Apple’s Fifth Retail Store in Beijing Opens November 28
Apple has announced that its fifth retail store in Beijing, and 27th in China, opens Saturday, November 28 at 10 AM local time. The store will be located in the new Chaoyang Joy City shopping mall at 101 Chaoyang North Road in Beijing’s city proper Chaoyang District.
Chaoyang Joy City shopping mall in Beijing, China (Image: Shotamuni)
The new store will be open 10 AM-10 PM local time everyday and offer traditional Apple Store services, including the Genius Bar, Workshops, JointVenture, events and seminars. Apple’s four other retail stores in Beijing are located at China Central Mall, Sanlitun, Wangfujing and Xidan Joy City.
Apple has opened more than seven new retail stores in China this year, including locations in Chongqing, Dalian, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanjing and Tianjin. The company is committed to expanding its footprint in China, an increasingly important market, under the leadership of retail chief Angela Ahrendts.
Apple opened a new store in Chengdu, China on November 21, less than a month after opening a new Dalian, China store on October 24.
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A ‘Dragon Quest’ game is coming to PCs through Steam
At long last, you can get a Dragon Quest game on Steam… if not quite the role-playing game you might be hoping for. Square Enix has revealed that Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below is coming to Windows as a Steam download on December 3rd. The $60 title (already available on the PS3 and PS4) is really a slash-em-up that happens to be set in the DQ universe more than anything else — think Dynasty Warriors with slimes. Still, this is heartening news. Heroes was well-received when it hit consoles earlier this year, and its Windows launch raises hope that other follow-ups in the series (if not necessarily the much-hyped Dragon Quest XI) could one day be just a click away.
Via: TechnoBuffalo
Source: Steam
Deal: Fitbit Charge Wireless Activity Wristband now only $90
Looking for a wireless tracker? All the holiday deals are about to start showing up, but we know some of you don’t want to wait around until shoppers decide to go nuts at department stores. Here’s one for you! The Fitbit Charge is being sold for only $90.30, and that does include free shipping.
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For those who may be out of the loop, the Fitbit Charge is a fitness tracking wearable that monitors your activity, steps, distance traveled, calories burned, sleep, stairs climbed and more. And the bracelet does have a smart touch, as it offers notifications for calls, texts and other things. It even features GPS, so it doesn’t need much help from your smartphone.
The Fitbit Charge Wireless Activity Wristband usually goes for $129.99, so this is a pretty good deal to take advantage of for the holidays. It will make a great gift for the activity buff. In fact, we did include it in the list of our top Android gifts under $200, so you know this is a device we can vouch for.
Just head over to Amazon’s page to take advantage of this deal. The only point I would like to note is that you should act fast. We never know how long these lower prices will stick around, or when they will return, after that. Is anyone signing up?
HTC cyber week deals: discounts on Nexus 9, One M9, RE camera and more
I can already taste Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals (as well as the turkey). The internet is filling up with discount announcements (we have listed our favorites here) and now it’s HTC‘s turn. What will they have for us during America’s shopping hysteria?
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The Taiwanese manufacturer has just announced its cyber week deals and they are looking quite enticing! There are discounts on a phone, tablet, camera and even accessories. Here are the details!
- 11/25-11/27: 40% off Nexus 9 (free Logitech keyboard for first 500 32GB/LTE units sold.
- 11/27-11/29: 40% off all accessories
- 11/29-12/2: 60% off RE Camera (free protection pack)
- 11/29-12/2: 40% off HTC One M9
I must say these deals are actually quite tempting. It’s hard to find 40%-60% discounts on these types of electronics (unless you are signing a service contract).
HTC is in a bit of a tight spot after disappointing One M9 sales, so they may be trying extra hard to capitalize on this yearly event. They failed to really impress the public with that smartphone, but it happens to be a pretty decent device… especially at 40% off!
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The Nexus 9 also continues to be a hell of a tablet, and that RE can take some sweet handheld videos and images. In fact, I think I might be signing up for that cam! Are you taking advantage of any of these deals? Hit the comments and let us know!
