Small power banks are a dime a dozen, but Iniu’s Pocket Rocket P50 stands out for its combination of size, capacity, and features. We saw this model drop in price during Amazon’s recent October Prime Day sale, but a fresh discount has now made the power bank cheaper than ever. Right now, you can pick […]
If you live in NYC, there’s almost no way you’ve missed the Friend AI pendant subway ad fallout — whether you’ve taken pictures of the most inspired graffiti on the ads in the tunnels, tried to avert your eyes from the near-constant presence of the device pictured on all the ads inside subway cars, or […]
Here are just a few of the services impacted by the outage. | Image: Downdetector A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services for several hours this morning, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. Some of the impacted platforms, including Fortnite, Epic Games […]
Using an expanding clamping mechanism the Kohler Dekoda installs on most toilets without tools. | Image: Kohler Knowing what’s coming out of your body can be just as useful for maintaining a healthy lifestyle as being choosy about what goes into it. As part of a new initiative focused on “turning the bathroom into a […]
Spotify just introduced a feature that lets users follow their favorite concert venues. This will provide people with updates and details about upcoming concerts. Once a venue is selected as a favorite, it gets saved in a user’s library. Browsing each venue provides information on scheduled concerts, general announcements and other stuff. Folks can even […]
The Sims is in a period of transition — and as part of that, the ongoing mobile version will be shutting down in a few months. EA announced that today’s update for The Sims Mobile will be its last, and that on January 20th, 2026 the game “will no longer be accessible to play and […]
The Anbernic RG DS will launch in four colors including blue and one with a translucent white shell. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic has shared footage of its upcoming RG DS dual-screen clamshell handheld playing a selection of emulated games, including stylus-driven titles like Kirby: Canvas Curse from the Nintendo DS and 3DS games like Shovel […]
Meta is getting ready to pull support for its desktop Messenger apps on Windows and macOS. Both apps have already been removed from the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store, and existing users are starting to get notifications that the desktop apps will disappear fully in December. A Meta support page, first spotted by Apple […]
Amazon’s AWS outage has knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline
Oct 20
On this crisp October morning, it feels like half of the internet is dealing with a hangover. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon’s cloud division to stay up and running. That includes a long list of popular software like Venmo, Snapchat, […]
You can grab the AMD-based model, or spend an extra $150 on the slightly faster Intel version that also has double the internal storage. | Image: The Verge As part of our Amazon Prime Big Deal Days coverage earlier this month, I was tasked with spotting notable discounts happening at Walmart. My favorite was the […]
