December 2023

Amazon is offering a discount right now on the OnePlus Pad. The deal includes the tablet at an $80 discount so the price is now $399.99 instead of $479.99. This is the same price that it was during the early Black Friday sale, so Amazon is still offering that discount. That makes sense given that […]

Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, will launch Threads in Europe this December. Threads, available in most markets since July, has faced delays in Europe due to concerns over compliance with EU regulations. Notably, many see it as a formidable competitor to Elon Musk’s Twitter / X. Threads is coming to Europe, but

Google Messages is one of the most-used SMS/RCS messaging platforms on the market. The fact that it comes pre-installed on a ton of devices played a major role in this. Well, this app just crossed a very impressive milestone. Google Messages has surpassed a billion monthly users, and the company released some new features to

The release of Hitman: Blood Money – Reprisal on Android is here, and the game is now available for players. You can pick the game up on the Play Store and launch it right away, although it does come with a 4GB install, so expect to wait a short period before you can get going.

Google Drive is getting a facelift on the web. It isn’t a massive overhaul but one that makes the service more personalized. The company has added a new streamlined homepage called Home that “makes it easier and faster for you to find files that matter most.” Google Drive gets a streamlined Home on the web

The US healthcare giant Henry Schein has faced its second major cyberattack since October. The ransomware group BlackCat has claimed responsibility for the attacks. It was first on October 15 that ALPHV (AKA Black Cat) announced it had targeted Henry Schein. The ransomware group said it was ready to negotiate with the healthcare giant over

Crucial makes some of the most reliable storage drives on the planet, and right now Amazon has a discount on the Crucial 4TB P3 Plus SSD. This is an M.2 NVMe SSD and it’s currently on sale for $179.99. The regular price on this drive is typically around $214-$215 so you’re saving about $35-$36 or

The Xbox app on Windows handheld gaming devices is getting a new ‘Compact Mode’ feature. As the name suggests this will shrink the app’s user interface down just a bit to make it more usable on handhelds like the ROG Ally. The main difference is that tabs in the side menu have been consolidated into

With Android 14 Google officially announced the support for Ultra HDR to normal JPEG images after they had internally embedded the ability into Google Messages in September. An Ultra HDR image is nothing but a normal JPEG image with an HDR gain map added within its metadata. If you have the Pixel 8 or Pixel

Apple and Google both announced their respective picks for best apps of the year on the App Store and Google Play Store. Notably, it appears that the two companies treated artificial intelligence apps delicately, with Apple refusing to name a single AI-based app on the list. However, Apple did name generative AI the “trend of