Here's a taste of where we're at in 2019: Every single time Kotaku writes about a fan game involving Nintendo characters, the first comments are never about the ...
There's more to Super Mario Maker 2 than just making Mario. It's got a story mode, for instance, plus online and local multiplayer for groups of four. But the level ...
YouTube's recommendation algorithm doesn't have the best track record. It's been caught mixing up inappropriate videos featuring popular kid's entertainment ...
YouTube is introducing changes to two crucial browsing features, the homepage and "up next" recommended feed, as concerns over harmful *content* spread ...
YouTube today announced a series of changes designed to give users more control over what videos appear on the Homepage and in its Up Next suggestions ...
YouTube is announcing some major changes to its platform today that will give users more control over what *content* they see on the platform. So far, YouTube ...
Apple has hired an experienced CPU designer to join its team. Mike Filippo joined Apple last month with the title Architect, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Apple has poached a top engineer from ARM as it seeks to put custom processors inside Macs in the coming years. As spotted by Bloomberg, Apple has hired ...
Apple appears to be making up for its loss of chip designer talent. The company has quietly hired ARM Lead CPU Architect Mike Filippo to serve as a chip archit.
Apple Inc. hired one of ARM Holdings Inc.'s top chip engineers as the iPhone maker looks to expand its own chip development to more powerful devices, ...
We've been on DisplayPort 1.4 since 2016, so it was only a matter of time before we got a new display standard. And, well, DisplayPort 2.0 is finally here.
While display interface standards are slow to move, at the same time their movement is inexorable: monitor resolutions continue to increase, as do refresh rates ...
With 8K displays in the pipeline and Apple's 6K Pro Display XDR on its way, the DisplayPort standard was in need of an update. Today, the Video Electronics ...
A major upgrade to the DisplayPort spec has just been introduced, and it paves the way for higher resolution displays, all the way up to 16K. Just as importantly ...
DisplayPort 2.0 enables up to 3X increase in video bandwidth performance (max payload of 77.37 Gbps); new built-in features enable improved user experience ...
Though WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, plenty of the app's users are happy to ignore the fact the big blue parent network exists. Somewhat surprisingly ...
WhatsApp is testing the idea of letting its users share posts from their WhatsApp status with other apps. Starting today, users in WhatsApp's beta program will ...
WhatsApp is testing a feature that will allow users to share their Status posts to Facebook and other services, according to The Verge. WhatsApp Status is basic...
Google's move from Play Music to YouTube Music is still unresolved — especially since the final transition of libraries and uploaded *content* between... by Ryne ...
YouTube Music is making it easier to keep listening to your favorite tracks even when you're away from a consistent internet connection. The app is getting a ne.
YouTube Music will soon automatically download up to 500 songs that you listen to frequently and save them for offline listening. Read on to find out more.
If you've been noticing that your PC has been acting a little wonky of late, it could be the result of a newly unearthed bug that impacts how long it takes machines ...
It's usually the speed of a computer when using it that is of interest, but it's also important to factor in startup and shutdown times. Microsoft just confirmed a new ...
If, like my bad self, you're looking forward to the release of charmingly dark Hollow Knight follow-up Silksong, then it looks like we've all got a little bit longer to ...
Hollow Knight was a gorgeous, entertaining action platform game that appeared out of nowhere for a lot of us. The rare result of a crowdfunding campaign that ...
Sony is about to launch a new flagship Xperia smartphone, and it really wants you to pre-order it. Pre-order bonuses are nothing new, but Sony is offering... by ...
If you want Sony's super tall Xperia 1, you'll be able to preorder it starting June 28th. And until its release on July 12th, Sony will gift early buyers with its excellent ...
The Sony Xperia 1 is finally here. Pre-orders for the $949 phone kick off June 28. People who act quickly can score a free pair of WH1000XM3 headphones.
Starting June 28, Sony is opening pre-orders for the Xperia 1. The phone costs a whopping $950, but all pre-orders come with a free pair of WH1000XM3 ...
