U.S. v. Google
US Justice Department seeks antitrust break-up of Google
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The Department of Justice is going after Google's real business: advertising.
Computing News
RIP Tweetbot
Twitter just murdered a cottage industry of better Twitter apps
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Twitter's relationship with third-party client developers has always been tenuous. Now it's over.
ChatGPT panic
Layoffs come to Google as 12,000 lose their jobs to fund AI
Six percent of Google's workforce is being fired, and the company made clear why: they need to focus more resources on AI development before somebody eats their lunch.
Bracing for a recession
Microsoft cuts 10,000 jobs in latest huge layoffs to hit the tech sector
Following big layoffs at Amazon, Salesforce, and other large tech firms, Microsoft is slashing its headcount by 5% while simultaneously making huge investments in AI that may obviate those jobs anyway.
Last Xeon Standing
With the updated M2 MacBook Pro and Mac Mini, only one Intel Mac remains
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Apple's impressive M-series processors just hit more laptops and desktops, leaving just one Intel Mac on sale: the Mac Pro. It's only a matter of time before it gets an M-series chip too.
Did a computer write this one? 🤖
The slippery slope of AI-written articles has arrived
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It was bound to happen sooner or later: artificial intelligence writing articles on major publications. But is it a bad thing, or just the beginning of the next industrial revolution?
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CrackBerry Podcast #1: CES 2023 — Your Piss Is Unique
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Yes, hello, and welcome to the CrackBerry Podcast. We know, it's hard to believe this is happening. But this is happening. Our topic for the day: CES 2023.
Mixed reality ain't cheap
HTC's Vive XR Elite does VR and AR for $1,099
Step aside, Meta. Take another look, Apple. There's a new boss in town.
A laptop with a twist
Meet the laptop that twists and turns
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The new Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Twist is designed to offer you the best of both worlds, with a gorgeous OLED display combined with an e-ink display that works with Windows and is perfect for those simpler tasks.
Eighteen inches. Eighteen!
The latest Dell and Razer Blade gaming rigs are a laptops in name only
When a laptop is this big, is it really a "laptop" anymore? It's hard to say, but it's also hard to say that the new Razer Blade 18 and Dell Alienware M18 aren't impressive machines.
All the pixels
Dell takes on Apple with a 6K beast of a monitor of its own
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Apple's Pro Display XDR has some competition from Dell. The new UltraSharp 32 6K is coming for the $5,000 Apple beast with its own high-resolution display with great color accuracy and HDR.
Checking all the boxes
Samsung finally made my absurd dream monitor
The Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 checks all the boxes I've long wanted in a monitor upgrade: it's stupid wide, has great resolution, and awesome color fidelity. The only question is how much this thing will cost me.