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In a world where privacy is necessary, iOS users have long awaited a solution to safeguard and conceal their apps. While Face ID and Touch ID offer some protection, not every app supports these features, leaving gaps in security. Enter "App Lock" – a straightforward yet robust app designed to fortify your iPhone and iPad privacy. Let's explore how this innovative tool works and why it's a game-changer for iOS users.

If you’re a frequent gamer, by now you’ll have heard of ray tracing and NVIDIA’s DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), two powerful tools that combine to boost performance in games and provide stunning visual fidelity by replicating realistic lighting and reflections. NVIDIA pioneered these technologies in gaming with the introduction of its RTX 20-Series graphics cards, and in the two hardware generations since then, the techniques and AI hardware behind them have improved considerably. With DLSS 3.5 and a new Ray Reconstruction system working hand-in-hand, ray-traced games can look all the more lifelike and run significantly smoother at the same time. So how do these technologies work?

After a three-year gap, the longest ever between a new game or a spinoff, Persona fans have had a busy six months or so. Persona 5 Tactica launched at the end of 2023, and Persona 3 Reload followed it to kick off 2024. Big games that will consume a lot of your time if you let them releasing very close together, and if you're the kind of Persona fan who is absolutely fine with that, you're likely also the kind of fans who likes their love for the series to be reflected in what they wear.

Muthoot Finance is one of the leading financial institutions in India. It is known for its convenient and secure gold loans. So, before applying for a Muthoot Finance Gold Loan, learn about its features to make informed decisions as per your financial needs. Choose from a wide range of gold loan schemes and borrow high loan amounts. 

This year's iPhone 16 lineup will get some notable improvements in design and how users use the device, as the company aims to integrate generative AI technology with the release of iOS 18 later this year. Apple is keen to increase the screen size of the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max this year, while the standard iPhone 16 and 16 Plus will house the same display as the current models. A prominent analyst is now claiming that the iPhone 17 Plus will come with a smaller display size that will sit between the screen size of the 'Pro' models.

A Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has shown a look at their map after spending 870 hours exploring the entire game and completing every shrine.

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of April 9th for Phase 3 of Season of Discovery in Sunken Temple. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Sunken Temple statistics. Warcraft Logs' Sunken Temple Statistics

AI roundup:  London-based model Alexsandrah has a virtual twin which was created with the help of AI. This real-life virtual model is another big example of how AI transforms creative industries. In other news, new research on how AI will impact immersive media on 5G Networks will take place, addressing media packaging, ingesting, media delivery, and other concerns. 

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of April 4th for Phase 3 of Season of Discovery in Sunken Temple. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Sunken Temple statistics. Warcraft Logs' Sunken Temple Statistics

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of March 26th for Phase 2 of Season of Discovery in Gnomeregan. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Gnomeregan statistics. Warcraft Logs' Gnomeregan Statistics

Three relatively big games all released on the same day last week: Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, and Princess Peach: Showtime!. But as we all know, Japan absolutely adores its Nintendo Switch exclusives — and so perhaps it's no huge surprise to see the latter title top the latest charts.

Apple Silicon has come a long way, and the company has introduced various versions of its M-series of chips to power Macs and iPads. Last year, the company introduced its latest M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips in the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models that feature advanced computational and graphical performance over the M2 series of chips. According to the latest, it appears that the M3 Max is a standalone chip made of a single die instead of two dies combined, which could have a bigger impact on the performance of the upcoming M3 Ultra chip.

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of March 19th for Phase 2 of Season of Discovery in Gnomeregan. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Gnomeregan statistics. Warcraft Logs' Gnomeregan Statistics

Blizzard has posted more Plunderstorm hotfixes which buffs Plunder by 50% in solos, leveling curve changes, resurrection changes and more!

NVIDIA is expecting a steady CoWoS packaging supply for its Blackwell AI GPUs as its CEO sees optimism in the supply chain.

When I sat down to demo World of Goo 2 at this year’s GDC, I noted to the developers on hand how surprising it was to see a sequel after so long. “It’s been, what? Ten years?” I said. I was very far off the mark: They noted that the original World of Goo launched in 2008. After playing a few levels (and having an existential crisis over time’s rapid passing), I’d find myself wondering how such an obvious slam dunk didn’t come sooner.