Apple in June unveiled new versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, but the TV update, tvOS 13, hasn't received much coverage, so we thought we'd go ...
The good The Amazon Echo Show 5 packs a lot of features into a compact smart display that can easily fit on your nightstand. The sunrise alarms make getting ...
Amazon is not only watching over your shopping, TV viewing, music listening and book reading histories, it's also listening to you at home or in the car. At least ...
Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Having an Alexa-powered speaker in your home is cool. But you ...
Amazon unveiled its 100W subwoofer last year to complement Echo speakers with augmented bass. As the Echo Sub needs to be paired with at least one Echo ...
Google has always argued that the data it collects does more than provide power for its targeted ad empire — it also makes its services more useful. But not ...
Google has begun rolling out its data auto-delete tool to Android and iOS devices, allowing users to purge location history and web activities in three- or ...
After announcing in May that you would soon be able to set your location history and activity data to auto-delete, Google is now rolling the options out. Through a ...
Google is following through on its promise to let you auto-delete your activity and location data. It's now rolling out location history deletion tools to Andr...
You can tell yourself whatever you need to feel better about having to stare at your smartphone's ugly notch all day, but it's an awkward design decision that ...
Earlier this month, Oppo teased its upcoming under-screen camera tech with a quick and dirty video, and Xiaomi was quick to announce that it was working on ...
Early this month, OPPO released a short video showcasing the first Under Screen Camera Technology. When using the selfie camera, users will see a short ...
It has now been nearly 50 years since humanity first set foot on another world: our Moon. The Apollo missions that brought about these six successful landings ...
Last year, Verizon revamped its cell plans with three new tiers that, despite having “Unlimited” in their names, don't actually come with unlimited data. But now ...
Starting today Visible, Verizon's all-digital phone *service*, is removing its 5MB data cap for a limited time. This means new and existing customers have access to ...
Things are not getting better for Apple. In a month where 1.4BN iPhones and iPads became vulnerable to hacking, 2018 iPhone sales hit such lows Apple risks ...
Apple has reportedly scrapped plans to include a next-generation, quantum dot image sensor in this year's iPhone, according to The Telegraph. Cupertino was ...
IT LOOKS LIKE Apple's relationship with Samsung could be about to become even more strained, as it reportedly owes the firm's display business "millions".
The next generation in Microsoft Surface hardware was tipped this week to take a radical position. Radical compared to what Microsoft's tried before with real,
In 1975, at the age of 19, Bill Gates dropped out of his sophomore year at Harvard to launch Microsoft with his buddy Paul Allen. Gates worked weekends and ...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said today's tech companies have learned from his experience in the '90s and early '00s when the PC software giant was sued ...
Less than a month after Apple first unveiled iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, the company has opened its public beta program. The public beta is open to anyone who ...
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Apple's latest mobile ...
Maybe I'm using it wrong, but when I finally got to install the iPadOS 13 Public Beta on my iPad Air 2, it wasn't the revelatory tablet experience I was hoping for.
Apple's iPads are the best tablets around, and they're getting even better with the forthcoming software update that will convert the operating system from iOS to ...
After a few compatibility and speed tests, for the first time, I will be leaving my laptop behind when I go on a seven day trip out of the country later this month.
Just over six years ago, when researchers at Harvard announced that they had made tiny flying robots, they immediately began talking about the prospect of ...
They used to call it RoboBee—a flying machine half the size of a paperclip that could flap its pair of wings 120 times a second. It was always tethered to a power ...
The Harvard Microrobotics Lab has announced the latest version of its insect-like RoboBee 'X-Wing' is officially the lightest vehicle to achieve sustained.
Steam's highly anticipated Summer Sale 2019 is finally live--here's what you need to know about all the best PC game deals, the new mini game, and more.
By Eric Song and IGN Staff Welcome to IGN's Daily Deals, your source for the best deals on the stuff you actually want to buy. If you buy something through this ...
Summer isn't the best time to strap a black video box to your face, but it's a great time to buy up all the top VR titles at a deep discount. Starting today and ...
