Tencent Flagship Game Honor of Kings Reports 100 Million Daily Active Users

Tencent's flagship video game, Honor of Kings, has announced a record 100 million daily active users worldwide. The game on its fifth anniversary is also forming a tie-up with British luxury group Burberry.

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Micromax In-series launching in India on November 3: Everything you need to know

Micromax's In-series is set to launch on November 3 in India and the company has started releasing teasers for the upcoming phones across its social media handles. This launch also marks the comeback of Micromax to the Indian smartphone space with rumours suggesting that the company is preparing to launch at least two smartphones.

The details about the upcoming In-series launch in India have been kept under wraps with Micromax releasing teasers in the heads up to the launch. It has been hinted through these teasers and an official partnership announcement that the upcoming phones could be powered by a MediaTek processor under the hood. Here’s everything we know so far about the Micromax In-series launch on November 3.

We know your cherished memories are precious to you. That’s why we’ve made sure you have the space to keep them all. #INMobiles unveiling on 3rd Nov, 12 noon. Are you #INForIndia? #MicromaxIsBack pic.twitter.com/gXWryY5Ptl

— Micromax India (@Micromax__India) November 1, 2020 Micromax In-series: How to watch the live stream

The Micromax In-series smartphone launch is scheduled to launch on November 3 starting from 12 PM. The In-series launch event will be live-streamed on YouTube and the company’s social media handles across Twitter and Facebook. 

Micromax has created a dedicated event page for the In-series launch event on Facebook that you can check out here.

Micromax In-series expected price

Micromax In-series is expected to be priced between Rs 7,000 and Rs 15,000 and will compete directly with the likes of Xiaomi and Realme smartphones in these price segments. The company has previously hinted that it wants to target this highly volatile segment which sees the most number of smartphone shipments in the country.

Micromax In-series rumoured specifications

The names of the smartphones under the In-series is not official yet, however, as per previous leaks and rumours, Micromax could announce the In 1 and In 1a as its first two phones under the new lineup. The phones are expected to feature a 6.5-inch HD+ and Full HD+ displays respectively and could be powered by the Helio G85 and Helio G35 processors. 

Moreover, in an exclusive interview with YouTube channel Technical Guruji, Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma showed off the upcoming phones and confirmed that one variant does come with a 48MP primary camera housed in the rectangular camera module. 

From the video, we can also see a punch-hole cutout in the centre for the selfie camera and both the phones have a gradient design on the back. There’s a fingerprint reader as well and the phones will likely come with triple and quad-camera array on the back.

The upcoming phones in the In-series are expected to be equipped with a 5,000mAh battery and will likely run on stock Android out-of-the-box.

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Spider-Man: Miles Morales Will Come With the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Suit

Spider-Man: Miles Morales will offer a Spider-Man suit that is borrowed from the 2018 Oscar-winning animated movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The Into the Spider-Verse suit can be unlocked in the game, or you can get it instantly by pre-ordering Spider-Man: Miles Morales for PS5 / PS4.

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Far Cry 6, Rainbow Six Quarantine release date pushed back past March 2021

It's the season of delays as Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine have both been pushed past March  2021. This news comes after the disappointing announcement that Cyberpunk 2077 had also been delayed by 21 days and will now launch on 10 December instead of the planned date of 19 November. Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine also faced major delays as Ubisoft CFO, Frédérick Duguet, stating that the company expects to release both games by the first half of 2021. 

Important message from our #FarCry6 team. pic.twitter.com/8YGlmjXS67

— Far Cry 6 (@FarCrygame) October 29, 2020

To be fair, 2020 has been a disastrous year for most major businesses as the COVID-19 pandemic literally brought the world to its knees. Although this wasn’t the reason for the delay, working from home and production challenges meant that Ubisoft had to delay both games. Originally set to release on February 18, 2021, Far Cry 6 was the anticipated next chapter of the Far Cry open world FPS franchise while Rainbow Six Quarantine was set to hit markets in early 2021. 

As the next generation of consoles are just around the corner, we should be getting more game announcements soon as well with Ubisoft even saying that if plans to offer present gen games with next gen, enhanced features and performance. We’ll just have to wait and see how of this comes into play when the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S are both launched. 

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WhatsApp could release Disappearing Messages feature in a future update

It looks like we’ll soon be getting a ‘Disappearing Messages’ feature on WhatsApp. As per a report on Wabetainfo, WhatsApp is looking at releasing the feature in a future update. So what exactly are disappearing messages. Well, If you receive a bunch of messages and don’t read them for about 7 days, those messages will disappear. Users will have the option to enable this feature when it does eventually arrive. 

A key thing to remember though is that when you do enable the feature, there is no option to customize the time frame for when the messages are deleted. All unread messages will expire after 7 days. Although, if you do not clear your notification panel, the messages will still be available to be read. 

The cited source in the Wabetainfo report goes on to say, “When you reply to a message, the initial message is quoted. If you reply to a disappearing message, the quoted text might remain in the chat after seven days. If a disappearing message is forwarded to a chat with disappearing messages off, the message won’t disappear in the forwarded chat.”. You can still backup your chats on Google Drive and view them there but you will not be able to restore those particular chats once the Disappearing Messages feature is enabled. The Disappearing Messages feature will be hitting for iOS, Android, KaiOS, and Web/Desktop users as well. 

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Intel Iris Xe Max Discrete GPU for Slim Laptops Announced, Promises AI and Encoding Performance Boost

The Intel Iris Xe Max discrete GPU is not just about entry-level gaming performance, but AI acceleration and video encoding for content creators.

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Intel launches Iris Xe MAX discrete graphics for low-power notebooks

Intel launched their Iris Xe MAX discrete graphics chip for thin and light notebooks and they already have a few SKUs on the market with Acer (uses Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake Core processors along with Intel Xe Iris MAX Graphics) and more partners are expected to launch their Intel Iris Xe MAX powered notebooks in the weeks to come. Unveiled at the Intel Architecture Day 2020, the Xe-LP microarchitecture was designed for low-power applications with focus on media decode, casual gaming and accelerating AI features in compatible applications. Intel’s Iris MAX Xe will compete with the likes of NVIDIA’s MX-class Discrete GPUs (ex. MX350) and AMD’s RX Vega 8 Integrated GPUs. Key features of the Intel Iris Xe MAX discrete graphics chip include PCIe Gen 4.0 support and Intel Deep Link. The latter allows dynamic power sharing between the Intel CPU and Intel GPU, and can leverage the media encoders in both silicon to work in tandem to accelerate certain workloads.

“We set out to redefine the role of discrete graphics in thin-and-light laptops and address a growing segment of creators who want more portability. Iris Xe MAX graphics and Intel® Deep Link technology serve as examples of the kind of platform-level innovation that Intel plans to bring to market in the future as we execute our scalable Xe Roadmap.” said Roger Chandler, Vice President and General Manager of Client XPU Product and Solutions in the Intel Architecture, Graphics and Software Group.

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

The Intel Xe graphics architecture is a scalable architecture which is designed to work in a wide variety of applications ranging from low-power notebook graphics to discrete gaming graphics cards to machine learning GPUs to enterprise HPC applications. What we’re seeing today is the Xe-LP microarchitecture which is designed for low-power notebooks. The Iris Xe MAX GPU has 96 EUs which can go up to 1.65 GHz and will be hooked up to 4GB of LPDDR4X memory with a peak memory bandwidth of 68 GB/s. It’s using Intel’s 10nm Superfin process.

Since Iris MAX Xe is designed to compete in the same league as NVIDIA’s MX-class GPUs and AMD’s RX Vega Integrated GPUs, it hosts several features such as variable rate sharing, Intel DLBoost, AV1 decode support, PCIe Gen 4.0 support, adaptive sync and Intel Deep Link which we will get to shortly. It should be noted that Iris Xe MAX supports DirectX 12.1 and has Variable Rate Shading which is a DX12 Ultimate feature. Other DX12 Ultimate Features such as DirectX Ray Tracing are not performed on low-power GPUs so expecting them on the Iris MAX Xe would be silly.

Intel Deep Link

Intel Deep Link is a new feature that comes into play when an Intel 11th Gen processor is paired with the Iris Xe MAX GPU. Since both the GPUs (IGP on the CPU, and the GPU) have the same Xe microarchitecture, it’s easy to combine their strengths via software to accelerate certain workloads. This does not mean that Intel is running multi-GPU configurations for gaming, for such situations, the Iris MAX Xe GPU will be working alone. Although, users will be able to switch between the GPUs if they chose to. Certain games such as Dota 2 benefit from lower latencies so an IGP can outperform the discrete GPU. But for most use cases, the discrete GPU would be best for gaming.

Coming back to Deep Link, developers will be able to utilise OneAPI toolkits such as OpenVINO to accelerate certain AI applications. The Xe GPU has two media encoders so the two chips working together can use four media encoders together. Intel revealed that they have a proof of concept of how the two GPUs were able to accelerate media encoding far quicker than even some discrete high-end graphics cards. This would mean that you can export videos much quicker using Intel’s codecs accelerated by Deep Link compared to something like NVENC. Intel will shed more light on this development next year.

Notebooks powered by Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

Several OEMs have already announced designs featuring Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake Core processors along with Intel Iris Xe MAX discrete graphics. Acer’s Swift 3x is the first unit to feature the new Intel GPU and other OEMs such as ASUS and Dell will be releasing their SKUs shortly.

Intel Iris Xe MAX DG1 GPU will be present in the ASUS VivoBook Flip TP470 and the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 laptops.

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