Facebook Messenger’s end-to-end encrypted mode, Secret Conversations, is getting a substantial update today. The company is including several new features that would make the mode attractive to use and bring it on par with regular messages, including typing indicators in chats, reactions, and GIF support. Secret Conversations debuted a few years ago on Messenger, but it was fairly bare-bones, offering just one-on-one messaging support. The feature picked up support for end-to-end encrypted group chats and calls in summer 2021, and today’s update enables almost everything you want from the regular Messenger app....

Monopoly Go Jumpstart Games rewards Jumpstart Games is a day-long tournament in Monopoly Go with thousands of dice and multiple Sticker Packs as a reward. Most of the prizes are a standard list for the dice roller but because it is running during theGreek Treasures, Jumpstart Games rewards will include Pickaxes. That makes it worth tuning especially when there areonly limited ways to get these tokens. So, here is a full list of rewards for the leaderboard challenge in Monopoly Go....

Naughty Dog head andThe Last of Uscreator Neil Druckmann is back in the news teasing what’s to come for the studio, and apparently there are multiple projects in the works. In aninterview with the LA Timespublished over the weekend, Druckmann said that he doesn’t expect Naughty Dog to continue being The Last of Us studio “forever.” Instead, he dsicussed how the team is working on “multiple single-player projects.” The interview doesn’t go into detail about whether these games are in development or are just concepts....

Today’s the day to push the Buy button on your favoriteCyber Monday deals. The mega sales event ends at midnight tonight for most retailers. Even those who might extend the sale for a few days could easily clear their inventory of the best deals. We’re watching theCyber Monday TV dealsand found this compelling deal for a 32-inch TV. Walmart discounted its Onn., 32-inch class HD LED Roku Smart TV by $36, knocking the price down from the normal $144 price to $108 for Cyber Monday....

Qualcomm has taken the wraps off its Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2, the next generation of its midrange mobile platform. The new chip is designed to deliver powerful entertainment experiences and performance gains to a broader range of smartphones. The new platform is an evolution of last year’sSnapdragon 7 Gen 1, which was already a leap beyond the older Snapdragon 700 series it replaced. It began closing the gap with the premiumSnapdragon 8 Gen 1— a trend that continues with this year’s Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2....

Summary Sherlock Holmes 3and BBC’sSherlockseason 5 have both been in limbo for quite a while, yet the former sounds much more exciting than the latter for several reasons.The early 2010s were massive forSherlockHolmesin terms of screen adaptations. Guy Ritchie’sSherlockHolmespremiered in 2009 starring Robert Downey Jr. as the titular character and Jude Law as John Watson. A few months later,Sherlockseason 1 premiered on BBC starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as modern-day versions of Sherlock and Watson....

NASA has just offered an update on its ambitious SPHEREx mission, which plans to map the entire sky from low-Earth orbit when it launches in the next couple of years. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx is starting to come together in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, with the spacecraft’s distinctive cone shape already clear for everyone to see....

Innovative micromobility company Segwayintroduced new products at CES 2025 in three categories. The company’s first e-bikes, the tech-rich Xafari and Xyber, are available for presales today. Then there are the Navimow X3 Series robot mowers that were designed to mow and trim up to 2.5 acres. Finally, anew generation of e-kickscootersincludes entry-level models and two super scooters. Xafari and Xyber e-bikes integrate smart tech Segway’s first e-bikes address different user preferences ,but share the Segway Intelligent Ride System (SIRS), innovative tech that helps riders manage and protect their bikes....

Spinning off from the horror filmM3GAN, a brand-new technological terror is in the works entitledSOULM8TE, and there are already exciting details, including a release date. 2022’sM3GANbrought the fear of modern technology to the forefront as it told the story of an AI-powered doll that was developed to help children cope with the loneliness and loss. Naturally, the titular doll goes haywire and uses circular logic to justify destroying anyone and anything that gets between her and her primary objective....

SpaceX has just test fired a Super Heavy booster ahead of the Starship’s ninth flight test. The ground-based firing of the world’s most powerful rocket took place at SpaceX’s Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Notably, the upcoming flight test will involve the first-ever reuse of a Super Heavy booster, with this particular one having made its maiden flight in the seventh test in January 2025. SpaceX shared footage of Thursday’s static fire in a post on social media:...

The annual Steam Summer Sale is a great way to get a handful of PC games at a fraction of their normal price, and it appears we now know when you’ll be have to get your wallet out. According toSteam Database, thesale will begin on June 21. The same date was leaked on theSteam Reddit pageon May 8, which also listed an end date of July 5 for the sale. If true, this would bealmost identical to 2017, when the sale ran from June 22 until July 5....

The consumer bears the cost. Remember that because it’s going to come up over and over and over, especially when it comes to talking about tariffs and whether you’re about to pay a whole lot more for consumer electronics. I call it a terror over tariffs — or “terroriffs” — a fear that tariffs will automatically mean higher prices on some of the things we buy, especially items that already tend to be expensive....

Summary That ‘90s Showseason 2, part 1, was full of brilliant and nostalgic references to the 1990s.The spinoff to one ofthe best sitcoms of all time,That ‘70s Show,focused on the daughter of Eric Forman and Donna Pinciotti, Leia, and her summers in Point Place.That ‘90s Show’s season 1 endingwas a dramatic affair, but the freedom and feel-good atmosphere of the 1990s set Leia up for yet another eventful few weeks with her grandparents....