Microsoft’s ugly sweaters return with Clippy, Xbox, and Zune brown options
Microsoft's ugly sweaters return with Clippy, Xbox, and Zune brown options Microsoft is bringing back its ugly sweaters for the holiday season. After taking a break for 2024, the company has an “Artifact” holiday sweater with lots of retro iconography, an even uglier Zune brown option, and even a green Xbox version. Clippy was the […]
Amazon and Google’s new cloud link could make it easier to deal with outages
Amazon and Google's new cloud link could make it easier to deal with outages Google and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to offer a link between their cloud services, as reported earlier by Reuters. With this tool, companies can establish a private connection between AWS and Google Cloud within “minutes,” giving online businesses a […]
Apple’s smallest iPad just got its biggest price cut for Cyber Monday
Apple's smallest iPad just got its biggest price cut for Cyber Monday If you’re an iPad user who prioritizes portability, you’re in luck. Amazon and Best Buy have both discounted the latest-generation iPad Mini to $349 ($150 off) in its base Wi-Fi configuration, which is the lowest price we’ve seen on the miniature tablet since […]
Get a fantastic 55-inch OLED in your home for $900 on Cyber Monday
Get a fantastic 55-inch OLED in your home for $900 on Cyber Monday For many of us TV reviewers, the current pinnacle of television technology is OLED. It delivers inky blacks, incredible contrast, and pixel-level brightness control. Most of the time when we’re talking about OLED TVs, we’re thinking about the LG G5, Sony Bravia […]
India is ordering Apple and other phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app
India is ordering Apple and other phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app India‘s Department of Telecommunications is giving phone manufacturers 90 days to comply with an order to pre-install a state-owned app on new phones and push it to existing phones through software updates, reports Reuters. The government order was privately sent out to […]
Why IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is still hiring humans in the AI era
Why IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is still hiring humans in the AI era Today, I’m talking with Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM. IBM is a fascinating company. It’s still a household name and among the oldest tech firms in the US. Without IBM, we simply wouldn’t have the modern era of computing — it […]
The race to AGI-pill the pope
The race to AGI-pill the pope Pope Leo XIV probably isn’t the first person you picture when conversation turns to Artificial General Intelligence doomsday scenarios. But last month, AGI researcher John-Clark Levin found himself inside the Vatican on a mission to put those concerns in front of the pope. Levin hasn’t been acting alone. In […]
Apple’s M2 MacBook Air is just $599 during Cyber Monday
Apple's M2 MacBook Air is just $599 during Cyber Monday The 13-inch M2 MacBook Air is down to $599 for Cyber Monday. While Walmart continues to sell the 2020 M1 MacBook Air for $549, Best Buy is upping the ante for Cyber Monday with a sweet doorbuster deal on Apple’s 13-inch M2 MacBook Air that […]
Zillow property listings no longer show risk of fires, floods, and storms
Zillow property listings no longer show risk of fires, floods, and storms Zillow has stopped publishing climate risk ratings for sales listings that show the likelihood of properties being impacted by extreme weather, The New York Times reports. The feature introduced by the real estate listings site last year used data from risk-modeling company First […]
The Verge’s guide to Cyber Monday 2025
The Verge's guide to Cyber Monday 2025 Cyber Monday is here in full force. It brings with it many of the same deals as we saw during Black Friday, along with a handful of new, limited-time sale prices on Verge-approved tech products. It’s a great time to save on laptops, OLED TVs, noise-eliminating headphones, robot […]