Nintendo Announces Special Edition Animal Crossing Switch

From PC Mag: The Switch continues to sell incredibly well, but Nintendo isn't one to miss an opportunity to bolster sales, so we're getting a special edition Switch console with a design inspired by Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

As the Nintendo of America tweet below clearly shows, Nintendo has...

Amazon surprises Wall Street with a blowout holiday quarter

From CNET: It's OK if you got motion sickness from following Amazon's earnings reports over the past year.

Case in point: The e-commerce heavyweight's profits crashed in the second and third quarters of 2019, following a heady string of record earnings. And just when profits seemed to be on their...

Huawei overtakes Apple in annual race to Samsung’s smartphone crown

From The Verge: Huawei overtook Apple to become the world’s second best selling smartphone manufacturer in 2019, according to reports from Strategy Analytics, Counterpoint Research, and Canalys. Over the course of the year, the Chinese manufacturer reportedly shipped around 240 million phones...

Nokia's Next Feature Phone May Run Android

From PC Mag: Two mobile operating systems dominate the smartphone market, but while iOS may be limited to Apple's own devices, it looks as though Android is about to branch out on to feature phones for the first time.

As XDA Developers reports, a new feature phone model has appeared on the Wi-Fi...

Lyft lays off 90 employees after evaluating resources

From CNET: Lyft hasn't experienced a smooth ride on Wall Street since it went public last March. In an attempt to rein in costs, the ride-hailing company announced Wednesday that it's laying off 90 employees from its marketing and enterprise sales departments. The news was first reported by The New...

Wireless carriers may soon boost speeds with a bunch of free spectrum

From The Verge: Wireless carriers are expected to start boosting LTE speeds and augmenting their 5G rollouts later this year with a swath of spectrum that, as of this week, is finally ready for commercial use. Many popular phones — including Apple’s iPhone 11, Samsung’s Galaxy S10, and Google’s...

Avast Defends Data Harvesting, Plans to Get Users to Agree to It

From PC Mag: Avast plans on exploring "further changes" to the company's practice of selling users' browser histories to third-party companies. But in the meantime, the antivirus vendor will try to opt more users into the data-sharing, despite the privacy risks.

On Tuesday, the company published a...

Google to translate and transcribe conversations in real time

From CNET: Google on Tuesday unveiled a feature that'll let people use their phones to both transcribe and translate a conversation in real time into a language that isn't being spoken. The tool will be available for the Google Translate app in the coming months, said Bryan Lin, an engineer on the...

Cooler Master Launches MasterAir G200P & MasterFan MF120 Halo

From Cooler Master Press Release: Cooler Master introduces the MasterAir G200P Low Profile CPU cooler and the MasterFan MF120 Halo ARGB case fans.

MasterAir G200P: Designed for Small-Form Factor

The MasterAir G200P is a 39.4 mm low-profile CPU cooler designed for small form factor cases and...

Zoom vulnerability would have allowed hackers to eavesdrop on calls

From The Verge: Cybersecurity research company Check Point Research says in a report out today that it found security flaws in videoconferencing platform Zoom that would have allowed a potential hacker to join a video meeting uninvited and listen in, potentially accessing any files or information...

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