That's right, gamers: this week is a special Free Play Days event hosted by the team over at 2K. From February 5th through the 8th, gamers get access to six free-to-play titles with any level of Game Pass subscription. Sports, strategy,...
The Lucky 38 glasses make their inspiration clear from the first glance. Drawing from one of the franchise’s most iconic locations, the design channels the neon glow and retro futurism of the Lucky 38 Resort & Casino.
The most pressing question, of course, is why Valve still won’t commit to pricing or a firm launch date. The company’s answer is blunt: memory and storage shortages have worsened since the hardware reveal in November
The first wave of 2026 earnings season delivered a familiar theme across Big Tech and chipmakers: AI is still the engine, but the cost of building that engine is starting to show up in margins, guidance, and investor reactions.
On the surface, it was a familiar corporate check‑in: a leader explaining where the OS is headed, how AI PCs fit into the roadmap, and why Windows remains central to Microsoft’s identity.
Copilot Checkout lets users complete purchases directly inside Microsoft’s AI assistant, without being redirected to external websites. It’s a slick pitch, frictionless commerce, powered by AI, with PayPal, Stripe, and Shopify handling the backend.
You’ll notice these changes most clearly in the Settings pages and context menus, which now look almost identical to Copilot’s UI. It’s not subtle, Edge feels like it’s borrowing Copilot’s wardrobe wholesale.
Over the weekend, LG smart TV owners noticed something new after updating their sets: a shiny Microsoft Copilot tile sitting alongside Netflix and YouTube.
The company wants you to believe its AI investments are not only working, but indispensable. The data points are real enough, but the framing is pure corporate theater.
Agent Mode is a new feature in Excel that lets you build and edit workbooks directly with Copilot. Instead of juggling formulas, charts, and PivotTables manually, you can describe what you need, and Agent Mode will generate a step-by-step plan to make it happen.
startups are creating “sandboxed replicas of popular websites” so AI agents can practice shopping, emailing, and browsing without touching the real thing. These replicas generate datasets that “look real but aren’t,” filled with fabricated clicks, fake purchases, and simulated emails.
The most pressing question, of course, is why Valve still won’t commit to pricing or a firm launch date. The company’s answer is blunt: memory and storage shortages have worsened since the hardware reveal in November
The numbers themselves are difficult to gloss over. Gaming revenue fell 9% year-over-year, with Xbox content and services slipping 5% and hardware collapsing by a staggering 32%.
The most striking shift is the thermal strategy. Alienware has adopted a Positive Pressure Airflow system that directs all fans inward, forcing heat to exit through a passive rear outlet.
These crowd favorites are part of Bose’s Valentine’s Day offers, running from February 6 to 16, giving shoppers a solid window to pick up something thoughtful without resorting to last minute panic buys.
What really sold me, though, was its versatility. My workday doesn’t end at the office. The SoundLink Plus travels with me from home to work and even to my wife’s dance studio, where it’s become an unexpected hero in her choreography sessions.
Vocals sit forward, guitars cut cleanly, and pianos reveal their harmonic complexity. This is the range where mixes live or die, and the Audeze makes sure you hear every decision.
Oracle’s plan to raise up to $50 billion dollars in 2026 is being framed as a bold expansion of its cloud and AI footprint, but the scale and timing of the move reveal a company scrambling to keep pace while absorbing the consequences of its own costly bets.
On the surface, it was a familiar corporate check‑in: a leader explaining where the OS is headed, how AI PCs fit into the roadmap, and why Windows remains central to Microsoft’s identity.
Paint’s updates take a different direction by emphasizing creativity and user control. The new Coloring book feature uses AI to generate coloring pages from text prompts, offering a playful and accessible way to experiment with visual ideas.
The writing has been on the wall for years, but Microsoft finally made it official on November 15, 2025, announcing that Lens would begin losing core capabilities in December before shutting down entirely on March 9, 2026.
The prompt tells users that Collections is being deprecated and nudges them toward two escape hatches: move items into Favorites (losing images and notes) or export everything to a CSV file.
This week, Microsoft’s CEO hits Davos to defend the company’s AI spending spree, insisting it is all part of a grand vision while everyone else wonders if GPUs have become the new gold bars.
Every once in a while, the tech industry hits a week where every major storyline feels like it’s trying to out‑chaos the last one, and this was one of those weeks.
The Lucky 38 glasses make their inspiration clear from the first glance. Drawing from one of the franchise’s most iconic locations, the design channels the neon glow and retro futurism of the Lucky 38 Resort & Casino.
The most pressing question, of course, is why Valve still won’t commit to pricing or a firm launch date. The company’s answer is blunt: memory and storage shortages have worsened since the hardware reveal in November
The first wave of 2026 earnings season delivered a familiar theme across Big Tech and chipmakers: AI is still the engine, but the cost of building that engine is starting to show up in margins, guidance, and investor reactions.