Borderlands 2 is now available for a wacky playthrough on NVIDIA Shield
Those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Borderlands 2 on NVIDIA’s Shield platform will be able to load the title as of today and enter into a world of crazy amounts of loot and insane gameplay. Borderlands 2 is now available on both Shield Android TV and Shield tablet, allowing you to play the game how you so desire.
For those unfamiliar with Borderlands 2:
“Play as one of four new vault hunters facing off against a massive new world of creatures, psychos and the evil mastermind, Handsome Jack. Make new friends, arm them with a bazillion weapons and fight alongside them in four player co-op on a relentless quest for revenge and redemption across the undiscovered and unpredictable living planet.”
Essentially, you’re tasked with progressing through the exciting story while picking up literally thousands of different weapons and upgrades that compliment any approach to massacring all enemies on-screen.
You’ll be able to purchase Borderlands 2 for Shield hardware today for $14.99.
Don’t miss the special Mr. Robot VR experience before it disappears for a week
Mr. Robot fans, prepare to immerse yourselves in the world of virtual reality. Within, an app that offers a number of VR experiences, has teamed up with the Mr. Robot creative team to make an exclusive, one time-only VR presentation. The 12-minute experience debuts today, July 21, at 1:45 p.m. ET.
The film will disappear right after its initial showing in the Within app, though according to The Verge, it will be back up again, permanently, next week.
It should be noted that while you can view the Mr. Robot VR experience through a PC-connected headset like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, it’s also available for those that own a Gear VR or Google Cardboard headset. Additionally, the experience can be viewed in the Within app as a 360-degree video, without the need for a VR headset.
You can grab the Within app from the Google Play Store now, and download the Mr. Robot experience in the app ahead of its broadcast.
Google Play Books ‘Bubble Zoom’ makes it easier to read comics
Google Play Books become more comic-friendly last year with addition of vertical scrolling. At this year’s Comic-Con, Google is announcing another handy feature that will be reading the illustrated panels even easier. The tool is called Bubble Zoom and as you might expect, it zooms in on those speech bubbles as you read. Before now, you had to use two fingers to zoom like you would in other apps. When reading graphics-heavy comic panels, that isn’t an ideal solution. Thanks to the new tool, you can enlarge the text with a tap while still gazing at a full-screen view of the page.
What’s more, when you’re reading one-handed on your phone, you can use the volume buttons to navigate back and forth. Bubble Zoom is part of the most recent version of Google Play Books, and yes, only Android users are privy to the feature right now. If you’re using Google’s software, you can employ a technical preview of the reading tool while browsing DC and Marvel volumes that support it. Google will be collecting feedback on the update and plans to make it available on all digital comics and manga. The company says it has to teach its machine learning algorithms how to read more styles before expanding its supported library.
Source: Google
Soon you can have your student loans serviced through Amazon
Amazon is the best place to shop for Star Trek: The Original Series on Blu-ray at 3 AM as well as a pallet of Surge to down while watching at the same time (not that I’ve done this.) But soon enough it will also be the same place you can apply for student loans.
Through a partnership with Wells Fargo, Amazon is making its debut in the private student loan business by offering a 0.5 percent interest rate discount to all members of Prime Student. The special discount program for students is offered to college attendees at a lower rate than regular Prime. If you’re currently going through Wells Fargo for your own student loans, you can take advantage of the upcoming deal for new loans and loan refinancing as well.
This isn’t the company’s first foray into the world of loans, but it will be the first when it comes to the educational realm. If this is something that interests you and college is in your future, you can go ahead and sign up for Prime Student, which will run you $49 a year in contrast to the regular program’s $99 price tag.
Via: Mashable
Source: Wells Fargo
Intel Begins Shipping First Kaby Lake Processors, but Most Macs Won’t Get Them Until 2017
During Intel’s second quarter earnings call yesterday afternoon, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told investors and reporters that Intel has begun shipping the first of its 7th Generation Core processors, known as Kaby Lake.
Kaby Lake is the third member of the 14-nanometer process, following Broadwell and Skylake. It is the first processor Intel has released since announcing the company will no longer adhere to the “tick-tock” processor release cycle, which saw it alternating between shrinking chip fabrication processes and building new architectures each year.
Intel’s last two chip releases have been plagued with long delays, and moving away from the tick-tock cycle will allow it to push out new chip updates on a regular basis. Apple’s Macs, such as the Retina MacBook Pro and the iMac, have been impacted by Intel’s chip delays over the last few years, resulting in long periods of time between updates and unusual update cycles.
Kaby Lake is a semi-tock with optimized microarchitecture, offering support for Thunderbolt 3, native USB 3.1, and DisplayPort 1.2. Krzanich did not offer details on which chips have started shipping, but an old Intel roadmap suggests low-power Core M chips and U-series chips with GT2 graphics (likely not suitable for the MacBook Air) will be the first to ship out.
Kaby Lake chips appropriate for the Retina MacBook Pro, the machine everyone is most curious about, may not launch until the very end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017 and thus may not be released in time for inclusion in this year’s rumored update.
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