Gamescom 2013 Hands On Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag PS4

Ubisofts Assassins Creed franchise is a modern success story about great ideas, novel mechanics, and a collaboration between the French companys many different worldwide studios.

With Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag, the game is going into a new, more focused direction, as it opts to emphasize the surprisingly popular naval warfare aspect from last years Assassins Creed 3 while telling the story of Edward Kenway, the grandfather of AC3 hero Connor.

While quite a few different videos and details about Black Flag have already appeared online, Ubisoft opted to show off a few new things at Gamescom 2013, offering members of the media hands-on experiences with the PlayStation 4 edition of the game and tasking them with taking over a pirate stronghold as well as engage in different things such as harpooning a shark.

The naval warfare from Assassins Creed 3 has been fleshed out a bit more in the fourth installment, as Edward can interact with his ship, the Jackdaw, in many different ways, as well as with its crew. The targeting and firing have been improved, while enemy ship AI has gotten a bit smarter, even if it will sometimes smash into rocks or piers when trying to reach the player.

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Maximum security for your Android with Google Authenticator

Google Authenticator was a security application that already had over 250,000 downloads in Google Play. However, a few days ago Google removed the app and instead launched a new "version", which is actually a new application with the same functionality as before but with several additions and improvements.

The current application is  Google Authenticator and in its list of new features:

1. New entry for Google Play, the same great app
2. Improvements in the interface and the ease of use
3. The options for scanning barcodes and manually add an account have been moved to Menu> Add Account .

What this app does is generate codes for two-step verification on your phone, which can add a measure of safety for your Google Account to access with a code generated by this application and your password.

The problem is that this application is completely disconnected from its predecessor, which means youll have to install and remove the previous version since this application is authenticator2, while the former was authenticator.

Features :

• Automatic configuration through a QR code
• Support for multiple accounts
• Support for multiple languages

To use this application, you must first enable two-step verification on your Google Account. This requires you to go to the configuration page of your account.

If you install the v2 before v1 uninstall and then run it, you get a dialog box to migrate the tokens and then uninstall the version offered is obsolete. Thats fine, but I wonder would it not have been better an update instead of a whole new application? So far I have not found many differences that justiquen.

Here is a video that explains how works Google Authenticator :

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Google Authenticator and can be downloaded from Google Play for free. This application requires Android 2.1 or higher, and so far, after 50 grades, has an average score of 5.0 out of 5.0. Not bad!

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Hitachi delivers first 6TB hard drive

HGST, formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, has unveiled the first 6TB hard drive, claiming it as the worlds highest capacity disk with low operating costs for data centre applications such as cloud storage and massive scale-out environments.

Available now, the 6TB Ultrastar He6 drives are helium filled units based on HGSTs HelioSeal technology. They partly owe their large capacity to the fact that the firm has managed to cram seven disk platters rather than five into the standard 1in high form factor for 3.5in drives, HGST said.

Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at HGST, said that the company has worked closely with customers and partners including HP, Netflix, Huawei Unified Storage and CERN to qualify the drive for cloud computing and other data centre applications.

"Not only is our new Ultrastar helium hard drive helping customers solve data centre challenges today, our mainstream helium platform will serve as the future building block for new products and technologies moving forward," he said.

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HTC Desire 709d unveiled China Only

Just two days after HTC announced the One Max phablet, it outed yet another device. This time around its a China-bound smartphone called HTC Desire 709d.
HTC Desire 709d features a 5" qHD Super LCD2 display and runs on the Snadpragon 200 chipset with a quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A5 processor, Adreno 203 graphics and 1GB of RAM.

Other notable features of the HTC Desire 709d include an 8MP rear camera with 1080p video recording, a front 2.1MP snapper for video chats up to 1080p resolution, 8GB expandable internal storage and a 2,100mAh battery. Just like the HTC One trio, the Desire 709d also comes equipped with stereo BoomSound front speakers.
The HTC Desire 709d runs on Android Jelly Bean with Sense UI on top. There is no official info on the pricing and availability just yet. (GSMArena)

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LG Vu 3 packs a 4 3 aspect ratio Snapdragon 800 and LTE A in a boxy design

A quick search through our rather extensive database of rumors shows that LGs Vu 3 has generated disproportionately less hype than a device of its class and stature usually does. The internals, as rumored, turned out great for the most part. Those include the odd 5.2-inch 1280x960 (308 ppi) display which features a boxy aspect ratio of 4:3, Qualcomms latest and greatest Snapdragon 800 clocked at 2.3GHz and an Adreno 330 GPU running at 450MHz. Along also comes 2GB of RAM, a 13MP rear shooter with an LED flash, and a 2.1MP camera at the front. Moreover, the LG Vu 3 will come running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out of the box, and have access to the worlds fastest mobile networks, courtesy of its LTE-Advanced capabilities.

LG didnt stop there, though – a dedicated rubber rhodium stylus pen has also been thrown into the mix. Sadly, apart from providing the usual slew of functions like note-taking, converting the phablets screen into a notebook for writing and drawing, and the like, it doesnt appear as if LGs new phone will surprise in this particular department.

Proprietary gadgetry and general tech that weve come to recognize will also make an appearance in the Vu 3. These include LGs translucent QuickView case and software features like KnockOn (first seen on the LG G2) and the self-explanatory Guest Mode.

While pricing is currently unknown, LG Vu 3s release date has been set for September 27, for the South Korean market at least – worldwide availability appears unlikely. This is to be expected, considering the relatively miserable amounts of excitement the boxy Vu 3 has generated in the West.(PhoneArena)

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