Original Doom, Doom II, Doom 3 Re-Released for Android, iOS, Modern Game Consoles

The first three DOOM games have been re-released for modern platforms, and the original two are now available on Android and iOS.

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Fortnite Season 10 Teaser Hints at the Return of the Dusty Depot

Fortnite season 10 release date is August 1, and Dusty Depot could return in this season.

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Fortnite World Cup Solo Finals: US Teen Walks Away With $3 Million Prize

American Kyle Giersdorf, alias "Bugha," became the first Fortnite world champion in the solo division, winning $3 million at age 16 on Sunday.

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Scientists create artificial sun in a lab, the third of its kind in the world

A team of scientists in Wisconsin have created an artificial, miniature sun in their lab. The physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are not the first team to achieve the feat, with a team in Germany and another in China having already proclaimed this same achievement. However, the three teams have done so, with different goals.

The Big Red Ball experiment was designed to create an effective way of studying solar winds, without actually having to go to the sun. Solar winds can have devastating consequences on satellites, so studying them is crucial in order to protect ourselves from them. Solar winds are created when a hot ball of plasma is ejected from the sun at a point where the magnetic field of the sun is somewhat weaker than other parts. When the plasma breaches the magnetic field at such a point, it gives rise to solar winds. “The solar wind is highly variable, but there are essentially two types: fast and slow,” explains Ethan Peterson, a graduate student in the department of physics at UW–Madison and lead author of the study published online July 29 in Nature Physics. “Satellite missions have documented pretty well where the fast wind comes from, so we were trying to study specifically how the slow solar wind is generated and how it evolves as it travels toward Earth.”

The Big Red Ball allowed the team to recreate the same conditions as the sun in a 3-meter-wide hollow sphere that houses a strong magnet at its core. The team pumped the cavity full of Helium and then ionized the gas. An electric current was then passed through the system to turn the gas into plasma which would interact with the magnetic fields. This experiment would allow the researchers to take measurements of any point in the magnetic field, at any time, in 3-dimensions, something that has not been possible through satellite imaging. The team can also take multiple measurements simultaneously, another task that was previously impossible.

The result of the experiment is that the team has been able to recreate the Parker Spiral in the lab, a phenomenon where the solar winds start causing the magnetic field to spiral. This is caused by fast- and slow-moving solar winds and while we have known the rules that govern fast-moving solar winds, it’s the slow ones that have been a mystery. The experiment was also to determine the cause of “solar plasma burps,” the phenomena that give rise to the slow-moving solar winds.

The team responsible for this breakthrough stress that the Big Red Ball is not a substitute for actual satellite missions. While the experiment does recreate the conditions of the sun rather faithfully (with regards to plasma flow), satellite missions are still able to provide data that wouldn’t be possible to record in this experiment. For example, the Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 is expected to reach and maybe even dip below the Alfvén surface, the point just above the sun’s surface where the magnetic field weakens. The data provided by the satellite mission, in this case, would be unique, and the first of its kind.

The Big Red Ball is the third “miniature-sun-in-a-lab” that’s been created. The one in Germany is used by scientists to recreate the sun’s light for experiments into producing solar fuels like hydrogen. Perhaps the most promising one is in China, where the team used the experiment for fusion energy and reported successful test firing of their Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor. It was reported that the reactor was able to successfully achieve an electron temperature of 100 million degree Celsius, bringing us one step closer to achieving nuclear fusion.

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Redmi K20 Pro Summer Honey colour launched in China

Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi has launched a new colour of the K20 Pro in China. Called “Summer Honey”, the colour adds to the already available Flame Red, Glacier Blue, and Carbon Fiber variants. It will be available for purchase in China from August 1 via the company's online store, and its availability in other markets like India is not known yet. The new variant comes in three versions: 6GB RAM/128GB storage which is priced at CNY 2,599 (approx Rs 26,000), the 8GB RAM/128GB storage that will cost users CNY 2,799 (approx Rs 28,000), and the top-end variant with 8GB RAM/256GB storage will be available for CNY 2,999 (approx Rs 30,000).

The Redmi K20 Pro (Review) features a 6.39-inch AMOLED Full HD+ that offers a resolution of 1080x2340 pixels and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset, which is paired with up to 8GB RAM and up to 256GB of internal storage. It packs a 4000mAh battery that supports 27W fast charging tech.

In the camera department, the K20 Pro sports a triple rear camera setup: a 48MP Sony IMX586 primary sensor with an f/1.75 lens, 13MP secondary sensor with a wide-angle lens, and an 8MP sensor with an f/2.4 lens. As for the selfie camera, the 20MP sensor is incorporated in a pop-up module. In India, the 6GB RAM + 128GB version of the Redmi K20 Pro is priced at Rs 27,999, while the 8GB RAM + 256GB version will cost you Rs 30,999.

The Redmi K20 Pro recently received MIUI 10 Global Stable ROM V10.3.3.0 update. The update brought improvements to the fingerprint unlock, 48MP image capture time along with the June 2019 Android security patch. Furthermore, the official changelog also mentions enhancement to the touch performance of the phone specifically when using the Game Turbo feature.

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Xiaomi Mi Mix 4 5G allegedly certified in China

Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G is the first phone from the Chinese company that supports the next generation of cellular network technology. It now seems that the company is working on its successor as a Xiaomi phone with 5G capabilities has been spotted on China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) database. The phone bearing a model number M1908F1XE has been dubbed as the Mi Mix 4 5G. It is worth mentioning that the listing does not reveal the name of the device, but the developments around the next 5G phone from Xiaomi points that the phone could be the Mi Mix 4.

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun had already said that a new 5G device will launch in the second half of the year. Since, Xiaomi launches the Mix series phones in the second half, this could well be the Mi Mix 4. Further, it is also possible that company may skip ‘4’ from it and go for ‘ Mi Mix 5’ instead because the number 4 is considered as a bad omen in China. Further it is assumed that the phone would ship with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ that was recently launched globally.

The Mi Mix 3 5G was launched at MWC earlier this year, and is powered by the Snapdragon 855 chipset. The Mi Mix 3 5G has a 6.39-inch Full HD+ SuperAMOLED display with no notch. Talking about the rear camera setup, the phone has 12MP+12MP camera setup with f/1.8 aperture and dual pixel autofocus. There’s also a mechanical slider for accessing the 24MP+2MP front camera setup. Powering it all is a 3800mAh battery which supports Quick Charge 4.

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Black Shark 2 Pro launched with Snapdragon 855 Plus, features lower touch latency, new design and more RGB

With the Snapdragon 855 Plus now announced, gaming smartphones now have a way to differentiate themselves in terms of the hardware under the hood. The Asus ROG Phone II was the first phone to sport the gaming SoC and now Black Shark has also jumped into the fray with the Black Shark 2 Pro. The gaming phone was announced at an event in China

The major upgrade in the Black Shark 2 Pro is of course the chipset that powers it. The Snapdragon 855 Plus is slightly faster than the regular variant with a max clock speed of 2.94GHz as compared to 2.86GHz on the standard version. That allows Qualcomm to offer a host of features that should delight a mobile gamer. That includes rich HDR graphics, reduced janks during gameplay and Q-sync which syncs the frame rates with the display refresh rate to make gameplay smoother. Along with the SD855+, there’s now 12GB RAM in both the variants and UFS 3.0 storage. On the outside, there are now more RGB LED strips with two more strips flanking the RGB-lit Black Shark logo on the center.

There are some more minor tweaks that should help with gaming on the device which includes a lower touch response of the 6.39-inch AMOLED display. The touch latency on the Black Shark 2 Pro is claimed to be 34.7ms against 43.5ms on the predecessor. Along the same lines, the secondary camera on the back is now a 13MP sensor as compared to a 12MP one on the Black Shark 2.

The software remains the same on the device, however, save for the new Black Space Dock 4.0, the company’s new gaming mode. This replaces the Shark Space that existed on the previous offering.

The Black Shark 2 Pro’s exterior design has changed a bit though. The back panel is improved for a better grip and there’s now few more colour options to choose from — Racing, Flamingo and Myth Ray, launched in partnership with LNG Esports, an Esports team from China. Black Shark also launched new cases and bumpers along with two gaming headsets — An in-ear type and another over-the-ear.

The Black Shark 2 Pro is priced at CNY 2,999 (roughly Rs 30,000) for the 12GB RAM and 128GB storage variant while the 12GB RAM with 256GB storage variant will ship for CNY3,999 (roughly Rs 40,000). The phone is right now exclusively available in China but it might come to India a few months later.

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