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Facebook bans pages organizing anti-lockdown rallies

TechSpot News | April 21, 2020, 1:22 a.m. | Original

In a nutshell: Facebook is banning event listings that organize protests against the government’s social distancing policies. Anti-lockdown rallies have taken place in many states, often attracting thousands of people, and epidemiologists predict the gatherings could cause an increase in Covid-19 cases.

On Monday, Facebook deleted listings for anti-quarantine protests in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska. The company said it would only take down events that violate state guideline, reports the BBC .

"Unless government prohibits the event during this

MSI's Ryzen 4000-powered Bravo gaming laptops now available for pre-order

TechSpot News | April 21, 2020, 12:39 a.m. | Original

Something to look forward to: Are you looking for a reasonably priced gaming laptop powered by AMD hardware? MSI might have the answer. The company has started pre-orders for the MSI Bravo 15 and Bravo 17 machines that combine Ryzen 4000 H-series processors with Radeon RX 5500M GPUs.

Last month, we detailed the Ryzen 4000 chips, which are based on the Zen 2 architecture built on the 7nm process and come in low-power U-

GeForce Now gets nod of approval from Ubisoft but other big publishers continue to leave

TechSpot News | April 20, 2020, 11:58 p.m. | Original

Bottom line: Nvidia recently adopted a weekly update schedule for GeForce Now to let players know of new additions to its gaming catalog. While the service will get more appealing for some, with debuting entries like the Assassin Creed and Far Cry series; it will also be disappointing players of Forza, Dirt, Mortal Kombat, Batman and a few other games whose publishers have decided to abandon the service, as noted in Nvidia's latest announcement.

The game-streaming business continues to leave a sour taste in many people'

New Kickstarter projects fall 35%, layoffs planned

TechSpot News | April 20, 2020, 11:15 p.m. | Original

In a nutshell: Few businesses are safe from Covid-19 disruption—even the crowdfunding industry is suffering. Kickstarter has seen its number of new projects fall by 35 percent year-over-year, and things don’t appear to be getting better anytime soon. As such, the company is discussing ways of saving money, including potential layoffs.

In an internal memo seen by The Verge , Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan revealed the drop in new projects, adding that there was “no clear sign of rebound

Starbucks is bringing Beyond Meat to China

TechSpot News | April 20, 2020, 10:20 p.m. | Original

In a nutshell: Starbucks will start selling Beyond Meat products in China for the first time tomorrow. The new plant-based lunch menu will launch in a country where businesses are reopening following the Covid-19 lockdown.

The world’s largest and best-known coffee chain will sell pasta and lasagne dishes made from Beyond’s ‘fake’ beef, as well as two meals made with a pork alternative from Hong Kong-based Omnipork, reports CNBC . Starbucks is also adding non-diary lattes that will

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Samsung said to be developing industry's first 160-layer NAND flash memory chip

TechSpot News | April 20, 2020, 12:50 p.m. | Original

Why it matters: Samsung entered 2020 owning no less than 36 percent of the NAND flash market, a position it will not easily concede to other players. The Korean giant is scrambling to be the first company that can produce 160-layer NAND, and is going to great lengths to make it happen through its Chinese factories.

Earlier this month, news broke that China's biggest chipmaker has come up with a 128-layer QLC NAND chip that is better than Samsung'

Seagate reveals limited edition Cyberpunk 2077-themed Xbox Game Drive

TechSpot News | April 20, 2020, 10:01 a.m. | Original

In context: CD Projekt Red's upcoming sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077 has seen quite the marketing blitz lately, at least in the merchandise department. Though new information about the game itself has been scarce, several Cyberpunk 2077-branded products have been announced over the past few days.

A few days ago, we saw the end of Cyberpunk 2077's latest hacking-themed Augmented Reality Game, which led to the reveal of a Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox

Unigine now has a Community Edition SDK that is free for small developers

TechSpot News | April 20, 2020, 9:14 a.m. | Original

Why it matters: If you are a hobbyist or a small game developer, you now have free access to the powerful Unigine 2 software development kit. The platform has been used mostly in the enterprise sector to create photorealistic simulations and digital models. Now anyone can download and use the engine.

Real-time 3D engine Unigine 2 is now available to the public for free with some limitations. Last week the developer launched the Unigine 2 Community Edition software development kit. The platform was previously only available to business customers through

GPD introduces the Win Max, the 'world's smallest handheld gaming laptop'

TechSpot News | April 20, 2020, 8:36 a.m. | Original

In context: Few companies are as well-known in the ultra-portable gaming device market as GPD. The Chinese company specializes in making the smallest gaming PCs it possibly can, such as the $650 GPD Win 2 or its predecessor, the original GPD Win.

While there are obvious drawbacks that come with gaming on such small devices, GPD's gadgets nonetheless manage to impress many

Walmart offloads on-demand video streaming service Vudu to Fandango

TechSpot News | April 20, 2020, 7:50 a.m. | Original

In brief: Walmart has agreed to sell its on-demand video streaming platform Vudu to NBCUniversal-owned movie ticketing company Fandango. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Rumors of Walmart shopping the service around date back to October of last year so it’s not entirely surprising to see a sale finally materialize.

In announcing the deal, Vudu said nothing about its experience will be immediately changing – movie and television libraries are safe and you’ll continue to have access to all of your Vudu apps across

Something to look forward to: Are you looking for a reasonably priced gaming laptop powered by AMD hardware? MSI might have the answer. The company has started pre-orders for the MSI Bravo 15 and Bravo 17 machines that combine Ryzen 4000 H-series processors with Radeon RX 5500M GPUs.

In a nutshell: Starbucks will start selling Beyond Meat products in China for the first time tomorrow. The new plant-based lunch menu will launch in a country where businesses are reopening following the Covid-19 lockdown.

In context: CD Projekt Red's upcoming sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077 has seen quite the marketing blitz lately, at least in the merchandise department. Though new information about the game itself has been scarce, several Cyberpunk 2077-branded products have been announced over the past few days.

In context: Few companies are as well-known in the ultra-portable gaming device market as GPD. The Chinese company specializes in making the smallest gaming PCs it possibly can, such as the $650 GPD Win 2 or its predecessor, the original GPD Win.

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