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of March 12th for Phase 2 of Season of Discovery in Gnomeregan. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Gnomeregan statistics. Warcraft Logs' Gnomeregan Statistics

Outcast: A New Beginning is the sequel to one of the very first open-world games ever made, simply called Outcast, but it's also taking cues from games that have come out in that two-decade gap by letting players explore an entire alien world "without any restrictions."

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of March 5th for Phase 2 of Season of Discovery in Gnomeregan. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Gnomeregan statistics. Warcraft Logs' Gnomeregan Statistics

While Capcom’s attention is firmly on Resident Evil remakes as well as brand new games in the series, modders are still breathing new life into the classic Resident Evil games.

Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida has said the massively multiplayer online game has become too relaxed in the last few years, so he and developer Square Enix are looking to increase the difficulty going forward.

In addition to Mythic+ changes announced in Blizzard's Dungeon Level Squish blog post, it looks like there will be another +39 item level increase between Dragonflight Season 3 and Season 4! Using these numbers, we can extrapolate that Normal Fated raids should be item level 493-502, Heroic between 506-515, and Mythic from 519-528.

Dragonflight Season 4 brings with it a variety of changes, including new adjustments to dungeons, their progression, and rewards.

Nintendo's amiibo run may now have come to an end following the release of Sora's figure in February, but that doesn't mean it can't give collectors a chance to plug gaps in their collections now that there aren't new amiibo to worry about. Nintendo has been steadily doing that already in 2024, and now GameStop has afforded Monster Hunter fans a chance they likely thought they wouldn't get again.

A Pokemon fan and artist has created their own take on what Mega Evolutions for the final forms of the Paldea region starters would potentially look like. Mega Evolutions were first introduced in the Generation 6 Pokemon X and Y games and returned for Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. Game Freak likes to pursue a new gimmick with each Pokemon generation, and so Mega Evolutions have since been left by the wayside.

Since Starfield's launch, players have been able to get their hands on one of the RPG's best spacesuits really early in their spacefaring adventure, but no longer.

The story of My Adventures With Superman will continue at DC Comics, with a miniseries bridging the gap between its first and upcoming second season, written by show producer and writer Josie Campbell.

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of February 27th for Phase 2 of Season of Discovery in Gnomeregan. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Gnomeregan statistics. Warcraft Logs' Gnomeregan Statistics

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two film wormed its way through theaters over the weekend, and if you’ve still got sand in the brain, there’s plenty more where that came from. Namely, Funcom shared a closer look at the upcoming Dune: Awakening survival game, which is in the works for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

In 2021, Pan-African entertainment studio Kugali vowed to kick Disney’s ass — and Disney chief creative officer Jennifer Lee was so into it that she partnered up with Kugali.

NASA recently provided a fascinating glimpse into the cosmos by capturing radar images of a stadium-sized asteroid as it passed by Earth. The asteroid, known as 2008 OS7, made a close approach to our planet on February 2, prompting NASA to utilize its Deep Space Network radar system to obtain detailed images of this celestial object.

Following Sora's release earlier this month, the Nintendo Switch's amiibo run appears to have come to an end. Big games like Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Super Mario RPG not getting their own figures coupled with the imminent announcement of a Switch successor suggest there won't be any more amiibo releases on this console, and potentially no more ever if the next console doesn't have amiibo compatibility. Nintendo is giving collectors a chance to fill gaps in their collections though, the latest reprints pulled from Pokemon's amiibo selection.

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of February 20th for Phase 2 of Season of Discovery in Gnomeregan. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Gnomeregan statistics. Warcraft Logs' Gnomeregan Statistics

The Pokémon Company aired its official 2024 Pokémon Presents presentation today, and it closed it out with some good news. Another Pokémon Legends is on the way, dubbed Pokémon Legends Z-A, and it’s currently scheduled for 2025.

As the go-to digital storefront for many PC gamers, Steam has dominated the market for the better part of 20 years. Aside from the fact that it has millions of games in its growing selection, regular sales and events continue to be a mild threat to a lot of people’s finances.

NVIDIA's supply chain of its AI accelerators has reportedly witnessed a massive improvement as the firm reduces delivery times drastically.

