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TECNO has unveiled the Spark 50s with a MediaTek Dimensity chip, a big battery, and a trendy Burgundy colorway. The TECNO Spark 50s is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 6400 octa-core processor, with up to 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of internal storage that’s expandable via an microSD card up to 2TB. A large 6.78-inch HD+ IPS screen is on the front with a high 120Hz refresh rate. There’s a punch-hole cutout for the 8-megapixel selfie camera. There’s a single 50-megapixel main camera on the back, sitting inside a horizontal camera island, identical to the Spark 50 5G . Keeping the lights on is a 6,500mAh battery, paired with 45W wired charging, and has support for both bypass and reverse wired charging. It is also IP64 Pro and MIL-STD-810H certified for being dust- and water-resistant. It ships with an Android 16-based HiOS 16 interface. The TECNO Spark 50s is now listed in India with a starting price of INR19,999 (~Php13,300). TECNO S...

TNT , Smart Communications’ value brand, took home the Philippines’ Creator/Influencer/Celebrity Marketing gold at the 2026 SMARTIES Philippines awards for a campaign that put paranormal expert Ed Caluag inside a haunted house, where the signal kept breaking. Smart’s marketing services operations VP Raymond Anthony T. Samarista and representatives from WPP Media Philippines took the trophy, alongside SMARTIES juror Paul Debaprateem of Sodexo Philippines. MMA’s SMARTIES program rewards campaigns for measurable business impact, and entries are grouped under four marketing channels. The spot first ran in February 2026, with creative from Ace Saatchi & Saatchi and media planning handled by Wavemaker Philippines — WPP Media. Caluag streams an investigation of an old house, and every time a ghost appears the feed stutters. The spirits, tired of the broken stream, start interrupting him right back — a joke that lands because the complaint underneath it is r...

Riot Games will shut down League of Legends Classic in early January 2027, the company announced in a blog post. The throwback mode launched in July but lost players quickly. Many returned to other parts of League, Riot said. Before the shutdown, Riot will add windowed queues in regions with long wait times and keep adding champions through 2026 patches. Riot plans to bring Classic back later, likely as a limited-time event shaped by player feedback. The mode was promoted with a live match featuring ten retired pros at this summer’s Mid-Season Invitational. Unlike Blizzard’s successful World of Warcraft Classic, Riot’s version failed to keep players interested long term. This article, Riot Games to shutdown League of Legends Classic in January 2027 , was originally published at NoypiGeeks | Philippines Technology News, Reviews and How to's.

An open-source app called DroidDeck now lets Android phones run Steam games locally. It does not stream from a PC like Steam Link. It uses ARM64 Proton and x86 translation instead. No root access is needed, and the Android OS doesn’t have to be replaced. Users have to turn off Android’s child-process restrictions before Steam will launch. One tester got it working on a Mangmi Pocket Max after a few minutes, but a simple game called Raft still would not start. The hardware bar is high, so it won’t work on all types of Android devices. DroidDeck requires Android 9 or newer and an Adreno 730 GPU or above, such as the Adreno 8xx line. Adreno 6xx is experimental. Mali, Xclipse, PowerVR, and Adreno 710 are unsupported. Most mid-range phones and Google Pixel devices are out. Storage matters too. The Linux environment takes about 3GB, plus another 1.1GB for a desktop and emulators. That’s on top of the huge file sizes of PC games that you might want to p...

For the first time, two Philippine entries have entered the Global Top 20 of the James Dyson Award 2026. BiDaKidney and Sentinel now head to the final judging stage, where Sir James Dyson will choose the winners. Results come out on 4 November, with Php2,390,230 going to the winning inventions. BiDaKidney UP Diliman graduates Andrew Jacob Buensalido and Allyson Cabrestante built this low-cost, semi-automated peritoneal dialysis machine for home use. Dialysis demand is rising. In 2024, 64,845 Filipinos received treatment, a 22 percent jump from 53,296 in 2023. Home peritoneal dialysis is tough on patients and families. It requires multiple tube exchanges daily, careful fluid monitoring, and manual record-keeping. These tasks are draining and increase contamination risk. BiDaKidney takes over key steps while still using standard supplies. A pump pushes dialysis fluid through the tubing, weight sensors measure fluid transfer, and a dual-tube clamp controls flow to sto...

Microsoft showed off the Maia 300 recently, the company’s third homegrown AI inference chip. Microsoft says it will pump out 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than the best GPU setups and is expected to ship by 2027. Power is the biggest bottleneck in AI data centers right now. Microsoft shaped the chip to tackle exactly that. Tokens are the bits of text a model takes in and spits out. Tokens per megawatt tells you how much work you get from each unit of power. Scott Guthrie, who heads Cloud + AI at Microsoft, put it this way: the company expects the chip to reach that 40 percent gain. Microsoft stayed quiet on which GPU it measured against and how it ran the tests. So the number comes from Microsoft itself. The company also says one rack of Maia 300 can push up to seven times the token throughput of a Maia 200 rack. The Maia 300 splits its work across several chiplets. TSMC builds the compute chiplets using its N2P process. Memory controllers and input/...