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  • Unacademy's valuation has plummeted by over 85% to less than $500 million, prompting discussions around mergers and acquisitions as the EdTech sector faces increasing challenges.
  • Google has introduced an AI Plus subscription plan priced under $5 in India, aimed at competing with other popular AI platforms, signaling aggressive market strategies in the AI space.
  • Adobe has broadened its collaboration with OpenAI, allowing ChatGPT users to access its suite of applications including Photoshop and Acrobat directly within the chatbot, which could redefine how users interact with design software.
  • The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into Google's AI practices, scrutinizing whether the tech giant has utilized web publishers' content without proper compensation.
  • AI adoption continues to rise among younger generations, with nearly one-third of U.S. teens reportedly using AI chatbots daily, indicating a significant shift in social media interaction and online behavior patterns.

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  • Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: A very particular set of skills, for a price an hour ago by Cherlynn Low
    Technology & Electronics, Handheld & Connected Devices, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Cherlynn Low

    In a world where notifications persistently compete for our attention, distraction-free ereaders and writing tablets have found an audience. Putting your phone, laptop or iPad aside and curling up with a Kindle or a reMarkable tablet have become an almost ironic way for the tech-savvy to disconnect from online noise and focus on reading and writing. It’s debatable how broad the appeal of these devices is, but even in what appears to be a relatively small slice of the industry, the competition is fierce. Amazon is arguably the biggest name in the space, with its Kindles dominating the ereader market for

  • EU pledges 90 percent cut to carbon emissions by 2040 an hour ago by Steve Dent
    Politics & Government, Climate Change, Environment, Nature & Environment, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Steve Dent

    The European Union has provisionally agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent (based on 1990 levels) by 2040, the EU parliament announced in a press release. That goes beyond the goals of most other major economies, including China, but falls short of the original one recommended by the EU's climate science advisors. "The target delivers on the need for climate action while safeguarding our competitiveness and security," said Denmark's minister Lars Aagaard, who helped negotiate the deal.  The new accord — a vital step in the bloc's long-term goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 — was a political

  • Instagram will let you control which topics its algorithm recommends an hour ago by Steve Dent
    Social & Online Media, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Steve Dent

    For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok. The new feature is starting with the Reels tab but will eventually come to Explore and other areas of the app. Like much of what Meta is doing right now (for better or worse), the "Your Algorithm" feature will be powered by AI.  "As your interests evolve over time, we want to give you more meaningful ways to control what you see," Instagram wrote on its blog post. "Using AI, you can now more easily view and personalize the

  • Apple's AirPods Pro 3 are back on sale for an all-time-low price 2 hours ago by Cheyenne MacDonald
    Technology & Electronics, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Cheyenne MacDonald

    If you haven't yet upgraded to Apple's AirPods Pro 3, you can pick up the company's latest model at a discount through a deal on Amazon right now. The AirPods Pro 3, which came out in September, are currently down from $249 to $220 — their Cyber Monday all-time low price. With the new AirPods Pro, Apple made some big improvements, including better battery life and sound quality, and introduced useful new features, such as Live Translation. The AirPods Pro 3 are the best AirPods available today, with Apple's H2 chip, and earned a score of 90 out of 100 in

  • The 10 best last-minute Christmas gifts for the 2025 holiday season 2 hours ago by Engadget
    Christmas, Holidays & Celebrations, Shopping, Society & Culture, Hobbies & Personal Activities, Personal Finance - Lifestyle, Banking & Budgeting, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Engadget

    The holidays are nearly here and if you’re a bit behind on your gift shopping, you’re not alone. The holidays can truly sneak up on you, and this year that’s been more true than ever. Between wrapping things up at work before some well-deserved time off and making sure you have everything you need to host family and friends, it can be hard to find the time to go to a store to pick out presents. And when you do finally get there, you may be met with half-empty shelves. But this is where the internet comes in handy: you


The Verge

  • Razer resurrects the first ever gaming mouse as a limited edition 35 minutes ago by Andrew Liszewski
    Gadgets, Gaming, News, PC Gaming, Razer, Tech

    The new Boomslang includes a wireless charging dock with its own RGB lighting effects. | Image: Razer Razer is returning to its roots and relaunching the world's first gaming mouse that debuted over 25 years ago before there was even a gaming peripheral industry. The original Kärna Razer Boomslang was best known for its encoding wheel that could more accurately track a mouse's movements at 2,000 DPI. The new Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition carries forward the original's symmetrical ambidextrous design but upgrades its rolling ball with a 45,000 DPI optical sensor and other modern conveniences. The new Boomslang is being released

  • The best Christmas gifts for gamers and movie lovers 37 minutes ago by Brandt Ranj
    Gadgets, Gift Guides, Tech, Verge Shopping

    Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere spend the holidays indoors, but you can only watch so many TikToks about cute cats and cooking hacks before the need for something a little more substantive kicks in. Choosing the right game or movie to gift is tough, though, especially if you don't have an exact read on what your friends and family like. And if you choose poorly, remember that you might also be on the hook to play or watch it with them. That's why, this year, we made it our mission to find gifts that appeal to people with diverse

  • Aurora will have ‘hundreds’ of driverless trucks on the road by the end of 2026, CEO says an hour ago by Andrew J. Hawkins
    Autonomous Cars, Tech, Transportation

    It's been a year of progress and delays for Aurora, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking company founded by Chris Urmson. After promising to launch commercial driverless truck operations in 2024, the company was forced to push the start date until April 2025. A few weeks later, however, it was forced to put safety drivers back in the cabs at the request of the trucks' manufacturer. But in a recent interview, Urmson insists that having safety drivers in the cab is a matter of optics, not an indicator of technological regression. Operationally, it has no bearing on Aurora's progress. "2025 for us was really

  • A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official an hour ago by Emma Roth
    AI, News, Tech, Web

    An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 - or RSL for short - gives publishers the ability to dictate licensing and compensation rules to the web crawlers that visit their sites. The RSL Collective announced the standard in September with backing from Yahoo, Ziff Davis, and O'Reilly Media. It's an expansion of the robots.txt file, which outlines the parts of a website a web crawler can access. Though RSL alone can't block AI scrapers that don't pay for a

  • AMD FSR Redstone is an exciting and confusing upgrade for Radeon PC gamers an hour ago by Sean Hollister
    AMD, Gaming, News, PC Gaming, Tech

    Today, AMD is soft-launching its latest suite of graphics and performance-enhancing tech, FSR Redstone - and it might take a second to wrap your head around. It certainly did for me. The good news is that in just three months, AMD has more than doubled the number of games that support the flagship machine-learning version of its upscaling tech, FSR4, to over 200 games in all, and it's launching ML-based frame generation (yes, "fake frames") for over 30 titles too. You should be able to find full game lists here sometime today. Both techniques can dramatically increase your framerate while preserving


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