Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs

From The Verge: Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the “primary AI inference system” for Microsoft’s products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it’s also more capable of...

Fitbit Fans, Rejoice! The Fitbit Edge Is Here, and It Has a Screen

From PC Mag: Fitbit is finally debuting a true successor to the Editors’ Choice-winning Charge 6. Called the Fitbit Edge, the company’s latest fitness tracker has a touch screen as well as a physical button for controls. It tracks activity, exercise, sleep, stress, and individual health metrics...

Apple To Unveil HomeView Smart Home Hub This Week

From PC Mag: Apple is reportedly set to debut a new smart home device, dubbed HomeView, this week at its “Welcome Home” smart home event on Tuesday.

The new device will act as a “Siri command center” for an Apple-powered smart home, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. HomeView will reportedly...

Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33%, PS5 sales drop 25%

From Tom's Hardware: Video game console sales in the U.S. have cratered, with both the PS5 and Xbox seeing a massive drop in YTD sales through the end of August compared with last year. Mat Piscatella, the video game industry advisor at research firm Circana, shared the numbers on his Bluesky...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Calls for an AI 'Emergency Brake'

From PC Mag: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been quieter than his counterparts in recent weeks as the heads of Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and others discuss the risks of artificial intelligence. Now, he's calling for change across the industry.

On X, Nadella argued that it’s time to introduce what...

PC prices to remain elevated until end of 2027

From ComputerWorld: IDC has bad news for enterprises upgrading PCs: don’t expect prices to come down any time soon.

PC prices are already high due to constrained supplies and surging memory and component costs. Geopolitical tensions and an uncertain global economy won’t make the situation any...

UGREEN MagFlow Pro Magnetic Power Bank Review (Page 1 of 4)

How often does your phone run out of battery before the end of the day? For me, it is basically never even though I use between 90% to 100% per day on average, but with a bit of an asterisk. I plug in my phone overnight, and it will be charged to my preset limit of 80%. I usually take a nap in the afternoon, which I will also plug in my phone for it to be charged to the preset limit. One could say my phone gets charged when I get charged. But...

Corsair HS35 v3 Wireless Review (Page 1 of 4)

I have been looking at Pokémon and their 30th anniversary celebration, which includes a new set of cards as well as other merchandise. I have never collected these cards in the past, but I was also intrigued at this new set. As such, I recently went to line up in front of a grocery store in hopes of grabbing something. Despite getting there two hours before opening, I was still behind a hundred or more other people. Thankfully, I was able to buy...

Google Ends Free Cellular Safety Tools on Older Pixel Watches

From PC Mag: Your older Pixel Watch may have fewer safety features outside of your home by the end of the year. A new announcement from Google confirms that free cellular access to Safety Signal tools will end in mid-December 2026.

Safety Signal offers Emergency SOS, Fall Detection, and Safety...

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