Month: July 2022
Ubisoft to shut down multiplayer for older games, including Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, the first game in the Assassin’s Creed franchise to feature multiplayer, will see its online services shut down on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 in September, its publisher Ubisoft has announced. It’s part of a collection of over a dozen games that will see their online elements…
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The Morning After: Xiaomi’s flagship phone has a Leica camera with a massive one-inch sensor
Just six months after its last flagship launch, Xiaomi has announced another one. The Xiaomi 12S Ultra packs a massive one-inch, 50.3-megapixel Sony IMX989 main sensor. And unlike the Sony Xperia Pro-I, the Xiaomi 12S Ultra apparently uses the entirety of its one-inch sensor. And the camera unit itself? Well,…
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US Department of Defense invites hackers to help harden its security systems
Audio player loading… The US government is tapping into the expertise of the hacking community in an effort to tighten up its cybersecurity protections. Earlier this week, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), the Directorate for Digital Services and the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) jointly…
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Microsoft’s new Outlook Lite for Android app is coming this month
Microsoft is working on a smaller and faster Outlook Lite app for Android. The software giant has detailed the app in its Microsoft 365 roadmap, where it describes Outlook Lite as “an Android app that brings the main benefits of Outlook in a smaller app size with fast performance for…
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AMD FSR 2.0 mods start to flood in as gamers can’t wait for frame rate boosts
Audio player loading… AMD’s FSR 2.0 (FidelityFX Super Resolution) is still relatively fresh to the gaming scene, and hardly in any games at all yet – but modders have taken the situation into their own hands in some cases, when it comes to unofficially pushing support for the frame rate boosting…
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Nintendo Switch trademark hints at the console’s future
Audio player loading… Nintendo has filed a Switch-related trademark that’s inevitably sparked a great deal of speculation online – but is there really anything to it? This latest Nintendo Switch trademark has been filed in Europe under the name “NSW.” Originally spotted by users over on Resetera (opens in new…
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