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When No Man's Sky releases this Tuesday, it won't technically be complete: Hello Games' Sean Murray promises to continue evolving their interstellar space sim with major free content updates--the first of which will be the game's beefy day one update.

Hello Games just dropped a massive news update on No Man's Sky's expansive day one update, revealing just how much the update changes the game. The infamous Atlas Stones exploit has been fixed, so don't expect to fly to the center of the universe in 40 hours, and they've even adjusted the ugly texture pop-ins I complained about. Check here for a list of known bugs in the unpatched pre-release version, most of which have been now fixed. The day one patch will be available on Monday, August 8 when PS4 press review copies are sent out. We have a list of patch notes below.

Murray also reveals that this is just the first No Man's Sky update, and the studio will release a bunch of patches to add in future content and fixes--all of which the studio plans to offer for free. "Hello Games will continually update No Man's Sky this way. This is the first of many," he said in the update.

A new video of the iPhone 7 has emerged, with the three versions of Apple's next iPhone still lacking its 3.5mm headphone jack. A new 4K video has turned up from Dutch blog TechTastic.nl.

It looks like the 4.7-inch version of the iPhone won't be disappearing, while the larger 5.5-inch phablet iPhone 7 Plus smartphones come in two versions. There's one mock up with the single lens camera, while the one in the middle has a dual lens camera. We don't know if this will turn into the three models being; iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Pro and iPhone 7 Plus, but it would definitely make sense.

Apple is expected to launch its new iPhone 7 models on September 9, with availability on September 16.

Airbnb is now valued at a mammoth $30 billion, after its latest funding round secured $850 million, according to reports from Bloomberg.

Last year, Airbnb was valued at around $25.6 billion, but with the latest funding round it has bounced up to $30 billion. Since Airbnb opened up shop in 2008, it has raised $2.39 billion, and the new $850 million funding round pushes that up to just over $3.2 billion.

Airbnb is preparing to allow members rent out or book each other's rooms or homes when traveling, which is a new direction for the company.

HTC has its Vive headset priced at $799, which isn't too bad considering the high-res display, room scale technology, and the two controllers included. But, HTC China President, Alvil Wang Graylin, has fired some warning shots over to Sony about the PlayStation VR.

VR Focus reports from a Spanish blog that Graylin, the head of the Chinese VR division of HTC said: "The price set by Sony for PlayStation VR, 399 euros, may seem economical for users but is misleading". What does Graylin mean? Well, the base price of the PlayStation VR only includes the HMD itself, and not the PS4 camera or the PlayStation Move. Some retailers will do bundles, but Sony itself isn't for its $399 price.

Apple has reportedly acquired an artificial intelligence startup for a swift $200 million, with Turi based in Seattle, and working on various AI technologies.

Turi has some interesting technology its developing, with apps that use machine learning to model patterns, and they combine advanced machine learning which can be deployed in various scenarios that range from production to server data management.

The work that Turi uses on data analysis could have had Apple interested, and under Apple's wing, a great piece of AI could be used in various ways. If Apple were to combine the AI goodness from Turi into its Siri and iCloud, it might help iOS users through everyday tasks. The issue is now, Google is worlds ahead in terms of its software and services line-up, while Apple is now playing catch-up. Maybe it has acquired Turi so it can ask an AI how to beat their competitors?

Battlefield 1 is shaping up so beautifully, and now EA DICE have released a new video of Battlefield 1 which details a bunch of the weapons in the game. EA expects to sell over 15 million copies of Battlefield 1, and this new trailer really cements that.

The developers at DICE have been waiting for nearly 10 years to work on a new Battlefield game in this setting, and since Battlefield 1 went into development, the developers have been testing and playing with real-life weapons to recreate in BF1 as best they can.

We have clubs, grenades, and the weapons that were at the time, at the peak of engineering. It's an interesting thing to remember, that these weapons were truly the best the world had to offer at the time of World War 1. Compared to now, and games of today, where we have guns with hundreds of rounds, super portable, space-based weapons, and more.

Samsung unveiled its massive and impressively specced Galaxy Note 7 smartphone last week with the company detailing its 5.7-inch smartphone in 3 new promotional videos.

As the videos explain, the Galaxy Note 7 has a 5.7-inch QHD dual curved display, and the most intelligent S Pen ever. Better yet, Samsung has made the new Galaxy Note 7 and the new S Pen are both water resistant. The new iris scanner is a huge addition, which will secure your smartphone with your eyes and store and unlock your precious and private files, securing them with the iris scanner.

The new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is compatible with the new Gear VR, which is Samsung's lightest and most ergonomic VR headset yet.

