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Call of Duty’s massive filesize drives peak internet usage

Comcast is boasting about what it’s calling its “biggest week in internet history,” which it pegs on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 downloads and Thursday Night Football streams. The company says the Call of Duty game, which it released on October 25th, was responsible for a whopping 19 percent of its overall traffic last… Read more

Google’s Pixel 9A might get a bigger display

Google appears to be planning to put a bigger display on its entry-level Pixel 9A, according to a report from Android Headlines. The forthcoming phone will reportedly get a 6.3-inch display to match the Pixel 9 and 9 Pro. The 6.3-inch size would make it larger than the past few generations of A-series Pixel phones,… Read more

Dropbox cuts its workforce by 20 percent in latest round of layoffs

Dropbox is cutting its workforce by 20 percent today — laying off 528 people — amid slowing growth for its core cloud storage business. The latest round of cuts comes after Dropbox laid off around 500 people in early 2023 to redirect efforts to its AI division. “We’re making more significant cuts in areas where… Read more

Marvel has its 2025 Disney Plus roadmap all laid out

It has been a while since the MCU really felt like a cohesive place, but Marvel’s new slate of upcoming Disney Plus shows makes it seem like the studio is ready to tighten things up. Ahead of Agatha All Along’s season 1 finale tonight, Marvel shared a new sizzle reel highlighting all of its upcoming… Read more

Waymo wants to use Google’s Gemini to train its robotaxis

Waymo has long touted its ties to Google’s DeepMind and its decades of AI research as a strategic advantage over its rivals in the autonomous driving space. Now, the Alphabet-owned company is taking it a step further by developing a new training model for its robotaxis built on Google’s multimodal large language model (MLLM) Gemini…. Read more

Boston Dynamics’ new video shows that its humanoid robot doesn’t need a human

Boston Dynamics has shared another look at the latest version of its humanoid robot, Atlas. Earlier videos of the all-electric robot demonstrated its unique range of motions, but this time Atlas is shown using machine learning and its upgraded sensors to perform sorting tasks in a simulated factory environment. The task of moving engine covers… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 will launch on Mac next year

Skip to main content Cyberpunk 2077 will launch on Mac next year / The sci-fi RPG will officially be available on Apple silicon with path tracing, frame generation, and spatial audio. By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode… Read more

Watch Apple’s M4 MacBook Pro announcement video

Apple’s week of episodic hardware releases continues today with a new video announcing the updated MacBook Pros with M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips. Their announcement follows the updated M4 iMac on Monday and the redesigned M4 Mac Mini on Tuesday. Like the iMac and Mac Mini videos, the new MacBook Pro video is… Read more

All of Apple’s Macs now start with 16GB of RAM

This week’s new Macs all had one thing in common: a minimum of 16GB of RAM. That was true of the new Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac, which were all refreshed with M4 processors this week. The MacBook Air was refreshed to start at 16GB of RAM, too, even though it didn’t get a… Read more

Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M4 Pro and M4 Max chips

Apple is updating the MacBook Pro and introducing some even more powerful chips. Announced this morning via a low-key press release, the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros are being updated to the M4 line of processors, which now includes the M4 Pro chip that debuted yesterday in the Mac Mini and a new, even higher-end… Read more

Apple’s Mac week: everything announced

Apple appears to have wrapped up its week of Mac announcements — and it had a lot to share. Along with updating several devices across its Mac lineup with a more powerful M4 chip, Apple showed off some revamped accessories, too. If you want to catch up on all the news, here’s a quick rundown…. Read more

The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM

Apple has just announced that 16GB of RAM is now the minimum for the M2 and M3 MacBook Air, giving the laptops the same RAM bump as all of the company’s other new computers this week. The cheapest MacBook Air still starts at $999. Before this, it was a $200 upsell to get a MacBook… Read more

Deadpool & Wolverine hits Disney Plus this November

Deadpool & Wolverine hits Disney Plus this November / Beginning November 12th you’ll be able to stream Deadpool & Wolverine on Disney Plus. By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years…. Read more

The Alexa Skills revolution that wasn’t

The first Amazon Echo, all the way back in 2014, was pitched as a device for a few simple things: playing music, asking basic questions, getting the weather. Since then, Amazon has found a few new things for people to do, like control smart home devices. But a decade later, Alexa is still mostly for… Read more

The Amazon Echo graveyard

For the past decade, Amazon has aspired for Alexa to be more than just a convenient way to start a cooking timer. To convince consumers of the smart assistant’s potential, the company has reinvented its Echo line again and again. From fashion-critiquing cameras to microwaves you can ask to make popcorn, Echo’s repeated renaissance has… Read more