‘Minecraft’ celebrates 10th-year anniversary with AR game ‘Minecraft Earth’

Minecraft is celebrating its 10th year in existence. To commemorate that, its creators launched its first augmented reality mobile game, Minecraft Earth. This free-to-play game is available on both iOS and Android. With the use of Microsoft technology like Azure Spatial Anchors tracking and PlayFab integration, this brings the Minecraft game to life—at least in an AR space.

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Marvel plans to bring back Real Mandarin and the Ten Rings in future movies

Ben Kingsley played the Mandarin in 'Iron Man 3', but it was later found out in the film that he wasn't actually the villain of the film

We hear it from Marvel Studios head himself, Kevin Feige. There are plans to bring back the real Mandarin and the Ten Rings in future Marvel films. Feige mentioned this during his recent Ask Me Anything on Reddit. He confirmed that they want to follow that plot thread that was unspooled in Iron Man 3. Your guess is as good as ours where they plan to introduce the characters might pop up. But as ComicBook.com points out, one possible place they could show up is in the Disney+ series, Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

OnePlus 7 Pro debuts the new version of OnePlus Camera

OnePlus updates its Camera app for the OnePlus 7 Pro by adding deeper integration with Google Lens and changing up settings in the app. A long press on the viewfinder will trigger the feature and as 9to5Google mentions, it works offline to some extent. Without the long press, you need to turn on the “Smart Content Detection” setting to allow the app to recognize content, which ranges from phone numbers, website, and barcodes and QR codes. A couple of settings have also been taken out. These include Smile Capture and Auto Nightscape Scene Detection. But the aforementioned Smart Content Detection feature has been added alongside Auto Nightscape. You can now also arrange the different camera modes in the slider at the bottom, so you have easy access to the modes you use frequently. You can even turn off some of the modes entirely.

The OnePlus Gallery gets a refresh, too. The Collections Carousel has a cleaner interface with smaller thumbnails and better organization. And the file viewer now shows the date at the top of the user interface and the Favorites icons has been moved to a new location, too. As we mentioned, version 3.2 of the app is currently only available on the OnePlus 7 Pro but expect it to make its way to other OnePlus devices via the Play Store soon.

‘Black Mirror’ is coming back on June 5th

Netflix just dropped the trailer and release date for the fifth season of Black Mirror. The sci-fi anthology will be coming back on June 5 and will feature three new stories. Some of the stars you can expect to see include Miley Cyrus, Anthony Mackie, Topher Grace, Nicole Beharie, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Angourie Rice. Just as in the past seasons, these episodes created by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones focuses on the potential effects of technology on our society.