From PC Mag: The startup behind the Essential Phone is cutting staff.

On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Essential Products had laid off about 30 percent of its workforce. The affected employees were part of the company's hardware, marketing and sales divisions.

The startup declined to confirm...

From The Verge: Chrome 70, the latest version of Google’s browser, is rolling out now on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. The update sees Google reverse some of the controversial changes it made with the last version, by allowing users to stop the browser from automatically signing into their...

From PC Mag: Any new Diablo game release is a big deal for Blizzard and whichever platform it is launching on, even if that release is an old game repackaged. We've known the Switch is getting Diablo III since August, but what we didn't know was Nintendo decided to support it with a Switch console...

From CNET: Facebook may have a run-in with Europe's new privacy law.

The Irish Data Protection Commission said Tuesday that roughly 3 million Facebook users living in Europe were affected by a data breach at the social network in September, according to CNBC.

Last week, the social network said...

From QNAP Press Release: Following the releases of the TS-328 (powered by a Realtek CPU) and the TS-332X (powered by an AnnapurnaLabs CPU), QNAP® Systems, Inc. today completes the 3-bay RAID 5 NAS lineup with the introduction of the high-end home NAS TS-351. The TS-351 is powered by an Intel®...

From The Verge: Qualcomm is launching a family of chips that can add incredibly high-speed Wi-Fi — at speeds up to 10 gigabits per second — to phones, laptops, routers, and so on. It’s the start of a new generation of this super-fast Wi-Fi standard, but it isn’t going to be used to speed up your...

From CNET: Some Sony PlayStation 4 players are reporting they're getting messages that are bricking their consoles, forcing them to factory reset.

Gamers set up several threads on the PS4 subreddit over the weekend outlining the glitch, which was linked to a specific string of characters -- like...

From PC Mag: The first smartwatch with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Wear 3100 chip has arrived.

Montblanc's Summit 2 will start at $995. It features a 1.2-inch AMOLED display, 8GB of storage, and comes in a variety of different shades, including black, stainless steel, and titanium.

The Summit 2 was...

From The Verge: The Dell UltraSharp U4919DW is the first QHD 49-inch ultra-wide monitor on the market, and it has me more excited about monitors than I’ve been in a while. Other ultra-wide displays with a 32:9 screen ratio only have a 1080p vertical resolution. The result is a wide, but short user...

From PC Mag: Adobe's annual MAX conference in Los Angeles serves as a venue for in-depth software training sessions for creatives and a platform for new product announcements. The big news from this year's show is the release of a new fast video-editing app called Premiere Rush CC.

But Adobe also...