Gabo_Arts/Shutterstock Google was already a huge company when it acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2012. Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as a research project at Stanford, Google quickly grew from a dorm room experiment to a real company with…
Ridvan_celik/Getty Images Although Google and Samsung offer some of the best update packages on the market for their phones, many other Android manufacturers don’t. Indeed, these manufacturers prefer to keep shorter policies, offering at most one or two major updates for their smartphones, even when…
Electronic Arts is a private company again, but it’s saddled with $20 billion in new debt. Tupungato/Getty Images Electronic Arts is now privately owned after a $55 billion buyout of the games publisher closed Tuesday. EA said last week that the deal had cleared all required regulatory hurdles, paving the way for the…
A quick and reliable guide to diagnosing the most common CarPlay connection failures. Igor Alexandre/Getty Images Like most features on your iPhone, CarPlay should be simple to use once set up. Unfortunately, as with any technology, problems can arise that prevent CarPlay from working properly. Once accustomed to the conveniences of…
Add style to your conversations and clean up the reactions everyone is tired of seeing guteksk7/Shutterstock Emojis and GIFs are great for reacting and conveying emotion, but new emoji offerings are coming slowly and there are only a limited number of them. GIFs offer many more options, but you can’t always…
Added complications You can also customize these predefined faces via the To modify button at the bottom of your screen. This is where you can swap the widgets on your watch face. Known as complications, these advanced widgets can be added either within the Watch app or directly through the Apple Watch interface. Their capabilities…
Ivan Pantic/Getty Images There may come a time when you want to play a video game, but you’re not at home, on your comfy couch, with your Xbox, PlayStation, or gaming PC. When that happens, you can turn to your smartphone to play the latest…
On July 6, at the dawn of a new fiscal year, Microsoft announced the layoffs of 3,200 people in its Xbox division, as well as an additional 3,200 employees in other departments. Among the layoffs at Xbox, 1,600 jobs were cut immediately, while the remaining 1,600 will be lost over the coming year, with the…
The company also recently acquired racing simulation peripheral maker Trak Racer. Corsair just introduced a pair of gaming keyboards and a new gaming mouse, and all three are packed with cool features. The Skiff 100 and Skiff 100 Plus gaming keyboards are almost identical. Both feature a rotary dial for nuanced controls, allowing users to…
There is no confirmation yet about support for Joy-Con 2 mouse control. Mojang Studios The best-selling video game of all time is making its way to a new platform. Minecraft will arrive on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 27. Developer Mojang says there will be an upgrade path for those who own the…