The big picture: The first of several planned Travis Scott virtual tour dates took place in Fortnite last night and by multiple accounts, it appeared to be a hit with gamers. The event is certainly worth a watch, even if you aren't a fan of Fortnite or Travis Scott. Is this the future of music entertainment?

Fortnite said on its official Twitter channel that more than 12.3 million concurrent players participated in the event, an all-time record. If you recall, an event hosted by

What just happened? Nintendo has confirmed that over 160,000 of its account holders were victims of hacking attempts—a result of vulnerabilities in the legacy Nintendo Network ID (NNID) system, which can be used to log into main Nintendo accounts.

Nintendo says login IDs and passwords were “obtained illegally by some means other than our service.” It has now disabled the ability to log into Nintendo Accounts through a NNID, and is resetting passwords for affected accounts.

NNIDs were used for older Nintendo

In context: WD, Seagate, and Toshiba were recently found - and acknowledged - using slower shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology in some of their hard drives, without mentioning the spec in their product documentation. Among these models, WD Red drives particularly stood out, as they were being marketed for NAS consumers and caused several buyers to experience RAID rebuilding issues. The company is now being more upfront

In brief: Malwarebytes is joining the list of antivirus companies that also offer a VPN. Called Malwarebytes Privacy, the service uses a “newer and faster protocol”: WireGuard.

Available now for Windows 7 and higher—Mac, Android, iOS, and Chrome OS are coming soon— Malwarebytes Privacy costs $59.99 per year. You can also get it bundled with a 1-year license of Malwarebytes Premium for $89.99, saving buyers $49.99. Both

In brief: LG's upcoming Velvet phone is shaping up to be a stylish comeback for the company. Thankfully, fans only have to wait a couple of weeks until the device gets its full unveiling at LG's digital event on May 7.

We know that LG has been planning a design refresh for its smartphones, most noticeable of which is the "Raindrop" element for the rear cameras and an overall minimalist aesthetic. Carrying this design language is the company's upcoming "Velvet" phone, which it

Why it matters: WhatsApp is one of the apps in Facebook’s stable that has so far avoided pushing ads out to users, but it won’t stay that way. A new report reveals that the company does plan to insert advertisements into the world’s most popular messaging service after the process of unifying all Facebook messaging apps is completed.

Before it was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014, WhatsApp had always insisted that ads wouldn’t come to the platform, but

Everyone knows Fortnite, but do you know what it takes to put such a game together? By leveraging tools like Unity and Blender (both free to download for personal use) you can create your own game, you just need the right guidance and put in the time to learn.

This 9-level course will take you from absolute zero to Battle Royale hero. You'll build a PC multiplayer game from scratch using game engine Unity. You'll get a walk through the entire process of designing, coding

In a nutshell: A lot of companies are suffering during this pandemic, but the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) isn’t one of them. According to a new report, the firm is ramping up production to meet demand from Nvidia and AMD, with the former set to use TSMC’s new 5nm process node.

According to Digitimes ’ “industry sources,” TSMC will post strong results for the first half of 2020 thanks to upcoming short lead-time orders. The Taiwanese firm

Forward-looking: In the biggest spectrum addition since it cleared space for Wi-Fi in 1989, the FCC is more than quadrupling the amount of radio spectrum available for routers and IoT devices, which will translate into a lot more bandwidth and a lot less interference for our growing swarms of devices.

Today, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to open up a sizeable chunk of radio spectrum in the 6 GHz band for unlicensed use. The decision is a crucial first step for the Wi-Fi 6