Why it matters: As a Spotify subscriber and Apple Watch owner, I am disappointed that there is no way for me to listen to my playlists without being linked to my iPhone. Spotify promised that it would bring me an offline mode, at least. But nada. Now Pandora's watchOS app, which has had an offline mode for a while, can stream straight from the watch, making me question whether I should switch services.

Pandora has one-upped Spotify with its updated Apple Watch app. The streaming

Forward-looking: Streaming media player maker Roku as part of its earnings report this week predicted that by 2024, roughly half of all US homes will have cut the cord or never had traditional pay TV to begin with.

At last check a little over a year ago, research firm MoffettNathanson estimated that around 78 percent of US households still had some form of pay TV like cable or satellite. And that’s after years and years of companies like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu pushing streaming platforms down

What just happened? Federal authorities have shut down the first cryptocurrency mixer, after they found it was the go-to service for criminals on the dark web. This means that those who have legally sound reasons for privacy in their crypto transactions need to look into other options, as any other cryptocurrency mixers are bound to be suspected of similar money-laundering activities.

When it comes to cryptocurrency, there's a big group of users who are deeply invested in the ecosystem for its potential to act as an alternative financial

In brief: Nvidia in its latest earnings report this week said it generated $3.11 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020 that ended on January 26. That’s an increase of 41 percent over the $2.21 billion brought in during the same period a year ago and a three percent hike quarter-over-quarter.

Q4 earnings per diluted share were $1.53, up an impressive 66 percent from $0.

Spoiler Alert: As a Valentine's Day gift, Netflix posted its first teaser for the fourth season of its hit series Stranger Things on Friday. The trailer has a spoiler that confirms speculation, which has circulated around the water cooler since the Season 3 finale.

Final warning: In case you somehow missed it in the headline and the alert, this article and Netflix's trailer contain spoilers.

Let's cut to the chase. Stranger Things ended Season 3 by breaking everyone's heart by killing off Jim

Forward-looking: There has been plenty of experimentation in the film industry in recent years. Hardcore Henry, for example, was shot entirely from a first-person point of view. 1917 is made to look like two continuous shots. And soon, there will be a blockbuster-level film shot in the vertical format.

Deadline reports that prolific Russian producer and director Timur Bekmambetov is working on a new flick that’ll be presented as a vertical video – you know, like a clip shot on

What just happened? Last night saw the 23rd annual DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Awards take place, and while the excellent Control was the biggest winner, the coveted game of the year award went to Untitled Goose Game.

The Las Vegas event, which was co-hosted by Jessica Chobot and Greg Miller, saw Control and Death Stranding nominated in eight categories. It was Remedy Entertainment’s action-adventure that came out on top, winning four awards, including Action game of the

A hot potato: Never underestimate the power of bad publicity. After Tesla removed driver assistance features from a second-hand Model S 75D following its purchase from a dealer, the company has restored the Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self Driving, blaming the incident on a “miscommunication.”

Last week brought news of an anonymous consumer who bought a 2017 Tesla on December 20 last year from a third-party dealer. Sold at auction, the car was listed with the driver assistance features, which

Library overload: We've all been there: you're staring at your Steam library (perhaps hundreds of games strong) and you simply cannot decide what to play. Perhaps there are even dozens of games you never got around to installing in the first place. If you have run into that situation in the past, Valve's latest Steam Labs experiment might help you avoid it in the future.

The experiment, aptly dubbed "Play Next," uses Steam's recommendation algorithms to suggest three unplayed games