In one week, a free game called Sheepy: A Short Adventure has caught up to the likes of Palworld and Persona 3 Reload to become one of the highest-rated Steam releases of 2024, if not the highest-rated according to SteamDB's metrics. Utterly intrigued by its meteoric popularity, I rushed to its Steam page to download and try it, only to spot a familiar name listed as its developer and publisher: YouTuber MrSuicideSheep. 

Sony won’t release any big, first-party, exclusive PlayStation 5 games in any of its existing franchises this year — or before the end of its next financial year in March 2025, the company admitted in its latest financial report.

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of February 8th for Phase 2 of Season of Discovery in Gnomeregan. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Gnomeregan statistics. Warcraft Logs' Gnomeregan Statistics

Investors and publishers spend billions of dollars on the video game industry each year, but just a small fraction of that money goes toward funding game companies led by women and those from other marginalized groups. Even as venture capitalist funding surged in 2021 as a response to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, video game companies led by all-male founders brought in $4.1 billion in funding to the $1.2 million for companies with all-female founders, according to data provided to Polygon from investment research company PitchBook. (In 2021, gaming companies with mixed-gender founders — i.e., those including at least one woman — received $400.9 million in 62 deals, according to the data.)

The phenomenon of a non-musical movie being adapted into a stage musical that then gets adapted into a movie is surprisingly common, as recent films like 2023’s The Color Purple and the 2022 Matilda demonstrate. Some of those adapted movie musicals have even eclipsed the original movie versions in pop culture legacy, like Hairspray and Little Shop of Horrors.

Portal: Revolution is an eight hour fan-made Portal 2 prequel, with 40 new test chambers, voiced characters and new puzzle mechanics. It looks seriously impressive and it's out now, with a trailer below.

 Intel on Wednesday said it was forming a new independent company around its artificial intelligence software efforts with backing from digital-focused asset manager DigitalBridge Group and other investors. Intel executives would not comment on the value of the deal or whether it would retain a majority stake in the new venture, other than to say the firm would have an independent board of directors and the chipmaker would remain a shareholder.

We could have got a Fallout: New Vegas-style Elder Scrolls game to pad the wait for The Elder Scrolls 6, but it reportedly "didn't gain much traction" with Bethesda. 

Blizzard has commented on changes to the Season 3 PvP rating gap for Solo Shuffle.

Esports and gaming media conglomerate GameSquare holdings announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2023. The company’s revenue for the first three quarters totaled $35.2 million, up 38% from the same period in 2022.

Did you know the 2023 sports drama Gran Turismo was based on a true story? Of course you did — that phrase was on every ad and poster for the movie. But it’s still kind of astonishing that its story, about a young fan of Sony’s sim-racing series who graduated to a career as a real-life racing driver, is indeed taken from the life of GT Academy winner Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe), if only because his life fits the sports-movie formula so perfectly.

The best psychological thrillers don't just unsettle us, they make us think about why we're so unsettled. The Gap, the latest project of Label This and Crunching Koalas, takes this principle one step further – forcing us to question our place in time, our sanity, and, more unnerving still, our entire existence. Out now on PC via Steam, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, The Gap looks set to become one of the most thoughtful and most unsettling games launching this spooky season. 

Grand Theft Auto 6 is going to feature some impressive visuals that will be so far ahead of those seen in Red Dead Redemption 2 that the gap between them will be bigger than that between the open-world game set in the Wild West and Grand Theft Auto V.

Leaked emails from Microsoft show the company was concerned about the anemic schedule for its flagship subscription service.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer says the gap between AAA releases back in 2022 was a "disaster situation" for the team. 

First-person narrative thriller The Gap will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam on October 19, publisher Crunching Koalas and developer Label This announced. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions are newly announced.

Publisher Crunching Koalas and Developer Label This Studio revealed its psychological thriller, The Gap, last year at the 2022 Future Games Show. Now, the team has returned to this year’s Future Games Show with a new trailer for The Gap and an October release date. 

Prepare to find out more about The Gap, with a developer intro and new trailer revealed exclusively at the Future Games Show. 

Outside of death itself, one of the things that haunts humans the most is the idea that we might eventually lose our memories, our sense of self and effectively our existence. Dementia, Alzheimers and other neurodegenerative diseases are frankly terrifying, and it’s with good reason that so much research is being done to find ways to stall and prevent their occurrence. The Gap sees one neuroscientist’s quest to heal his wife send him hurtling into memories and moments from the past, and on into a multiverse where the cure might be found.