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  • Apple Music and Amazon Music have both rolled out new year-end features, Replay 2025 and Delivered 2025, respectively, highlighting user listening habits and introducing gamified elements like badges.
  • The Indian government has mandated that smartphone manufacturers preinstall a state-backed cybersecurity app, raising significant privacy concerns, particularly since Apple is reportedly resisting compliance.
  • Nvidia continues to expand its influence in the AI and semiconductor sector with a $2 billion investment in Synopsys and the release of new tools for autonomous driving research.
  • Amazon is testing ultra-fast delivery services in select cities, promising to drop household essentials at customers' doorsteps within 30 minutes, potentially reshaping convenience shopping.
  • In the gaming and tech space, significant Cyber Monday deals have emerged across various platforms, featuring discounts on popular titles and hardware, alongside noise around Netflix's recent casting limitations for newer TVs.

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  • Cyber Monday PS5 deals: Sony takes $100 off consoles, plus discounts on PlayStation games, accessories and more 15 hours ago by Georgie Peru
    Technology & Electronics, Game Consoles, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Georgie Peru

    The PlayStation 5 received a major Cyber Monday discount, with $100 off all models. That brings the PS5 Digital Edition down to $399, the standard PS5 to $449 and the new PS5 Pro to $649. If you’ve been holding out for the right time to upgrade or buy your first console, this is the deal to beat. You'll find the deals direct at Sony and from other retailers including Amazon and Walmart. We're seeing some of the consoles go in and out of stock at this point, but if you check back at your preferred retailer, most of them have

  • Apple Music Replay 2025 is here to highlight your unimpeachable music taste an hour ago by Kris Holt
    Music, Media, Celebrities, Arts & Entertainment, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Kris Holt

    Music streaming services are starting to unleash their year-in-review features for 2025, and Apple Music’s version is out now. Apple Music Replay is here to lay bare your listening stats for the year — at least so far, because these tools go live with a whole month of the year left to go. You can check out the 2025 edition from the Home tab in the app. As ever, Replay shows your total listening time, the number of artists you checked out, your most-listened-to song and album and more. New this year is a discovery stat, which highlights new artists you

  • Cyber Monday streaming deals for 2025: Paramount+, Starz, MasterClass and others to shop while they're still available an hour ago by Valentina Palladino
    Arts & Entertainment, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Valentina Palladino

    You’re not alone if you’re consistently aghast at the rising cost of streaming services. This year in particular has been bleak, with Disney+ and HBO Max being just a couple of the services that have increased prices as of late. If you’re like any of us at Engadget, you probably subscribe to more than a few of these services, and costs quickly add up even without the period price increases. While you can find the occasional streaming deal throughout the year, Cyber Monday is the time when they are most abundant. Although Cyber Monday is over, some of the best Cyber

  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond review: an excellent modernization, but not a total reinvention an hour ago by Nathan Ingraham
    Video Games, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Nathan Ingraham

    It’s been 18 years since the last Metroid Prime game, but I felt right at home in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Almost too at home. Whether fighting my way through a volcano, exploring a research base in a frozen tundra or getting lost in a vast desert, I couldn’t shake the feeling I’d done this before. As the fourth game in a series, that’s not a huge surprise, but it was my main disappointment in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Think about the leap Nintendo took going from 2011’s The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and 2017’s Breath of the Wild.

  • Apple will reportedly refuse to pre-install India's state-mandated security app 2 hours ago by Sarah Fielding
    Software, Politics & Government, Mobile Apps, Technology & Electronics, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Sarah Fielding

    India has issued a mandate to all smartphone manufacturers and importers requiring them to install a state-owned cyber security app. But Apple is reportedly not going to comply, citing privacy and security concerns, according to Reuters.  The app, called Sanchar Saathi (meaning Communication Companion), is supposed to expedite the process of finding lost or stolen devices and stopping their misuse, according to a government press release on Monday. It further states that companies, including the likes of Samsung and Xiaomi, should "endeavor" to use software updates to download the app on previously purchased smartphones.  The Sanchar Saathi app comes alongside an entire


The Verge

  • It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything an hour ago by Hayden Field
    AI, Anthropic, Report

    One night in May 2020, during the height of lockdown, Deep Ganguli was worried. Ganguli, then research director at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, had just been alerted to OpenAI's new paper on GPT-3, its latest large language model. This new AI model was potentially 10 times more advanced than any other of its kind - and it was doing things he had never thought possible for AI. The scaling data revealed in the research suggested there was no sign of it slowing down. Ganguli fast-forwarded five years in his head, running through the kinds of societal implications he spent

  • Apple gadgets, ranked an hour ago by David Pierce
    Apple, Gadgets, Podcasts, Tech, Vergecast

    Apple makes a lot of gadgets. Most of them are very good! You'd frankly be hard-pressed to find a company with a better track record, especially across so many categories. But only one Apple gadget can be the best Apple gadget, and it's time for us to decide which one it is. On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge's Victoria Song and Allison Johnson join David to come up with a definitive ranking of Apple's best gadgets. (We did this with Google's gadgets a few months ago, in case you missed it.) In this case, "best" is defined quite broadly:

  • 30 practical smart home gifts that make everyday life a little easier an hour ago by Sheena Vasani
    Gadgets, Gift Guides, Smart Home, Tech, Verge Shopping

    Smart home products are all about making everyday life a little easier, which is why they're some of the best and most thoughtful gifts you can give. Some people go all out building a multi-gadget IoT kingdom (like our resident smart home expert, Jen Pattison Tuohy), but a smart home is whatever your recipient wants it to be. It can be as simple as wanting a cheap switch-flipping bot to brew you a pot of coffee before you exit the shower in the morning. Having tested many smart home gadgets over the years, we pooled our knowledge to assemble our favorite

  • Metroid Prime 4 excels when it’s actually being Metroid an hour ago by Andrew Webster
    Entertainment, Games Review, Gaming, Nintendo

    When Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is good, it's good. The latest in Nintendo's sci-fi exploration franchise, and the first since Metroid Dread in 2021, Beyond captures the moody sense of isolation and discovery that has been so core to Metroid since it debuted in 1986. Those quiet moments truly make you feel all alone on a harsh alien planet, punctuated by intense action set pieces and some incredible boss fights. At its peak, the game is among the best in the series. The problem is that Nintendo added a whole bunch of stuff on top of that - including chatty

  • Some of the stuff we bought during Black Friday and Cyber Monday an hour ago by Barbara Krasnoff
    Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Deals, Gadgets, Verge Shopping

    A scene from Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. It’s one thing to do a bit of online shopping during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales, but it’s another to put your money where your mouth is. (Where did that phrase come from, anyway?) If you’re curious what our writers, editors, and reviewers bought for themselves, here are some of the items, many of which are still discounted. ---------------------------------------- DELL 27 PLUS 4K USB-C MONITOR WHERE TO BUY: * $349.99 $259.98 at Amazon * $259.98 at Dell I’ve been planning a monitor upgrade for a while — I even mentioned it in my “What’s on your


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