WarnerMedia is finally addressing the confusing nature of its various HBO offerings through a much-needed consolidation effort. Here’s what you need to know.

Up to this point, HBO has operated its premium television service, HBO Go – the streaming app for those who also subscribe to the cable offering, HBO Now which is a standalone membership program for those who don’t have HBO through a cable provider and HBO Max which features existing programming plus other content from the WarnerMedia library. Each of the latter two offerings commands

In context: Giphy serves over 10 billion GIFs around the web every day. Facebook acquired it to add more tools to its social media arsenal, but it turns out that the takeover has raised too many questions, so antitrust regulators have paused it until they can find some answers.

Facebook announced last month that it had bought animated picture platform Giphy with the intention of integrating it with its Instagram team. According to unnamed sources cited by Axios, the deal is worth around $400 million, making it smaller

In brief: Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have demonstrated a clever eavesdropping technique involving a light bulb, a laptop and less than $1,000 worth of equipment. Dubbed “lamphone,” this side-channel attack utilizes an electro-optical sensor to analyze a hanging light bulb’s frequency response to sound.

The “ lamphone ” measures the tiny fluctuations in light created as sound waves hit the bulb and cause it to vibrate ever so slightly

A hot potato: It's not uncommon to experience strain and a tinge of nausea during your first VR experience, but it’s generally assumed that you adjust quickly. But one developer, who’s spent four years in a virtual world for work, suspects the opposite: the brain can try so hard to adjust that it gets caught in a half-real half-virtual purgatory that causes permanent discomfort.

Danny Bittman is a twenty-five-year-old Creative Director and Artist who works almost exclusively

Rumor mill: SSD manufacturers are busy cramming more and more bits into NAND flash cells, but new software and games are catching up to take advantage of the speed characteristics of solid state storage. If word on the street is to be believed, we'll soon have a new faster PCIe 4.0 SSD on the market to see those benefits, courtesy of Samsung.

Back in January, one of the unassuming gems of CES 2020 was Samsung's 980 Pro SSD , which is still

Highly anticipated: Sony's big PS5 reveal event turned out to a bigger reveal than we anticipated. Not only did it show off a bunch of games coming to the PlayStation 5, Sony surprised us by officially unveiling the console's design. Some liked it, and some didn't.

People can debate the PS5's aesthetics while Microsoft and Sony bicker about which system is more powerful, but none of that matters without games. And no games are more important to a new generation of hardware

Freebies: Stealth games aren't as popular as they once were, but one sneaking-oriented franchise that continues to receive strong new entries is Hitman. If you've never played this series before, now is the perfect time to start -- Hitman: Absolution is completely free-to-keep on GOG for the next three days.

There are no catches here -- simply visit the official giveaway page and grab your copy, completely DRM-free. That means you can install the game on multiple systems

What just happened? IO Interactive has confirmed that Hitman III will launch early next year. It was announced on June 11 during the PlayStation 5 reveal event but won’t be exclusive to Sony’s console. Instead, it should be widely available across multiple platforms when it drops in early 2021.

Hitman III is the eighth installment in the popular Hitman series and the third and final episode in the World of Assassination trilogy (the first arrived in 2016. In it, Agent 4