[ad_1] Every year, Apple airs a new ad in the U.S. for Thanksgiving. Compared to other Apple ads, this is less about showing product features and more like a greeting card. This year is no different — you still see a lot of AirPods. Apple’s new ad is called “Sway” ...
Read More »The best Cyber Monday tech deals
[ad_1] Black Friday sales are everywhere. Whether you’re listening to the radio, watching television, or just casually walking down the street, you can expect to be bombarded with advertisements for the annual event. Which is why it can be so easy to forget the online phenomenon that follows: Cyber Monday. ...
Read More »Find inner peace in KFC’s internet Escape pod
[ad_1] With Cyber Monday just around the corner, things are about to get crazy in busy homes across the land with everyone jumping online, hitting their top shopping sites, and ordering stuff they don’t need. If the mayhem gets all too much, KFC suggests you climb inside its absurd Internet Escape ...
Read More »Cisco tops Q1 earnings targets
[ad_1] Cisco delivered in-line first quarter financial results Wednesday after the bell. The tech giant reported a net income of $2.4 billion, or 48 cents per share. Non-GAAP earnings were 61 cents per share on a revenue of $12.14 billion, down 2 percent year over year. A year ago, Cisco ...
Read More »Super Mario Odyssey Jump-Rope Glitch Discovered
[ad_1] Share. Turns out Talkatoos are even more helpful than we thought. By Hope Corrigan A glitch has been discovered that allows players to get absurdly high scores in Super Mario Odyssey‘s jump-rope challenge. Kotaku reports that a newly discovered glitch has the leaderboard filled with scores all the way up to ...
Read More »First observed interstellar object is a speedy, cigar-shaped asteroid
[ad_1] First, it turns out ‘Oumuamua, which is Hawaiian for “messenger from afar arriving first,” is most likely an asteroid, not a comet, because it lacks a comet’s hallmark coma — the cloud of gas that surrounds and trails a comet. Secondly, it has a super weird shape. It’s very ...
Read More »AppLovin scraps acquisition and takes debt financing instead
[ad_1] The story of AppLovin‘s acquisition has taken another turn. We first reported that the mobile ad startup was in acquisition talks in August of last year, and the announcement came a month later: AppLovin would sell a majority stake Chinese private equity firm Orient Hontai Capital. Today, however, CEO ...
Read More »Best Buy Q3 solid, but later iPhone X launch dinged revenue upside
[ad_1] Best Buy’s fiscal third quarter results were largely in line with expectations, but the timing of Apple’s iPhone X launch provided a headwind to revenue. The retailer, which has shifted to an omnichannel model well as the industry has struggled, reported fiscal third quarter earnings of 78 cents a ...
Read More »Steam tweaks community reviews to fight spam
[ad_1] In other words, if 80% of a game’s players left a favorable review, eight out of its top ten reviews will be positive. That will help keep the small amount of artificially-inflated ‘bombed’ posts from drowning out feedback that’s representative of the community’s opinion. The other fix tracks how ...
Read More »Shadow upgrades its cloud computer for gamers and opens signups to everyone
[ad_1] French startup Blade, the company behind Shadow, announced at a press conference that it is launching new offers, updating specifications and the ability to become a client and buy a subscription without any waiting list. Shadow is a gaming PC in the cloud for a monthly fee. The company ...
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