Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Gunfight Mode Revealed, Promises 2v2 Close-Quarter Combat With Thrilling Gameplay

Activision has revealed a new multiplayer mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare called Gunfight that will pit players in 2v2 matches.

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Apple Reportedly Halts Development of Its AR/ VR Headsets

Apple has reportedly shelved plans to develop its augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets.

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Fortnite, PUBG Coaches Now Being Offered on Fiverr

Fiverr is tapping into the phenomenal success of Fortnite and PUBG by hooking up players with online gaming experts, who will help them up their game while helping the company make some money in the process.

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Steam’s Interactive Recommender Makes Game Discovery Personal, Ditches Tags and Reviews to Highlight Hidden Gems

Steam Labs has unveiled a new experimental feature called Interactive Recommender that aims to dole out more personalised suggestions with a focus on less popular titles.

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Asus Lyra Voice, ROG Rapture GT-AC2900 Routers Launched in India, Two Gaming Monitors Debut as Well

Asus has said the company would expand its gaming portfolio with launching components like gaming monitors, routers and similar products in India.

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Amazon Music has grown by more than 70 in the past year

Amazon's music streaming service has grown by more than 70% in the past year, reportedly, making it the fastest growing music service yet. It has even beat out the growth of Spotify and Apple Music, the two behemoths in the playing field.

It's unclear whether this includes trial versions, paid users and free users, but the rate of growth is still fast, regardless. Amazon's current subscriber count to its music services sits at about 32 million. This is significantly lesser compared to Apple Music's 60 million and Spotify's impressive 100 million.

It seems that Amazon's growth is greatly accelerated by its smart speakers. The popularity of Alexa devices has, in a way, contributed to the service's growth. While it is possible to play music through rival services on Alexa, the default is Amazon Music. Unless you specify to Alexa that you want music played through Spotify or Apple Music, Alexa will default to Amazon Music.

As it turns out, with the way this works, Amazon isn't targeting the users that actually use Apple Music or Spotify, it is instead targeting older users. In the words of the Amazon Executive, "For the industry to reach its full potential, we can’t just look at 15 to 22-year-olds." Midia data shows that 14% of Amazon Music users are older than 55.

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Android phones around the world are being infected by a virus called Agent Smith

According to reports, 25 million Android devices around the world have been infected by a virus called Agent Smith, of which 15 million are in India. The Agent Smith virus pops ads on infected phones, and is reportedly infecting devices via third party app stores. Once the virus has made its way onto your device, it conceals itself by renaming itself to something like Google Updater, which most users would skim over without a second thought.

Check Point Research, a company that works on security apps and provides cybersecurity assistance revealed more details about Agent Smith. The virus allegedly exploits known vulnerabilities in Android and disguises itself as a Google-related app. It then infects and replaces existing apps with malicious versions of themselves. This way the virus is able to freely acquire user info, which could possibly include financial credentials. Users are usually readily happy to provide permissions to the non-malicious version of these apps, which makes the virus' job even easier. Once infected, the virus worms its way into popular apps on Android devices and continues popping even more ads.

Check Point further reported that the virus is spreading via third party app stores.

In order to avoid being infected, avoid downloading and installing apps from third party app stores and keep your downloads limited to only the Play Store. Be sure to go over permissions that you give to installed apps. Especially apps with Google in their name as that's what the app disguises itself as.

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