Tinder Matchmaker Lets Your Friends (or Your Mom) Handle the Swiping

Are you constantly worried about your family members' safety when they are away from home? Sending a simple “reached home” text can be easily forgotten and keeping tabs on them all the time is not possible. If you want to be really informed about their safety and security, then check this new iOS 17 safety feature called “Check-In”. It is one of the best safety features to keep your loved ones updated that you have reached the place you were going to safely. Know more about this iPhone feature and how it works.

A new trailer for Hogwart's Legacy on the Nintendo Switch gives Harry Potter fans their first look at the game before it's release next week. 

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Baldur's Gate 3 has claimed the top prize at the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 powered by Intel, capping off a huge night by winning the title of Ultimate Game of the Year.

If you have some *ahem* questionable games in your Steam library, an answer may soon be inbound. There’s a distinct possibility that the Valve client could introduce a feature that will allow you to hide some of your more embarrassing choices.

Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for November 9: With Diwali just around the corner, Garena Free Fire players can get their hands on special Diwali-themed rewards in the game! Recently, the game's developers introduced a Diwali-themed Free Fire Lucky Wheel which brought the Free Spirit Bundle, Stereo Noisemaker Bundle, King Boxer Bundle, Fury Senior Bundle, and Griffin Bundle to the game. Now, a second campaign has gone live, offering another batch of special rewards. Check out what's new.

Tired of having to explain yourself every time your friends catch you firing up Hosiery Party: Wet Potato Frenzy on Steam? Well, there's some good news: Valve is reportedly readying a feature that'll let you mark specific games as «private» so you can hide your more unusual tastes from other users while still maintaining a public profile.

Valve appears to be working on a new feature for Steam that will let you mark individual games as «private,» which will let you keep your profile public while preventing all your friends from knowing just how much time you spend playing Horny Housewives Booty Call Blackmail. (Or, you know, whatever.)

Steam is reportedly working on a feature that will let users seemingly hide games you're playing from other users.

Lucid dreams are defined as the experience of knowing you are dreaming while you are asleep, and can range from the sublime to the genuinely terrifying. According to the CEO of new startup Prophetic, its latest project aims to «detect when dreamers are in REM to induce and stabilize lucid dreams» via a wearable device they call «The Halo». And if that doesn't sound like a cyberpunk future developing in front of our very eyes, I'm not sure what does.

Epic's quest to see half the tech industry in court has has put its executives in the witness stand again. This time, the case is the Epic vs Google trial and the executive is Steve Allison, the general manager of the Epic Games Store, who testified yesterday (via The Verge) that the PC storefront continues to generate no profit for the company five years after its December 2018 launch.

By Mia Sato, platforms and communities reporter with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools.