Technology News for Friday 8th October 2021

1. YouTube says its auto livestream captions are now available for all creators

The expanded language support for live and auto-translate captions will be coming within the next few months, and YouTube says multiple audio tracks will be ...

2. Yakuza Creator Confirms He's Leaving Sega, Former Series Producer Joins Him

Having first been rumoured back in August, it's now been confirmed: Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is leaving both Sega and his own Ryu Ga Gotoku ...

3. Far Cry 6: All 7 Amigos and How to Get Them

Guapo; Chorizo; Chicharron; Boom Boom; Oluso; K-9000; Champagne. How to Unlock Guapo. Far-Cry-6-Guapo-Crocodile. Guapo is the ...

4. Microsoft will allow more repair shops after activist protests

Microsoft has agreed to let more repair shops fix its devices, caving to complaints from advocates and shareholders about the tight grip technology ...

5. The OLED Nintendo Switch doesn't have a Pentile screen

Pentile is a trademark owned by Samsung that refers to various subpixel matrix layouts most commonly used in OLED display panels. In casual conversation, or as ...

6. Far Cry 6 review: Come for the crazy action, ignore the story

Far Cry 6's cast brings the star power, with the game's big bad guy Anton Castillo voiced by Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito, but doesn't push the narrative ...

7. Samsung expects highest-ever quarterly revenue in third quarter

The Korean electronics giant said Thursday that it expects its operating profit for the third quarter to come in at 12.25 trillion won ($13.2 billion), an ...

8. Tesla will move its headquarters to Texas, Elon Musk says

(CNN Business) Tesla HQ is getting a new home. "I'm excited to announce that we're moving our headquarters to Austin, Texas," CEO Elon Musk said Thursday ...

9. Elon Musk announces Tesla is moving its headquarters from California to Texas

SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla will move its headquarters from Palo Alto, Calif., to Austin, CEO Elon Musk announced at the company's annual shareholder meeting on ...

10. The Nintendo Switch OLED model is now available online

Update October 8th, 11:42AM ET: It seems like Nintendo's stock of Switch OLED consoles has depleted for the time being, though other retailers like Best Buy ...

11. Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio review: A seriously powerful and versatile 2-in-1

Microsoft's latest laptop has some major advantages over competing Windows laptops — and even the MacBook Pro — but is it worth the premium? Here's what we ...

12. PSA: Don't peel off the protective cover on your OLED Switch's glass screen

That's because Nintendo has stuck an “anti-scattering adhesive film” to the front of the display for added protection. Anti-scattering films are typically used ...

13. Nintendo says new OLED Switch has 'improved' Joy-Cons — but drift still persists

Joy-Con drift is a problem of durability that occurs when joysticks “drift” or move without user input, causing a character to move unintentionally. Nintendo ...

14. Metroid Dread: The Kotaku Review

I admit I was skeptical. If a game is genuinely going to conjure a sense of dread, as Metroid Dread's title seems to promise, I think it needs to be thorny ...

15. 'Marvel's Avengers' Is Now Selling Pay-To-Win Items, After Saying It Wouldn't

As of this week, an entire row of the Avengers microtransaction store is devoted to a series of paid consumable boosts, ranging from XP to in-game currency for ...

16. And … action! 1st movie in space underway with Russian crew

Actress Yulia Peresild, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and director Klim Shipenko during training for their October 2021 flight to the International Space Station.

17. The best .410 Ironhide loadout in Warzone

Looking for the best .410 Ironhide build in Warzone? This lever-action shotgun packs an incredible punch, capable of blasting away fully armoured enemies in ...

18. Tesla Will Move Its Headquarters to Austin, Texas, in Blow to California

Elon Musk announced the move at the company's annual shareholder meeting, hosted at a factory Tesla is building near Austin.

19. Are Tesla and Texas a Perfect Match? It's Questionable.

While its C.E.O., Elon Musk, and the state's conservative lawmakers share libertarian sensibilities, they differ greatly on climate change and renewable energy.

