xbox One X console in the US. As part of this offer, for a limited time starting on April 1, you can save up to $20 on an Xbox One X Enhanced game with the purchase of a new Xbox One X.Play 130+ Xbox One X Enhanced games, including blockbusters like Forza Motorsport 7, Far Cry 5, FIFA 18, Assas...

Nearly a month ago, Mixer aounced that the company was investing in more ways to help streamers monetize their chaels. One way Mixer aims to do th...

A new trademark application by Samsung in South Korea suggests the company may be getting ready to release their own smart glasses into the market soo...

As Windows phone’s market share crumbles, banks around the world have pulled support from the platform.Nubank Brazil is one of the recent ones, reaching out to users to let them know that support for the banking app is EOL, meaning that it is likely to be pulled and rendered non-functional in the coming weeks.Meanwhile, in Turkey, the bankTürkiye ?? Bankas? A.?. communicated to its users via email from the 21st of March 2018, they’ll be unable to login to their bank account via the Windows phone app.Users in both cases are advised to use more mode mobile platforms like iOS and Android or use the web app.The reasons for this are obvious, and need not be rehashed in any detail. Windows phone d...

Microsoft today officially aounced details about this year’s Build developer conference. Microsoft has scheduled Build 2018 developer conference for May 7-9 and the conference will be held at Seattle same as last year.Just like last year, Microsoft is expected to discuss about cloud, artificial intelligence, mixed reality and more at this year’s developer conference.Join demos, meetups, deep dives, celebrations, or take a break to catch some live music. However you like to think, lea, work and play, your schedule is yours to build.Short sessions or long, instructor-led or on your own—pick the mix of leaing opportunities that fits your flavor.Bounce ideas off industry experts, hang out with n...

A few weeks ago the retail box for the Samsung Galaxy S9 leaked, and on it, the company bragged about a new Super Slow-mo feature.We had assumed this has only been about being able to record at 960 fps, but SamMobile’s sources have revealed a bit more about the feature.There will apparently be a number of modes. Th first is the usual one, which lets you start recording in slow motion.The second is driven by AI and would have the camera automatically start recording in slow motion when something fast and interesting happens in the frame, such as a skateboarder taking off for example. Similar to a dashcam, it would let you leave worrying about capturing the footage till after the event, and no...

A screenshot of an unreleased version of Instagram suggests Facebook may be adding a Cinemagraph feature to the camera feature of the Instagram app.The screenshot was leaked by WABetaInfo, who appears to have developed a method of unlocking hidden functionality in Facebook’s beta apps.Cinemagraphs are videos which only feature animation in a small area of a video, with the rest of the video frozen like in a still image, allowing the creator to draw particular attention to only a few elements of a video.Longtime readers would know one of the first phone apps this feature was available on was when Nokia released an app of the same name for Windows Phone.The feature is likely to first come to t...

Samsung may be introducing a new technology to take on Apple’s FaceID user authentication feature, but without introducing any new hardware.An XDA-Developer hackermweinbachhas discovered a new biometric feature in the APK teardownof the Settings app from the Android Oreo beta for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 which is expected to show up in the Samsung Galaxy S9.The feature, called Intelligent Scan, is accompanied by a demo video which appears to show users how to use it and also explains what it’s all about.[embedded content]It appears to be combining Iris Scaing and Face Unlock in a single scan, and thereby combining the benefits and cancelling out the weaknesses of both.In particular, Iris Sc...

Intel may have just suggested sophisticated buyers wait till the end of the year to buy their next PC. They have aounced that future versions of their processors will no longer be vulnerable to the speculative execution vulnerability which leads to the Spectre and Meltdown exploits.The aouncement was made by chief executive Brian Krzanich during Intel’s Q4 eaings call, as reported by the Washington Post, but Intel did not say exactly when the processors will arrive.Given that current patches come with variable performance impacts, which can be as high as 30% with some loads, it would seem prudent to wait a few months for new, unaffected processors to hit the market.Most of the public are of ...

Over the last two years, we have been seeing a surprising market open up of first party premium Bluetooth headphones from companies such as Apple, Samsung and Google. It seems Microsoft may be looking to get into the same game, if a recently published patent application is anything to go by.The patent for “Audio earphones having an adjustable cable system” describes a novel cabling system which users will be able to shorten or lengthen by sliding pods up and down the lengthof the cords, as seen in the illustration above.Microsoft also notes these pods can contain batteries and other electronics, and that the earphones themselves can contain sensors which would pause the music then they are r...

Microsoft has become increasingly aggressiveinpushingpeople who downloaded their Cortana for Android app tointegrate the app into the Android OS, with one oftheir new features tuing the app intorather a nice overlay for reminders on your home screen as can be seen in the screenshot above. Now unlocking your phone needs to be always as fast as possible, so tuing on that elementis never a good idea, butCortana for the home screen is actually prettyslick. With the overlay, Microsoft concentrates on one of Cortana’s strengths– setting reminders, andslidesthe sidebarin smoothlyfrom the left when youclick on thefloatingCortana halo. After that one tap, the app is also fully gesture responsive, al...

Rumors are gaining steam that Buout Paradise is getting remastered later this year thanks to leaked retail listings in Brazil and Japan (via Eurogamer). Last month in December, GamePress.br found a listing from a Brazilian retailer that outed the existence of Buout Paradise for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Now Gemastu reports that a physical edition of Buout Paradise is seemingly set to release in Japan on March 16, 2018 for PlayStation 4. While an Xbox One version was not mentioned in the Japanese leak, it appears it will at least launch on that system in other regions according to the Brazilian listing. EA has not officially aounced or confirmed a Buout Paradise remaster. It’s unclear if i...