‘Furi’ unleashes its unique brand of chaos this July
The Game Bakers’ Furi is a neon-soaked fever dream in which you go tackle boss after boss after boss in the vein of Shadow of the Colossus. It was certainly a standout during E3 2016, and it’s streaking forward to PlayStation 4 and PC this July 5 for $24.99.
Featuring character design from Afro Samurai creator Takashi Okazaki and an aesthetic that’d challenge even the zaniest parts of El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, Furi isn’t The Game Bakers’ first rodeo when it comes to indie gaming. But it certainly could be one of its best. With a combination of synthwave and electronica punctuating its soundtrack and explosive fights that’ll challenge your reflexes, Furi is definitely one to watch.
Check out the announcement trailer below and brush up on the basics of CQC if you want to make any progress in this frenetic action game.
Source: The Game Bakers
6 tips to improve battery life on the Nexus 5X
How do I improve battery life in the Nexus 5X?
While the 2,700mAh battery in LG’s Nexus 5X can get you through the day on a single charge, depending on usage, we think you can probably get a little bit more out of it by making a few simple changes.
1. Turn off Ambient Display
Ambient Display is a feature that sends notifications to your screen when it’s locked. It’s useful to see what’s going without having to unlock your phone’s screen, but it does consume battery power.
To turn this feature off, follow these steps:
Launch Settings from your Home screen, the app drawer, or the Notification Shade.
Tap Display.
Toggle the Ambient Display switch to off.
2. Mind your Bluetooth
Smartwatches are great and we love them, but you should be aware that they consume more battery than Ambient Display does. If you know that you need extra power, leave your smartwatch at home that day.
The same goes for fitness trackers, speakers, car audio systems, and just about anything else with a Bluetooth connection. When in doubt, disable Bluetooth!.
Launch Settings from your Home screen, the app drawer, or the Notification Shade
Tap Bluetooth
Toggle the Bluetooth switch to off.
3. Lower your screen’s brightness setting
The Nexus 5X has a beautiful 5.2-inch inch full HD LCD display that hits that sweet spot for size but is one of the most battery-intensive features of the phone.
Dial down how much battery your Nexus 5X’s screen draws by decreasing the brightness level a few notches:
Launch Settings from your Home screen, the app drawer, or the Notification Shade.
Tap Display.
Tap on Brightness level.
Tap and drag the brightness bar to your desired level.
Alternatively, you can let Adaptive brightness manage the brightness level of your screen based on the amount of ambient light available:
Launch Settings from your Home screen, the app drawer, or the Notification Shade.
Tap Display.
Toggle the Adaptive brightness switch to on.
4. Limit or turn off Location Services
Google’s Location Services is useful for helping you get around town and some apps, such as Foursquare and Twitter, use it to determine your location as well. However helpful Location Services is, it can take a huge chunk out of your battery, especially when using GPS.
Location Services has three modes: High accuracy, Battery saving, and Device only. High accuracy uses GPS, Wi-Fi, and mobile network information to find your position, Power saving uses just Wi-Fi and mobile network information, while Device only uses only GPS. Of the three, the most power hungry modes are High accuracy and Device only.
If you need some form of location services on, choose Battery saving — it won’t be as accurate, but it will save on battery. For the most power savings, turn off Location Services altogether. If you choose to turn off Location Services, some apps that rely on it may not function properly — just something to be aware of.
You can find all of these settings under Location in your Nexus 5X’s Settings menu:
Tap Location.
Tap Mode to pull up the Location mode screen. From there tap the option of your choice:
- High accuracy
- Battery saving
- Device only
To turn Location Services off, simply toggle the switch to off at the top of the screen.
5. Check apps’ battery usage
Android keeps tabs on how much battery every app on your phone consumes and it’s simple to check:
Launch Settings from your Home screen, the app drawer, or the Notification Shade.
Tap Battery.
Here you’ll see a breakdown by app of how much battery they consume as a percentage of total battery use.
Video streaming services and games naturally will use more battery than others, but if something else is hogging the battery when it shouldn’t be, you’ll see it here.
6. Avoid streaming video
The Nexus 5X loses power more quickly when streaming video. If you can, download any video content you plan to watch to your device and watch it locally.
Here’s how you can download content for offline viewing in Google Play.
Launch the Google Play Movies and TV app from your Home screen or the app drawer.
Tap the Menu button. It looks like this ☰.
