In brief: If you’ve been considering cutting the cord and switching to a streaming service, now is the perfect opportunity for a test run with no commitments. The press release didn’t mention an end date so presumably, the offer could run through the duration of stay-at-home orders.

Over-the-top Internet television provider Sling TV on Tuesday announced its Happy Hour Across America promotion, offering free television each night to “help the nation unwind” during this time of uncertainty.

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Bottom line: The familiar sandbox world of Minecraft is due for a massive visual overhaul later this week with the launch of the RTX Beta for Windows 10. Some will argue that Minecraft perhaps isn’t the best candidate for ray tracing or that other games like Skyrim or Grand Theft Auto V would have been a better fit. Then again, you also have to consider just how big Minecraft is – depending on which list you follow, Minecraft is either the first or second best-selling video game ever and remains

Something to look forward to: We’ve seen smartphone manufacturers follow several trends over the years: non-removable batteries, shrinking bezels, notches. Now, it seems there’s a race to have the handset with the fastest screen refresh rate—a contest currently being won by ZTE sub-brand Nubia, whose RedMagic 5G phone is the first to feature a 144Hz display.

This isn’t Nubia’s initial foray into gaming smartphones with high refresh rate screens. Its RedMagic 3 from

Rumor mill: The official Twitter account of Crysis has woken up after four years with a cryptic tweet that has gamers excited for a possible return of the franchise. Although no other announcements have been made by the studio nor its publisher, EA, the latter has previously spoken of releasing remasters of fan favorites for its fiscal 2021. Command & Conquer is one of the confirmed candidates for that remaster spree, and it looks like Crysis - one installment or the trilogy - could be another.

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In context: Nintendo has long had a reputation for being a family-friendly company, shying away from anything too controversial. But that’s not the case when it comes to the Switch. There are some violent games available for the hybrid console, including Doom Eternal, and one of the most controversial titles in recent history is on its way: Hatred.

Hatred places you in the role of a very naughty and undoubtedly sad man who’s “deep rooted hatred” of humanity spurs him into killing a lot

In brief: China's semiconductor industry is gearing up to take on established industry players, especially Samsung. YMTC has come up with a NAND chip that will offer comparable qualities at a potentially lower price.

For Samsung, the semiconductor business has been doing so well as of late that investors are no longer concerned about the downturn in smartphone sales . The South Korean tech giant announced better-than-expected Q1 2020 earnings guidance earlier this month, mostly hinging on strong memory chip sales.

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Why it matters: You would expect the 2020 iPad Pros to come with an all-new Apple SoC, but the latest generation of tablets feature an A12Z chip that’s the same as the A12X processor found in the 2018 iPad Pros, only with an extra GPU core enabled.

Apple unveiled the revamped iPad Pros alongside an updated MacBook