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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) and Fortnite have together taken the Battle Royale genre to new heights, making it the plague that has now spread on to every other gaming franchise, new or old. While pure gamers might have anticipated the genre to be one of those things that would eventually fade out or get boring, recent reports suggest that things could very well turn out to be quite the opposite. Recently, it was reported that Epic Games’ Fortnite had crossed the $1 billion revenue mark, solely with the help of its in-game purchases, or microtransactions, if you prefer to be technical....

The new GDPR regulations were enforced to restrict companies from collecting and utilizing user data without their consent, and even though it’s implementation had arocky start, some companies are clearly messing things up. One such name is British Airways, which recently asked flyers to publicly share their personal information on Twitter. A security researcher named Mustafa Al-Bassam recently spotted the airline service’s blunder when he discovered that the official British Airways’ Twitter handle asked users to share information such as passport numbers and full address to address customer service claims....

Google seems to be testing a myriad of new features for its Chrome browser right now. As spotted byXDA Developersin the latestChromium Gerritupdates, it has started testing ‘quick replies’ support for the browser internally. If you open a website in the Chrome browser, it already has the ability to send you a pop-up notification. But with quick replies, you will be able torespond to messages right from the notification center, without having to open the browser time and time again....

Companies spend large sums to ensure that their trade secrets remain secrets, especially when each of their products costs thousands of dollars. But a security researcher has revealed that the confidential information of more than 100 manufacturing companies including major automakers such as GM, Tesla, and Volkswagen has been left exposed publicly by another company which serves them. UpGuard Cyber Risk’s chief Chris Vickery found that this information was easily available on the servers of Candain robotics company Level One Robot And Controls....

At its secretive Building 8 innovation lab, Facebook has been working on a slew of projects that would allow them to beam Internet to under-developed areas. While the social media giant may haveabandoned its plansto build Internet-beaming drones, it has now officially confirmed that it hasstarted work on a new satellite project dubbed Athena. Facebook hasn’t given away many details of this new project but the folks over at Wired have managed to secure some info via a Freedom of Information Act request....

In its quest to tackle fake news,Facebook has started on a new campaign to prevent the platform from being used to spread dangerous misinformation, saying that it will remove bogus posts likely to spark violence. “There are certain forms of misinformation that have contributed to physical harm, and we are making a policy change which will enable us to take that type of content down,” said a Facebook spokesperson. “We will begin implementing the policy during the coming months....

Google Maps’ “two-wheeler mode”, which waslaunched as an India-first initiativeback in December last year, ismaking its way to other East Asian countriesin which a large population still relies on two-wheelers. The countries now receiving the feature include Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The two-wheeler mode acknowledges that bikers find it easier to move through congested routes and narrower paths, and take much less time....

Google has joined hands with tech titans such as Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter to launch an ambitious initiative that will make it much easier for users to transfer their data securely between different services, ranging from social media accounts to work and fitness apps. The initiative is called theData Transfer Project,and it is an open source solution that will allow the participating service provider to create channels that will let users seamlessly move their data in the cloud between different services without any security risks....

In a social live stream hosted overnight onHalo’s Mixer channel, developer 343 Industries played a bit of Halo, had a bit of fun with stream chat, and answered a few fan questions. One of these questions was undoubtedly about Battle Royale, to which the developers simply stated that they had no interest in the genre, andHalo Infinite won’t be featuring Battle Royale. On the stream, 343 writer Jeff Easterling, known in the Halo community as Grim Brother One, said, “I’ll tell you right now, the only BR we’re interested in is Battle Rifle....

The Material Themeredesign of the Hangouts Chat website isn’t too expansiveand only tweaks the elements necessary to highlight the new design guidelines. The search box in the sidebar on the right, as you can see below, now has a “rectangular” outline and shadow as compared to the previous flat aesthetic. It now also has the ‘Find people, rooms, bots’ label within the search box to give you a better idea of what all you can rummage around for....

Jio recently announced the new Jio Phone for users alongside the Jio GigaFiber and more. However, the company hasn’t yet forgotten about its previous generation Jio Phone. The company has announced a new recharge offer for its users that is bound to make a lot of users happy. Jio has launched a new recharge for the Jio Phone that offers customers 500MB data per day for 28 days.This new Jio recharge is in addition to the existing Rs....

Earlier this year, we heard reports that LG is developing a new V-series flagship, the V40, that would pack a total of five cameras, three on the rear and a dual camera set-up on the front, alongside a host of other high-end features. New reports suggest that the upcoming LG flagship will be called the LG V40 ThinQ and it might be unveiled early in October, just weeks after Samsung launches the Galaxy Note 9....

OnePlus has been growing strong in the market, and it is not just the hardware game that they own. The company has been actively pushing out software updates for its devices, along with the Android P Beta update as well for their current flagship, the OnePlus 6. That being said, the Chinese giant hasn’t forgotten about its other devices and has now pushed out the latest update for their older devices as well....