Consumer News

Japanese electronics giant Sony is set to celebrate 30 years since it launched the PlayStation console, the little gray box that catapulted the firm into the gaming big league.... Read more

The PlayStation has been a colossal consumer hit, but three decades ago, its creator Ken Kutaragi struggled to convince both game-makers and his bosses at Sony that his console would be a winner.... Read more

Since 1994, PlayStation's five consoles have changed video game history. From the development of the controller to scuffles at stores to Saddam Hussein's military, here are five interesting things to know:... Read more

It's time for the holidays, which means robust family conversations and seemingly never-ending courses of food. But for the more tech-savvy among us, the journey home could also mean we'll be called on to provide a backlog of tech support to parents, grandparents and other family members.... Read more

By providing flexibility services to renewable energy systems, consumers can both help in balancing power grids and receive financial benefits. Hosna Khajeh's doctoral dissertation from the University of Vaasa, Finland, introduces new methods that enable the efficient utilization of energy users' flexibility resources in distribution and transmission networks.... Read more

When legendary Canadian game studio Bioware released Dragon Age: The Veilguard this fall, it was supposed to be a redemption story.... Read more

Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday unveiled its first smartphone equipped with a fully homegrown operating system, a key test in the firm's fight to challenge the dominance of Western juggernauts.... Read more

Earlier this year, a Hong Kong finance worker was tricked into paying US$25 million to scammers who had used deepfake technology to pretend to be the company's chief financial officer in a video conference call. Thinking the images on screen were his colleagues, the financier authorized the multimillion-dollar transfer to... Read more

Every day, millions of people share more intimate information with their accessories than they do with their spouse.... Read more

A new book has outlined why public institutions should recognize a new human right to free internet access and what such a right could look like.... Read more

From family photos stored on the cloud to social media posts cataloging life's pivotal moments, to music, art and stories we create and share online, the digital world is infused with representations of who we are.... Read more

A small team of AI researchers at Adobe Inc., working with a colleague from Auburn University and another from Georgia Tech, has developed a small language model (SLM) that they claim can be run locally on a smart phone with no access to the cloud. The group has written a... Read more

The gender of avatars in action role-playing games could affect how people play, according to new research from Nottingham Trent University (NTU).... Read more

Virtual reality and the metaverse are setting the stage for new ways to watch sporting events. A new study from the University of Georgia suggests that users value the unique virtual interactions with others offered by digital events.... Read more

Video games have always been a showcase for new technologies. They help create new audiences and new markets. In the 1990s, computer parts manufacturers advertised the speed of their video cards in terms of the frames they could render per second of popular video games like Quake.... Read more