Archives February 2023

The latest Halo Infinite update is coming soon, but that doesn’t mean that season 2 is finished just yet. Halo Infinite is a first-person shooter from 343 Industries. Taking place in a far-flung sci-fi setting, the title offers a story-driven campaign with open-world elements as well as a broad and well-developed, free-to-play multiplayer experience. 

Available on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One, Halo Infinite has enjoyed numerous quality-of-life updates, tweaks, and additions since its release. This has been especially true of Season 2, which began May 2022. New maps, balance tweaks and even entirely new game modes have been added to the Halo Infinite melting pot since the season began. With Season 3 just around the corner, it looks like fans are due for even more goodies in the days to come.   

The Honor Magic Vs is the successor to the Honor Magic V foldable phone, and it looks set to give the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 a real run for its money.

The phone is already on sale in China and confirmed to be arriving in European markets soon, so we know all of the specs and features on offer.

A leaked document has claimed Salesforce could be cutting even more jobs as it chases higher margins.

Seen by Business Insider (opens in new tab), the document, known as ‘Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, and Measurements’ (V2MOM) surfaces each year and is typically shared internally to give the CRM giant’s workers an indication of the company’s direction in the coming months.

Samsung might be developing its own smart ring, a wearable that could monitor your health and fitness data in a similar way one of the best fitness trackers.

Like the Galaxy Buds, Galaxy S23, and Galaxy Watch 5, the new smart ring would likely use the brand’s typical naming convention and be called the Galaxy Ring. Not many details are known about it yet, but the trademark filing (opens in new tab) that revealed its existence described Galaxy Rings as “smart devices for measuring health indicators and/or sleep in the form of ring” (that’s translated from Korean).

Telling your boss what you really think of them on a Microsoft Teams call could soon be a thing of the past after the company announced a new update aimed at censoring some of user’s more unfortunate utterings.

The video conferencing platform is working on a new filtering control that will allow users to choose whether they see profanity or not in Microsoft Teams Live Captions.

Rick Famuyiwa has admitted that some fan theories surrounding The Mandalorian season 3 are 100% true.

Speaking exclusively to TechRadar, the Star Wars show’s director-executive producer confirmed that some fans had correctly guessed parts of The Mandalorian season 3‘s story, character introductions, and how it’ll tie into other projects set in the galaxy far, far away.

Upcoming co-op shooter The Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League looks incredibly fast-paced and frantic, so it’s a good thing that the game is targeting 60fps on Xbox Series X and PS5. 

Few specific details regarding different performance modes for The Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League for Xbox Series X and PS5 have been verified as of yet. Judging from the fact that the game is an always-online action game, it makes a lot of sense that graphical fidelity would be secondary to pushing performance to the max. 

Google Photos AI tricks like Magic Eraser have just been opened up to all Google One subscribers, but now Google says it’s planning to bring them to the next frontier: your videos.

In the latest edition of the company’s Made by Google (opens in new tab) podcast, Senior Product Manager Zachary Senzer talks about how using AI to automatically edit videos, in a similar way to existing tools like Photo Unblur and Magic Eraser, is the next step for Google Photos. And that despite the challenges, there’s “lots of exciting stuff on the way” for those who shoot moving images as much as stills.

Zoom has announced strong end of year financial results, showing the apparent continuing appeal of its video conferencing platform even in a period where many companies announced mass layoffs and huge cost-cutting measures.

The platform saw a 27% growth in customers, which CEO Eric Yuan puts largely down to its dedicated, and growing, enterprise customer base.

Since reaching record highs in 2020, the number of mobile malware installers has been gradually declining, new figures from Kaspersky have claimed. 

The company’s “mobile malware threat landscape in 2022” report (opens in new tab) claims that although 5.6 million detected mobile malware installations were detected in 2020, this number has fallen to 1.6 million in 2022, a drop of roughly 70%.