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Intel is making life a little easier for PC gamers on a budget. A new driver update for its 6th-gen Core processors and above will configure a game to your rig's specs automatically. As PC World reports, this includes the "Kaby Lake G" processors on addition to Skylake. Finally, no more fiddling in the menus on your machine running integrated graphics to get a game to run above 20FPS. At least that's the idea. It's a lot like how NVIDIA's GeForce Experience works for discrete graphics cards. The first games to benefit from this include Battlefield 1 , Dota 2 , Grand Theft Auto V , League of Legends and Overwatch . Sure, you'll probably lose out on shadow detail and texture filtering, but at least you'll be able to play, period. Via: PC World Source: Intel via Engadget RSS Feed "http://ift.tt/2Gi1W0h"

There are 157 new emoji coming this year. What made the cut ? Ginger-haired people, female superheroes, dark-skinned folks with curly hair, pirate flags and... soap. There are also skin-tone options and genders for superheroes and supervillains, a test tube, salt (finally), a leg, balding people and a male and female option for white hair. Unicode says that the set is finalized and that they should start appearing on your phones and other devices as soon as August. Sure, that's still six months away, but it gives you time make a request for the next emoji set before March's deadline. For a quick visual overview of what's coming, check the video below. Via: The Verge Source: Unicode (1) , (2) via Engadget RSS Feed "http://ift.tt/2EbX3Fw"