Recap: Luxury carmaker BMW drew quite a bit of criticism earlier this year when it confirmed its plans to charge new customers an $80 annual premium to gain access to Apple's "CarPlay" software.

Given the high price tags luxury BMW vehicles come with, the whole situation was laughable , to say the least. As we noted in our initial coverage, the sorts of people who are going to buy a high-end BMW vehicle probably won't miss the extra $80 a year, but

The big picture: Samsung is reportedly planning to unveil a clamshell-style folding phone in February alongside the Galaxy S11, likely at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Could 2020 be the year of the affordable foldable?

Industry sources familiar with the matter recently told the Korean Herald that the handset, which Samsung teased back in October, will likely check in at a much more reasonable price point.

We haven’t heard much about Samsung’s Galaxy Fold since its launch in September.

In context: Now that Sony is out of the game with the discontinuance of its Vita handheld, Nintendo holds virtually 100 percent of the dedicated portable gaming market. Not one to rest on its laurels, the company is looking to expand the sector by moving into China with the help of Tencent.

Nintendo’s hybrid Switch console has undoubtedly been a tremendous success for the game maker. The portable has already surpassed the GameCube , Wii U , and the N64 in lifetime sales, and it is set

In a nutshell: London-based electronic music record label Hyperdub has teamed up with aftermarket console maker Analogue Nt to help celebrate its 15th anniversary. The bundle features an exclusive music album on an unconventional medium - a Sega Genesis cartridge.

The duo have created a limited-edition, Hyperdub-branded Mega Sg bundle consisting of an Analogue Mega Sg console, an 8BitDo M30 2.4g controller, a Hyperdub keychain and all of the requisite cables you’ll need to connect it to your

Rumor mill: Apple likes to take its time with new technology before it finds a place in the company's product lineup. A new report seems to suggest they're close to figuring out how to deliver mini LED displays in top of the line MacBook Pro laptops and upcoming iPad Pro tablets.

Manufacturers have been experimenting with OLED displays on premium laptops, and while the results are impressive , we still have no idea on how they'll stand the test of time. Their maximum brightness and color accuracy are also

What just happened? Media server software specialist Plex on Wednesday announced a new video on-demand (AVOD) platform featuring “thousands” of movies, TV shows and documentaries to complement your existing library of titles. You'll have to sit through some ads but hey, they're otherwise free.

Plex isn’t the first to dole out such an offering – Crackle, Pluto TV and The Roku Channel are just a few of the many similar services that immediately come to mind – but it is a welcome

Bottom line: Mozilla has launched a new version of its Firefox web browser via its Release (stable) channel. There aren't a ton of new features to see but the ones Mozilla has delivered are certainly meaningful, especially if you're a heavy multitasker.

Firefox 71.0 introduces a new Picture-in-Picture mode for Windows operating systems that is designed to enhance multitasking. To trigger it, simply hover your mouse over a video and look for the blue “Picture-in-Picture”

In context: Robots on-board the International Space Station assist astronauts in performing critical and day-to-day activities and are then stored within the ISS when not in use. However, the machines will soon get a garage for themselves where they will be stored externally, making more room for astronauts inside to carry out their research and other tasks comfortably.

Living conditions for both astronauts and robots are set to improve soon once NASA's "Robotic Tool Stowage" unit (RiTS) makes its way to the ISS

Why it matters: China's government intends to crack down on Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, in what some pundits describe as a "deliberate and calculated campaign of cultural genocide." The country's latest experiment is yet another invasion of privacy that's driven by the idea that we may soon be able to get a good idea of how a person might look by using the tiniest scrap of DNA from them.

China is widely known for its controversial practices with respect to minorities in the Xinjiang region, as