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Ford F-150 Lightning announcement: how to watch the electric pickup truck’s debut

Ford is getting ready to pull the curtain back on its latest electric vehicle. The F-150 Lightning, the electric version of the automaker’s bestselling pickup truck, will take center stage at Ford’s headquarters in Dearborn, MI, at 9:30PM ET on Wednesday, May 19th. Ford says there will be “30+ ways to watch across physical and… Read more

HBO Max launching ad-supported tier for $9.99 a month in June

HBO Max will launch an ad-supported tier in June for $9.99 per month, offering a cheaper option than the full $14.99-per-month ad-free subscription. The news was announced during a WarnerMedia presentation for advertisers today. The price and launch date were rumored last month. The streaming service, which has 64 million subscribers, has been planning an… Read more

Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022

Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer next year, after more than 25 years. The aging web browser has largely been unused by most consumers for years, but Microsoft is putting the final nail in the Internet Explorer coffin on June 15th, 2022, by retiring it in favor of Microsoft Edge. “We are announcing that the… Read more

Amazon Echo Show 8 (2021) vs Echo Show 8 (2019): What’s the difference?

(Pocket-lint) – Amazon updated its Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5 in 2021, with a couple of new features on both models. You can read how the new Echo Show 5 and old Echo Show 5 compare in our separate feature, as well as how the Echo Show models all compare in another feature…. Read more

IFA 2021, scheduled for September, has been cancelled

Home News (Image credit: IFA) Despite insisting in April that the IFA 2021 technology fair would be, “a full-scale, real-life event”, organisers of the show have announced it will now be cancelled due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Berlin-based show, which was due to take place from 3rd-7th September, is Europe’s… Read more

With Apple and Amazon offering lossless streaming for no extra charge, what now for their rivals?

Home Features (Image credit: Apple) When Tidal began offering hi-res audio streaming in 2017, becoming only the second streaming service to do so after Qobuz broke that ground the year before, we didn’t expect hi-res streaming to be a two-player game for quite so long. Now though, not only have their rivals caught up but… Read more

Watercool Heatkiller Rad 360-L Review

Introduction See that logo above? I had to manually upload it as part of this review instead of taking it from an older product review, which makes this one of a first set of two Watercool reviews on TechPowerUp—surprising considering there have nearly been 100 reviews in this category since I joined the team. Watercool,… Read more

Watercool Heatkiller Rad 360-S Review

Introduction See that logo above? I had to manually upload it as part of this review instead of taking it from an older product review, which makes this one of a first set of two Watercool reviews on TechPowerUp—surprising considering there have nearly been 100 reviews in this category since I joined the team. Watercool,… Read more

People are uncomfortable with digital health tools used to control COVID-19

Most people in the United States don’t want their digital data used to control the spread of COVID-19, a new study found. More than half of the people in the study remained wary of sharing their data in different scenarios, including a smart thermometer company sharing information with public health officials, or using the Google… Read more

Spotify enters the virtual concert business, starts selling $15 tickets to events

Spotify is entering the virtual concert business, just as in-person concerts are becoming more of a possibility. The company announced today that people can now buy tickets to five different concert streams, which will air throughout May and June. Initial artists include The Black Keys, Jack Antonoff of Bleachers, and Leon Bridges. The streams all… Read more

China releases first images from its Zhurong rover on Mars

China’s Zhurong rover has beamed back its first images from the surface of Mars after landing on a vast plain called Utopia Planitia. The rover plunged through the Martian atmosphere last Friday, bundled together with a lander after separating from China’s Tianwen-1 probe. The new images released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) show… Read more

Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest returns June 10th with a ‘world premiere showcase’

Summer Game Fest is back this year, and it will start on June 10th with an event called “Kick Off Live!” that’s billed as a “spectacular world premiere showcase” with “more than a dozen” world premieres and announcements. The show, which will begin at 2PM ET, will be hosted by Geoff Keighley, who you might… Read more

Here’s how Deathloop’s death loops work

An early look at the next game from Dishonored developer Arkane Studios Deathloop is a game about, well, death loops. The next release from Dishonored developer Arkane Studios, Deathloop puts you in the role of a man named Colt who wakes up in a strange-yet-stylish 1960s-inspired place called Blackreef. Like the studio’s past work, the… Read more

iPad Pro (2021) review: dream screen

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. How much do you care about having a great screen? That, really, is the only question that matters with the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro. It has a new kind of display so good I think it is… Read more

How to download your Google Photos

As of June 1st, 2021, all of the new images and videos that you save to Google Photos will count toward your free 15GB of storage. If you don’t take a lot of photos, that may not be much of a problem. And if you own a Pixel phone, your photos still won’t count against… Read more