You can now play games with friends and co-workers via Zoom: The videoconferencing app unveiled the addition of the Zoom App Marketplace last month, and now you can use it to play games like Live Game Night Poker, Kahoot and Heads Up during Zoom meetings. At a time when businesses are navigating hybrid workplaces, the addition …

Some Amazon sellers are reaching out to customers who leave negative reviews on their products, according to a Monday report from the Wall Street Journal. Some sellers have reportedly gone a step further and offered a refund worth more than the original product in return for revising or deleting the bad review.  Contacting a customer outside of Amazon’s messaging service …

A researcher at Switzerland’s EPFL technical university won a $3,500 prize for determining that a key Twitter algorithm favors faces that look slim and young and with skin that is lighter-colored or with warmer tones. Twitter announced on Sunday it awarded the prize to Bogdan Kulynych, a graduate student examining privacy, security, AI and society. Twitter sponsored the contest to …

Roku plans to stream 23 new shows from Quibi’s library exclusively on the Roku Channel. The Quibi shows — now called Roku Originals — will stream for free with ads starting Aug. 13 in the US, Canada and the UK. The new shows will join shows like Dummy (starring Anna Kendrick), Reno 911 and Flipped.  Here’s a list of the …

Missed some of those sweet Prime Day headphone deals? Here’s your chance to nab a top-rated set of noise-canceling headphones without breaking the splurge bank: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Best Buy has the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones (in black) for $200.  See at Best Buy Until the slightly better WH-1000XM4 came along, the WH-1000XM3 were CNET’s top …

Samsung will unveil on Wednesday the next generation of its foldable phones, the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3. But to get consumers interested, the devices need two major updates: improved durability and lower prices.  The Korean phone giant has led the field for foldables. Its first device, the $1,980 Galaxy Fold, hit the market in 2019, …

Hours of pandemic-induced reality TV show binging have prepared me for this moment, and it’s finally here.  Netflix announced its largest reality show casting call to date on Monday, letting those 18 and older from the US, Canada, UK or Ireland take their shot at reality fame by submitting a short video for the shows Nailed It, Love Is Blind, …

Dish’s 5G network is coming online, with the company providing some new guidance on the “when” on Monday during its second-quarter earnings as well as updated insights into its ongoing fight with T-Mobile.  In its investor filing Dish disclosed that it expects the build-out of its first 5G city, Las Vegas, to be “substantially complete by the end of the …

Apple made waves last week when it announced it would be adding a feature in its upcoming software updates that will scan people’s iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and Apple Watches for child sex abuse materials in the Photos app. On Monday, the company put out a new document hoping to allay privacy concerns.  The six-page document, called “Expanded Protections for …

Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked event happens later this week. The company’s latest line of foldable phones is widely expected to be unveiled, but if you want to get a leg up on the preorder queue, you’re in luck. You can get on a waitlist ahead of time for free — and get some sweet deals to boot. Here’s everything we know …