Latest news with #October
GSM Arena
a day ago
- Business
- GSM Arena
iQOO 15 screen and camera specs tipped
The iQOO 13 was among the first phones to launch with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen Elite when it made its debut in late October of last year and expectations are that its successor will launch around the same time this fall. Digital Chat Station went ahead and shared some preliminary specs for the device, which will apparently be called iQOO 15. As per the post, the iQOO 15 will feature a Samsung-made 6.85-inch "2K" display. This is most likely an LTPO AMOLED panel, and the tipster suggests that it will utilize the LIPO (low injection pressure overmolding) display packing process, which helps reduce display bezels. Aside from the fancy new display, iQOO 15 is expected to offer a periscope camera module, which would be an upgrade from the 2x telephoto found on its predecessor. Previous rumors also suggest a 7,000mAh battery. vivo iQOO 13 Source (in Chinese) | Via
Associated Press
2 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Sha'Carri Richardson joins new women's track and field league as owner-advisor
Olympic gold medalalist Sha'Carri Richardson has joined the new, team-based women's track and field league Athlos as a founding owner-advisor. Fellow sprinter Gabby Thomas and long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall have also become owner-advisors of the league, set to launch next year after the World Athletics season. Athlos was started by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who also has ownership stakes in women's soccer teams Angel City and Chelsea and is married to tennis great Serena Williams. The first Athlos event took place last year in New York City and featured 35 athletes. The prize purse was $500,000, with 10% of the proceeds going to the athletes. Another standalone event is set for New York's Icahn Stadium in October before the new league kicks off with meets across the country and a series-ending championship. 'Gabby, Sha'Carri, and Tara represent a new generation of athletes who have put this sport on their shoulders and deserve to be compensated for being the standard-bearers,' Ohanian said in a statement. 'We were focused on bringing them into the League as founding owners to ensure we're building a League that our athletes will love.' ___ AP sports:
The Verge
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Pokémon Legends: Z-A releases this October
Pokémon Legends: Z-A won't be a Switch 2 launch title, but its release date isn't all that far away. Today, Nintendo announced that Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition are scheduled to debut on October 16th. Per The Pokémon Company International's press release, preorders for digital versions of the games will begin June 5th on the Nintendo eShop. And according to a post on the company's official Japanese X profile, preorders for physical editions of the games start July 23rd. On July 22nd, TCPi is also putting on another Pokémon Presents streaming presentation focused on Legends: Z-A, which will likely reveal even more of the games' new monsters and details about its story. The Pokémon Presents' timing definitely makes it seem like Nintendo intends on getting people hyped up to secure their copies. And given how generally tightlipped the company has been about Legends: Z-A so far, this next presentation is probably going to be one worth watching.
BBC News
3 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Ritchie embracing Edinburgh jeopardy & Lions snubs
Young and carefree, Jamie Ritchie played his first game for Edinburgh on an October evening in Dublin in 2014. Gnarled and focused, on Saturday afternoon in Pretoria he might play his Edinburgh win against the Bulls in the quarter-final of the United Rugby Championship - it's 3-2 Edinburgh in the last five meetings with all of them settled by eight points or fewer - then the story continues. If they lose, the story ends. Eleven years, 130-something appearances and done. Next stop for the 28-year-old back-row: a frenzied, and ultimately, successful bid for a place in the quarter-final, Ritchie feels like Edinburgh have effectively been playing knockout rugby for weeks."Yeah, it does feel a bit like that," the 28-year-old says on the Scotland Rugby Podcast."I think it means we're well prepared for the actual knockout rugby that we're playing now. We've been playing well with a little bit of jeopardy. "In games that we know we need to win, we've stepped up and played well, so that builds confidence."We've had a bit of jeopardy in the last few games and we've really had to lean into that. A lot of the games we've been playing have been physical encounters. We've needed to step up."We know the Bulls are coming with a physical threat and we always seem to step up in those games, so that's something we'll be looking to do again at the weekend. "Loftus is a hard place to go to but it's not necessarily a place that they've not been beaten at."Without the tangible rewards to show for it, Ritchie has been one of Edinburgh's great players of the professional era. You might say that his time with the club has been dramatic from the mid-December 2015, Millie, his girlfriend then and his wife now, went into labour four weeks prematurely. It was a Friday night. Ritchie was due to make his first start for Edinburgh the following day in a Challenge Cup game at London was 2am when the maternity ward staff told Ritchie that the baby's arrival wasn't imminent and that he should get some sleep, go to London, play his game and come back. He slept for two hours, made the plane, and reached into his pocket for his phone before started to ring, 'Millie calling...'. Oscar had been born. Ritchie was 19 years the whole family have a connection with the club that runs deep. You could see that on the night he said his goodbye to the Hive when coming off the bench in a must-win game against Ulster a few weeks back."Very emotional, but a really nice night to finish it on," he says. "The recognition from the crowd when I came on was super-special. "I feel really privileged and proud to have been a part of this club for such a long time. Hopefully, I've shown that I care through the way that I played and hopefully the fans have picked up on that." Ritchie has been playing some outstanding rugby this season, a return to the high-aggression, high-impact stuff that elevated him to the captaincy of a lull, his game has been in such good order that he put himself in the conversation for Lions selection, if not actually ultimately in the squad."Personally, I feel like I'd done all I could in terms of how I performed, so I was comfortable with that," he says on missing out on Andy Farrell's group. "It's out of my control. For 2021 tour I feel like I was further away than I was this year, but I was more upset then. I'm a bit more mature now in terms of how I react to these things. They might come around, they might not."I said this to my wife because she was quite upset when we watched it together. I said to her, 'if you'd looked at us in the position we were in a year ago after the Six Nations, where it hadn't gone the way I wanted to in terms of selection and missing out on the captaincy and humming and hollering about whether or not I was going to go on a summer tour."'If we'd said we'd be sitting here at the Lions announcement day feeling like we were in with a real shout and then disappointed when it didn't happen, we would absolutely have taken it'. That's kind of the perspective I'm taking on it."He's bound for Perpignan, crossing his fingers every day that when he gets there they will still be a Top 14 team. They are in a relegation play-off spot with two games to focus, though, is not on France or the Lions, it's on Edinburgh and Pretoria. The end - or maybe not? The last act - or is there another twist? Whatever happens, the greatest certainty is that Ritchie will empty himself out there.
The Verge
4 days ago
- Business
- The Verge
Remakes of the first two Dragon Quest games launch in October
More upgraded blue slimes are on the way: Square Enix just announced that remakes of Dragon Quest 1 and its sequel are launching on October 3oth. The two games will be bundled together under the name Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake and will be available on the PS5, Xbox, PC, and both the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. This is good news if you're a fan of the series, given that the remake of DQIII turned out excellent, marrying the classic RPG gameplay with incredible visuals and sound, along with some welcome quality-of-life tweaks. For the new remakes, Square Enix says that 'in addition to beautiful HD-2D graphics, a refined battle system, numerous quality-of-life updates, and major story additions, both remakes will feature a variety of new content.' As for what that new content is, details 'will be revealed at a later date.' And if you're wondering why this remake series kicked off with the third entry in the franchise, it's because that's how the storylines play out chronologically. DQIII is set years before its predecessors, and in DQI and II players take control of the descendants of the hero from the third game. It's a little complicated, but in October newcomers will finally be able to complete the story. To that end, Square Enix will also be launching a digital-only collection with all three games, called Dragon Quest HD-2D Erdrick Trilogy Collection. It'll be available for $99.99.
