It’s something of a DF Direct special this week, as regular co-host Alex Battaglia is joined by two insightful guests, longtime games journalist Sam ‘samred’ Machkovech of Ars Technica and streaming expert Addie of the YouTube channel EposVox. The trio tackle the week’s news – including the first substantive details on the hotly anticipated Spider-Man…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
FIFA 23 has the exclusive on Italian super club Juventus after a three-year stint at football rival PES / eFootball. EA Sports announced it’s signed an exclusive, multi-year partnership with the Old Lady, which sees Juventus return to the FIFA fold with full in-game integration that includes Juventus’ official club logo and kits and the…
Next year’s European TwitchCon event will be held in Paris. It follows the recent TwitchCon Amsterdam event that saw nearly 14,500 people attend, an increase of 65 percent compared to the previous Berlin-held event in 2019. That popularity is in part testament to the rise of the streaming platform during the pandemic, which now encompasses…
Huawei is hosting an event on July 27 where we’ll see the debut of HarmonyOS 3. Richard Yu, Huawei CEO, decided to tease one new feature of the new platform on his personal Weibo account – new widgets on the home screen. Each group of apps can now have separate tabs within the folder on…
Apple has added to its list of suppliers for the iPhone 14 series in a bid to avoid potential supply chain shortages when mass production of the devices begins, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a series of tweets, Kuo said components from SG Micro have passed quality certification for the high-end iPhone 14 models,…
Sign up for one of these Virgin Media deals on broadband and TV to get a free Google Nest Hub Max worth £220 or a £150 bill creditRead More
The notorious LockBit ransomware group released its latest ransomware-as-a-service offering, LockBit 3.0 (or Lockbit Black).Read MoreRead More
Nvidia, the market leader in all things AI, has invested billions of dollars in telco-focused computing technologies.Read MoreRead More
Databricks and Snowflake came from data lake and data warehousing worlds, respectively, and are now battling in the lakehouse.Read MoreRead More
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Wastewater could help us more accurately detect monkeypox The news: Last month, Stanford’s Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, or SCAN, added monkeypox to the suite of viruses it checks wastewater for daily. Since then,…