2 place 1,121 fresh
Microsoft is getting ready to announce an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software maker has started testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles free without a Game Pass subscription. I understand that the free ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming […]
A newsletter a day!
You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
The Verge
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. Read more ›
2,897 fresh
Taylor Swift's new album, "The Life of a Showgirl," proves she is highly attuned to the criticism of her music and the demands of her loyal Swifties. Read more ›
1,789 fresh
Tanks have proved vulnerable to drones and play a limited role in Ukraine, but many NATO countries are still buying and developing them. Read more ›
1,708 fresh
Amazon’s list of 4K-capable streaming sticks got bigger — and more confusing — after its hardware event this week. The $39.99 4K Select will be released on October 15th, joining the 4K and the 4K Max. You’re not alone if you find it tough to tell which is best just by going off names, and […] Read more ›
1,430 fresh
BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners set to buy out Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion. Read more ›
1,064 fresh
Ha Dang, a self-taught accountant from Scunthorpe who trained via YouTube, won the inaugural Microsoft Excel UK Championships on September 30. The victory earned him a spot at the Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas, a three-day tournament inside a 30,000-square-foot esports arena where players compete for $5,000 and are broadcast on ESPN. Thirty competitors sat shoulder to shoulder through three gruelling rounds of spreadsheet challenges. Each round featured... Read more ›
981 fresh
Meta wants to boost AI adoption by tracking employee usage and turning it into a game called Level Up. Read more ›
851 fresh
Shreya Mishra Reddy plans to leave the US after 3 failed attempts at the H-1B lottery. She fears the $100,000 fee will prevent her from returning. Read more ›
832 fresh
Tech companies are used to foreign governments telling them to take down apps. Now it's happening in the US, as Apple takes down an anti-ICE app. Read more ›
825 fresh
Chinese company Highlander will be the first to run a commercial underwater data center, serving state-owned companies off the coast of Shanghai. Read more ›
803 fresh
Social media usage peaked in 2022 and has been on a steady decline since. An analysis of 250,000 adults across more than 50 countries by the digital audience insights company GWI found that adults aged 16 and older spent an average of two hours and 20 minutes per day on social platforms at the end of 2024. That figure is down almost 10% from 2022. The decline is most pronounced... Read more ›
632 fresh
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a backup plan for when AI is smart enough to do his job better than he can. Read more ›
562 fresh
Jeff Bezos envisions gigawatt-scale orbital data centers within 10–20 years, powered by continuous solar energy and space-based cooling, but the concept remains commercially unviable today due to the immense cost and complexity of deploying thousands of tons of hardware, solar panels, and radiators into orbit. Read more ›
542 fresh
"I was devastated knowing I fell for something like this," wrote one person in Florida who said they lost $41,000. Read more ›
526 fresh
It’s been quite the week for Xbox news. A lot of people are still coming to terms with Microsoft's veritable gut-punch of announcement that the price of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription is about to soar by 50 percent. And if that has already pushed you into washing your hands with Xbox altogether, it looks like Microsoft may soon attempt to tempt you back by giving away its cloud gaming... Read more ›
486 fresh
Apple has removed ICEBlock, the app which allowed users to put a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, from the App Store. It has also pulled other apps that served a similar purpose. According to Fox Business, Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded their takedown, telling Apple that the apps were "designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs." Bondi... Read more ›
445
The Verge
Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents. When making the search about President Trump, AI Overviews will display a message that says, “An […] Read more ›
754
Microsoft is raising the price of its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription again and rebranding some of its Xbox Game Pass plans. Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate will be priced at $29.99 per month instead of $19.99 — a 50 percent increase. Microsoft is attempting to justify the price hike with a variety of upgrades […] Read more ›
322
Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night was particularly bizarre. The president posted (and later removed) a clip on Truth Social of a Fox News segment with Lara Trump detailing the White House’s announcement of the world’s first MedBed hospital […] Read more ›
228
The Trump administration declared war on the "terrorist organization" of "antifa" and the supposed "networks" associated with it last week. Antifa is not so much a vast national conspiracy as it is simply an abbreviation for anti-fascism - but don't point out that anti-anti-fascism looks a lot like fascism. That would make you antifa, too. […] Read more ›
190
Today, the Lego Game Boy officially goes on sale. It’s surprisingly good. But in Australia, one woman has already created a more amazing version. Natalie the Nerd, the self-taught circuit board designer and Game Boy modder whose gorgeous transparent Game Boy we featured in August, is doing what Nintendo and Lego didn’t: make it playable. […] Read more ›
172
Amazon is planning to refocus its Luna cloud gaming service towards party games, in a bid to attract more Prime subscribers. Amazon Luna head Jeff Gattis announced in a blog post on Wednesday that a “completely redesigned and reimagined Amazon Luna” service will be relaunched later this year, introducing a Jackbox-like “GameNight” social category that […] Read more ›
90
OpenAI has a new version of its Sora AI video generator, and it’s being launched alongside a new social video app, also called Sora, on iOS. The app, currently invite-only, resembles TikTok. But instead of encouraging people to stitch together duets, it asks you to record short videos that anyone can spin into new AI-generated […] Read more ›
89
Universal Music and Warner Music, record labels whose catalogs include Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Charli XCX, are within weeks of striking licensing deals that could redefine how the music industry handles the AI era, according to the Financial Times. Talks are underway with tech heavyweights like Google and Spotify and a slew of AI […] Read more ›
85
For most of his career Larry Ellison has been content to quietly let Oracle be the company, behind the company, behind the technology that makes headlines. Its biggest products being cloud computing and database products that it sells to enterprise customers like DHL, Northwell Health, and Fanatics. But, now in his 80s, Ellison has begun […] Read more ›
84
Ford and GM have apparently worked up an interesting scheme to keep the expiring $7,500 federal EV tax credit from driving down sales. According to Reuters, the automakers are working with dealers on short-term programs that would allow customers to continue to receive the tax credit on leased EVs through the rest of the year. […] Read more ›
82
Most popular sources
Business Insider
|
21% 3 |
Engadget
|
11% 10 |
Vox
|
10% 2 |
Wired
|
10% 8 |
Gizmodo
|
9% 5 |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
03.10.2025 15:10
Last update: 15:05 EDT.
News rating updated: 22:02.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.
popular
