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Tokyo Ghoul 10th Anniversary Project Announced; Here are All the Details!
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Tokyo Ghoul fans, get ready to witness Kaneki Ken in action as the series will be free to stream on YouTube as part of the anime's 10th anniversary celebration. The whole series is scheduled to be released for free on Studio Pierrot's YouTube channel on April 5, 2024.
Qualcomm Says Windows Games Will Just Work on Snapdragon X Elite
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At the Game Developers Conference 2024, a Qualcomm Engineer presented a session on how PC games would run on the Snapdragon X Elite platform. Qualcomm is quite confident that PC games would work even when they are not ported to ARM64 architecture. The company is testing top Steam games on the new ARM platform. Besides that, Qualcomm has prepared Adreno GPU drivers for DirectX 11, 12, Vulkan, and OpenCL.
Upcoming Spider-Verse Short Film Will Explore the Trauma of Being Spider-Man
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A brand new Spider-Verse short film has been announced by Sony and was featured in the Annecy International Film Festival and Market in 2023. This movie will revolver around the mental repercussions of being Spider-Man in the form of a Horror movie. The movie has been titled The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story and will be available to stream on YouTube on March 27, 2024.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Gets ‘Mostly Negative’ Reviews Due to Surprise Microtransaction Reveal
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Steam Players are not appreciating Capcom forcing microtransactions in Dragon's Dogma 2. Players have to pay up to either edit their characters, get portkeys, or do some valuable tasks that helps progress in the game. The game has garnered 'Mostly Negative' reviews on its store page and its only getting worse. This comes after the fact that players are facing optimization issues in the game itself.
After EU, It’s Now America’s turn to Shake Up Apple and Everything They Believe In
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The US Department of Justice and 16 district attorneys general have officially filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for the iPhone ecosystem monopoly.
The lawsuit accuses Apple of raising prices for consumers and imposing higher fees on developers and creators to make its users more reliant on iPhones and crush doen the competition. Apple has raised its voice to “vigorously defend” itself against the claims.
Microsoft has announced two new Surface devices for business customers including the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6. Both devices come with Intel's new Core Ultra processors with built-in NPU. And the new Surface devices have received notable upgrades in display and webcam. You also get 5G and NFC connectivity on the Surface Pro 10.
House of the Dragon Season 2 Release Date Revealed in Two New Trailers
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House of the Dragon Season 2 trailer has come as a surprise for fans as there are two trailers - The Green Trailer and The Black Trailer. Both trailers showcase the respective sides of the House Hightower and House Targaryen. HOTD Season 2 will entail for the Iron Throne between the two houses. House of the Dragon Season 2 will premier on June 16th, 2024 on Max.
OnePlus Ace 3V aka Nord 4 Launched in China: Here Are the Specs
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OnePlus has launched its latest Ace series device called the OnePlus Ace 3V, which will soon launch in other parts of the world as the OnePlus Nord 4. The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 SoC and a hefty 5,500 mAh battery that can charge at 100W. Besides, the phone features UFS 4.0 storage and LPDDR5X RAM.
Eiichiro Oda Reveals the Reason for One Piece Manga’s Three-Week Break
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Ahoy fellow pirates! Our favorite Oda sensei is back today and shared an exclusive handwritten message explaining the reason behind the upcoming three-week break for One Piece manga.
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 with Flagship Features
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Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, a midrange chipset in the 7-series segment. However, going by the specs, it seems like a powerful SoC. It packs the latest CPU cores, a 45% more powerful Adreno GPU, and the Hexagon NPU with on-device capabilities. The ISP is also equipped with many flagship features like semantic segmentation, video super resolution, and low light vision. For local connectivity, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 brings the FastConnect 7800 system with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Performance Issues Disappoint Players, Capcom Scrambling for Fixes
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Dragon's Dogma 2 early reviews have raised a big concern about performance issues. The game is struggling to perform even on the best PC rigs, and the console version is locked to around 30 FPS. Capcom is aware of the issue and is looking for a performance fix in the future. The day 1 patch and release of optimized drivers may also help with the performance after the official release.
