Diablo 4, the latest installment of the popular dungeon crawler, comes out in June, but players can try out some of the game in beta before its full release. The Diablo 4 open beta and early access beta started Friday. Developer Blizzard Entertainment says the beta will focus on the early parts of the campaign covering the prologue and Act 1, which takes place in the Fractured Peaks zone. Players will be able to max their characters to level 25, but can still play the beta throughout the weekend beyond that. The early access beta started on Friday at 9 a.m. PT…
Author: Varun Grover
In PC gaming, you have a choice between a gaming desktop or a laptop. However, it’s not always clear which one of these options is the right one for you. Before you buy, get to know the key differentiators. Performance When it comes to gaming, performance is critical. You want a system that can handle even the most demanding games and applications without lag or slowdowns. So, when deciding between a gaming laptop and desktop, it’s essential to consider the performance differences. Gaming laptops are designed to be portable and energy-efficient, so they usually use mobile versions of CPUs and GPUs. While these…
When Shadow and Bone first premiered on Netflix in April 2021, it became a smash hit for the streaming giant. The historical fantasy is based on two different book series in Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse universe, the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology. The Shadow and Bone plot follows Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), a Grisha (a.k.a. person who can do magic) who can summon light, also known as a “Sun Summoner.” At first, she works with General Aleksander Kirigan (Ben Barnes), the general of the Second Army, which consists entirely of Grishas. She wants to destroy the Shadow Fold, also just called the Fold, a region…
The telecommunications giant T-Mobile announced it’s buying the budget cell service provider Mint Mobile — best known for its ads with actor and part-owner Ryan Reynolds. The cash-and-stock deal, which includes two other brands, is worth $1.35 billion. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said Wednesday that the company would use its size and resources to “supercharge” Mint, which uses T-Mobile’s wireless network and offers plans for as little as $15 per month. “Over the long-term, we’ll also benefit from applying the marketing formula Mint has become famous for across more parts of T-Mobile,” Sievert added. Perhaps the single largest contributor to that marketing…
OpenAI has finally unveiled GPT-4, its next-generation large language model. Its last surprise hit, ChatGPT, was always going to be a hard act to follow, but the San Francisco–based company has made GPT-4 even bigger and better. But OpenAI doesn’t say how big or why it’s better. GPT-4 is the company’s most mysterious release to date, marking a complete transition from a nonprofit lab to a commercial technology company. “At this time, we cannot comment on that,” said OpenAI chief his scientist Ilya Sutskever when he spoke to the GPT-4 team in a video call an hour after the announcement. It’s…
Reddit faced an hour-long problem on Tuesday that prevented many users from accessing the popular talk site. At 2 o’clock update:At 43:00 a.m., PT’s status page, Reddit, said: Meanwhile, prepare (or eat!) your bananas. User reports of access to Reddit’s website and apps spiked around noon PT Tuesday, surpassing more than 60,000 outage reports, according to monitoring site Downdetector. 12 Reddit status pages: 6pm PT said, “Under investigation – Reddit is currently offline. We are working to identify the issue,” and said the issue was caused by an “internal system issue.” According to Reddit, there more than 100,000 active communities…
New Delhi, March 17: It was truly a memorable day for India as it celebrated its two big wins at the Oscars. Indian documentary film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ won the Oscar in the ‘Best Documentary Short Film’ category while RRR’s power-packed song ‘Naatu Naatu’ took India globally as it won the Oscar for ‘Original Song’, making it a historic day for Indian filmmakers and the audience. Guneet Monga’s ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, a documentary directed by Kartiki Gonsalves paved the way for many to believe that India truly can take the centre stage globally. It won the Oscar in the ‘Best…
Amongst a ton of product changes to make Twitter a more attractive platform, Elon Musk has mentioned multiple times his desire to make direct messages better and more secure. So much so that he wants DMs to “superset Signal” — the encrypted messaging app. Over the weekend, Musk said that the end-to-end encrypted DM feature will roll out this month. Along with that, users will also get the ability to reply to individual messages and use any reaction emoji. “Aiming to roll out ability to reply to individual DMs, use any reaction emoji & encryption later this month,” Musk wrote. Currently, users can…
Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Prime Gaming services in India as a part of Prime membership. The Prime Gaming service includes benefits like free in-game content, free games and more. Amazon has expanded the Prime Gaming portfolio with new in-game content, offers and more this month. Here’s everything you need to know about it: New in-game content available in Prime Gaming this monthThis month, Prime members can claim various offers on titles from Riot games, including League of Legends, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Legends of Runeterra and Valorant. League of Legends – Until March 16, Prime members can claim the latest Prime Gaming…
Glastonbury 2023 has revealed its final two headliners for the music festival – Guns N’ Roses and Arctic Monkeys. They will join Elton John who leads the top of the bill, with a huge list of names set to perform. The line-up also includes Christine And The Queens, Fatboy Slim, Lana Del Rey, Lewis Capaldi, Lil Nas X, Loyle Carner, Maneskin, Rudimental, Slowthai, Thundercat and Young Fathers. Yusuf/Cat Stevens will perform during the tea time legends slot on Sunday afternoon, despite Roxy Music being heavily rumoured. Here is the first Glastonbury Festival 2023 line-up poster, which includes our final two…