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Giphy Gets into Gaming with Giphy Arcade

By: Nick Gambino Giphy is the go-to platform for everyone’s favorite animated GIFs. Now they’re trying their hand at gaming with their newly launched Giphy Arcade. Giphy Arcade is a fun concept that...

Fortnite Returns from Its Black Hole with Chapter 2

By: Bryan Tropeano For the millions of Fortnite players around the world, the end of season 10 this past Sunday came as quite a shock. Not because the season ended, that was expected,...

Call of Duty: Mobile Smashes App Download Records in Just One Week

By: Bryan Tropeano Call of Duty is a super popular game franchise, but despite its built-in fanbase, nobody was really sure how it would translate into a mobile experience. The release of Call...

Mirror LCD Display Now Offers Personal Training Sessions at Home

By: Nick Gambino Personal training sessions at the gym are, to understate it, costly. Add the price of a monthly gym membership plus activation fees and you have to be a real...

Check Out These New Features in iOS 13

By: Nick Gambino While everyone is oohing and aahing over the latest iPhones and iPads, let’s not forget that Apple just dropped iOS 13 with some brand-new features you’re going to have...

Facebook Buys Company that Creates Mind-Reading Devices

By: Nick Gambino On Monday, Facebook announced their acquisition of CTRL-labs, a startup interested in making devices that read your mind and allow you to control computers with your thoughts. CTRL-labs is mainly...

Play Call of Duty on Your Smartphone

By: Bryan Tropeano Activision, the company behind the biggest first-person shooter game franchise in history, just announced that Call of Duty: Mobile is coming to iOS and Android devices this fall. I haven’t played...

Amazon Music HD offers CD-Quality Streaming

By: Nick Gambino We’ve been streaming music on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music for so long we’ve nearly forgotten what high-quality audio sounds like. Amazon is here to remind us with...
Alexa

Alexa Will Start Feeding You Answers from Real People

By: Nick Gambino If you didn’t trust Alexa before, wait until you start receiving answers on your Echo from some random person on the internet who might actually know less than you....
iPhone

Apple Unveils New iPhone 11 and 11 Pro

By: Nick Gambino At a special event this morning in the Steve Jobs Theater, Tim Cook and his band of geniuses took the stage to announce Apple’s newest releases, including Apple TV+...