From The Verge: Amazon and Newegg might’ve spoiled the surprise last week, but today Nvidia is officially launching two new Shield TV devices. The Shield TV Pro ($199.99) and Shield TV ($149.99) are available for purchase immediately — and some retailers have already been stocking them in recent days.

From PC Mag: Game reviews can be vital for the success or failure of a game, but they are also quite a static reference as to the state of a title. Valve is aiming to change that with a new feature discovered in the latest beta Steam client.

From CNET: If you use Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program to change phones every year, the new tweak to Xbox's All Access console purchasing program will be familiar. Players who buy an Xbox One this holiday will get the option to upgrade straight to next year's new console currently codenamed Project Scarlett.

From The Verge: Facebook began testing a new home for news in its mobile app today called Facebook News. It will roll out to a few hundred thousand users in the United States and host reporting from big publishers, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and BuzzFeed. Facebook is paying some (but not all) participating publishers for their work, offering a welcome new revenue stream for the ever-challenged media industry — at least for as long as it lasts.

From CNET: Wireless is where it's at for Verizon. Just look at the company's most recent quarterly results. The company continues to rack up new wireless customers as it goes city by city to roll out 5G. But all this growth is coming from its traditional 4G LTE service, as the company continues to promote the tried and true service.

Meanwhile, the company sees its traditional video business slumping as more and more customers cut the cord for online services.

From PC Mag: Intel's chip shortage for PCs will last longer than anticipated. The company now expects the supply issues to persist through the fourth quarter and possibly into 2020.

Intel has been trying to resolve the chip shortage, which began last year, by investing in more manufacturing capacity. The result has boosted production of its 14-nanometer and 10nm chips, "but that growth hasn't been sufficient," Intel CEO Bob Swan said in an earnings call on Thursday.

"We're letting our customers down and they are expecting more from us," he added.

From The Verge: Twitter says more than 50 percent of tweets identified as abusive are now being flagged by its automated moderation tools first and taken down before a user reports them. Improvements in its machine learning model for identifying problematic tweets enabled the faster moderation, Twitter said.

From PC Mag: f you've decided to give the Galaxy S10 a miss and wait for the inevitable Galaxy S11, we have some good news! Samsung just announced the mobile chip it will most likely use in its next flagship phone and it's 20 percent faster.

At the Samsung Tech Day 2019, the company unveiled two new chips: the Exynos 990 mobile processor and the 5G Exynos Modem 5123. Both are manufactured using 7nm extreme ultra-violet (EUV) process technology and with it realize a number of performance benefits.