Microsoft Introduces One-Time $17 Office Purchase: A New Era for Productivity Software

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Jack Emmert’s Return to Cryptic Studios Signals a New Chapter for MMOs

After years away, the veteran MMO designer is back as CEO, leading a revitalized studio with ambitions beyond maint...

Jan 27, 20262 min readAI

The Cost of Trust: How a Single Setting Wiped Away Two Years of Academic Work in ChatGPT

A German professor’s $23-a-month subscription to ChatGPT Plus became a cautionary tale after a routine privacy twea...

Jan 27, 20262 min readPC

NVIDIA’s Leadership Crisis: Why the Absence of a Successor Plan Puts the Future at Risk

NVIDIA’s unparalleled growth under Jensen Huang has made the company a trillion-dollar titan—but with no clear succ...

Jan 27, 20264 min readPC

Meta’s New Strategy: Paid Subscriptions Could Redefine Free Social Media

Meta is quietly testing subscription models for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, aiming to monetize advanced AI t...

Jan 27, 20262 min readAI

Amazon Echo Pop Kids speakers drop to $30—now the most affordable way to introduce kids to Alexa

The Anthro Pup, Unicorn, Disney Princess, and Marvel Avengers Echo Pop Kids editions are now 40% off, bundling a pl...

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Jan 27, 20263 min readAI

Contextual AI’s Agent Composer turns RAG into production-grade workflows—with a focus on engineering precision

A new platform from Contextual AI aims to solve the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI: not the models themselves,...

Jan 27, 20264 min readGaming

Jack Emmert’s Return to Cryptic Studios Signals a New Era for Classic MMOs

After a decade away, the veteran developer is leading the studio’s independent future—with plans to revive aging fr...

Jan 27, 20263 min readGaming

Steam Deck compatibility milestone: 25,000+ games now verified—how it stacks up

Valve’s Steam Deck has reached a critical threshold with over 25,000 games confirmed as playable, including 7,528 w...

Jan 27, 20262 min readAI

**DuckDuckGo’s AI Divide: 90% of Users Reject AI Search—But the Company Still Offers It**

A new poll reveals that nine out of ten DuckDuckGo users actively avoid AI-driven search features, yet the privacy-...

Jan 27, 20263 min readPC Components

Wemo’s Smart Home Empire Collapses: What’s Dying and How to Save It

Belkin’s Wemo brand is shutting down cloud services for most devices on January 31, 2026—turning smart plugs, switc...