October 8, 2019 Blizzard Suspends Hearthstone Player For Hong Kong Support, Pulls Prize Money Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai, a pro Hearthstone player from Hong Kong, ended a stream earlier this week with a statement of support for those…
October 8, 2019 Essential and Android co-founder Andy Rubin just tweeted pics of a crazy tall mystery phone We know next to nothing about the images you’re about to see — except that they don’t look like any phone we’ve ever seen…
October 8, 2019 Apple’s first TV+ holiday special will star Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds If Apple TV+ is going to take Netflix and streaming rivals head-on, it's going to need a key weapon in its arsenal: star-laden holiday…
October 8, 2019 The Latest Disney+ Blow to Netflix Is a $5 Subscription Deal You may have caught word a couple of months back of a limited-time, 3-year, discounted Disney+ subscription that shook out to about $4 per…
October 8, 2019 YouTube is letting politicians reserve advertising space for 2020 election The Verge YouTube is allowing politicians to purchase precious ad space on the platform, including ads that target voters in important early voting states…
October 8, 2019 Useless Police Robot Fails to Call For Help When Needed If there was an emergency and you saw a police robot patrolling the area, a reasonable person would expect that simply pushing its emergency…
October 8, 2019 Twitter admits your phone number may have been used for targeting ads Twitter is only supposed to use phone numbers for two-factor authentication, but it appears to have been unintentionally used for more. The social network…
October 8, 2019 EV startup Canoo’s mysterious backers named in new harassment lawsuit Image: Canoo Electric vehicle startup Canoo and its CEO Stefan Krause have been accused of discrimination, harassment, breach of contract, and wrongful termination in…
October 8, 2019 Photoshop and Lightroom users should wait before updating to macOS Catalina Plug-ins that are quarantined returns a Photoshop error, “file was not found”. Adobe is recommending that Photoshop and Lightroom Classic users hold off on…
October 8, 2019 FBI Illegally Targeted U.S. Citizens With Warrantless NSA Database Searches, Secret Court Finds A secretive federal court has ruled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation abused the privacy rights of U.S. citizens by searching for their information…