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Sony is permanently reducing the price of the PlayStation VR2. Starting in March, the headset will cost $400, €450 and £400 — down from $550, €600 and £530, respectively. Included in the price cut is the Horizon Call of the Mountain bundle, which, like the standard package, will cost $400, €450 or £400 depending on your region. While it’s been possible to buy the PS VR2 for less than $400 during recent sales, the new pricing should give retailers the flexibility to discount the device even more aggressively
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What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse. Read more ›
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While Elon Musk hacks away at the federal bureaucracy in the name of “efficiency,” his company Starlink appears poised to steal a multi-billion dollar government contract away from Verizon. The Federal Aviation Administration is on the cusp of canceling a $2.4 billion contract to overhaul the communication system for the nation’s air traffic control system, […] Read more ›
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The evolution of SEO has transformed from search engine to search everywhere optimisation, requiring brands to look beyond Google. Successful SEO strategies now prioritise business objectives over vanity metrics while integrating across multiple digital platforms. Remember when SEO simply meant getting your website to rank on Google? Those days are quickly fading into digital history.... Read more » Read more ›
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Blue Origin's six-person all-women crew is set to take off to space this spring led by Lauren Sánchez, who is engaged to Jeff Bezos. Read more ›
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A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online. Read more ›
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The annual spring meeting is a critical part of updating the yearly flu shot to match the strains most likely to be circulating in the U.S. come wintertime. Read more ›
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Katy Perry will fly to space during Blue Origin’s next crewed mission, the Jeff Bezos-owned space company has announced. The pop star will join CBS host Gayle King and Bezos’s fiancé Lauren Sánchez aboard the New Shepard rocket this spring, marking its 11th human flight. Along with Perry and Sánchez, who is known for her […] Read more ›
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Microsoft might say its top priority right now is security, but itâs been clear for months that AI is just as important. The odd division out has been Xbox, which hasnât discussed its use of AI much in public. But that changed last week when Microsoft ripped the band-aid off and waded, somewhat clumsily, into […] Read more ›
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Meta only said an "error" caused Reels to recommend violent and graphic videos, including videos depicting real shootings. Read more ›
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Crypto is, once again, exploding. Momentum born of a potentially friendlier regulatory atmosphere has met rising coin values, with Bitcoin more than doubling in value last year. Meanwhile, powered by advances to the underlying infrastructure, crypto is evolving beyond speculation and into real utility. Thatâs driving new use cases for AI and enabling seamless experiences […] Read more ›
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George Mason University researchers claim to have uncovered a serious vulnerability in Apple's Find My network that allows hackers to track virtually any Bluetooth-enabled device without the owner's knowledge. Called "nRootTag," the exploit tricks the Find My network into treating ordinary Bluetooth devices as if they were AirTags, allowing hackers to turn laptops, smartphones, game controllers, VR headsets, and even e-bikes into unwitting tracking beacons. Find My works by having... Read more ›
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Trump's executive order elaborates on DOGE's role in federal agencies, emphasizing cost-cutting measures like contract reviews and travel tracking. Read more ›
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Instagram reportedly thinks sticking Reels in a separate app will remedy the sting of losing TikTok, but it may just leave us with two dying apps instead of one. Read more ›
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Clearly hoping to shift some product, Sony has announced a price cut for PlayStation VR2. Read more Read more ›
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Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics. Read more ›
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Plus, get a glimpse at Stephen Spielberg's mystery new UFO movie. Read more ›
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As the EV4 sedan and EV2 mini SUV round out Kia's electric offering, the brand confirms its PV5 Light Camper is inbound, and an even larger model is likely on the way. Read more ›
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In the first photo from DC's Lanterns, Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre are seen as Hal Jordan and John Stewart. Read more ›
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GOG is adding FEAR Platinum to its Preservation Program "by next month". Read more Read more ›
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Goldman Sachs, which has been vocal about public commitments to diversity and inclusion, is shifting its stance, pointing to the political landscape. Read more ›
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Meta has offered up a lucrative new executive bonus plan, according to a company filing released Thursday. Under the new plan, executives could earn a yearly bonus of 200 percent of their base salary, which is up from 75 percent. This comes just after Meta announced sweeping layoffs impacting five percent of its workforce. A committee for Meta’s board of directors approved the change on February 13, on the grounds... Read more ›
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In another sign that the Trump administration will be friendlier toward the cryptocurrency industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping an investigation into Robinhood. The agency has informed the company that it won’t move forward with any enforcement action, Robinhood said on Monday. In May last year, Robinhood received a Wells Notice from the SEC indicating that the agency’s staff was going to recommend enforcement action against it. The... Read more ›
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OpenAI has banned the accounts of a group of Chinese users who had attempted to use ChatGPT to debug and edit code for an AI social media surveillance tool, the company said Friday. The campaign, which OpenAI calls Peer Review, saw the group prompt ChatGPT to generate sales pitches for a program those documents suggest was designed to monitor anti-Chinese sentiment on X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and other platforms. The... Read more ›
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Following years of development, Amazon's next-generation digital assistant is ready for public use. Panos Panay, Amazon's senior vice president of devices and services, demoed Alexa+ at the company's 2025 devices event. The model powering Alexa+ can detect tone and mood and respond accordingly. Moreover, it's only necessary to say "Alexa" once; the assistant will follow the conversation. Panay said Alexa+ has contextual awareness, with the ability to "remember" earlier parts... Read more ›
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Elon Musk has a problem with Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking feature that started as Birdwatch, and launched at scale after he purchased Twitter. "Unfortunately @CommunityNotes is increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media," Musk posted. "Working to fix this..." Based on the rant his tweet descends in to afterwards, his issue appears to be with how X's Community Notes contributors have been treating misinformation about President Volodymyr Zelenskyy... Read more ›
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The Federal Aviation Agency has started testing Starlink terminals for upgrades to the networks that manage airspace, creating the latest conflict of interest between the US government and Elon Musk. The FAA posted (fittingly on the social network Musk also owns) that it is testing a Starlink terminal in Atlantic City, NJ, and two terminals in Alaska. Read more ›
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Apple is far from saintly, but, compared to its fellow tech giants, it did something right. The company's shareholders have voted to keep its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, following a push by conservative think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), to remove them, Reuters reports. The Center's proposal, Request to Cease DEI Efforts, failed 8.84 billion votes to 210.45 million votes — or about 2.3 percent... Read more ›
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The General Services Administration plans on shutting down federal EV charging infrastructure in the coming weeks and "offloading" EVs purchased by the previous administration, The Verge reports. Since the GSA oversees government buildings, shutting down chargers will impact personal electric vehicles owned by government employees and government-owned EVs. "As GSA has worked to align with the current administration, we have received direction that all GSA owned charging stations are not... Read more ›
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The UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) has advised the government to ensure half of all homes in the UK have heat pumps — electric replacements for gas boilers — by 2040 as part of its Seventh Carbon Budget to reach net zero by 2050. It also recommended making four out of five cars electric. The UK’s carbon budgets are intended to help it achieve a balance between the greenhouse gasses... Read more ›
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Apple plans to ramp up its US hiring and investments. On Monday, the company said it will hire around 20,000 workers and spend over $500 billion in the US over the next four years. In 2021, several months after former President Biden took office, Apple said it would invest $430 billion domestically over the following five years. Bloomberg notes today's announcement marks an added $39 billion in spending and an... Read more ›
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