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Sony Confirms It’s Working On PlayStation 5

Finally, Sony offered some official details on the PlayStation 4’s successor. According to a recent statement, Sony’s CEO confirmed that the Japanese company is working on PlayStation 5.

“At this point, what I can say is it’s necessary to have a next-generation hardware,” stated Kenichiro Yoshida, the Sony’s president and CEO, during a discussion with the Financial Times journalists. However, Yoshida did not say anything regarding what the next-generation video games console would be called, but given the previous models’ names, we can presume he referred to PlayStation 5.

John Kodera, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, on the other hand, indicated earlier this year that the next PlayStation is at least three years away. “We will use the next three years to prepare the next step, to crouch down so that we can jump higher in the future,” said Kodera.

Sony confirmed it’s working on PlayStation 5

As reported by the Financial Times, the next console “might not represent a major departure from the PS4, and that the fundamental architecture would be similar.”

That is possible since both Sony and Microsoft released more powerful and 4K-capable consoles, the PlayStation 4 Pro and the Xbox One X, respectively, that are both compatible with regular PS4 games.

However, PlayStation 4, as well as the Pro version, are the best releases Sony made in years since PlayStation 2 emerged on the market. Accordingly, there’s no rush from Sony’s part to launch the next-generation of video games console, so the statement made by Kodera in May this year might indeed be correct.

In short, Sony confirmed it’s working on PlayStation 5, the successor of PlayStation 4. In addition to that, given the statement John Kodera, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, made in May this year, we might expect the next-generation video games console from Sony to hit the shelves somewhen around 2020-2021.

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Blockchain Technology To Be The Next Target For South Korea Government Investment

Park Won-soon, mayor of Seoul, South Korea, announced last week at a conference in Zug, the crypto valley of Switzerland, a Blockchain Urban Plan to turn the South Korean capital into a smart city by 2022, based on blockchain technology. The project requires an investment of $108 million and covers 14 public services in five areas, according to local sources.

Among the areas covered by the plan presented by Won-soon are the management of vehicle records, non-duplicable elections, management of donations, and labor protection. It is part of the program that the first decentralized services serve as a “test bed” and then undertake the innovation of all administrative services of the metropolitan government, the official said.

In the area of labor protection, for example, the city and the private sector can draw up a smart contract for part-time workers or those not covered by insurance policies. The agreement will determine the type of coverage that corresponds to each worker, according to the hours worked, as well as automate the payroll.

Park Wan-soon explained that by 2022, 200 companies focused on blockchain technology are expected to be operating and that 73 of them will already be active as of 2019. These companies will work in collaboration with the technology business accelerator Gaepo Digital Innovation Park and Mapo Seoul Startup Hub.

South Korea plans to invest $100 million in blockchain technology and crypto exchange

“There are many areas where blockchain technology is applied (…) I will contribute to the activation of the industry by applying it to management, to this end we will create an environment where companies can work freely and cultivate their talent,” said Park Won-soon
Metropolitan Mayor of Seoul, South Korea.

This initiative could have positive effects on the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology ecosystem, a field in which South Korea is one of the leading countries. Until the beginning of this year, the trade in crypto coins was not regulated in any way, and it deprived the participants of self-regulation in that ecosystem.

Seven months ago, the South Korean financial authorities established a set of measures that regulate the cryptocurrency exchange, along with the Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Also, South Korea implemented strict Know-Your-Customer (KYC) policies.

Such measures, according to local media, have not had the expected effects. The new identification system for crypto exchange platforms, for example, has only been adopted by 4 of the trading platforms, namely, Upbit, Bithumb, Korbit, and Coinoine.

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Crypto Mining: Chinese Government Sentenced A Man For Bitcoin (BTC) Mining

On October 8th, a Chinese news portal reported that a man was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and fined 100,000 Yuan (about $14,428) for stealing electricity from a railway company for crypto mining.

According to the portal, the conviction was filed on September 13th by the Datong Rail Transport Court in Shanxi Province in China. According to the source, the man was accused of stealing about the equivalent of 104,000 Yuan (about $15,000) in electricity to power 50 crypto mining equipment and three fans that were active 24 hours a day during November and December last year.

The accused one, named Xu Xinghua, “stole the power of the pole near the Second West Plant of the Kouquan Railway” and during his crypto mining operations, he generated 3.2 Bitcoin (BC), about 120,000 Yuan (roughly $17,300).

