Technology

Have you recently purchased a gaming PC? Are you looking to buy some new equipment for working from home? Amazon’s Prime Day event has a ton of great accessories that will spice up your PC setup. Whether you’re looking to find a new gaming mouse or keyboard for your rig, a hard drive to bulk up your computer’s storage, or an extra-wide monitor for getting work done, the online retailer has you covered. There are even some motherboards on sale for bringing new life to old systems. Check out our main deal post that features several more product categories. Current Lightning Deals Image: Razer Gaming headsets / mice / keyboards HyperX’s Pulsefire Surge wired gaming mouse is $40 at Amazon (usually $55), not the lowest it has ever been but still a good deal on this mouse. The product is also av...

For both aspiring and established creators, T-shirts and hoodies are so passé — the new wave of merchandise is all digital. Teespring, one of the biggest platforms for creator and influencer merchandising and an official commerce partner for YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, is rolling out the ability to sell digital merchandise. These include photo filters, e-books, premium content, zines, and other items that creators can sell directly to fans instead of relying on physical merchandise. Teespring decided to move into the digital merchandise space after a few influencers asked if it was something they could offer their fans, CEO Chris Lamontagne and vice president of marketing, Les Green, told The Verge on Wednesday. While Lamonatagne and the team had worked for a while on developing digita...

Razer’s Blade 15 Advanced gaming laptop got a hefty $500 discount for Prime Day 2020, but Razer quietly knocked an additional $100 off today that brings it down to a more reasonable $2,000 until the end of the day. Better yet, it’s for a model that’s close in the specs department to the one that I just reviewed, containing an eight-core Intel Core i7-10875H CPU, the Nvidia RTX 2070 Super Max-Q graphics chip, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB PCIe SSD and a 300Hz refresh rate 1080p display. This model is $2,600 right now at Razer’s store, but with a Prime membership your price is $600 less. This laptop will also get you a download code for Marvel’s Avengers. Compared to most gaming laptops out there, the Razer Blade 15 Advanced rocks a low-profile aluminum design with few flashy elements aside from its ...

The We Company, which was once known as WeWork, will change its branding back to WeWork, Reuters reports. It is part of a larger reckoning, as the company recognizes it is in the real estate business, and somehow, nebulously, “tech.” “We want to be strategic. We want to be innovative. We want to be impactful. We want to be WeWork,” wrote the new CEO of the once and future WeWork, Sandeep Mathrani, in the memo Reuters obtained. Unless the last thousand years of pandemic have somehow rendered you amnesiac, you may recall that The We Company filed documents to go public in 2019, and got laughed at so hard its founder and CEO Adam Neumann had to quit. Also, the IPO was canceled. But before all that, in January 2019, the company was known as WeWork, and it occupied the most real office estate o...

Amazon Prime Day 2020 has brought several good deals on headphones of all kinds, including Sony’s new WH-1000XM4 wireless over-ear model that has some of the best noise cancellation on the market. That particular set of headphones usually costs $350 and hasn’t seen as big of a price drop as it has today at Amazon. If you have a Prime membership, you can pick up a set for $298, and it will come with a $25 Amazon gift card with purchase. Best Buy is offering the same price, and you’ll get a gift card to that store with the purchase. Compared to the older 1000XM3s, this new model features the ability to pair two devices simultaneously via Bluetooth, and its updated mics should make calls clearer, according to my colleague Chris Welch’s review. Sony’s latest headphones are the best value so fa...

The second and final day of Prime Day 2020 is here, but there are still a ton of deals to take advantage of for the next several hours, including this fantastic deal on Sony’s new WH-1000XM4 wireless over-ear headphones. Normally, these headphones cost $350, but you can buy a pair for just $298. Even better? Both Amazon and Best Buy will give you a $25 gift card to its website when you purchase these headphones. B&H Photo is also price matching the headphones, but unfortunately it does not include the gift card sweetener like Amazon and Best Buy. The price is available for both color options (black and silver); its also available in midnight blue, but its an exclusive color available only at Best Buy. Sony originally released these headphones in August. When stacked up against its pred...

