Multiplayer is at the heart of Mario Kart’s appeal, but Nintendo locked that element of Mario Kart Tour — the series’ first mobile entry — behind its pricey Gold Pass subscription for its initial beta test in December. Thankfully, you won’t have to spend any money to fling shells at your friends in the upcoming …

Virtual private networks can be as confusing to understand as the threats they aim to protect us from. The average online denizen is often already mentally maxed-out trying to navigate the ever-shifting cyber-wilds while protecting their bank password in a digital minefield of skyrocketing malware attacks, suspicious public Wi-Fi and corpo-governmental mass surveillance. If that’s you, I’ve got your straightforward …

Like the stairways at Hogwarts, the competitive field of graphics cards keeps shifting under our feet. When AMD introduced its newest GPU at CES, the Radeon RX 5600 XT, it claimed a noteworthy performance advantage — anywhere from 5 to 33%, depending on the game — over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which is Nvidia’s competitor in the top-quality 1080p …

Browser maker Opera’s expansion into money-lending services in Kenya, India and Nigeria apparently violates Google’s rules against short-term loans, a report from research and investment firm Hindenburg Research concluded. The news has pushed Opera’s stock 22% lower since Wednesday, a move that should help Hindenburg make money because it bet that the company’s share price would fall.  The Hindenburg report …

Uber is testing a new feature that will give some drivers in California a chance to earn more money. The experiment comes after the state’s gig-worker bill went into effect earlier this month. Drivers in Santa Barbara, Palm Springs and Sacramento who pick up passengers from an airport can set their own fares instead of using the Uber-estimated fare, The Wall …

It seems like budget accessories are always the last to get updated. They’re overlooked until the latest designs and features are well established in their pricier siblings before they finally get the new look. SteelSeries’ $30 Rival 3 wired gaming mouse and Apex 3 and 5 keyboards — $50 and $100, respectively — have finally earned the new family designs …

Google has revealed a bunch of new tools to help people “find a better balance with technology” through its well-being project. One of them, Envelope by Special Projects, asks you to put your phone inside a paper envelope to minimize distractions, as spotted earlier by 9to5Google. The two types of envelopes — one for calls only and one for camera …

Verizon has a new promotion to lure customers to switch to its fastest Fios home broadband service: a free Google Stadia bundle for those who get the company’s Fios gigabit internet.  The new deal, which goes live next week, on Jan. 29, will have Verizon include a free Google Stadia Premiere Edition with the internet service. The usually $129 Premiere bundle …

Streaming music player manufacturer Sonos will stop sending out software updates to some older devices after May 2020. The devices will still work, they just won’t receive regular feature updates. Sonos says the affected devices were on sale from 2004 and include: Connect  (pre-2015), ZonePlayer ZP80, ZonePlayer ZP90  Connect:Amp (pre-2015), ZonePlayer ZP100, ZonePlayer 120  CR200 Play:5 (Gen 1), ZonePlayer S5 Sonos Bridge, ZoneBridge …

Dozens of women have filed lawsuits against Lyft over the last few months alleging the company hasn’t done enough to protect passengers from sexual assault. On Friday, a California state judge ruled these lawsuits can potentially be combined together into one case. The ruling was confirmed on Tuesday. The women in these suits say they’ve been assaulted by Lyft drivers, …

Samsung’s Galaxy S20 is already shaping up to be one of 2020’s most powerful phones. Rumored to pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor, 120Hz displays, 12GB of RAM, 5G and vastly improved cameras, the company’s next flagship phone seems set to check off most, if not all, of the spec boxes. As one might expect, however, all this power may …

Apple is reportedly ready to return to the low-cost phone market after an absence of four years. The company plans to begin production on a cheaper iPhone in February, with an official unveiling coming as early as March, sources tell Bloomberg. The handset — believed to be comparable in size to the 4.7-inch iPhone 8 from 2017 — would be …

A new phone case from Yellow Jacket also serves as a handy self-defense tool. The company on Tuesday launched the latest model of its stun gun case for iPhone X and XS, with a slimmer design and rounded edges. The Generation V iPhone case comes in black, red, tan and teal. It can “fire multiple charges at six to seven …

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