Scientists have managed to create the first-ever device that can program either photons or electrons with information.

Harish Bhaskaran's Advanced Nanoscale Engineering research group at the University of Oxford, partnered with other research universities, has conceived the first-of-a-kind electro-optical device. This device paves the way forward for achieving faster and more energy-efficient memories and processors. For some time, humans have been toying with the idea of being able to transfer information at the speed of light, now that idea is within reach.

This device uses light to encode as well as transfer information, which means that the speed of which the information is traveling is that of -- light. So how did the researchers do this? Originally there was a compatibility issue between photons and electrons being used for data storage. So, the researchers reduced the size of the light down into nanoscopic dimensions and combined that with an increase in energy density. For a more detailed explanation, visit this link here.

EA and developer Respawn Entertainment have built an already great-looking game in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which is also the fastest-selling Star Wars game ever -- but now it looks even better with the Fallen Order Cinematic FX mod applied.

The video above is a comparison video between the vanilla (no mod) and then the Fallen Order Cinematic FX mod on the right, which uses Depth Haze to add blurring as well as ambient fog in the distance. On top of that, it has been color graded with the ReShade effect that really makes the game pop on top of the ReShade Bloom effect that adds a glow effect to effects -- making those lightsabers look even more realistic. It's subtle, but effective.

You can grab the Fallen Order Cinematic mod right here from Nexusmods.

It's time: Baby Yoda needs to be in a game. We can't wait for Disney or EA to do it. Luckily, we have modders.

Baby Yoda, aka the best thing about modern Star Wars, is coming to Battlefront II. Not as DLC, but as an unofficial mod. Skilled Battlefront modder Nanobuds1220 is bringing everyone's favorite fuzzy green boy to the long-lived shooter as a playable hero, complete with custom textures.

Obviously Baby Yoda (or, as he's officially known at Disney, The Child) has grown up quite a bit and isn't so innocent and lovable as in The Mandalorian. He's followed in Yoda's footsteps and become a badass Jedi with a little cloak and levitation powers.

The Atari VCS still sounds like an iffy gamble to me, but the company is clearly serious about making the product happen. Pre-production manufacturing is just about wrapping up and Atari gives an update on what's next.

In a big Atari VCS progress update, Chief Operating Officer Michael Arzt discusses the most important part of the new console: The games. Official details are still vague, and we don't know which big publishers or which games are coming to the Atari VCS. Arzt asserts that "several game studios" are secured for the console's launch but no details have been revealed so far. The console's innate compatibility with the Unity engine will favor games made with said engine tech.

Update: Just as I finished the story, my good friend Sai tweeted me and referred me to Wccftech's story that has an update from Intel -- where the company has commented, and debunked the story completely. Intel said: "The letter from last week says we will increase our use of foundry so we can build more CPUs at Intel. The news reports about our use of third party foundries for CPUs are inaccurate". Now I wonder if Intel will comment on the impending layoffs...

Oh how the tables have turned... AMD has gone from beyond being the underdog to the new champion, in what can only resemble the scene from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Superman throws Batman around like he's nothing -- in this case Intel is Superman and AMD is Batman, and says "Stay down, if I wanted it... you'd be dead already", to which Batman fires a Kryptonite-filled grenade at Superman which renders him to mere mortal powers. That was Intel, and now they're breathing in all that fear.

Intel must have thought it had AMD painted into a corner, but then AMD has made a comeback that will be in the history books, and it seems Intel's struggles will only continue. We all know they've been really stumbling over the 10nm node and it appears they're needing to call in some help from industry giant Samsung.

Twitter has rolled out a new way to have conversations via its testing app Twttr. This new format seems to take inspiration from Reddit.

The news has come from Jane Manchun Wong, an app researcher who prides herself on finding out new features that are coming to a range of different apps. Wong has managed to find conversation trees that were being tested in Twitter's beta testing app on the main website.

From the video, we can see that Twitter is testing nesting replies in each conversation and that users can select each Tweet to enlarge and hone in on it. This change Twitter is about to implement is set to roll out sometime in 2020, and will certainly give the platform a nice fresh feel. The layout is somewhat similar to that of Reddit's, but Twitter's seems much more sleek and straightforward. What do you think about the design change?

