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Its the end of an era for one of the App Stores earliest success stories. Foursquare is shutting down its signature city guide app in order to focus our efforts on building an even better experience in Swarm, the company said in an update. The app will shut down December 15, while the web version will stay online until early 2025. The shutdown is a notable reversal of a strategy the company announced a decade ago when it, controversially, opted to split its famed check-in service into a separate app. That app became known as Swarm while the Foursquare-branded app became a city guide full of user-generated reviews and local recommendations. Now, Foursquare says its future is, once again, the check-in. Were also introducing exciting new features and capabilities into Swarm throughout the year ( some of which may look familiar to you) in order to unlock new use cases that may better support your needs, the company said, adding that additional updates are expected early next year. Its not clear why the company is changing its strategy to elevate Swarm over its namesake app. The company laid off more than 100 employees earlier this year in an effort to streamline operations. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, who is currently co-chair of the companys board of directors, said in a post on Threads that the company is doing fine, though he expressed disappointment with the news. I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news, he wrote.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/foursquare-is-killing-its-city-guide-app-to-focus-on-the-check-in-app-swarm-191054153.html?src=rss
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Another year, another flagship Qualcomm mobile chip. But things are reportedly a bit different with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the company's newest offering headed to premium smartphones. For one, it's using the Oryon CPU that debuted in X Elite chips for laptops last year, according to a leaked slide from Videocardz. It's also using a new 3nm process node, instead of last year's 4nm node. That helps the Snapdragon 8 Elite deliver 45 percent faster single and multi-core performance while using 27 percent less power than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. While we're still waiting for more details on the Snapdragon 8 Elite at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit later today, there's still a lot we can learn from that single leaked slide. As expected, the company is doubling down on its generative AI capabilities, with a 45 percent faster NPU (neural processing unit) than before, and gaming performance will also see a 40 percent boost. The 8 Elite will reach a maximum speed of 4.32 GHz across two cores, according to Videocardz, and it'll hit up to 3.53 GHz in six smaller cores. Qualcomm Given how impressed we were by the Snapdragon X Elite in the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop Copilot+ PCs, it wouldn't be too surprising to see the Oryon CPU working out well on smartphones. According to Smartprix and Onleaks, early benchmarks of the Snapdragon 8 Elite show it scoring 3,025,991 in Antutu, compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3's best of around 2.1 million. Developing... This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/qualcomms-snapdragon-8-elite-is-its-next-premium-mobile-chip-173525493.html?src=rss
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The single-player Squadron 42, set in the Star Citizen universe, has been delayed all the way to 2026. This is interesting because the developers said the game was feature complete last year. Squadron 42 was first announced in 2014 and has experienced numerous delays throughout the past decade. The stated reason for the delay is to apply more polish. Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) boss Chris Roberts said at this weekends CitizenCon that hes confident the title will make its 2026 release window. To sate eager fans, the developer dropped an hour-long gameplay video that chronicles the opening segments, seen below. Roberts also told convention-goers that Squadron 42 would feature 30 to 40 hours of gameplay. He went on to note that theres still some work left to bring the quality of the game up to the level shown in the gameplay video. Squadron 42 is a first-person action game that features on-foot exploration and combat, ship piloting and more. It has an absolutely stacked voice and mocap cast, many of whom are featured in the above gameplay video. The cast includes Gary Oldman, Henry Cavill, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson, Andy Serkis and Sophie Wu, among many others. Theres also the matter of the parent game Star Citizen. Its still not ready for a full release, after being a huge Kickstarter success story in 2012. However, the game has an active alpha community and is still racking up impressive crowdfunding numbers. All told, CIG has raised over $729 million for the title in the past 12 years.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/star-citizen-spinoff-squadron-42-has-been-delayed-again-until-2026-180946358.html?src=rss
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