HQ Words. Coming this October. pic.twitter.com/e1TbDSHvV5 — HQ Trivia (@hqtrivia) September 18, 2018 HQ Trivia is expanding, announcing Tuesday that it will debut the hidden phrase show HQ Words in October. The new show will be the first complete spinoff of HQ Trivia, which over the past several months has experimented with sports, tech and …

Hulu’s live TV service has surpassed 1 million subscribers. The service, called Hulu with Live TV, launched last year. It features more than 60 live channels. The 1 million subscriber milestone was reported earlier by USA Today. In January, the service had around 450,000 paying subscribers, according to CNBC. YouTube TV reportedly had around 300,000 subscribers at the time.  Hulu with Live TV reached …

The new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max are expensive, but Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks innovation is worth it. “We want to make an iPhone for everyone,” Cook said during an interview Tuesday with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. Cook was touting Apple’s newest iPhones and also defending their high prices. The iPhone XS starts at $999, while …

It’s not hyperbole to say that Amazon’s Fire 7 tablet is a steal at $50. That’s just an amazing price for a 7-inch screen that does all the things: books, movies, music, apps, games and so on. Heck, it even has built-in Alexa. How, then, to describe the Amazon Fire 7 tablet for $35? Super-steal? I’ll just say that’s some …

Google announced on Tuesday that its Family Link app has been updated with more teen-focused options, such as allowing them to turn off supervision, but letting parents know that they’d done so. Google launched Family Link a year ago, giving parents the ability to manage the active hours, available apps and phone time for kids’ Android — and later Chrome OS — …

The Kindle Paperwhite is the model I usually recommend to people looking for an Amazon e-reader, because it’s got all the features you want in a Kindle and isn’t as expensive as the higher-end Oasis. But I always add, “It goes on sale from time to time, so you may want to wait.” Well, on Tuesday it’s on sale for …

Free Pandora is awesome, but so… many… commercials. You can go ad-free by subscribing to Pandora Premium, but is it worth $10 per month? Take 90 days to decide. For a limited time, Groupon is offering a 3-month Pandora Premium subscription for free. That’s a $30 value. (For what it’s worth, Pandora proper already offers a 2-month free trial.) See …

Mastercard wants in on esports, and it’s going in big. The company Tuesday announced in Singapore a new partnership with the Riot Games’ League of Legends, which is currently one of the biggest (if not the biggest) esport. A recent tournament, the Mid-Season Invitational, saw close to 20 million players watching online streams, and the game itself features an estimated …

With iOS 12, Apple brings a few fresh features to its Photos app that make the app more like Google Photos. That includes a new curated tab, sharing suggestions and search upgrades. Visual changes are limited in this update to Photos, but there’s still some new stuff here worth taking a look at.   For you Apple A new For You …

Samsung ‘s new Core i7 hexacore laptop with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics is now available in the US, over five months after its launch. The company announced its rebooted gaming laptop series with the 15.6-inch Odyssey Z during Intel’s 8th-generation Core i CPU launch in April. It only comes in one model, with a 1,920×1,080-pixel IPS display, a 256GB SSD and 16GB …

Vizio on Tuesday announced pricing and availability on its 2018 Dolby Atmos sound bars, including the first 36-inch model, which is on sale now for $499. The three bars will not be compatible with the rival DTS:X standard, but will come with a wireless subwoofer, and two will also include rear speakers.  The 2018 models are as follows: Vizio SB36512-F6: 36-inch, 5.1.2 Atmos sound …

Getting a new iPhone XS can involve quite the wait, especially if you want to be first in line. While queuing for an iPhone these days doesn’t make much sense (you can get them delivered on the same day), waiting outside an Apple Store has become something of an art form, and many do it days in advance. To keep …

Sky Q subscribers are in for an early Christmas present when the broadcaster starts bundling Netflix with other TV packages in November. Sky is rolling its current Box Sets package, worth £5 per month, in with Netflix, worth £8 per month, to form one new service it’s calling Ultimate On Demand, the company said on Wednesday. Sky will charge £10 per …

Withings on Tuesday showed off its first smartwatch since the company returned to its cofounder in May. The Steel HR Sport is a hybrid smartwatch with multisport tracking, connected GPS tracking, fitness level analytics and an “industry leading” battery life of 25 days. The battery life can be pushed to a further 20 days in “power reserve” mode. It’s made …

Once you install iOS 12, you’ll notice a new Apple app called Measure. This app uses augmented reality to act as a tape measure or ruler, measuring objects around you with the phone’s camera. So the next time you need a rough measurement of your coffee table, instead of spending 10 minutes scrabbling through drawers looking for your tape measure, …