In a nutshell: Being in lockdown isn’t fun, and it can be even more stressful if you’re in a flat or apartment that receives little sunlight. But SunnyFive, a start-up from Samsung’s C-Lab incubator that's being spun off, could have the answer: an artificial window that recreates the full spectrum of light created by the sun.

You’re probably familiar with light therapy lamps used to treat seasonal affective disorder, a type of depression linked to reduced exposure to

Unplugged: Making an electric car is hard, making one commercially viable is even harder. Just ask Sir James Dyson, Britain's richest entrepreneur, who spent £500 million ($605 million) of his own money on developing a Tesla rival, an ambitious project that turned out to be a rather short-lived dream defeated by cold-blooded economics and harsh realities of the electric car business. In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, the famed inventor stood by the Dyson electric 7

What just happened? Mojang, the maker of Minecraft, is celebrating the best-selling game of all time’s 11th birthday by undergoing an image change. The company is now called Mojang Studios, reflecting its multiple worldwide sites, and there’s a new logo made up of something called Mojangs, which we can expect to see more of in the future.

Mojang—a Swedish word that translates as “gadget”—has teams in Sweden, the USA, Japan, Canada, and the UK

Forward-looking: Microsoft will be rolling out the Windows 10 May 2020 update soon, with rumors suggesting it’ll start arriving sometime next week. If you’re curious to know what changes it’ll bring, here’s a rundown of the highlights.

Windows Latest writes that the May update, which was supposed to roll out on May 12 but got delayed due to a zero-day vulnerability, will start rolling out between May 26 – 28. Let’s

Forward-looking: Think your 5G phone has the most cutting-edge technology out there? Well, here comes a handset with quantum tech. The futuristic-sounding device is the result of a partnership between Samsung and South Korea’s SK Telecom, and is the world’s first 5G smartphone with a quantum random number generator (QRNG) chipset.

Aptly named the Galaxy A Quantum, the device is actually a rebranded Galaxy A71 5G—one of Samsung’s popular mid-range

Facepalm: Area F2 is a first-person tactical shooter, and the first on mobile to have destructible environments. Two small teams attack or defend objectives including hostages, bombs, etc. It’s built on a pretty cool premise, and it’s quite a reasonable game – because, according to Ubisoft, it stole all its ideas from Rainbow Six: Siege.

“R6S is among the most popular competitive multiplayer games in the world, and is among Ubisoft’s most valuable intellectual properties,

Bottom line: The NPD Group said gains were noted across virtually all categories including digital PC and console games as well as mobile downloads, subscription spending, hardware and accessories.

US consumer spending on video games reached an all-time high in the first quarter as gamers looked to quell boredom while ordered to stay at home to slow the spread of Covid-19.

For the three-month period ending March 31, the US video game industry generated $10.86 billion in total revenue. That

In brief: The US Department of Justice and several state attorneys general are expected to file antitrust suits against Alphabet’s Google later this year. The Journal said states’ investigations have thus far focused on Google’s online advertising business. The DOJ is also looking at Google’s ad tech but is additionally said to be focusing on claims that the Mountain View-based company uses its search business to stifle competition.

Sources familiar with the matter tell The Wall Street Journal that the Justice Department could levy charges against Google