It took Nintendo a while to jump on the mobile gaming bandwagon, but now the Japanese giant is really leaning into it. On Thursday Nintendo announced its latest venture into mobile gaming, Dragalia Lost. It’s an RPG game jointly developed with Cygames, a studio Nintendo now owns a 5 percent stake of, and it’ll debut …

It’s been a bad week for ZTE. On Monday, the US Commerce Department banned all American companies from selling their software and hardware to ZTE. This, the Chinese phone and telecommunications company said, is unacceptable. “It is extremely unfair to ZTE and we cannot accept it!” the company said in a statement, according to Reuters. “Refusal orders will not only …

Sure, you can read about the habits of highly effective people. But why do that when you can listen to the music of highly influential people? Well, their music preferences, anyway. In conjunction with Time’s annual 100 Most Influential list, Spotify has released a new playlist collating 35 songs that people on the list said they found particularly inspiring. There’s …

ZTE’s has been playing the US market on hard mode in recent months, but now it’s looking more like mission impossible. After ZTE was caught shipping goods to Iran, the US Commerce Department on Monday banned US companies from selling hardware and software to the Chinese electronics company for seven years. Now, a source tells Reuters this could preclude Google …

Dendy Direct is closing shop. After launching in 2014, the video-on-demand service, which lets you rent and buy the latest films and TV shows, will be pulled on May 14.  “Since launching the on-demand service 4 years ago, there have been several disruptors to the Australian VOD landscape,” Dendy’s press release read. This is of course a reference to the …

Heard of Google Lens? It’s the tech giant’s new augmented reality feature in its Google Photos app that can analyse your pictures. Still in preview phase, it was last month rolled out to iOS devices.  Now, Google is giving us a reason to adopt: information about our pets. Google Lens scans your photos and extracts information from them. For instance, …

Samsung looks to continue its streak of record quarters, updating its estimate for its first quarter 2018 results on Thursday. From Jan. 1 to March 31, the company made an estimated operating profit of 15.6 trillion Korean won, or $14.7 billion. That’s a solid rise from the 9.9 trillion won ($9.3 billion) it made during the same quarter in 2017. …

Facebook estimates that the data of no less than 87 million people was obtained by Cambridge Analytica in what’s become quite the scandal. But now it has gone to another level. Tinder has been taken from us. Kind of. In an attempt to prevent another Analytica-gate, Facebook on Wednesday implemented new measures to regulate the data third-party apps can use and …

Over the past 18 months Russia has become known for professional trolling — using fake online identities to politically rile up citizens in the US, UK and more. So it’s not so surprising to see Russian officials respond to the US’ Monday expulsion of 60 diplomats with some Twitter trolling.  US administration🇺🇸 ordered the closure of the Russian Consulate in …

Foxconn, the company best known for assembling iPhones, said Monday it has bought accessory maker Belkin in a deal worth $866 million. Belkin is known for its phone accessories, which include cases, adapters, chargers (both wired and wireless) and power cables. It was bought through Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT), a subsidiary under Foxconn’s Technology Group. The move not only nets …