WhatsApp Message Reactions Are Finally Here Mark Zuckerberg decided to post on Facebook about how the reactions on WhatsApp are finally rolling out today and this means that the feature should be available to everyone starting today. Users who are running the latest version of WhatsApp on iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows will now get the chance to use the feature. However, it is also important to note that as usual, this is going to be a staged rollout, which means that it can take up to a week to reach all the users....

Apple’s Second-Generation AirPods Pro Should Not Be Purchased From Brazil Unless You Want to Pay More Than Twice the Amount Charged in the U.S. First, let us talk about the countries which provide the best offer for the AirPods Pro 2. According to data published on Nukeni and spotted by 9to5Mac, the five countries where you will get the best deal on wireless earbuds are as follows: Hong Kong - $235....

The Astronauts has only released The Vanishing of Ethan Carter so far, but it was founded by ex People Can Fly developers who worked on Bulletstorm and Painkiller, so they’re more than proficient with first-person shooter games. Witchfire, first announced over four years ago at The Game Awards 2017, does come with a brand new roguelite formula. According to the developers, this convinced them to go with an early access release....

Ultimately though, it’s a hardware deal that’s going to get most people talking, as Microsoft has slashed the price of the Xbox Series S to only $250. So, for the record, the console now costs a solid chunk of change less than a Nintendo Switch. The Xbox Series S is being offered at the discount price at most retailers, with some even offering bundles, so feel free to shop around....

Not everything’s meant to last forever, though, as the company’s reaching the end of its rope. In October, the company will be finishing off its Xbox 360 side of Games With Gold, as they’ve “reached the limit” of what games can be added to the service (at least, from the Xbox 360 side of things). Below is a tweet from Wario64, where this information came out. Any claimed Xbox 360 GWG titles can be redownloaded regardless of membership pic....

The new entry in the Xenoblade series was announced during last week’s Nintendo Direct broadcast. On the game’s official website and via Nintendo’s official Twitter accounts, new information about the game’s characters and setting has been released. — Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) February 14, 2022 The third installment in the Xenoblade Chronicles series will bring together the futures of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and will take players to the world of Aionios, home to two hostile nations, including Keves and Agnus....

— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) October 5, 2022 [Original story] Sledgehammer Games will develop the sequel to 2014’s Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare 2, it has been claimed. This information comes from reputable Call of Duty insider RalphsValve, who is known to have correctly leaked Call of Duty-related information in the past. Following the insider’s report on outlet Whatifgaming just now, another Call of Duty leaker, TheGhostofHope, corroborated the report....

Apple May Increase the iPad’s Display Size to 12 inches Currently, Apple sells its M1 MacBook Air with a 13.3-inch display, and the redesigned model that is expected to launch in the second half of this year will likely stick with the small panel, albeit with some changes such as the presence of a notch. If customers require a bigger price-to-performance portable Mac, DSCC CEO Ross Young states that a 15-inch version will launch next year and with it, the possibility of Apple unveiling a 12-inch iPad too....

Both 2024 iPad Pro Models Will Feature Higher Quality OLED Upgrades, Also Known as Two-Stack Tandem Panels One reason why Apple will make the switch from mini-LED and IPS LCD to OLED is because the latter is much better for IT-related applications, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) CEO and founder Ross Young. While he did not explain in his tweet what his statement meant, he must have stated that applications that require the increased luminance or color accuracy of OLED technology would benefit users if these upgrades make it to the 2024 iPad Pro models....

A Little to the Left offers a fairly simple puzzle game with multiple solutions to the puzzles, as the two-person team developing the title didn’t want players to feel stuck on any one puzzle. While the introductory puzzles had one solution each, I could see a few different ways to approach certain puzzles once I got into the later levels. Speaking with Annie Macmillan as I played, the team at Max Inferno didn’t want to overwhelm the player or make them frustrated with trying to decipher the clutter for any one specific solution....

When I went into my meeting with the folks from THQ Nordic and AEW at Gamescom, I was asked if I’m a fan of wrestling itself and which are my favourite wrestling games. Understandable, it’s useful for a game like this to gauge who is getting hands-on with your title. You want to know if it’s their sort of game, especially their history with the type of game. My answer was that I am a lapsed fan, and my favourite games were the Smackdown vs Raw titles, specifically the ones where GM mode had hit the scene and seemed to be working well....

