Another challenger approaches. LikeDisney,CBS,Apple, andNBCbefore it, AT&T/WarnerMedia has its sights set on Netflix’s streaming video crown. The company’s new streaming service, which is expected to launch spring 2020, will be calledHBO Max, and will combine HBO’s award-winning programming slate with Warner Bros.’ vast content library, as well as a handful of original movies and television series. That’s all well and good, but does HBO Max really have what it takes to cut into Netflix’s reign?...

Honda and General Motors are setting aside their differences to engineer electric vehicles together. Their announcement adds a bullet point to the growing list of alliances formed to offset the sky-high costs of developing battery technology. The Japanese company will build two electric models onthe Ultium platformits American partner introduced in March 2020. There’s no word yet on what they’ll look like, or what segment of the market they’ll compete in....

While accessing the dark web isn’t necessarily wrong or illegal, it’s important to know how to navigate this part of the internet safely. Accessing the dark web isn’t like surfing the web everywhere else online. You need to take precautions. In this guide, we’ll show you what you need to know about how to access the dark web and how to keep yourself safe while you use it. Difficulty What You Need Windows or Mac computer, laptop, or tablet...

While it has its detractors, Siri is still a popular virtual assistant for folks with an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch — and that’s not simply because it’s built into those devices. Siri may not be able to answer all of your queries, but it still has many useful features. It can play your favorite tunes, set reminders, send quick messages, and control devices around your home. Still, not everyone needs a virtual assistant at their beck and call, so if you’d prefer to keep Siri out of the way, Apple has provided a way to switch it off on one or all of your Apple devices....

Nvidia will join some of the biggest names in the PC industry at Computex this year with its highly anticipated keynote later today. Like most recent conferences during the global pandemic, the weeklong Taipei-based Computex show will be a virtual event that will allowPC fansto follow some of the biggest trends, news, and announcements from their living rooms. The keynote address is scheduled for tonight, the opening day of Computex. The keynote will be titled “The Transformational Power of Accelerated Computing, From Gaming to the Enterprise Data Center....

The 2020 Tokyo Games’ basketball tournaments are filled with highly emotional wins and major upsets alike. Still, as we approach the basketball finals, the competing teams are gearing up to overcome the odds. Once touted to be invincible, the USA men’s team had to work a little harder to qualify for the spot in the quarterfinals against the Czech Republic and just bested Spain 95-81 in quarterfinal action. As they head into their semifinal match with Australia on Thursday, August 5, they seem to be gaining momentum as they’ve made it to the Final Four, en route (hopefully) to the gold....

TheHTC Vive Focus Plusoffers developers and businesses a stand-alone virtual reality experience that can rival any device on the market, and it’s going to be available very soon. The first headsets will be released on April 15, but they’ll cost you a pretty penny. Announced during the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China, the April 15 release date includes 25 different worldwide markets, as well as 19 languages. The Vive Focus Pro will set you back $799, but it isn’t designed as a consumer product like the standard Vive or the Vive Cosmos....

Huawei has leaned on its intriguingly named Human Factors Engineering Research Lab to produce EMUI 11, the latest version of its mobile user interface, built over the top of Google’s open-source version of Android. The software will be coming to a range of Huawei smartphones over the coming months, so what did the lab contribute to it? The Human Factors Engineering Research Lab uses a range of scientific principles to help design the user interface, based around how we use our eyes, hands, and minds when we use the software to control our mobile devices....

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows an odd couple: One large spiral galaxy and its diminutive companion. This pair of interacting galaxies is known collectively as Arp 86. The larger spiral galaxy is NCG 7753, and the smaller galaxy seen in the bottom left is NGC 7752. They are close enough together that the smaller NGC 7752 seems to be almost touching one of the spiral arms of NCG 7753 — which is why they are given one shared name, in which “Arp” stands for the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, a list of unusual galaxies compiled by astronomer Halton Arp in 1966....

Summary I didn’t think I’d be so excited about Hulu creating a new series based onThe Golden Girls, but here we are. The iconic 1980s sitcom featured Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Betty White, and Estelle Getty as four older women who were friends and roommates. It was more groundbreaking than I realized when I watched the original run as a child, asit was the first series to suggest that older women could live just as fulfilling lives as their younger counterpartsand be fully-fledged characters in their own right....

For a brief rundown, the new Alexa+ should be easier and faster to interact with, it will integrate with “tens of thousands of services and devices you use in your daily life,” Alexa Routines can be created by voice instead of only in the app, and will continue to control devices as it has for years.Alexa+will also be able to useAIto create songs in the moment with Suno — killing the souls of musicians everywhere, mine included, little by little....

Jujutsu Kaisen fans discover a new technique can revive Gojo Jujutsu Kaisen’s recent chapter features a character whose cursed technique can revive Gojo. Here’s how fans are reacting after seeing this character again. Gojo’s deathis undoubtedly shocking toJujutsu Kaisenfans. Although it’s been a few weeks since it happened, the fandom is still shaken up about everything that transpired in Chapter 236. The outcome of the battle of the strongest is even more shocking since we see him almost win in the previous chapter....

Tired of looking at the same old yellow aesthetic on Google’sKeep Notesapp?An update is rolling outthat updates Google’s note-keeping app to the newMaterial Design 2, bringing it in line with the look of the latest version of Android. In case you’ve been asleep under a rock for the last couple of months — or if you’re some sort of weird person who doesn’t keep up with breaking news on cosmetic changes to apps — Google has been updating its primary apps to conform to its new design standards....