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Clash of Clans Surpassed 500 Million Downloads on Google Play Store

Clash of Clans joins the select group of apps and games that have totaled over 500 million downloads on the Google Play Store. Published on the Android’s app store in 2013, Clash of Clans, developed by Supercell (now a branch of Tencent Games), is definitely one of the most popular mobile games on Android and beyond.

Clash of Clans Surpassed 500 Million Downloads on Google Play Store

As Supercell is always updating and supporting the Clash of Clans, the game remains stable in terms of performance, plus that it gets additional content and features anytime possible.

In Clash of Clans, you can build your own village, grow your clans and fight with rivals in epic wars. When you download the game, you join millions of players around the world with which you can build clans and alliances or against which you can fight. In Clash of Clans, barbarian with mustaches, pyromaniac sorcerers, and other incredible troops await you.

Clash of Clans is available for free on Google Play Store, but it comes with in-app purchases that range from $1.09 to $109.99, depending on what you’d like to buy.

Clash of Clans Features

  • Join a clan with other players or found one and invite your friends;
  • Team up in clan wars against players from all over the world;
  • Defend the village using cannons, bombs, traps, mortars, and walls;
  • Face the king of goblins in an epic campaign across the kingdom;
  • Plan incredible strategies, with countless combinations of spells, troops, and heroes;
  • Friendly challenges and wars and special events;
  • Train unique troops with various levels of improvement;
  • Reach the builder’s base and discover new characters and buildings in a mysterious world never seen before;

Clash of Clans, one of the most popular games on mobile devices, has now surpassed 500 million downloads on Google Play Store.

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Tech

iOS 13 Concept Presents Many Improvements For iPhone and iPad Users

Apple’s mobile operating system is upgraded every year with a significant update, usually in autumn. iOS 12 for iPhone and iPad has just rolled out, practically, but iOS 13 is already in the news. Well, at least an exciting iOS 13 concept teaser emerged online, promising some new and useful functions for Apple’s smartphones and tablets.

Despite how many improvements Apple makes with its operating system for mobiles, iPhone and iPad users still find plenty of room for improvement. Some of them even go as far as to create entire, well-formulated concepts on their own. So did the YouTuber Jacob Rendina who thinks ahead for Apple and presented his own iOS 13 concept.

iOS 13 Concept Presents Many Improvements For iPhone and iPad Users

As Jacob Rendina thought, iPad users, in particular, must benefit from iOS 13 more than iPhone users, so Apple would do well to take an example. After all, the new iPad Pro 2018 models are obviously intended to be alternatives to computers. In Rendina’s iOS 13 concept, iOS 13 must bring iPad Pro-specific features, including a message center similar to what we have on MacBooks but also the acceptance of third-party products compatible with USB-C port.

Besides, iOS 13 concept might come with improved security, including the well-known Touch ID, Face ID, and password access. Furthermore, optimized multitasking with the option to open apps in a separate window is wanted in the next year’s iOS version. As with the Mac, floating windows make multitasking more flexible.

Also, Rendina’s iOS 13 concept imagines a split screen option, a long sought-after feature in Apple’s mobile operating system. Besides, iOS 13 should come out with a dark theme for the iPhone and iPad, which is another sought-after feature by iOS fans. And we might indeed see the dark mode in iOS 13 as Apple implemented it this year in macOS Mojave.

To see everything the new iOS 13 concept imagines for the next year’s iOS version, we leave you Jacob Rendina’s video below.

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Crypto News

Google Ex-CEO Believes That Ethereum (ETH) Blockchain Is The Most Promising In The Crypto Market

The Google ex-CEO, Eric Schmidt pointed out that Ethereum (ETH) is a blockchain of greater potential than others, especially for its flexibility to construct multiple solutions on its network, a case of extremely significant use that other projects of this nature lack.

Schmidt stated that during a live interview with the economist Tyler Cowen, which was organized by Village Global in the city of San Francisco, in the United States. When asked if he considered blockchain technology as overvalued or undervalued, Schmidt assured that its public use is overrated, but its more technical implementation is undervalued.

According to him, nowadays the blockchain technology is beneficial for the financial exchange, having successful public examples like Bitcoin (BTC), but also being a fundamental part of private banking transactions, when it is necessary to solve trust problems between the parties.

