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Russia has denied planning a major cyberattack that would disrupt soccer’s Champions League final this weekend. Ukraine’s SBU security service said on Wednesday that malware infecting hundreds of thousands of routers was the work of Russian hackers p…

Earlier this week Capcom announced that Resident Evil 7 would be arriving on the Nintendo Switch. However this isn’t the version that you would expect, instead it is the “Cloud Version” which is basically the same game but streamed from a server, meaning that all the processing load is taken off the Switch.

However the game’s initial launch seems to be only in Japan, but as noted by Twitter user @eigotaku, there is an English language option in the game which seems to suggest that the game could launch outside of Japan eventually. Typically games released in Japan are in Japanese, which is why even if you have access to the Japanese eShop, you might still have a hard time trying to understand what’s going during the dialog and menu.

biohazard 7 has English #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/3tuJMgiF0Z

— Jon (eigotaku) no longer at Bitsummit 🙁 (@eigotaku) May 24, 2018

That being said if you do have a good grasp on Japanese, both reading and writing, the folks at Nintendo Life have pointed out that the game doesn’t seem to stream so well outside of Japan. It could be the initial launch has some server issues, but as the publication points out, they tried streaming from the UK and the latency is horrible.

Will it get better in time? It’s hard to tell but if you’re so inclined, you can download the game and give it a try. Users will be able to stream for the first 15 minutes for free, after which they will need to pay 2,000 yen for 180 days of access.

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Qualcomm had confirmed earlier this year that it was developing a new 700 series of SoCs in order to bring features usually found on premium devices to the affordable segment of the market. The company has now unveiled its Snapdragon 710 mobile platform which has been designed to bring premium features to a broader audience. The Snapdragon 710 is built on 10nm process technology with efficient cores for artificial intelligence. It also features a multi-core AI Engine and neural network processing capabilities. Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon 710 mobile platform devices significant performance improvements compared to its 600 series of SoCs.

It has custom Kryo 360 CPU cores in a 2+6 configuration with two high performance 2.2GHz CPUs and six smaller 1.7GHz cores focused on energy efficiency. It’s coupled with Adreno 616 graphics, Hexagon 685 DSP, Spectra 250 dual ISP, and Aqstic Audio. Qualcomm’s X15 LTE modem is onboard as well.

Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon 710 delivers up to 2X the performance improvement in artificial intelligence applications compared to the Snapdragon 660. It also has support for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Neural Processing SDK. It’s even capable of supporting 4K HDR playback for viewing HDR videos and apps which the company points out is a first outside its premium 800 series of SOcs.

Qualcomm has said that the Snapdragon 710 mobile platform is available to its customers starting today and that the public and expect to see the platform in consumer devices by the second quarter of this year.

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Charges against Sherry Chen were dropped, but the DOC still fired her.

A report made by Avast this morning delivered a list of devices with malware right out the box. I’d love to say this was a surprise, but it wasn’t. Devices on the list published by Avast come from brand we’ve known to do devious deeds in the past. Let’s take a look at this list and discuss why these brands … Continue reading