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Samsung has already been through a lot this year with the Galaxy Fold. The company's first foldable smartphone has been in the works for years now and was finally set to release earlier this year, until reviewers started to encounter design issues causing the displays to break. Samsung brought the …

Earlier this year, we learned that PUBG Corp was planning to reach even more players across the world with PUBG Lite, a version of the game aimed at those with less powerful PCs. Similarly to the mobile version of PUBG, this version will be free to play and now, it …

AMD fans looking to save a bit of cash on their 12 core 24 thread upgrades may not have to wait much longer, as a new leak has shown what looks like the specification of AMD’s yet to be announced Ryzen 9 3900 CPU. While we are still awaiting official …

Toshiba has announced it will launch its second generation of NAND flash memory products, featuring increased performance and capacity, while offering support for high-speed data transfer rates. Toshiba’s second generation of NAND flash memory products for embedded systems will be compatible with the widely used Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). According …

Earlier this week, we wrote a little bit about iOS 13's rocky start on the market. One particularly privacy-voiding bug affected third-party keyboard applications, allowing them to gain ‘full access' to your data and keylogs without authorisation. Apple's bug fixers have been working quite swiftly over the last couple of …

At TwitchCon this week Nvidia will be showcasing its next-generation streaming enhancements, labelled as the Nvidia RTX Broadcast engine, which can add real-time effects such as virtual green screen, style filters and augmented reality elements. Nvidia has developed a way to enable their RTX graphics cards to make use of …

Amazon has this week announced more Alexa-enabled and internet of things (IOT) devices that will be finding their way into your homes and pockets very soon. The new range includes a new Echo Dot, Echo Ear Buds and Echo Studio speaker, but also includes some stranger additions, like Echo Frames …

This has been a huge year for Respawn Entertainment, with the studio swiftly branching out beyond Titanfall under EA's ownership. This year, we've had the launch of Apex Legends, the announcement of Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond and in November, Respawn is also launching a story-focused Star Wars game, …

The Last of Us is fondly remembered as one of the all-time great single-player story-driven games. However, Naughty Dog also popped a multiplayer mode in to the original game that grew to maintain quite a large following. This week after The Last of Us Part II previews began going up, …

Back in 2018, we saw two major peripheral makers, Corsair and Logitech, making significant acquisitions to capture a bigger piece of the streamer and content creator markets. At this point, Logitech owns Blue Microphones and Corsair owns Elgato. Now this week, the competition is rising as Logitech is adding to …

With the rise of game streaming and content creators becoming more and more popular, hardware manufacturers are making a push for pre-built machines specifically aimed at these areas. The latest manufacturer to test the waters is NZXT, launching its first pre-built ‘Creator PC' from the BLD range of systems. We …

iOS 13 and iPad OS 13 have been rolling out for almost a week now and bug reports are rolling in. Some issues have already been squashed by a swift 13.1 software update, but Apple still has a relatively big problem with third-party keyboards, which can be given ‘full access’ …

Over the last few months, the Google Pixel 4 has been an open secret, with Google itself even showing off the first render of the phone in the midst of leaks. At this point, we have a good idea of the specs, we know the launch date and now we …

Overwatch is set to be back in the spotlight for a while this year as not only is Blizzard’s hero shooter coming to the Nintendo Switch, but it is also about to get a big ‘remaster’ update. This won’t be a remastering of visuals, but the Overwatch team is making …

Last night’s Oculus Connect event brought along plenty of news for the Oculus Quest. Not only is the standalone VR headset getting a new accessory to essentially turn it into a PC-powered Rift, but an upcoming update will also allow the headset’s camera sensors to track your hands and fingers …

Last week, Ubisoft announced the dates and unlock times for the Ghost Recon Breakpoint open beta. The follow up to Wildlands is swiftly approaching with an early October release date. Now after ironing out some last minute server connection issues, the open beta is live and ready to be played. …

D-Wave, a name that will be unfamiliar to some, has announced the first sale of their next-generation 5000-qubit quantum annealing computer to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The quantum computer has also been given an official market name “Advantage”. Last week we reported on the news that IBM was …

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Earlier this year, Facebook launched the Oculus Quest as a standalone ‘console-like' VR headset and the Rift S, a PC-tethered update to the original Rift with inside-out tracking. The Rift S might seem a tad redundant now though, as last night, Facebook announced the Oculus Link, a new accessory and …

For a couple of years now, we have known that Respawn Entertainment has been working on a secret VR game for Oculus. Now, we finally know what it is and surprisingly, it is a Medal of Honor game, bringing the long dormant franchise back in new form. Medal of Honor: …

Rumours of Nvidia possibly adding to its budget range of graphics cards have been gathering pace with talk of a 1650Ti rearing its head again. However, that’s not all, another source suggests ASUS is preparing three GTX 1660 Super cards for launch too. According to the folks over at Videocardz, their …

AMD fans have reason to be cheerful this week, with news of its highly anticipated B550 Chipset specs being detailed online. This could give users a more budget-friendly incentive to upgrade to the new Zen 2, Ryzen 3000 platform. Hong Kong media HKEPC dropped the leaked specifications for the B550 …

Cooler Master has announced a new range of products including an MA620M high-end air cooler featuring a dual tower design and six heat pipes, which will be launched alongside their SF120M industrial fans and a new GPU support brace. Cooler Master's MA620M Desktop CPU air cooler is a new high-end …

Apple and its CEO, Tim Cook, have been openly enamoured with augmented reality for a few years now. The company began dipping its toes into AR with the iPhone 8, which touted a new wave of augmented reality apps for iOS. However, the company’s big goal is to release dedicated …

The entertainment industry is still catching on to 4K/HDR content production, but the tech industry is keen to get the 8K wave started already. There have been a few very expensive and very early 8K TVs released in the wild to date and from January 2020 onward, there will be …

Earlier this month, Apple officially launched Apple Arcade alongside iOS 13. The service includes over 100 games with a mix of big publishers and indie studios contributing towards the library. Now, Google is looking to compete too with the Google Play Pass, a subscription service for Android that bundles 350 …

Samsung is known for a great many things in the tech world, with displays being among the company’s top categories. Soon, Samsung will be expanding its display efforts, with another huge $11 billion investment. According to Yonhap News Agency and reported by Reuters, Samsung Display plans to spend 13 trillion …

While we are still waiting for high refresh rate 4K displays to become more common in the desktop monitor market, laptop makers are beginning to push the technology. This week, Razer announced that the Blade Pro 17 will soon be available with a 4K UHD screen and a 120Hz refresh …

Intel is working on a new generation of CPU architecture which they promise will be “significantly bigger and closer to the linear curve on performance” than its current Sunny Cove Design. Currently, Intel’s Sunny Cove architecture offers a substantial bump in instructions per clock (IPC) over Coffee Lake Cores running …

Each year, we see a new Call of Duty game released with some form of exclusive to one of the major console platforms. Last generation, we saw Xbox 360 players getting new maps a month before everyone else. This generation, Sony has had those benefits instead for the PS4. This …