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Man after whom Super Mario is named has died
Mario Segale, the American businessman after whom Super Mario is named, passed away on October 27th. Segale leased a property to Nintendo in the early 1980s. He died in his hometown of Tukwila in Washington state
The local newspaper,…
9 reasons to go for the popular iPhone XR (adv)
The hugely popular iPhone XR is available from today at T-Mobile! Analysts predict that this entry-level model will be the most popular iPhone this year - and we believe that right away. We give 9 good reasons to choose the iPhone…
Wine 3.18
A new development house of Wine has been published with version number 3.17. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows api and makes it possible to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. A large group of…
Microsoft releases Xbox update with Dolby Vision and Alexa support
Microsoft released the October 2018 Xbox Update. The update brings support for Dolby Vision to the console, as well as operation via devices with voice assistants Cortana and Alexa. In addition, the Live Avatars are now available.
In a…
Oppo admits cheating in benchmarks
Smartphone maker Oppo admits that it is cheating in benchmarks. Benchmark makes UL, known from 3DMark and PCMark, removed the Find X and R7 from the database because of the cheats, where the software recognized benchmarks and adapted…
This is the new standard for smartphones
A few years ago, the appearance of a new Huawei device was not a big deal, but now it is different. After the Chinese smartphone maker surprised friend and foe with the very cleverly put together P20 Pro and his fantastic cameras, the…
Fortnite developer Epic Games raises 1.1 billion euros in investments
Fortnite developer Epic Games raised 1.25 billion dollars, approximately 1.1 billion euros, in an investment round. The company is now valued at 13.1 billion euros.
The investors are KKR, ICONIQ Capital, Smash Ventures, aXiomatic,…
Tesla Model S / X / 3 9.0
Modern cars are now also provided with public software updates that can be offered over-the-air. Tesla released version 9.0 of its software package for the Model S, Model X and Model 3 earlier this month, and will automatically find its…
Oppo says to stop detecting benchmarks for higher results
Chinese smartphone designer Oppo stops detecting benchmarks to run that app as quickly as possible. The software also has an option to turn a Performance Mode on or off.
Oppo says in a statement that it was not the intention to cheat in…
This bizarre PS4 controller costs $ 14,000
Sony has already released a lot of special PS4 controllers, including a very nice one that has been released in honor of selling 500 million PS4s but that is not at all against this very special DualShock 4 which is made by Brikk. If you…