Consumers downloaded a record 204 billion apps in 2019, up 6% from 2018 and up 45% since 2016, and spent $120 billion on apps, subscriptions and other in-app spending in…

More than half a year after Google said Android phones could be used as a security key, the feature is coming to iPhones. Google said it’ll bring the feature to…

The system starts at $6,499, or $500 more than the standard tower. Like before, though, the price can quickly spiral upward depending on your needs. Max it out with a 28-core Xeon, 1.5TB of RAM, dual Radeon Pro Vega II Duo cards, 8TB of SSD storage, an Afterburner card and a Magic Mouse/Magic Trackpad combo…

The accessory is a $30 addition to your existing controller, which circles impulse-buy territory. But what does this peripheral's peripheral do?It plugs into the DualShock 4 through the 3.5mm headphone port -- there's a headphone port on the back button attachment, so it'll still work with headsets and PSVR -- and works straight off the…

Brooklyn-based Waverly Labs has been making translation earpieces since its founding in 2014. The company released its first device, the Pilot, in 2016 and followed that up this past November with the Ambassador -- an over-ear device designed for travelers. The Ambassador detects and automatically translates any spoken word it hears within 8 feet. Well,…

In the past, the NSA might have kept the security hole to itself, using it to spy on adversaries. The best examples of that are WannaCry and EternalBlue, Windows 10 vulnerabilities discovered and exploited by the NSA for years. The agency developed hacking tools to exploit those holes, but some of them were uncovered and…

E3 is still an exciting show with an unmatched selection of press conferences and video game reveals. But it's an expensive place to exhibit, which is partly why so many companies have moved their events to a location outside the Los Angeles Convention Center. EA's sprawling Play event, for instance, takes place at the Hollywood…

There are useful notifications—and then there are the notifications your web browser wants to send you. After years of invasive pop-ups, two of the world's biggest browsers are finally clamping down on the annoyance of websites that want to ping you with updates.Wired UKThis story originally appeared on WIRED UK.By now you'll be familiar with…

Filling a water bottle at a public fountain is a pain. It never fits, so you have to tilt your bottle sideways—which makes it even harder to get the water into the narrow mouth. But there are new fixtures that solve this problem; you might have seen them in office buildings or airports. Along with…

Alexa, Siri, Watson, and their talking AI siblings serve to make our lives easier, but they also reinforce gender stereotypes. Polite, subservient digital secretaries like Alexa and Siri are presented as female. Assertive, all-knowing Jeopardy! champion Watson is most often referred to as “he.” New generations of AI are coming that will make this problem…