Roblox is negotiating with music publishers after settling a copyright lawsuit
Virtual world-building platform Roblox has settled a lawsuit with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and is negotiating potential deals with individual music publishers. Roblox announced the…
Skype is getting another redesign with new themes and features
Skype’s had more redesigns in the past five years than I’ve had hot dinners, but Microsoft is still ready to try and tweak things once again. The…
LG’s gamer-friendly C1 OLED is down to its best price to date
LG’s various OLED offerings include some of the most well-received models across the industry. The C1 OLED is one of these universally praised panels, and it comes…
RIP Android TV remote app, hello Google TV remote app
Google is killing its older Android TV remote. The move follows the company’s launch of its long-awaited Google TV remote app last week. The company confirmed to…
Fitbit’s newest fitness tracker, the Charge 5, is now available
Fitbit’s newest fitness tracker, the Fitbit Charge 5, is now available for purchase. The $179.95 tracker offers a number of improvements over the Charge 4, including a…
The biggest news and trailers from Netflix’s Tudum event
Netflix held its first Tudum event today, a three-hour livestream that featured, well, a lot of stuff. That means more than 70 series and 28 movies, which…
Electric car company Polestar is going public via SPAC
Polestar, the Swedish electric car company that is a joint venture between Volvo and Geely, is going public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, or…
Death Stranding Director’s Cut makes the most of the PS5
Okay, I’ll make the obvious joke: was there really anything cut from Death Stranding? For better and worse, Hideo Kojima’s deeply indulgent post-apocalyptic delivery simulator did not…
TikTok says it has passed 1 billion users
TikTok said Monday it has passed 1 billion monthly users. It’s a remarkable number for a platform launched in August 2018 that has been scrutinized by governments…
Discord will now let you set a unique avatar in each of the servers where you hang out
Messaging app Discord announced today that its premium Nitro tier will now allow subscribers to use a different avatar on each of their servers. The option to…
Congress isn’t satisfied with Facebook’s pause on Instagram Kids
Facebook announced that it would be “pausing” work on its Instagram for kids app on Monday after weeks of growing pressure from lawmakers and advocacy groups to…
Facebook is spending $50 million to ‘responsibly’ build the metaverse
Facebook has announced a $50 million fund that it says will help it develop the metaverse more responsibly. It’s officially called the XR Programs and Research Fund,…
CIA developed plans to kidnap Julian Assange, per report
The Trump administration’s CIA actively developed plans to kidnap or assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during his seclusion in London’s Ecuadorian embassy, according to a detailed new…
Hospitals say cyberattacks increase death rates and delay patient care
Almost a quarter of healthcare organizations that were hit with a ransomware attack in the last two years said they had increases in patient death rates in…
Google is brightening up your Gmail avatar with new illustrations
Google has created new images designed to be used for your Google profile picture, the company announced Monday. The new images, called Google Illustrations, look quite nice,…
Here’s how much that free iPhone really costs
With all the carriers dangling sweet, sweet trade-in and upgrade offers to essentially give you a “free” iPhone 13 (or two) this year, one can’t help but…
Ex-Apple designer Jony Ive is now designing expensive things for Ferrari, too
LoveFrom, the design firm headed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson, has entered into a creative partnership with Ferrari and Ferrari’s holding company Exor to design presumably…
The Overwatch League grand finals were a storybook sendoff ahead of Overwatch 2
The Shanghai Dragons’ very first Overwatch match was an 0-4 shellacking delivered by the Los Angeles Gladiators in 2018. The team would go on to lose the…
The beloved Babylon 5 is getting rebooted, and series creator JMS is running the show
In 1994, J. Michael Straczynski (Sense8, Changeling) brought the world a science fiction show like nothing we’d ever seen. Babylon 5 told a single five-year story, filled…
Hospitals axe social distancing rule in bid to treat more patients
Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, said: “As ever more people benefit from the protection of our phenomenal vaccination campaign, we can now safely begin to relieve some of…
Insulate Britain protesters could be hit with jail sentences of up to seven years
It is understood Kent police are looking to prosecute for public nuisance and wilfully obstructing a highway. Public nuisance is infrequently used as a criminal prosecution but,…
Sabina Nessa: Man charged with murder of teacher
A worker in a newsagents near the flat where he was living said he would come in to the shop to top up his phone or energy…
Home Office fails to remove more than 4,500 migrants with ‘inadmissible’ claims
More than 4,500 migrants who reached the UK this year have been flagged as having “inadmissible” asylum claims but have not been deported by the Home Office….
Britons travelling to red list countries at less risk of Covid than those staying in UK
“The forced imprisonment of the healthy in quarantine hotels is one of the least scientific and most heinous political interventions seen during the pandemic in the name…
Wearing second hand clothes ‘an example of white privilege’
The course on students’ moodle webpage also claims systemic racism is “built into the very building blocks of British society”, including schools, courts and churches. It adds…