I remember, if barely, the good old days of video gaming. Today it is all about either sparky AAA titles, with graphics out of this world and same mechanics over and over, or indie games, which are so niche they all start to look the same. Back in the 90’s, there was no triple A games, nor indie games. There were just games – you, your friend and Atari, Commodore, Pegasus or whatever ”computer” your parents spoiled you with were teaming up, putting int he cartridge and shooting up those pixels. Well, now we live in the 21st century, and apparently we have ran out of ...

Pokemon Go became the best-selling mobile game in the history, according to Sensor Tower, making more than one billion USD in nearly seven months. Second-best, Clash Royale (spin-off of Clash of Clans), made ”only” 550 millions in the same amount of time. All is not well, though, as Niantic’s (creators of the game) gigantic profits are slowing down significantly. Right now, the game makes roughly two million dollars a day, compared to the eighteen million in its peak. The interest in the game simply wore off, but Niantic plans to at least somewhat rectify it by releasing a ...

Meizu Pro 6 Plus and OnePlus 3T smartphones have been found to have their benchmark scores tweaked to seem more efficient than they actually are. Reportedly, both companies’ misdeeds have been found out by XDA Developers. Without entering into technical details, both companies have, by different means, pushed their benchmark phones to a performance higher than the usual. While OnePlus spokesperson has officially admitted to the company cheating and promised to rectify the mistake by benchmarking 3T again, Meizu has yet to comment.Ouch… remember, children, always tell the truth! ...

Finding love can be hard, but 21st century technology helps us as much as it can. Well, not only us. As part of a ”Tinder for orangutans” experiment, Apenheul primate park will equip Samboja, a female orangutan, with a mobile device with pictures of male orangutans from around the world on it. The goal is for Samboja to select males that she finds attractive, so that they can be brought over to Apenheul for a little R&R. Orangutan’s interest in possible future partners is to be measured by her reaction to pictures shown – a long, deep gaze may be considered a ...

Lumia 950 XL runs under Windows 10 Mobile, is powered by a powerful octa-processor and 3 GB of RAM, so it can be a great competitor to the Galaxy Note series. Display with a diagonal of 5.7 inches, resolution of 2560 x 1440 is made in the technology of AMOLED. Lumia has a built-in 32 GB memory and allows it to expand memory card with a capacity of 200 GB. Some of interesting parameters of Your Microsoft Lumia 950 XL Dual SimBody Dimensions 151.9 x 78.4 x 8.1 mm (5.98 x 3.09 x 0.32 in)Weight 165 g (5.82 oz)SIM Nano-SIMDisplay Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colorsSize 5.7 ...

First, there were only passwords. Hackers quickly learned how to crack those, though. Then, the verification codes came. After entering a password, we would receive a verification code via an SMS or e-mail, with which we could open our precious account. Hackers learned how to get hold on our phones and e-mail boxes, so that they could get hold on these as well. That is why Facebook works on YubiKey. YubiKey is an USB module that takes place of a verification code – after entering your account’s password, you will be asked to enter YubiKey into your device’s USB port, after ...

Perhaps this is not the proper occasion to celebrate, but it is good to know anyway. Thirty five years ago one Richard Skrent (this surname sounds funny in Polish, trust me), then a zit-faced teenager living with his parents in the US, has created what is recognized as the first computer virus ever made. How did this evil progenitor of the modern Terror of the First World work? Elk Cloner, for that is its name, hooked itself to the DOS 3.3 OS and transmitted from computer to computer (or from Apple II to Apple II, to be precise) via a floppy disk (wow, floppy disks… I still remember ...

Lately, gamers enjoy difficult games more and more. I like that trend – as a gamer myself, I was getting tired of the mid-late 2000’s flood of easy-pie shooters and other flashy but brain-dead action games, and while I do not really play on my smartphone, if I have, I’d like to play Enyo. This one is a turn-based tactical game. You are put in control of Enyo, a Greek goddess of war and companion to Ares, and it is your task to navigate a chessboard-like map and gather three artifacts while avoiding and/or defeating a number of monsters along the way. You do that by using ...

As most of you probably know, Donald Trump, president of the US has issued an order for a 3-month long closure of the american borders against citizens of the seven Muslim-majority nations. The order has somewhat panicked Google (and, probably, many other companies), who issued a recall note to all of its Muslim employees currently abroad. Google’s official stance is strongly against the immigration ban, moreover, the ban’s legislation is somewhat unclear at the moment, and it is unknown who exacly can and cannot enter the country. It has been suggested that a H-1B visa holder ...

Lenovo praises its new phone on its supposed longevity, saying it can manage to work for three days. Device’s special function is the One Key Power Saver – with a press of a button, the phone enter’s a power saving mode by changing its settings and applications. Included with the phone is the 24 W charger, which can recharge the phone for up to ten hours of work during only fifteen minutes. Cool.Specification:– price – around 390 dollars,– main phone 13mpx, autofocus, dual LED flash; selfie camera 5mpx,– fingerprint scanner,– 5.5′ ...