This is your chance to grab one (or some) of Amazon’s Echo Show displays at a discount if you’ve been planning to buy any of them. Several models of the smart display are currently on sale, and Amazon is even offering most of them for almost half their original price. You can get the second-generation … Read more
Only adults 18 and older can sign up for Meta’s Horizon Worlds at the moment, but according to The Wall Street Journal, that could change very, very soon. Meta is reportedly opening up its virtual reality social experience to younger players aged 13 to 17 as soon as this March as part of its efforts … Read more
In the face of so much ChatGPT news and buzz, Google announced on Monday its own chatbot AI project, Bard, will be unveiled with more details at Wednesday’s Google Presents event in Paris. Bard will serve as an “experimental conversational AI service,” according to a blog post by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Monday. It uses … Read more
WhatsApp has introduced some new updates to Status, the feature introduced in 2017 as an answer to Snapchat and Instagram Stories. One of the key additions is a feature called Voice Status that gives you the ability set voice notes up to 30 seconds long as status updates. The company calls it a more personal … Read more
The Switch just leaped over both the Game Boy and PlayStation 4 to become the third best-selling console of all time. The console has sold 122.55 million units overall as of the end of 2022, Nintendo announced in its earnings report, so it’s is now behind only the DS and PlayStation 2 in lifetime sales. … Read more
Elon Musk may have to think of a lot more ways to make Twitter Blue appealing to potential subscribers if he wants the subscription service to be a major source of revenue. According to The Information, only 180,000 people in the US have been paying for a Twitter subscription by mid-January, and that’s apparently around … Read more
On Safer Internet Day (and with Valentine’s Day fast approaching), Tinder is starting to roll out some new safety features and updates to some others. Users will now be able to take advantage of an incognito mode, which Tinder says is a “step up” from hiding your profile completely. Only folks that you Like will … Read more
Apple’s App Store policies require that the Chrome browser on iOS uses the WebKit engine rather than the usual Blink, but that isn’t stopping Google from indulging in a “what if” scenario. The Register has noticed that Google recently started work on an experiment that would port Blink to iOS. The project is limited to … Read more
A Minecraft mad scientist has recreated The Legend of Zelda inside the blocky sandbox game without any third-party mods or resource packs. Fan and YouTuber C1OUS3R, who has also made Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Bros. inside Minecraft, took nearly a month to craft the Zelda tribute. The developer used command blocks, custom textures … Read more
When Twitter introduced its curated “For You” tab at the start of this year, the feature shipped with an oversight. If you closed the Twitter app or web client after switching to the platform’s reverse chronological “Following” timeline, both would default back to the For You feed after you came back. At the end of … Read more