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Life is getting weirder and scarier, and we're clinging to what we can for happiness. In some of us, that comfort is found in gadgets, and my current comfort gadget is the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip. It is so damn cool it mak...

A few years ago, a scandal broke out in the smartphone market on how once trustworthy benchmarking tools have become suddenly unreliable because smartphone manufacturers were apparently cheating their way to high numbers...

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted a lot, from businesses to supply chains to schools. We’re learning today that the outbreak will even impact the roll out of new emoji, with the Unicode Consortium announcing this w...

If Formula 1 has Formula E, what about drag racing? You're looking at an all-electric drag car by Top EV Racing. Apparently, it's powered by four newly-developed electric motors by Australian tech company HyperPower Tech...

Disney+ hasn't had much trouble attracting customers now that its honeymoon phase is over. Disney has revealed that its streaming service now has over 50 million subscribers in the five months since launch. International...

France's competition authority has ordered Google to negotiate payments with publishers and news agencies to display extracts on its news, search and discovery pages. The interim ruling comes after France implemented the...

It will be just a week before OnePlus finally unveils its champions for the first half of 2020 but the OnePlus 8 and its OnePlus 8 Pro sibling have all but been exposed by now. Some of the information even comes from One...

If it wasn't already clear that Google is less than fond of the Hangouts name, it is now. As noticed by Android Police, the internet giant has rebadged Hangouts Meet as Google Meet. The old branding is still present for ...

Rock band Radiohead has started uploading some of its concert film archives to its YouTube channel, giving fans something free to help keep them entertained during the long quarantine. The footage is available for anyone...

In its latest update, Facebook has announced a new feature that’ll help users who struggle to manage their social media time. The platform’s new Quiet Mode is exactly what it sounds like — an option to silence Face...

Following a ransomware attack against foreign exchange company Travelex earlier this year, the company reportedly paid a hefty, multimillion-dollar sum to hackers in the form of hundreds of bitcoin.

The best Dell and Alienware deals for April 2020 are here.

Facebook is making it easier to take a break from its app and the notifications that come with it. The company is launching a new "quiet mode" feature in an effort to help users spend less time in the app. With the featu...

Over the weekend, four tigers at the Bronx zoo tested positive for covid-19. The weird occurrence raised questions about the zoonotic transmission of covid-19. Did Joe Exotic have anything to do with this? (Probably not)...

NASA needs the public’s help to identify and categorize the world’s coral reefs. The space agency announced its new citizen scientist project on Thursday, explaining that while it is able to use its technology to get...

Coming into Final Fantasy VII Remake, voice actresses Britt Baron and Briana White--the women behind two of Final Fantasy's most beloved female characters, Tifa and Aerith--knew they were grappling with a long, expectant...

Twitch first revealed its plans for "Watch Parties" back in October 2019. The test feature would allow streamers to watch Prime Video with their viewers, as long as they were also subscribers. Now, Watch Parties beta is ...

If there’s one thing car purists love it’s a manual transmission, but with demand for a stick shift a fraction of the total car sales in the US, it’s easy to assume the old-school gearbox is dying. Not so, MINI say...

Talk shows and sports leagues have used internet services to keep offering fresh content despite the COVID-19 pandemic, so why not comedy shows? Saturday Night Live is taking a stab at it. As noted by Hollywood Reporter,...

Today a new wave of players were added to the closed Beta sessions for Minecraft Dungeons. This game’s standard release is still a few weeks away – it’ll be out on May 26, 2020 – but it’s already generating buz...

The coronavirus pandemic has already been wrecking release schedules for everything from blockbuster movies to new operating systems. But now, even something that's been helping people stay connected in this time of soci...

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