PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is touting 100 million downloads of its mobile version, reaching the milestone four months after its release on iOS and Android. The game’s developer PUBG Corp. and publisher Tencent announced the news Thursday, mentioning that their battle royale game became the most downloaded title in 100 countries during its first week after …

A MoviePass membership is like a roller coaster ride that’s sometimes full of movies and other times strangely missing them. The service Wednesday has launched its new plan, which the company hopes will help keep MoviePass alive while cutting costs. MoviePass members who are either signing up or staying on with the service will now have three movies included in …

MoviePass subscribers trying to cancel should keep an eye on their credit card bill. Many MoviePass subscribers are reporting on social media that their cancellation attempts aren’t working, and have even resulted in getting an additional, unwanted credit card charge. I canceled my MoviePass subscription last week when they ran out of money. Today I got an email that I …

Fortnite, the biggest thing in video games, was only portable if you had an iPhone, iPad or Nintendo Switch. Then it came to Android — but only as a Samsung Galaxy exclusive.  Now, non-Samsung Android phones are getting on the Fortnite Battle Bus, too. We still don’t have a firm release date for when each Android phone will get to …

Apple might stop bundling a headphone adapter with its 2018 iPhones. According to a Barclays research note reported by MacRumors on Tuesday, the Lightning-to-3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter will not be included with the new crop of iPhone models. If true, this would be the first time Apple has removed the adapter since the company cut the headphone jack with the …

MoviePass needs to save some cash, and it’ll be raising prices and limiting new movies to do so. In a Tuesday announcement, the company said it has so far reduced its costs by 60 percent and will take more measures to keep afloat. The plan to make this happen: raise the service’s cost to $15 a month in the next …

Editors’ note: 3:25 p.m. PT: MoviePass appears to be experiencing another outage, with the app reporting that there are “no more screenings at this theater” for cinemas that would use the MoviePass credit card to finish the transaction. Theaters that support E-Ticketing appear to be working. Possibly intensifying the issue is a Business Insider report claiming that MoviePass CEO Mitch …

Samsung may be testing a budget-priced phone that runs on Google’s Android Go — an operating system meant for lower-end phones. According to SamMobile, a phone with the model number of SM-J260G is reportedly being tested internationally in Europe, Latin America and Asia. 21 hidden Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus features +30 more See all photos The report says that …

WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton reportedly left $1.3 billion behind by leaving Facebook. According to The Wall Street Journal, both men chose to depart after a number of long-standing disputes.  The major divide was over monetizing the messaging app, which has 1.5 billion users. Koum and Acton had been resistant to adopting Facebook’s widely lucrative targeted advertising model, …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple Music subscribers can now listen to songs from a computer using a web browser without having to fire up iTunes — but it’s not a full-blown iTunes replacement.  Apple has updated its MusicKit developer software for this week’s WWDC conference, announcing Monday that developers …