Gadget News

PlayStation 4 owners have been complaining about issues with the PSN service most of today (Thursday), primarily about trouble getting into in-game parties and joining voice chats. Sony updated the PSN status page with a...

If you’ve tried to get on Fortnite at any point in the last hour, you’ve likely been greeted with a huge queue wait time. That’s because Epic Games has taken the game servers down temporarily in order to investigat...

We Happy Few has come to fruition in a unique way. Compulsion Games first captured attentions in 2015 with its creepy, atmospheric trailers, also launching a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund continued development ...

A commercially available "quantum computer" has been on the market since 2011, but it's controversial. The D-Wave machine is nothing like other quantum computers, and until recently, scientists have doubted that it was e...

China is home to majority of the world's manufacturing and assembling plants. It is also the most populated country in the world. These two factors together mean that China's energy requirements and pollution output is h...

In a June 2017 meeting with Tesla employees, CEO Elon Musk solicited their complaints about safety issues and promised to address their concerns, so long as they refrained from trying to organize a union, the National La...

Back in March, Apple announced plans to acquire digital magazine subscription service Texture, which offers access to more than 200 magazines for a flat monthly fee. That rate has, until now, been $14.99/month. However, ...

Tonight Apple announced a new partnership that will connect its suppliers in China to renewable energy sources. This isn't its first push to increase the use of clean energy in the country that has been called the world'...

Uber has begun running constant background checks on its drivers so that the company can know immediately if a driver is charged with a crime.

Season 5 brought a small treat unique to the Nintendo Switch: motion control support. Users have been asking for motion aiming support since the port went live, something now possible…assuming you enable the control op...

This morning the folks at Niantic posted a teaser for their biggest update since the beginning. The release of Gen 4 – the fourth year and fourth region in the Pokemon universe proper. That’s the region where all the...

Earlier this week, Facebook hosted a group of reporters (myself included) at its NYC office for a Q&A session about its efforts to fight fake news. The event, led by Head of News Feed John Hegeman and News Feed product s...

A 64-dish radio telescope called MeerKAT has been fired up in Carnarvon, South Africa. In the future, MeerKAT will be part of a larger instrument called Square Kilometer Array (SKA), a massive multi-radio telescope proje...

Want another option for using wireless headphones with your Nintendo Switch? Maybe take a look at the Kickstarter for Genki, then. It's a $39 USB-C Bluetooth dongle for Nintendo's hybrid console. You can pair two headset...

A tapeworm that normally infects barn animals and dogs came as a literal shock for one 35-year-old French woman, according to a case report published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine. The woman learned her...

It’s not easy tracking where and when each Android smartphone is released – but it’s interesting watching which phone goes where. The Moto E5 Play with Android Oreo (Go edition) – as it’s called – was release...

Microsoft's president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith, called for federal regulation of face recognition in a new blog post on Friday. Half of all adults already have their face in a federal database, and vendors are...

By Daniel Roberts Later this summer, Major League Baseball digital collectibles are coming to the Ethereum blockchain. Lucid Sight, a blockchain gaming company, is launching MLB Crypto Baseball, through a licensing deal ...

Fortnite has made a ton of money for Epic Games – hundreds of millions per month, in fact – and now Epic wants to give back to the development community a little bit as a result. Epic recently revealed that it will r...

Welcome back to the 5TIP series on SlashGear, a set of features and/or activities and/or apps to try on any given day of the week. Today’s edition has to do with Friday the 13th Specifically – since that’s what day...

I stood under the blistering hot sun as my phone grew warmer by the second. It was so hot I could barely hold onto it. Unfortunately, my phone was crucial to the Times Square art installation I was there to cover. Unmoor...

Instagram has just confirmed that an issue impacting its service has prevented many users from signing into or otherwise accessing their accounts. Reports are coming in from all corners of the globe showing difficulties ...