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Under a partnership with Samsung, Epic offered an exclusive skin called ‘iKonic’ that was only available to players who had purchased the Galaxy S10 or one of its variants. This exclusivity didn’t stop some obsessi...

I sat in the lobby of the Sister City hotel in downtown New York, laying back on a comfy couch, breathing as deeply as I could. Bjork stayed here for a month last year. I thought that, maybe If I breathed hard enough, I ...

TikTok users will soon be able to choose from a huge variety of independent music to accompany their videos. Merlin, a digital rights agency for indie record labels, has signed a global partnership with the app, bringing...

Three American firefighters died in a plane crash while battling Australia's bushfires in the state of New South Wales on Thursday, according to authorities in the region. It's not immediately clear what caused the firef...

Maybe you've been there before: waking up to a basement full of water with your appliances and storage ruined. The Eve Systems Water Guard Smart Leak Protector is a way to prevent that disastrous experience. Every year, ...

DirecTV has one month to remove a satellite from geostationary orbit, so it doesn't take other satellites down with it if it ends up exploding. The AT&T-owned TV service fears that its Spaceway-1 satellite (a Boeing 702H...

Google has announced some changes made to its Collections feature that make it easier to find and share content related to the things you’ve searched for and saved. The feature builds upon the activity cards Google int...

Microsoft has moved one step closer to making its dual-screen Surface devices a practical reality. The tech giant has released a preview toolkit to help developers make apps for its Android-powered Surface Duo, including...

Game of Thrones' series finale came, we watched it, and...that was that. But according to George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones' final season could have potentially worked out much differently had an early pitch to HBO for...

Riot Games' tentative $10 million settlement over gender discrimination claims might be revised much higher. The LA Times has learned that California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) and the Division of...

In an update on the matter this week, officials with the CDC stated that China’s current coronavirus outbreak has been linked to the illegal sale of wildlife at a market in Wuhan, China, where an outbreak of the virus ...

Apple’s smartwatch may not be the only fitness tracker out there, but it’s shaping up to be the one more people will choose to wear to get the most out of their gym memberships – and even make them cheaper. Crunch ...

Today US Surgeon General Vice Admiral Jerome M. Adams released the first major report on smoking cessation in 30 years. The first (of two, total) made by the office was released three decades ago. Here in 2020, Adams sai...

Archaeologists in Mexico City have uncovered a pre-Hispanic steambath dating back to the 14th century. Its location in the city's historic district confirms the whereabouts of a vibrant neighborhood that once stood in Te...

A DirecTV satellite has suffered a ‘major anomaly’ that has put its batteries at risk of exploding, according to a document recently published by the FCC. The company is working on decommissioning the satellite in or...

Dreamworks' Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is all about a group of (mostly) average kids making their way around a strange post-apocalyptic land. It's been overrun with mutated, sentient animals who've driven most of h...

If the Steam Winter Sale somehow didn’t drain your bank account, then you’ve got another chance to get some games on the cheap beginning today. Valve has kicked off a Lunar New Year Sale on Steam, and though it won�...

Today the folks at IKEA revealed a limited-edition collection of products made in collaboration Teenage Engineering. Included in the mix of items is a speaker with subwoofer, a tripod, an LED spotlight, a bar stool, a se...

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The Pocket Casts crew thinks it has a simple solution to suggesting new podcasts: show what the top creators have to offer. Pocket Casts' Android and iOS apps will receive a revamped Discover section that highlights cura...

We drove past the perfect-circle frozen pond delineating the Booster--the second in a sequence of Fermilab's particle accelerators--and then onto the 2-mile ring road that traces the tunnel that houses the Main Injector ...

If IKEA's Sonos speakers are a little bland for your taste, you might be happy to know that the FREKVENS line, a collaboration between IKEA and Teenage Engineering, arrives in February. The collection is meant to get fun...