TechLatest Weekly News Roundup Week 3, June 2020: Hardware-Based Malware Protection, Valorant Esports Tournament, Apple, and Much More

Google has Chromecast as its casting device to counter Amazon Fire TV Stick, yet the gadget is currently confronting significantly more rivalry from Amazon and different brands. Another gadget codenamed ‘Sabrina’ has been leaked on various occasions. An ongoing break in the firmware, spotted by XDA Developers has given more data about the casting devices. The firmware shows support for 4K spilling at 60fps and support for HDR and Dolby Vision.

GitHub, a Microsoft-owned organization that gives hosting to programming improvement, is dealing with removing coding terms like “master” and “slave.” In programming, the expression “master” can allude to the main form of software projects off which variations are made. On Thursday, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman answered to a tweet from Una Kravets, about the tech network finding a way to rename certain terms – especially, to switch that of the default branch structure from “master” to “main.”

Intel announced a new CPU-based security capability known as Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (Intel CET) that offers protection against malware using control-flow hijacking attack methods on devices with Intel’s future Tiger Lake mobile processors. According to Intel, “Intel CET offers software developers two key capabilities to help defend against control-flow hijacking malware: indirect branch tracking and shadow stack. Indirect branch tracking delivers indirect branch…

This is the fourth but most amazing news of this Techlatest weekly news roundup Week 3. Riot Games has announced the first steps it is taking in the world of pro-Valorant, by announcing the Valorant Ignition Series, which features tournaments hosted by third parties. The Valorant Ignition Series will kick off this weekend with the G2 Esports Valorant Invitational, a €15,000 tournament that will feature eight teams competing from June 19 – June 21.

The 11 Weeks of Android just kicked off recently and we have a lot of good stuff coming up. There’ some new conversation features and along with it Google also unveiled some details about simplifying the password processes for Android apps with one tap. One Tap will support Block Store by the end of this year and One Tap and Block Store will be the part of the unified Google Identity Services(GIS) library for Android and this will replace the Google Sign-in and Smart Lock for passwords.

Sony did an online event and gave the look at how the PlayStation 5 would look like. We now know many details about the new upcoming gaming console by Sony but the company very cleverly avoided giving any pricing details about the PlayStation 5. But it seems like we now have some idea of the price for the new console as PlayStation 5 price is apparently got leaked on Amazon.

A few days back, a new report unveils about the patent filed for Samsung’s titling cameras, Samsung’s Titling camera smartphone will consist of six cameras. Last Year Samsung filed a patent at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Office) ‘Apparatus and method for operating multiple cameras for digital photography’, and now this 55-pages long document is published online on June 11, 2020.

Nokia has teased a new 5G phone with Snapdragon 690 processor. Qualcomm is aggressive with its 5G processors and will be introducing the 5G modem to the affordable processors too. HMD Global’s CPO Juho Srivikas also took his Twitter handle to congratulate Qualcomm on the launch of the Snapdragon 690 processor that is designed to come with mid-range smartphones.

And here we reached to the second-last news of Techlatest weekly news roundup week 3 Apple may launch its first 5G smartphone at the end of this year. From 2019, the Cupertino giant is rumored to feature a Qualcomm X55 5G. But now with a recent report from the DigiTimes stated that a Taiwanese publication claims that the Apple 2020 iPhone will feature Qualcomm’s latest X60-5G modem.

Here we are with last news in TechLatest Weekly News Roundup week 3 which says that Google has for some time been taking a shot at a wireless file-sharing technology on the lines of Apple’s AirDrop. Nearby Share was initially called Fast Share. It was once expected to be accessible just on Android. Notwithstanding, reports presently propose that it may be accessible on every single significant stage, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS.