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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Almost all gaming laptops have gone up in price over the past year. Curiously, the surprisingly fast Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming
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Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price SpaceX is scheduling another test flight of its monster Starship rocket later this week. Flight test 13 will carry 20 Starlink satellites and, hopefully, will not repeat the anomalies seen during the
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KETTLE Like a drug dealer who's hooked you and raised their prices, business leaders are simply shocked to learn the AI their organizations are becoming dependent on is suddenly a lot more expensive. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page,
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Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men who founded OpenAI spent the weekend calling each other frauds in public. It played out on X, in real time, in front
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Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI may not reach a courtroom for years. It is already doing damage. When Apple sued OpenAI on Friday for stealing hardware trade secrets, the attention went to the lurid detail. There were “show and tell” interviews and an engineer who kept his work laptop. One
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OpenAI will pull the plug on ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, less than a year after launch. Curious Mac users can still download it for one last look, but for an AI browser with an actual future, try Perplexity's Comet or Opera, both offer tools for summarizing pages,
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Alienware 15 (2026)3 / 5 pros and cons * Excellent build quality. * Good gaming performance. * Not much cheaper than other entry-level Alienware products. * Unimpressive display. * Connectivity quirks. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When I first heard about a budget-friendly Alienware laptop, I was beyond excited. What
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* Proton launches a map to show how age verification laws spread globally * Proton CEO said these laws will lead to "the death of online privacy" * Alternatives to prevent digital safety are possible, Proton argues It feels like an eternity ago, but it has only been less than a
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Something shifted in early 2026. In the space of just a few months, HSBC named David Rice as its first Chief AI Officer, Lloyds appointed Sameer Gupta as Chief Data and AI Officer, and the UK government hired Kalbir Sohi to the newly created role of Chief AI Officer, the
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TeraBox AI bundles a presentation maker, essay writer, scanner, and research assistant into the free storage app I already use, and most of it works well for quick, low-stakes tasks. It won't replace a dedicated AI writing or design tool, since the strongest features sit behind a paid
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For decades, basketball training technology has relied on repetition and pre-set programming modes. The standard machine simulates a game by shooting balls at varying angles. Those shots are often not random but a reaction to the player's movements. As a result, the player ends up learning how to
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* HBO has released a mid-season trailer for House of the Dragon 3 * It teases the high fantasy show's next major battle in the Targaryen Civil War * A game-changing betrayal could happen soon, too The Dance of the Dragons is about to get even deadlier and more deceitful in