AMD Confirms Xilinx’s AI Engine-Powered Ryzen “Phoenix” CPUs Are Already Running In Their Labs In a tweet by tech analyst David Schor, it is stated that AMD’s President of Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group has confirmed during the AI Hardware Summit that they are already running their next-gen client Ryzen CPUs in their labs and feature Xilinx’s AI acceleration engine. Since Ryzen was mentioned, we can point out that these are the upcoming Phoenix Point CPUs that were confirmed to feature an AI Engine back at AMD’s Financial Analyst Day 2022....

450 Gb Worth of AMD Data Rumored To Be Stolen By Hacker Group, RansomHouse Ex-cybersecurity reporter, Catalin Cimpanu, states that RansomHouse a hacker and extortion group is claiming that they have stolen data from AMD. There are no reports as to when this hacking attempt was made but there were rumors of AMD being hit by a cyberattack this year, earlier. RansomHouse claims that they didn’t deploy any ransomware so it might have been a failed attempt in trying to monetize some stolen data....

AMD Shows Off Next-Gen Radeon RX 7000 Series With RDNA 3 GPU Architecture The teaser shown by AMD gives us a look at the graphics card which features the RDNA 3 GPU core. This could be one of the flagship designs of the lineup and it also seems to be slightly thicker than the current cards such as the RX 6950 XT. The shroud looks very similar to the reference design used by current cards and we can also see a hint of RGB illumination on the front of the card....

Keeping in mind a VAT of around 20% for Europe, the pricing should end up close to $1200 US but instead of being 20% higher, the pricing is 40% above the MSRP. There have been rumors that the AMD initial supply won’t hold the MSRP for much longer and the prices are expected to see hikes in the coming days, especially when the custom boards appear which are said to be very expensive....

AMD Wants The Gaming Throne Once & For All With Its Next-Gen Ryzen 7000 X3D “Zen 4 3D V-Cache” CPUs, Coming Early Next Year We have managed to get hold of an internal roadmap that more or less confirms that AMD will be unveiling its Zen 4 3D V-Cache parts at CES 2023. The processors will be positioned as the fastest gaming chips on the market and will be taking the gaming performance crown from Intel’s Raptor Lake 13th Gen CPUs....

MSI Shows How To Install An AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Zen 4’ Desktop CPU On The AM5 ‘LGA 1718’ Socket Motherboard The video is an installation reference guide for PC builders who are looking forward to buying the AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPU and a next-generation AM5 motherboard featuring the LGA 1718 socket. The video shows an entry-level motherboard, most probably based on the B650 chipset, & an unreleased AMD Ryzen ‘Raphael’ CPU....

Haven’t been keeping up with The Callisto Protocol or Dead Island 2? Here’s everything you need to know about The Callisto Protocol and a list of key features. Horror Engineering - The Callisto Protocol is a next-generation take on survival horror from the mind of Glen Schofield. Blending atmosphere, tension, and brutality with terrifying moments of helplessness and humanity, The game immerses players in a pulse-pounding story where unspeakable horrors lurk around every corner....

Our friends over at 9to5Google managed to discover a new feature in the first developer preview of Android 13 and this feature will allow the users to stream apps to their Chromebook or Windows PC using a special web app that will enable the feature on both devices. Android 13 Could Make Seamless Phone to PC Interaction and Streaming More Accessible Unlike some of the other cross-device services that just go ahead and mirror your phone’s screen, this one works in a different way as it broadcasts a separate virtual display from your Pixel device to your laptop or desktop computer and this allows the user to use other apps on your phone’s main screen normally while streaming another app on your computer screen or your Chromebook....

AOMP, or AMD OpenMP, is a build of LLVM and other supported software to assist with OpenMP-targeted offloads on AMD’s graphics cards. Additionally, AOMP supports GPU offloading with OpenCL, CUDA, and HIP. The newest update offers support for GFX1100 to GFX1103 GPUs, which include Navi 3X series GPUs and the Phoenix APU. The GitHub page for AOMP Release 16.0-1 explains that the release is the second version for development with LLVM 16....