From PC Mag: In November last year, Microsoft decided to join the 21st century by introducing Xbox One gifting options to the Microsoft Store. Rather than only being able to give gift cards, select Xbox One digital games and DLC, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions could also be gifted...

From CNET: Chinese phone giant Xiaomi will be bringing several of its smart home products to the US.

A selection of gear, including the Mi LED Smart Bulb and Mi Smart Plug, will be available in the US soon, said Wang Xiang, a Xiaomi vice president, in a tweet on Thursday. The first product to ship...

From The Verge: YouTube has added support for HDR video playback on Apple’s iPhone X, 8, and 8 Plus. The iPad Pro also has a display that’s bright and vibrant enough for high dynamic range content, but MacRumors notes that YouTube hasn’t flipped the switch to enable it on there yet. HDR video is...

From CNET: Instagram users across the globe were reporting that the photo-sharing site was down Thursday.

Website checker Down For Everyone Or Just Me? says the 'Gram should be functioning. But just before 6 a.m. PT, Instagram's website was showing a server error and the mobile app wouldn't refresh...

From The Verge: Apple has announced it will no longer build a $1 billion (€850 million) data center in Ireland after planning delays lasting over three years, reports Reuters. Since 2015, Apple has wanted to build the data center in Athenry to be close to green energy sources, but the plans have...

From PC Mag: Four years ago, Google introduced a version of Android designed to work on your wrist. Called Android Wear, the service has weathered changes and challenges and emerges in 2018 with a new name, Wear OS, and a new focus outlined here at the Google I/O developer conference.

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From PC Mag: Back in early November last year, Qualcomm announced the world's first 10nm server processor family called the Centriq 2400. It was the culmination of four years "intense design, development and ecosystem enablement effort." However, less than seven months on, Qualcomm's presence in the...

From CNET: With Mozilla's release of Firefox 60 on Wednesday, web browsers will start letting you log into websites without a password -- an important change in authentication technology that could help curtail costly phishing attacks.

Firefox 60 supports technology called Web Authentication, or...

From PC World: Running Windows on top of the Qualcomm Snapdragon chips enables amazing battery life but includes all sorts of complications, including clunky emulation and some app restrictions. As expected, Qualcomm and Microsoft are eliminating a key roadblock with an SDK that enables 64-bit apps...