Apple Pay has officiallyexpandedto Ireland today for customers of KBC and Ulster Bank, two of the country’s big four banking institutions. The service also works with EU’s Boon prepay system tied to MasterCard. Irish customers who register their Visa or MasterCard credit or debit cards via the Wallet app can start using the service to pay securely for goods in “tens of thousands” of stores, including Aldi, Boots, Burger King, Harvey Norman and Lidl....

For as long as Minecraft has been around, players have accessed their array of unique materials to build a number of housing variations. As they do, towers usually come up. This guide covers some of the best tower designs and ideas, ranging from base aesthetic and style to different uses. Enjoy some of these immaculate designs! Medieval Tower Designs While a fairly standard design for towers, Medieval is the most classic....

If you’ve missed the Mini Uzi in Call of Duty, rejoice at the gun has returned in Modern Warfare 3 as WSP Swarm. Here’s how to build the best loadout for the Submachine Gun in MW3 Multiplayer. Best WSP Swarm loadout attachments MW3 The WSP Swarm has incredible mobility and handling stats, but it lacks range and accuracy. To compensate, I use attachments that improve the gun’s effectiveness over range and controllability....

Ultra Pro Wrestling has had its first trailer released a while back with some animations shown off and then its first real-world roster member announced in the form of “No Gimmicks Needed” Chris Candido.Today, UPW’s real-world roster grew with the addition of Bryan Clark - formerly known as Adam Bomb in the WWF/WWE, Wrath in WCW, and then finally by his real name in both of those companies. Despite a fairly long run nationally and having a memorable gimmick in Adam Bomb during an era where the company had games out, he was never featured in a WWF game....

The instant I saw Spirefall I fondly rememberedNebulus, a 1987 platform game for the Commodore Amiga and other home computers of the time in which your character must walk all around a cylinder-shaped tower that has ledges on the outside. Created by Pixel Hunter Games and released by Gameblyr, Spirefall has your character, a cute cat, moving left or right in such a way that it always stays in the centre of the visible screen because the spire turns clockwise or counterclockwise with a convincing sense of depth — again, much like in Nebulus....

Welcome back to iDownloadBlog’s lessons iniPhone photography. The last couple of lessons we have been exploring a the basics of photography (iPhone or otherwise). We learned aboutexposure,white balance, andwhite balance locking. Because we have covered the basics, I thought it would be fun to explore a more radical facets ofiPhone photography: lens flare! For years, photographers have come up with all sorts of ingenious ways to reduce that distracting little ball of light that appears in your photos when you point your camera at something bright....

Day 2 of 12 Days of OpenAI: Introduces Reinforced Fine-Tuning for o1-Mini Model OpenAI continued its12 Days of OpenAIcampaign, which features daily live streams highlighting new features or product announcements every weekday for two weeks. On the second day, the focus was on enterprises, unveiling a new capability called “reinforced fine-tuning” for the o1-Mini model. Reinforced Fine-Tuning for o1-Mini OpenAI announced that enterprises can now fine-tune the o1-Mini model for their specific domain-specific tasks using a new method called reinforced fine-tuning....

Destiny 2‘s The Final Shape preview livestream kicked off with a slew of revealing details on the upcoming expansion in June. In addition to a new enemy faction, new subclass, and more, Bungie also revealed that a fan-favorite feature would be returning to players when The Final Shape arrives…Exotic class items. Even though this isn’t the first time Exotic class items were introduced to the Destiny universe, this time they will operate a bit differently....

This week Blizzard revealed more about upcomingDiablo 4in their latestquarterly update, this time sharing more about the new open-world multiplayer areas. Diablo 4 is A Multiplayer But Not Massively Multiplayer They also talked about the storytelling mechanisms, which looks like it won’t be followingDiablo 3, where character portraits delivered dialogue, but instead zooming in to show the conversations taking place first-hand. Keeping with the isometric feel for the simple interactions involving NPCs....

Disneyhas officially struck a deal to purchase Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment empire,21 Century Fox media company. A $52.4-billion stock deal is set to radically transform Hollywood forever as it will effectively eliminate one of the major six Hollywood film studios. Including debt that Disney will assume, the deal is valued at $66 billion dollars. The deal includes the 20th Century Fox movie and television studio, Fox’s 22 regional sports channels, cable entertainment brands FX and National Geographic as well as Fox’s portfolio of international operations, including a India-based pay-TV service....

Dolby Atmos support is coming to the originalApple HomePodin the coming weeks according toApplevia a software update. The new feature confirmed at the same time the company announced a newer smallerHomePod mini, will take advantage of the bigger speaker’s ability to create a virtual soundstage. Apple HomePod Users who connect their HomePod to theApple TVwill be able to benefit from the new feature, believed to be dubbed “Home theater with Apple TV 4K” on all Dolby Atmos content....

In a press release put out by Electronic Arts on February 28th, 2024, CEO Andrew Wilson announced that the gaming juggernaut would be laying off employees, stating that “…we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. This could impact as many as 600 employees, based on the roughly 13000 persons EA currently operates with. Which EA Games Will Be Affected - Wild Hearts? Andrew Wilson went on to state, “We are also sunsetting games and moving away from development of future licensed IP that we do not believe will be successful in our changing industry....

Universal pulled out all the stops to debutThe Fate of the Furious traileron Sunday, with a live-streaming event on Facebook featuring interviews with cast members such asVin Diesel,Dwayne JohnsonandTyrese Gibsonin New York City. The trailer then debuted during the pre-game show for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, with its online debut coming shortly thereafter. Today we have word that the trailer has become the most-viewed in history, shattering a recently-set record....