FanDuel warned staff against winning too often on rival sites
DraftKings and FanDuel may have bitten off more than they can chew when they sued New York to keep their daily fantasy sports games alive in the state. FanDuel’s corporate policies from before it self-regulated have been entered into evidence, and some of them only seem to confirm worries about staff abusing their power while playing on rival sites. For a start, the site told workers to “never be among the top five” players on any daily fantasy site, or the top 10 on the tracking site RotoGrinders. They also couldn’t have disproportionate numbers of entries in tournaments, and they were supposed to avoid using information on player lineups whenever possible. In other words, don’t be too successful — we don’t want you raising suspicions that the games might be rigged.
Source: Deadspin
Spacetime Games’ Call of Champions headed to the Play Store in 2015 (Update: out now!)
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Original post (2/26): Spacetime Games, the developers behind Arcane Legends and Pocket Legends, have just announced their plans to bring a new MOBA-style game entitled Call of Champions to the Play Store sometime this year. Players will control unique characters through multiple different classes, fighting to be the top dog in each arena-based match. Call of Champions will limit each match to 5 minutes in order to deliver quickly-paced matches for on-the-go gameplay. The game will allow you to connect with and recruit other team members, plan matches, and earn achievements through the integrated social hub.
Here’s some more information about the upcoming game:
In the Call of Champions arena, players will be able to control one out of over twenty different Champions across five distinct classes, each coming equipped with their own unique playstyle and special abilities. Players will be immersed in a fiction that takes place in a time beyond the cosmos as they take on the role of a godlike entity that controls Champions in the arena for sport.
For those who’d like to experience the game early, Spacetime Studios is featuring the game in the world’s first mobile exhibition tournament at SXSW from March 13th-15th. Event attendees will be able to test their skills in Call of Champions against a team of Spacetime developers during the expo. Be sure to check out the official trailer below for more information.
Call of Champions will will launch as a free download in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store sometime in 2015. For more detailed information on the game, check out the official Call of Champions website.
Researchers create working electronics inside a rose
Plants and electronics frequently get along, but you don’t see electronics in plants — not surprisingly, it’s hard to insert circuitry without killing the host. Swedish scientists just overcame one of the biggest hurdles to creating these strange cyborgs, however. They’ve successfully made the key elements of an electronic circuit inside of a rose and light up ions inside the flower’s leaves. The trick was to insert a special polymer that self-assembled into wires throughout the stem, carrying electricity without cutting off the flow of life-giving nutrients.
Via: Motherboard
Source: Science Advances
Select Nexus 6P units have broken microphones
The Nexus 6P is by no means a cheap phone. Google enlisted Huawei to make a premium device constructed of metal, but it seems that the Nexus 6P isn’t holding true to the $499 starting price. In October, rear panel glass was spontaneously shattering for some people. Quite bizarre, right? At least the most recent issue is very realistic and not nearly as random. The microphone’s functionality, according to multiple posts on the Google Product Forums, is posing a problem. There are owners of the Nexus 6P reporting that the phone’s microphone is not projecting their voice with strength or quality to people on the other end of a call.
Jamie Corbett, one of the Nexus 6P owners experiencing issues with his unit’s microphone, said the following in his post:
“While talking to my wife today she could barely hear me and said it sounded like I was very far away or muffled. This was while I had the headset to my ear like normal. If I put it on speaker, she said it would sound okay. I tried to find others with this issue and a similar issue, but couldn’t. Please help!”
Representatives on behalf of Google have only said that they are investigating the issue. One area that the company could be looking at is noise cancellation and the multiple microphones it takes to enable that. Apparently covering the microphone on the rear of the Nexus 6P alleviates the issue; however, others are discrediting that temporary solution and say it does nothing at all.
Let’s all just hope that Google can fix this through a software update instead of Huawei being forced to recall the Nexus 6P.
Source: Google Product Forums (1) (2) (2)
Via: Android Police
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