Adobe has agree to pay $150 million to settle a case brought against it and two of its employees by the U.S. Department of Justice over accusations of hidden early termination fees and deceptive subscription practices. The settlement includes $75 million in civil penalties and another $75 million in free services. Adobe also agreed to a series

Apple is making waves its MacBook Neo starting at $599, or $499 with a education discount, with surprisingly solid performance for a system built around a smartphone chip and just 8GB of RAM. As it turns out, performance is not the only surprise. The folks at iFixIt tore into Apple’s most affordable MacBook ever launched and poured on the

In a welcome move, Google is providing mainline Chrome browser support for ARM64 Linux distros. While Chrome already supports ARM64 and Linux to some degree via Android and Chromebooks, mainline ARM64 support has been limited to workarounds or using the open-source Chromium browser. While Chromium and FireFox are likely to remain the most

Apple made a splash earlier this month when it debuted a slew of new products, but the stand-out was undoubtedly the budget minded MacBook Neo, which one PC executive says sent a “shock” through the entire PC market. It’s the company’s most affordable MacBook, powered by the A18 Pro that debuted with the iPhone 16 Pro in 2024, which most expected

Do you have a Socket AM5 system? Do you play games on it? Do you have a 3D V-Cache processor? If the answers to those questions are YYN like some kind of Rush song with the third part turned sideways, then you should absolutely check out today’s deal, where you can pick up a Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, until recently the fastest gaming CPU

Amazon is letting Alexa off the leash with a new, sassy adults-only mode, whereby the AI assistant will dole out witty sarcasm and mild profanity. Part of us are thinking this might be an early April Fool’s joke, but the other part also hopes this catches on with Apple and Google, too.

Those of you with Alexa+ subscriptions will now see

It now appears that the gaming industry is entering a structural recalibration of sorts. According to Newzoo’s 2026 PC & Console Gaming Report, the post-pandemic plateau has finally broken, giving way to a projected $103.7 billion market by 2028. However, the forces driving this growth have fundamentally shifted from the explosive player acquisition

New research is suggesting that while generative AI is being developed as a tool to expand human creativity, it is instead acting as an engine for cultural homogenization. By funneling vast amounts of diverse human data through standardized mathematical models, AI is reportedly creating a feedback loop that narrows the spectrum of human expression

The newly released $599 MacBook Neo might be an iPhone chip slapped into a low-cost Mac chassis with passive cooling, but it’s shockingly competent as long as you accept its limitations. YouTuber and PCGamingWiki founder Andrew Tsai rejects those limitations and put Apple’s new entry-level laptop through its paces to see exactly what this

In an unexpected move, Google announced it will be bringing some of its mobile catalog to PC. There’s now a PC section in the Play Store Games tab, which will serve as “your dedicated home for (Android) games optimized to play on Windows PCs.” This doesn’t apply to every cross-platform game on the platform, but for at least “Select paid games”

The security researchers at Kaspersky have detailed a new malware campaign targeting Android users, which aims to take over a victim’s device to abscond with user data while simultaneously putting it work mining cryptocurrencies. This new malware, dubbed BeatBanker, deploys several interesting techniques for its distribution while flying under

The space of budget laptops has seen continuous improvements thanks in great part to AMD and Qualcomm’s efforts, but the announcement of Apple’s MacBook Neo for just $599 has proven one of the biggest disruptions in years. Even while writing up this article of alternative picks (four cheaper, two more expensive), it’s hard to outright downplay

If you’re reading this right now, there’s a very good chance that you were one of many millions of children to grow up with LEGO as one of your favorite toys. The Danish plastic connecting bricks are a timeless classic, and no doubt many of you, like me, spent countless hours pretending that our Lego minifigs were in fact working on very important

Microsoft has had a big presence at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, providing fans with a glimpse of the future of Xbox with a sneak peek at a potential Xbox Development Kit alongside detailing its partnership with AMD. However, the company hasn’t forgotten about the legion of gamers that call a Windows PC home, who will soon be seeing

Valve has taken exception to the New York Attorney General’s lawsuit alleging that its mystery boxes run afoul of New York’s gambling laws. In a lengthy, public response, Valve voiced its disappointment in the Attorney General’s decision to file the lawsuit, and defended loot boxes as being similar in concept to opening up a pack of baseball

ASUS is rolling out a trio of “premium value” gaming monitors with OLED panels, all three of which are 27-inch models built for 1440p gaming. All three fall under the Republic of Gamers banner and include the ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG Gen 2 ($649 MSRP), ROG Strix OLED XG27ACDMS ($699 MSRP), and ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMES ($599 MSRP).

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In yet another sign that Microsoft is going all-in with its renewed focus on Xbox and the brand’s transformation back to its console roots, the controversial ‘This is an Xbox’ marketing campaign is being scrubbed from its website. It hasn’t entirely disappeared, but a visit to the blog post announcing the controversial campaign just 16 months

It’s been a wild, news-packed week so far, with lots of announcements coming out of the 2026 Game Developers Conference (GDC). Besides NVIDIA’s news yesterday and Intel’s new CPUs today, Microsoft’s new Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma, officially laid out the roadmap for the future, and that future is codenamed “Project Helix.” At the same time, we

Comet 3I/ATLAS has once again found its way into headlines as astronomers are astounded to learn the famous space rock is emitting large amounts of organic methanol in its coma. The group of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, also known as ALMA, to make the discovery.

Late last year astronomers and other scientists debated

Roblox isn’t just a game, it’s a game development platform in every sense of the term. A recent Bloomberg story helped expose just how profitable that platform can be for its contributors, with developers like Nate Colley, developer of the popular game Fisch, able to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month by selling microtransactions