A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Sony Interactive Entertainment has made another acquisition. This time, the company has brought U.K. studio Firesprite into the PlayStation Studios fold. Firesprite joins Nixxies and Housemarque as Sony looks to continue growing its stable of... Read more

Enlarge / The security of Facebook’s popular messaging app leaves several rather important devils in its details. Yesterday, independent newsroom ProPublica published a detailed piece examining the popular WhatsApp messaging platform’s privacy claims. The service famously offers “end-to-end encryption,” which most users interpret as meaning that Facebook, WhatsApp’s owner since... Read more

Hyperlinks have long been a critical part of the internet’s infrastructure. Practically speaking, they connect websites and webpages to each other, while providing superhighways for online readers to get from one place to another. In the context of Google and other search engines, links are even more important. In... Read more

Sony will give us a look at upcoming PS5 games on Sept. 9. Andrew Hoyle/CNET The PlayStation Showcase 2021 Broadcast kicks off Thursday, Sept. 9. The 40-minute livestream is set to reveal upcoming PS5 games “releasing this holiday and beyond,” Sony said. The wildly popular next-gen PlayStation console has been coming in... Read more

This weekend, news broke that the anonymous email service ProtonMail turned over a French climate activist’s IP address and browser fingerprint to Swiss authorities. The move seemed to contradict the company’s own privacy-focused policies, which as recently as last week stated, “By default, we do not keep any IP logs... Read more

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Amazon today announced the general availability of Amazon EKS Anywhere, a deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables companies to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises using VMware vSphere. EKS Anywhere provides an installable... Read more

I was SO excited to get the Achedaway Cupper and couldn’t wait to use it. I like to read all of the instructions on items before using them to get the best benefits. The Achedaway Cupper instructions are easy to understand with clear instructions and good images. If you... Read more

Twitter is taking on Facebook with a new tool called Communities. Sarah Tew/CNET Twitter’s Communities feature lets users tweet to a group of people about a topic. Twitter Twitter is testing a new tool, Communities, which lets users publicly tweet in a group about specific topics. The experiment builds... Read more

Some games are like Skinner Boxes, parcelling out rewards for pulling the right levers. Others are like slot machines, ding-dinging serotonin receptors with random victory. Some are like playground dodgeball or an after-school fight club behind the McDonald’s dumpster. Never have I played a game like the intro to... Read more

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Com2us is preparing to launch its NBA Now 22 basketball simulation and card collecting mobile game. The title will feature more than 4,000 active and legendary pros, giving players the ability to create the ultimate... Read more