During a recent subway outage in San Francisco I decided to build a webapp in the spirit of "Do I Need an Umbrella," basically to answer the question "Should I take the subway or a bus?" In the intere...
PineDrama/Kiichiro Sato/AP. TikTok has rolled out a new micro drama app in the US and Brazil called PineDrama. The app's feed looks a lot like TikTok's, but just contains videos from mini drama series...
The ransomware family’s abuse of Polygon smart contracts echoes techniques recently seen in Ethereum-based attacks....
If you're seeking the absolute best of the best in PC gaming performance, look no further than Alienware's flagship Area-51 prebuilts. Following CES 2026 , Dell has discounted an Alienware Area-51 AMD...
Our sneak peek at the most promising cars, trucks, and SUVs of the next few years....
This week, Nintendo finally removed an infamous, adults only-themed island from Animal Crossing: New Horizons . Existing since 2020, the suggestive fan creation was almost as old as the game, and gain...
An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interc...
As we predicted , the world's biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads , but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs -...
The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and bl...
Amazon has announced that the servers for New World: Aeternum , one of the company's MMOs, will be shut down on January 31st, 2027. The game will also be delisted and no longer available for purchase ...
The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent since just after noon ET, with phones sw...
Microsoft is getting ready to show the first gameplay of Forza Horizon 6 next week , and it might also be ready to put a date on its release, too. X poster Xbox Infinite claims they received a Forza H...
Hi HN — I built Microwave, a native iOS app for browsing and posting short-form videos, similar to TikTok, but implemented as a pure client on top of Bluesky / AT Protocol. There’s no custom backend: ...
Our picks include carrying cases and ones you can leave on during handheld and docked play. | Image: The Verge, Getty Images You might find it kind of sad to put your hard-earned Switch 2 into a prote...
Now is the time to retire that pedal-powered bike of yours and upgrade to electric. The price of electric assisted bikes has plummeted over the past year. Nowadays you can find a decent bike for well ...
Mayor concerned that capital will be at ‘sharpest edge of change’ given dependence on white-collar jobs...
January's list of PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions has been leaked online, and includes Resident Evil Village . As ever, this month's additions have been leaked ahead of time by Dealabs ' relia...
Animoca’s Somo acquisition expands its digital collectibles strategy as NFTs show early signs of renewed trading activity....
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Polymarket partnered with the Golden Globes, showing viewers betting odds for each award category. Ultimately, Poly...
Consumers are spending more than ever on mobile apps. Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images The "year of mobile" may finally be upon us. Mobile adtech firm Liftoff filed to go public this ...