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It would be quite an honor to step foot on the International Space Station as only a very small amount of people get the opportunity, with this achievement though is a sacrifice and that is all the entertainment luxuries earth has to offer. Luckily, Disney and NASA are not allowing the Astronauts aboard the International Space to miss out on one of the luxuries and that is of course Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Spaceflight reporter Robin Seemangal took to Twitter and posted this news "I received confirmation from Disney and NASA sources that the crew aboard the International Space Station will be screening Star Wars: The Last Jedi".

Inverse then followed up this report by asking NASA if this news was true or not, a NASA spokesperson said that the movie would be shown to Astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

A man named Noah Dinkin has taken to Twitter after coming across a piece of code installed on his laptop once connected to the Buenos Aires Starbucks. Dinkin tweeted Starbucks but before doing that noticed that there is a 10 second delay before your laptop is connected, this window of time would be the installation and starting process of mining.

In Dinkins tweet he addressed that this kind of free Wi-Fi service is a "little off-brand" and also that the store in Buenos Aires was not the only store doing this and in-fact that there was three separate stores which Dinkins went to that all did the same thing.

This may seem suspicious but Starbucks claims that this is not their fault and blame should be turned to their internet providing companies, this is what they told Motherboard "Last week, we were alerted to the issue and we reached out to our internet service provider - the wi-fi is not run by Starbucks, it's not something we own or control,"

With the price of Bitcoin reaching multiple new all-time highs in the last few weeks, the tease of BTC reaching $1 million sounds like pure fantasy. But considering we've seen McAfee creator and founder John McAfee himself say he'd 'eat his own d*ck' if Bitcoin wasn't $1 million by 2020.

Now there's someone else with considerable weight behind them in the industry saying the same thing, with ex-Facebook ex and founder of Social Capital and co-owner of the Golden State Warriors, Chamath Palihapitiya talking about the value and potential growth of Bitcoin in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday.

Palihapitiya invested into Bitcoin in 2012, saying that he saw the price of the cryptocurrency rising massively in the next 20 years as more and more people adopt BTC. Palihapitiya said that Bitcoin will be considered a store of value comparable to gold.

AMD's upcoming Ryzen Mobile processor with Radeon Vegas graphics will be unveiled early next year, with another 'confirmed' part being reported by VideoCardz.

The new Ryzen 3 2200G will reportedly feature Vega 8 graphics, arriving as a 4-thread APU. There will also be the Ryzen 3 2300U, the slowest mobile APU with just 6 compute units in its Vega GPU.

AMD will have a higher-end Ryzen 5 2400G that will be a 4C/8T chip with Vega 11 graphics (35W and 65W versions). We've already seen Ryzen Mobile with Vega graphics inside of the HP Envy X360 laptops, which have been on Best Buy shelves for nearly a month now. AMD's official unveiling is in January, however. Strange.

Now that Battlegrounds has launched on the Xbox One/X consoles, we have some first-few-days player numbers of over 496,000 gamers meaning that the console version of PUBG is doing extremely well so far.

The PC version of Battlegrounds has over 2.6 million concurrent gamers, but there are tens of millions of Xbox One/X owners out in the wild as well. Nearly 500K gamers in the first 48 hours of PUBG launching on Xbox One/X is pretty damn good, especially considering the abysmal FPS performance of the game on both consoles.

Take-Two Interactive, the same publisher that's responsible for Grand Theft Auto, has opened a new indie games label called Private Division, and Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment is one of the choice developers into the fold.

Back in May sources told TweakTown that Obsidian Entertainment is working on a new game with Fallout creator Tim Cain at the helm. The game, sources told us, would essentially be Obsidian's own version of Fallout, but details were light; there's no guarantee it'll herald the classic cRPG adventure of yore. Today Take-Two Interactive announced that it will publish a bevy of new games from key independent developers, including Obsidian, and that the developer is working on an unannounced RPG led by Fallout co-creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky.

"Private Division will publish several upcoming titles based on new IP from renowned industry creative talent, including the previously announced Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey from Panache Digital Games, a studio led by the creator of the Assassin's Creed franchise Patrice Désilets; an unannounced RPG currently codenamed Project Wight from The Outsiders, a studio founded by ex-DICE developers David Goldfarb and Ben Cousins; an unannounced RPG from Obsidian Entertainment led by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, co-creators of Fallout; and an unannounced sci-fi first-person shooter from V1 Interactive, a studio founded by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto. Additionally, Private Division is the publisher for Kerbal Space Program, which Take-Two acquired in May, 2017," reads the press release.

Julio Casal is the co-founder of a identity intelligence provider called 4iQ, this company recently said in a blog post on December 8th that they have come across a database of 1.4 billion accounts details.

Casal has said that his company has identified the "largest aggregate database found in the dark web to date." This data base is two times bigger than the previously largest credential exposure which came in at 797 million usernames and passwords. Casal has called this file "an aggregated, interactive database that allows for fast (one second response) searches and new breach imports."

According to 4iQ's blog post, a simple search of 'admin', 'administrator' and 'root' returned a total of 226,631 cleartext passwords in just a matter of seconds. Verified by 4iQ through testing of the data base and the billions of passwords found was the unfortunate conclusion that these passwords are in fact true records.

Amazon has officially launched a Alexa skill that will allow for users of Alexa to control Twitch using their voice. This new Alexa skill has numerous uses such as asking for specific channel activity and a list of popular game being viewed.

This is not a surprise for Amazon to integrate Twitch into their Alexa skills as Amazon own Twitch, buying the streaming giant back in 2014 for $1 billion. The Twitch Alexa skill is designed to complement gamers that use Twitch regularly, Twitch has done this by giving users the option to enable notifications of their favorite channels going live.

Twitch has provided a full list of the features that their Alexa skill will include, they can be found below.

According to a report on Android Police, Google is rolling out an update on the Pixel, Nexus and Android One devices that will make the standard dial app feature an easily accessible video chat option - Google Duo.

Android Police are saying that when users decide to use the video chat option within the standard dial app the Duo app will open, which in turn activates the phones camera.

The video chat is counted as a standard phone call meaning that once the connection is disconnected from either hanging up or losing service the video chat will end. Resulting in two data entries that will appear in the phones call log - one for the video chat and another for the initial phone call.

PAYDAY 2 has now been officially confirmed to be headed to the Nintendo Switch next year as the community of 5.4 million gamers will plan to grow exponentially, this growth will begin when the g me is released on February 23, 2018.

PAYDAY 2 will be released on the Switch in Australia and Europe on the 23rd of February, followed by a North and South America launch on the 27th of the same month. First launched in 2011, PAYDAY 2 has gotten the attention of quite a few gamers, 16 milliuon copies of the game have been sold across SteamOS, Xbox360, PS3, PS4, Xbox One and of course PC. PAYDAY 2 has already appeared on Nintendo's website and has been labeled as "coming winter 2017", Nintendo has also given a small description of the game for those who have been living under a rock in the gaming community

"PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter where you rob banks and get paid. Up to four friends co-operate on the hits and as the crew progresses the jobs become bigger, better and more rewarding. Along with earning more money and becoming a legendary criminal Crime does pay - use your funds to customize your character with new skillsets that change the way you play and kit them out with their own guns and gear."

Advoli has just announced the launch of the world's first HDBaseT-certified PCIe x16 graphics card, the new TA6 Graphics Card is powered by AMD's Embedded Radeon E9550 Series GPU.

The TA6 is capable of 6 x HDBaseT channels (you know, the Ethernet ports we all know and love) that are each capable of handling 4K videos over a distance of 100 meters (328 feet). Advoli will have a full commercial launch for the TA6 Graphics Card at ISE 2018 in Amsterdam, with the company showing off a live demo at the HDBaseT Alliance Booth (Hall 5, Booth S100).

Advoli's new TA6 Graphics Card has HDBaseT and cable diagnostics, pass-through IR (both in and out), full emulated controls (encoding/decoding of IR, RS232 and CEC signals through the serial command interface). There's also remote diagnostic features that make it easier than ever for system integrators and audio visual installations.

AMD is launching multiple new CPUs and APUs next year but we're hearing about a new mysterious "Fenghuang" APU that has just appeared in the SiSoft Sandra database.

AMD's upcoming Ryzen 2 processors will be using the company's Zen+ architecture and made on GlobalFroundries' 12LP node, but this new APU is something very interesting. The new "Fenghuang" APU will be powered by something called "15FF" graphics, which is said to rock 28 Radeon compute units (1792 shader processors) and 2GB of unknown-type VRAM.

The APU is clocked at what looks to be a misidentified 555MHz, 16kB of L2 cache, and 32-bit path to memory. This new APU should rock GPU horsepower that is much faster than Vega 8 and Vega 10 IGPs, but we don't know how much power the APU will need yet.

Ghost Recon Wildlands players will be happy to hear news that the Predator will be joining the ranks in a special event that runs between December 14 and early January.

Ubisoft Senior Producer Nouredine Abboud explained the news in a statement: "At Ubisoft Paris, we have been fans of the Predator for a long time and are thrilled to bring such an iconic character to our game. The challenge is full of references to the original Predator movie, and we cannot wait to see the reaction of our players!".

The upcoming release of Predator content will include both solo and co-op options, where you'll have to defeat the warrior in order to unlock exclusive items like a mask with Predator vision. There's also the Predator Pack available, with 15 new customized items that include movie-inspired weapons and a close combat mode.

Back when Star Citizen was first announced and became a Kickstarter star, the game was powered by CryEngine, with developer Cloud Imperium Games moving over to Amazon's Lumberyard engine in 2015.

Crytek has recently filed a complaint against CIG, with the company stating they agreed to a below-market rate of their license to use CryEngine in Star Citizen, with Cloud Imperium Games agreeing to prominently display the CryEngine logo in their game. Crytek alleges that the use of their CryEngine branding in Star Citizen was a "critical component" of the agreement between the two companies.

