Get Full HD playback with Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite for just CA$50

Amazon has a new low-cost media streaming player in the form of the Fire TV Stick Lite. Available for just $49.99, the streaming stick can now be pre-ordered with its release on September 30. It supports Full HD playback with HDR, and it comes with a redesigned Alexa Voice Remote that doesn't have volume and power buttons.

The company also refreshed the original Fire TV Stick, which costs $59.99. It offers a quad-core processor that's supposedly 50% more powerful than the chipset on the previous model and supports HD streaming, HDR, Dolby Atmos, and dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi. The extra $10 you'll spend will also get you a remote that has TV controls. It is also available for pre-order, and it will be released at the end of the month.

Amazon prepared for these new streaming players with new Amazon Fire TV UI, which you can read more about at this link.

Source: Engadget

Capcom wants to port 'Resident Evil Village' to the PS4, Xbox One

Resident Evil Village is currently being developed for the next-generation consoles and PC, but its developer wants those who use existing platforms to gain access to it, too. Capcom announced during its Tokyo Games Show presentation that this eighth mainline Resident Evil game to make its way to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. 

A Capcom producer said via a translator, "We're looking into it, but we can't make any promises; however, we will do our best to bring a top-tier survival horror experience to current-generation consoles." If Resident Evil Village gets ported to these consoles, then they will join titles like Spider-Man Miles Morales and Horizon Forbidden West that did the same.

Source: Engadget

Google Maps adds COVID-19 info layer on mobile

Google Maps has started rolling out a new COVID-19 data overlay for Android and iOS. The new layer shows "critical information about COVID-19 cases in an area" so that you can make "more informed decisions about where to go and what to do."

To access the feature, tap on the layers button on the top right-hand corner of the screen and select "COVID-19 info." The app will then show a seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people for the part of the map you're looking at. A label will show if cases are trending up or down, with colour coding to help you distinguish between the density of new cases in an area.

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New Pixel 4a 5G images leak

New images of the Pixel 4a 5G surface right after its specs got released. UK retailer John Lewis accidentally posted photos of the phone a little early. It was accidentally shown (and at the time of this writing still visible) on the retailer's 4G LTE variant listing. You can see in the phone's status bar the 5G logo, which shouldn't work on the Pixel 4a 4G LTE model. Its rear camera layout also doesn't match the Pixel 4as. 

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