In less than a week after the official “Banner Saga 3” Kickstarter campaign was launch, the project have reached its first goal. A couple of days later, the developer of the side-scroller game revealed the second and third stretch goals for the final part of the game’s trilogy.
The upcoming Huawei P10 flagship smartphone is rumored to have a bigger and premium companion. A handful of recent leaks have pointed to the existence of the Huawei P10 Plus. If these leaks are true, the bigger P10 model will sport curved display, a metal finish, and some pretty interesting hardware specs.
Nowadays, one of the most important factors in picking a smartphone is its battery life. Despite advances in quick charging technologies, some flagship devices still struggle to last even for just a single day before demanding to be plugged into a charger. Recently, the battery benchmark test for the Huawei Mate 9 revealed that it edges out that of the Pixel XL, iPhone 7 Plus, and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
The absence of the GeForce 1080 Ti at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show have led many tech analysts to believe that the graphics card will most likely make its debut at the 2017 PAX event. Moreover, there are also rumors that the GeForce 1080 Ti will be the last graphics card from Nvidia to make use of the Pascal architecture.
The Samsung Galaxy S8 and the LG G6 smartphones are two of the most highly-anticipated flagship devices that are expected to hit the market soon. Several leaks in the past have shed some light regarding the specs of these two smartphones, something that led to tech analysts closely comparing the two.
Tech giant Google recently rolled out the beta version of Android 7.1.2 Nougat for the Pixel and some select Nexus devices. While this spurs good news to owners of these devices, Google confirmed that the older Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 devices will not receive the recent update.
As part of the company’s effort to provide more security to its massive user base, social networking giant Facebook recently announced that it is rolling out a new recovery tool called Delegated Recovery. The new tool was released in collaboration with GitHub. This new feature will improve the NFC-based two-factor authentication method which Facebook released last week.
Multimedia mobile application Snapchat recently launched its first foray into the hardware market. Dubbed simply as Spectacles, Snapchat’s first gadget is comes in a form of a sunglasses with a built-in camera.
While most iOS upgrades always sport a handful of security patches, latest reports claim that Apple may have inadvertently weakened its own operating system with the latest iOS 10 update. Among the flaws pointed by experts could potentially allow hackers to access localized backups.
Tech giant Google recently launched its flagship virtual reality platform called Daydream. Google announced that the platform is now open for developers, along with the release of its official Google VR System Development Kit (SDK). The kit will allow developers to create virtual reality contents for smartphones and VR headsets that support the Daydream platform.
