Xiaomi’s latest gaming smartphone has finally left Chinese borders and is now making itself comfortable in Europe. Its price here is 549 euro for the 8GB/128GB model or 649 euro for the 12GB/256GB variant. Other than lots of memory, this phone’s specs also include Snapdragon 855 CPU, OLED 6,39′ display with sensors dedicated to reading the strenght of finger pressing, 4000mAh battery with 27mAh quick charge, 48mpx + 12mpx main camera and 20mpx selfie shooter. If you were looking for a smartphone to play video games at, Black Shark 2 is currently the best, if costly, choice ...

It will be a while before we get to Divinity: Original Sin 3, but do not worry, fans of Larian style of RPG; before that, we shall get Fallen Heroes. FH will be a sort of an X-Com of the Divinity series; a turn-based tactics game that will forgo much of its predecessor’s storytelling to make more place for intricate combat. Your team of adventurers will be the same group that we have led in Original Sin 2, as FH is continues the story of that game. We will have access to all the old gear and skills as well as, surprise, brimstone magic and guns.The game is made by both Larian and ...

Newest trailer of the newest sequel of the well-known and (mostly, even if The New Colossus was not that great) well-liked Wolfenstein series is out. On the one hand it looks like a great ”more of the same” package: explosions, shots, blood, gore and lots of dead Nazis. On the other hand… eeh. The New Colossus already had strong and unfavorable SJW overtones, what with one of the characters being an annoying black feminist that considered everyone around her to be either ”beta males” or ”white faggots” and who, for some reason, was put on the ...

EA is a second video game company after Activision-Blizzard to make extensive employment cuts. Out of 9 thousand employees, the company has just let 350 of them go. The majority of those employees worked in the distribution and marketing branches of the company in Japan and Russia. The official reason for this action is a PR blubber about ”having to change along with changing times”; the real reason is yet to be known. EA is supposedly helping its ex-employees find new ...

You know how it is with Chinese smartphone distributors – they love to rename their products in other countries. Such might also be the fate of Redmi 7 Pro. According to some info dug out by XDA-Developers, Redmi 7 Pro might be called either Y3 or S3 on some of the markets. Rumour is that the European release will be called S3. Tweet Vote on HN ...

American missile drones? Phi, old news. Make way for the Russian technology! A month ago, Russian military concern Almaz-Antey has patented its own model of flying drone. Today, videos depicting this device in action have been released online. Russian’s yet unnamed drone weights 25 kilos, has 3 meters long wings and and a battery allowing for 40 minutes of flight. Its most interesting part is its armament, though; Vepr-12 automatic shotgun based on the classic Kalashnikov assault rifle.We do not know whether or not this drone will ever see active duty. What we know, though, is that we ...

Apple web shows, smart Nike shoes, McDonald buying out tech corporations: yep, 21st century is definitely an interesting time to live in. The takeover of the company worth 300 million bucks has allowed McDonald further know-how and manpower to work on their smart menu boards. Currently McD wants their menu boards to be highly interactive; the looks and the menu shown are supposed to change along with the weather, e.g. offering warm or cold drinks when needed, breakfast packages will take the forefront of the menu in the mornings and dinner ones in the afternoon et cetera.The takeover has ...

Who knows, maybe he will become a hacker and will one day hack into Satan’s database? For now, though, Pope Francis has just begun his journey of learning how to program. He is the first pope to do so, too, but that is not a huge surprise; Francis is perhaps the most modern of all the popes in the history. Still, it is impressing, especially considering that the man is 82 years old now. Francis’ line of code has been added to the app promoting ONZ’s long-term Sustainable Development Goals program. For those of you who do not believe it – and who knows Italian – ...

Is this the charger that will defeat Oppo SuperVOOC? Lin Bin, CEO of Xiaomi, has just published a short video that shows off the capabilities of his company’s newest charger. Super Turbo Charge, for that is its name, supposedly can fill a 4000mAh battery in 17 minutes. Impressive. We shall learn more about it during tomorrow’s Xiaomi conference: until then, all I can do is show you the aforementioned video. Bon appetite – https://youtu.be/g1tuqXEr_No. Tweet Vote on ...

On Apple’s most recent conference, the company has officially announced its new video streaming platform called Apple TV+. What we know about it so far is that it starts with a budget of two billion USD, that it will start in autumn of 2019 and that, like Netflix, it will offer on-call, offline and online and advertise-less stream of content. Apple TV+ will reach a hundred countries at start; if you are reading this, your country is probably among them. Tweet Vote on HN ...