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...

From PC Mag: Nintendo has successfully navigated the transition from offering handheld and home console hardware to just one platform that can do both. But it seems that last-generation systems haven't been completely forgotten about or abandoned.

As NintendoLife reports, Nintendo just surprised...

From CNET: Since Samsung first introduced The Frame television in 2017, the concept has always appealed to a certain type of design-conscious buyer. Instead of a big ugly black rectangle hanging on the wall, this TV looks like a painting, a framed photo or other wall art. The company has iterated on...

From PC Mag: The latest version of Microsoft's Xbox Game Streaming app for Windows will bring xCloud streaming to Windows PCs soon.

According to The Verge, the latest unannounced and unreleased Xbox Game Streaming app lets Windows users stream games from both xCloud as well as their Xbox Series X|S...

From CNET: A judge has approved what he called one of the largest-ever settlements of a privacy lawsuit, giving a thumbs-up Friday to Facebook paying $650 million to users who alleged the company created and stored scans of their faces without permission.

The class-action suit, filed in Illinois in...

From The Verge: OnePlus CEO Pete Lau is teasing a “moonshot” announcement on March 8th, when the company expected to reveal details about its next flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 9. “Something new is on the horizon” a teaser site reads, alongside a photograph that looks an awful lot like the famous...

From The Verge: At a special live-streamed event today, The Pokémon Company revealed something fans having been waiting a long time for: an open-world Pokémon adventure. The next major entry in the franchise will be called Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and it looks to be a huge evolution of the long...