Nintendo Switch 2 preorders in the US were to start April 9, but it appears those plans have changed due to the new tariffs imposed this week by President Donald Trump. It’s unclear if this means Nintendo will also have to increase the price of the Switch successor, which currently starts at $450. as CNET reports, Nintendo said […]
Android Auto’s latest beta adds a feature that’s sure to raise some eyebrows: support for playing games on your car’s display. Granted, cars with Google built-in, also known as Android Automotive, already let users play an expansive library of games while parked, but now Google’s bringing the same functionality to Android Auto users, albeit with […]
Apple has released iOS 18.4, and one of the biggest features is priority notifications, which use Apple Intelligence to highlight “important notifications that may require your immediate attention,” according to Apple’s patch notes. The priority notifications will appear at the top of your notification stack on your Home Screen. As The Verge reports, the update […]
Amazon Echo users are set to lose the option to store and process their Alexa requests locally, meaning all of their voice recordings will be sent to Amazon’s cloud. As PCMag reports, on March 28, Amazon discontinued the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” setting on Echo devices that support on-device voice recording storage. Now, all your voice […]
It’s been a long time coming, but the Nintendo Switch’s successor is finally being released this year. As PCMag reports, Nintendo officially confirmed the Nintendo Switch 2 via a teaser trailer that reveals the hybrid console, a plan for a Nintendo Direct on April 2 to give more details, and very little else. That leaves plenty we […]
TechCrunch has a new owner, again. Yahoo has sold the tech news site to the private equity firm Regent for an undisclosed sum, according to an announcement on Friday. Regent is the same company that snapped up Foundry, the firm behind outlets like PCWorld, Macworld, and TechAdvisor on Thursday. Founded in 2005, TechCrunch has experienced many shakeups in ownership after AOL acquired the site in […]
If you are one of the millions of people who used 23andMe, your very personal DNA data may soon be transferred to another company. As PCMag reports, the once popular DNA test kit firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer, and CEO Anne Wojcicki also resigned after an unsuccessful bid to take the company […]
Verizon’s previously announced satellite messaging service is now available to owners of some Android smartphones, the company said in a statement. As The Verge reports, it comes at no extra charge to Verizon customers, though you’ll need a Google Pixel 9 or Samsung Galaxy S25 series phone to take advantage of it. The service allows people to send […]
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit for delaying, and thereby falsely advertising, Apple Intelligence features. As Axios and PCMag report, according to the lawsuit filed in the US District Court in San Jose last Wednesday, Apple advertised Apple Intelligence features for the iPhone 16 lineup despite knowing “it could not actually provide the capabilities that it was advertising.” Through its […]
Google’s debuting the new $499 Pixel 9A phone, breaking from the company’s history of releasing the lower-cost Pixel A phones closer to the company’s I/O conference in May. Instead the phone’s reveal is here in March, and Google says the phone should be available for sale in April. CNET got an early look at the new phone, […]