It’s never easy narrowing down a list of the best games of the year, but 2019 seemed particularly difficult for the editors at The Verge. There wasn’t a single blockbuster that dominated the conversation, but that doesn’t mean it was a bad year for games — in fact, the depth and breadth of titles was […]
Spotify is testing a new feature, Tastebuds, that lets users discover new music through their friends, TechCrunch reports. The feature was first discovered by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who found the prototype on the web version of Spotify through reverse-engineering. While not much is known about the feature yet, a dummy landing page that […]
On Tuesday, Apple released iOS 13.3, and one of its key new features was Communication Limits, which lets parents set limits on who their kids talk to or message with… in theory. Well, CNBC did some digging and discovered that due to some bugs related to iCloud’s contact sync feature, it turns out the new […]
Are you a fervent chatter? You might want to check out Yap, the new chat application built by Postlight, a digital product studio, that seems to be the new “it” room for chatting it up. Yap is pretty simple. It’s a six-person chat room (“Because seven is annoying,” says the official blog), where every message […]
Whether you’re hoping to gift a capable gaming laptop to a loved one for the holidays or you just want to get one for yourself, Amazon has some great deals right now. Of this batch of sales, the one that sticks out the most is the model equipped with the Nvidia RTX 2060 graphics […]
TED announced a new climate change initiative called Countdown with the help of YouTube and a coalition of global leaders and nonprofit environmental organizations at an event in New York City. The effort plans to gather new ideas to combat the climate crisis, and is focused on five broad topics: renewable energy, infrastructure, transportation, food, […]
The Federal Trade Commission has officially ruled that Cambridge Analytica deceived consumers through its data-gathering practices. In July, the FTC accused the consulting company, as well as CEO Alexander Nix and app developer Aleksandr Kogan, of collecting data on tens of millions of Facebook users through a personality-testing app. The news, first revealed in 2018, […]
Google is finally adding the ability to manually tag someone in Google Photos, as reported by Android Police. Google Photos has always been able to automatically recognize faces and sort them for you, which makes managing your library far easier than having to tag people manually. But the system misses faces sometimes, and there’s never […]
Disney+ has quickly become the only streaming service people want to talk about in the weeks since it launched, and a big part of that is because of The Mandalorian; specifically, the existence of one Baby Yoda. The Mandalorian is an incredibly fun, well-crafted show on its own, and Baby Yoda is undeniably wholesome and […]
Tech Gadget Alert! Nashville-based tech company Artiphon has a new music-making gadget up for backing on Kickstarter called Orba. The Orba is a small, handheld device that’s a synth, looper, and controller all in one. It’s shaped like a halved grapefruit, and mimics the gestures used on smartphones and trackpads to let you make beats […]