Crytek goes as far as saying Chris Roberts himself "publicly sought to minimize Crytek's contribution to Star Citizen".

Now that Battlegrounds is released onto the Xbox One and Xbox One X consoles after months of teases, we know how much of an absolute mess it is on Microsoft's two consoles. The Xbox One X version of PUBG is definitely the superior one out of the two, with the Xbox One version of the game slipping down to just 4FPS at times.

PUBG is heavily CPU-bound which sees the Xbox One X running at 4K on Medium settings, while the slower Xbox One runs at 1080p, both versions with 100% screen scale and 90-degree field-of-view. You can find these settings by plugging a keyboard into the Xbox One X and pressing 'o'.

Driving around in a vehicle will see the Xbox One X with 26FPS average or so, while the Xbox One is much choppier with an average of 20FPS or so. In the cities, PUBG runs much smoother on the Xbox One X at 30FPS, while the Xbox One varies between 24-30FPS, but varies city to city thanks to the lack of full-map optimization at a game engine level.

If you've been using your Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8+ for the last few weeks and wondered when the new Android 8.0 'Oreo' operating system will hit your device, the answer is you won't be waiting too much longer.

Samsung will be pushing out Android 8.0 updates to both the Galaxy S8 and S8+ in late January, meaning we have just six more weeks to wait. The news is coming directly from a Samsung Beta community admin in the UK, who said the official Oreo update will hit the Galaxy S8/S8+ "end of Jan or maybe early Feb if we have more issues".

We should expect a late-January release considering Mobile World Congress 2018 kicks off in late-February, where we should be introduced to the new Galaxy S9 which is meant to rock Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 845 (at least in some markets). Not only that, but it will possibly be the fastest-charging smartphone in the world courtesy of Quick Charge 4 technology found inside Snapdragon 845.

NVIDIA's new TITAN V graphics card is meant to be the flagship AI/deep learning card, but the $2999 product is being used as a mining card in more articles I've seen than anything else.

Any YouTuber or GPU reviewer getting these cards are jumping into mining first with our friends at HotHardware putting the TITAN V through its paces. We have the TITAN V pushing a huge 69MH/s of Ethereum mining performance using Claymore v10.2, an impressive result considering AMD's flagship Radeon RX Vega 64 is only capable of 37MH/s.

But when the new TITAN V is overclocked (thanks to NVIDIA's use of HBM2 on a super-wide memory bus providing masses of memory bandwidth) it cranks out an incredible 82MH/s, beating out even two Radeon RX Vega 64s mining in the same system.

In less than two months of availability, Nintendo's latest smartphone game Animal Crossing Pocket Camp has raked in $17 million in revenues, analyst firm Apptopia reports.

Despite racking up 25 million downloads, Apptopia isn't particularly impressed with the game's total revenues of $17 million. In fact the firm notes that Animal Crossing Pocket Camp may not come close to Nintendo's other smartphone games, Super Mario Run, which started off slow out of the gate but apparently delivered consistent earnings, and Fire Emblem Heroes, a landmark successful game that taps the "gacha" business model. Apptopia cites Animal Crossing will be third in place because it doesn't have a competitive online mode of play.

"Even though the revenue is not impressive, Animal Crossing had a much stronger launch than Fire Emblem did in terms of downloads," Apptopia told GamesBeat. "It has a much stronger worldwide brand and player base, whereas Fire Emblem is more popular in Japan."

Following the big success of the Nintendo Switch handheld-console hybrid, which has sold through 10 million units in less than a year, the Japanese games-maker is now taking aim at bolstering its mobile gaming lineup.

In order to build up a strong smartphone gaming business, Nintendo is looking to build new partnerships outside of the one it currently holds with DeNA, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. Nintendo's push into smartphone gaming is rather fledgling and the company has made a few mistakes along the way, namely with the improper handling of its Super Mario Run mobile game, which uses the company's most instantly recognizable and high-profile character in a pay-to-play runner.

Nintendo's plans with the smartphone gaming business have traditionally been to bring awareness to its console and handheld hardware and software rather than make money directly. However this plan seems to have shifted with the likes of the newly successful Animal Crossing Pocket Camp and older Fire Emblem Heroes, which both offer in-game purchases. According to analyst firm Newzoo the global games market will breach $108 billion in 2017, and mobile gaming will make up the lion's share of 42%, or $46.1 billion this year.

Capcom is celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of its best-selling franchise with a massive 12-game collection.

The newly announced Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection combines 12 classic fighting games (half of them include all the infamous variations of of Street Fighter II) into one huge, affordable package. I can't help but wondering why this wasn't tried out earlier in the year when Capcom released the rather lackluster Ultra Street Fighter II on Switch. Now Capcom has doubled down on Switch support, and plans to help kick off their new fiscal year with a bevy of releases including Monster Hunter World and the new Street Fighter Collection.

The collection will have full online multiplayer and a host of extras including a music gallery, concept art, and much more. The packed release is slated for a May 2018 launch for $40 on Xbox One, PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch.