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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/...

Spending as little as 10 minutes with an AI tool may chip away at a person’s willingness to grind through tough work, according to a newly published study. A team of researchers carried out several experiments and found that people lost focus and gave up more easily on demanding tasks soon after turning to artificial intelligence for help. The team calls the result a striking one. They say it matches what plenty of people already suspect: leaning on AI slowly wears down our mental sharpness. When answers arrive within seconds, working things out on your own starts to feel painfully slow. That robs people of what the researchers call productive struggle, the kind of effort that actually helps us improve. Scam attempts hit 84% of Filipino adults, losses reach Php121.8 billion Artificial Intelligence designs viruses that kill bacteria more effectively Brian Christian of the University of California, Berkeley, who took part in the work, put it this way. These...

Meta launched two new AI models: Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full . The company calls them its most capable models so far. As expected, these models are built for agentic tasks. This means they can handle multi-step jobs, adjust when problems come up, and keep working toward a goal over time. They were trained at Meta’s Prometheus data center. Two new features power them. Active Memory lets the models recall important details across conversations. Active Focus helps them push through obstacles, recover from errors, and adapt to new information. They can also ask users for clarification before taking major actions. The models handle specialized work in law, finance, and health. For coding, they can track requirements, edit multiple parts of a codebase, and test their own work. On safety, Meta said the models guard private information, refuse harmful requests, and resist adversarial instructions. The company claims its strongest safeguards yet against chemical,...