Category: Technology

Disney has another Star Wars game in the works. EA, which once had an exclusive hold on the franchise, will not head up this one. Instead, Lucasfilm Games asked Ubisoft to develop “a new story-driven open-world video game set in the beloved Star Wars galaxy.”On Wednesday, Ubisoft announced that it had entered a partnership with […]

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted 352,013 patents in 2020, a dip of just 0.69 percent compared to the previous year. Both years were up substantially from 2018 when only 307,761 US patents were granted according to IFI Claims Patent Services.2020 also saw an increase in submitted applications. At 413,176, the figure […]

Razer is one of the many companies that chipped in to help during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic by producing masks for those that needed them most. Now, the company is doing so again, but this time with a distinctive Razer flair: meet Project Hazel, a CES concept N95 respirator with a clear […]

Qualcomm has struggled to produce competitive chips beyond smartphones, with its laptop SoCs in particular failing to impress, while Apple was able to take the industry by surprise with M1. By acquiring Nuvia, the silicon giant hopes to bridge that gap in the coming years.Qualcomm has announced it will acquire chip startup Nuvia to expand […]

Amazon has begun rolling out end-to-end (E2E) encryption to a handful of its Ring security cameras. Until now, video traveling from Ring servers to a user’s receiving device like a smartphone or laptop was sent unencrypted. Theoretically, nothing was stopping a bad actor from intercepting and viewing those feeds until now.On Wednesday, Ring announced that […]

Changes are coming to Intel, and I’m not simply referring to new management. According to the latest research from a leading market intelligence firm, Intel will start outsourcing production of some of its CPUs to TSMC later this year.According to market intelligence firm TrendForce, Intel is planning to outsource production of its Core i3 CPUs […]

Like many other digital entertainment services (such as Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+), Steam exploded in popularity throughout 2020. This was no great surprise given the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders imposed on the public due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but regardless, it was an exciting year for PC gamers.With that said, even Valve itself likely couldn’t […]