Gboard for Android is adding Chinese and Korean support

From The Verge: Gboard, which lets you do everything from searching Maps and YouTube directly from the keyboard, to making quick looping selfie GIFs, is finally adding Chinese (both traditional and simplified) and Korean, to its Android app today. China and Korea are two of the largest Android...

A Bug Is Making Your Switch Forgetful

From PC Mag: The Nintendo Switch is one year old and nobody could have predicted just how successful it would be this early in its life cycle. But while remaining extremely popular, the Switch isn't without its bugs. In August last year a battery indicator problem took hours to fix, now the Switch...

VideoCoin raises $35M for blockchain to rival Amazon video

From CNET: Longtime tech entrepreneur Halsey Minor has a plan for tapping all those idle servers -- think of them as "zombie" computers -- sitting in data centers and having them process, store and distribute video. And he says that plan will cost far less than rival services from Google and Amazon...

Report: Apple Planning Cheaper MacBook Air

From PC Mag: Apple has been accused of being many things, but "cheap" isn't one of them. If you want to own a brand new Apple-branded laptop, then the cheapest option is the MacBook Air, which starts at $999. Beyond that there's the MacBook and MacBook Pro starting at $1,299 each. However, the good...

Amazon may stop selling Google's Nest products

From CNET: Amazon may stop stocking Google's Nest line of products, continuing the companies' already rocky history of support for each other's products.

According to a Business Insider report Friday, Amazon told Nest late last year that the online retailer wouldn't be listing any of Nest's newer...

Fractal Design Meshify C Mini Review (Page 1 of 4)

If there is one game that a lot of people at my church know, it is a little card game called Dutch Blitz. Now being honest, I actually was surprised at how few people at my workplace knew how to play Dutch Blitz, but like its tagline, I can assure you it is a vonderful goot game! In essence, the game is centered on trying to get rid of your cards as fast as possible before everyone else can. Without explaining any more of the game, I think it is...

Instagram’s code reveals potential voice and video calling features

From The Verge: Analysis of Instagram’s code has revealed several files that point to possible upcoming voice and video calling features, reports TechCrunch. The files are labeled “call” and “video call” with phone and camera icons that are present in the app’s Android application packages (APKs)...

Facebook Ditches Plan for 2 Separate News Feeds

From PC Mag: In what is perhaps a veiled jab at Snap's new redesign, Facebook on Thursday announced that people don't want two separate News Feeds.

In October 2017, Facebook launched an "Explore Feed" trial in six countries to separate content from friends and family from Page posts; it's similar...

WW2-based Battlefield game reportedly coming this year

From CNET: A new Battlefield game is coming later this year for PCs and consoles, according to VentureBeat, which cites anonymous insider sources. The new EA game will reportedly focus on World War II, following the success of Battlefield 1, which lets players battle it out across Europe during...

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