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May 4 - Star Wars Day. In honor of such a significant event in Fortnite arrange special events, in which you can get just a bunch of themed items. Many of them have met in the game before, so now players who did not have time to get it before, will be given this opportunity.
One of the catch-22s of the global component shortage is that chips for chipmaking machines are one of the items in short supply, say execs from Intel and Apple chipmaker TSMC.
There have been some long-standing rumors that OnePlus may go Ultra this year with an OP 10 Ultra phone and we now get some more details as to what it may bring thanks to reputable tipster Yogesh Brar. According to the info, OnePlus will aim to leap the OnePlus 10 Pro’s camera experience with the upcoming Ultra model which may see a periscope camera for the first time in OP history. There was no information on the sensor. In addition, Brar confirms OP 10 Ultra will debut with Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ chipset fabbed on TSMC’s 4nm process.
Citizen Sleeper, the sci-fi role-playing game (and a Polygon Recommends selection in Tuesday morning’s review), launches May 5 and will be available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers the same day. It joins Loot River, an ID@Xbox dungeon-crawler that also launched Tuesday and is a day-one Game Pass selection.
While no one seems to be concerned about Windows Explorer’s popularity, Microsoft clearly is doing their homework. According to an analysis, Edge has now surpassed Safari to become the second-most popular desktop browser.
Just in time for May the Fourth, lightsabers and other Star Wars items are returning to Fortnite. From now until May 17, various Star Wars items from years past will be available in the game — with some outfits back in the shop, as well.
Mozilla is celebrating the 100th version of its Firefox browser today with the new launch for both Mac and iOS (PC, Linux, and Android too). For Mac, Firefox is gaining improvements to its Picture-in-Picture mode, a new language switcher, and more today. iOS will soon get clutter-free tabs, history and new wallpapers.
Georgian company Leavingstone launched a project Russia for Sale, within which everyone will be able to purchase subjects of the Russian Federation in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The proceeds will go to help Ukraine.
Samsung Electronics and DISH Network Corporation (NYSE: DISH) announced that Samsung Electronics was selected for the deployment of 5G Open Radio Access Network solutions across DISH Wireless’ SMART 5G(tm) network. Per the multi-year agreement, the companies will collaborate to deploy Samsung’s 5G O-RAN-compliant virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions and radio units in markets across the U.S., supporting DISH’s 5G commercial services.
Popular password manager platform 1Password last year announced that it was working on a major update for the Mac version of its app. Today, 1Password 8 is now being rolled out to macOS users with multiple enhancements and new features, including a redesigned interface and improved Watchtower.
Company Xiaomi published a list of devices whose maintenance has been discontinued since May 1, 2022. It included smartphones, a tablet, UMB and even one drone.
Benchmark authors AnTuTu published the top ten smartphones that suit their owners the most. The undisputed leader for several months has been Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.
At the beginning of this year Sony announced TVs Bravia XR 4K and 8K. Within the series Bravia XR Master A95K presented the world's first solutions to the database OLED-panels based on quantum dots (QD-OLED). After almost six months, the company has finally revealed the prices of new products.
