YouTube is rolling out Shorts, its response to the TikTok phenomenon, in the US starting Thursday and continuing over the next “several weeks.” This suite of creator tools for making short, vertical, looping videos is expected to be available to all creators on YouTube in the US, whether they have millions of channel subscribers or none at …

Gaming laptops might have all the performance you need to be competitive, but their keyboards might not be up to the task. Alienware wanted to fix that so it partnered with switch-maker Cherry more than three years ago to develop a mechanical switch that would fit in a thin gaming laptop. Today, the Alienware m15 R4 and Alienware m17 R4 …

Xbox Game Pass for PC subscribers will get a bunch more games Thursday, as EA Play is added to the $10-a-month service. The library includes Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Titanfall 2 and multiple games from the Battlefield and Madden series. Space-combat sim Star Wars: Squadrons is also being added to the service Thursday. The EA library is coming at …

Amazon seller: TechkeyDirect Deal price: $7.79 with code and coupon Wi-Fi deadspots are the bane of everyone’s home network. As it happens, though, sometimes the problem isn’t entirely the fault of a weak Wi-Fi router that can’t reach all the way into every corner of your home. It’s often compounded by an anemic Wi-Fi radio in your laptop that can’t …

Amazon is expanding the local news coverage it offers for free on its Fire TV platform. On Thursday the e-commerce giant announced it will begin rolling out “live and on-demand local news” inside its News app to 88 “major cities” across the country including Detroit, Phoenix, New Orleans and Orlando.  The announcement follows an initial 12-city launch last year which …

For the one-year anniversary of its cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, Nvidia has settled on post-promotional pricing for its subscription plan. Dubbed “Priority membership,” the plan replaces the existing $5-a-month Founders membership with the identical benefits. Members get priority access in the queue to reach the servers, support for Nvidia’s RTX ray-tracing and continuous sessions longer than an hour for …

LastPass has gone rogue. All right, maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but the company has all but ditched the free version of its password manager as of March 16. Now, LastPass users who want to avoid paying will have to choose whether they want to access their passwords on a mobile device, like your iPhone or Android phone, or on a …

Facebook is expanding its support for hardware security keys to iOS and Android devices. The feature, available worldwide starting Thursday, lets you enable two-factor authentication to log into Facebook on a phone or other mobile device using a physical security key.  Hardware security keys are a top authentication technique and particularly useful for two-factor authentication because you register them to work …

Schools are slowly starting to reopen in the US after a year of online learning for the majority of the nation’s 56 million K-12 students. Closed schools have had a devastating impact on many kids due to social isolation and the stress that pandemic lockdowns have had on many families.  Educators are starting to examine the lasting impact the pandemic …

If you are ready to plunk down for an iPhone 12 but are already tracking rumors about the iPhone 13, then you might be a good candidate for Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program. With it, you can upgrade your current phone for the latest model every year. It’s basically the “iPhone as a service” plan: Instead of paying the full value up …

You may’ve seen the videos all over social media of people tearing up as they watch their loved ones come to life in old photos. Using an app from genealogy company MyHeritage and a feature called Deep Nostalgia, they’re able to turn headshots into short, animated clips that show the people in them moving and blinking. In the first 48 …

Sony has a brand-new VR headset coming for the PlayStation 5, and now we have our first glimpse of Sony’s PSVR 2 controllers. They look pretty great. And, they’ll have finger sensing and force feedback haptics. Over four years of the PSVR on PS4, Sony never made its own VR-focused controllers. The twin-stick PlayStation Move wands were hangovers from the …

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