Tap My library.
Tap the Download button next to the content you’d like to watch offline.
That’s it. Now the content will download to your device and be available to watch any time you’d like, no internet connection necessary.
How about you?
We’ve given you some tips on how you can eek out a few more hours of life from your Nexus 5X’s battery, but what about you? What do you do to make your battery last longer? Tell us about it in the comments below.
Want more information on the LG Nexus 5X? Have a peek at our review.
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‘Hotline Miami 2’ is ready for your user-built sequels
The flashy, lo-res violence of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number just got a new lease on life. The long-awaited level editor companion just dropped its beta status and is ready to go live. Since the second installment was “the brutal conclusion” to the series, a boatload of user-made, downloadable content is likely the closest thing fans will get to an HM3. And that’s essentially what users will find now that the game has landed on Steam Workshop.
If you haven’t yet jumped into Hotline’s world, now would be an excellent time to do that. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is currently on sale for a dirt-cheap $3.74 or $4.99 bundled with the original. For the true aficionado, the full 49-track original soundtrack is also available for a $14.99 download.
Facebook brings VR Reactions to 360-degree videos
In between shooting up enemy spaceships in Eve:Gunjack and watching your favorite shows in virtual reality, you can also use your Gear VR to browse 360 Videos on Facebook. Now, in addition to viewing them, you can also show what you think about them. Oculus has just made it possible to see and leave reactions — you know, those Like-alternatives that Facebook released earlier this year — right within the smartphone VR viewer. Just look at the Like button long enough, and you’ll trigger a circle of possible Reactions to choose from. And if you’re dying to give a “Wow” emoji to a friend’s 360-degree panorama instead, don’t worry — support for 360 Photos should arrive in the coming weeks.
Source: Facebook
Nest will begin curating its Works With Nest products online
Home automation producer Nest wants to make things easier for you when it comes to building your connected home. That’s why it will soon curate select items that work with your Nest products so you can buy them directly from its online storefront.
Works with Nest products run the gamut from LIFX WiFi smart bulbs that offer enhanced lighting that works in a complementary way with your Nest Cam or Nest Protect, with options you can alter on your own. You might also opt to add a SkyBell HD WiFi Video Doorbell to your setup, which allows you to stream live video of your front door and record it if Nest Cam happens to sense motion outside your door when you’re out.
Over 100 Works with Nest products are out in the wild, though Nest won’t be adding them all at the onset of its Works with Nest store. They’ll be sprinkled into the mix soon, with additional items releasing online and likely into your home in the future.
Source: Nest
Electric race car sets an acceleration world record
Electric cars are quick off the mark as a matter of course, since they’re both very efficient with energy and always operate at peak torque. You probably haven’t seen a road-going machine this fast, though. Swiss students have shattered the world record for EV acceleration with an experimental race car, Grimsel, that reached 62MPH in 1.513 seconds — over two tenths of a second sooner than the previous best. For context, the 1,480HP Bugatti Chiron hits that speed somewhere under 2.5 seconds.
Like any good performance car, Grimsel achieved the feat through a combination of the right engine technology and light weight. While its four wheel hub motors produce just 200HP, they also produce a whopping 1,254 foot-pounds of torque… and when the car’s carbon fiber body weighs just 370 pounds, it’s extremely easy to move. Per-wheel traction control helps translate that power effectively, too.
It’s doubtful that you’ll see this exact car in full-fledged competition. All the same, it bodes well for the future of electric motorsport. As quick as the cars in Formula E might be, Grimsel shows that there’s still room for improvement.
Source: ETH Zurich
Twitter Engage app: What is it, how does it work, and who can use it?
Kim Kardashian West has access to a new app that makes Twitter much easier for her to understand and use.
The app is called Twitter Engage. Although it’s not limited to famous people, it’s obvious that the app is meant to help popular or verified users on Twitter highlight the most important interactions they’ve had and view detailed analytics and performance numbers for their posts. But like we said, anyone can use it, so if you’re at all interested in it, we’ve detailed everything you need to know.
What is Twitter Engage?
Twitter Engage is all about analytics.
However, Twitter has described Engage as a new companion app for Twitter. It’s available now and basically provides you with real-time data and insights about your tweets and followers. It’s clear that Engage is targeting famous people, including celebrities, influences, and public figures. I’s designed to help them better interact with their audience and build an even bigger following.
