These days, it seems like everyone wants to play classic arcade games. And why not? There's nothing quite like the feeling of running around the Pac-Man board or pumping dragons until they explode in Dig Dug . So the market is flooded with retro arcade and console systems, but there are a lot of catches. Some cabinets can only play a handful of titles, and other systems require you to bring your own (illicitly downloaded) games. And many

If you haven't heard yet, Microsoft is leaving Windows 7 behind on January 14, urging users to upgrade to Windows 10. Google isn't ready to abandon the 10-year-old operating system, though, and 9to5Google reported that the company will continue to support its Chrome browser on the OS for a minimum of 18 months.

The support isn't intended for use by consumers, though. Microsoft does have an extended support option

Last year it was revealed that contractors around the world listened to recordings from Google Assistant, Alexa, Siri and Cortana to help train the voice assistants' speech recognition capabilities. Microsoft was sharing recordings from Skype, too, and now The Guardian has reported that the company sent those recordings to contractors in China with very few safeguards in place to keep them secure.

The Guardian's report was based on information provided by "a former contractor who says he reviewed thousands of potentially

A few Days before Christmas, Amazon started sending warnings to its websites’ visitors that their Honey browser extension, which tracks product prices and discounts, is a “security risk” and should be uninstalled. Honey, which was recently purchased by PayPal for $4 billion, has denied the claim.

Amazon’s message to its visitors said the following, according to Wired :

“Honey tracks your private shopping behavior, collects data like your order history and items saved, and can read or

Back in October 2019, amidst the dawn of new sTRX4 motherboards, Gigabyte introduced its PCI-Express 4.0 storage adapter to turn a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 slot into four M.2 slots with access to four PCI-E 4.0 lanes each. Now it appears Asus must have thought that wasn't a bad idea, because it's showing off a similar device at CES 2020, as reported by

Sometimes convenience is a problem. Just look at the automatic driver updates Windows 10 installs for its users. Most of these updates can be installed without a hitch, but sometimes the operating system installs the wrong drivers, and that can lead to problems. Windows Latest reported yesterday that Microsoft plans to change the process it uses to handle incompatible drivers in an effort to avoid those issues.

Windows 10's driver update feature is usually helpful. Some enthusiasts might want to know everything about

On December 31, 2019, Samsung’s Hwaseong plant in South Korea suffered a one-minute long power outage . It took three days to get the DRAM plant back into production. This gave way to a few rumors that the outage would lead to increased DRAM and NAND prices, though it appears that the event won’t have any significant effects on market prices going upwards, according to a report from DRAMeXchange .

At least, the report states that the event

Never let it be said that Bethesda doesn't support its games after launch. The company announced yesterday that it updated Doom and Doom II , the first-person shooters that were released in 1993 and '94, with a slew of modern features.

Bethesda said the updates apply to every version of Doom and Doom II it's released in recent years--that includes the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch as well as iOS and Android devices.

When I first saw UBTech's Walker robot at CES 2019, I was blown away by its ability to perform many of the tasks we'd want from a Jetson's-style butler. The 4.8-foot, humanoid robot could walk around rooms, grasp objects and hand them to you and even do a dance. A year later, the robot is still not ready for consumers, but it has come a long way, gaining