Bluestacks X brings Android games to the browser. | Image: Bluestacks BlueStacks started off life as an Android emulator for Windows more than 10 years ago, allowing anyone to run native Arm-based or x86 Android apps on Windows PCs and tablets. Now BlueStacks is transitioning to the cloud, bringing Android games to the browser and
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Read MoreIt’s a headset that can do a wired connection and Bluetooth simultaneously. One of the biggest complications with playing online multiplayers on Nintendo Switch is the lack of voice chat. Most Switch games don’t offer it, making it harder to strategize and plan with your teammates. This has led many Switch players to open Discord,
Read MoreCredit: BlueStacks BlueStacks has just launched the public beta of BlueStacks X. This new version of the software is browser-based and takes advantage of cloud streaming. Due to the new format, only a very limited selection of games are currently available. If you want to play Android games on your PC with a keyboard and
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Read MoreThe Nreal Air smart glasses. | Image: Nreal Augmented reality company Nreal is launching a cheaper, iOS-compatible, more compact version of its smart glasses. The new Nreal Air glasses are supposed to ship starting in December 2021 across Japan, China, and South Korea. The price isn’t set, but Nreal says they’ll cost “a fraction of
Read MoreThose of us who have followed the Raspberry Pi over the years will be familiar with the various revisions of the little board, with their consequent new processors. What may be less obvious is that within the lifetime of any chip there will often be minor version changes, usually to fix bugs or to fine-tune
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: Modular phone maker Fairphone, which uses ethically sourced materials, announces Fairphone 4 with a 6.3-inch display, 5G, and up to 256GB, starting at €579 — The Fairphone 4’s software support should stretch until 2025 — Fairphone, the manufacturer focused on making easy …
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israel-based Speedata, which is developing custom chips for data analytics processing, emerges from stealth with $55M Series A and $15M seed — Datacenters are taking on ever-more specialized chips to handle different kinds of workloads, moving away from CPUs and adopting GPUs and other kinds …
Read MorePavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: SoftBank says Alphabet’s Loon moonshot has transferred about 200 patents to it; Alphabet says it also handed over patents to partner Raven Industries — – SoftBank paid $125 million for a stake in Loon project in 2019 — Google closed the high-altitude internet initiative this year
Read MoreThe Economic Times: Delhi-based EV ride-hailing and charging startup BluSmart raises $25M Series A led by BP to expand its network to five new Indian cities — New Delhi: BP Ventures has made its first direct investment in India by pumping in $13 million in integrated EV ride-hailing and charging company BluSmart.
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Read MoreApple has landed yet another big-budget movie package for its Apple TV+ streaming service. Directed and written by Jon Watts, best known for directing the Spider-Man movies, the as-yet-untitled movie will star George Clooney and Brad Pitt. As reported by Deadline, the film will get a theatrical release before streaming on Apple TV+. The exact
Read MoreFacebook has attempted to defuse the controversy over its Instagram teen research by releasing two of the reports to the public, annotating them with what it says is important context. The social network also accuses the WSJ, which obtained copies of the reports, of “mischaracterizing” their conclusions. The paper has not yet directly responded to
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Read MoreA new Xiaomi smartphone has passed through TENAA. The device packs a 4K display and a 4,400mAh battery in a slim body. Xiaomi is seemingly gearing up for yet another phone launch, only this time the device in question is packing some enthusiast specs. A phone with model number 2109119BC recently passed through TENAA (h/t
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Empathy, an AI-based digital assistant that helps families organize their affairs after a death, raises $30M Series A led by Entrée Capital — Death is one of the hardest things to cope with in life, both from an emotional and organizational standpoint.
Read MoreA new antitrust law in South Korea will force both Apple and Google to support app store third-party payment options – and the two companies have now been given to the middle of the month to explain their plans to comply. This could have wide-ranging implications, as similar pressures are being applied in other countries,
Read MoreDISH and Boost Mobile hope to bring in new 5G customers with their own phone, the Celero5G. | DISH/Boost Mobile After acquiring Boost Mobile as part of the Sprint and T-Mobile merger in 2020 and snapping up Republic Wireless for its 5G network earlier this year, Dish is finally ready to turn Boost Mobile into
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Read MoreThe RISC-V hardware instruction set would get a full-featured port of open source Java, under a proposal being discussed in the OpenJDK community this week. If the project is approved, the port might be ready for Java Development Kit (JDK) 18, which is expected to arrive in September. Plans presently call for supporting Java
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