The Apple Watch’s journey has been one of constant evolution. Originally positioned as an extension of your iPhone, putting apps and notifications on your wrist has slowly morphed into a full-out fitness device. Not only does it count your steps, but it can detect if you fall then call for help, monitor how noisy your …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The latest update to Apple Maps could make it easier to find a COVID-19 vaccine. The tech giant partnered with VaccineFinder, a free service developed by Boston Children’s Hospital, to add 20,000 vaccine locations to Apple Maps. You can find locations near you …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has changed his mind about selling a song about NFTs — short for “nonfungible tokens,” basically digital certificates of authenticity — as an NFT.  “Actually, doesn’t feel quite right selling this. Will pass,” he tweeted Tuesday afternoon. Selling the song would have given the buyer the digital rights to ownership of the song. On Monday, he had tweeted …

“‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ is all wrong. I tell you ‘put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'” — Andrew Carnegie, 1885 When it comes to privacy tools, Andrew Carnegie is usually dead wrong. In the case of password managers, however, Carnegie is usually more dead than wrong. So much of our online privacy and …

Laptops may be getting most of the attention these days, but us power users still won’t relinquish our desktops. When you need speed and connections, there’s something to be said for a full-size graphics card, a multitude of USB ports and more space for memory and storage. So even though Intel only briefly floated its 11th-generation desktop CPUs at CES …

Maybe it’s the increase in people working from home. Or maybe gamers are just growing tired of large, command-center-style keyboards. Whatever the reason, 60% gaming keyboards — a subcategory with a footprint about, you guessed it, 60% as big as a full-size keyboard — are more plentiful than they were last year. That’s why Corsair adding the compact K65 RGB …

Hitchhiker — a new mystery game from Versus Evil and Mad About Pandas — is coming soon to Apple Arcade. In the game, you play as a hitchhiker with no memory of your past or your destination. By catching rides with five strangers across a landscape of rolling hills, you must try and figure out who you are as well as …

Uber drivers in the UK will soon be considered workers for the company, as reported earlier by Bloomberg on Tuesday. They’ll receive minimum wage, vacation pay and other benefits starting Wednesday.  More than 70,000 drivers will become Uber workers this week after the UK Supreme Court ruled in February against the company for how it designated its drivers. Along with minimum wage and …

The past few years have seen smartphone displays gain increasingly faster refresh rates that allow smoother scrolling and better handling of tasks like gaming. After Nubia’s RedMagic 5G featured a 144Hz refresh rate last year, the company is once again pushing the limits with a new 165Hz display on its RedMagic 6 Series.  The new 6.8-inch FHD Plus display will …

Facebook has been working on removing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories from its platform, having banned false and misleading statements since December. However, some posts that aren’t factually wrong but could cause “vaccine hesitancy” aren’t necessarily violating any policies — and Facebook has reportedly found that half of most of this gray-area content has been contributed by just over 100 accounts. Facebook …

Tiger Woods, y’all, has partnered with publisher 2K Games. He will act as executive director and consultant with the company as it creates future entires to the PGA Tour 2K series of golf games. The deal is exclusive, so only 2K and its subsidiaries will be able to make golfing sims featuring Woods and his likeness.  Game publisher 2K also …

During quarantine I finally assembled the home theater of my dreams. OK, not quite, but the key components are there: a 4K projector pointed at a 100-inch framed screen (this one, if you’re interested). The projector I chose normally sells for $2,799, but right now you can get a deal that’s close to the all-time low: While supplies last, BuyDig …

Logitech’s G333 gaming earphones combine the simplicity and pocket-friendly design of earbuds with audio performance tuned for gaming. They are the first in-ear headphones in Logitech’s G gaming line although the speaker design is like that of the G333 VR earphones it made for the Oculus Quest 2.  The $50 earphones (£40, AU$65 converted) have dual-dynamic drivers with one handling …

Tinder parent company Match says it’s bringing background checks to its dating apps. Tinder will be the first to have Garbo, a female-founded non-rofit background check platform, integrated into its system later this year. The background check capabilities will be tested on Tinder in the next few months, with the system to be added to other Match dating apps in …

Google is cutting the service fee it charges developers for selling digital goods and services via its Play app store platform, the company said Tuesday. The fee will drop to 15% until developers hit $1 million in revenue for the year from such sales on the platform. Google follows Apple, which last November made a similar move with its rival app …