Nintendo announced that 2016 first-person shooter Doom will be coming to the Nintendo Switch. Doom for the Nintendo Switch will be out this year, although no exact date has been announced just yet. Prior to this, Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, Pete Hines hinted that the company had an unannounced game due this year. Doom for the Nintendo Switch appears to be it. Considering how well optimised Doom was on all platforms, we won’t be surprised to see Doom on the Nintendo Switch to be equally slick despite its hardware limitations. In our Doom review we felt that Bethesda had the right idea in mind when…
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Super Mario Odyssey for the Nintendo Switch headlines September’s Nintendo Direct. Previously, Nintendo Direct events showed off Splatoon 2 and Pokemon to name a few. With a duration of 45 minutes, there’s definitely more to it. Here’s what you need to know. Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo Direct time and date The Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo Direct begins at 3pm PT on September 13 (3:30am IST, September 14). It will last for 45 minutes. Like other Nintendo Directs, it is a pre-recorded video of what games to expect from Nintendo on its consoles – the Nintendo Switch and 3DS. Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo…
The IITs have revoked a ban, which they had imposed on 30 companies, mostly start-ups, barring them from participating in campus placements. The ban was announced after these firms withdrew their offers made to the students last year. The decision to revoke the ban was taken on Wednesday at a meeting of the All-IIT Placement Committee (AIPC), where the members unanimously decided to withdraw it. They body was of the opinion that the placement committee in each of the IITs should consider the track record of a particular company, before inviting it to take part in the campus placements. “As…
WhatsApp Beta for Android now gives users granular control to clean up data consuming your phone’s storage space. Part of the Storage Usage menu on WhatsApp, the feature has been around on iPhones since January this year, and has finally made it to Android, albeit for beta users only. With this feature, WhatsApp users will be able to see exactly how much data a group/chat is consuming, and which type of files take up the most storage space. Moreover, users will be able to delete the data hogging files from the same interface, which will help them save storage space on the phone.…
The youth wing of China’s ruling Communist Party on Monday said it had complained to social network Twitter about a fake account set up in its name that has tweeted sarcastic comments about the Communist Party. China blocks Twitter and other Western sites, such as Facebook and Google, but that has not stopped some state media and government departments from setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts in Chinese and English as they seek to expand their global footprint. In a brief statement on its Weibo account, China’s answer to Twitter, the Youth League labelled the @ComYouthLeague Twitter account “completely fabricated”, saying it had asked for it to…
Twitter has fixed a “bug” on its platform that allowed advertisers to target “Jew haters” and others with racial epithets and terms like “Nazi”, the microblogging site announced. According to a report by The Daily Beast on Friday, Twitter ads returned 26.3 million users who may respond to the term “wetback”, 18.6 million to “Nazi” and 14.5 million to “n***er”. “We determined these few campaigns were able to go through because of a bug that we have now fixed,” recode.net quoted a Twitter spokesperson as saying. “Twitter prohibits and prevents ad campaigns involving offensive or inappropriate content, and we will continue to strongly…
Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc said on Monday it had hired the finance chief of Weibo Corp as its chief financial officer, marking a leadership change for the firm as its hones its focus onto artificial intelligence. The appointment of Herman Yu, Weibo’s CFO since 2015, sees Baidu stalwart Jennifer Li step down as CFO after almost a decade in the role to become a senior adviser to Baidu’s top management, the company said in a statement. Baidu is trying to drive a recovery in its fortunes after a string of regulatory investigations last year hit profit. A sharper focus on mobile and artificial…
Alphabet Inc’s Google said it had disabled a “majority” of the offensive keywords that BuzzFeed found could be used by advertisers to target people searching for racist and anti-Semitic topics. Google, the world’s biggest advertising platform, not only allowed advertisers to target searches such as “Why do Jews ruin everything” but also suggested the user to run ads next to searches such as “the evil jew” and “jewish control of banks”, a campaign by BuzzFeed discovered. The ads were visible when such keywords were searched for and Google’s ad buying platform tracked the ad views, according to the internet media company’s report based on…
Airtel Payments Bank on Sunday said it has become the first payments bank in India to integrate the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) on its digital platform. This will add to customer choice and convenience for making secure digital payments to online/offline merchants and making instant money transfers to any bank account in India, a company statement said in New Delhi. “This would allow all our 20 million bank customers to create their personalised UPI handles on the Airtel app and enable them to make digital payments in both the offline and online space. Our bank customers would also be able to link their bank accounts on BHIM app and…
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked all its affiliated schools to get the “psychometric evaluation” of all employees, including teaching and non-teaching staffs, done by professional psychologists within two months. The school board issued the circular with fresh guidelines for the safety and security of students on Wednesday, days after the murder of an eight-year-old boy by a bus conductor, who slit the throat of the Class 2 student after allegedly trying to sexually abuse him inside the toilet of Ryan International School in Gurgaon. Psychometric evaluation is designed to measure a person’s suitability for a role…