Season of the Drifter marks the next phase of Destiny 2‘s life, and the first chapter since developer Bungie’s split with Activision in January. It brings a major new wrinkle to Gambit, the competitive-meets-cooperative mode that launched with Sept. 2018’s Forsaken expansion, called Gambit Prime.

This eight and a half minute reveal runs through the new mode, as well as the various other additions and changes coming in Drifter — including a first peek at how the highest levels of Destiny play will evolve in the next season.

It’s set to kick off on March 5 for anyone who has an Annual Pass for the year that started with Forsaken.

Blackberry will see Twitter in court.

On Wednesday, former mobile phone giant BlackBerry filed a lawsuit against Twitter accusing the social media company of patent infringement. BlackBerry claims that Twitter is illegally using mobile messaging technology that the company created.

In its lawsuit, BlackBerry refers to Twitter as “a relative latecomer to the mobile messaging world.” The company claims that Twitter “created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry’s innovations, using a number of the innovative user interface and functionality enhancing features that made BlackBerry’s products such a critical and commercial success in the first place.” 

In total, BlackBerry says that Twitter is infringing on six of its patents — covering everything from push notifications to mobile advertising.

BlackBerry states that it had reached out to Twitter in an attempt to resolve the intellectual property dispute, but was unable to reach an agreement. The company asserts in its suit that the use of its “mobile messaging innovations harms BlackBerry and provides an undeserved windfall” to Twitter.

If this all sounds familiar, that’s because BlackBerry has filed similar lawsuits against Facebook and Snapchat just last year. Both those suits are still pending litigation.

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In 2016, BlackBerry announced it would no longer build its own hardware and instead focus on other areas of its business such as software.

Another one of those revenue-driving areas? Its patents.

“We have today about 44,000 patents,” said BlackBerry CEO John Chen at the 2015 Waterloo Innovation Summit. “The good thing about this is that we also have one of the youngest patent portfolios in the entire industry, so monetization of our patents is an important aspect of our turnaround.”

The sad reality here is that BlackBerry, once one of world’s most popular phone companies, is effectively becoming a patent troll. 

When reached for comment, a Blackberry spokesperson told Mashable,”We don’t comment on pending litigation.” A Twitter spokesperson also declined to comment.

It looks like this one’s going to be settled in court.

BARCELONA — OnePlus CEO Pete Lau, who is very picky about corners, doesn’t like the ones he sees on the folding phones here at MWC19.

“It’s not product excellence, having to stop at that level of large curvature,” he said through a translator. “My focus is on the flexible OLED technology, and as that advances and gets really good, what possibilities there are. When those fields can get really small and tight, what possibilities are there for the screen technology?”

Of course Lau would be talking about the degrees of fold. The cult phone-maker CEO, who has an engineering background, is informally known as the chief product designer at OnePlus, and once showed me how he obsessed over the corner radius when developing the OnePlus 6.

While other companies have been launching 5G phones here at MWC19, OnePlus is sticking with a teaser. Up in the Qualcomm booth, the company has what looks like a very long screen covered by a plastic shroud. The apparently tall, narrow screen is a bit of an optical illusion, caused by the casing, Lau said; what’s under there is more likely to be a more normal-looking smartphone.

“It has to go back to a form factor that’s desirable by the wider community … [I] don’t see that as a radical shift from the form factor of what already exists,” Lau said.

While OnePlus hasn’t decided on the name for the 5G phone yet, it sounds like it won’t be called the OnePlus 7. At least for now, OnePlus will be running two parallel product lines: a broadly available 4G phone line and specialized 5G products for specific carrier partners.

“The 5G products have to be customized for the individual carrier in the individual country, where the 4G product works on every network,” Lau said.

Instead of focusing on radical form factors, OnePlus is trying to develop a 5G app ecosystem. At a panel yesterday, Lau announced a competition for OnePlus fans to develop 5G app ideas. Game streaming from the cloud will definitely be one 5G application, and that led to a theme Lau thinks groundbreaking 5G apps will have.

“I think for the first stage, what a lot of feedback will be about is the tightening of the closeness between the device and the cloud. The speed between the two, what possibilities are there on that front?” Lau mused.

Leaning on the cloud more will probably require new service plans, and Lau warned that might take a little while. “Looking at the 3G to 4G transition, that was also very expensive at the beginning,” he said.

“But a technology transition as significant as this is, is going to bring about a change in carrier business models. Their focus on payment for certain amounts of data will transition; what it will turn into, I don’t know,” he said.

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