From The Verge: Hyundai is officially purchasing a controlling stake in robot maker Boston Dynamics from SoftBank in a deal that values the company at $1.1 billion, the company announced today. The deal has been in the works for a while, according to recent a report from Bloomberg, and marks a major...

From PC Mag: The latest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator has been available to PC gamers since August, and ever since it launched we've been wondering when Microsoft will release the game for Xbox? Now we know, and Xbox Series X and Series S owners are in for a long wait.

As Eurogamer reports...

From CNET: Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees on Thursday that most teams won't return to offices before June 2021, Bloomberg reported, as the world waits for coronavirus vaccines to become widely available.

Despite this, Cook wants Apple workers back in the office, reasoning that there's "no...

From The Verge: You might have run into trouble messaging someone on Facebook or Instagram this morning. A service outage took down Facebook Messenger and Instagram DMs for many users, with new messages failing to send and old messages failing to load.

The outage appears to have started around 4...

From PC Mag: Just about a year after the debut of the SL2, Leica is back with a second edition of its full-frame mirrorless camera. Dubbed the SL2-S, the new model is, aesthetically, an exact match for the SL2. The differentiating factor is the image sensor—the SL2 is built for high resolution...

From CNET: With the next version of Chrome, Google is moving ahead with a plan to improve privacy and security by reining in some abilities of extensions used to customize the browser. The move had angered some developers who expected earlier it would cripple ad blockers.

Manifest v3, the...

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the ROG Delta S, the world's first MQA-enabled gaming headset. ROG Delta S offers the high-resolution ESS 9281 CODEC with QUAD DAC technology and integrated MQA support to deliver impeccably detailed, true-to-life audio. In...

From The Verge: WhatsApp has hit back at Apple over its new privacy labels for apps in the App Store, Axios reports, arguing that it’s unfair that they don’t appear to cover the pre-installed first-party service iMessage, since it’s not available on the App Store. The Facebook-owned messaging...

From PC Mag: This week, Logitech launched its first video doorbell developed exclusively for use with Apple HomeKit.

It's called the Circle View Doorbell and it's packed full of desirable features including face recognition, "head-to-toe" HD video from two feet away, color night vision up to six...

From CNET: On the evening before becoming a publicly traded company, DoorDash has upped its share price to around $102, according to the Wall Street Journal. That's more than the $75 to $85 target range it initially set last month and means the food delivery company would reportedly be valued at...