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Uber is spiraling out of control right now, with the company in massive multiverse troubles, and now Google's parent company Alphabet suing Uber.

Alphabet claims that Uber stole propreitary self-driving car technology from Google's exciting Waymo project, with Alphabet's lawyers claiming that Uber created the original LLC, Ottomotto company as a "diversionary tactic and that Uber and Otto executives planned to acquire the company all along", reports Engadget.

Waymo lawyers showed stock awards, timelines and emails to help their claim that Uber created a company to steal self-driving tech secrets. Former Waymo executive Anthony Levandowski is in the center of this battle, as he founded Otto and is now working at Uber.

Imagine the feeling of finding a CD-R with the source code to the original StarCraft... your heart would stop, and you wouldn't know what to do with yourself.

This is most likely what Reddit user Khemist49 went through, when he found a gold master source code disc of the original StarCraft from 1998, something that was discovered inside of a "box of Blizzard stuff" he purchased on eBay. Inside the box, he saw a CD-R that said "StarCraft Gold Master Source Code".

He took to Reddit, where some users said to rip everything off of the CD and put it online, but the decision drove him "crazy" in the end and he decided to tell Blizzard. Blizzard's legal team reached out to him, asking him to return the disc as it contained "intellectual property and trade secrets".

The 3D re-release of James Cameron's 'Terminator 2' has just released it's first trailer, and reveals the director can't help but tinker at his classic film.

Sparked predominantly by the hugely successful run of last year's turkey 'Terminator Genisys' in the Chinese market, James Cameron approved the remaster of the classic film, which has been converted to 3D by StereoD, who previously worked with Cameron for the 'Titanic 3D' conversion in 2012, along with 'Jurassic Park 3D'. During the original announcement, Cameron said "I was thrilled to learn how popular 'T2' is in China. And I wanna thank the Chinese fans for their support, which is all the more meaningful considering 'T2' was never released in cinema there. And that's why I'm excited about working with DMG to bring 'T2' into Chinese cinemas for the very first time." The newly released trailer reveals that a famous goof which showed an obvious stunt double during a key action sequence has been digitally corrected.

'Terminator 2: Judgement Day 3D' will hit cinemas in US, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand on August 25th 2017.

If you haven't heard about the current Qualcomm vs. Apple licensing problems, Bloomberg is reporting that Qualcomm is going to change the game with their next move.

According to their sources, Qualcomm is going to ask the US International Trade Commission to block Apple from importing their iPhones in both Asia, and the US - months before Apple will launch its next-gen iPhone.

The two mega tech giants are fighting over Qualcomm patents that it holds, giving it power to charge Apple for their iPhones as they use IP that Qualcomm holds. Apple is legally bound to pay for Qualcomm's technology, as Apple itself has patents and charges for them - and to make it worse, Apple stopped paying Qualcomm their owed technology license payments.

Microsoft showcases Project Scorpio's beefy devkit with a quick snippet of flavorful footage.

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Colorful has one of the most interesting, and what will surely be one of the best GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards on its hands with the iGame GTX1080Ti Vulcan X OC.

The iGame GTX 1080 Ti Vulcan X OC has GPU clocks of 1620/1733MHz, and the usual 11GB of GDDR5X at stock 11Gbps on the 352-bit memory bus. Colorful deploys its impressive ROG-like SWORIZER cooler, but it's the inclusion of the built-in iGame Status Monitor, the LCD display, that has us excited.

Owners of the Colorful iGame GTX 1080 Ti Vulcan X OC will be able to see their GPU clocks and temps, as well as the fan speed and memory used on the LCD display - as well as a load level indicator.

Apple is Making America Great Again by spending $1 billion on a new fund that will promote advanced manufacturing positions in the US, something Apple CEO Tim Cook announced on Mad Money today.

Cook said: "By doing that, we can be the ripple in the pond. Because if we can create many manufacturing jobs around, those manufacturing jobs create more jobs around them because you have a service industry that builds up around them".

