From CNET: Amazon will say goodbye to its bookstores, along with its 4-star and Pop Up stores in the US and the UK, the company confirmed Wednesday. The closures won't affect grocery stores and the dates the stores will stop operating vary.

The e-commerce giant will close 68 stores in total. The 4...

From The Verge: Netflix has made an offer to acquire Next Games, the Finland-based developer behind mobile puzzle RPG Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales. In a blog post, Netflix’s VP of games Mike Verdu said that the acquisition was to help the company “build a library of great games for our members to...

From PC Mag: Instagram feed videos now feature auto-generated captions—an accessibility boost for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or prefer watching videos without sound.

"It's a long time coming," company CEO Adam Mosseri tweeted on Tuesday. "But we're excited to share a new tool that...

From CNET: Fitbit issued a nationwide recall on Wednesday for its Ionic smartwatch due to a burn hazard. It follows reports of the lithium battery overheating and causing injuries, according to the United States Consumer Product and Safety Commission. The Google-owned wearable maker has received 115...

From Lexar Press Release: Lexar is proud to announce the new Lexar Professional 1800x SDXC UHS-II Card GOLD Series. It is the perfect memory solution for professional photographers and videographers who want to dramatically accelerate their workflow from start to finish.

With speeds up to 270MB/s...

From The Verge: Amazon Luna — the company’s cloud-based game streaming service — is officially launching in the US today for anyone to use, in addition to adding a variety of new features, including free games for Amazon Prime members.

Luna was announced in fall 2020, but since then, it has only...

From PC Mag: Nvidia has confirmed that hackers stole data from the company during last week's breach.

“We are aware that the threat actor took employee credentials and some Nvidia proprietary information from our systems and has begun leaking it online,” the company said in a statement.

Nvidia...

From CNET: TikTok on Monday confirmed that it has expanded its maximum video length to 10 minutes. The popular social media platform has been steadily expanding the length of videos the last several years, extending videos first from 15 seconds to 60 seconds and then, in July, launching 3-minute...

From The Verge: Honor’s latest flagship smartphone, the Magic 4 Pro, can be fast-charged wirelessly at 100W, allowing it to be charged to 50 percent in just 15 minutes, the former Huawei sub-brand announced today. As well as 100W wireless charging, the phone is also equipped with 100W wired charging...

From PC Mag: The new information superhighway is open, so now it's time to fine-tune your engine. Qualcomm announced its X70 modem on Monday at MWC, which it says can get better range out of existing 5G networks when it debuts in devices toward the end of this year.

Qualcomm's modems appear in most...