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Rome: Total War is coming to Android smartphones

I have no idea why would anyone want to play such an ancient game when there are many better ones, but oh well. Rome: Total War is becoming a mobile game! First released on PC back in the good old days of 2004 by Creative Assembly, game’s mobile version made by Feral Interactive will come out sometime in winter 2019. Its iOS version costs $9.99, so a similiar price is expected for the Android release. Feral Interactive promises a high quality conversion that will make a good use of smartphones’ touch screen. Game’s short trailer can be watched ...

Facebook Messenger will give us ten minutes to delete a sent message

It has been a while since the rumours of the above surfaced online. Now, thanks to The Verge, we know more. Facebook Messenger 191.0 update notes supposedly mention this new function; allowing the Messenger user to delete any message she or he has sent in the last 10 minutes. Well, that is not the hour that WhatsApp gives us to do the same but it is still good. Zuckerberg will not be the only one able to delete his messages now :p. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Elon Musk’s Starman has just entered Mars’ orbit

Remember how Elon Musk sent Tesla car with a human dummy behind the wheel? Internet remembers. Today SpaceX took to social platforms to inform us that the rather atypical space vessel has just entered the orbit of the Red Planet. It’s trajectory, which can be seen on the graphic above, will eventually take it near the planet. Tesla’s journey so far took it nine months ever since its launch on February. We can only wonder when and where will it end… Tweet Vote on ...

Google changes its homepage logo to ”Go Vote” in the US, so get off your bum and actually go vote

Google marks todays US election day by changing its doodle to Go Vote; a reminder of the civic duty that every citizen, American or otherwise, should uphold. If you click on the doodle, it will enter a special search feature where you can easily learn of the polling station you can go to to put down your vote. Now you really have no excuse to not go, so get a move on. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Chrome Adblock will give a middle finger to ads starting December

Internet ads are annoying. Frankly, there is no other way to put it. Windows advertising uninteresting products pop up when we open a new website, small video windows appear in the corners of the screen, wide tabs with ads take place on top and bottom of screen where the text should be… it is all so irritating that it is difficult to not agree with South Park’s sentiments on the matter. Good uncle Google saw our troubles and said ”let there be clarity” and gave us AdBlock, which takes care of much of this trash. Unfortunately, AdBlock is not perfect, and we are still ...

Yet another Facebook data leak. This time the hackers have our private messages

And once again I am glad that I barely use Facebook anymore. As announced by BBC, Facebook has been hacked, with cyber-thieves taking the data of 81 thousand accounts’ private messages. The hackers themselves, naturally hiding behind the mask of anonymity, have announced that they really stole the data of 120 million FB accounts, but this reveleation has been so far unconfirmed and is believed to be untrue. As for Facebook, it has let the police know of the intrusion and has taken proper measures to defend against any such attacks in the future (yeah, right). Most of the robbed ...

Apple Maps now shows indoor maps of over twenty more airports and shopping malls around the world

New indoor maps feature covers twenty shopping and aircraft areas in the US, Singapore, Denmark and Hong-Kong. The specific list of new areas covered is:– Lenox Square in the Atlanta, GA,– Phipps Plaza in the Atlanta, GA,– Perimeter Mall in Atlanta, GA,– Cumberland Mall in Atlanta, GA,– North Point Mall in Alpharetta, GA,– Mall of Georgia in Buford, GA,– The Shoppes at River Crossing in Macon, GA,– Oglethorpe Mall in Savannah, GA,– Peachtree Mall in Columbus, GA,– Mall St. Matthews in Louisville, KY,– Oxmoor Center in ...

Destiny 2 is free

At first I wanted to add exclamation mark to the title, but then I thought better of it – in my opinion, Destiny 2 does not deserve acclamation. If you think otherwise and have yet to buy that game then it is your lucky two weeks! Blizzard and Activision are offering Destiny 2 for free for every owner of Battle.net account. Every owner of such account can download it as a free gift. Offer ends on November 18th. Those of you who already have the game will receive a special emblem that will tell everyone around you that you bought this overpriced, mediocre shooter before it went free to ...