Xbox Series X game price increase makes Game Pass even more essential

Microsoft is raising the prices of first-party Xbox Series X/S to $69.99 in 2023, following many of the major third-party publishers. The change, which comes into effect in time for major launches like Redfall, Starfield and Forza Motorsport, has only been confirmed for the United States at present. However, it appears highlight like that the…

Third-party Twitter app makers turn their attention to Mastodon

Open source Twitter alternative Mastodon has gained a bit of attention in the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition. Now, it’s gaining interest from third-party Twitter app developers, as well. The makers of popular Twitter clients, including Aviary and Tweetbot, have recently set their sights on building similar clients for the growing Mastodon user base….

Sorry, but Jenna Ortega isn’t actually revealing anything

Wednesday star Jenna Ortega clarifies that all those tweets you’ve been seeing on your timeline are misinformation. No, she didn’t, but Ortega also didn’t say that “Overwatch” is her favorite video game or that Indigo by RM is her favorite album. Spreading misinformation about Ortega’s favorite things is just the latest meme proliferating on Twitter….

NASA’s Orion spacecraft snaps some mind-bending images from the moon

The Orion spacecraft had an intimate brush with the lunar terrain on Monday, hugging the moon’s curves just 80 miles above the surface. Shortly after it emerged around the bend, NASA‘s moonship delivered some mind-warping photographs that flipped the script on our place in space: The crescent rising in the distance was not the object…

Watch out – this Android malware has been installed millions of times already

Half a dozen Android apps, pretending to be utility services, have been scamming users and earning the developers advertising revenue, cybersecurity researchers have claimed. The apps have managed to fool quite a number of people, having apparently been downloaded more than two million times. Google has since removed all of them from the Play Store,…