From AAA franchises like Assassin's Creed, Devil May Cry and Wolfenstein, to indie hits like Castle Crashers and Stardew Valley, our top picks from the Steam ...
The Steam 2019 Summer Sale is in full swing, featuring huge discounts on thousands of PC games across a variety of genres, including some of this year's ...
BMW Motorrad has pulled the cover off their latest two-wheeled vehicle today. The company showcased their latest electric motorcycle concept, known as the ...
BMW calls it “Lucy.” It's 710 horsepower, 848 lb-ft, triple-electric-motor, one-off sedan that the automaker says can do 0-62 mph in 2.8 seconds. Lucy's being ...
The Motorrad Vision DC Roadster is the most coherent electric two-wheeler concept to come out of Munich. There are no specs or details on when it might turn ...
As a development exercise meant to explore what it is technically capable of, BMW has modified a current 5-series sedan into a fully electric vehicle capable of ...
When we say we've managed to find some truly unbelievable daily deals for today's roundup, we're not kidding. Highlights include a multi-color LED light strip ...
EA patched flaws in its Origin platform that could have enabled hackers to hijack and exploit millions of users' accounts. The vulnerabilities were spotted by C...
Israeli security firms Check Point and CyberInt partnered up this week to find, exploit, and demonstrate a nasty security flaw that allows attackers to hijack player ...
Researchers at Check Point working with CyberInt have uncovered a chain of vulnerabilities in the Origin gaming client developed by Electronic Arts (EA).
Samsung is said to be developing a new kind of foldable smartphone that takes inspiration from classic flip-phone designs and folds down the middle of the ...
Samsung will reportedly release a new Galaxy phone that you can fold in half, like the rumored Motorola Razr. Rather than trying to make another tablet like the ...
The Galaxy Note 10 is launching soon, complete with a brand new design and a few novel features, but this Samsung flagship will be at least as expensive as ...
Samsung is rumored to announce the Galaxy Note 10 on 7th August and the company is going all out to make sure its latest flagship is at par with other flagships ...
While Samsung is still fixing design flaws in its first foldable phone, the company is reportedly working on a second foldable phone with a different design.
Call of Duty and Dead Space veteran Glen Schofield is joining the team behind PUBG to launch a new game studio. The new studio, called Striking Distance, ...
The complete lack of any story whatsoever for PUBG makes it a great setting for a narrative game, but the PUBG gameplay isn't suited for anything but, well, ...
Apple's iMessage-based Business Chat feature is getting a big expansion through internet store provider Shopify, which is adding support for the feature through ...
Apple's Business Chat is no longer an exclusive club for big companies like the Four Seasons Hotel and Burberry. Cupertino is expanding the *service* and giving ...
Last year Shopify announced Shopify Ping, a free unified messaging platform for merchants to communicate directly with customers in a chat context. Today ...
If you're looking for portable power in the Apple ecosystem, the MacBook Pro immediately leaps out. But the iPad Pro is also a very capable contender ...
Today only, you can earn some awesome miles with this rare deal of 8 miles per dollar with Apple! And, for once, no Apple product is excluded from this giant ...
With multiple high-end TVs on the market today, it can be challenging to know which one to choose. If you haven't decided yet, Walmart has a solid deal on the ...
Looking for a really cheap 4K HDR TV with Dolby Vision built in? Right now you can get the TCL 43″ Roku TV with 4K Dolby Vision HDR TV for just $259.99.
If you notice the ads being served to you are eerily similar to stuff you were just browsing online, it's not all in your head, and it's the insidious truth of existing ...
According to a new patent, Apple is considering adding not one, but two optical sensors to its wristband, allowing users to shoot pictures 'selfie' style and even ...
Since its launch back in 2015, Apple has been steadily adding new sensors and features to the Apple Watch. The first model had a built-in heart rate sensor, the ...
Microsoft has made some changes to its OneDrive *service* that could entice potential users who have avoided the cloud to date based on security concerns.
Microsoft is launching a new layer of security for users of its OneDrive cloud storage *service*. OneDrive Personal Vault is a new section of your storage that's ...
