Ten Call of Duty games make decade's best-sellers list, but GTA V takes top spot

In brief: NPD has released its regular roundup of the best-selling games from last month, but as it also marked the end of a decade, the company included the most popular titles from the last ten years. In both cases, Call of Duty dominated.

While consumer spending on video games in the US reached almost $3 billion in December, the figure was down 15 percent year-over-year. It was the same story with hardware, which dropped 17 percent to just under $1

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Twitch viewership drops as top streamers jump ship to other platforms

In context: While Twitch continues to be the undisputed king of streaming games, other platforms such as Mixer and YouTube Gaming are mounting their own challenges to Twitch's throne. This seems to have had an impact Twitch's total viewership numbers as each platform strives to bring in top talent.

Over the past three months, Twitch has seen its total hours watched fall from 2.6 million to 2.3 million. This is according to a report from Streamlabs and Newzoo. Meanwhile, Microsoft was able to double

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Cooler Master's thermal paste tubes were redesigned because parents thought their kids were on drugs

WTF?! When most people look at Cooler Master's thermal paste tubes, they see a simple, essential product that will help their system run properly. However, according to Cooler Master, some individuals -- parents, specifically -- see something quite different. The company recently changed the shape of its classic thermal paste applicator tubes from a syringe to a more brush-like alternative because it was "getting tired of having to explain [to] parents that their kid isn't using drugs."

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Mojo Vision is working on a contact lens with an embedded 14,000ppi display

Better vision through technology: The day is coming when people will be able to augment their vision with a heads-up display (HUD) or even correct impairments not currently treatable. Whether through glasses, contacts, or ocular implants, this technology is coming.

Tech startup Mojo Vision is designing a contact lens with a built-in high-resolution display. The company already has a prototype that it showcased at CES 2020. The lens will use a combination of technologies to provide an augmented reality HUD that


Microsoft plans to be carbon negative by 2030, pours 1 billion into tech that sucks carbon out of the atmosphere

The big picture: According to a 2018 United Nations scientific report, we'll have to do more than reduce carbon emissions in order to prevent a dangerous rise in global temperature in the near future. Microsoft is the first big tech company that has pledged to not only become carbon neutral, but also invest in direct air capture technologies that help suck carbon out of the atmosphere.

About a month ago, top tech CEOs signed a joint letter urging the United States to stay in the Paris Agreement and help

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The European Union wants all mobile devices on a universal charging standard

Why it matters: Members of the European Parliament are interested in drafting legislation that would require mobile devices of all makes and models to support a single charging standard. The idea is that a universal charger would make consumers’ lives easier and also reduce waste. According to a cited estimate, old chargers generate 51,000 metric tons of electronic waste per year.

As outlined in a recent newsletter posted on the European Parliament’s website, the 2014 Radio Equipment Directive called for a common charger

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Google will add over 120 new games to Stadia throughout 2020

In context: Stadia hasn't quite taken off like Google hoped it would, if its player numbers across some titles are anything to go by. Take the now free-to-play Destiny 2, for example -- whereas other platforms had hundreds of thousands of players each as of a few weeks ago, Stadia's player count sat at a mere 11.6 thousand.

Of course, that figure isn't representative of the entire Stadia userbase, but the cloud gaming platform clearly hasn't

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Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed until September

What just happened? If you've been eagerly waiting for Cyberpunk 2077's release since its initial reveal way back in 2012, we have some bad news for you today. Though the ambitious futuristic RPG was supposed to launch on April 16, it seems developer CD Projekt Red has decided the game needs quite a bit more time in the oven: Cyberpunk's release has been pushed back to September 17, 2020.

That's an astonishing five months


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Intel recaptures title of world's largest semiconductor vendor by revenue

In brief: Worldwide semiconductor revenue dipped significantly in 2019 due to the global downturn in the memory market. As a result, Intel was able to slide back into the top overall spot for the first time in two years.

According to preliminary results from research firm Gartner , total semiconductor revenue dipped to $418.3 billion in 2019, a slide of 11.9 percent compared to 2018. Drilling down deeper, it’s easy to see where things

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Recent search warrant reportedly shows FBI can access data on locked iPhone 11

The billion dollar question: The FBI appears to have the ability to either unlock or otherwise retrieve data from an iPhone 11 running iOS 13 without having the passcode. If this is the case, why is it asking Apple to unlock two other devices — an iPhone 5 and iPhone 7? Surely, the older phones are not more secure than the current generation, or are they?

As we reported earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has once again asked Apple to unlock two iPhones in connection with the

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