Good news, gamers! (Bad news, parents of easily distracted schoolchildren.)  Roughly two weeks after it first launched on iOS in an invite-only beta, the free-to-play gaming sensation Fortnite is now available to  anyone who owns a recent iPhone or iPad. You no longer need an invite to get in on the action. Works with: iPhone …

If you don’t already, it’s time to get to know English inventor John Harrison. To mark April 3, John Harrison’s 325th birthday, Google is celebrating the man behind the first marine chronometer to calculate longitude at sea. To honor him, Google shows the inventor hard at work with his clock-making tools in Tuesday’s Doodle. Born in 1693, Harrison lived in …

High dynamic range is the latest tech trend in the TV world, with its brighter highlights and lavish colors. It produces a more dramatic improvement in image quality than 4K resolution, especially on a high-end TV. But if you consider TVs too small and prefer the huge images produced by projectors, I have some bad news.  A bunch of new …

Apple may start using its own chips in Mac computers as soon as 2020. The company is in the early stages of creating its own processors for the MacBook and iMac, which currently run on Intel chips, according to unnamed sources speaking to Bloomberg on Monday.   Should this happen, the Mac computer line would have a similar processor strategy to the …

Customer information was up for grabs on the Panera Bread website for at least eight months, according to a report from cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs.  A flaw in the website meant that anyone who knew where to look could find customer names, email addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of payment cards, as well as phone numbers and physical …

Apple CEO Tim Cook maybe be unfriending Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after he hears some of the quotes from a new interview Zuckerberg did with Vox.com editor at large Ezra Klein. In the just-published interview, Zuckerberg responds strongly to Cook’s criticisms of Facebook’s business model, which in turn come from an upcoming MSNBC interview, which is set to air on …

We’ve been in a fight for the title of thinnest laptop for years. Some systems have even slimmed down to under 10mm, such as the new Acer Swift 7, which claims to be the world’s thinnest at 8.98mm thick. But we rarely hear about how thin a desktop computer is. And once again it’s Acer hoping to kickstart that conversation, with …

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Facebook Spaces – Spend Quality Time Together, Wherever You Are We’re excited to announce that this week we’re rolling out new, fully redesigned avatars in Facebook Spaces that are more expressive and customizable than ever! Get a preview of the new avatar styles with a new Facebook Spaces video! Posted by Facebook Spaces on Monday, April 2, 2018 The Facebook …

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These days, you may wish you had a magic switch you could flip to keep your data more secure. The misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica is only the latest consumer privacy flap to create outrage. Remember the Equifax hack? That affected more than 230 million people. And in 2017, US lawmakers reversed Obama-era rules that forbade your …