Microsoft announced two changes to the company's OneDrive *service* yesterday on the official Microsoft 365 website. The first increases the storage of the 50 ...
You'd hope that any cloud storage option was secure, but Microsoft is going an extra step to offer enhanced security for OneDrive by introducing a new protected ...
Black Ops 4 got its Blackout mode – a Call of Duty-style take on battle royale – and it did not get a campaign. There's been speculation about exactly why that is ...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 had a difficult development period, one that ended up discarding an experimental campaign mode, and then adding in its Blackout ...
Fortnite is bringing 14 days of challenges with sweet rewards for each completion. The first day involves finding six different beach party spots on the map and ...
14 Days of Summer is here, with a list of brand new challenges and cosmetic rewards for completing each. Find out how to dance at different beach parties to ...
Alongside a new *content* update for patch 9.30, Fortnite's new event--14 Days of Summer--is now live. Despite the name, it runs for three weeks and, among ...
Fortnite's 14 Days of Summer is bringing lots of things to the game. Players are getting daily challenges and rewards, new limited-time modes every day, and ...
Verizon yesterday received the government's permission to lock handsets to its network for 60 days after each device's activation, despite open-access rules that ...
Verizon has received permission from the FCC to lock newly purchased phones to its network for a period of 60 days. The carrier says this is intended to combat ...
Verizon (disclosure: the company that owns the company that owns TC) celebrated an FCC victory this week, as the agency approved a request for a temporary ...
Samsung Electronics is preparing its second generation Galaxy Fold foldable smartphone that will have an 8-inch display and the S Pen, reports South Korean ...
Samsung is starting to make a mess of things. The new Galaxy Note 10 may look stunning but it is missing crucial features and Samsung's handling of the ...
The first phone to use T-Mobile's new 5G network will be launching this Friday, June 28th. Samsung's Galaxy S10 5G will only be available in the US cities ...
It seems Samsung is not going to let the new Moto Razr be the only clamshell smartphone with a folding screen. The Economic Times of Korea reports that ...
Samsung has yet to actually launch its first foldable phone in the market and yet now it is tipped to already be preparing for its next one. Granted, it might.
Something to look forward to: Microsoft's Surface line owes a big part of its success to Intel's CPUs, but the company has been playing with competing silicon in ...
A rumor earlier this week claimed that Microsoft is working on a Surface notebook based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx platform that was designed for 2019 ...
Microsoft is reportedly seeking ties to AMD and Qualcomm as it diversifies its processor offerings into what may be the Surface Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 3.
This week Cord Cutters News surveyed over 3,000 of our readers on a wide range of cord cutting topics. One of the questions we asked was “what streaming ...
The report, USA Connected TV Device Vendor Market Share Q1 2019, finds that there are now more than 41 million Roku-based devices in use, including Roku ...
iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 both feature support for Apple's latest and greatest of goodies for developers; SwiftUI. This framework will allow you to code the UI of your ...
The public betas for all of Apple's latest operating system iterations are finally out (save for watchOS, per usual). We always warn people about installing these ...
Most of the time, the Google Play Store is all you need to find and download apps on Android. Unlike iOS, though, Android gives you the option to install apps ...
We've only reported Google Go's 10 million download numbers last September, and today, the app has reached another milestone: it now boasts 100 million...
Call recorder apps have a bunch of legitimate uses. Some people like to keep phone calls recorded for legal and security reasons. However, the practice ...
Progressive Web Apps have been a big deal lately. Google, Microsoft, and others have been investing quite a lot into PWAs over the last year or so, and they are ...
Rumay “Hafu” Wang's record is nothing to sneeze at. She's won multiple major World of Warcraft tournaments, and she's dominated Hearthstone's rankings ...
What are Auto Chess games? Like MOBAs and battle royales before it, auto chess is a new genre born from a PC mod scene. Starting with Drodo Studio's Dota ...
Auto battling games are all the rage. But until now, games like Auto Chess have never been fun to play with friends. Teamfight Tactics — the auto battler from ...
