Naughty Dog storyteller brought deeper narrative to Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and other top stories.

• Naughty Dog storyteller brought deeper narrative to Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

  Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has a better story than it has had for some time. And one of the reasons is that Activision’s Infinity Ward studio recruited a couple of veterans from Naughty Dog, the maker of narrative-driven video games such as Uncharted and The Last of Us. One of the new recruits was Taylor Kurosaki, the narrative director at Infinity Ward. He helped get the studio on track after the heavily criticized Call of Duty: Ghosts from 2013. That game had to be made in just two years ..

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• Samsung to hobble Galaxy Note 7 charging in US with software

  

  Most Galaxy Note 7 users in the US have returned their devices. For those who haven't, Samsung will soon start limiting the device's charging capabilities. Samsung on Friday said 85 percent of all recalled Note 7 phones in the US have been replaced through its refund and exchange program, "with the majority of the participants opting to receive another Samsung smartphone." The company didn't immediately provide information about how many phones had been returned around the world. For the remaini..

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• Samsung's MacBook Pro Success

  

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• Samsung's culture needs to change if it wants to survive

  

  AP Samsung is a company that hates to fail. That may seem obvious (who actually revels in failure?), but most companies don't react to setbacks the way Samsung does. The best example? That famous story from 1995 where the company’s chairman set 150,000 defective phones ablaze in a giant bonfire in front of Samsung’s factory in Gumi, South Korea with thousands of employees watching. The demonstration doubled as a dire warning: Don’t let it happen again. Two deca..

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• Amazon Bundles the Echo Dot with the Logitech Harmony Elite

  

  The Amazon Echo Dot has already received some high praise due to how well it truly works, especially for its price tag. It's essentially a much smaller Amazon Echo, and the price definitely shows, with it coming in at just $50 as its regular price tag ...

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• Sombra Finally Unveiled As The New 'Overwatch' Hero: Check Out Her Reveal Trailer And Skills

  

  Sombra has finally been unveiled as the newest playable character for the massively popular multiplayer shooter Overwatch, as the hero "hacked" her way into a video that Blizzard showed during the opening ceremonies of BlizzCon 2016. The official announcement for Sombra's arrival marked the end of a complex alternate reality game that frustrated gamers for about four months. Many Overwatch players expected the chase to come to an end at this year's BlizzCon though, especially after official art..

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• Microsoft promises smaller Windows 10 upgrades

  

  Microsoft today promised it will reduce the size of Windows 10 "feature updates," the upgrades the company issues once or twice a year."One of the biggest community and customer benefits of UUP is the reduction you'll see in download size on PCs," said Bill Karagounis, director of program management, in a post to a company blog Friday.UUP stands for "Unified Update Platform," Microsoft's name for its new update delivery technologies.So far, all Windows 10 feature updates have been issued as..

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• After mastering Go, these computers are learning to play StarCraft

  

  (Blizzard) Earlier this year, researchers' artificial intelligence beat a human in the dazzlingly complex board game known as Go. Not just once, but four times. It was a milestone in machine learning. Now, the same Google-backed researchers that designed AlphaGo have their sights set on dominating a new game: Starcraft, the classic computer strategy game that has attracted millions of fans, some of whom duel online in professional tournaments hosted by real-life sports leagues. Researchers ..

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• Google Announces Sprint Partnership For RCS Messaging

  

  Google has officially announced that they're partnering up carriers to advance the nature of SMS, and essentially upgrade the functionality of text messages. More specifically, Google is going to be working with carriers across the globe to introduce ...

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