From PC Mag: Amazon wants everyone using Alexa, including kids. With that in mind, you can now pre-order an Echo Dot Kids Edition, which ships with a kid-friendly version of Alexa and free access to a range of content for an entire year.

The Echo Dot Kids Edition launches on May 9, but is available...

From PC World: Microsoft continued its gradual push toward making the Xbox One more like PCs by announcing it will soon support compatible 120Hz displays for its game console platform. How soon? Try today. The new features are part of the "April Xbox Update," and it's rolling out over the "next few...

From CNET: Twitter the company has always struggled to live up to the hype of Twitter the product.

It's a world-changing service, whose instant communication has helped bring life to social and political movements like the Arab Spring, #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. It's brought people to the front...

From PC Mag: Heads up, cord cutters: Roku's free, ad-supported streaming channel is getting a new perk: live news.

Launched in September, The Roku Channel already offers around 1,000 movies and TV episodes you can watch for free, with ads. Beginning in mid-May, you'll also be able to watch live...

From PC World: Think of AMD’s new Combat Crates as PC gaming supply crates dropped behind enemy lines during the zombie apocalypse. Yup, finding a graphics card to game with has gotten that bad that AMD has had to resort to bundling up Radeon GPUs with a motherboard and Ryzen CPUs to get hardware...

From CNET: For Verizon, no news is bad news when it comes to customer growth.

After a flurry of promotional activity in 2017, which saw the return of unlimited data plans in a big way, as well as media bundles like free Netflix for T-Mobile subscribers and HBO Go thrown into AT&T wireless plans...

From CNET: Bloomberg on Monday reported on the secret project, named "Vesta" after the Roman goddess of the hearth, citing anonymous sources familiar with the plans. The device could reach consumers as early as next year, though it may also be scrapped during development, the publication reported...

From The Verge: An update to how Google manages podcasts appears to be forthcoming, starting with the ability to start and resume podcasts between your Google Assistant devices. Now, if you begin listening to a podcast on your phone, you can pause and continue listening to the rest on a Google Home...

From PC Mag: The entertainment industry has a never-ending fight on its hands against piracy. Typically we hear about one or more of the big publishers going after a company or individuals, but late last week, the entire entertainment industry came together to sue one company.

As GeekWire reports...