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If you splurged on a Galaxy Z Flip, you'll be glad to hear that it's now a better video viewing machine. Google is rolling out an updated YouTube app for Android that supports the foldable smartphone's Flex mode. Prop up...

Online video conferencing services are on the rise these days and with the downfall of the giant Zoom, more and more services are competing in that space. The big names are naturally there, like Skype and Microsoft Teams...

Google will require all advertisers to confirm their legal identity in an effort to increase transparency. Since 2018, political advertisers have had to verify who they are, so this is an expansion of that measure.The co...

Every so often, we hear about leaks of source code for games but, more often than not, those games are no longer maintained or even sold. Sometimes, however, source code for games still in the market does get into the pu...

Microsoft has released the latest update for Skype, adding a feature we’ve seen pop up in a number of similar products: custom backgrounds. These images can be used during video calls to replace the user’s real-life ...

The software Android 11 Developer Beta 3 was released this afternoon for all those people with an itchy trigger finger and a taste for software danger. This software was also released by Google to get feedback from devel...

In the '80s there were no Switches or smartphones to play portable video games on. For on-the-go gaming, you were mostly limited to things like Nintendo's Game and Watch, or those cheesy Tiger Electronics handhelds. Then...

This is Sick Days, a series documenting how jobs are changing during the coronavirus pandemic, as told by workers themselves. This week, we hear from a cop, a morgue volunteer, and more. If you'd like to submit a story, ...

This could be the biggest movie event of 2020--and we mean that literally. There are so many characters in Dune that it's hard to keep them straight. We've got a handy guide to the biggest characters in Denis Villeneuve'...

Samsung sometimes has a tendency to have short term amnesia, forgetting a new product once a newer one gets released. That’s even more prominent with “experimental” but also very expensive like the Galaxy Round or ...

Disney has yet another Star Wars original TV show in the pipeline, according to a new report. The series is reportedly coming from creator Leslye Headland, the co-creator and showrunner of Netflix original series Russian...

Facebook hasn't abandoned its plans to put ads in WhatsApp. The Information reports that Facebook will push ahead with ads in WhatsApp in the future, once it's completed its plan to unify its messaging apps. The new deta...

Rest easy, your cabbages are safe. Netflix has announced that all three seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender are heading to the streaming platform next month. Yip yip!

Netflix has scored the exclusive rights to the upcoming season of Pokemon Journeys in the United States, the Pokémon Company has announced. The anime is returning for its 23rd season, bringing back maintain character As...

Quibi's solution to its big no-TV problem could be rolled out as soon as next month, according to its founder.

The newest Google-made edition of mobile software, Android 11 DP3, was released today with little fanfare. This understates the importance of this release, as several features appearing this afternoon might well change t...

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Bringing esports teams from around the world together for a major in-person tournament isn't exactly feasible right now, nor will it be any time soon due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, Riot Games has cancelled this y...

Google has removed yet another batch of awful Android apps from the Google Play Store for breaking the company's terms of service. The roundup includes 101 apps belonging to a single group known as the 2NAD network, whic...

Karma Automotive promised something attention-grabbing from its turnkey plan for performance EV platforms, and now we get to see just what the automaker had in mind. The latest iteration of Karma’s E-Flex architecture,...

If you’re in the market for some AirPods but wondering if you should hold out to see if Apple releases a new model, one prolific Apple analyst suggests that the wait will be a long one. Apple, in fact, may not have a n...

Gizmodo is looking at a lot of net art these days, but you'll have to scan further than Google Arts and Culture to find it, so we asked net artists for help. Today, Lorna Mills tells us about the gif that launched a thou...