Amazon eyes ads and upcharges for Alexa Plus
Amazon’s new Alexa Plus voice assistant works with most existing Amazon devices. In the week’s least surprising news, Amazon CEO
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Bose’s QuietComfort Headphones are $130 off for back-to-school season
Bose headphones are some of the most comfortable around. | Image: The Verge Finding peace among the chaos on campus
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Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links
Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl
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Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filing
Yesterday, when Epic won its Google antitrust lawsuit for a second time, it wasn’t quite clear how soon Google would
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Reddit pauses its paywall plans
Reddit is pausing its plans to let people make subreddits with content behind a paywall, CEO Steve Huffman said as
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Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor
Windows 11 SE running on a low-cost laptop. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years
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Bing made Google dance and then stole some search traffic
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wanted to make Google dance two years ago, with an AI overhaul of Bing that was
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Samsung TVs are coming back online after apps stopped working
Samsung smart TVs appear to be functioning normally again after experiencing a global outage yesterday. Users across Reddit and Samsung’s
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Apple shipped its 3 billionth iPhone
Tim Cook sure knows how to sell an iPhone. Apple has been the target of a fair amount of criticism
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Apple says Trump’s tariffs are adding another $1 billion to its costs
Apple is spending a lot on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook
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