With Twitter Engage, you can see how your posts perform. So, if you’re a rich person posting a sponsored tweet that tries to hawk a juice cleanse, you can see how well your followers responded to it by viewing total impressions and interactions with that post. You can also sift through the noise and find mentions and interactions with your verified and top followers.
The idea is you’ll be able to better engage with Twitter (no pun intended), and you’ll be able to better understand engagement activity on your posts. It’s also about making it easier for you to connect with fans. It gives you all the info you need in one, organised place.
How does Twitter Engage work?
Start by downloading Twitter Engage. It’s free but only available for iOS in the US. From there, open the app and give it permission to connect to your Twitter account. You should see a Get Started button at the bottom and might have to log into Twitter. Once all that is done, the app will load its main interface. You’ll see a menu bar along the bottom with three main tabs: Engage, Understand, and Posts.
Engage
Engage displays your most important interactions on Twitter. You’ll see a section where you view the most recent “top” people who have followed you (in other words: verified people), and you’ll see another section that aggregates all your interactions with verified people (such as mentions, replies, likes, etc). You’ll even see another screen that specifically highlights all your mentions from people whom you interact with you a lot.
Understand
Understand displays high-level analytics for your posts in real-time, such as how many impressions you’ve been getting over time. You’ll also see your recent likes, mentions, retweets, impressions, and followers, along with data about your audience, including their demographics.
Posts
Posts displays detailed performance numbers for individual posts. You will see three different sections that’ll let you see stats for your videos, photos and gifs, and other tweets. Each post will show impressions, engagements, likes, retweets, replies, etc.
Who can use Twitter Engage?
Twitter Engage reminds us of Facebook Mentions – a two-year-old app that also helps celebrities discover posts about them and relevant to them. That said, Mentions requires a verified Facebook account to use, while Twitter Engage is available to all iOS Twitter users in the US.
Want to know more?
Check out Twitter’s blog post for more details.
Reddit users helped bust a national park graffiti artist
Graffiti artist Casey Nocket is learning first-hand about the consequences of sharing illegal acts online. She’s facing a US-wide national park ban and 200 hours of community service after Modern Hiker and Reddit users identified her as the vandal who painted faces in six parks, including Colorado National Monument and Death Valley. A Reddit hiker drew the earliest known attention to the vandalism, but things really snowballed when MH’s Casey Schreiner posted a story detailing Nocket’s identity and social networking accounts. That led to a further Reddit discussion, which caught the eye of a National Parks Service investigator… you can guess what happened next.
The internet’s contribution wasn’t uniformly positive. Would-be vigilantes tried to post Nocket’s home address (aka a classic doxxing attempt) on both Modern Hiker and Reddit, and the general rage toward Nocket sparked fears for her safety. While other users helped report these incidents, they show that there’s a fine line between online justice and online abuse.
Via: The Guardian
Source: Reddit (1), (2), Modern Hiker
iPhone 7 to Feature Longer Earpiece Cutout, Relocated Ambient Light Sensor
Some minor changes are coming to the front of the iPhone 7 that will render protective LCD films made for other devices unusable on the new iPhone, reports Japanese site Mac Otakara.
According to the site, manufacturers of LCD films have stopped receiving orders as the iPhone 7 is expected to feature some front panel changes that will require new film designs.
Mockup of what the iPhone 7 could look like, without front panel changes taken into account
Recently, some manufacturers of LCD protection films on Alibaba.com have stopped receiving orders as iPhone 7 has its proximity sensor on the front changed to the dual specification in addition to the ambient light sensor on the side moving from the left side to the right while a slightly longer receiver.
Mac Otakara also reiterates rumors that the iPhone 7 Plus will feature a dual-lens camera while the iPhone 7 will feature a larger back camera, rendering existing iPhone 6s and 6s Plus cases unusable with the new devices
Though only small design tweaks are expected to be seen in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, there will be enough of a design shift to require accessory makers to create new products and to require iPhone buyers to purchase new products.
Schematics and blueprints suggest the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be largely the same dimensions as the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s, but with relocated antenna bands, better water resistance, the removal of the headphone jack, and possibly some as of yet unknown reduction in thickness. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said the iPhone 7 could be 1mm thinner than the iPhone 6s, but case leaks and other rumors suggest more a more modest change.
