Mafia 3's 60 fps patch available to download now and other top stories.

• Mafia 3's 60 fps patch available to download now

  I think three updates might be enough for Andy's news article about Mafia 3's 30 frames-per-second lock, so I'm turning over a fresh page, quill in hand, to bring you the news that the promised patch is available to download now. If you've not been following this minor controversy, Mafia 3 launched with a 30fps lock on PC, and there are probably dozens of frothing YouTube videos about that. The developers promised a patch that would allow 60fps play, and whadda ya know, that patch is here.You..

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• Top 10: Android News Stories – October 9th, 2016

  

  This past week was a big one for Android and Google-related news, as Google's October 4th event revealed a handful of new devices that had been rumored for months. The Pixel and Pixel XL are, of course, the two biggest products from the event as the ...

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• As replacement Note7s catch fire, we're nearing a 'permanent suspension' of our Note7 recommendation

  

  On August 24, we named the Samsung Galaxy Note7 the best phablet available—this based on our glowing August 16 review. Then Note7s starting catching on fire en masse, prompting us to “temporarily suspend” our recommendation. Today, Samsung’s Note7 problem looks all but unsalvageable. Phones deemed safe by Samsung—replacement phones—are reportedly catching on fire. So we’re now considering a permanent suspension of our buy recommendation unless Samsung acts swiftly and transparently in sharing e..

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• German lawmakers vote to ban all new gas-powered cars after 2030

  

  Lawmakers in the Bundesrat, the upper house of Germany's parliament, agreed to a resolution that would ban production of all new internal combustion engines — which means all new gas- and diesel-powered cars — beginning in 2030, Der Spiegel reported Saturday. Instead, "only zero-emission passenger vehicles will be approved," the ban says. On its own, the resolution has no legal authority, because such a ban would have to be enacted by the European Union, not at the national level. However, not..

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• Maserati says it's working on an electric vehicle for 2020 unlike anything you've seen

  

  Today it’s known for its high-end luxury sports cars, but by 2020 (or “maybe 2019”), Maserati hopes to offer its wealthy consumers something that not only costs a lot of green, but is green itself — an electric vehicle. Sure, by the time its version rolls around, electric cars may not be nearly as buzzworthy as they are today. After all, the Italian carmaker is already a bit late to the game in announcing its own EV plans. But don’t worry — as the company’s engineering lead Roberto Fedeli told ..

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• How Mark Zuckerberg became the new face of VR

  

  Palmer Luckey was nowhere to be found.This past week, the embattled co-founder of Oculus VR didn't attend his own annual developer conference. Instead, a different well-known tech genius took the stage, gave the big demos and helped us imagined the future: his boss, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg dominated the first half of the Oculus event last Thursday, showing in great detail exactly how virtual reality devices -- those goggles that put you in a Matrix-like computer-generated world ..

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