In context: Amazon is known for many things: fast shipping, a wide product selection, and its excellent cloud computing technology. However, the company also wants to be known in the realm of video games, and it hopes its ambitious upcoming MMO "New World" will make that happen.

Unfortunately, we're all going to have to wait a little longer to see if that gambit pans out. Amazon today revealed that New World will not make its planned May release date. By this point, you can

In a nutshell: Concerns that social media isn't good for our mental health aren’t new, and with so many of us confined to our homes, we're spending even more time on the apps. To help people better control their usage, Facebook is launching a ‘Quiet mode’ that mutes “most” push notifications and encourages users to stay off the social network while the

The big picture: The Internet is now a utility in the truest sense of the world, which is readily apparent from the massive change in the way it's used by people around the world to connect, work, and play during lockdown and social distancing.

Medical professionals at the front lines are crucial to fighting the large number of people that have been infected with the novel coronavirus. However, it's just as clear that the Internet is playing a huge role in helping us get through this crisis by connecting

What just happened? We've seen numerous tech and gaming conventions get cancelled or drastically altered due to the Covid-19 outbreak, but there are still a few that have been left intact. BlizzCon 2020, for example, hasn't shown any signs of an impending shutdown -- until today. In a freshly-published blog post, Blizzard exec Saralyn Smith warns fans that BlizzCon 2020 might not be feasible due to Covid-19.

Addressing the Blizzard community at large

Why it matters: Many sports fans are struggling after the cancellation of seasons from every major sport. EA thinks it can fill that soccer sized hole in your heart with a tournament featuring prominent stars from various European clubs. Even better, the company is donating a large sum of money to help coronavirus relief efforts.

Most, if not all, sports leagues have canceled their respective seasons thanks to the global pandemic. Electronic Arts is hoping to ease some of that longing for sports by hosting a FIFA 20 tournament called the

In a nutshell: Overwatch fans got had their interests piqued almost a year and a half ago when Jesse McCree activated a graceful looking robot. Blizzard confirmed this year the mech, named Echo, was coming, and on Thursday tweeted that it would be playable in just a few days.

Blizzard announced it is adding the 32nd hero to its Overwatch roster on April 14. The AI robot named Echo first made an appearance at Blizzcon 2018 at the end of a Jesse McCree short film. Its

In context: Although Apple doesn't include nearly as much bloatware in its devices as some of its competitors, users will often still find themselves with a sizable app backlog. At any given point, you could have a dozen (or far more) apps that have seen very little use -- perhaps you downloaded a shopping list app for one grocery trip, but then moved to online ordering.

Or, maybe you downloaded a few new games and got bored with all of them. Whatever the case may be,

In brief: It's been more than 26 years since Sega dropped the last installment in the Streets of Rage franchise. That's set to change in the near future with the upcoming launch of Streets of Rage 4, a new game with a heavy retro influence.

Streets of Rage 4 developer Dotemu recently dropped a new trailer that outlines some of the changes that have been implemented since the project was first announced back in 2018.

Chief among the new additions are 12 unlockable pixel art characters

In context: The proliferation of machine learning systems in everything for facial recognition systems to autonomous vehicles has come with the risks of attackers figuring out ways to deceive the algorithms. Simple techniques have already worked in test conditions, and researchers are interested in finding ways to mitigate these and other attacks.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has tapped Intel and Georgia Tech to head up research aimed at defending machine learning algorithms against adversarial deception attacks. Deception attacks are rare outside of laboratory testing but could cause significant problems in