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Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is officially announcing its Xbox Nano controller today, a smaller and cheaper controller that’s designed to fit into your pocket. The more compact controller
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. If you don’t get AppleCare Plus for the iPhone Duo, any repairs are going to be pretty expensive. Apple published the estimated repair costs for the
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It seems that with the RAMpocalypse and component cost crisis that saw even Apple recently increase prices across the range, laptops are next in line for a price hike. So, we've been looking out for future-proofed laptops with the specs professionals need to see out the latest cost
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Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2026. Today, Stephanie Kiel explains the latest on our approach to post-quantum cryptography, and shares a new tool to help CISOs and executives prepare their organizations for PQC. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted
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The generative AI functions in BigQuery (AI.GENERATE, AI.IF, AI.CLASSIFY, AI.SCORE, and more) bring large language models (LLMs) directly into your SQL, so a single query can classify millions of support tickets or score each product review for sentiment. However, because these functions are billed by the
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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for users to evade mobile fraud, including bolstered protection in Google Messages
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It’s called the Square
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Anyone can click a link and join an end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp call, without installing an app or creating an account. by Stevie Bonifield Oct 14, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC Image: Meta Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing
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Old-school physics-based weather forecasting and even new AI models typically become less reliable beyond two weeks, a problem Microsoft claims to have solved using machine learning. Researchers with the company say they’ve found a new, cost-effective way to make more accurate weather forecasts two to six weeks in advance
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: Netflix is the latest streaming giant to dial back its global workforce amidst sluggish growth and customer interest. In an internal memo circulated Wednesday, co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said
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over the hill offers a fun, easy-going offroading experience. But while I had a good time tackling the terrain both solo and with friends, there’s not a lot to do besides in the beautiful but barren environments. Future updates and DLC may eventually breathe more life into it, but
