Growing up, one of my mom’s biggest pet peeves was pulling together a grocery list, doing the week’s shopping, getting all the way home and realizing something was forgotten. Trying to get everyone to focus and add what they want to the grocery list is almost impossible. The text that said “Can you pick up …
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This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade added a new game to its catalog of over 100 games on Friday. Loud House: Outta Control features characters from the Nickelodeon cartoon The Loud House. The game, like the show, centers around the zany …
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This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Apple Arcade gave two of its games a heart-themed tweak. Grindstone from Capybara Games and Patterned from Borderleap added free V-Day-themed content for the holiday. The content will still be available after Valentine’s Day, too. …
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Attentions 90s kids: Crash Bandicoot could be making the leap to your phone soon. News of a mobile game has leaked ahead of schedule, and it looks to be modeled after other endless runner games. Reports of the Crash Bandicoot mobile game were reported earlier on Twitter by JumpButton, who shared several images. However, no official announcement has come yet. …
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This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade added another game to its $4.99/month gaming service on Friday: Charrua Soccer. The game aims to capture the spirit of the indigenous South American Charrúa people, and the importance of Uruguayan football in their culture. Uruguay has won …
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It was a dark day in 2017 when Twitter announced it was shutting down Vine, the six-second video-looping social app. In less than four years, Vine became a hub for micro-video memes, creating the rise of a generation of young Vine stars with its potential for quick and quirky humor. As users consoled themselves with YouTube compilation videos of their …
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Microsoft Teams , a workplace collaboration app designed to rival Slack, suffered an outage Monday after Microsoft failed to renew its authentication certificate. The tool was down for about three hours while Microsoft investigated and updated the certificate, according to the company’s Twitter account. By around 9 a.m. PT Monday, the service was back up for most users though the issue wasn’t fully …
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End-to-end encryption could be at risk if a new bill to protect children online becomes law. Sen. Lindsey Graham drafted the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2019, or Earn It. It could affect platforms that use encrypted messaging, such as Facebook’s WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage. The draft law would see formation of a National Commission …
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This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Lighthearted spy game Secret Oops! is the latest addition to Apple‘s mobile video game streaming service, Apple Arcade. The tech giant’s gaming platform has over 100 games. Secret Oops!, from MixedBag, is the fourth AR game available, alongside …
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It seems like we see kids peering at the screen of their own smartphone at a younger and younger age, even though health experts say that kids under age five should only get one hour of screen time a day. On average, kids get their first phone at about 10 years old, according to findings from Influence Central’s 2016 Digital …
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