Developer CD Projekt Red announced new details on the second major update to Cyberpunk 2077 on Friday, couched as an in-fiction news broadcast. According to the developer, the 1.2 update for Cyberpunk 2077 will address issues related to police response to player actions, and add more nuance and control to driving and moving on foot. […]
Instagram and WhatsApp are back online after an outage this afternoon
Facebook’s apps experienced some serious issues Friday afternoon. Instagram and WhatsApp appear to be coming back online after going down for nearly an hour. It isn’t clear what caused the outage, but it was large enough to take down four of the most popular apps on the planet, albeit all running on the same infrastructure. […]
OnePlus Watch revealed ahead of 9 Series event
OnePlus’ long-awaited first smartwatch has made its first appearance ahead of the company’s upcoming March 23rd launch event. Via Unbox Therapy, the company has offered a sneak peek. At first glance, the OnePlus Watch doesn’t have a terribly exciting design. It has a circular face and at least two side buttons. The colored lines on […]
Facebook is expanding support for 2FA security keys on mobile devices
Facebook is finally expanding its support of physical security keys to mobile devices, the company announced Thursday. Facebook has supported security keys on desktop since 2017 and will now enable iOS and Android users to log in to their account via the physical key. A security key is a device that generates an encrypted, one-time […]
Twitter test plays YouTube videos directly in its iOS app
Twitter announced it would begin testing a better way to display images on its app, it’s now doing the same for YouTube videos. According to a new post on Twitter’s Support account, the company will today start testing a way to watch YouTube videos directly from your home timeline within the Twitter iOS app. That […]
Specialized partners with a Tesla co-founder to recycle e-bike batteries
e-bikes are having a bit of a moment: at one point during the pandemic, sales of powered bicycles outpaced all others by a considerable margin. The appealing of easy, socially distanced rides can be hard to ignore, but the resulting boom in sales has led to a pivotal moment for e-bike makers: What do they […]
Amazon Fire TV’s free news app now boasts 88 local stations
Back in December, Amazon launched an ad-sponsored news app on its Fire TV platform. At that time, the app offered local news coverage in 12 cities, including New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, and more. But today, Amazon says it’s expanding local news to “88 major cities” across the US, “including popular local stations from […]
Amazon’s Rivian-made electric vans start deliveries in San Francisco
E-commerce giant Amazon is now testing its custom-made Rivian electric vans in San Francisco. It’s now the second city where Amazon is using its Rivian vans, behind Los Angeles. Amazon plans to launch its Rivian delivery vans in 16 cities in 2021. Its electric vans, built on Rivian’s skateboard platform, can last up to 150 […]
Sony is giving away ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’ and nine other great games
Horizon Zero Dawn, plus another nine indie games, will be free to everyone with a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5, beginning next month, as Sony expands its efforts to support folks keeping safe and socially distant in the final stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Headlining the list is Horizon Zero Dawn. You can claim the […]
TikTok will make personalized ads mandatory on April 15th
TikTok will soon make personalized ads mandatory, meaning you’ll start getting ads in the app based on the kind of content you engage with, whether you want them or not. As things stand right now, the app includes an option that allows you to only see general messages from advertisers. That’s changing next month. Starting […]
T-Mobile customers will get access to a better version of Pandora, free of charge
T-Mobile has announced a new perk for its customers: a year of access to a version of Pandora with ad-free stations on weekends, along with a few other benefits, at no extra cost. This is not to be confused with Pandora’s paid premium service, but rather a version of the free service with a handful […]
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Auto HDR feature to Windows
Microsoft is planning to automatically add HDR support to more than 1,000 PC games. The software maker is now testing a new Auto HDR feature on Windows 10, which works just like it does on the latest Xbox Series S and X consoles. Enabling Auto HDR will add high dynamic range (HDR) to a large […]
Intel’s 11th Gen desktop chips are here with faster speeds but fewer cores
Intel’s next-generation desktop chips are finally here: after a brief preview at CES, the company is fully unveiling its 11th Gen Core desktop chips. They’ll be up to 19 percent faster than its 10th-gen chips. Now, the company is finally able to give us more information about its next family of CPUs, codenamed “Rocket Lake […]
Google antitrust lawsuit amended to target Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox
An antitrust lawsuit against Google has been amended to take into account changes to ad tracking in Chrome. Texas attorney general Ken Paxton announced the multi-state suit, which focuses on Google’s advertising tech, in December. Meanwhile, five more attorneys general have joined the lawsuit, for a total of 15. Filed in December, the Texas complaint […]
Huawei will use its 5G patents to make money off of other companies
Huawei will begin charging smartphone makers a royalty to use its patented 5G technology as the Chinese technology firm looks to open a new revenue stream, even as other parts of its business have taken a hit due to U.S. sanctions. The company said that it will charge “a reasonable percentage royalty rate of the […]