The Wall Street Journal yesterday called the changes set to be introduced in the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus “subtle,” while Kuo has said the device will not have many “attractive selling points.” Apple is eschewing a major design revamp in 2016 in order to introduce more expansive changes in the 2017 iPhone, expected to see an all glass body with an edge-to-edge display.
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How to use multi-window mode on Samsung Galaxy S7
How do I use multi-window mode on Samsung Galaxy S7?
Although Android N will be bringing a split-screen functionality to all Android phones in the future, Samsung’s Galaxy series of phones have been able to use multi-window mode for years now. This multi-tasking feature is extremely useful for people who are tired of moving back and forth between apps.
- How to enable multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
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- How to enable multi-window mode from an app on Galaxy S7
- How to adjust the size of the multi-window mode windows on Galaxy S7
- How to invert the app windows’ positions in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
- How to drag and drop content in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
- How to minimize an app in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
- How to maximize an app in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
- How to close an app in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
How to enable multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
Not all apps are capable of using multi-window mode, so only multi-window-compatible apps will appear when you activate multi-window mode.
Press and hold the Recents key. It’s the button to the left of your Home button.
Open the first app you want to use.
Open the second app you want to use. Note: you can’t open the same app twice.
The app that you are currently in will always have a blue outline around the edges, so you shouldn’t lose track of where you are.
How to enable multi-window mode in from Recents menu on Galaxy S7
If you already have the app you want to use multi-window mode open, you can easily start a multi-window session from the Recents menu.
Press the Recents key. It’s the button to the left of your Home button.
Tap the multi-window mode button on the app you want. It looks like to rectangles stack on top of each other. This button will only appear on apps that support multi-window mode.
Tap second app you want to use.
How to enable multi-window mode from an app on Galaxy S7.
If you are already in an app and want to start a multi-window session, you can do so with just a few taps provided the app you have open supports multi-window mode.
Launch any app from your Home screen or app drawer.
Press and hold the Recents key.
Tap on the second app you want to open.
How to adjust the size of the multi-window mode windows on Galaxy S7
Press and hold the Recents key. It’s the button to the left of your Home button.
Open the first app you want to use.
Open the second app you want to use. Note: you can’t open the same app twice.
Press and hold the white circle in the middle of the two app windows.
Drag the white circle to the spot you want.
Let go.
How to invert the app windows’ positions in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
You can quickly invert the positions of both apps that are open in Multi-Window mode. Not only will they switch positions, but the windows will also switch sizes.
Press and hold the Recents key. It’s the button to the left of your Home button.
Open the first app you want to use.
Open the second app you want to use. Note: you can’t open the same app twice.
Press the white circle in the middle of both apps
Press the invert positions button. It’s the furthest left button in the multi-window menu.
How to drag and drop content in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
Some apps — fair warning it’s a limited list— will allow you to drag and drop content between them when you have them in multi-window mode. If you try it with two apps that aren’t supported, your Galaxy S7 will let you know.
Press and hold the Recents key. It’s the button to the left of your Home button.
Open the first app you want to use.
Open the second app you want to use. Note: you can’t open the same app twice.
Tap on the app window you want to drag and drop content from. The app you have selected will be surrounded by a blue border.
Tap the the white circle in the middle of the two app windows.
Tap on the drag and drop content button.
From here you can now drag the content on the app window you have selected to the other app window.
How to minimize an app in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
Press and hold the Recents key. It’s the button to the left of your Home button.
Open the first app you want to use.
Open the second app you want to use. Note: you can’t open the same app twice.
Tap on the app window you want to minimize. The app you have selected will be surrounded by a blue border.
Tap the the white circle in the middle of the two app windows.
Tap on the minimize button. It’s the two arrows facing pointing towards each other in a box.
How to maximize an app in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
Press and hold the Recents key. It’s the button to the left of your Home button.
Open the first app you want to use.
Open the second app you want to use. Note: you can’t open the same app twice.
Tap on the app window you want to maximize. The app you have selected will be surrounded by a blue border.
Tap the the white circle in the middle of the two app windows.
Tap on the maximize button. It’s the double-sided arrow in the box.
How to close an app in multi-window mode on Galaxy S7
Press and hold the Recents key. It’s the button to the left of your Home button.
Open the first app you want to use.
Open the second app you want to use. Note: you can’t open the same app twice.
Tap on the app window you want to maximize. The app you have selected will be surrounded by a blue border.
Tap the the white circle in the middle of the two app windows.
Tap on the close button. It looks like an X.
