Netmarble celebrates 100 days since release of Lineage 2: Revolution with series of in-game events

Since Netmarble Games released Lineage 2: Revolution last year, more characters have been created than there are people in Sweden. Over ten million, in fact. That’s either one player who can’t make up their mind, or – more likely – a huge swarm of players clamouring to hack ‘n’ slash their way around Lineage’s world. In celebration of 100 successful days since the MMORPG’s launch, Netmarble is introducing some brand new content.

The first thing to roar about is the Maned Lion mount. It’s a new pet you can pick up from the Summoning Circle, or buy at the in-game shop. It’s rare and fearsome, with a speed of 750, resilience, increased crit rate, HP regeneration and maximum HP.  Riding on the back of a Maned Lion makes for an impressive entrance into any battle or birthday party.

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Google Lens to come to more devices soon

Google’s machine learning-powered image analyzer Lens is a useful feature that helps bring more information to you about the images you scan. Its limitation was it was first only available through Pixel devices. Now, Google just announced it’ll be bring the feature to all English-language users on both Android and iOS. And it should be coming out in the next few days as long as you have the latest version of Google Photos. At the same time, Lens in Assistant will be coming to “compatible flagship devices” in the coming weeks. On top of this, Lens will soon be able to recognize common animals and plants, including specific dog breeds and flowers.

Source: Android Police

Google to kill off support for Nexus phones, Pixel C tablet in Android P

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Roughly two years since they came to market as the flagship products bearing the Android OS, the Nexus 6P, 5X as well as the unusual yet overpriced Pixel C convertible will be rendered obsolete when the next version of Android rolls around. Android P is set to be released this year but it will not work on any Nexus phone or on the last tablet Google has released.

Nexus devices were sold by Google on the premise that they would receive OS updates faster and longer than third-party devices. It seems that is not the case anymore. Once the new OS does not support the hardware, it is a matter of time before apps and services stop working on them as well. If you encounter any issues or problems, then you're on your own.

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Amazon claims its working on the laughing Echo devices

It’s like one of our worst nightmares coming true. Some Amazon Echo users are reporting that Alexa has started laughing at random without any prompting. One user on Twitter claims it started to laugh as he was about to fall asleep, another one on Reddit describes the laugh as sounding almost like a real person (after Alexa refused to turn off his lights after three tries). Amazon says they are aware of the issue and are working on the matter.

Here’s Amazon’s official statement about the issue: “In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear the phrase ‘Alexa, laugh.’ We are changing that phrase to be ‘Alexa, can you laugh?’ which is less likely to have false positives, and we are disabling the short utterance ‘Alexa, laugh.’ We are also changing Alexa’s response from simply laughter to ‘Sure, I can laugh’ followed by laughter.” 

Source: Gizmodo