Android’s most diehard fans were less than pleased when Google announced plans to limit the sideloading of apps, in an effort to create a more secure platform. The backlash from power users was immediate, with the developers behind the popular third-party app store F-Droid penning a scathing letter denouncing the coming clampdown. Today, fans
Fortnite’s new season not only brings new content for the players but also gives them a chance to earn real-life rewards, such as an RTX 5080. If you’re good enough at the game and win enough “rivalries” in matches every week and rank among the top five players in the world, Epic will give you a free RTX 5080.
You may recall that just a couple of days ago we posted about Intel’s new Arc Graphics Precompiled Shader Distribution. This is an implementation of Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery, where gamers can download pre-compiled binary shaders ready to run on their Arc GPUs instead of having to sit there and slowly compile them before beginning
AMD has added Ray Regeneration 1.1 and FSR 4.1 upscaling to its RDNA 4 GPUs, bringing it to parity with Sony’s PSSR 2 on the PS5 Pro. Games that support these features will have better ray tracing quality with more accurate shadow detail, while also getting a sharper-looking image through ML-based upscaling.