Netflix launches top 10 feature to show what people are really watching

In brief: Netflix on Monday announced a new feature that’ll share the top 10 most popular movies and TV shows with users. In addition to revealing what is currently in the zeitgeist, the lists could help some users cope with Netflix's dizzying array of content.

The new top 10 row will be updated daily and reveal what is popular in your country. The row’s position will vary depending on “how relevant the shows and films are to you,” we’re told.

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Intel

Intel debuts 5G chips for servers and base stations, aiming for infrastructure dominance

In brief: Intel's new 5G strategy involves a combination of server chips, ASICs, and base station SoCs that are needed to power the growing 5G infrastructure around the world. After losing the consumer side of things to Qualcomm, the silicon giant is instead focusing on what it sees as a "$25 billion silicon opportunity by 2023."

Intel finalized the sale of its modem business to Apple in December 2019, which to many signaled a significant retreat from that market

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Apple Silicon

Apple's ARM-based Mac could ship by the first half of 2021

In brief: The first Mac to ship with an ARM-based processor is expected to arrive in the first half of 2021, renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted in a note to investors on Monday.

If accurate, the days of Apple being bound by Intel’s chip release cycles – and the delays that often accompany them – could soon come to an end. And as we’ve seen with the iPhone, there are huge benefits to be had when developing both hardware and software under


Uber will pay its drivers to place rooftop ad displays on their vehicles

In brief: Advertising is big business these days, and Uber is looking to capitalize on that industry in a more direct way now. Uber has partnered with ad tech company Adomni to place "ad displays" on the rooftops of its drivers' vehicles.

In terms of shape, these ad displays will be similar to what city-goers often see on top of taxis. Of course, as potentially lucrative as this could be for Uber, the company would have a hard time forcing its thousands of drivers to adopt these


Epic added a mute toggle for new Never Wanna emote

In context: In the digital age, it seems just about impossible to even utter a song lyric online without record company lawyers going on the offensive. YouTube makes it even harder with AI that detects copyrighted music in uploaded videos and automatically demonetizes them. Epic ran into this problem in its Fortnite community last week but now has a fix.

Last Monday, Epic added a new Fortnite dance emote called "Never Gonna," which has been colloquially dubbed the "Rickroll" emote. The emote features the chorus from Rick Astley


Apple co-founder Steve Jobs would have turned 65 today

The big picture: Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO in August 2011 and died just six weeks later due to complications from pancreatic cancer. It is rumored that he left Apple with a four-year product roadmap but one thing we do know is that his legacy and influence lives on within Apple and the products it puts out to this day.

Today would have marked the 65th birthday of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, Jobs co-founded Apple in

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New Xbox Series X details disclosed, including 12 TFLOPS of GPU power

Highly anticipated: We're on the downhill stretch towards the most gaming-centric shows of the year, starting with PAX East that kicks off this week, then there's the Game Developers Conference in March, culminating with E3 in June. Microsoft is planning a large presence at E3, and so far hasn't abandoned its GDC 2020 plans. Ahead of these shows, Microsoft is slowly whetting fans' appetites for next-gen Xbox details.

Last year at the Game Awards Microsoft


TSA bans the use of TikTok on its official social media accounts

In brief: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has become the latest government agency to ban the use of Chinese-owned video sharing platform TikTok.

On Sunday, US Senator Charles Schumer called out the TSA on its continued use of the controversial app. In it, he said the risks to American and federal agency security via the platform remains very real and urged the TSA to stop using the app.

“These videos sure do make you chuckle; they’re creative,” Schumer said. “But China might

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Flat earth advocate 'Mad' Mike Hughes dies in homemade rocket crash

What just happened? “Mad” Mike Hughes, the flat earther famous for his home-made rocket launches that he hoped would prove our planet was disc-shaped, has died after his latest rocket crashed into the ground.

On February 22, the 64-year-old crash-landed his steam-powered rocket shortly after take-off near Barstow, California. A video posted on Twitter shows the parachute, presumably deployed too early, trailing behind the rocket as it launches.

Freelance journalist Justin Chapman


Most Mass Effect players chose to play as a good guy

In a nutshell: When playing games that offer a binary choice of being good or evil, what path do you choose? If you prefer to be a saintly hero, you’re not alone. According to former designers at BioWare and Telltale, most people like to play as the good guy/girl.

Responding to a viral tweet about how players often choose the 'right' path in games with morality systems, former Mass Effect cinematic designer John Ebenger revealed this was certainly the case with Mass Effect. "Yup

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