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This deal caught my eye last night. Google is knocking $200 off its flagship Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL, which means the smaller model now starts at $799, or the same price as the regular Pixel 9. That's a no-brainer right there.Or, you can head to Best Buy where it starts at [...]

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is moving the companyas HR chief, Kathleen Hogan, into a new role focused on corporate strategy. Announced in an internal memo to Microsoft employees this morning, Hogan will report directly to Nadella and be responsible for strategy and transformation. Hogan has been at Microsoft for more than 20 years and spent [...]

Netflix just announced Spirit Crossing during a press event at GDC 2025. Spirit Crossing represents a first for Netflix, becoming the service's first MMO offering. It was developed by Spry Fox, one of Netflix's in-house game studios, and will launch sometime later this year. Spirit Crossing is described in the press release as a cozy [...]

Netflix is making a big push into video games. The company first dabbled in games with interactive titles like Black Mirror: Bandersnatchand aCarmen Sandiego game. But starting in 2021, it made gaming a much bigger priority - Netflix hired a former EA exec and let people play a selection of mobile games for free as [...]

Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy told Collider he has killed plans to publish the critically acclaimed show's scripts, despite having the 1,500-page collection ready to go, due to fear that the material would become training fodder for artificial intelligence systems. At an Emmy event in 2023, Gilroy announced plans to launch a free website featuring all [...]

Verizon's previously announced satellite messaging service is now available to owners of some Android smartphones, the company said in a statement today. It comes at no extra charge to Verizon customers, though you'll need a Google Pixel 9 or Samsung Galaxy S25 series phone to take advantage of it. The service allows people to send [...]

The European Commission is instructing Apple to make iOS work better with third-party devices like smartwatches and headphones. The Commission adopted two legally binding decisions Tuesday under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European competition law that governs large digital gatekeepers. The first decision will give app developers and device manufacturers more access to key [...]

Analogue has released a new firmware update for its Pocket handheld with bug fixes and expanded support for wireless controllers. PocketOS v2.5 - available for download here - fixes an issue with backup save exports for Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, but also introduces a long list of updates for the Pocket's TV [...]

There's a lot of interest in daily puzzle games right now. The New York Times has a great collection of games like its crossword, Wordle, Connections, and Strands. Apple is in the mix with crosswords and more in Apple News Plus. Zach Gage's puzzle gaming platform Puzzmo has some fun twists on classic games and [...]

Last year, GameStop shut down Game Informer, laying off all its staff and putting an end to one of the last remaining video game magazines still published in the United States. But now, cryptic posts on social media hint that the publication may make a return. On Bluesky, the Game Informer account, which had not [...]

Plex is raising the price of its Plex Pass from $4.99 to $6.99 per month and gating a key featurebehind the subscription. Starting April 29th, users who want to stream content from their media server outside their homes - and let other people access it for free - will need a Plex Pass subscription. The [...]

Death. Taxes. All your streaming services getting a little more expensive all the time. These are the new certainties in life, it seems. In recent years, as the streaming TV and movie business has gotten more competitive and companies around Hollywood have thrown billions into building their own platforms and libraries in order to compete [...]

Google is breaking European antitrust laws by favoring its own Shopping, Hotels, and Flights search services over rival comparison providers, according to the European Commission. The EU announced in its preliminary ruling today that Google's parent company, Alphabet, had also violated anti-steering rules under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by preventing app developers on its [...]

The European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) has come into force, and it's meant that some of the world's biggest tech companies are having to make major changes to how they operate. The law, which is designed to increase competition in the EU's digital markets, designates some large online companies and their services as gatekeepers." [...]

Family members of people who died in Tesla crashes are urging the US Department of Transportation not to scrap a Biden-era rule requiring companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles. They also say they are worried that Tesla CEO Elon Musk's influence in the Trump administration may lead the department to [...]

Google's brand new midrange phone, the Pixel 9A, won't be shipping until sometime in April. That's not strange in and of itself, but it turns out you can't even preorder one from the Google Store yet. The latter situation is fairly unusual, as Google normally starts taking orders for new hardware right after announcing it. [...]

Copilot is coming back after Microsoft accidentally uninstalled it from some Windows 11 devices. In an update to its support page, Microsoft said affected devices are being returned to their original state," ending what some may have considered a brief respite from the AI assistant. On Monday, Microsoft said it was aware of a bug [...]

