Technology

Facebook parent company Meta reportedly plans to further reduce its headcount in the coming weeks. According to the Financial Times, work at the tech giant has slowed to a crawl while it plots a new round of job cuts. Meta is likely to announce the restructuring after it has completed staff performance reviews sometime in March. … Read more

Microsoft reportedly plans to introduce upgraded Office apps with AI features in the coming weeks. According to The Verge, the tech giant is preparing to show what its Prometheus AI technology and OpenAI’s language AI can do for Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 apps as soon as this March. Microsoft recently launched a … Read more

A viral video trend in Japan has got sushi conveyor-belt restaurants racing to prevent food tampering. One chain, Kura Sushi, said it will use artificial intelligence to look for “suspicious opening and closing of sushi plate covers,” Nikkei Asia reported this week. Kura Sushi plans to start upgrading existing cameras, which are used to track … Read more

Hogwarts Legacy is the Harry Potter game I’ve been dreaming of since I was a teenager. I grew up alongside the Harry Potter novels and devoured them all, and I spent the time between book releases reading and writing fanfiction set in the Wizarding World. I would’ve traded my little emo soul for a sprawling … Read more

Gamers are no strangers to delayed seasons, but The Division 2 players are in a particularly awkward situation. Ubisoft has revealed that a development “error” has broken the shared-world shooter’s build generation system, and thus the studio’s ability to update the game. The team not only can’t introduce the new season it delayed last week, … Read more

Amazon has put many of its Ring video doorbells and cameras on sale for up to 35 percent off. One of the most notable price drops is for the Video Doorbell 4, which has returned to a record low of $170. That’s 23 percent off the regular price of $220. It offers 1080p video and … Read more

We’ve been keeping tabs on the best TV deals ahead of this weekend’s Super Bowl, but there are plenty of noteworthy tech deals going on for those who aren’t looking to overhaul their living room. Apple’s AirPods Pro, for instance, are back down to an all-time low of $199, while Amazon is running a sweeping … Read more

Sony’s full-frame A7R IV was one of the best mirrorless cameras I’ve ever reviewed, so there was a lot of pressure on its successor. The company’s answer is the 61-megapixel A7R V, designed to deliver the maximum amount of detail for portrait and landscape photography. Though it uses the same sensor as the A7R IV, … Read more

The original HomePod was notoriously difficult to repair, to the point where cutting tools were sometimes necessary. Apple isn’t giving nearly as much grief with the second-gen model, however. iFixit has torn down the new smart speaker and discovered that it’s far easier to pry open. The large amounts of glue are gone — you … Read more

What a wild week chock full of news all over tech! Microsoft and Google both unveiled their AI products for the masses, with Microsoft holding a whole event this week to show off the new Edge and Bing. Google also had an event in Paris and unveiled the first Android 14 developer preview, while OnePlus … Read more