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Microsoft Will Showcase Xbox Series X Games on May 7 2020 is the year we are getting new gaming consoles from both Microsoft and Sony, and while news about thePS5comes in at an annoyingly slow rate, Microsoft is doing a bang-on job showing off the Xbox Series X and generating hype around the console. Afterrevealing the designand theinternal specsof the console, the company has now decided to show off some of the games that will be coming to the console....

Movement to Workplaces Reduced by 41% in India: Google Report Movement to workplaces declined significantly in India after the country imposed a nation-wide lockdown to contain the spread of thecoronavirus pandemic, shows the latest Google COVID-19 Community Mobility report. As compared to baseline, March 15, movement to workplaces was minus 41 per cent by April 26, whilemobility to places like restaurants, cafes, shopping centers, theme parks, museums, libraries, and movie theatre was minus 86 per cent, showed the report....

NASA Selects SpaceX, Blue Origin to Build Human Landers for Artemis Moon Missions NASA on Thursday announced that it has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) that will help astronauts land on the moon as part of the agency’s ‘Artemis’ program.The companies that won the contact include Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, and a defense supplier called Dyneticsthat’s led by the former Director of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, David A....

Raspberry Pi Launches ‘High Quality Camera’ at $50 Raspberry Pi has launched its latest camera board named High Quality Camera consisting of a 7.9mm 12.3MP Sony IMX477 sensor with 1.55-micron pixels. The sensor is back-illuminated for improved sensitivity. High Quality Camera offers interchangeable support for C- and CS-mount lenses. The C-CS adapter is included with the kit. You may follow these step-by-step instructions for fitting theCS-mountandC-mountlenses. It features support for an integrated 12....

RBI Approves Contactless Payments via Credit and Debit Cards With a view towards making transactions safer and contact-free amidst theCOVID-19 pandemic, theReserve Bank of India (RBI) has given its nod to tap-and-go card paymentsin the country. The development will allow payment networks – Visa, MasterCard and NPCI – to allow tap-and-go functionality on card payments for all purchases at retail stores and shopping centers, even those over the limit of Rs....

Riot’s New Game ‘Legends of Runeterra’ Launched on PC, Android and iOS Riot Games’ digital collectible card game, ‘Legends of Runterra‘, is finally out of beta.Set in the world of ‘League of Legends’(LoL), Runeterra is a strategy card game where players will have to use their skill and creativity to succeed. As is to be expected, the game includes some of the hottest characters from LoL, like Yasuo, Jinx, Ashe, Garen, Teemo, Darius and Zed....

USB 4 Will Support Display Port 2.0, 8K HDR and More The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has refreshed the DisplayPort Alt Mode that got announced back in 2014 with a new standard it calls DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0. Notably,DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 brings the features of DisplayPort 2.0 toUSB 4devices. In other words, you’ll enjoy the perks of DisplayPort 2.0 such as support for 8K 60Hz monitors with HDR, 4K 144Hz monitors with HDR, or even 16K (15360×8460) 60 Hz monitors....