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Office 2021 joins the October retirement list as customers weigh pricier alternatives

You don't have to juggle all the little details of your next trip alone. Gemini, with it's Google parentage, can help you line it all up.

LG has strongly denied recent security and privacy concerns raised regarding its smart TVs.

Nintendo is releasing its first-ever limited-edition Switch 2 to commemorate Zelda's 40th anniversary and it will cost $520. It does not come with Ocarina of Time, but you can purchase a similarly-themed Pro Controller for $100.

The Apple Lakeside store, located in a large out-of-town shopping center in Essex, England, is set to reopen on Saturday after a major redesign. The company says the upgrades include new sustainable materials and a range of accessibility improvements … more…

OpenAI has made bold claims with its new GPT-6 Astra AI model, and it's certainly capable, but benchmarks suggest it has many of the usual weaknesses alongside the strengths, while cost and accessibility are still the biggest factors in widespread usage.

DSeek plans to officially release the V4.1 Flash model around September 10, 2026 (Beijing Time). After extensive internal and external testing, V4.1 Flash has comprehensively surpassed V4 Pro across all key metrics, including performance, cost, speed, and task completion time. In keeping with our...

Researcher believes overprivileged Iterable creds exposed 8.8M customer records – and could have enabled mass deletion

The NSA, CISA and the FBI have accused DeepSeek, Moonshot and other Chinese AI companies of "distilling" American frontier AI models.

Save 10% on this 4TB Crucial T705 SSD, the cheapest Gen 5 4TB SSD on the market by some distance at the moment, now just $502.51.

Phanteks' mainstream ATX 3.1 line, with Japanese capacitors, an 8-year warranty, and street pricing under $90, but with a 450W cap on its 12V-2x6 connector.

Following the usual tradition, the Apple Store is down ahead of this morning’s September Apple event, kicking off at 10 AM Pacific Time. We are expecting Apple to announce the new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, the foldable iPhone Duo, Apple Watch Series 12, and updated AirPods (fifth-generation). m...

Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.

A modder has recreated the never-released RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB of VRAM using GDDR6 chips instead of the GDDR6X the retail 3070 Ti actually shipped with.

Get all the news when it happens, as our reporters bring you live updates from Apple Park, the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Samsung says it welcomes Apple’s entry into the foldable smartphone market, although the company appears to feel threatened by the likely build quality of the iPhone Duo/Ultra. A Samsung exec said he sees Apple’s launch as “acknowledging and recognizing” the Korean company’s “pioneering” lead … m...

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The IMAX 70mm screening of 'Star Wars' will be a Holy Grail quest for fans of the original 1977 version.

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An anonymous security researcher has reconstructed the source code of the infamous Stuxnet worm, which was built to subtly interfere with Iranian uranium enrichment during the Bush and Obama administrations.