When AI giant OpenAI submitted its afreedom-focuseda policy proposal to the White Houseas AI Action Plan last Thursday, it gave the Trump administration an industry wishlist: use trade laws to export American AI dominance against the looming threat of China, loosen copyright restrictions for training data (also to fight China), invest untold billions in AI [...]

Nvidia has cut prices on its RTX 50-series of GPUs across Europe this week. The price cuts are thanks to a stronger Euro against the dollar, allowing Nvidia to cut the price of some of its latest GPUs by nearly five percent due to better exchange rates. Videocardz reports that the RTX 5090 has dropped [...]

After 11 years, Boston Dynamics has said goodbye to its humanoid robot Atlas - but only the hydraulic version. In a video posted on YouTube, the robotics company says it's time for Atlas to kick back and relax" in retirement, letting the new all-electric Atlas take the reins. Boston Dynamics revealed Atlas in 2013 as [...]

Razer is getting into AI with a new developer platform called Wyvrn. It encompasses dev-focused automation tools like the Razer AI QA Copilot to assist with quality assurance / game testing and the AI Gamer Copilot (formerly called Project Ava) for real-time tips and guides via voice assistant while playing games. Wyvrn (pronounced wyvern," like [...]

Automattic-owned Day One has announced a Windows version of its journaling app, available now on the Microsoft Store. The company says it offers the same trusted, distraction-free experience" as it does on other platforms. It's also free to use, and won't count against the free plan's one-device syncing limit, for now. One of the more [...]

TikTok's curse or blessing, depending on how you look at it, is that any video made by any random person can get millions of views without much rhyme or reason. Thousands of comments flood in, people make reaction videos, your random thoughts are referenced as gospel, and the TikTok content machine starts to whir. If [...]

The Playdate, Panic's cranky little console that could, is going to get $30 more expensive next week. Panic announced the increase in an email to customers, bringing the bright yellow handheld's price from $199 to $229. Yeah, so, guess what: after getting up and running at our new factory, they soon let us know that [...]

In a time when video game consoles are becoming more powerful and more connected than ever and AAA games are massive, bloated endeavors, Untitled Goose Game publisher Panic decided to go back to basics with the now $199 Playdate: a minuscule yellow handheld about the size of a Post-it note with a non-backlit black-and-white screen [...]

Suno wasnat supposed to be an important part of Amazonas Alexa Plus presentation. The AI song generation platform was a minor demonstration of how Alexa Plus could integrate into other apps, sandwiched between other announcements. But it caught my attention all the same a because whether Amazon realized it or not, the company blundered into [...]

Nvidia has announced that Isaac GR00T N1 - the company's open-source, pretrained but customizable foundation model that's designed to expedite the development and capabilities of humanoid robots - is now available. The age of generalist robotics is here," says Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang. With Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1 and new data-generation and robot-learning [...]

Googleas latest acquisition is its most expensive yet a and perhaps its riskiest, too. On Tuesday, the search giant announced that it acquired the cloud security startup Wiz for $32 billion. Itas a major bet that Wiz can help beef up Googleas cloud business, which makes far less money than the offerings built by its [...]

President Donald Trump and Elon Muskas slash-and-burn approach to the US government has thrown federal agencies into disarray, as thousands of civil servants have been dismissed from their jobs without rhyme or reason. But in the chaos of the cuts carried out by Muskas pseudo-agency, the Department of Government Efficiency, some federal workers say the [...]

I donat remember when I started using Google. Google justa is. Itas the verb for internet search, it commands 10 times the market share of all its competitors combined, and it is responsible for routing a huge amount of the internetas traffic. Almost two years ago, I got out. I signed up for a search [...]

Microsoft is rolling out a new gamepad keyboard for Windows 11 that lets you type with an Xbox controller. It improves the on-screen keyboard in Windows 11 making it a lot easier to navigate with an Xbox controller and type into text fields throughout the operating system. The gamepad keyboard even has shortcuts that are [...]

Microsoft is working on a new feature in Windows 11 that will help explain how less RAM or a weaker GPU might affect your PC performance. The latest preview builds of Windows 11 include a new frequently asked questions section in the system settings, with answers related to GPU memory, system RAM, and even OS [...]