Apple will start announcing the beneficiaries of its $1 billion fund later this month, with the company looking to train developers and help more people coding, with more details on this coming in the summer.

Micron's new revolutionary SolidScale tech was unveiled and showcased at the 2017 Micron Summit in New York City's Freedom Tower, and TweakTown's own storage editor Jon Coulter attended the storage giant's big showcase.

Micron has revealed its new SolidScale architecture, a revolutionary platform that unlocks the full potential of NVMe SSDs.

The magic of SolidScale is that it takes the benefits of localized NVMe pools (high-speeds, large capacities) and spreads them out across an entire datacenter system.

There was a new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) update for Linux pushed out yesterday, with AMD sliding in some major Vega feature support into the open source OS.

We now know that AMD have some interesting things planned for Vega, including GPU sensors, partial resident textures, network visualization, non-contiguous VRAM mapping, and more. But it's the internal specs of Vega 10 that we're all here for, so without getting your excitement meter up too much - please, take some of this salt and throw it over your shoulder.

Vega 10 will supposedly rock 64 next-gen compute units, each with 64 GCN stream processors - with a total of 4096 next-gen GCN stream processors in 4 divisions, each with a single shader engine. Every 1024 stream processor shader engine has two Asynchronous Compute Units, one render back end and 4 texture blocks.

Fitbit's smartwatch was due to be released in late spring this year, before Apple's next watch. However, new rumors suggest that the company might postpone the launch until this fall, meaning it would be released around the time as Apple's watch.

Yahoo has obtained leaked images of the upcoming smartwatch, which show Fitbit's familiar band paired with a watch that looks like an evolved version of company's fitness watch Blaze.

The same leak reveals what's under the hood of the upcoming Fitbit smartwatch. According to Yahoo, the smartwatch, codenamed Higgs, will come with a color display with up to 1,000 nits of brightness similar to the Apple Watch 2 series.

YouTube has started opening up a preview of the new design to a small group of people from all around the world so they can get feedback.

The design is aligned to look and feel more like YouTube's mobile apps. The site design is built on a new, faster framework named Polymer, which enables quicker feature development from here on out. One of the biggest changes is a new "dark theme", which turns your background dark throughout your entire YouTube experience.

YouTube also said that this is just the beginning and that new features are coming soon.

In Win has announced its new 301 mini tower PC chassis. The company pointed out that the case is gaming and performance-orientated for smaller form factor builds.

The case follows the design elements of the recently launched 303 model, such as the toolless tempered glass side panel, use of 1.2mm SECC steel, hexagonal ventilation and two-tone front panel layout.

Its front panel I/O has two USB 3.0 Type-A, and 3.5mm stereo headphone and microphone jacks, which are backlit. The 301 has support for one 2.5/3.5-inch bay, plus two more 2.5-inch SSDs and four PCI expansion slots to match Micro-ATX motherboards. Mini-ITX motherboard mounting support is also included. Like the 303, the PSU sits at the top and is housed within its own chambered area to keep cables out of view.

After last year's problems with the Galaxy Note7, Samsung launched their latest flagship, the Galaxy S8, at the end of March. The South Korean company reported huge interest in their device and the first reviews and customer's feedback seem positive.

Samsung invested a lot in marketing, and it paid off. Everyone is talking about the phone, while LG's G6 or Huawei's P10 remain in the shadow of S8.

IDC's report on smartphone shipments in the first three months of 2017 revealed that Samsung is still on top of the list with 79.2 units shipped, and that was before the Galaxy S8 hit markets.

At the recent TED conference in Vancouver, Elon Musk gave us some interesting insights into the future of transportation. He gave us the first look at how The Boring Company's tunnels might work, but he also spoke about the future of Tesla's autonomous cars.

Tesla's autonomous driving features are ahead of production cars, and its Autopilot can be classified as somewhere between levels 2 and 3 under the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) five levels of vehicle automation. At this level, the car can act autonomously but requires the full attention of the driver, who must be prepared to take control at a moment's notice.

