Happy New Year! Over the last Christmas holidays, I had a few gatherings with various groups and people. For one evening, we had a potluck and then sang karaoke. I am not always the most comfortable singing publicly because I forget lyrics, but since they are on a screen, it reduces some of my anxiety. Into the evening and during a slower love song, one guy who was known for being creepy with women went up to one of our friends and, in front of...
From The Verge: Microsoft is preparing to launch a major UI refresh of its Edge browser soon. The software maker has started bringing the design language from Copilot to early Canary and Dev test versions of its Microsoft Edge browser.
Design changes include a settings section that looks identical...
From PC Mag: Amazon is kicking off the year with an Alexa+ chatbot, a redesigned Fire TV experience, and a brand new lifestyle TV.
With Alexa.com, you get a chatbot-like interface for the company’s revamped Alexa+ assistant. The website is designed to get you responses like you'd expect on ChatGPT...
From PC World: AMD is using CES 2026 as a launch vehicle to add several of its popular Ryzen AI Max+ and Ryzen 9000 X3D processors to its stack, but the real story might be the performance improvements AMD is claiming as part of its updated ROCm software instead.
AMD is adding two processors to its...
From The Verge: Now that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has appointed a new CEO to run Microsoft’s biggest businesses, he has a little more time on his hands for other adventures. Beyond focusing on Microsoft’s technical work, Nadella is now turning to the ancient art of blogging to discuss Microsoft’s...
From PC Mag: The Pebble Round 2 isn’t meant for everybody. It doesn’t have the fitness-tracking features of a Garmin wearable or even those of flagship smartwatches from Apple, Google, or Samsung. Instead, it’s meant to follow the same core philosophy behind the Pebble Time 2 as a playful device...
From CNET: In a 2025 year-end post, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri addressed the massive shifts AI is causing in photography, stressing that authenticity will be harder and harder to come by -- and offering thoughts on how creators, camera makers and Instagram itself will need to adapt.
"The key risk...
From The Verge: New photos and video seem to confirm previous leaks hinting that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will sport a new camera bump. OnLeaks posted images of what look like dummy phones on X, following renders it leaked back in September.
We’ve seen a similarly raised island on the Galaxy Z...
From PC Mag: Samsung is closing out the year with a flurry of product news. After announcing new speakers and Google Photos support for its TVs, the company has now introduced the budget-friendly Galaxy A17 5G and the Galaxy Tab A11+, which launch next month in the US.
The Galaxy A17 5G succeeds...
From PC World: LG Electronics will show off it’s new line of lifestyle TVs–the LG Gallery TV line–at CES in January, 2026. The Gallery TV is designed to optimally display the more than 4,500 works of art available from the company’s LG Gallery+ service (a “light” version is bundled with the TV; the...
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