December 19, 2019 US wireless emergency alerts are now more locally targeted As promised, Wireless Emergency Alerts should now be more sophisticated — and importantly, more relevant. The FCC has announced that a slew of improvements…
December 19, 2019 Facebook bans misinformation related to the 2020 US census Facebook and Instagram have banned misinformation related to the 2020 census. They won't allow posts or ads with false information about when, where and…
December 19, 2019 Tell us how Sony’s novel Xperia 1 phone works for you Senior editor Chris Velazco's first experience with the Sony Xperia 1 was a mixed bag — while the handset featured a gorgeous 4K HDR…
December 19, 2019 TiVo announces plans to merge with entertainment tech firm Xperi TiVo is scrapping plans to split its product and licensing divisions. Instead, it's merging with the entertainment tech firm Xperi. The new, $3 billion…
December 19, 2019 The best games for PC So how do you categorize a beast like gaming on the PC? With decades of titles to pluck from (and the first port of…
December 19, 2019 Chipotle is redesigning its restaurants to better serve mobile orders No one wants to wait in line for their Chipotle order, and honestly, most people don't want to talk to anyone either. For those…
December 19, 2019 Orba is a tiny, fun and surprisingly expressive instrument I am simultaneously deeply fascinated by and deeply skeptical of strange niche instruments. As fun as a classic Stylophone is, for instance, it's pretty…
December 19, 2019 Battle royale brawler ‘Darwin Project’ gets full release in January Scavenger Studio's Darwin Project made waves at Microsoft's E3 conference all the way back in 2017. It's been sat in Xbox Game Preview ever…
December 19, 2019 Uber sets up $4.4 million fund to settle federal sexual harassment probe Uber will set up a $4.4 million fund for current and former employees who were sexually harassed at the company. The move is one…
December 19, 2019 BMW now has 500,000 EVs on the road The number of electric vehicles on the road is growing exponentially. While it might have previously taken BMW three years to shift 100,000 models,…