Update, Nov. 6: Read our PS5 review. The PS5 will only be available online at launch due to the coronavirus pandemic, Sony confirmed Thursday. The next-gen PlayStation comes out Nov. 12 in the US and Australia and Nov. 19 in the UK. “No units will be available in-store for purchase on launch day — please …

The Nintendo Switch beat the NES in lifetime sales earlier this year and became the company’s second-best-selling console, Nintendo’s latest financial earnings report revealed Thursday. The hybrid console has sold 68.30 million units, compared with the NES’ 61.91 million, as previously reported by Nintendo Life. The Switch overtook the SNES‘ 49.1 million lifetime sales over the 2019 holiday season. Between …

Comcast and Walmart are in talks about getting into the smart TV market, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The retailer is apparently looking at promoting TVs that carry Comcast software, anonymous sources told the paper. A deal would give Comcast the opportunity to promote Peacock, the streaming service it launched earlier this year, the Journal noted. Neither Comcast nor …

Instagram on Thursday took steps to cut down misinformation ahead of next week’s US presidential election. The Facebook-owned social media app temporarily hid the Recent tab from all hashtags.  “We’re doing this to reduce the real-time spread of potentially harmful content that could pop up around the election,” it wrote in a tweet. Read more: Facebook pulled down your post. …

Apple’s iPhone 12 lineup may not include reverse wireless charging — when a device being charged wirelessly can charge another device — but a set of FCC filings highlighted by VentureBeat’s Jeremy Horwitz hint that it’s capable of doing so.  This feature wasn’t highlighted during the iPhone 12 launch event earlier this month, when Apple announced the return of its …

Update, Nov. 5: Read our reviews of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. The Nov. 10 launch of Xbox Series X and S is drawing near, and Microsoft on Monday gave us an in-depth look at what the experience of playing its next-gen console will be like in a 14-minute video walkthrough. Xbox engineer Harrison Hoffman highlights the smooth user interface, how …

You can knock $133 off the price of a $349 Pixel 4A through the Google Fi phone subscription program, unveiled Thursday. It requires you to pay $9 a month over two years, totaling $216. The tech giant also offers a $15 a month plan that includes device protection. That’ll bring the cost to $360 over two years, a little more than …

TikTok is pushing back harder against hate content. The video app specifically is specifically targeting white nationalism and white genocide theory, which it called “neighboring ideologies” to the neo-Nazism and white supremacy it’s already been working to remove.  “As part of our efforts to prevent hateful ideologies from taking root, we will stem the spread of coded language and symbols …

Microsoft is partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to offer cloud computing in spacecraft and fleets of satellites through its Azure service, the tech giant said Tuesday. The move comes four months after Amazon announced that its Web Services unit is expanding into space. The company is also expanding its partnership with Luxembourg’s SES SA, which has a network of larger …

PS4 exclusive Ghost of Tsushima was initially a single player-only experience, but that changed on Friday. The co-op multiplayer Legends mode is available to download from the PlayStation Store for free. It includes two-player story missions and four-player survival missions, and developer Sucker Punch said it’ll add a raid in the next few weeks. You can choose between melee combat-focused samurai, …