Apple
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Expensive iPhones boost revenue, but Mac sales tank
Apple has posted Q3 18 results, and the results won’t…
RHA MA390 Wireless earbuds hands-on: 8 hour battery, assistant button, and reasonable price
Phone manufacturers used to ship wired earbuds in the box,…
3 things Steve Jobs had wrong about the App Store
The original iPhone, as innovative as it was, didn’t truly…
Gaming
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Pokémon GO is getting a big new ‘Special Research’ quest next week
Just a few months back, Niantic added its first “Special Research” to Pokémon GO. Sort… -
Black Ops 4 Battle Royale beta to go live on September 10
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HQ Trivia downloads spiral downward as it hits Apple TV
HQ Trivia’s app store ranking has continued to sink the past three months, but it’s…
Zendesk introduces support bot for Discord gaming community
Here’s where to sign up to get Fortnite for Android
Google will lose $50 million or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store
Laptop & PC
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Intel brewing up Coffee Lake NUC mini desktop PCs for pre-order
Intel Coffee Lake NUC mini-PC After launching the VR-ready Hades Canyon NUC earlier this year,… -
Lenovo Miix 630 ARM-based 2-in-1 Windows tablet goes on sale for $900
Lenovo Miix 630 There may be some life left in the tablet form factor, at… -
Compulab releases MintBox Mini 2 PC with Linux Mint 19 pre-installed
MintBox Mini 2 As promised back in March, Compulab has launched its MintBox Mini 2,…
Mobile
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6 million users had installed third-party Twitter clients
Twitter tried to downplay the impact deactivating its legacy APIs would have on its community… -
DoorDash raises another $250M, nearly triples valuation to $4B
Food delivery startup DoorDash announced this afternoon that it has raised $250 million, just five months… -
Autonomous retail startup Inokyo’s first store feels like stealing
Inokyo wants to be the indie Amazon Go. It’s just launched its prototype cashierless autonomous…
Facebook cracks down on opioid dealers after years of neglect
Square can now process chip cards in two seconds
HQ Trivia’s downloads spiral downwards as it hits Apple TV
Gadgets
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It’s Friday so relax and watch a hard drive defrag forever on Twitch
It’s been a while since I defragged — years, probably, because these days for a… -
The Automatica automates pour-over coffee in a charming and totally unnecessary way
Most mornings, after sifting through the night’s mail haul and skimming the headlines, I make… -
Movado Group acquires watch startup MVMT
The Movado Group, which sells multiple brands, including Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss, has…
Tomu is a fingernail-sized computer that is easy to swallow
SNES.party lets you play Super Nintendo with your friends
VR optics could help old folks keep the world in focus
Android
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With Android Pie now available (on a handful of devices, at least), Google’s prepping the…
Fortnite’s journey to Android has been a complicated one. A few months back, Epic Games…
When Fortnite Battle Royale launched on Android, it made an unusual choice: it bypassed Google…
The launch of Fortnite Battle Royale has left Google in a slight predicament. While Google…
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro makes robots in Osaka. His latest robot, Ibuki, is one for the…
Fossil’s Q watch line is an interesting foray by a traditional fashion watchmaker into the…
When Gmail launched with its threaded conversation view feature as the default and only option,…
Google hopes to add a few digital wellness features to its latest desserted update, Pie…