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Best Weekend Tech Deals: Apple Devices, Moto Z3, Robot Vacs, and More

We found some great deals on Moto phones, Apple devices, robot vacs, wireless headphones, and more

1 day ago

Wired

Best Weekend Tech Deals: Apple Devices, Moto Z3, Robot Vacs, and More

Wired

Apple Will Fix Your Messed Up MacBook Pro Keyboard for Free

The squeaky butterfly switch gets the grease.

1 day ago

Wired

Apple Will Fix Your Messed Up MacBook Pro Keyboard for Free

Techcrunch

Apple will repair busted keyboards on recent MacBooks and MacBook Pros for free

Back in 2016, Apple redesigned the MacBook Pro’s keyboard. It… hasn’t gone as well as they probably hoped. Complaints of failing keys quickly started popping up. Some keys had a tendency to get stuck in place; others move freely, but simply don’t respond. Two years and a lawsuit ...

2 days ago

Techcrunch

Apple will repair busted keyboards on recent MacBooks and MacBook Pros for free

Techcrunch

Amazon FreeTime Unlimited finally lands on Apple's App Store

Five and half years after it launched, one of the more popular apps for kids’ reading and entertainment has finally arrived on the iOS. Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, the e-commerce giant’s subscription service for children 3-12 that gives unlimited access to 10,000 books, movies and TV shows ...

2 days ago

Techcrunch

Amazon FreeTime Unlimited finally lands on Apple's App Store

Fast Company

Apple admits MacBook keyboard flaws, promises free fixes

Chalk another one up for the Steve Jobs Must Be Rolling In His Grave files. Today, 9to5Mac reports, Apple acknowledged a series of quality-control problems with the keyboards on nine different models of MacBooks and MacBook Pros, and offered either free fixes or refunds for previous repair work. The ...

2 days ago

Fast Company

Apple admits MacBook keyboard flaws, promises free fixes

Engadget

Apple quietly kills Modern Buckle Watch band in the US

Apple regularly kills off products in silence, simply yanking it from stores without so much as a notice. That's how its super expensive gold Edition watches and even something as big as the iPod Classic went the way of the dodo. This time, Apple has...

1 day ago

Engadget

Apple quietly kills Modern Buckle Watch band in the US

Venturebeat

Apple offers to fix 'sticky? MacBook keyboards and refund prior repairs

Following numerous complaints and class action lawsuits, Apple belatedly announced today a "keyboard service program for MacBook and MacBook Pro," enabling users with sticky keys to obtain free repairs or refunds for earlier paid repairs.

2 days ago

Venturebeat

Apple offers to fix 'sticky? MacBook keyboards and refund prior repairs

Ars Technica

Apple launches service program to address MacBook keyboard woes

Apple acknowledged the problems and announced a program for fixing keyboards.

1 day ago

Ars Technica

Apple launches service program to address MacBook keyboard woes

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Venturebeat

GungHo aims for broader audience with Ninjala bubblegum game

GungHo Online Entertainment has been printing money with its Puzzle & Dragons mobile game in Japan. But the Tokyo company is trying different strategies to make its games more popular on the global stage. And its latest attempt is Ninjala, an online and local multiplayer game for the Nintendo Switch. ...

3 hours ago

Venturebeat

GungHo aims for broader audience with Ninjala bubblegum game

Venturebeat

Tencent drums up an audience for its mobile esports game in the West

For the first time, Tencent, the world’s largest game company, had a big presence at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show recently held in Los Angeles. The Shenzhen, China-based company teamed up with ESL to create a booth where the stars of its Arena of Valor mobile ...

6 hours ago

Venturebeat

Tencent drums up an audience for its mobile esports game in the West

Venturebeat

Game Boy emulator Gearboy has an Oculus Go port

Nintendo's Game Boy was one of the first all-in-one portable gaming systems in the world, and now you can play its huge line-up of games on one of the first all-in-one portable VR systems in the world. Reddit user CidVonHighwind has ported Gearboy, a Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator, to the new Oculus ...

11 hours ago

Venturebeat

Game Boy emulator Gearboy has an Oculus Go port

Venturebeat

Candy crushes: King dethrones PlayStation at top of most-seen TV game ads chart

GUEST: After months of PlayStation leading the chart, King is now in first place. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs, to bring you a monthly report on the TV ad impressions generated ...

24 hours ago

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Candy crushes: King dethrones PlayStation at top of most-seen TV game ads chart

Venturebeat

Raph Koster's Postmortems helps online game devs avoid past mistakes

Raph Koster has a lot to say about making online games, as he’s been working on them for more than two decades. His new book, Postmortems, debuts on Monday at more than 700 pages. And that’s just volume one. Many of the essays in the book have come from his quarter century of writings and […]

1 day ago

Venturebeat

Raph Koster's Postmortems helps online game devs avoid past mistakes

Venturebeat

Want to make your name as a streamer? Work on your GIF game (updated)

GUEST: After Nintendo revealed that it would be bringing Fortnite to its Switch console during its presentation at E3 2018, it picked up over 2 million downloads in about 24 hours. Epic Games, the creators of the battle royale hit, also announced that Fortnite had picked up 125 million players since ...

