From CNET: Square, the mobile payments company run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is joining forces with Tidal. In a press release and series of tweets on Thursday, Dorsey said that Square is acquiring a majority ownership stake in Jay-Z's music streaming service and that the rapper and music producer...

From The Verge: Amazon has announced a new feature for its Halo fitness-tracking gadget: Alexa integration. With this new feature, Halo owners will be able to ask Alexa devices for various health stats, such as their sleep score or activity points obtained during the day. The integration will be off...

From PC Mag: Nintendo won't talk about what's coming next for its Switch hardware, but a new leak suggests we are going to get a new Switch model with a larger, OLED touch screen before the end of 2021.

The Switch model on the market today uses a 6.2-inch 720p LCD panel, while the Switch Lite uses...

From : MSI is proud to announce a new graphics card line-up based on the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU, uniting the latest in graphics technology, high-performance circuit board design and advanced cooling.

GROUND-BREAKING AMD RDNA 2 GAMING ARCHITECTURE
AMD RDNA 2 gaming architecture at the core of...

From Lexar Press Release: Lexar is proud to announce the Lexar PLAY microSD card.

The Lexar PLAY microSDXC UHS-I Card is designed to keep up with all your content, no matter if they are games, movies, music or books. Avoid slow load times with read speeds of up to 150MB/s and fast A1 or A2-rated...

From PC Mag: Twitter is expanding beta testing of its audio chat room feature Spaces to Android devices.

Introduced in December for a handful of iPhone owners, the Clubhouse competitor is branching out. The Android beta began Tuesday, when users were invited to join conversations—but not yet host...

From The Verge: Intel may owe quite a bit of cash to a semiconductor company that hasn’t existed for 20 years. A Texas jury has asked Intel to pay $2.18 billion for infringing two patents owned by VLSI Technology, according to Bloomberg.

VLSI seemingly rose from the dead in 2019 specifically to sue...

From CNET: Google will stop selling ads based on your browsing across websites, the company said Wednesday. Once it phases out third-party cookies next year, it will stop using tracking technologies that identify you as you move from site to site.

It's part of the search giant's push toward a...

From Crucial Press Release: Crucial, Micron’s global consumer brand of memory and storage, today launched an expansion of its award-winning portable solid-state drive (SSD) portfolio to offer consumers more options for external storage performance, capacity and value at any price point. The new...

From The Verge: Microsoft is finally adding end-to-end encryption support to Microsoft Teams later this year. A preview of end-to-end encryption in Teams will be available in the first half of this year for commercial customers. It will be available for 1:1 unscheduled Teams calls and is designed...