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<h5><strong>A hot potato:</strong> Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has described 2025 as "an intense year" as the company looks to streamline its business. Part of that involves laying off 5% of its workforce, close to 4,000 people. The company is also giving its executives more money, having just...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Meta has announced that it is now accepting sign-ups for Community Notes, the feature that is replacing third-party fact checkers. Much like the X version that inspired it, Meta's Community Notes allows users on the company's platforms to decide if a post is...

<h5><strong>Forward-looking:</strong> Now that the PlayStation 5 Pro is here, attention is turning toward Sony's next generation of its console, the PlayStation 6. There's been plenty of speculation about when it will arrive, and according to Shuhei Yoshida, the former Sony exec who was head of...

<h5><strong>In a nutshell:</strong> Two of the most influential CEOs in the tech world, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, have closely aligned themselves with President Donald Trump recently, but how has that affected the nation's view of these billionaires? According to a new survey, more people...

<h5><strong>Something to look forward to:</strong> Another device is joining the list of distraction-free digital typewriters. The Pomera D250 has been available in Japan since 2022, where it's proven very popular. Now, thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign, it's coming to the US for...

<h5><strong>WTF?!</strong> The idea of using an app to book an escort of armed guards sounds like something from a cyberpunk dystopian tale, but that's what the Protector app does. It's using the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as an example of where Protector's services...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Bill Gates has an ominous warning for young people: there are four or five "very scary" things that they should be afraid of. In addition to the persistent fear of nuclear war, the Microsoft founder says unchecked AI is also a threat. </h5><p><a...

<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> In what should come as little surprise, other than the fact that it managed to last this long, Humane is shutting down its Ai Pin business. Most of the company is being acquired by HP for $116 million, but as its new owner doesn't want the Ai Pin, the...

<h5><strong>Something to look forward to:</strong> Forget about phones with tri-folding screens; Lenovo is planning to unveil a laptop that folds into three seperate sections. The screen is twice the height of a standard laptop display, and it can fold in half so the bottom portion faces the...

<h5><strong>In a nutshell:</strong> You wait ages for some GTA 6 news, then two bits arrive at once. Following yesterday's hint by Corsair that the PC version will arrive in early 2026, we now hear that Rockstar has reportedly met with Fortnite and Roblox creators about building custom...

<h5><strong>Forward-looking:</strong> The asteroid that has 1-in-43 odds of hitting Earth in 2032 has an even smaller chance of colliding with something else instead: our moon. The object, around half the size of a football field, would cause an explosion on the lunar surface 343 times more...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Mexico is not happy about Google changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Google Maps. The country is now threatening to sue the tech company if it doesn't restore the original name. </h5><p><img alt="" height="1125"...

<h5><strong>Bottom line:</strong> Reports that emerged earlier today claiming Microsoft had dropped Windows 11 24H2 support for 8th, 9th, and 10th-gen Intel CPUs are inaccurate. The chips are no longer listed as being supported for the OS on Microsoft's <em>OEM website</em>, meaning the change...

<h5><strong>Rumor mill:</strong> Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive still haven't confirmed when the PC version of GTA 6 will arrive. With the fall 2025 console release date approaching, the silence from the companies is worrying. However, Corsair Gaming has strongly hinted that GTA 6 will be...

<h5><strong>A hot potato:</strong> Reddit will be introducing something that few users are likely to want later this year: paywalls. CEO Steve Huffman has confirmed that the platform will be introducing the ability for some Redditors to create content that only paid members can see, though it...