GPT-5 Might Release in Summer 2024; ‘Materially Better’ Than GPT-4
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The ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, is reportedly planning to release the GPT-5 model during the summer of this year. A new report says that OpenAI has already demoed the GPT-5 model to a few enterprise customers and one of the CEOs called it "materially better" than GPT-4. OpenAI is also working on AI agents that can perform complex actions.
Rockstar Artist Confirms GTA 6’s Playable 60 FPS Mode
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Rockstar Games has kept its mouth shut enough to brew the predictions and hype grow for GTA 6. Earlier, in a Digital Foundry podcast, the founder claimed GTA 6 will not have a 60 FPS mode on the PS5 Pro, given Rockstar Games not launching GTA on more than 30 FPS before and the PS5 Pro not having a better CPU. Although, in a deleted reply, Senior Artist at Rockstar North has claimed that they are confident about a 60 FPS mode.
You Can Now Find Trial Chambers with the Explorer Map in Minecraft Snapshot 24W12A
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This week's Minecraft snapshot 24w12a makes trial chambers more rare. Also, journeyman-level cartographers have a chance to offer you a special explorer map for 12 emeralds and one compass. It will lead you directly to a nearby trial chamber. It doesn't have to be the closest one. Moreover, you can now waterlog heavy core blocks and they stop lava flow. Several new advancements were added as well.
Black Clover Manga is Returning After a 3-Month-Long Break
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Grab your grimoires as it's time to dive back into wizarding world of Black Clover. The Black Clover manga has been on break for a long time and is now back in action, with the latest chapters 370 and 371 slated to drop in April 2024.
New Pixel 8a Leak Suggests 120Hz Refresh Rate and DisplayPort Support
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New exclusive information about the upcoming Pixel 8a has leaked thanks to popular leaker and features spotter Kamilla Wojciechowska. The info suggests that the Google Pixel 8a will boast a 120Hz OLED display, DisplayOut support, Tensor G3, and could bring Pixels to more countries.
Threads Gets One Step Closer to X with New ‘Trending Now’ Section
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Meta's recent social media app, Threads, is finally getting a Trending Now section. This section will show popular topics and will be accessible from the Search tab and For You section. The feature is currently only available in the US and on the web version. It might help people bring back to the app.
PS5 Pro Specs Analysis Reveals Significant GPU Upgrade
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In a recent podcast, Digital Foundry has analyzed the specs of the upcoming PS5 Pro. In this discussion, they talk about the previous leaks from other sources and verify them. Tom Henderson shared an expected release window for PS5 Pro earlier when he confirmed the specs for the upcoming Project Trinity console. It now seems PS5 Pro's GPU upgrade will be significant with the upcoming console coming with 60 compute units.
Leaker Shares Exact Release Date for GTA 6
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GTA 6's release date is one of the most anticipated dates of all of video games right now. Now, it seems the release date could be even earlier than expected. According to the source that predicted GTA 6 trailer date, the game is currently scheduled for release in January- February of Q1 2025. Earlier, Jason Schreier revealed GTA 6 will release early 2025 but did not disclose any timeline. Another user on X suggests the exact date of GTA 6 release to be 18th February 2025.
Microsoft Appoints Google Deepmind Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to Lead Its AI Efforts
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In another reshuffle, Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google DeepMind, and Inflection to lead AI innovations at Microsoft. Suleyman will oversee the development of Copilot, Edge, and Bing and how AI can be leveraged to make meaningful product improvements.
iPhone 17 Might Copy This Samsung S24 Ultra Feature
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As per a report by a Weibo account, Apple is planning to copy Samsung S24 Ultra's most coveted feature - anti-glare and scratch-resistant display. Apple has recently handed over the new display technology, which indicates that it might appear in iPhone 17 and might not be ready in time for iPhone 16 series.