If you are looking to buy some games that are on your backlist or a new gaming peripheral for your setup, Prime Day 2020 might have some deals worth checking out. Whether you are ready for some new entertainment, are in the market for a gaming mouse, or are looking for some extra storage for your console, here are some of the best gaming deals Amazon is offering during its two-day event. You probably won’t find any deals on next-gen gaming consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series X / S. But there will likely be a ton of discounts on their predecessors, the PS4 and Xbox One. And if you are looking to upgrade your TV for your next-gen console, Amazon also has a few TVs worth checking out. Current Lightning Deals Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Nintendo The Last of Us Part II Image: Sony PlayStation ...

In the weeks since iOS 14’s release, more and more apps have been adding new features that take advantage of what’s in Apple’s latest update. And now, Spotify is joining in. Today, the leading subscription music service announced the launch of its widget for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. Similar to Apple’s own widgets for Apple Music, Spotify’s serve as a means of quickly getting back to something you were recently listening to. You can pick between small and medium sizes, but Spotify doesn’t yet offer a large-sized iOS 14 widget. “The Spotify iOS widgets will display up to five of the recently played artists, playlists, albums or podcasts covers,” a Spotify spokesperson said by email. “Users can tap on the covers to dive straight back into their content.” The small widget displays just whatever y...

There are a lot more iPhones than there used to be these days. Picking a phone used to be simple: Apple would offer just a single new iPhone model, where all you had to do was choose a color and storage size. This year, Apple has launched four new phones: the iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro, and 12 Pro Max, which join the already available iPhone SE that was released earlier this year for a total of five new phones in 2020. It’s the most iPhone models that Apple has ever released in a single year, bringing new additions like the A14 Bionic processor (Apple’s fastest yet), a more durable “Ceramic Shield” glass coating, improved cameras, a new design, and the resurrected MagSafe branding for a new wireless charger and accessory system. That’s all in addition to the iPhone 11 and iPhone XR, which ...

Spotify is tying podcasts and music close together. The company announced today that it’s testing a new podcast format that’ll allow podcast listeners to hear entire music tracks during a show, as opposed to a brief sample. Hosts will also be able to create shows in this format through Anchor, the Spotify-owned podcast creation app. The new format effectively makes Spotify the only podcast platform where hosts can include entire songs in their shows without having to worry about copyright. Anchor creators in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland will have access to this interactive format, which you can imagine they might use to promote songs like a radio DJ or to offer historical context or insight more like a music podcast. Critically, though, the episodes Anchor users ...

After several years of trying to take down zombies in Resident Evil, Milla Jovovich is teaming up with an army of soldiers to take on a mega monster invasion in Monster Hunter. Based on Capcom’s popular game franchise, Monster Hunter follows Jovovich’s Captain Artemis and her team as they’re transported to an alternate universe where monsters reign supreme. Without any knowledge of how to kill monsters (it’s not exactly something most people on Earth have to deal with), Artemis and her unit partner with a mysterious man named Hunter (Tony Jaa). Alongside Hunter, it’s up to the team to figure out a way to fight and destroy the various monsters they encounter to protect their home. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat), Monster Hunter looks like a mashup of Mad Max: F...

Day two of Amazon Prime Day 2020 is underway, and you have until later tonight at 12:00AM PT / 3:00AM ET to get in on all of the deals. If you were shopping the Prime Day deals yesterday, you likely saw hefty price cuts on must-have products, like Sony’s WH-1000XM4 wireless noise-canceling headphones, AirPods wireless earbuds, tablets, and more. You still have a chance to get in on those Prime-exclusive deals, plus some news ones that pop up today. We’ve highlighted new deals so you can tell them apart from older ones. Looking for non-Amazon retailers? Check out our anti-Prime Day deals. To make sure that you see the biggest deals, we’ll be putting limited time Lightning Deals up near the top so you can easily find (and, if you want, buy) those products. For more deals on fashion, home goo...