The Chinese court also noted that Xinghua will have to pay electricity bills and that its crypto mining equipment will be confiscated. It should be noted that, of the 50 operating equipment, five were damaged during operations.

China is not ok with non-licensed crypto mining

The government of China indicated last July that the non-licensed activities of crypto mining would be closed as of September. On that occasion, they clarified that illegal Bitcoin (BTC) mining activities corresponded to those not registered with government authorities and that required a high unauthorized energy demand, in cases in which they did not have a private electricity service contract.

A month before the announcement, the seizure of more than 200 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) mining equipment in Anhui province became known. In that case, the owner of the crypto mining equipment had stolen about 150,000 kW per hour for more than a month.

According to sources, 70% of the crypto mining in China is concentrated in a single province, called Sichuan, which suffered flooding last July, affecting operations. This area is attractive for mining because of the abundance of water resources and cheap electricity, low population density, and cold weather.

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Intel Presented Its Ninth-Generation CPUs, Including The Intel Core i9 Processor As The Best Gaming CPU

Intel held its “Fall Desktop Launch Event” in New York to present the ninth generation of its Intel Core processors. One of the stars of this conference was the Intel Core i9-9900K which the company describes as “the best gaming processor in the world.” The Intel Core i9-9900K is a processor that has eight cores and 16 threads that operate at a base speed of 3.6 GHz and can reach 5 GHz in turbo mode.

In addition to the new Intel Core i9-9900K processor, Intel also presented other processors at this conference. The ninth generation Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i7. The Intel Core i7-9700K is a processor that has eight cores, eight threads, at a base speed of 3.6 GHz, which can reach 4.9 GHz.

For its part, the Intel Core i5-9600K is a processor with six cores plus six threads with a base speed of 3.7 GHz, which can rise to 4.6 GHz with Turbo mode. Although Intel presents them as part of a new generation, these processors still use the 14 nm manufacturing method. This method has been in use since the launch of the fifth-generation Intel processors, back in 2014.

However, the process used to manufacture these chips is an evolution of the original 14-nm process, called 14nm++, which was introduced with the eighth-generation Coffee Lake processors. The company expects to change the manufacturing method of the new chips to 10-nm within the next year.

Intel launched the new ninth-generation of Intel chips, including Intel Core i9, the best gaming processor

Intel has assured that these processors are the first to include hardware solutions for the Meltdown Variant 3 and L1 Terminal Fault vulnerabilities. The rest of the security problems detected in the chips during this year will be solved through software.

The new CPUs can already be ordered as of today, but deliveries to buyers will begin as of October 19th. The prices of the new ninth-generation Intel processors are a pleasant surprise. The Intel Core i9-9900K goes on sale for $488, while the Intel Core i7-9700K will cost $373, while the Intel Core i5-9600K costs $262.

For users who want more expensive and performant processors, Intel introduced new Intel Core X-Series processors. That is the renewal of this family, which was launched in 2017. At the high-end this ranking of Intel processors, we find the Intel Core i9 Extreme that offers 18 cores and 36 threads at maximum speed in Turbo mode of 4.5 GHz.

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Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 Multiplayer Modes Revealed In New Trailer

Call of Duty Black Ops 4 will be on sale on October 12th on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Treyarch and Activision show us a video in which the new game modes within the multiplayer game modes are explained. In this case, it’s about defining the Heist and Control game modes.

Call of Duty Balck Ops 4 presented Heist game mode

Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Heist mode only gives one life to each of the players and equips them with either a primary weapon or gauntlet. During the game, two teams fight to collect a bag full of money and carry it to an extraction point. These are profits that the winning team will be able to invest in weapons, perks, and armor, items the respective crew would be able to use in the next round.

Control is another game mode in Call of Duty 4

As for its part, the Call of Duty Black Ops 4’s Control mode consists of a hardpoint variant, in which one team attacks and another defends two “hot spots” on the map. Just recently, the Treyarch devs revealed the 14 maps of the multiplayer CoD Black Ops 4, including the extra Nuketown that will arrive free for all players throughout a DLC in November.

And very soon you will have our exclusive gameplay analysis of the three main game modes, the Blackout Battle Royale, zombies, and the online game starring the ten so-called specialists.

Treyarch would release additional free content after the October 12th launch

After the Call of Duty Black Ops 4 release date, Treyarch promised to publish other free content for the gamers, such as new specialists, weapons and game modes. However, the publishers did not reveal when these DLC packs would come out to the players.

Following the example of Battle Royale games, Call of Duty Black Ops 4 promises to be an excellent title in the before-mentioned genre.

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