Sony Corp. shook up the top leadership of the company as well as at its major PlayStation division. It has appointed Hiroki Totoki to the CEO job, and Hideaki Nishino will be the sole CEO of the PlayStation division, Sony Interactive Entertainment. Totoki, a 38-year Sony veteran, will replace Kenichiro Yoshida as CEO on April … Read more
CFOTO/Contributor/Getty Images A new player has entered the AI villa, and it’s creating significant disruption. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek made waves last week when it released the full version of R1, the company’s open-source reasoning model that can outperform OpenAI’s o1. On Monday, App Store downloads of DeepSeek’s AI assistant — which runs V3, a model … Read more
Old-school Doom fans have something new to chew on until The Dark Ages arrives. Doom + Doom II, the latest in a long line of rereleases of the two id Software classics, was updated on Tuesday with multiplayer mod support. And balance was restored in Hades. At launch in August, the bundle — available for … Read more
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Oof, the NYT Mini Crossword had some stumpers today. Those three clues about magicians threw me, and I had to slowly work my … Read more
This year’s Oscar nominations went all in on genre, and Wicked star Cynthia Erivo is up for a leading actress statue. Cinema’s Wicked Witch of the West was on Jimmy Kimmel recently and the late night host revealed Erivo was on a plane when the announcement was made. “True to form. I was defying gravity,” … Read more
Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took over the social media platform, Trump’s team is attempting to drastically reduce the number of … Read more
All of a sudden, DeepSeek is everywhere. Its R1 model is open source, allegedly trained for a fraction of the cost of other AI models, and is just as good, if not better than ChatGPT. This lethal combination hit Wall Street hard, causing tech stocks to tumble, and making investors question how much money is … Read more
The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or possibly part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short Nvidia and other tech stocks. Whichever it might be (maybe both?), DeepSeek and its large language model has made some major waves. Now, it’s … Read more
Samsung’s new flagship lineup finally hits stores next week, which means you’re almost out of time to take advantage of all the great Galaxy S25 preorder deals. I’ve been monitoring these offers since preorders went live last week, and I’ve come to the conclusion that buying the Galaxy S25 Ultra directly through Samsung might be … Read more
Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority All of these offers are available from Amazon. The Apple MacBook Air M2 and MacBook Pro M4 discounts are applied automatically. In the case of the Apple MacBook Air M3, you have to manually apply a coupon before adding the item to your cart. Apple MacBook Air M2 Apple MacBook … Read more