Facebook is now streaming every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly

Facebook is now streaming every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly

Facebook’s video-on-demand service Facebook Watch is getting a trio of familiar classics: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. The social network is teaming up with 20th Century Fox to bring every episode of the shows to Facebook starting today. The shows aren’t exclusive to Facebook — you can purchase episodes from a variety of places, and the episodes can be streamed on Hulu — but earlier this week, Facebook rolled out its Watch […]

November 30, 2018

Technology

Google Maps ETA sharing comes to iOS, third-party apps

The overhaul of Google Maps is continuing, this time with ETA sharing. After first introducing the feature in 2017, Google is giving users the ability to share their location and route in real-time with others on both Android and iOS devices—and through third-party messaging apps. Google Maps users will be able to show others their location by using the "Share trip progress" feature. It allows you to send your contacts a live look at […]

October 18, 2018

Entertainment

Can Snapchat’s shows keep users from disappearing?

With NBCUniversal's help, the struggling social media giant preps more than a dozen original series for its 188 million users as it muscles into a crowded market. It's a sweltering mid-September afternoon in Altadena, California, but the Mountain View Mortuary has come alive with actors dressed in period garb. Director Suzi Yoonessi is about to yell "cut" on a pivotal scene for the new dark comedy The Dead Girls Detective Agency, […]

October 11, 2018

Technology

Microsoft Warns Windows 10 Has A Serious Problem

Although Microsoft MSFT -0.59% introduced new Windows 10 monthly charges, that has not improved the quality of its updates. In fact, Microsoft has just warned all Windows 10 users that its latest upgrade may permanently delete their personal data… Microsoft’s admission comes after angry Windows 10 users took to Reddit (1,2), Spiceworks and the company’s own support sitewarning others to urgently postpone the major 1809 update. And, worse still, it turns out this should’ve been preventable. For its […]

October 8, 2018

Technology

Here are all of Google’s 20th anniversary Easter eggs

Twenty years ago this month, a pair of Stanford PhD students founded a search engine company based in their friend Susan’s Menlo Park garage. Initially named “BackRub,” Larry Page and Sergey Brin eventually thought better of it and opted for a misspelling of the term googol, denoting the number one followed by 100 zeros. To mark its 20th anniversary, Google’s peppering its properties with some fun Easter eggs, in addition to […]

September 27, 2018

Technology

Instagram says it’s not working on a regram feature

Rumors of an Instagram regram function have circulated a number of times, and they were renewed this week when The Verge reported that the company was working on a reshare feature. But while Instagram initially told the site that it had no comment about the report, it is now saying that such a function is flat out "not happening." It told both The Verge and TechCrunch that it's neither building nor testing a regram feature. The […]

September 23, 2018

Technology

Apple could unveil the biggest iPhone ever Wednesday. Are you ready?

The unofficial kickoff to the tech gadget buying season opens Wednesday when Apple unveils a suite of new products at a press event, highlighted by what could be the largest iPhones ever released. Gene Munster, an analyst and investor with Loup Ventures, says the annual presentation is a huge deal because 1 in 6 citizens of the world use Apple products, "and when there's an update to a product line, people […]

September 11, 2018

Technology

Five things to expect at the Apple event next week

Apple’s upcoming September 12th event is almost here, and as is tradition, we’re expecting to hear about the latest versions of Apple’s most important product: the iPhone, which is coming off of a radical redesign in the form of last year’s iPhone X. But Apple is about more than just the iPhone, and the ecosystem of accessories and services that have sprung up around the iPhone have become hugely important in their own right, […]

September 7, 2018

Technology

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey lets you create your own combat style

We already know at this point that Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will let you kick ass and take names. But now, based on some new details provided from an interview with GameSpot, we’ve got an idea of just how you’ll be able to do so. Because, apparently, according to creative director Jonathan Dumont, you won’t be limited to a pre-set fighting style in the forthcoming game. Instead, you’ll be able […]

September 3, 2018

Technology