As Gamers Gear Up for GTA 6, PS5 Shipments Top 100 Million Units

From PC Mag: Anticipation for Grand Theft Auto 6 might have helped Sony’s PlayStation 5 to finally top 100 million units shipped.

Sony reported the milestone on Tuesday, just a few days before GTA 6 launches on Nov. 19, and its figures suggest demand for the console ramped up in recent weeks. By...

Seagate wants to turbocharge the hard drive, with a big, pricy catch

From PC World: An enormous hard drive. A speedy cache. Storage makers have tried to deliver the best of both worlds to content creators for years now, and Seagate’s Alkemi platform is the latest attempt to provide creators what they’ve been asking for. But there’s a catch.

Seagate’s 8TB and 20TB...

Congress to call Jensen Huang in over alleged Chinese spy affair

From TechCrunch: Congress is gearing up to subpoena Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to answer their questions about his affair with an alleged Chinese spy, Bloomberg reports, citing two House Republicans.

The report comes a week after House Republicans Brian Mast, John Moolenaar, and Rick Crawford sent a...

Reddit's New AI-Powered Reviews Are Already Controversial

From CNET: Reddit announced on Tuesday that it’s testing Reviews, an AI-powered shopping feature that aggregates user comments into product summaries, commerce links, and pros-and-cons breakdowns. In a blog post, the company said it wants to organically use discussions on the platform, from...

Adobe opens Creative Cloud apps to third-party AI assistants

From ComputerWorld: Adobe will open its Creative Cloud applications to third-party AI assistants, with the ability to edit content in Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, and Premiere from tools such as ChatGPT or Claude, the company announced at its Max event.

The model context protocol (MCP)...

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings for workplace discussions

From TechCrunch: Anthropic announced new workplace features on Tuesday, including Claude Meetings, which brings Claude into video calls to begin working on tasks while participants are still talking. The company also unveiled Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets.

The launch of Anthropic’s new...

Apple TV makes sign language interpretation a built-in feature

From TechCrunch: Apple TV is making its content more accessible to Deaf audiences with the launch of a new Sign Language Interpretation feature, the company announced on Tuesday. The feature will initially be available across a limited set of titles, starting this Friday with the release of “Being...

Google Pixel Tag Hands-On: The AirTag for Android Fans

From CNET: When a company comes out with its own version of a product in an established market, there has to be a good reason. Maybe it’s created a design that sets the product apart, or it’s included features that none of the competition has.

If you think I’m talking about Apple and Google, you’d...

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