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  REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Twitter hasn't been having a good day. As  The Verge   reports , code sleuth Jane Manchun Wong and other users have  noticed  a partial Twitter outage today (February 17th) that has led to missing tweets, including on profile pages. The social network's status page shows nothing wrong, but Downdetector  indicated  a surge in user-reported problems around 11AM Eastern. Most of the alerts came from people in the Easter US. Twitter told Engadget it was investigating the problem and would follow up. The company's support account also  told users  about a "rise in cases." It's still possible to view many tweets and create new posts, at least as of this writing. Wong  noted  that Twitter "mitigated" the situation by reverting a code switch. ADVERTISEMENT           This is the second incident so far this month. On February 11th, the company suffered and fixed a "technical bug" that prevented people from posting or loading tim

  If you own an Amazon Echo, there’s a chance that just reading that word triggered a pavlovian “bimm” in your mind. Or, if you have the wake sound disabled, maybe it’s the timer alarm that makes you twitch if you hear it on a TV show (or someone   else’s   speaker). Whatever you think of the sounds a smart speaker makes, none of them are accidental. They have all been meticulously designed to pull your attention or provide reassurance, depending on their goal. And the Echo   could   have sounded very different from how we know it today. ADVERTISEMENT     The Echo series, in particular, has been instrumental in defining the smart speaker and the sounds we expect and (to avoid burned pizza) need it to make. Maybe you don’t think about these transient acoustic signposts much – the beeps and boops that bookend Alexa’s verbal responses – and that’s okay, that’s by design too. In fact, Chris Seifert, Senior Design Manager at Amazon wouldn’t mind if you don’t notice these sounds at all. “On

  Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter isn't limiting crypto fans to  tipping with Bitcoin . The social network has  expanded  its tipping options to let creators add their Ethereum address. If you're sitting on a stash of that other major cryptocurrency, it should be easier to show your support. The expansion also adds support for a trio of payment services, including Barter, Paga and Paytm. You can send tips by visiting the Tips icon in someone's Twitter profile. If you want to receive tips and are at least 18 years old, you can choose to edit your profile and enable tips. Ethereum support is helpful if you aren't quite as  enthusiastic about Bitcoin  as former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey. In some ways, though, the payment service support is more useful. Barter, Paga and Paytm are useful in India, Nigeria and other countries where mobile payments thrive. Twitter's move not only lets more people tip, but makes it more practical for digital creators to ope

  Guerrilla Games set itself up with an unusual challenge when developing   Horizon Forbidden West ,  which comes out on Friday, February 18th. According to the game’s director and technical director, Guerrilla was well aware of the PS5 and much of its capabilities when it started working on   Forbidden West   in 2018. But, the company also planned to make the game work on the PS4, a console that turns nine years old this fall. It’s not unusual for games to be released on both consoles, but  Forbidden West  is notable for being a particularly massive and detailed game, perhaps the most advanced title yet to come out on the PS5. In a conversation with Engadget, game director Mathijs de Jonge and technical director Michiel van der Leeuw discussed Guerrilla’s process for making sure that the game worked for the PS4 while simultaneously showing off everything the PS5 is capable of. i This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.  Update your settings here, then reload the

  If you’re thinking of getting a laptop or tablet as a gift, you’ve got a wealth of options. Thanks to the latest round of hardware from Intel, Apple, AMD and NVIDIA, all of our portable devices have gotten steadily faster and more efficient. Even the cheapest iPad can be a decent productivity machine, while gaming laptops now have almost all of the power of their desktop siblings. And with the arrival of Windows 11, it's a perfect time to give someone a nifty PC upgrade, especially since very old computers won’t be able to step up. Dell XPS 13 Dell Not to sound like a broken record, but the  XPS 13  is still the best Windows ultraportable you can buy. The design hasn't changed much, but that's not a huge problem: It's still incredibly light and features extraordinarily thin screen bezels. And now you can also take advantage of Intel's latest 11th-generation processors. The XPS 13 can also be configured with an OLED screen, an ideal gift for someone who could use a