20. 11 games that feel brand new on the Nintendo Switch OLED

While functionally the same, the addition of the OLED screen and improved audio offer a much enhanced and immersive experience when played in the console's ...

21. Here's where you can buy a Nintendo Switch

Thankfully, retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart now routinely stock the Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite in multiple color configurations and models, ...

22. Moto G Pure is a $160 phone available just about everywhere in the US

Specs include a 6.5-inch, 1600×720 LCD; a MediaTek Helio G25 (that's eight Cortex A53 CPUs built on a 12 nm process); 3GB of RAM; 32GB of storage; and a 4000 ...

23. Genshin Impact Developers Launch Closed Beta For Space Fantasy RPG

Yesterday, Genshin Impact developer miHoYo announced that closed beta sign-ups for their new game Honkai: Star Rail will begin today.

24. Apex dev promises fixes to ranked Arenas

Ranked Arenas grinders, rejoice. Fixes are coming to your beloved bastion of combat. With the introduction of Seer, changes to World's Edge, and new ranked ...

25. Metroid Dread: All Missile Tanks Locations

We kickstart our guide here right at the beginning of the game with a quick and easy pickup of your very first missile tank upgrade in Artaria. In order to nab ...

26. Hackers are waging a guerrilla war on tech companies, revealing secrets and raising fears of collateral damage

Hackers this week dumped a colossal haul of data stolen from Twitch, the Amazon-owned streaming site, revealing what they said was not just the million-dollar ...

27. PlayStation Boss Wants Change He's Not Willing To Make

Yesterday, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan said he wants his company's games to one day be as prolific as music or movies. He would love to see a world where ...

28. How to Unlock Chorizo

This page of IGN's Far Cry 6 wiki guide details everything you need to know about the animal companion Chorizo, the adorable puppy amigo who is unlocked in ...

29. 2022 Mercedes-EQ EQS Review: Ze Germans Embrace ze Future

The verdict: Mercedes-Benz's first dedicated electric vehicle flagship, the 2022 EQS, is meant to set the tone for all future electric Mercedes — and it ...

30. Avengers Adds Paid Experience Boosts, Pissing Off Everybody

Last week Marvel's Avengers was added to Xbox Game Pass, quickly becoming one of the most played games on the console. Perhaps capitalizing on this forward ...

31. Rockstar Confirms 'GTA Remastered' Trilogy, At The Cost Of Deleting Old Versions From Stores

Rockstar has confirmed what has already leaked a half dozen times by now, that they are releasing a remastered version of the GTA Trilogy, GTA 3, GTA Vice ...

32. 6 Takeaways From Tesla's Annual Meeting

Electric-vehicle pioneer Tesla is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas, from Silicon Valley, saying that land prices in California limited its growth ...

33. How Does Sony Bring PlayStation Games To 'Hundreds Of Millions' Of Players, Exactly?

This week, Jim Ryan talked about the limits of the current PlayStation ecosystem, and how he ideally wants to see PlayStation IPs reach a much wider portion ...

34. Facebook confirms that some of its services are having issues again

Instagram has been experiencing issues for many of us here at The Verge, but it turns out that the problem might be broader than that, according to a ...

35. Google Search launches new built-in feature to help you tune your guitar

While results vary similarly to other guitar tuning apps, Android Police says that Google tuner worked on a Galaxy Z Fold3 and Pixel 5a cellphone. The Verge ...

36. Yes, Far Cry 6 Has A Transmog Feature

Far Cry 6, Ubisoft's cockfighting game that includes a gazillion-hour open-world shooter, has a transmog feature. But you might not know so from the start.

37. Metroid Dread: How to play every 2D Metroid game in order

Explore movies, games, superheroes and more with CNET Culture. Delivered Tuesdays and Fridays. Nintendo used Metroid Dread as an opportunity to take to Twitter ...