The late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs would have turned 66 on Wednesday, and company CEO Tim Cook marked the day with a tweet. Cook took the role after Jobs stepped down in August 2011. “Celebrating Steve on what would have been his 66th birthday,” he wrote. “Especially in a year where so much kept us …

Apple became the world’s top phone maker in the fourth quarter of 2020, Gartner reported Monday, with the launch of the 5G iPhone 12 helping it beat Samsung for the first time since 2016. It sold 79.9 million iPhones in that period, a 14.9% increase year-on-year. Samsung sold 62.1 million phones in that quarter, a decrease of 11.8% compared to …

Some gamers who’ve managed to get their hands on a shiny new PS5 are reportedly experiencing drift, where DualSense controllers register joystick movement without the player touching them. Teardown specialists iFixit found several possible causes, and highlighted the next-gen Sony controller’s similarities to those of Microsoft’s Xbox One and Nintendo’s Switch. One possible reason is the internal potentiometers, which are …

Microsoft Office merged Word, Excel and PowerPoint into a single app on iOS and Android back in 2019, but iPad owners didn’t have an optimized version. The latest update changed that on Tuesday, by adding full support for Apple’s tablets. If you only use one of the three, Word, Excel and PowerPoint are still available as individual apps. They don’t …

If you’re using LastPass as your free password manager, you might find it more restrictive starting March 16. From that date, the free version of the service will only allow you to view and manage passwords on either desktop or mobile, the company said Tuesday. If you’re currently using the service, you’ll have to choose one of the two categories. …

CD Projekt Red, developed of Cyberpunk 2077, revealed Tuesday its network was hacked and shared a ransom note left by the hackers on Twitter. The attackers claimed to have got hold of source code for Cyberpunk, The Witcher 3, an “unreleased version of Witcher 3” and spinoff card game Gwent.  The hackers threatened to release the games’ source code, along with …

Microsoft looked into buying image-sharing social media site Pinterest in the last few months, the Financial Times reported Thursday. However, talks about a possible acquisition have apparently stalled. It’s the latest hint that Microsoft wants to acquire a social media platform, after looking at taking over the US side of Chinese video-sharing app TikTok last year. The company already owns …

Your Facebook news feed might get a little less political soon, as the social network tests a different approach. It’s temporarily reducing the distribution of political content for some users, it said Wednesday, a move that CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted at in last month’s earnings call. The test will run in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, with the US …

Microsoft is injecting a little more darkness into Word’s dark mode, the company said in a blog post over the weekend. The word processor previously only let you darken the ribbon and toolbars, while the document itself remained bright white. The update will place the document onto a dark canvas. You’ll be able to toggle between modes using the Switch …

Twitter is looking into adding subscription options to become less dependent on targeted ads, Bloomberg reported Monday. Several teams are apparently in the early stages of researching different approaches. Possibilities include a “tipping system” in which you’d pay people you follow for exclusive content, a charge to use dashboard app Tweetdeck or extra features like “undo send” and profile customization …