From The Verge: Smart locks may still be a niche product, but lock behemoth Assa Abloy is clearly betting on a digital future for our doors. Despite being sued by the US Department of Justice for trying to buy too many smart lock manufacturers, the Swedish-based company just bought another one...

From PC Mag: Nearly a year after it finished its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is making another round of cuts to its gaming division. This time, it's laying off 650 employees, Microsoft Gaming CEO and Xbox chief Phil Spencer said in a memo to staff Thursday.

"For the past year, our...

From PC World: AMD is offering gamers an early version of what it calls AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF2), an AI-powered technology that creates additional frames per second for those gamers with laptops powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors. The improvements appear significant: about 30 to 40...

From PC Mag: Samsung is starting to lay off staff globally, impacting up to 30% of employees in some divisions by the end of this year, according to three sources familiar with the scope of the layoffs, Reuters reports Wednesday.

Sales and marketing departments are reportedly being reduced by 15%...

From The Verge: The PS5 Pro is official. After months of leaks, Sony just announced a more powerful PS5 console during a special technical presentation. Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5 console, says the PS5 Pro improves on the original console in three key ways: a larger GPU, advanced ray...

From PC World: Back at the end of August, Microsoft released a new Beta version with code KB5041881 for Windows Insiders. This update included several interesting improvements and new features, but one flew under the radar because it wasn’t mentioned in any release notes.

While Windows 11 already...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR today announced an update to its award-winning low-noise RMx series of power supplies with ATX 3.1 compliance, a native ATX 12V-2x6 connector, a manual fan speed control knob, and other improvements. Boasting Gold-certified efficiency (up to 91%) and an A+ noise...

From PC World: There’s a major Windows 11 update coming this season and it seems to be causing various screen-related issues for beta testers.

MSPoweruser reports that several users — both on Microsoft’s support forums as well as on Reddit — have complained about numerous monitor and display...

From CNET: Apple's newest phones are official, and CNET got to try them out. At its Glowtime event on Monday, the company took the wraps off of its latest iPhones, with the base models predictably called the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.

The biggest differences between the iPhone 16 and last year...

From The Verge: After weeks of teasing, Huawei has officially launched the world’s first dual-hinged, triple-screen foldable phone and it’s just as expensive as we feared. In China, prices for the Mate XT Ultimate Design start at 19,999 yuan (about $2,809) for the 256GB storage model — that’s...