Jon Favreau Tapped To Write And Produce A Live-Action ‘Star Wars’ Series

He has already been involved with the franchise’s animated TV show.

Nintendo Switch eShop has an indie-heavy week ahead of it

Tonight’s Nintendo Direct will probably preview a number of big name titles from Nintendo and its third-party partners, but right now it’s time to focus on some new indie games. Another Thursday has arrived, which means it’s time for Nintendo to detail the games that will be heading to the Switch eShop over the course of the next week. While … Continue reading

Our Samsung Galaxy S9 potential buyer’s guide: Pros and Cons

Today is Samsung Galaxy S9 Review day across the tech blogosphere, and we’re aiming to make it as simple or deeply involved as users wish for the process to be. As such, the following is a quick once-over of our pros and cons for the smartphone – and its closest brethren, the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus. This list should give … Continue reading

Google is trying to make its fast-loading web tech a standard

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages have one main problem: they only work in a handful of places (mainly Google, Twitter, Bing and Baidu), which makes their fast-loading technology irrelevant everywhere else. Their underpinnings might not be confined f…

Snap lays off over 100 employees from its engineering team

For the second time this year, Snap is laying off employees. As the company confirmed to Recode, Snap plans to let go of over 120 engineers in the next few days, which is about 4 percent of its around 3,000-person workforce.

Study finds fake news spreads faster and further on Twitter than truth

There’s been a lot of discussion about fake news, how it spreads on social networks and how it impacts behaviors like political decisions. But there hasn’t really been an in-depth look into how true and false information spreads on sites like Faceboo…

Immerse yourself in ‘Ready Player One’ with HTC's VR experiences

The upcoming Spielberg-directed nostalgia orgy Ready Player One depicts a run-down future where the only escape is diving into a fully immersive cyberspace. Soon, you’ll be able to visit that digital world, too, when HTC’s Vive Studios releases a sle…

'PUBG' roadmap includes new maps and more stable gameplay

PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds left beta this past December, adding a second map and instant replay feature to the 1.0 release, which also came to Xbox One in the same month. Since then, developer Bluehole has made various improvements, like spawning…

Trump casually dropped a term increasingly used in anti-semitic contexts.

South Korea Vows Tougher Laws On Sexual Abuse Amid #MeToo Movement

The #MeToo campaign is sweeping the country and sparking calls for meaningful action to tackle sexual abuse.