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Fortnite players have started speculating about Epic’s plans for its big Chapter 2, Season 2 finale, one that will hopefully feature a big event to usher in the third season. There’s no official word on what Epic may...

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the IBM Think conference as well as a number of different PC, OS and chip announcements from major vendors in the PC business an...

The latest iteration of Google’s Pixel Buds wireless earbuds will get feature drops just like Pixel smartphones, Google has confirmed. With this, Google will release future updates that expand the functionality or usef...

The National Treasure franchise starring Nicolas Cage will be turned into a Disney Plus movie, according to producer Jerry Bruckheimer. In addition to the series, Bruckheimer also said that there’s work underway on a N...

Uber, which has maintained for years that it's not actually a car service and that the people who do drive cars for Uber are actually its customers, has made a startling heel-turn and plans to offer some healthcare benef...

Google has announced another update to its video chatting app. Starting today, Google Duo now features a new Family Mode with fun things for kids, including the ability to doodle live during a video call. This makes it p...

Twitter might let you know if you ever get retweets worth checking out in the future. Jane Manchun Wong, who reverse engineers apps to unearth experimental features, has discovered that the platform is testing a counter ...

One of Google's best-known faces may have quietly made his exit. A CNET source says that former CEO Eric Schmidt left his technical advisor position with Alphabet and Google in February, cutting his last official role at...

Patch notes incoming.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working on launching an app to help people living in countries with limited resources determine if they may have been infected with the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease c...

The right hero in the wrong place.

Elon Musk has been frustrated that Tesla's Fremont factory has remained shut down due to Alameda County's lockdown order, and that anger has apparently reached the boiling point. Musk has claimed that he'll move Tesla's ...

Whatever you think of Doom Eternal right now, id and Bethesda are determined to spice it up going forward. They've hinted at what's coming next for the hellish shooter, starting with a preview of the game's first free up...

With large swaths of the country still stifling under quarantine from the COVID-19 pandemic, more people than ever are supplementing their meager IRL social interactions with online alternatives. But but doing so can bec...

The CW drama The 100 is about to launch its seventh and final season. Ahead of the May 20 premiere, The CW has released the first trailer for the season, one that contains significant spoilers for anyone who isn’t caug...

From Justin Roiland and somewhere far out of this solar system, Solar Opposites has arrived on this inhospitable mess called Earth. Fortunately, it brought a lot of its own mess with it.

This week we're asking you for answers. Earlier we asked you to submit your user reviews of the Joy-Con controllers that come with Nintendo's handheld Switch gaming system. Now we want to hear what you've done to fix the...

The arrival of Apex Legends Season 5 will also bring a new game expansion called Quests, the first of which has been detailed. Called ‘The Broken Ghost,’ this Quest will revolve around the new character Loba, a thief...

A sale on the John Wick trilogy, $30 Adidas shoes, JACHS NY hoodies, noise-cancelling earbuds, and more are some of Saturday's best deals.

The worst-case scenario with coronavirus is not mass death. It's that people come to accept mass death--to accept that someone will die in the U.S. every 30 seconds as "just how it is." Yet that is the proposition being ...

We are a new board overseeing Facebook. Here's what we'll decide.Catalina Botero-Marino, Jamal Greene, Michael W. McConnell and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, The New York TimesFacebook announced the first members of its conten...

Scary stories about Zoombombing and privacy leaks may have you feeling tense about setting up a video call. But under current circumstances there aren't a lot of other options available, so columnist Violet Blue has some...