1 day ago

Venturebeat

Want to make your name as a streamer? Work on your GIF game (updated)

Ars Technica

Mario Tennis Aces review: Turning tennis into a fighting game

New power meter adds needed depth to accessible tennis action.

2 days ago

Ars Technica

Mario Tennis Aces review: Turning tennis into a fighting game

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Wired

How Tesla Is Building Cars in Its Parking Lot

We dug through the permits Elon Musk's automaker filed for the right to start building Model 3 sedans in a semi-permanent tent outside its Fremont factory.

1 day ago

Wired

How Tesla Is Building Cars in Its Parking Lot

Engadget

Tesla will charge for 'premium' internet on new cars starting July 1st

Ever since Tesla started offering cellular data access in its cars, there's been the implication that it would eventually charge for service. In 2014, it indicated that would start charging in 2018. Four years later, that moment is at hand... altho...

4 hours ago

Engadget

Tesla will charge for 'premium' internet on new cars starting July 1st

Engadget

Tesla's Model 3 catches up on Autopilot and WiFi features

Tesla is still rushing to give the Model 3 some of the features you might take for granted in its EV stablemates. As part of a broader update across the lineup (including increased Autopilot nagging), Model 3 units now support a few key features, mos...

1 day ago

Engadget

Tesla's Model 3 catches up on Autopilot and WiFi features

Engadget

Electric GT's first race-spec Tesla Model S hits the track

Two years ago, we learned that a Tesla Model S-based electric racing series was in development. This week Electric GT holdings showed off its first race-spec Model S P100DL in Barcelona ahead of the series' planned debut in November. Its builders say...

1 day ago

Engadget

Electric GT's first race-spec Tesla Model S hits the track

Ars Technica

Tesla fires back against alleged whistleblower: "He is nothing of the sort"

Martin Tripp, who has yet to secure a lawyer, tells Ars he stands by his comments.

1 day ago

Ars Technica

Tesla fires back against alleged whistleblower: "He is nothing of the sort"

Ars Technica

Tesla to cut nearly 20 percent of its SolarCity installation locations

Tesla says the cuts are part of a plan made public earlier this month.

2 days ago

Ars Technica

Tesla to cut nearly 20 percent of its SolarCity installation locations

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Wired

Melania Trump's 'I Really Don't Care' Jacket Tops This Week's Internet News Roundup

The First Lady wore a "I really don't care. Do U?" jacket on her visit to the southern border.

9 hours ago

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Melania Trump's 'I Really Don't Care' Jacket Tops This Week's Internet News Roundup

Wired

A Major Privacy Win, a Vault 7 Indictment, and More Security News This Week

A good week for privacy, an alleged leaker indicted, and more security news this week.

1 day ago

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A Major Privacy Win, a Vault 7 Indictment, and More Security News This Week

Wired

Space Photos of the Week: No, You're Not Barchan Mad. Those Dunes Are Blue.

Mars, along with parts of Earth, is covered in what are called barchan dunes?features shaped into crescents by wind activity. Crank up the saturation in the photo and they look amazing.

1 day ago

Wired

Space Photos of the Week: No, You're Not Barchan Mad. Those Dunes Are Blue.

Techcrunch

Bag Week 2018: Timbuk2's Launch featherweight daypack is tough and tiny

If you need something small, lightweight and indestructible, Timbuk2’s Lightweight Launch Backpack ($129) might be right up your alley. The pack, constructed from famously tough Tyvek, can fit a 13″ laptop comfortably and plenty else. At only 18L, it sounds small, but due to its drawstring-top ...

1 day ago

Techcrunch

Bag Week 2018: Timbuk2's Launch featherweight daypack is tough and tiny

Techcrunch

Bag Week 2018: P.MAI's women's leather laptop bag is luxury packed with utility

Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why' Because bags ' often ignored but full of our important electronics ' are the outward representations of our techie styles, and we put far too little thought into where we keep our most ...

1 day ago

Techcrunch

Bag Week 2018: P.MAI's women's leather laptop bag is luxury packed with utility

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Techcrunch

WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a few other things, is acquiring Brooklyn-based startup Atavist. Atavist has been working on a content management system for independent bloggers and writers. With an Atavist website, you can easily write and publish ...

2 days ago

Techcrunch

WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist

Techcrunch

Sphero acquires a music education startup

It's hard to say precisely how Sphero's pivot to education is going in these early stages, but it recently got an infusion of funding and is already out acquiring new startups. The BB-8 maker announced this morning that it's picked up Specdrums? — the fellow Boulder, Co-based startup is a Kickstarter ...

2 days ago

Techcrunch

Sphero acquires a music education startup

Venturebeat

Immortals acquires Brazilian esports brand and picks up new sponsors

Global esports team organization Immortals said it has acquired the Brazilian brand MIBR and hired the team roster for the Brazilian SK Gaming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. In addition, Immortals is announcing sponsor partnerships with dating app Tinder and online gambling site, Betway. Such ...

20 hours ago

Venturebeat

Immortals acquires Brazilian esports brand and picks up new sponsors