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Doom’s BFG-9000 makes an appearance in Rage 2 for owners of the Deluxe Edition, but normal players are left out in the cold. For years, pre-order culture and special editions have obfuscated the true price of a video game, to say nothing of DLC and microtransactions. Video games have cost $60 for well over a decade, but the true price of a game tends to be much higher. It’s becoming increasingly common for missions, weapons, and costumes to be locked behind pre-order incentives, but Rage 2 takes things to a whole new level with its pre-order weapon, the BFG-9000....

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is the latest instalment of the online tactical multiplayer first-person shooter video game by Ubisoft Montreal. It was launched in December 2015 and is available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows platforms. Although it has received positive reviews for PC, some are facing a couple of issues. Rainbow Six Siege not using GPU is one of the problems we will discuss here....

Set Volume Restrictions on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Go to Settings > Music and scroll down and tap Volume Limit. Then adjust the slider to a lower level that you want the device to max out at. Next go back to the main menu in Settings and tap General, scroll down and tap Restrictions. When you set up Restrictions on iOS, you’ll need to enable a four digit passcode. Make sure to pick something secure that your kid won’t know....

ProtonMail offers a full, end-to-end scrambled email administration. It raised more than US$500,000 a year ago after a blockbuster crowdfunding effort that looked for just $100,000. Presently, it charges itself as the biggest secure email supplier, with more than 500,000 clients. Making a record is free, despite the fact that ProtonMail arrangements to in the long run present a paid-for administration with extra components. ProtonMail Email Service Attacked By Hackers Phishing, DDoS Enthusiasm for encoded email has risen pointedly since 2013, when previous U....

PUBG Mobile Lite Launched In India – Download It Right Now! If we take a brief look at Android’s gaming section, we will find that battle royale games are the new trend. Thanks to the likes of PUBG Mobile and Fortnite that had contributed a lot to the gaming world. If we talk mainly about the PUBG Mobile, the mobile game is available on both Android’s Google Play Store and iOS’s App Store....

Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip hospitalized. The elderly royal has had his battles with his health over the last couple of years and the publish hopes for a speedy recovery. The royals have been the backbone of the British Empire, holding up centuries of traditions and pride for the British people. The Queen was forced to step up and serve her country when her father suddenly passed and has been the face of her nation....

The first teaser trailer for A Quiet Place 2 just released, and fans are already eager to dissect its deeper meanings and what it could mean for the movie on the whole. A Quiet Place 2’s teaser trailer initially dropped during Black Christmas screenings in theaters, and is set for a full trailer release on New Year’s Day. The film will release on March 20, 2020. Returning cast for the film includes Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe....

Update: The no-contract, Virgin Mobile iPhone 5 and promotional discounts are now live on RadioShack’s website. We reported last week that the iPhone 5 would be coming to Virgin Mobile tomorrow starting at $549.99 on its usual no-contract, $30/month unlimited plans. RadioShack will be one of the first to carry the device and is also planning to offer a number of promotional discounts to celebrate the launch. RadioShack will start carrying the Virgin Mobile iPhone 5 tomorrow both online and in-store for $549....

Almost everyone who has a remote bit of idea about the smartphone market has at this point made or shared a joke (us, included!) relating to the Galaxy Note 7 and its exploding battery fiasco. Joining that bandwagon today is none other than the president of United States Barack Obama himself. Speaking at the Miami Dade College while defending his Affordable Care Act, President Obama used an analogy comparing smartphones to the “bugs” in the act....

LG’s Nexus 5X has always had a cheaper price tag when compared to its larger brethren, the Nexus 6P, but for anyone who’s been waiting to see a better deal, Newegg might have you covered. Over on Newegg’s Flash sale site, the digital retailer is offering a distinct discount on the Nexus 5X for a limited time. Right now a potential buyer can pick up the Nexus 5X for only $234....

