As pointed out before, we tried to enable anti-aliasing but it was very buggy on either AMD or Nvidia graphics cards, so it’s yet unclear what level of performance hit this will carry when it becomes functional. Gamers wanting to experience Medal of Honor on high quality across multiple screens or at extreme resolutions such as 2560x1600 will require a top-end card such as the Radeon HD 5870 or preferably the GeForce GTX 480, which delivered 18% better performance....

The Pro 6 Plus is the highest-end smartphone currently sold by Meizu. It’s a true flagship, featuring the same Exynos SoC as seen in the Samsung Galaxy S7, a large 5.7-inch 1440p AMOLED display, and a beautiful aluminium unibody chassis. Even the camera, a 12-megapixel sensor with OIS and laser autofocus, is similar to what we see in high-end devices from Samsung, Google and Huawei. Despite packing top-end specifications, the Meizu Pro 6 Plus is an affordable handset in China, retailing for just CNY 2,999 (approximately US$430)....

Windows Central obtained internal mockups this week previewing Microsoft’s planned changes to Windows 11’s File Explorer. Later this year, the company will significantly refresh the app while adding functions that connect to OneDrive and Microsoft 365. The mockups show a redesigned header with a simplified row of icons and a home button. The refresh moves features like copy and paste into a separate banner in the file pane below the header....

Microsoft apparently had a dual-screen design lined up for what would have become the Surface Duo 3 due out at the end of 2023, complete with an edge-to-edge display, wireless charging and more. After the Surface Duo 2 launched in late 2021 to a lukewarm reception, however, Microsoft reportedly went back to the drawing board. Windows Central sources did not share specifications for the new foldable device. What’s more, we don’t know if Microsoft is planning to simulate a dual-screen experience with software or take a more traditional route with its UI....

This week, two modders unveiled a trailer for their new unofficial campaign for Half-Life: Alyx, subtitled Levitation. They promise a four-to-five-hour story which is planned to arrive on Steam Workshop in the third quarter of 2022, free of charge for those who already own Half-Life: Alyx. Levitation had already been revealed in a short teaser last November. The campaign will have players investigate a floating building in a place called Sector X....

The Moto G’s software offering is, for all intents and purposes, identical to the Moto E which I reviewed a month or so ago. This means that you get a vanilla Android experience across all applications, with very few (if any) additions to the software stack. Heading to either my Moto E review or my Google Nexus 5 review will reveal exactly what you’re dealing with. In terms of extra applications, Motorola has included Migrate, Alert and Assist, all of which I covered when discussing the Moto E....

The one main addition to the software stack included with the Moto G is the Moto app. The functionality in this app is limited on the Moto G compared to Motorola’s high-end smartphones, but there are still some useful things to be found. Moto Assist allows you to change the Moto G’s settings based on certain conditions, such as time and location. Unfortunately you don’t get to set your own triggers and actions, but you can use Moto Assist to silence your phone overnight or during meetings, which can come in handy....

While we generally saw decent CPU performance compared to other flagship contenders, the Snapdragon 808 falls behind the Exynos 7420 and Snapdragon 810 in GPU-heavy benchmarks. The OnePlus 2 was 43% faster in this respect, a lead that extended to 146% when factoring in the resolution reduction from 1440p to 1080p. The Note 5 was 28% faster in GPU benchmarks with the same 1440p display, and the G4 equalled the X Style’s performance as expected....

Mozilla has released the latest version of its Firefox web browser, explaining that its users will not experience any limitation to extension capabilities like the ones being introduced in Chrome. The open source foundation is indeed embracing the much debated Manifest V3 technology, without abandoning the features needed by the most powerful ad blocking extensions available today. Manifest V3 is a new API created by Google as a more secure alternative to Manifest V2 for Chrome extensions, but many developers have expressed concerns about the stricter limitations that could make ad blocking tools much less useful than they are today....

Last month, BMW filed a patent for a system that helps charge electric vehicles when they drive over obstructions like speedbumps or potholes. The process uses a vehicle’s sudden upward and downward wheel movements when driving over such objects. Typically, when a car hits a pothole or speedbump, the suspension absorbs the energy from the vertical wheel motion, and then the dampeners dissipate it. According to BMW’s patent, a generator containing a spinning wheel attached to the suspension system could instead store the energy the springs absorb and release....

The US Department of Justice (DoJ or Justice Department) issued a press release Thursday clarifying the crimes falling under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The law was passed in 1984 and updated in 1986. However, the language of the legislation is so broad that people doing security research — something barely even existed at the time — or using their company’s computer for personal reasons could constitute a federal crime....

Bloomberg reports that FTX Gaming will be a “crypto-as-a-service” platform that game companies can use to launch tokens and for supporting NFTs in games. It began hiring its fully remote team earlier this month, targeting software engineers with Unity experience. “We are launching FTX Gaming because we see games as an exciting use case for crypto,” an FTX spokesperson told Bloomberg via email. “There are 2 billion+ gamers in the world who have played with and collected digital items, and can now also own them....

The Robocop: Rogue City trailer gives us a look at the FPS that’s set for release in June next year for the PC, PS5, and XBOX Series X/S. There are plenty of nods to the original movie in the gameplay clip, including Robocop’s lock-on targeting overlay, ED-209, and the “can you fly?” line first used by bad guy Clarence Boddicker. We also get a look at the digital incarnation of Weller as he utters the famous “Dead or alive, you’re coming with me” quote....

Yuga Labs sold Otherdeed NFTs via Opensea. The collection sold (or at least tried to sell) tokens to claim real estate and resources in Yuga’s upcoming metaverse game, Otherside. The NFT drop netted approximately $310 million in just a few short hours. Unfortunately for Yuga Labs, the sale generated far more traffic than expected on the Ethereum blockchain. This increase in traffic resulted in Ethereum gas fees of up to $14,000 for some users and failed transactions for others....

Since Microsoft and its manufacturing partners introduced Windows Phone 7, they have tried in vain to introduce a legitimate competitor to the Apple iPhone. They have also failed to unseat an army of Android devices that have been more lucrative for the same manufacturers who first embraced Windows Phone. Nokia’s entry was an all-in gamble that was supposed to platform among the elite of smartphones, but being the most popular of the bunch didn’t translate to commercial or critical success....

And while Nvidia has been pushing the more expensive RTX series as the holy grail for gamers, the reality has been a whole lot less miraculous. Then again, this is akin to what we and many others were asking for: a cut down Turing GPU that trims off the fat. After all, RT cores and Tensor cores are of no value on a mid-range part. We doubt many of you will miss the ability to enable ray tracing or DLSS anyway, so by dropping these architectural features, Nvidia is able to offer a sub-$300 Turing GPU....

We will be testing with seven different games, which include: Battlefield Bad Company 2, Crysis Warhead, Just Cause 2, Metro 2033, Resident Evil 5, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and Wolfenstein. Each game was tested using the maximum visual quality settings with some level of anti-aliasing/ anisotropic filtering enabled when possible. For measuring performance we are using Fraps, recording the minimum and average frame rates of each graphics card. As mentioned before, for this article we are including a frame rate timeline that should suggest how each graphics card performed at any given moment compared to the others....

Thanks to the massive overclock, the GTX 980 was 15% faster in Crysis 3 at 47.4fps while the GTX 970, which wasn’t overclocked quite as much, enjoyed an even greater 19% performance boost.