Recap: The Disney+ streaming service launched last week, and while it attracted a huge number of subscribers, that high demand caused login problems for many users. Some thought it might have been the fault of Amazon or another third-party, but Disney has taken the blame.

With 10 million people signed up to the Disney+ streaming service in just a few days, it seems the company wasn’t expecting to reach such high numbers. Many new subscribers were unable to login on

In brief: With this year's end comes the sixth annual Game Awards to honor the best works in the video games industry.

Last year, God of War clinched the coveted GOTY award from Red Dead Redemption 2 ( which arrived on PC this month ), and four other highly praised titles. Though Rockstar's open-world western did win more awards than any other game across the event categories.

This year sees the famous Hideo Kojima's action/adventure ' Death Stranding ' earn the most nominations across

Facepalm: Just as the holiday shopping season is beginning to kick into gear, fashion retail giant Macy's has disclosed its wallet and shopping cart pages of the company's website have been compromised by hackers. Although it was tightlipped with details, sources say it was a MageCart-style attack.

On Tuesday, fashion retailing giant Macy’s has issued an advisory to customers that its website servers have been breached by hackers. The attack was initiated on October 7, and the company was

The big picture: Google has been tuning its algorithms to discern stories in text form, and is now trying to use them to create a personalized audio news feed for its users. The company believes that while podcasting is booming, the "audio web" is still stuck in the past, so its latest update to Google Assistant will allow news publishers to reach you with audio content that is based on how different topics are judged as relevant to you and the context you're in.

Google announced an update to its

Facepalm: Most readers of this site will recognize a malicious email when they see one, but they’re a source of danger to less tech-savvy individuals. One such campaign claims to be from Microsoft, advising people to update Windows, but doing so will install ransomware on a computer.

Researchers from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs discovered the spam emails, which come with an 'Install Latest Microsoft Windows Update now!' or 'Critical Microsoft Windows Update!’ subject line. Microsoft, of course, doesn’t

When Nvidia first launched its RTX 20-series GPUs, the world was a bit stunned -- the ray tracing effects were attractive, of course, but the main surprise was the price of each device. The flagship product, the RTX 2080 Ti, came in at a whopping $1100, and you'll still have a tough time finding one for less than $1,000.

Still, outlandish pricing aside, AMD did not have a direct response right away

Safety first: Bird said it has partnered with cities to give away nearly 75,000 helmets over the last 18 months but unfortunately, this did not result in increased helmet adoption. A study from Austin Public Health in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that only one in 190 injured scooter riders was wearing a helmet.

Electric scooters are a convenient way to get around densely-packed metropolitan areas but they’re not without inherent risks. Lots of riders fail to take

A hot potato: As Facebook is working to unify the backend of social and messaging platforms it owns, a new flaw shows the company still has a lot of work left to do on the security front. After the Facebook app was hit by a bug that opens the camera in the background, the company quietly fixed another one present in WhatsApp that could prove even more dangerous.

Facebook has disclosed a vulnerability in WhatsApp that allowed an attacker to take complete control over your smartphone by creating a special MP4 file and sending

In a nutshell: Things are not looking good for Slack in the workplace productivity market as Microsoft's Teams app steadily increases its lead in user numbers and analysts tell investors to sell. Slack, however, remains optimistic recently saying that Microsoft's user base is over-inflated.

On Tuesday, Microsoft reported that its Teams collaboration app has more than 20 million active daily users. It says that number is up by 54 percent and puts it way ahead of Slack’s last recorded user number of 1