Month: May 2020
Sony audio products now available with a special work from home discount
With work from home more or less the norm across the country, Sony, which is the name to reckon with in audio devices, has announced attractive offers on a slew of its audio products that would come in handy to those working from home. The “Sony WFH Audio Devices Offers”…
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Automattic pumps $4.6M into New Vector to help grow Matrix, an open, decentralized comms ecosystem
Automattic, the open source force behind WordPress .com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and Tumblr, has made a $4.6M strategic investment into New Vector — the creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix. They also develop a Slack rival (Riot) which runs on Matrix. The investment by Automattic, which is at…
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Amazon launches multiplayer Crucible PC game – here’s what it means
Crucible, the latest free-to-play PC game created by Relentless Studios, Amazon’s gaming arm, has been launched. The new game can be downloaded on the PC and involves players working with teammates to hunt their opponents and take down hostile creatures on a rogue planet. This is Amazon Games Studio’s first…
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Tencent is taking over troubled RPG ‘System Shock 3’
Chinese conglomerate Tencent will be “taking the System Shock franchise forward,” developer OtherSide Entertainment has announced. A few days ago, ownership of the System Shock 3 website was transferred to Tencent Holdings, sparking rumors that the A… Source
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Samsung decides the fate of the Note 20 launch event – and, it is big
The Samsung Galaxy Note series is among one of the hottest devices that gets announced each year in the second half, at an “Unpacked” event. For the Note 20, however, things might be a little different. Every year, Samsung hosts two Unpacked events to announce its S series and Note…
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Mapbox and SoftBank form joint venture to provide mapping tech to Japanese developers
SoftBank Corp. and Mapbox, the mapping data company that competes with Google and Here, announced that they have established a joint venture called Mapbox Japan. The JV will provide Mapbox’s mapping platform, including APIs and data services, to developers in Japan. Between June 1 and September 30, Mapbox Japan will…
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