Watch Dogs Legion reportedly a next-gen launch title

Why it matters: Looking forward to playing Watch Dogs Legion? You might have to wait longer than expected. According to a new report, the game will be one of the next-gen consoles’ launch titles, meaning it won’t be here until at least the holiday season—or maybe even next year if the PS5 and Xbox Series X are delayed by Covid-19 disruption.

Back in October 2019, Ubisoft announced it was delaying the highly anticipated Watch Dogs Legion, along with


Check out Ford's insane 1,400 horsepower electric Mustang dragster prototype

Editor's take: Despite never being to an actual drag strip outside of YouTube videos, I can roughly imagine the noise, thrill, and mind-bending acceleration of cars and bikes tearing across a quarter-mile of sticky tarmac. Although such events are usually home to specialized fuel-injected engines of outlandish proportions, electric cars have also made a name for themselves owing to the instant torque at their disposal. Ford has now revealed its first all-electric dragster that's built by the company's Performance
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal help game spending reach record high

What just happened? With gaming one of the main ways people are passing the time during lockdown, spending on digital titles has reached a record high. Games such as Doom Eternal saw huge sales last month, but it was Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons that led the pack.

According to Nielsen’s SuperData report , digital video game spending passed $10 billion in March. That’s an 11 percent increase compared to the same period last year, and a record high for a single month

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The Crucial P5 is the company's fastest ever SSD with read speeds of up to 3,400MB/s

In brief: If you're looking to give your PC a new lease of life or just want to spec it to the max, Crucial's latest and fastest NVMe PCIe P5 SSD can help achieve either of those with blazingly fast performance figures of 3,400MB/s read and 3,000MB/s write speeds.

Crucial boasts 40 years of Micron's quality and engineering expertise for its new P5 SSD line up . Besides using PCIe Gen 3 NVMe for

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Windows 10 update deleting files and causing Blue Screen of Death errors

Facepalm: In these uncertain times, one thing we can still rely on is Microsoft releasing Windows updates that cause massive problems for some users. A recent ‘fix’ pushed out by the company could be one of the worst yet, resulting in Blue Screen of Death errors and deleting or moving files.

Microsoft released Windows 10 KB4549951 on April 14 to introduce several security fixes, but, as so often is the case, a number of users found it introduced more problems than

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How Does the GTX 1080 Ti Stack Up in 2020?


Today we're taking a look back at the mighty GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, the previous-gen Nvidia flagship that has become somewhat of an iconic GPU, and for good reason. We were impressed with what Nvidia managed to achieve at the time. The 1080 Ti was designed to enable a level...

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Disney+ is getting a new Star Wars series from the co-creator of Russian Doll

Something to look forward to: With its catalog of Star Wars titles, Disney+ is the streaming channel of choice for fans of the Galaxy far, far away—and more original content is coming. According to a recent report, a new Star Wars series is in the works that comes from the showrunner, co-creator, and executive produce of Netflix’s Russian Doll—Leslye Headland.

The report comes from Variety , which writes that the new show will be “female-centric” and set in a


iPhone's Mail app has two severe "zero-click" vulnerabilities that have existed for 8 years

Why it matters: Security researchers have found two critical vulnerabilities in Apple's Mail app that allow attackers to take over an iPhone or other iOS devices by simply sending users a specially-crafted email. Reportedly, hackers have been exploiting the flaws since 2018.

Apple's iOS 13 has received several bug fixing updates in its six month lifespan so far, among the most notable: a patch that addressed killing of background apps , another that drained your battery for no apparent reason, one that prevented

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Team Fortress 2 players may be vulnerable to RCE attacks after older source code leaks publicly

PSA: If you still play Team Fortress 2 or Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, you may want to put them away for a little while. It is being reported that hackers have obtained the source code and have created remote code execution exploits for the game. While these accounts have not been confirmed, the risks associated with RCE attacks warrant extreme caution until the problem has been fixed or confirmed as a false alarm.

It seems that the source code for Team Fortress 2 has leaked and has led hackers to develop a


AT&T lost nearly 900,000 TV subscribers last quarter

What just happened? It's no secret that video streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu are sapping subscribers away from traditional cable services, but the rate at which this is occurring might shock some. In an earnings report published today, AT&T revealed that it lost roughly 900,000 TV subscribers in the first quarter of 2020.

While that number may seem like a drop in the bucket compared to AT&T's overall number of TV subscribers -- which sits at

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