Bottom line: Apple and Google on Friday announced a joint effort to help governments and health agencies track Covid-19 cases through contact tracing. The tech giants said both privacy and security will be central to their designs, as will transparency and consent (yes, these will be opt-in programs). Still, those promises are doing little to quell the concerns of privacy advocates and even conspiracy

Highly anticipated: Final Fantasy VII Remake launched today, and many have had their doubts about whether it would be any good. The pre-orders alone should have ensured its success, but as we all know, pre-orders do not determine the quality of a game. While the sales numbers are not yet in, the reviews are, and it is looking pretty good for the reboot of the beloved JRPG.

Some are saying it is "the most ambitious Final Fantasy yet," a "thoughtful take on a

WTF?! If you thought there's nothing worse than malware-infested apps, think again - several "fleeceware" apps on both Android and iOS are able to charge you significant amounts of money by using bait and switch tactics and exploiting the trial mechanism of mobile app stores. What may seem like a bargain can quickly turn into an expensive mistake even if you uninstall such an app before the end of its trial period.

In a report published this week, British security firm Sophos revealed that more than 3.

In a nutshell: "Day-one" patches are a bit of a double-edged sword. While they give developers the flexibility to add new features and fix bugs after shipping a gold master, they’re also incredibly inconvenient for consumers and can sometimes be used as a crutch.

It’s been nearly a month since Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red implemented a full-on remote work policy in response to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak.

The dev vowed that its September launch date wasn’t

What just happened? Covid-19 is disrupting daily life as we know it on Earth, but just above our home planet aboard the International Space Station, the show must go on. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russian cosmonauts, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, docked on the space station on Thursday following a six-hour flight that originated from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

This launch was a bit different than previous efforts due to Covid-19. Travel restrictions prevented friends and family of the crew from

Rumor mill: If you’re not a fan of notches or hole punches appearing on smartphones, you might like Samsung’s next Galaxy S handset, which could be the first phone to use an under-screen selfie camera.

We’ve been hearing about Samsung’s plans to kill off the notch by placing a myriad of sensors under its phones’ screens since 2018 . Now, renowned leaker Ice Universe claims the company is considering implementing an under-screen camera in next year’s Galaxy

The big picture: Amazon is in the process of assembling its own Covid-19 testing lab with the possible goal of conducting regular testing of all employees. The company isn't sure how far along in the process they'll get before this whole thing blows over but believes it is worth investing in regardless.

Amazon said it has made over 150 significant process changes at sites around the world to ensure the health and safety of its teams including distributing masks to employees and conducting employee temperature checks.

The

In a nutshell: It’s no secret that the Witcher 3 is an incredibly successful game, and despite releasing way back in 2015, it had a bumper 2019. Not only did it help CD Projekt to record profits, but it managed to sell more units on the PC than all console versions combined.

CD Projekt, parent company of Witcher 3 studio CD Projekt Red, recently published a financial overview of 2019, which included a graph showing the RPG’s sales