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Shopping for a laptop can be infuriating. Here’s how to sift through the acronyms, storage options, and extra features to find the best one for you.

iBuyPower’s prebuilt gaming desktop tries some new tricks but comes with a few flaws.

Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.

DOGE dominated the news this year as Elon Musk’s operatives shook up several US government agencies. It’s far from over.

Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web. Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes.

Korean games giant NCsoft has made a majority investment in Singapore mobile publisher Indygo Group.

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Investors in US publishing giant Electronic Arts have backed the company's acquisition by a consortium that includes the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund.

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Netflix has long seen the strategic potential of gaming, but it's struggled on execution. After intially fruitless dabbling in triple-A, the focus under gaming leader Alain Tascan has been on broader appeal. This week has seen the announcement of an exclusive FIFA partnership and the acquisition of avatar creation platform Ready Player Me; both follow a year of steady development of its offering for kids, with age-appropriate mobile games now suggested in the platform's kid-friendly view. During my recent work analysing the company's strategy, I spoke to Lisa Burgess, GM Netflix Games (Kids) about how the streamer is thinking about play, discovery, and what comes next.

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Make a house into a home with these gifts, whether your recipient is moving into their first house or a great new apartment.

Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. has pulled attention toward studios, IP ownership, and the future of the entertainment industry at large. It’s a big deal, and we know it’s not driven by appetite for the Warner Bros. gaming arm which is considered “relatively minor” in the grand scheme of things. What has received far less attention is how Netflix’s own games strategy is evolving, and what the data now tells us about what is actually working inside the platform.

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As the industry winds down for Christmas and the out-of-office autoreplies light up, it's time to turn to the comforting traditions that warm those winter nights.

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Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide will soon be available in a daily pill Americans can take for weight loss.

Here’s how a fake clip from 2019 wound up in the latest Justice Department Epstein files dump.

If you care about good air, it’s time for a dehumidifier. These are the best ones we’ve tested for everything from basements to drying laundry.

OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker."

The Zwilling Four-Star chef’s knife is the carbon steel blade WIRED recommends for most casual home chefs. It’s free with HelloFresh meal kits, using this promo code.

Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer.

The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data center development.

Vince Zampella, who co-created the Call of Duty series and lead some of the most influential game development studios of the modern console era, has died in a car crash in California, according to a report by NBC Los Angeles.

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Every year, we turn to a panel of trusted analysts to ask them what they expect to see in the industry in the year ahead, and ask them to assess their predictions from the previous year.

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