In context: Monthly installment plans are one of the most common ways for the average person to get their hands on a flagship smartphone without paying the entire cost upfront. A $1,000 phone could have its cost split up over two years, with monthly payments of around $40.

However, these payment plans often lock you into long-term cell plan commitments, which isn't ideal for everyone. If you're one of those people, Samsung has an alternative for you, courtesy

Bottom line: It looks like we are going to have to wait to see what the PlayStation 5 can do. Sony was set to showcase some next-gen games in a few days, but with all the chaos in the streets, it has pulled the plug indefinitely on a PS5 gameplay reveal.

Last week, Sony insiders leaked that the company was planning a big PlayStation 5 gameplay reveal set for this Wednesday. A couple of days later, the company confirmed the showing but said it would be happening on Thursday

The big picture: Nary a day goes by that we don’t hear about some revolutionary breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence. And on the surface, we’ve got the proof to substantiate those claims – better facial recognition and enhanced photo detection on mobile devices, for example. But are things really progressing at the rate in which we are led to believe, or even substantially at all?

Davis Blalock, a computer science graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and some of his

Forward-looking: Minecraft Dungeons is off to a solid start. Mere days after launching on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Nintendo Switch, Mojang Studios has revealed that the first in a set of planned DLCs will be dropping next month.

In Jungle Awakens, players will “enter a distant, dangerous jungle to fight a mysterious power” across three new missions. For good to triumph evil, the dev said , you’ll need to seek out new armor, weapons and artifacts.

Minecraft Dungeons’

In a nutshell: Full-time bug bounty hunter Bhavuk Jain discovered a zero-day exploit in Apple's "Sign in with Apple" system that earned him a $100,000 bounty from the Cupertino tech company. The potentially serious zero-day vulnerability could have allowed malicious users to completely take over the accounts of users of third-party websites using the authentication method.

Sign in with Apple is a login method launched last year used to access online accounts. It works similarly to sign

Forward-looking: Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, in a wide-ranging interview with GamesIndustry.biz confirmed that Sony will be launching the PlayStation 5 globally this holiday season, adding that “it’s going to be a blast.”

There’s been talk that both Sony and Microsoft might delay the launch of their next-gen consoles due to the Covid-19 pandemic but according to the Sony exec, that isn’t happening.

Ryan also appeared to be priming gamers

What just happened? Atari over the weekend said it is about to enter the “home stretch” on its Atari VCS project. The first 500 or so consoles are expected to leave the factory by mid-June, the company said, following a slight delay involving a component that needed to be re-fabricated.

Atari officially debuted the gaming and home video computer system on Indiegogo roughly two years ago starting at $199 . The first wave of units were expected to ship to early backers by the

A hot potato: Remember the run-up to Stadia’s launch, when Google claimed it would change the gaming industry with its 4K 60fps performance? The service hasn’t exactly set the world on fire, and now the CEO of Take-Two has said what many of us are thinking: Google overpromised.

In a talk at the Bernstein Annual Strategic Decisions Conference, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said (via Gamespot ): "The launch of Stadia has been slow. I think there

In brief: Microsoft has started rolling out the Windows 10 May 2020 update, which brings several changes and features to the OS. One new element of the upgrade is a system in which users are informed if their PC isn’t ready to receive the update.

Microsoft staggers its feature updates, with some users getting them many weeks after others. This helps the company identify potential conflicts with certain hardware/software and address them before rolling out the upgrade to these machines.

It had been the case