Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. may withhold sharing intelligence with Germany if the latter country continues to co-operate with Huawei. U.S. Ambassador to Germany, one Richard A. Grenell, wrote a letter to German economic minister. This letter, according to the Wall Street Journal,”…marks the first known time the U.S. has explicitly warned an ally that refusing to ostracise Huawei could lessen security cooperation with Washington. Among other things, European security agencies have relied heavily on U.S. intelligence in the fight against terrorism.U.S. officials declined ...

Chinese company TP-Link has just released its budget phone Neffos C5 Plus. This low-end device will be available in two variants with different memory space and price. For now the only colour variant available is grey, with red and blue reportedly coming soon. Its specs are as follows:– 5.34′ TN FullView display, 18:9 proportions, 960×480p resolution,– MediaTek MT6580M 1,3 GHz CPU, 4 cores, ARM Mali-400 500 MHz GPU,– 1GB RAM, 8 or 16 GB storage room (the 512MB RAM is also expected), microSD up to 64GB,– 5mpx main camera, HDR, LED flash, 2mpx selfie shooter with ...

This will not be a release, merely an official confirmation that the game is being made. That glorious event will take place during Pax East 2019, on March 28th, and will be held by Gearbox, creators of the Borderlands franchise. Lets hope that Gearbox will somehow refresh the old formula of looter shooters in BL3; otherwise I doubt the game’s success. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Where if not in the US? Julian Turner, a die hard fan of old school NES games, have won an auction for two video games for that console. The cartridges have arrived at Turner’s home, and it was during the unboxing that things took a turn towards weird… First of all, the cartridges were much heavier than they were supposed to be; second of all, they turned out to be PAL versions released in Europe and Australia but not North America. Intrigued, Turner opened them up and was more than surprised when he found two small, tightly packed packages with unknown substance inside them. He ...

A few days ago Microsoft has officially patented a method of integrating fingerprint scanner into a keyboard button, namely the Windows button. The basics of the method are being shown in a picture added to the document. It is unknown if this method will ever reach personal computers; the rumour says it is being designed with Surface laptops in mind. Tweet Vote on HN ...

I am not movie critic but I recognize a flop when I see one, and Doom: Annihilation will flop hard. First trailer of the movie just came out; it shows us the main cast, some daemons and a biga… really huge BFG. Oh, and it also shows this being a low budget clip, and a really low budget one at that. I have a hard time considering this movie some sort of homage to the Doom series: it looks more like a cheap way of making some buck, considering the popularity of Doom 2016 and the positive reactions to Doom: Eternal trailers. The decision of putting a woman in the main role will probably ...

Hypertrending is a new app function announced by the Foursquare, creators of the Foursquare City Guide search-and-discovery mobile app. The goal of this feature, currently limited to Austin, Texas, is to show its users how many people have recently been to any of the more well-known spots in town: pubs, cinemas, restaurants, clubs et cetera. Limited range of the app is Foursquare’s way of avoiding possible privacy concerns; they want to test it out first to see how, quote, ”creepy” do people find using it. If the results will be satisfactory, they will consider releasing ...

Quite a bit, actually, as a handful of new info has just appeared on the Japanese blog Macotakara. What exacly it is that they know?– 9.7′ display. Earlier rumours spoke about 10 inches,– no Face ID identification,– Touch ID start button,– headphone jack,– cheaper, budget version of that device may be coming out in March.Release date, price and availability of iPad 9.7′ are currently unknown. Tweet Vote on HN ...

In October 2018, Microsoft brought a new piece of software to Windows 10 OS. It was called Your Phone and it allowed a few unimpressive functions to the PC, namely allowing the user to read texts and watch pictures from their phone on their stationary. Soon, Your Phone will get a third function, one that might make the whole application a bit more interesting: namely, it will allow us to reproduce the display of our smartphone on our computer. This in turn will allow us to not only see what is happening on our phone at the moment but also have a partial remote control over its apps, and ...

Metal Slug is a pretty popular arcade shooter series that started its life as an arcade coin game back in the ancient times of 1996. Ever since then, numerous sequels & variants of the game have been released on many different gaming platforms. The newest game in the series, Metal Slug Infinity, will be a smartphone production. Made by one Ekkorr studio (Endless Frontier), MS Infinity will be an idle RPG. Idle video games, made with people who are tired, absent-minded or brain dead, are games where the majority of events in-game take place automatically; player’s role is limited ...