The release date for Broly, the legendary super saiyan, has finally been revealed. Dragon Ball FighterZ players can expect him early next month.

According to the latest edition of the Japenese magazine Weekly Jump!, the legendary super saiyan will be making his way over to Dragon Ball FighterZ on December 5th, 2019. For those that don't know about Broly, he was exiled from Planet Vegeta as a child and how now returned as a fully weaponized adult saiyan.

Above, you can find a trailer showing of Broly in combat, and judging by what we can see, he is going to be a formidable fighter to face. He seems quick, strong, and well equipped when it comes to combo moves and just overall potential. Dragon Ball FighterZ is available on Xbox One, PS4, PC, and the Nintendo Switch.

A new trailer has been released onto the official Darksiders YouTube Channel showcasing the new horseman, Strife, and his two guns.

The video begins with Strife doing what he does best, shooting enemies, and spilling blood everywhere. Sometimes this blood, unfortunately, splashes onto his boots, but according to the video's description, this happens on a "pretty much constant basis". Strife is both impulsive and witty, making for a great comic relief type character that players will most likely get a refreshing feeling from.

In Darksiders Genesis, players will be able to choose between playing Strife or his brother War. Either way, players will be jumping into some sweet top-down co-op action that will pit Strife and War against countless enemies. As they carve their way through demons, monsters, and everything else in their path, they will be hunting down Lucifer. Darksiders Genesis will be releasing on PC and Stadia on December 5th. The Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch release is planned for February 14th, 2020. For more information about Darksiders Genesis, visit this article here.

Microsoft has one simple goal with Project Scarlett's backward compatibility: If it's playable on Xbox One, they want it playable on Scarlett.

To preserve the Xbox legacy and massively boost value, Project Scarlett should play four generations' worth of Xbox games in 2020. The huge backward compatibility initiative stretches all the way back to the original Xbox. But what about forward compatibility, and will all third-party devs support it?

In a recent interview with GamesRadar, Xbox Studios head Matt Booty talked about cross-gen games development, backward compatibility, and is careful not to promise anything on behalf of third-party developers.

Remember that outlandish games console that Project Cars dev Slightly Mad Studios wanted to make? Yeah, don't expect it to happen.

Today Codemasters, the devs behind the F1 series of racing games, bought Project Cars developer Slightly Mad Studios. There was absolutely no mention of the weird and rather ridiculous Mad Box console in the announcement. Sources tell GamesIndustry.biz that Codemasters paid a $30 million fee upfront--$25 million in cash, and $5 million in stock.

After shelling out cash like that, Codemasters probably has absolutely no interest in pursuing the Mad Box console idea. It looks like Slightly Mad is going back to doing what it does best: Making racing games.

Sony's new scene-tagging patent basically creates labels for shared screenshots and videos on the PlayStation Network. But this shared media isn't just for watching: You can actually play them.

While scanning Sony's new scene tagging patent, I noticed something pretty interesting: Videos aren't just static, but contain small slices of interactive gameplay that viewers can start up and play. The patent isn't just for sharing screenshots and videos, but actually sharing that particular gameplay slice too.

It's a direct extension of the immensely ambitious game demo patent that lets you create and share game demos on the PlayStation Network.

Black Friday is almost upon us, and Amazon is in full swing with deals across the board. Today, we are going to be looking at gaming monitors of all different sizes, quality, and discounts - prepare your wallets.

Firstly, Amazon hasn't just discounted standard entry-level gaming monitors, they have slashed prices quite considerably across all aspect ratios, Hz rates, and resolutions. Not to mention, high pixel quality panels such as Samsung's QLED panels are also heavily discounted.

If you are considering picking up a new gaming monitor for your setup, there are plenty of options available. Discounts on monitors range from smaller 23" displays to gorgeous 28" 4K panels. For those looking to acquire a monitor that is a bit outside of the box, discounts have also been slapped onto Ultra-Wide panels as well.

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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)."

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.

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.

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.

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.