Elon Musk said that he believes that true level 5 autonomy is about 2 years away. He pointed out that the "full self-driving capability" option on the second generation Autopilot will enable level 5 autonomous driving, but that depends on software validation and regulations.

Remedy Entertainment today announced a partnership with 505 Games to publish "P7", the developer's brand new action game.

Last month we reported that the Max Payne, Alan Wake and Quantum Break devs at Remedy Entertainment are working on a fresh new game codenamed P7. Now the devs reveal new info about the project, confirming P7 is a cinematic third-person action game set in a new Remedy-created universe.

So that means no Alan Wake or Max Payne sequel. P7 will be developed using Remedy's powerful Northlight games engine tech, and will release on all platforms--PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Nintendo will significantly exceed its Switch sales forecast by over 4 million units due to extreme demand, industry analyst predicts.

In the company's recent fiscal year earnings call, Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said the console-maker expects to sell 10 million units of its new Switch console-handheld hybrid in the fiscal year ending on March 2018. But analysts expect Nintendo to substantially overshoot its guidance sales by as much as 45%.

Due to high demand that's only expected to surge throughout the year, Macquerie Capital Securities analyst David Gibson predicts Nintendo will sell 14.5 million Switch consoles or more in the fiscal year, reports The Wall Street Journal's Takashi Mochizuki.

Facebook has announced that they are starting to roll out Instant Games on Messenger for more than 1.2 billion people who use Messenger every month. Instant Games were launched in November last year in the States, but now they will become available globally.

Facebook is also launching new features that they previewed to developers at their annual F8 conference. Those features allow developers to create unique game bots that can communicate with players about new levels and rewards.

Messenger will now support turn-based games instead of just single-player games with score leaderboards. One of the first games to take advantage of the new gameplay features is Zynga's Words With Friends.

The final appearance of 'X-Men' star Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in this year's 'Logan' proved a huge success despite its limiting R-rating, grossing over $600 million worldwide. Now, the film will make its way home and its coming with a little something extra.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 4K and Blu-ray versions of 'Logan' are set to include an additional black-and-white version of the film dubbed 'Logan Noir', alongside other extra features such as an audio commentary by director James Mangold, deleted scenes with optional Mangold audio commentary, and the full length 'Making Logan' documentary. 'Mad Max Fury Road' similarly hit Blu-ray in a 'black and chrome' version last year.

'Logan' is set to hit 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S. from May 23, and on July 12 in Australia.

IDC has revealed its latest report on smartphone shipments in the first three months of 2017. According to the analytics firm, phone companies shipped a total of 347.4 million smartphones worldwide in the first quarter of 2017, which is a 4.3% increase compared to the Q1 2016.

The numbers show that Samsung and Apple are still at the top of this list, although their shipment number stagnates. Samsung regained control as the leader in the worldwide smartphone market despite a flat first quarter (0% year-over-year growth). The South Korean giant holds the biggest market share, 22.8%, with 79.2 million smartphones shipped, the same number they shipped in Q1 2016.

Apple remained essentially flat with shipments reaching 51.6 million units in the first quarter, up slightly from the 51.2 million shipped last year. These numbers mean they hold 14.9% of market share, a slight drop from 15.4% in Q1 2016.

Blizzard has announced Hearthstone's online community has grown to 70 million players worldwide.

Blizzard Entertainment's free-to-play card game Hearthstone is one of the company's key money-making pillars. Thanks to its blind booster-pack style microtransactions (which mimic Overwatch's loot boxes), the game rakes in earnings hand over fist, and is a key facet to the company's digital earnings.

In fact, Activision reported that in 2016 total digital in-game revenues doubled year-over-year and represented over half of the company's $6.6 billion total yearly revenues. As a result, Activision raked in an incredible $3.6 billion from player purchases in games like Hearthstone.