Krafton introduces device bans in order to curb cheating in BGMI

Krafton has announced that it will be taking even stricter measures to control hacking or cheating in Battlegrounds Mobile India. The developers will now ban the device itself, instead of just the associated account. 

In its official announcement, the developers stated, “ If the use of illegal programs is detected with a mobile device by the newly applied security logic, the device will be permanently banned from using BGMI.”

Up until now, any hacker who was caught using illegal programs would get their account permanently banned. However, they were still free to simply create a new account and continue cheating. With the device ban in place, anyone caught using illegal software will no longer be able to play the game using the same device. This should ensure that players who get caught cheating will no longer get the chance to cheat again unless they get a new device.

Battlegrounds Mobile India: The hacking problem

Hacking and cheating have become a serious problem in Battlegrounds Mobile India. Almost every week, the developers end up banning hundreds of thousands of accounts. In fact, Krafton recently announced that it banned nearly 100,000 accounts almost a week. The developer notes that 99,583 accounts were permanently banned in the period between December 13 and December 19. This was most evident in the period between October 1 and November 10 when the developers claimed to have banned 2,519,692 accounts. At the time, Krafton noted that it was taking four steps to try and curb cheating and will be doubling down on the same. This included the introduction of stronger cheat detection and banning mechanisms. It also stated that while initially, it used to hand out temporary bans for first-time offenders, it will now issue permabans. Further, the developers will now manually verify and ban any account that is used to promote illegal programs among high-rankers in real-time. Finally, it will be working with YouTube to block channels that promote the use of illegal programs.

Also Read: Here’s What Can Get You Banned In Battlegrounds Mobile India

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Battlegrounds Mobile India Introduces Permanent Device Ban Policy to Deter Cheaters

Battlegrounds Mobile India will begin banning devices used by players to cheat in the game, publisher Krafton announced on Thursday. These devices will be permanently banned from playing in the game, blocking cheaters from creating additional accounts on the same device. Krafton recently announced it had banned nearly one lakh accounts in a six-day period, for cheatin...

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Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate launched in India: price, specifications and availability

Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate has officially launched in India. It is the second phone after the ROG Phone 5 in the Asus gaming smartphone range. The ROG Phone 5, ROG Phone 5 Pro and ROG Phone 5 Ultimate launched in March, earlier this year and is one of the best gaming phones available in India right now. The ROG Phone 5 Ultimate edition brings in features like a customizable monochrome display on the back called ROG Vision and has a whopping 18GB of RAM to go along. Here’s everything you need to know about the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate.

Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate pricing and availability

The Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate is priced at Rs 79,999 and comes with 18GB RAM and 512GB storage. It will go on sale from December 26 on Flipkart.

Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate specifications

Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate features 6.78-inch Full HD+ (2448 x 1080 pixels) resolution display that uses an AMOLED panel, supports upto 144Hz refresh rate, 300Hz touch sampling rate and offers upto 1200nits brightness. The display is also HDR10+ certified and is topped with a layer of 2.5D Gorilla Glass Victus for protection from scratches.

It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor with an octa-core CPU running at upto 2.84GHz with Adreno 660 GPU. It runs on Android 11 based ROG UI out-of-the-box. This is paired with 18GB LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB UFS 3.1 storage.

The ROG Phone 5 Ultimate has triple cameras on the back headlined by a 64MP primary camera based on an IMX686 sensor with an f/1.8 aperture, a 13MP ultra-wide-angle camera with 125-degree field-of-view and a 5MP macro camera. For selfies, the phone has a 24MP camera on the front. The rear cameras can record in 8K UHD at 30FPS and 4K UHD at upto 60FPS with support for EIS.

Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate has a 6,000mAh battery that supports upto 65W fast charging and there is a 30W adapter bundled in the box.

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Xiaomi 12 and OnePlus 10 Pro will have LTPO 20 display: Heres what you should know

The next-generation flagship phones are almost here. Xiaomi has confirmed to bring in the 12 series even before the year ends, and OnePlus will follow close with its 10 series in early January. Both companies are aggressively vying for attention and have been letting slip interesting features. The latest one is the display technology used on these phones - LTPO 2.0. 

According to Weibo teasers, the LTPO 2.0 screen on the Xiaomi 12 gets A+ certification from DisplayMate and created 15 new display records. The panel will also be shielded by Gorilla Glass Victus. Both the Xiaomi 12 and OnePlus 10 Pro will employ Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. 

Also Read: Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge will bring 120W fast-charging to India on January 6

LTPO 2.0 vs LTPO 1.0: What to expect?

Xiaomi 12 and the OnePlus 10 Pro will employ LTPO 2.0 displays sourced from Samsung. In his Weibo post, OnePlus co-founder Pete Lau clarified that the new LTPO 2.0 displays will have a smoother high refresh rate experience. This looks like an iterative refinement since the last-gen LTPO 1.0 displays were also able to switch between 1Hz and 120Hz refresh rates based on the content playing. However, there could be more to it. 

In its investigation of last generation LTPO panels, folks at Anandtech discovered that these displays were still resorting to 'mode switching' instead of seamless VRR (variable refresh rate) as we commonly see on most gaming monitors and PCs. This is to say that the display refresh rate can range between 1hz and 120Hz, but it can assume only a few predefined values in between and not just any random value. Besides, Samsung also restricted LFD or low-frequency drive on its phones, which is to say that VRR only triggered when the ambient brightness was above 40 lux (a restriction which isn’t present on the iPhone 13 pro). 

These are some of the kinks that we expect the iterative refinements in the LTPO 2.0 technology to even out. Of course, we will have to wait and watch to know what exactly has changed. 

What are LTPO displays?

In all modern active-matrix displays, every pixel is turned on/off using a switching transistor and uses another Driving transistor and capacitor to uniformly glow. LTPO (stands for Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Oxide) displays use faster LTPS transistors for switching circuits and power-efficient IGZO transistors for driving circuits. 

This enables the pixels to switch faster (LTPS switching circuits) and also be more power-efficient (IGZO driving circuits). This is also why they can be better used to implement VRR or variable refresh rates on phones. Both the IGZO driving circuits and the ability to switch to lower refresh rate modes make them notably more power-efficient compared to regular OLED displays.

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Steam Winter Sale: Best Deals on PC Games Including Red Dead Redemption 2, F1 2021, It Takes Two, FIFA 22, More

Steam Winter Sale is here, bringing discounts on popular PC games like Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, F1 2021, It Takes Two, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and Titanfall 2. The sale will go on till January 5 and will offer discounts on games like Half-Life: Alyx, Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, Doom Eternal, FIFA 22, Deathloop, and Cyberpunk 20...

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How to unlock the new D13 Sector weapon in Call of Duty: Mobile

The new Season 11 update to Call of Duty: Mobile is here and as has become pretty much the norm, the update adds new functional weapons. The first is the PKM LMG that will be available to all players once they reach Tier 21 in the free Battle Pass. The second is the D13 Sector, which is a secondary weapon that players can equip via the Launcher section. But before that, they will have to unlock the weapon via the Disc of Doom Seasonal Event.

How to unlock the D13 Sector in Call of Duty: Mobile

As with any Seasonal Event, players will have to complete missions in a specific order to unlock the D13 Sector.

Land in Bus Station three times in BR Matches - 5x Weapon XP Card, 1000x Battle Pass XP Kill 10 Enemies in Bus Station in BR Matches - 200x Credits, 1000x Battle Pass XP Use Armor Plates five times in BR Matches - Ninja - Greenrock, 2000x Battle Pass XP Open Airdrops three times in BR Matches - Weapon XP Card, 2000x Battle Pass XP Kill 10 Enemies with a Customised Weapon from your Loadout in BR Matches - Frame - Chilled Coil, 5x New Year Token Place in the top three in BR matches once - D13 Sector, 3000x Battle Pass XP Call of Duty: Mobile - D13 Sector details

The weapon is very reminiscent of the Ripper weapon that was seen in the first Unreal Tournament that was released back in 1999. The D13 Sector fires discs that can kill enemies in a single shot. These discs can not only kill multiple enemies, but they can also ricochet off surfaces. As such, it can be deadly along narrow corridors and can be used to shoot around corners. 

Also read: Call Of Duty: Mobile Season 11 Final Snow Update - Everything You Need To Know

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Researchers have come up with a chewing gum that could potentially reduce and prevent Covid-19 infection

As the world continues to labour under the Covid-19 pandemic and its various mutations and variants, there seems to be a silver lining in the form of chewing gum. Yep, you read that right. According to MedGadget, a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have been working on a chewing gum that attracts and binds SARS-CoV-2 in the saliva. This could actually help reduce infections through a smaller viral load in the patient. The chewing gum is said to contain ACE2 which then attaches itself to the viral spike protein of SARS CoV-2. This ideally should help prevent serious infection as well as transmission of the virus. 

Chewing gum that prevents Covid-19?

In a press statement, Researcher Henry Daniell stated that “SARS-CoV-2 replicates in the salivary glands, and we know that when someone who is infected sneezes, coughs or speaks, some of that virus can be expelled and reach others. This gum offers an opportunity to neutralize the virus in the saliva, giving us a simple way to possibly cut down on a source of disease transmission.”. He also added, “We are already using masks and other physical barriers to reduce the chance of transmission. This gum could be used as an additional tool in that fight.”. 

The research team noticed that patients who chewed the gum were found to have lowered the viral load and neutralized the viral particles. They exposed saliva samples from COVID-19 patients to the ACE2 gum and found that levels of viral RNA fell so dramatically that they were almost undetectable. As we move into the third phase of the pandemic, vaccines are the frontline soldiers in the fight with safety measures such as masks following close behind. But, with this technology, prevention could be a smarter and more logical solution to stopping the spread of Covid-19. 

You can read the entire study, right here. 

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