Category: Internet

EA’s game servers went down this morning (updated)

[ad_1] If you’ve been unable to play Star Wars Battlefront II or log into your Origin account, you’re not alone. EA’s servers are down, impacting thousands of users. EA and DICE community leader, Ben Wilke, confirmed the issue on Twitter, saying that teams are working on rectifying the problem. EA’s help services are slammed due […]

Extortionists threaten sites with bad traffic to make Google ban ads

[ad_1] The emails have the kind of bad grammar and threatening tone that you’d expect. “Very soon the warning notice from above will appear at the dashboard of your AdSense account undoubtedly,” it states. “This will happen due to the fact that we’re about to flood your site with huge amount of direct bot generated […]

Microsoft releases its unified Office app for Android

[ad_1] There are some catches. As Android Police warned, the current Android app isn’t optimized for tablets or Chromebooks. You can’t even use it in landscape mode. The iOS equivalent to the app is also nowhere to be seen at this point. We’ve asked Microsoft if it can elaborate on its plans. This could still […]

Watch the first trailer for Spielberg’s Apple TV+ series ‘Amazing Stories’

[ad_1] Amazing Stories first aired on NBC in 1985. After just two seasons, it has taken a long and seemingly difficult path to make its way back onto TV screens. Reports that Apple and Spielberg were working together to revive the series first came out in 2017. It seems to have suffered production delays along […]

EU won’t let Facebook tell it how to regulate tech giants

[ad_1] This comes as Facebook is promoting its “Charting a Way Forward: Online Content Regulation” white paper, which offers guidelines for future regulations. Breton dismissed the guidelines proposed in Facebook’s white paper as insufficient. He noted that Facebook didn’t mention its own market dominance or clearly outline its responsibilities. “It’s not for us to adapt […]

Apple Music’s Replay 2020 playlist tracks your favorites week-by-week

[ad_1] This is partly Apple’s attempt to get ahead of Spotify’s own year-in-review playlist, and it probably won’t be too useful at first when it will only reflect your mood from the past few weeks. Nonetheless, it could be helpful to show how your tastes evolve over the year — not to mention a readily […]

Google is ending its Station free public WiFi program

[ad_1] In an interview with TechCrunch, Google’s Caesar Sengupta said the company is ending the program because it was running into issues scaling it. Each of the partners Google worked with to provide public WiFi had different technical and infrastructure needs, which made developing Station into a sustainable business challenging. Google had tried to monetize […]

The Morning After: The Galaxy Z Flip’s glass screen isn’t as tough as we thought

[ad_1] On Valentine’s Day, someone fell in love with a foldable phone.24 hours with Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip The Galaxy Fold fiasco proved that being first isn’t always best. Subsequently, Motorola’s Razr appeared just last week, but it’s not great either. (Read our review on that foldable, here.) The Galaxy Z Flip — a 6.7-inch […]

Redbox debuts a free, ad-backed live TV service

[ad_1] Before you have dreams of dropping your paid TV package, though, you’ll want to tone down your expectations. Much like TiVo’s free TV, you’re not about to find big-name broadcasters. These are niche channels like TMZ, USA Today and FailArmy, plus Redbox’s own selections. These are ‘snackable’ stations that revolve around news, comedy and […]

HBO Max’s first trailer reminds you it has non-HBO titles, too

[ad_1] HBO Max is still a few months away from its May launch, but that isn’t stopping AT&T and WarnerMedia from trying to drum up some early hype. The streaming service has introduced its first trailer, and it mainly serves to remind you that Warner owns a lot of movies and TV shows beyond HBO. […]