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Microsoft’s xCloud beta arrives on iOS and PC this week

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) is officially arriving on iOS and PC tomorrow. The service will arrive on devices via browsers, allowing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to play Xbox games on iPhones, iPads, and PCs. Microsoft is keeping this beta rather limited though, and requiring players to be invited to participate in the testing… Read more

AMD’s EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here’s a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD’s EPYC Milan processors launched last month with 120 new world records to their credit in various applications, like HPC, Cloud, and enterprise workloads. But variants of these chips will eventually come to the market as Threadripper models for high end desktop PCs, and AMD’s server records don’t tell us… Read more

Oppo’s Enco Buds official-looking renders leak

In a now unavailable post, long-time leakster Evan Blass has published leaked renders of Oppo’s unreleased TWS earbuds. The Oppo Enco Buds succeed the Oppo Enco W11 and although they look identical in appearance and design, the new version will support the Bluetooth 5.2 standard. First look at the OPPO Enco Buds: https://t.co/wC9FQ2dPfB pic.twitter.com/F7UFdeW1S2 —… Read more

Samsung starts selling the SmartTag+ in South Korea

Samsung was supposed to start selling its SmartTag+ in the US earlier this week, but it seems that was delayed (it’s missing from Samsung.com and other online retailers). Not so in South Korea, where the location tracker is available as of today. It can be found on Samsung’s online store as well as Samsung Digital… Read more

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla ‘Wrath of the Druids’ expansion releasing in May

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Last month, Ubisoft announced Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s first major expansion, “Wrath of the Druids”. While the expansion was originally due to release later this month, the development team needs an extra couple of weeks, pushing the expansion back into May. In a tweet last… Read more

Apex Legends has surpassed 100 million players

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Online, Software & Gaming, Tech News Since its surprise launch in February 2019, Apex Legends has become one of the major players in the free-to-play Battle Royale genre of games. Though growth has slowed down substantially, EA reported that Apex Legends has now officially surpassed 100 million… Read more

Peak Design’s new magnet-powered phone case system delayed until August

Peak Design has announced it is delaying shipment of products in its Kickstarter campaign for Mobile, a broad range of phone accessories designed to make it easy to mount your phone on everything from a motorcycle handlebar to a simple dock on your desk. It is meant to be compatible with iPhones and Samsung Galaxy… Read more

Apple’s App Store hosted kiddie games with secret gambling dens inside

In popular culture, access to an illicit gambling den is as easy as stumbling into the right shop and saying the password — or greasing some palms. Apple’s App Store apparently has a real-life parallel: today, app developer Kosta Eleftheriou discovered a terrible kiddie game that’s actually a front for gambling websites. The secret password… Read more

Reuters finally decides to charge you for its online news stories with a paywall

As online publishers grapple with how to replace dwindling ad revenue and find new ways to bring in money, Reuters, one of the largest news organizations in the world, is using a strategy that’s been around for years and putting its online content behind a paywall. Reuters.com draws 41 million unique visitors monthly, according to… Read more

Power Outage Prompts TSMC to Halt Production of Mature Process Nodes

Home News (Image credit: ToyW / Shutterstock.com) TSMC was forced to halt at least some of the production at Fab-14A P7 due to a power outage at the Southern Taiwan Science Park on Wednesday. DigiTimes reported that the outage was believed to have affected up to 40,000 wafers—but luckily for enthusiasts those wafers were produced… Read more

Microsoft’s Jet-Engine Flight Sim PC Probably Isn’t as Loud as It Looks

Home News (Image credit: Microsoft) Microsoft’s and Xbox are giving away a gaming PC to celebrate the Microsoft Flight Simulator’s France and Benelux update, and it sure fits the game’s aesthetic. The build looks like a jet engine, or at least part of one. Putting out of mind the idea of just two-thirds of a… Read more

Anker is making a $130 webcam as part of its new expansion to home office gear

Anker has announced a new webcam as part of its new AnkerWork line of home office gear. The new webcam, called the PowerConf C300, is a 1080p webcam with a “built-in AI chipset,” which Anker says “provides a high-quality image with accurate color reproduction and unparalleled low-light performance.” The webcam offers three field-of-view options: 78… Read more

Partners Prepping Faster Radeon RX 6900 XT GPUs With Higher-Binned Navi 21 Dies?

Home News Navi 21 Silicon (Image credit: AMD) In its review of PowerColor’s Radeon RX 6900 XT Red Devil Ultimate, French publication Overclocking.com discovered that the graphics card is based on a new variant of the Navi 21 (Big Navi) silicon. The review brought to light the possibility that other vendors may also be preparing… Read more

Siri says next Apple event is April 20th

Siri appears to have spilled the beans on the next Apple launch event. MacRumors was first to report that asking the voice assistant “When is the next Apple Event” prompts it to say April 20th. We’ve managed to get the same response, though only on a device that’s associated with a US Apple ID. Apple… Read more

How Disney’s ‘real’ lightsaber patent actually works

A real lightsaber. How is that possible? It’s probably not, of course. But when Disney Parks chairman Josh D’Amaro ended his April 8th presentation by whipping out a never-before-seen retractable lightsaber — no video evidence, mind — Disney and Star Wars fans went wild online. Speculation ran rampant, much of it pointing to a 2018… Read more