NIVDIA is on the eve of launching its mobile GeForce GTX 10 series graphics cards, with VideoCardz providing some new details on what the mobile versions of Pascal will deliver.

According to the site, Clevo is already teasing its GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 powered gaming notebooks, which can be configured up to the desktop Core i7-6700K processor. Clevo's new P870DM3-G gaming laptop will arrive with a 17.3-inch display that can be optioned as a 1080p or 4K panel, both with NVIDIA G-Sync technology. There will be support for up to 64GB RAM, but we're all here to know how fast the mobile GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 is, right?

We know that the mobile GeForce GTX 1070 will feature more CUDA cores than its desktop counterpart, as they would be trying to reach the same performance in a notebook, as we have on a desktop. This would be an interesting move, as it means NVIDIA is not cutting down the GTX 1070, but beefing it up in CUDA cores. As for the VRAM, we're expecting the full 8GB of GDDR5 clocked at 8GHz, with a 256-bit memory bus and 256GB/sec memory bandwidth - not too damn bad for a gaming notebook, huh?

The online servers for No Man's Sky will be wiped clean upon launch so that gamers can experience a fresh universe, and anyone with a leaked copy will have to start over from scratch.

Many stores have broken street date, selling retail copies of No Man's Sky to gamers ahead of time. There's been tons of leaked video and content introduced over the past week--much of which we've covered--and even big game sites like Kotaku and Polygon got early copies and published their own gameplay streams. Players are already flying across the universe naming planets, creatures, discovering untold secrets, and generally causing havoc to Hello Games' attempts at secrecy.

As you could imagine, Hello Games isn't too happy about this. In order to make everything even for those gamers who are patiently waiting until release date, the studio will completely reset the game's servers. And leaked save game progress won't carry over to the final game. That means all the planet names, discoveries, aliens and creature names will be wiped clean, and the leaked owners' save game data isn't compatible with the day one update. So that means anyone with an early copy will have to start from scratch.

No Man's Sky won't launch on PC until August 12, three days after its release on PS4, Hello Games' boss Sean Murray has officially confirmed.

Since we already warned you guys about No Man's Sky's impending PC delay, this isn't exactly a surprise. Steam's listing for No Man's Sky now reads August 12 to reflect the new release date. Now Sean Murray has opened up about the situation on Twitter to reveal why the game was delayed a bit on PC, what's going on with the day one patch, leaked copies, and how he doesn't want anyone playing the pre-release version--even Kotaku and Polygon, who received an early copy from a store that broke street date.

There's been lots of confusion regarding No Man's Sky lately, but here's what you need to know (scroll down to see a big list of bugs/glitches that should be fixed in the final patched release):

Mozilla is experimenting with integrating the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine into its Firefox browser. What this means is anytime you hit a dead page, the browser will automatically detect it and offer up a link to an archived version. At least, in theory: the feature (dubbed "No More 404s") is in the early stages and doesn't always detect pages and sometimes there is no archived version available.

If you want to try out No More 404s, install the Firefox Test Pilot add-on and find the new feature through that. Alternately, you can try out an add-on like Resurrect Pages.

Firefox recently hit version 48.0, which introduced revolutionary multiprocess design (so freezing isn't really an issue anymore) and a much-improved awesome bar.

The teases of LG's upcoming V20 smartphone have been good so far, but now the company has sent out invites to the media for its V20 smartphone launch event, which will take place in San Francisco on September 6.

LG hasn't said much, apart from using the headline 'Play More', and that 'the second story begins, LG V20'. With the tag that the second story begins, LG looks to be continuing the push with its V10 smartphone, which was on video and storytelling - but this could change, we don't know yet. What we do know, is that the LG V20 will be the first Android 7.0 smartphone in the world.

Samsung has just unveiled its new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, and Apple is rumored to be hitting September 12 with the announcement of its new iPhone - so it's an exciting time to be wanting to buy a new smartphone with all of these choices.

Intel has announced a safety recall for its Basis-brand fitness watches, warning consumers that the wearable could blister or burn your arm and that customers should return them immediately. Intel said it was aware of "a small number of customers have reported discomfort, blistering or burns on their wrist under the watch body".

The chipmaker is offering a full refund on the Basis fitness watches, with the recall being voluntarily for Intel, but it doesn't help Intel's image in the werable market after spending $100 million acquiring Basis in 2014. The Basis Peak is the first smartwatch the company built after it was acquired by Intel, and is capable of monitoring your heart rate, sweat output, and physical movements.

