Mafia 3's 60 fps patch available to download now and other top stories.

• Mafia 3's 60 fps patch available to download now

  I think three updates might be enough for Andy's news article about Mafia 3's 30 frames-per-second lock, so I'm turning over a fresh page, quill in hand, to bring you the news that the promised patch is available to download now. If you've not been following this minor controversy, Mafia 3 launched with a 30fps lock on PC, and there are probably dozens of frothing YouTube videos about that. The developers promised a patch that would allow 60fps play, and whadda ya know, that patch is here.You..

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• German lawmakers vote to ban all new gas-powered cars after 2030

  

  Lawmakers in the Bundesrat, the upper house of Germany's parliament, agreed to a resolution that would ban production of all new internal combustion engines — which means all new gas- and diesel-powered cars — beginning in 2030, Der Spiegel reported Saturday. Instead, "only zero-emission passenger vehicles will be approved," the ban says. On its own, the resolution has no legal authority, because such a ban would have to be enacted by the European Union, not at the national level. However, not..

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• How Mark Zuckerberg became the new face of VR

  

  Palmer Luckey was nowhere to be found.This past week, the embattled co-founder of Oculus VR didn't attend his own annual developer conference. Instead, a different well-known tech genius took the stage, gave the big demos and helped us imagined the future: his boss, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg dominated the first half of the Oculus event last Thursday, showing in great detail exactly how virtual reality devices -- those goggles that put you in a Matrix-like computer-generated world ..

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• Maserati says it's working on an electric vehicle for 2020 unlike anything you've seen

  

  Today it’s known for its high-end luxury sports cars, but by 2020 (or “maybe 2019”), Maserati hopes to offer its wealthy consumers something that not only costs a lot of green, but is green itself — an electric vehicle. Sure, by the time its version rolls around, electric cars may not be nearly as buzzworthy as they are today. After all, the Italian carmaker is already a bit late to the game in announcing its own EV plans. But don’t worry — as the company’s engineering lead Roberto Fedeli told ..

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• As replacement Note7s catch fire, we're nearing a 'permanent suspension' of our Note7 recommendation

  

  On August 24, we named the Samsung Galaxy Note7 the best phablet available—this based on our glowing August 16 review. Then Note7s starting catching on fire en masse, prompting us to “temporarily suspend” our recommendation. Today, Samsung’s Note7 problem looks all but unsalvageable. Phones deemed safe by Samsung—replacement phones—are reportedly catching on fire. So we’re now considering a permanent suspension of our buy recommendation unless Samsung acts swiftly and transparently in sharing e..

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• Rumor: Details About Overwatch's Sombra and Halloween Event Have Leaked

  

  Sombra is a name which, when uttered among Overwatch fans may cause much distress. Blizzard seem to be playing some kind of Alternate-Reality Game trick on us about a new hacker character who, until today, we haven’t actually seen.Today’s leak comes from a Russian Overwatch group, with the post ending up on reddit. The post shows off a cropped picture of a computer screen with a very realistic looking still of a character that looks like she would fit the bill.Sombra is shown wearing a purple fu..

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• Tesla's Musk says will not have to raise funds in fourth-quarter

  

  Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk on Sunday said the company would not need to raise equity or corporate debt in the fourth quarter for its planned acquisition of SolarCity Corp (SCTY.O), contradicting a filing the company made with regulators last week.Asked on Twitter whether the company would raise funds in first quarter of 2017, Musk tweeted, "Probably not then either."A Tesla spokeswoman did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Sunday.In a filing with the Se..

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