Newegg Black Friday deals start now - here's a list of what's on sale

Jak Connor | Deals | Nov 28, 2019 10:40 AM CST

Newegg has decided to get ahead of the Black Friday sales early by slashing prices on a range of different products. Here's a list of the best things that are on sale.

Newegg Black Friday deals start now - here's a list of what's on sale

Keep in mind, these deals are the sales before Black Friday hits, and judging by the way things are going, we can only expect more heavily discounted products as the week continues on. So, what do they have on sale? At the time of writing this, we can see discounts across the board on technology products, ranging from high refresh-rate monitors, gaming laptops, notebooks, headphones, fully built PCs, and more.

Newegg is even slashing prices on PC parts, which include motherboards, SSD's, RAM, power supplies, and graphics cards. Happy bargain hunting!

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Cyberpunk 2077 may support mods, tons of new info revealed

Derek Strickland | Gaming | Nov 28, 2019 10:26 AM CST

CD Projekt RED wants to support mods for Cyberpunk 2077, and may release modding tools for its next-gen RED Engine similar to what it did with Witcher 3's Modkit.

Cyberpunk 2077 may support mods, tons of new info revealed

Cyberpunk 2077 could get official mod support in 2020 on PC (and maybe, just maybe, next-gen consoles?) to breathe new life into the game far after release. CD Projekt RED hasn't confirmed mods just yet, but at a recent gaming event in Warsaw, Poland they said it's something they want to do.

Before we get too excited, remember that CDPR's mod tools are usually quite limited. The Witcher 3's modding toolset only allowed modders to adjust settings and features like HUD indicators, difficulty modes, and altering quests. There wasn't any real direct way to add anything crazy.

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Cyberpunk 2077 is shorter than Witcher 3, but more complexly layered

Derek Strickland | Gaming | Nov 28, 2019 7:19 AM CST

Cyberpunk 2077 is the biggest game CD Projekt RED has ever made, but it might actually be a bit shorter than The Witcher 3's main story.

Cyberpunk 2077 is shorter than Witcher 3, but more complexly layered

CD Projekt RED isn't going with raw size with Cyberpunk 2077, at least when compared to The Witcher 3. Instead it's going with more robust flavor, dynamism, and replayability. The devs confirmed not only is Cyberpunk 2077's Night City technically smaller than The Witcher 3's wide open world, the main experience might actually be shorter too (including all major quests and side quests).

At a recent community even in Warsaw, CD Projekt RED revealed a bunch of new details about Cyberpunk 2077, including the game's main story length. It might not be as big as The Witcher 3, but Cyberpunk 2077's quests are much more layered and less linear.

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Cyberpunk 2077's fully mo-capped sex scenes should 'satisfy everyone'

Jak Connor | Gaming | Nov 28, 2019 2:44 AM CST

CD Projekt Red is going to give Cyberpunk 2077 players the full sexual experience, with most of the sex scenes players encounter being first-person, and fully motion-capped.

Cyberpunk 2077's fully mo-capped sex scenes should 'satisfy everyone'

Back in early September it was discovered that CD Projekt Red really is caring about the immersion of Cyberpunk 2077, which is why all of the cut-scenes that players will encounter are in the first-person-perspective. This first-person-perspective view also goes for the game's sexual cut scenes.

During the Q&A event at the New Meta Gaming Bar in Warsaw, Poland, Cyberpunk 2077 developers answered some questions regarding the games cut scenes, saying that what CD Projekt Red has done should "satisfy everyone". Here's what they had to say, "About sex scenes: they did a lot of mo-cap for these, and they believe that their amount should satisfy everyone, which should calm down anyone who assumed that they will just skip those entirely just because the game is in first person."

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Resident Evil characters are going to infect Super Smash Bros. Ulimate

Jak Connor | Gaming | Nov 28, 2019 2:14 AM CST

It wasn't too long ago that we saw the release of Capcom's Resident Evil 5 and 6 on the Nintendo eShop. Now, Capcom and Nintendo are bringing Resident Evil characters to Nintendo's massive fighter.

Resident Evil characters are going to infect Super Smash Bros. Ulimate

The news comes from the official Nintendo Versus Twitter account, which announced that for five days, Chris, Leon, Wesker, and Jill will be arriving in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The Resident Evil characters will be making an appearance on the Spirit Board, starting on the 29th of November.

If you are out of the loop with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate news, it wasn't too long ago that Nintendo released version 6.0, adding Fatal Fury fighter Terry Bogard to the roster. Shortly after version 6.0 was released the game got updated to 6.1.0 which just fixed some interactions with Terry. If you are interested in checking out the other changes for fighters, visit this link here.

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Twitter won't be removing inactive accounts until further notice

Jak Connor | Software & Apps | Nov 28, 2019 1:45 AM CST

Following up on yesterday's post regarding Twitter announcing a purge of inactive accounts across their platform, the social media platform has now stopped in their tracks until further notice.

