Apple Arcade‘s catalog of games continued growing Friday with the addition of Populus Run, an endless-runner game from Russian studio FiftyTwo. The quirky title lets you control a crowd of people as they run along gathering coins and dodging giant food obstacles. You can try your hand at Populus Run this weekend across iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod Touch …
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Sling TV‘s Orange and Blue plans will now cost $35 per month individually, or $50 per month for the joint package, according to a release from the TV streaming service on Wednesday. That’s $5 extra a month above the price increase in December 2019. TV channel prices climbed too. If you’re a new Orange or Blue customer, Sports Extra will …
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Walmart is adding more stores, in dozens of locations, that double as local fulfillment centers for delivery and pickup orders, the company said Wednesday. A local fulfillment center is a small warehouse, stocked with frequently purchased items, that’s housed inside or attached to a Walmart store. The centers are designed to offer customers more availability, more efficiency and faster order …
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Spotify on Monday began testing the appeal of audiobooks by adding nine classic public domain titles recorded by professional narrators and celebrities. If you open Spotify on your phone or computer, you’ll be able to find the titles under a section called Audiobooks: Hear the Classics. The books are available for free and premium users. Here’s a list of the titles …
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Twitter on Monday announced a new community-driven forum called Birdwatch that’s meant to combat misinformation and disinformation on the site. The pilot forum allows Twitter users to identify information in tweets they believe to be misleading and add notes that provide helpful context, the social media site explained in a blog post. “We believe this approach has the potential to …
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At the onset of the pandemic, neatly organized planners got left behind on office and classroom desks across America. But Gen Z seems to have found an answer to the organizational woes of studying from home in a strange yet aesthetically-pleasing place: A piece of enterprise software called Notion, which offers a digital workplace for taking notes, making to-do lists, …
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Fantasian, the highly anticipated mobile RPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, could be released this year, according to some tweets from Sakaguchi’s studio, Mistwalker, this week. Fantasian was teased back when Apple’s mobile gaming subscription service Apple Arcade was first announced in Sept. 2019. Sakaguchi tweeted “game under development” on Wednesday with a screengrab of the game. Mistwalker retweeted …
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Apple Arcade on Friday added new games Nuts from developer Noodlecake and Spire Blast from Orbital Knight to its growing catalog of over 145 games. Apple hasn’t done a dual-release like this recently, but two games mean twice the fun. You can try your hand at the games this weekend across iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod Touch and Apple TV. Here’s what you need …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The new Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone lineup will be cheaper than the current Galaxy S20 family. The new devices will cost about $200 less, the Galaxy S21 starts at $800 and the S21+ starts at $1,000, and the Galaxy S21 Ultra …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Samsung’s debuted its new Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21 Plus and Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphones at the Samsung Unpacked event today, the last day of CES. (Here’s everything Samsung announced.) Preorders opened Thursday at 8 a.m. PT and the phones are set to …
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