Samsung has announced that One UI 7, its smartphone software based on Android 15, will start rolling out to existing phones and tablets from April 7th worldwide, with a US rollout slightly later on April 10th. In the US the update will first arrive on 2024's Galaxy S24 models, along with the Fold 6 and [...]

Amazon's next Prime Day event likely won't occur until July; however, that hasn't stopped the retail giant from launching a slew of seasonal promos. The next one comes in the form of Amazon's Big Spring Sale, which kicks off on March 25th and runs through March 31st. And, in typical Amazon fashion, we're already seeing [...]

The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You'll Never See," reported in 2023 by the New York Times, is now a criminal matter, as today prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged director Carl Erik Rinsch with wire fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes. They allege that after Netflix (referred [...]

President Donald Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission Tuesday in what appears to be a conspicuous exercise of power over the independent agency. The White House confirmed the dismissals in an unsigned email response to The Verge. Democratic Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya shared his dismissal in a Notes app message [...]

A month of anti-Tesla dissent escalated this week with two reports of Teslas catching fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City. The first incident happened early Tuesday morning at a Tesla collision center in Las Vegas, where police say a suspect in all-black gear hit several vehicles with Molotov cocktails and three bullets and painted [...]

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission lifted off successfully Friday night, taking its crew of four on their way to the International Space Station. After it arrived, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams got their ride back home to Earth after being stranded aboard the ISS for nine months. The astronauts returned on the Crew-9 capsule [...]

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) granted Tesla's application for a ride-hail permit, a required first step in the automaker's quest to launch a robotaxi service in the state. Last year, Tesla applied to become a transportation charter-party carrier (TCP), which enables it to operate a fleet of vehicles for passenger services using employees as [...]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of the company's first fully driverless vehicle tonight during its long-awaited robotaxi event. The new vehicle is dubbed the Cybercab, and Tesla let guests at the event ride around in them at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. The night's surprise, however, was a brand-new Robovan" transport [...]

Apple fixed a bug in the iOS 18.2 Passwords app that, for three months starting with the release of iOS 18, made users vulnerable to phishing attacks, according to an Apple security content update spotted by 9to5Mac. Here's how Apple describes the bug and its fix: Impact: A user in a privileged network position may [...]

It has been years since the excellent sci-fi improv comedy podcast Mission to Zyxx ended, but the crew of the Bargarean Jade are getting back together for a new adventure. While Mission to Zyxxas original Star Wars / Star Trek-lampooning story came to a dramatic close with the showas fifth season, Maximum Fun announced today [...]

Atari is now selling a smartwatch that prioritizes fun over functionality. The watch's user interface can be customized with Atari 2600-themed artwork and sound effects. But pushing it squarely into impulse purchase territory is the watch's ability to playCentipede, Pong, Super Breakout, and Missile Command using the touchscreen or the watch's crown dial functioning as [...]

Business is still booming for music streaming services, which crossed the 100 million US subscriber mark in 2024, according to the Record Industry Association of America's (RIAA) latest revenue report. Overall sales were also bolstered by physical media, which is growing at a slightly faster rate than digital, thanks in large part to continually increasing [...]

Nvidia is announcing its RTX Pro Blackwell series of GPUs today, designed to meet the needs of professional designers, developers, data scientists, and creatives. The lineup includes a top of the line RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU for workstations, as well as other RTX Pro Blackwell desktop and laptop variants and a datacenter version of [...]

Nvidia has revealed its new DGX Spark and DGX Station personal AI supercomputers" at today's GTC conference, which are both powered by the company's Grace Blackwell platform and designed for users to work on large AI models with or without a connection to a datacenter; the Spark is going up for preorder today. The DGX [...]

The rise of generative AI has been powered by Nvidia and its advanced GPUs. As demand far outstrips supply, the H100 has become highly sought after and extremely expensive, making Nvidia a trillion-dollar company for the first time. It's also prompting customers, like Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Google to start working on their own [...]

On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance publicly acknowledged a simmering atensiona between two warring factions inside the Republican party a the populist MAGA right and the tech billionaires who threw their support to Donald Trump a and called for a truce. In remarks at Andreesen-Horowitzas American Dynamism policy conference in Washington, DC, Vance, a former [...]