Canadian eSports player "Scarlett" wins IEM PyeongChang championship on StarCraft II's $150,000 prize

Canadian Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn, the only female competitor to qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) in PyeongChang this year, won $150,000 prize pool ahead of the Olympic games representing Canada this year.

The IEM tournament included 18 players representing regions from around the world from Feb. 5-7 in a first-of-its-kind tournament featuring real-time strategy game, "StarCraft* II."

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Microsoft's Build Conference returns to Seattle on May 7

Microsoft's Build developer's conference returns to Seattle, Washington on May 7-9. Registration for developers opens on February 15, 2018. Build was usually held in the Bay Area but is now heading back to Microsoft's home state.

Expected to be discussed at Build are the upcoming versions of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, including Windows on ARM and hopefully a glimpse of some new hardware, possibly a sneak peak at the anticipated 'Andromeda' folding tablet with telephony device.

Nest will now be part of Google

With companies fighting to bring its artificial intelligence technology into its products, the latest move from Google’s parent company Alphabet makes sense. Nest will be merged into Google’s hardware team with its current CEO Marwan Fawaz reporting directly to Google Hardware SVP Rick Osterloh. This merger, according to Google, will allow them to “combine hardware, software, and services” between the two companies with “Google’s artificial intelligence and the Assistant at the core.” But this doesn’t mean the Nest brand is going away, at least according to CNET. The merger was also supposedly years in the making with the two teams reportedly combining its supply chain teams back in 2016. Also, it must be noted that during the “Made By Google” Pixel 2 launch, the Nest got a spot in there, where the integration of Google Assistant into Nest products were discussed.

Source: Ars Technica

Tip on how to stop websites on Chrome from displaying its incessant notification prompt

Chrome notifications seem like a good idea until a lot sites started to support them and now you’ll get the pop-up notification every single time you open a new site that supports it. You can block these individually but that would be a time-consuming task. To completely shut this feature off, you just need to head to this link and flip the toggle from “Ask before sending” to “Blocked.” For those on Android, you just need to head to Settings in Chrome and head to Advanced and then locate Site Settings. From there tap on Notifications and you’ll see the toggle “Ask before sending” and flip that again to “Blocked.”

Source: Android Police