Overwatch is the gift that keeps on giving. Like many live service games of its ilk, Blizzard's popular hero-based FPS receives continuous content updates over time, which usually add new maps, heroes, and cosmetic content -- all playable or obtainable at no cost (beyond the price of the base game).

If you haven't had the ability or inclination to hop onto the Overwatch train just yet, now is the perfect time to do so. As part of its ongoing Black Friday sale,

An ambitious undertaking: If you're a Fortnite player looking for a change of pace, a team of Fortnite Creative Mode users has built a game within the game you might want to check out. It has up to eight hours worth of story and lore and has nothing to do with Fortnite, other than that is the engine that drives it.

Epic introduced Creative Mode to Fortnite nearly a year ago. Since then, it has grown in popularity, with more than 100 million players creating maps with the

In context: We've seen Google's DeepMind AI reach some pretty impressive milestones over the years. It's proven capable of beating human StarCraft 2 players, it can diagnose eye diseases with the accuracy of 'world-leading' doctors, and DeepMind's AlphaGo system managed to unseat the top Go champions throughout the world.

That last set of victories is closely tied to the topic of today's news. South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol, who was first beaten by AlphaGo back in

In context: Companies deal with leaks frequently. Most of the time, even if something gets out that is valid, a firm can deny it or not comment on it and let people speculate. But what if the leak was massive and undeniable? Disney just barely averted such a catastrophe with its latest Star Wars film.

Somehow a full and authentic script for The Rise of Skywalker ended up for sale on eBay recently. The folks at Lucasfilm were shocked, but fortunately, a Disney staffer came to the rescue and bought

The tech industry is always trying to make its AIs think and behave more like humans, and the ever-increasing sophistication of virtual assistants is proof of that. They can now tell jokes, hold short conversations, and even respond to basic courtesies like "please" and "thank you."

However, Amazon isn't one to leave well enough alone, especially when it comes to its Alexa AI (of sorts). Though Alexa already sounds surprisingly human for a machine, Amazon's engineers have introduced "

The big picture: The top five smartphone vendors in terms of global shipment volume have remained the same throughout the third quarter of 2019. Apple is registering a noticeable but not unexpected decline in sales, as people are looking for value-oriented options and possibly holding out for 5G-ready iPhones that are expected to kickstart the next smartphone "supercycle" in 2020.

By now, it's no longer a secret that global smartphone demand has plateaued. However, market researchers seem to

In brief: Black Friday and Cyber Monday are less than a week away at this point. Odds are, you’ve already scored some early deals but hopefully, one of them wasn’t a Chromebook… or rather, one that is about to expire. Allow me to explain.

Chromebooks, as you may or may not know, essentially have an expiration date – or as Google calls it, the Auto Update Expiration (AUE) date. Chrome devices receive automatic updates that introduce new features and keep them secure

Something to look forward to: Tracking cookies aren’t the only way that companies can track our browsing habits; they can also use fingerprints. But Firefox users will be protected from this practice by default in the browser’s upcoming update.

Fingerprints, which don’t require users to opt-in as they do with cookies, track people based on the characteristics of a computer. As noted by Techdows , these can include screen resolution, browser, timezone, language, installed extensions and fonts, and the operating