November 2020

The Game & Watch Super Mario Bros can be added to the long line of devices that can run Doom. Hacker stacksmashing has gotten the old shooting game working on the handheld.Stacksmashing said he was often asked if he could put Doom on…

The Chinese manufacturer BOE has shown a 55 "" Amqled screen. This is a television based on self-emitting quantum dots, without the need for an LCD or backlight. This technology has the promise to outperform the current OLED TVs.In a press…

Apple would no longer want to provide the iPhone 6S and SE (2016) with upgrades. That claims an Israeli site. They are currently the oldest phones that have gotten iOS 14. The phones came out in 2015 and 2016.The oldest phone with iOS…

Media server software Plex will receive support for tone mapping, so that users can play HDR videos with beautiful images on devices without HDR screens. The feature is included in the new version Plex Media Server v1.21.0.If the software…

Samsung would work on the Z Fold 3 smartphone and want to release it in June next year. That appeared earlier in the year than the Galaxy Fold and Z Fold 2. The Z Fold 3 is said to have a camera behind the screen and a slot for the S-Pen…

The Google Assistant has been given the option to turn lights on and off at specific times or with specific triggers, such as sunrise or sunset. Until now, the digital assistant could only turn lights on or off immediately.The feature is…

The Chinese manufacturer Espressif is working on a variant of the popular ESP32 WiFi controller, but with a CPU based on RISC-V instead of Xtensa. The controller seems to become pin compatible with the ESP8266.The ESP32-C3 contains a…

Developer team Checkra1n has released a jailbreak for the Apple HomePod speaker. It is the first time that the smart speaker from the American manufacturer has been cracked and the jailbreak has to open the door to run software that Apple…

The popular film data service TheTVDB will charge money for its use. The service collects metadata about films and series and could always be used as a free add-on, but will cost money if developers pass on the costs for API use to…

The 3DS game Monster Hunter Stories is not being ported to the Nintendo Switch for the time being. There will be a new game in the series for that console next year, but the older version will not be transferred.That says producer Ryozo…