But, the Basis Peak overheats and could burn or blister the wearer's skin, which is why Intel has issued a safety recall. Intel noticed the issues last month, and recommended that Basis Peak owners stop using the product as a precautionary measure, reports Business Insider. Intel said on Wednesday that it was issuing a mandatory recall for all of the watches, and will be shutting down the Basis Peak online services by the end of 2016.

Nintendo has quite a lot of excitement leading into its NX console, but now there is a new report that says Nintendo's NX console will feature three marquee titles within the first 6 months of its releases, according to "sources close to Nintendo".

Nintendo has already announced and teased The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but the report says that we could expect next-gen Mario and Pokemon games on the NX console shortly after launch. This fits neatly in with Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima's promise that the NX will launch with a "full software lineup," so this isn't exactly a surprise. We don't know what the new Mario game could be like, but MCV reports that the Pokemon NX game will come from the developer of the mainline handheld titles, Game Freak.

If Pokemon does land on the Nintendo NX, it will be the first Pokemon game released on a home system - as it is normally on Nintendo handhelds, and now smartphones with Pokemon GO. However the NX is believed to be a handheld-console hybrid rather than a traditional console, so this definitely fits with Pokemon's usual platform of choice.

Torrentz.eu has been a fixture in the torrent community for more than 13 years, providing users with aggregated torrent search engine results. Now, due to what appears to be legal trouble, it has all but closed its doors.

Earlier today, it very suddenly disabled its search and login functionality, and its external links to torrents no longer work. Additionally, the site now refers to itself in the past tense.

The site's operator reached out to Torrentfreak, but would not comment on the situation, at least not publicly. Typically when this happens, it's for legal reasons, and given the trouble Torrentz has had with the RIAA and MPAA in recent years, it's not hard to believe his hand was forced.

Overwatch continues to expand at a great rate, with Activision Blizzard announcing ahead of its quarterly earnings call that Overwatch is home to over 15 million players.

The game launched in May with around 7 million gamers getting into Overwatch, which means we have a 100% increase since the game launched. Overwatch players have pumped over 500 million hours into the game, which is up from the 119 million hours or so back in early-June.

Activision Blizzard posted a 255% increase in revenue year-over-year, with some of this success courtesy of Overwatch. The company will continue to release new content for the game, with the new Summer Events update already here, and it's quite fun. The soccer mode is beyond addictive, damn it.

Thanks to delayed review copies and an awkward embargo, No Man's Sky review scores likely won't be ready until days after the game launches. We'll have plenty of livestreams though.

Review embargoes for No Man's Sky don't lift until August 8 at 11PM EST, just an hour before its release on PSN and Steam, and publications won't be receiving their review copies until Monday, August 8.

So don't expect anyone to have their review ready by the time the embargo lifts, and it might be as long as two to four days after No Man's Sky launches before we get an official review. Before you get too disappointed, I'm sure we'll see an incredible volume of livestreams to showcase the game in action.

Apple has announced that App Store developers have earned $50 billion so far, with company CEO Tim Cook revealing the news on Twitter.

Cook added that July was a record-breaking month for the App Store, with the highest-ever monthly billings and money paid to iOS developers. Apple takes a nice cut of those profits, so the iPhone giant is laughing all the way to the bank. Apple reported a quarterly revenue of $42.4 billion, with a net income for the quarter of $7.8 billion.

Apple CFO Luca Maestri said: "Our Services business grew 19 percent year-over-year and App Store revenue was the highest ever, as our installed base continued to grow and transacting customers hit an all-time record".

Blizzard will reveal a remastered HD port of StarCraft this September, with details following at Blizzzcon in November, according to reports from Korean news site iNews24.

"Today, multiple sources with knowledge of Blizzard internal plans said that Blizzard will reveal StarCraft HD to the public this September. The StarCraft HD remastered version will retain the original gameplay and is said to have improved graphics resolution and user interface (UI)," says the Korean publication.

This isn't the first time we've heard about HD remasters of classic Blizzard games. An old Blizzard job listing strongly indicated that WarCraft III, StarCraft and Diablo II would be getting HD remasters: "Compelling stories. Intense multiplayer. Endless replayability. Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. We're restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done," reads the now defunct listing.

Good guy Valve has just announced SteamVR's room scale 3D tracking technology is now open source, with development kits including two HTC Vive base stations; a "full complement of EVM circuit boards to enable rapid prototyping of your own tracked object" and 40 sensors for tracked objects that can be anything from a VR golf club, an indoor drone, and so much more.

On Valve's FAQ page, the company says there's no catch when it comes to charging licensing fees, but you do need to get yourself to a $3000 in-person training session in Seattle as part of the process. The company hopes that with classes beginning in September, that new groups of industrial designers, and mechanical and electrical engineers attend the training session, instead of individuals.