From PC Mag: Western Digital launched its first-generation My Passport SSD back in 2017 boasting 515MB/s data transfer speeds. Now the second-generation portable drives have launched, and they are much sleeker as well as being twice as fast.

The new drives are being offered as 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB...

From CNET: Gmail appears to be working again Thursday after people worldwide reported disruptions to a number of Google services over about seven hours.

A widespread outage of the popular Google services began shortly after 9 p.m. PT Wednesday. People reported issues in the US, Europe and parts of...

From The Verge: Imgur is launching a subscription service that offers an ad-free browsing experience and new community features, like profile flair and the ability to mute tags across the site. The subscription service, called Emerald, quietly launched on the web in May, and today, it’s being more...

From PC Mag: BlackBerry's back—all right! After TCL terminated its partnership with BlackBerry in February, wireless watchers worried that the storied name—and keyboarded smartphones in general—would vanish from the market. Today, a new company called OnwardMobility says it has made a deal with the...

From CNET: In addition to helping you find your way, the latest Google Maps update will help you know more details about any given area at a glance. Starting this week, Google will shade maps with colors based on satellite imagery so you can easily tell the difference between forests and beaches...

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS today announced the new A520 chipset motherboards in North America for its PRIME series; PRIME A520M-A/CSM and PRIME A520M-K. The AMD A520 chipset is the successor to the A320 chipset, and features PCIe 3.0. Designed to cater to a wide range of needs, these motherboards...

From MSI Press Release: MSI proudly announces AMD A520 series motherboards. Ever since AMD launched Ryzen Desktop Processors with AM4 platform, MSI has occupied the market with its AM4 motherboards. A520 is the successor of A320, which does not support PCIe 4.0 and upgrades all PCIe 2.0 lanes to...

From The Verge: I just played Death Stranding on my wife’s beat-up Samsung Chromebook Plus. That’s because Nvidia just made it possible to do so with its GeForce Now cloud streaming service, which launched in beta for Chrome OS today. While gaming natively isn’t necessarily a strong suit of Chrome...

From PC Mag: Absent-minded Pixel Buds owners can now get help tracking down their easily misplaced tiny earbuds. Google's second-generation earbuds will now appear in the Find My Device app.

As 9To5Google reports, simply log into the Android app or access it via the web to see your connected Pixel...

From CNET: Internet Explorer's days have been numbered since Microsoft launched its Edge browser five years ago. Microsoft appears to be another step toward closer to retiring the web browser with the announcement its Microsoft 365 apps suite will end support for Internet Explorer 11 on Aug. 17...