Recap: Apple’s tablet wasn’t a surprise when Jobs took the wraps off it during a press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on January 27, 2010. Pundits speculated that Apple’s tablet may be called the iSlate or perhaps the iTablet but Cupertino ultimately went with iPad.

It’s been 10 years to the day since Steve Jobs officially introduced the term “iPad” into the English lexicon.

The company probably could have spared itself some early embarrassment by going

In a nutshell: Plague Inc., the eight-year-old strategy game that tasks players with wiping out humanity using a global plague, has seen its popularity surge over the last month as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak. The jump in user numbers has prompted its developer to issue a statement reminding people that it’s “a game, not a scientific model.”

In the last 30 days, Plague Inc: Evolved’s daily average player numbers on Steam have jumped over 148 percent

Why it matters: Like it or not, emoji have become part of our everyday lives, and we could soon start seeing them outside of the digital realm a lot more often. Should a new bill pass, it will allow drivers to add emoji to their license plates.

As per CNET , the new piece of legislation before the Virginia House of Delegates allows drivers to add one of six emoji to their license plate. The draft bill, introduced by Rep. Rebecca White, a Democrat from Windsor, Vermont, would

Facepalm: It’s been almost two weeks since Microsoft officially ended its extended support for Windows 7, but the Redmond firm is introducing another free update for the OS that fixes a bug it introduced in the final public updates.

As reported by The Verge , one of Microsoft’s final free Windows 7 updates— KB4534310 —is causing wallpaper problems for some users. After installation, an image can display as black when set to Stretch. The issue only appears to affect stretched wallpapers

What just happened? Boeing's new 7779-X airliner has successfully completed its maiden flight, lasting nearly four hours, after a few delays caused by technical difficulties and poor weather conditions. The achievement comes amidst the company's ongoing crisis with its best-selling 737 Max and could help in restoring some of the firm's troubled reputation.

The 777-9X is Boeing's latest widebody commercial airliner that recently took to the skies for its first successful test flight

What just happened? After months of waiting, Motorola’s clamshell Razr phone is finally available to pre-order, with shipping scheduled to begin early next month. As we know from the Galaxy Fold, bendable smartphones are fragile, which is why the company has released a video to help buyers protect their $1,499 purchase.

Motorola has uploaded several videos to its YouTube channel that show off the Razr phone. The Caring for Razr clip is there so consumers can keep “the reinvented flip phone in

A hot potato of a GPU: PNY has announced passively cooled versions of the Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000 and 6000, which are two of Nvidia’s largest and hottest cards with 4,608 CUDA cores and 295W TDPs. At $6,000 and $4,000 respectively, that’s an expensive pair of