Google Ex-CEO Believes That Ethereum (ETH) Blockchain Is The Most Promising In The Crypto Market

“I think one of the most exciting things that are happening is the beginning of the construction on the blockchains; the most obvious example is the capacity of Ethereum (ETH). And if Ethereum manages to find a way to make a global synchronization of that activity, that’s a pretty powerful platform. That’s a really new invention,” said Eric Schmidt, Google Ex-CEO.

“Bitcoin (BTC) is a remarkable cryptographic achievement. The ability to create something that is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value,” Schmidt said at the time. Julian Assange, the creator of Wikileaks, would have been the one who introduced Bitcoin (BTC) to Schmidt in 2011, as he admitted, urging him to use BTC.

At Google, co-founder Sergey Brin, as well as the current CEO, Sundar Pichai, have both declared themselves interested in cryptocurrency, and even their children, although minors, already mine Ethereum (ETH).

Other technology enthusiasts have also admitted themselves as cryptocurrency fans. For example, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey even went so far as to say that he hopes Bitcoin (BTC) would become the Internet’s native currency.

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Tech

PlayStation 5 Leaks: Reportedly, Sony Patented The Future PS5 Controller

The race to present PS5 and Xbox Scarlet is underway. Every time we receive new rumors and announcements of what will offer PlayStation 5 and the next console from Microsoft. Now, according to some new PlayStation 5 leaks, Sony patented the PS5 controller which would boast a touchscreen.

Sony Is Taking Big Steps Towards The Future PlayStation 5 Console

In other news, Sony also announced recently that it had patented the backward compatibility for the upcoming console with some cool improvements, including reproducing PS4, PS3, PlayStation 2 and PSX games with new textures, 4K resolution, improved framerate, and overall performance, without touching the code.

Also, Sony reportedly patented the PS Move PS5 for use with PSVR virtual reality devices. Now, however, it’s the turn of a new patent registered by Sony Computer Entertainment’s headquarters in America to come out to light. The new PS5 controllers will have a design very similar to the current Dual Shock 4, according to the patent documents.

Sony Reportedly Patented the PS5 Controller To Be Used With The Future PlayStation 5

The next PS5 controller is designed for interacting wirelessly with the console and includes a housing defined by the main body and two extensions to hold with both hands, as well as a touchscreen at the top and two sets of buttons, respectively on both sides of the touchscreen.

As we can see, the PS5 controller would be very similar to that of the current console, although no mention is made of analog levers or the presence of leds. It is also not mentioned in any section if the future controller would include vibration or motion sensors, but the patent of the PS5 controller does not exclude other technologies that can be added, including some type of NFC reader.

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Tech

PlayStation Plus Prices Go Up, As The State of Chicago Adopted a New ‘Entertainment Tax’

The United States is a country in which each state has its own tax law, so it is normal to see that there are taxes in one state that are not adopted in another. The same thing will happen soon in Chicago, a state that has passed an ”entertainment tax”, a tax that taxes online entertainment services, such as Netflix, and that will raise the price of PlayStation Plus, among other Sony services, too.

Some time ago, the city of Chicago passed a law that boosted the tax on streaming content services. Xbox, Netflix, and Spotify, among others. These are now services for which users in that state must pay 9% more than those in other states of the country, and now Sony will see how this tax will damage several of its divisions. And yes, PlayStation Plus games will now cost a little more.

PlayStation Plus Prices Go Up, As The State of Chicago Adopted a New ‘Entertainment Tax’

Starting on November 14th, the price of PlayStation Plus will rise 9% in Chicago, but the tax will also affect other services such as PlayStation Now, PlayStation Vue, PlayStation Music, PlayStation Video on Demand and PlayStation Video Live Events. All these services operate in the cloud and precisely this ”cloud tax” could be implemented in other cities, such as New York.

Mayor Ralph Emanuel’s explanation for this ”entertainment tax”, as it is known locally, is that it helps pay pensions, no more, no less. Of course, companies don’t stand idly by, since it’s the users who have to pay that extra 9%, and companies can witness many unsubscriptions due to the tax.

Companies like Apple and Netflix are, at the moment, trying to act to eliminate this tax, which does not tax the physical content, for example, or the sales of digital games, but in the meantime, it will be time to go through the checkout process, if you live in Chicago, of course. Let’s hope a ”cloud tax” doesn’t reach other regions as well.

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