This morning Apple is seeing downtime for a variety of services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple TV Channels, iTunes Store, and more. Update 1: The issues with Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager have been resolved. Update 2: All of Apple’s services have been restored. The issues that some Apple users are seeing today seem to be affecting more services than normal. We’ll often see issues with a few iCloud services and the like from time to time but today Apple is having trouble with its major services including Apple TV+, Apple TV Channels, Apple Music, the App Store, Mac App Store, Apple School Manager, and Apple Business Manager....

Update: iOS 13 beta 4 fixes this vulnerability. iOS 13 is still in beta and therefore bugs are to be expected, but a recently-discovered security vulnerability in the operating system is especially worth noting. This iOS 13 bug makes it easy for someone to gain access to the “Website & App Passwords” data in Settings. Essentially, when running iOS 13 developer beta 3 or the second public beta of iOS 13, it’s incredibly easy to bypass the Face ID or Touch ID authentication prompt in Settings when trying to access your iCloud Keychain passwords....

While an upcoming software update should soon eliminate the 1970 date bug, that doesn’t help if you currently have a bricked phone. There have been varying reports of fixes that do or don’t work, but experiments by Macnn suggest that two approaches do the trick – both of which are apparently being done by Genius bar staff when people take in their bricked phones. The ‘simple but not easy’ approach is to remove and replace the battery....

Printer Error 0x00000709 is one of the most common errors faced by a lot of users today. One of the main reasons for this error is that the user is not able to set up their new Printer or a different printer as their default printer, except the one that is already set as default. How to Fix the Printer Error 0x00000709? While trying to set any printer as default, several users have received an error message stating, “Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000709)”....

Following up on today’s release of iOS 11 beta 2 update 1, Apple has also updated its beta software support page to detail the proper methods in downgrading to iOS 10. Many developers on iOS 11 beta 2 had noticed that downgrading was broken and today’s changes look to resolve that. Apple’s page details that users do have the ability to downgrade from the iOS 11 beta, but only back down to iOS 10....

If you haven’t tried in a while, support for iCloud.com when using a mobile browser like Safari or Chrome on an iPhone, iPad, and Android has improved. Functionality differs a bit between iPhone/Android and iPad but there is access to Photos, Notes, Reminders, Find iPhone, iCloud Drive, Contacts, Mail, and more. Reported by News Landed, native browser support for iCloud.com on iPhone and notably Android has a landing page with support for Photos, Notes, Reminders, and Find iPhone (interesting enough, not Find My)....

Are you looking to install a firmware file on QMobile i8i Pro? Then you are just in the right place. In this post, we have brought you the latest stock firmware for the QMobile i8i Pro. These days installing custom ROMs, rooting the device is a pretty common scenario among smartphone enthusiasts. However, not every day is a sunny day. Usually, while customizing your device you may have performed some wrong steps and ended up with a bricked device or a phone stuck in the endless boot loop....

Have you ever heard of a company called BungBungame? Neither have I. Founded in 2008, they recently took to Indiegogo to ask for help in building a smartphone that’s currently called “Project S”. What exactly is so special about this thing? It’s a 5.8 inch 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution phone with a “true octa core” processor, 3 GB of RAM, 16 megapixel camera, and pretty much all the high end specs you can expect to see in 2014 flagship phones....

Public and private keys The private key used in public-key cryptography is a random number with certain properties (length, primality and so on). The public key is derived from the private key. The security of public-key cryptography is based upon a mathematically “hard” problem. This is an operation that is “easy” (polynomial complexity) to perform and “hard” (exponential complexity) to reverse. Commonly used “hard” problems include: Factoring problem: Multiplication of two prime numbers is “easy,” factoring is “hard” Discrete logarithm problem: Exponentiation is “easy,” logarithms are “hard”...

Quentin Tarantino almost wrote the English dub for Princess Mononoke. The director’s most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, hit theaters last month. Princess Mononoke is a Studio Ghibli film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It centers on an exiled prince struggling to maintain peace between animals and humans. Although the dark and beautiful film was a departure from Miyazaki’s previous work, it was a hit both commercially and critically upon its release in 1997....