From The Verge: Microsoft’s upcoming next-gen console, the Xbox Series X, will break with tradition by not launching with exclusive games only playable on the new hardware. Instead, Microsoft is leaning into its Xbox Play Anywhere strategy and fully supporting backwards compatibility moving forward...

From TechCrunch: Cherry has long been the de facto standard for mechanical keyboard switches. Since mechanical keyboards are, almost by default, significantly more expensive than membrane or dome-switch keyboards, that has kept the company out of a large part of the market. Now, on the last day of...

From The Verge: Just weeks after PayPal acquired popular coupon-finding browser extension Honey in November 2019 for $4 billion, Amazon shoppers were served a notification that the extension was a security risk. The security warning was first spotted by Politico editor Ryan Hutchins, and the timing...

From Tom's Hardware: Last year it was revealed that contractors around the world listened to recordings from Google Assistant, Alexa, Siri and Cortana to help train the voice assistants' speech recognition capabilities. Microsoft was sharing recordings from Skype, too, and now The Guardian has...

From ExtremeTech: Getting notifications is a good thing, but only if you want them. Too many notifications can make using a device profoundly annoying, and Google is trying to address that in a new build of Chrome. In Chrome v80, Google aims to make website notifications less distracting while still...

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake today announced the TK5 RGB Gaming Keyboard, TM5 RGB and TM5 RGB Wireless Gaming Mice, these new gaming devices are made to challenge the top of the game with a whole new and ultra-modern design.

TK5 RGB Gaming Keyboard’s top plate is a streamlined curve...

From PC Mag: We still don't know much about Intel's discrete "DG1" graphics cards, even as they're set to go on sale later this year. But at CES, the company showed off a special GPU model it's been handing out to developers so they can optimize their software and games for the upcoming technology...

From ExtremeTech: If you own a microwave and use Wi-Fi, you’re probably aware that these two things don’t mesh well (pun intended). The impact of running a microwave while using Wi-Fi tends to vary depending on how much EM your microwave leaks and which frequencies your Wi-Fi network is using. If...

From ExtremeTech: Seagate had two major announcements at CES 2020 - one featuring updates to their lineup of external storage devices, and the other related to a modular storage system with the Lyve branding on it. The novelty of the modularity and data storage capacity aside, we found the hard...