Like Stardew Valley’s farming? Try these games.
If you’re looking for a farming sim with vibes and mechanics similar to “Stardew Valley,” check out our recommendations.
By Alyse StanleyNovember 4, 2021How to keep your intimate, embarrassing or damaging text messages as private as possible
Elizabeth Holmes is the latest figure to have private texts messages made public in court. Here’s how you can try to protect your own chats.
By Heather KellyNovember 4, 2021Half art, half science: How the multiplayer maps of 'Call of Duty: Vanguard’ were made
How the designers at Sledgehammer blended art and math to put players into the firefights of World War II.
By Mike HumeNovember 3, 2021Biden administration blacklists NSO Group over Pegasus spyware
The move is a significant sanction against a company spotlighted in July by the global Pegasus Project consortium, including The Washington Post and 16 other news organizations worldwide.
By Drew Harwell and Ellen Nakashima and Craig TimbergNovember 3, 20212021 holiday gift guide: Tech category
Find cool tech gift ideas this holiday season for everyone on your list.
By Chris VelazcoNovember 3, 2021Employee fired by Apple files NLRB charge alleging retaliation by iPhone maker
Janneke Parrish was fired by Apple after helping to found #AppleToo, aimed at improving working conditions at the company. Now she's filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board alleging the iPhone maker retaliated against her.
By Reed AlbergottiNovember 3, 2021Apps offer teens some one-and-done settings to stay safer online. Here’s a crash course.
Major social apps like TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat come with safety features teens can turn on themselves.
By Tatum HunterNovember 3, 2021The latest space race is all about improving Internet access. Here’s what you should know.
Satellite internet isn’t very good, but SpaceX and Amazon are hoping to change that.
By Chris VelazcoNovember 3, 2021Embattled gaming company Blizzard loses female co-leader after 3 months
The company also announced delays to “Overwatch 2” and “Diablo IV.”
By Shannon Liao and Teddy AmenabarNovember 2, 2021Facebook is ending use of facial recognition software, deleting data on more than a billion people
Facebook is ending use of facial recognition software, the company said in a blog post Tuesday, a major move by a Silicon Valley giant to step away from the controversial tech.
By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Drew HarwellNovember 2, 2021By joining Complexity and YouTube, TimTheTatman looks to evolve, not quit streaming
Tim Betar's career has entered a new stage, but he's not interested in the endgame just yet.
By Nathan GraysonNovember 2, 2021Breitbart has outsize influence over climate change denial on Facebook, report says
A new report from Center for Countering Digital Hate suggests 10 publishers, such as RT and Media Research Center, are responsible for nearly 70 percent of interactions with climate change misinformation on the platform.
By Cat ZakrzewskiNovember 2, 2021‘Vax’ is Oxford’s word of the year, as pandemic’s ‘Fauci ouchie’ and ‘inoculati’ enter the lexicon
The coronavirus's influence on language — and now vaccine availability — spawned terms such as “vaxxident,” “anti-faxxer,” "vaxinista” and "vaxxies."
By Andrew JeongNovember 2, 2021League of Legends esports still hasn’t turned a profit. That’s okay, says Riot.
The company plans to double-down on hosting live events for "League of Legends" once it's safe to do so.
By Teddy AmenabarNovember 1, 2021So you’ve quit. Here are the tech tools that can help you land a new job.
Workers on the job hunt are finding aid in services like LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter and Instawork, as well as online communities and networking tools.
By Danielle AbrilNovember 1, 2021Turkey moves to deport Syrian migrants for eating bananas in a ‘provocative’ way on TikTok
Turkey has long been generous toward refugees, but a poor economy means there has been a “considerable decrease” in “acceptance and solidarity” in recent years.
By Amy ChengOctober 30, 2021As NASA and SpaceX prepare to fly another crew to the space station, engineers are fixing a leaky toilet on the spacecraft
As NASA and SpaceX prepare to send their fourth crew of astronauts to the International Space Station, they are driving home the message that space flight remains a tremendously risky endeavor.
By Christian DavenportOctober 30, 2021Instagram, Facebook and this Meta episode
Instagram’s CEO steps into the limelight in an unexpected public interview. And, after a firestorm, Facebook’s big attempt to pivot.
By Maggie Penman and Alexis Diao and Reena Flores and Jordan-Marie Smith and Linah Mohammad and Rennie Svirnovskiy and Ariel Plotnick and Emma Talkoff and Savannah Robinson and Sean CarterOctober 29, 2021- Launcher NewsAnalysis
Zuckerberg’s Meta promises a ‘future’ these video games delivered years ago
The metaverse is being built with or without Facebook.
By Gene ParkOctober 29, 2021 ‘Age of Empires IV’ is the History Channel in game form. Just don’t take it literally.
“Age of Empires IV” mixes magical in-game systems with 2 a.m. brain-off edutainment.
By Cameron KunzelmanOctober 29, 2021