Rivet Networks, the company that owns the Killer brand, has announced a new capability rolling out to their Killer AC 1550 modules — and it’s a rather cool feature at that. It’s an expansion of the Killer xTend technology that the company has previously offered, which allows a machine with multiple Ethernet ports to provide local internet access to other devices. Killer Wireless xTend, as the name implies, extends this technology into Wi-Fi — and expands its usefulness in the process. Here’s how Rivet describes the feature: Killer Wireless xTend introduces powerful MESH network capabilities to your computer by leveraging the Killer Wireless-AC 1550 WiFi module to seamlessly clone and extend your home network.
The game industry has changed massively in the last two generations. AAA budgets have ballooned, small indies have found massive success, and the stalwart mid-range devs collapsed in the aughts and early 2010s. It’s taken years to recover, but now games like Vampyr are proving that the middle ground still have a place. Last year, Ninja Theory wowed us with the budget-price release of . In fact, it was so impressive that such a promising studio. Similarly, the mid-tier THQ phoenix has been reborn in both name and — to some extent — form with the full-on rebranding of Nordic Games as THQ Nordic.
Amazon’s Fire TV devices are a popular way to watch streaming content on a TV because they support plenty of services and come with a low price tag. However, a new spate of malware infections has the potential to interrupt your viewing as the device . The good news is you have to make several critical mistakes to get infected. Amazon’s Fire TV boxes and sticks all run , but it’s not the version of Android that Google certifies for smartphones, tablets, and Android TV devices. This is Amazon’s modified version of Android known as FireOS. It’s the same base used on the Fire tablets, but with a “lean back” UI that’s comfortable to use from across the room.
At E3 this week, Bethesda shared more details on . The upcoming game is, as rumored, an open-world survival game with a “soft” death system that won’t result in you losing critical character progression or other resources. The game’s total map is four times the size of the Fallout 4 world — which may or may not be a useful way to measure anything (more on this in a moment), but does give at least a ballpark idea of how much space is baked into the multiplayer map. Bethesda also released a gameplay trailer for Fallout 76, which you can watch below.
Bethesda in 2011, and it has proven to be one of the company’s most successful titles to date. The company has ported the game to multiple systems, and there’s even a version you can play on Amazon Alexa. At E3 2018, Bethesda has revealed that The Elder Scrolls VI is coming, but that’s about all we know. The trailer, if you can call it that, is a mere 36 seconds long, and clouds obscure the first few seconds. The camera flies across a landscape as the clouds part. We are treated to fleeting glances of a settlement, a castle or tower off in the distance, a crater, a large body of water, and lots of tall, craggy mountains.
Last week, Intel announced and demoed a . Since then, it’s been discovered that the original part Intel demoed was overclocked to hit these frequencies, that the company was using a water chiller capable of dissipating 1770W to cool the CPU, and the entire demo now looks much more like Intel was attempting to take the wind out of than any attempt to launch a series product. Let’s back up and review. Intel already makes a series of 28-core CPUs, including the 28-core Xeon Platinum 8180. That chip has a 2.5GHz base clock, a 3.8GHz boost clock, and a 205W TDP.
Just as many of us were bemoaning the lack of new high-end Android tablets, and their , Huawei has announced an intriguing new Android-based media powerhouse, the MediaPad M5. Available in both 8-inch and 10.8-inch screen sizes, the tablet is the first to feature a curved “2.5D” display. Huawei says this helps make the tablet lighter, although the 10.8-inch model is still a couple ounces heavier than Samsung’s 9.7-inch S3 model. Huawei MediaPad M5 By the Numbers There are three models of the M5: an 8.4-inch, a 10-8-inch, and a Pro version of the 10.8-inch with a faster iteration of Huawei’s Kirin 960 Octacore processor.
Late last month, Microsoft announced it would fire its Xbox support staff with unpaid volunteers. It was a thrilling move for the corporation, whose net worth is well above $500 billion, and the firm is moving to capitalize on its newfound strength by killing off the support forums for multiple Windows products. In some cases, the move even makes sense. According to a new message posted by , “Effective July 2018, the Microsoft Community forums listed below will shift support scope and Microsoft staff will no longer provide technical support there. There will be no proactive reviews, monitoring, answering or answer marking of questions.
Google has been releasing its own Android phones since the very early days of the platform, but it took a more hands-on approach with the Pixel phones in 2016 and 2017. These devices offered competent hardware along with fantastic software and camera performance. As we move ever closer to Google’s 2018 Pixel launch, a series of leaks have revealed new design approach. It’s going all in with the screen notch, but it appears to be doing so in a positively ham-handed way. A series of photos that purport to show a prototype of the upcoming Pixel 3 XL.
