Day: February 13, 2020

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Activision Blizzard is Pulling All Games from GeForce Now

https://www.legitreviews.com/activision-blizzard-is-pulling-all-games-from-geforce-now_217397

NVIDIA GeForce Now users will not be happy to hear the news from Activision Blizzard. Activision Blizzard has announced that it is pulling all its games from the service at this time. That means titles like Overwatch and CoD: Modern Warfare will be leaving.

Details on the removal of the games are unavailable. All we know is that NVIDIA has stated it removed the Activision Blizzard titles at the company’s request. No additional details were offered.

NVIDIA wrote, “While unfortunate, we hope to work together with Activision Blizzard to reenable these games and more in the future.” The loss of these games could send some games who were playing those titles on GeForce Now looking for a new streaming service.

NVIDIA GeForce Now costs $5 monthly and allows gamers to stream the games they buy reports Android Central. It’s unclear what will happen for gamers who purchased the games.

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February 12, 2020 at 09:42AM

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Xiaomi’s Mi 10 flagships feature 108MP cameras and 30W wireless charging

https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/13/xiaomi-mi-10-reveal/

Xiaomi has unveiled its new flagship devices, the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro, which feature the 30W wireless charging capability it debuted with the Mi 9 Pro 5G last year. Unlike its predecessor that has 40W wired charging, though, the Mi 10 has 30W wired charging (probably because it’s cheaper) and 10W reverse charging capabilities. It’s also the second phone series to use the brand new LPDDR5 RAM technology after Samsung’s Galaxy S20 — in fact, Xiaomi will source its RAM chips from Samsung and Micron.

The Mi 10 phones are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 platform and feature WiFi 6, along with Bluetooth 5 and NFC connections. They have a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate and ambient sensors on both sides, which can, say, make sure the phone doesn’t kick to full brightness when you walk under a lamp post at night.

The non-pro Mi 10’s prices begin at 3,999 yuan or about US$570. If you’re going for the cheapest configuration, you’ll get a phone with 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB of UFS 3.0 storage, as well as a 4,780 mAh battery. Meanwhile, the cheapest Mi 10 Pro has 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB UFS 3.0 storage. The model’s prices begin at 4,999 yuan (US$720). Although the Pro’s 4,500 mAh battery is smaller than its cheaper sibling, it boasts a 108 megapixel camera with 8K capture mode (a feature also found in the Galaxy S20), 10x hybrid zoom and 50x digital zoom. It also supports 5G in China.

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Both phones are now available for pre-order and will ship on February 18th. Aside from its new flagship devices, Xiaomi has also unveiled a few accessories for them: a cooling fan clip for US$18, a fan-cooled wireless charging stand for US$29 and a WiFi 6 router for US$86. Unfortunately, the company didn’t mention anything about the Mi Mix Alpha — its phone with a 180-percent screen-to-body ratio — which went up for pre-order in December.

via Engadget http://www.engadget.com

February 13, 2020 at 08:32AM

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Engineer Builds Novel Cellphone With a Rotary Dial

https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2020/02/12/engineer-builds-novel-cellphone-with-a-rotary-dial/

Engineer Builds Novel Cellphone With a Rotary Dial

Engineer Justine Haupt built this novel cellphone that uses a rotary dial instead of a touchscreen to dial numbers. She used an old classic trimline phone for the dial, and put everthing together using an Arduino board and Adafruit parts. If you’re wondering why she did it, here’s what she wrote:

Why a rotary cellphone? Because in a finicky, annoying, touchscreen world of hyperconnected people using phones they have no control over or understanding of, I wanted something that would be entirely mine, personal, and absolutely tactile, while also giving me an excuse for not texting. …So it’s not just a show-and-tell piece… My intent is to use it as my primary phone. It fits in a pocket.; It’s reasonably compact; calling the people I most often call is faster than with my old phone, and the battery lasts almost 24 hours.

[Via Laughing Squid]

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February 12, 2020 at 01:05PM