Tesla stock spiraled in Friday’s trading, shedding 3.4 percent by market close following a flurry of news about chief executive Elon Musk’s Twitter activity. Musk boasted early Friday to his nearly 50 million Twitter followers that his company could be “the biggest” in a few months. It came less than a day after the National […]
Enlarge / The Fairphone 2 and its many modules. Fairphone Fairphone—the sustainable, modular smartphone company—is still shipping updates to the 5-year-old Fairphone 2. The company won’t win any awards for speed, but the phone—which launched in 2015 with Android 5—is now being updated to Android 9.0. The most interesting part of this news is a video from […]
Sometimes bigger is better, especially when it comes to monitors. Wider spaces translate to better productivity and more immersive gaming. Although the best ultrawides offer something else besides sheer size, if you want the biggest display you can buy, these monitors have what you need. Whether you like the Samsung CHG90 or the Acer Nitro […]
In a Windows Hardware Certification blog post, Microsoft has finally acknowledged this year’s first major Windows 10 update, currently code-named 21H1 and scheduled for release later this spring. Though the Windows Insider team (which releases beta versions of Windows) hasn’t yet talked about 21H1, the Hardware Certification blog post suggests that Microsoft will indeed stick […]
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Shadowlands, sold over 3.7 million copies on its launch day, November 23. That breaks the record for biggest launch day for any PC game, beating out the 3.5 million copies Blizzard’s own Diablo III managed back in 2012. World of Warcraft has been gaining players […]
Samsung has said it will not be attending the IFA technology show in Germany in September because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Instead, it plans to hold a digital event in the same month. The decision, confirmed by Samsung in an email to Digital Trends, will come as a blow to the organizer of the […]
The company was never supposed to succeed. Even its founder gave it odds few gamblers would take — 1 in 10. But Elon Musk decided to go all in anyway, investing some $ 100 million of his own money, over the protests of his friends, family and the basic logic that said a private entrepreneur […]
Enlarge Epic Games As longtime users of every PC gaming storefront imaginable, we have opinions about the good, the bad, and the ugly of Epic Games Store. High on our list of “good” is its frequent offers of free and heavily discounted games, and this week’s new Mega Sale, going until June 11, is its […]
SAN FRANCISCO — As people turned in droves to the video chatting app Zoom in recent weeks, the buzz caught Facebook’s attention. Inside the social network, that immediately set off a scramble. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, ordered employees to ramp up and focus on the company’s own video chat projects, especially as use of […]
Enlarge / The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino in October 2019. Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple has been fined $ 1.2 billion by a French antitrust watchdog for anticompetitive activities. It is the largest fine ever processed by France’s antitrust regulators, and it follows eight years of preparation […]
Scientists have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe since the Big Bang. The explosion, which released five times more energy than the previous record holder, emanated from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth. It was powerful enough to punch a cavity in […]
The new Android Auto. The big change is the system bar at the bottom, which can now show tiny app controls. Here are music controls. Google For reference, this is the old Android Auto. Google With the music open, you’ll get turn-by-turn information in the bottom bar. Google This used to be the Android Auto […]
Coming to Steam on July 30. Libretro RetroArch is coming to Steam as a free download on July 30, marking what appears to be the largest non-commercial emulation launch ever on Valve’s digital download storefront. The news came on Friday via an announcement from Libretro, the open source development collective that maintains the RetroArch launcher […]
If you couldn’t make it to Los Angeles for E3, watch all the biggest trailers for games coming to the three major consoles and PCs in 2019 and beyond. June 10, 2019 3:15PM EST June 10, 2019 PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of […]
Google CEO Sundar-Pichai Getty I/O — Google’s annual developer conference — kicks off next week, and we’re extremely excited to see what the search giant has in store. For 2019, we expect Google I/O to be jam-packed with everything from new midrange Pixel phones to more details of Google’s game streaming service. We expect most […]