Twitter won't be removing inactive accounts until further notice

Since yesterday's announcement of the coming purge planned for this December, Twitter has taken to their support account on their platform to announce that the purge won't be happening. This halt in their plans is due to many users concerns over Twitter potentially removing accounts of deceased people.

Twitter has said that this "was a miss on our part" and that they will now "not be removing any inactive accounts until we create a new way for people to memorialize accounts." Twitter also detail that for the time being the inactive account removals (when they go ahead) will only be in EU for now, "We're starting with the EU in part due to local privacy regulations (eg, GDPR)."

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Google finally adds manual photo tagging to Google Photos

Jak Connor | Software & Apps | Nov 28, 2019 1:14 AM CST

While Google Photos is definitely a great app to have on your phone, its certainly not perfect in every way possible. Google has finally rolled out a much-needed update to the app, and I bet many android users appreciative.

Google finally adds manual photo tagging to Google Photos

Since this update, Google Photo's users weren't able to pull up photos and manually tag friends, family, or just general people. Tagging people on Google Photos allows users to search their entire Google Photos by that person's specific tag. An example of this would be if I had a friend named Mitchell and Google recognized that he was in lots of my photos and added his tag based on his face.

I could then search "Mitchell", and all of the photos he is in that Google have detected will be pulled up for me. If you are interested in finding out how to access this new feature, follow the following steps. Select a photo in Google Photos, swipe up to get the photo menu, locate the pencil icon to the right of "people," tap that icon, and manually add names in. It should also be noted that this feature will only work on images that Google detects a face being present.

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Kim Kardashian stars in the strangest and most awkward Facebook ad yet

Jak Connor | Business, Financial & Legal | Nov 28, 2019 12:43 AM CST

We are right on the brink of the holiday shopping season being kicked off, which means big companies are going to start releasing new ads to entice buyers into purchasing their products.

Kim Kardashian stars in the strangest and most awkward Facebook ad yet

The ad is from Facebook, and it's for their not-so-popular Portal TV device. What's surprising, though, is the two stars that are featured in the video, Kim Kardashian West and Jennifer Lopez. The video begins with Kim and Jennifer talking to each other via video call on their Portal TV device and discussing "top secret" party ideas.

What's weird about this ad is how awkward everything is, and also how both Kim, Jennifer, and Jennifer's partner, Alex Rodriguez all seem to be wearing face-masks for no apparent reason. There is also the question of why Jennifer and Alex are wearing the same shirt? I'm not quite sure what the aim is here for Facebook's, or who they are targeting specifically, but if they were going for super awkward and strange, so people remember it for that, then they have hit the nail right on its head.

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ISS astronauts forced to poop in diapers after toilets go out of order

Jak Connor | Science, Space, Health & Robotics | Nov 28, 2019 12:15 AM CST

If you are aboard the International Space Station (ISS) the last thing you want to have to do is to wear an adult diaper to relieve yourself. Unfortunately, that's what astronauts are going to have to do in the near future.

ISS astronauts forced to poop in diapers after toilets go out of order

According to the Sputnik Insight Twitter account which tracks all news regarding the ISS, that "All toilets are out of order on the ISS" and that astronauts will soon have to be forced into using diapers in the near future. According to the Sputniknews website, there are two toilets aboard the ISS, both of which are Russian made.

The first toilet is located in the US module, while the second is located in the Russian one. ISS commander Luca Parmitano is reportedly informing NASA that the US toilet is singling that its out of order and not working, while the Russian one is reportedly filled to the maximum. NASA has since said that the US module toilet is 'operational', but we are yet to confirm if this is true or not. This situation seems sh*tty, hopefully it's worked out soon.

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Modders rip 16Gbps GDDR6 from RTX 2080 SUPER, put it on RTX 2080 Ti

Anthony Garreffa | Video Cards & GPUs | Nov 27, 2019 11:34 PM CST

I've been told by NVIDIA directly that there will "not be a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SUPER" graphics card, but that hasn't stopped the team from TecLab from making a Frankenstein-style RTX 2080 Ti SUPER themselves.

Modders rip 16Gbps GDDR6 from RTX 2080 SUPER, put it on RTX 2080 Ti

The team ripped apart two separate GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER graphics cards, taking their faster 16Gbps GDDR6 modules and using 11 x 16Gbps modules onto an RTX 2080 Ti. The stock GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has 11GB of GDDR6 at 14Gbps, but the RTX 2080 SUPER ships with faster 16Gbps modules.

NVIDIA, if it were to launch a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SUPER, would make it much beefier than just increasing GDDR6 bandwidth. We should expect more CUDA cores as well as maybe a wider memory bus, with faster GDDR6 as well.

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