Pokemon Go is capping off 2021 with a New Year’s event. The festivities kick off on Dec. 31 and include costumed Pokemon, new avatar items and various other in-game bonuses. As they put it in their official pokemongolive.com site: Happy 2020 from Slowpoke! Wait, no—it’s about to be 2022! Why is Slowpoke still wearing those […]
In a case of pandemic deja vu, another gigantic tech tradeshow that looks like it may be falling apart as the COVID-19 pandemic goes on, and on, and on. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert, one of the Consumer Electronics Show’s featured speakers, has publicly announced that his company won’t be attending the world’s largest electronics show […]
The Verge reports that after briefly halting sales of its 6-Series and 5-Series Google TVs due to sluggish, buggy software, TCL this evening announced that the TVs are back. “Recent software updates have allowed us to make significant improvements on the stability and speed of the TCL televisions featuring Google TV,” spokesperson Rachelle Parks said […]
Chipotle has announced it’s opening a new “Digital Kitchen” restaurant this month in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (about 40 miles south of Cleveland) — which will exclusively accept online orders. The prototype location will offer its pickup-only drive-thru “Chipotlane,” some outdoor seats and tables for eating (no dining room), and a walk-up window. Hungry customers should avoid […]
The Verge reports that Tencent is adding to its already large roster of video game studios by acquiring Slamfire, the parent company of Back 4 Blood developer Turtle Rock Studios. Turtle Rock will be “retaining its independent operations” in California and the current leadership team will still run the studio, according to a press release. Tencent is behind some […]
With the introduction of macOS Catalina in 2019, Apple finally brought the reign of iTunes to an end by splitting its features into dedicated Podcasts, TV, and Music apps. There was just one problem — the new Music app isn’t really that different from iTunes, and even the new streaming elements render like web pages instead of natively. As 9to5Mac points […]
Echo smart speakers and smart displays have a handy feature that can show and tell you when there’s a package sitting on your doorstep and even what’s in it. While this is usually pretty helpful, this time of year it could seriously put a major Bah Humbug in your holiday season. Avoid making any Grinch-like […]
Microsoft Teams has rolled out a fix for the dangerous bug that could prevent Android users from calling 911 — and you’ll want to install it ASAP, as reported by Android Police. In his analysis of the issue on Medium, Mishaal Rahman, the senior technical editor at Esper, explains that Microsoft has corrected the issue […]
Halo Infinite is getting Slayer, Free-For-All (FFA), Tactical Slayer (SWAT), and Fiesta playlists, according to a Reddit post from u/ske7ch343, otherwise known as 343 Industries’ community director Brian Jarrard (via Windows Central). Jarrard confirmed that the four playlists are coming to the game via an update on December 14th. 343 Industries previously said that Fiesta, […]
If you’ve been wondering how that major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage happened, and nervously asking, “Could it happen again?,” you’re not alone. The outage knocked out a slew of popular services like Venmo, Tinder, Disney Plus, and even Roomba, and the December 7th outage also put some Amazon deliveries on hold. Amazon experienced its […]