Alan Velasco
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God of War Ragnarök, follow up to God of War and one of the best games to come out in 2022, is making its way to PC soon. Gamers looking to join Kratos and Atreus as they journey through the Nine Realms now know what kind of hardware they’ll need to play at a variety of performance tiers. The most eye-catching part of...
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The Mac mini, a device Apple hasn’t touched design wise since its last update in 2010, might finally be getting a facelift. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company will be introducing a new look that will make it half the size of its current form factor. Sources familiar with the matter say it’s about as...
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Apple isn’t just banking on its upcoming Apple Intelligence to spur hardware sales, it’s also hoping to monetize it as a service to bolster revenue once users are hooked. According to some analysts, the price Apple could charge for these new AI features is anywhere from $10 to $20 a month, with a possibility it gets...
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In a surprising move, EA will be bringing Star Wars: Jedi Survivor to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The company is also going to be releasing an update for the PC version of the game, which it says “will bring enhancements to the game’s technical performance, controls and more, plus a variety of quality-of-life...
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Logitech appears to be backtracking on the idea of a “forever mouse” that its CEO, Hanneke Faber, spoke about during an interview on the Decoder podcast. The idea is that the company could work toward releasing a mouse that is made to last much longer than mice currently available on the market, and would be...
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Kioxia will be debuting its latest Solid State Drive prototype at the Future of Memory and Storage conference taking place this week in Santa Clara, California. These broadband SSDs are designed to make use of an optical interface, instead of the legacy copper wire data interfaces currently found on SSDs. The SSDs are...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the first game in the series to launch on Game Pass, has been hit with a major leak after an early build of the game made its way onto the PlayStation Network database, becoming available for those with a PlayStation 4. Shortly thereafter, several maps, weapons, and more information started...
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Analysts at TrendForce are bullish about the growth prospects of virtual and mixed reality devices, saying in a recent report that shipments are “expected to increase year-by-year over the next few years.” The firm predicts that shipments of VR and MR devices could potentially hit 37.3 million units by 2030, achieving...
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Security firm Cleafy has discovered a new piece of Android malware being used in the wild, dubbed BingoMod. BingoMod is designed to steal money from a victim by committing On Device Fraud, which makes it easier to bypass security measures used by banking institutions. The threat actors appear to be targeting users...
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Google Chrome is about to get a boost to its AI smarts thanks to new features that utilize the newest Google AI and Gemini models. Google says that several tasks users often conduct while using Chrome are about to get easier, including searching with Google Lens, comparing items across multiple tabs, and accessing the...
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Bungie will see a major reduction to its headcount, according to a letter posted by CEO Pete Parsons detailing the layoffs. The game studio will be losing 220 employees, or 17% of its staff. Moreover, another 155 employees, comprising 12% of its staff, will be shifted to Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) over the...
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Advanced Voice Mode on Open AI’s ChatGPT service is now available to a select group of users that have been invited to participate in its limited alpha period. The company’s official X account posted that “Advanced Voice Mode offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and...
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Android spyware dubbed Mandrake is back after being caught in 2020, managing to sneak back into the Google Play Store in 2022 and remaining available until spotted by Kaspersky in April of 2024. During those two years, Mandrake managed to accumulate 32,000 victims with the distribution of several apps, with the most...
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During an interview on the Decoder podcast, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber envisions a future where the company sells a “forever mouse.” A mouse that a customer can keep for much longer than mice sold today, and perhaps one that can be improved through pay-as-you-go software updates that include AI. Floating this idea...
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AI agents are about to become the norm on Instagram, as Meta is rolling out its AI Studio for its user base located in the United States. AI Studio makes use of Meta’s latest large language model, llama 3.1. The company says that “AI Studio lets anyone create and discover AI characters and allows creators to build an...
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Social media platform X is now beginning to use data generated by its users to train Grok, the company’s AI search assistant. This update to its policy, which isn't the first policy change this year, was shared on the official X Safety account, where it says “all X users have the ability to control whether their...
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Apple’s rollout of Apple Intelligence looks to be delayed, missing the planned launch alongside the company’s next set of devices that will release in the Fall of this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Users will now need to wait until iOS 18.1 and iPad OS 18.1 to get a taste of Apple’s vision for AI, which...
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Epic Games is taking what it describes as a “quantum leap” to bring its games to players on mobile platforms. The new path forward includes taking advantage of new regulatory realities to launch its own store, bringing its games to stores with favorable terms, and leaving platforms that introduce new...
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The World of Warcraft development team has announced it has formed a wall-to-wall union called the World of Warcraft Gamemakers Guild, which will be part of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union consists of 500 staff members and will be the first team at Blizzard to have unionized. And yes, the union...
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Mark Zuckerberg held a wide-ranging interview with Rowan Cheung coinciding with Meta’s latest Llama release, which is the company’s open-source AI model. During the interview some of Zuckerberg’s most interesting comments were in regard to his frustrations of working with Apple, and his thoughts on how AI will be of...
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A Call of Duty title is finally making its way to Xbox Game Pass roughly 9 months after Microsoft finalized its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The first game to become available will be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. However, this installment appears to be a bit of a mixed bag as far as Call of Duty goes...
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Google’s effort to end support for the use of cookies for user tracking in its Chrome web browser won’t be moving forward as the company originally planned. This initiative, dubbed Privacy Sandbox, has had several delays since it was announced several years ago. This decision comes after taking feedback from...
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