The not-so-mysterious disappearance of the lunch break

The not-so-mysterious disappearance of the lunch break

When was the last time you took a lunch break? Did you actually get up from your desk, walk away from your computer, and eat a sandwich in the sun, without a single Slack ping to disturb the peace? For many workers in the United States, that kind of lunch break is only reserved for … Read more

The Motorola Signature 27 Is A Beast

The Motorola Signature 27 Is A Beast

The Motorola Signature 27 is slated to be the first phone on sale in the US to feature Qualcomm’s next top-tier processor — the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. That alone would make the handset notable. But when you factor in a ton of other high-end hardware including a gorgeous tandem OLED display, a … Read more

Apple Launches Two Products Today

Apple Announcing New Products Next Week: 'Pro and Tell'

Apple will launch two new products today, Friday, November 13: the new Apple HomeView and the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K, both of which have been available for pre-order since mid-October. Apple HomeView: Apple’s new smart home display, powered by Apple Intelligence with Siri AI, for entertainment and home management. Available in tabletop and wall-mounted models, … Read more

NYT Strands hints, answers for November 12, 2026

NYT Strands hints, answers for November 12, 2026

Today’s NYT Strands tips will be easy if you attend a lot of events. Strands, the elevated New York Times word search game, requires the player to put a spin on the classic word search. Words can be formed from linked letters: up, down, left, right or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting … Read more

Xbox announces Wolfenstein 3 | The Verge

Xbox announces Wolfenstein 3 | The Verge

It’s been almost a decade since Bethesda’s MachineGames released Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in 2017, and now Xbox is ready to announce a sequel from the studio. Wolfenstein 3 was officially announced today, just days after Bethesda also confirmed that the next Elder Scrolls game will be called The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. In … Read more

Bill Simmons reportedly ended ChatGPT partnership after online uproar

Bill Simmons reportedly ended ChatGPT partnership after online uproar

Bill Simmons has acknowledged that The Ringer fans “just didn’t like” the ChatGPT-sponsored segments that emerged on the company’s podcast network earlier this year. The partnership between the OpenAI-owned chatbot service and Simmons’ company became national news after segments built around ChatGPT prompts proliferated across multiple Ringer shows. Simmons also used the service to recreate … Read more

Humble Bundle redesign removes two-factor verification from settings

Humble Bundle redesign removes two-factor verification from settings

The Humble Bundle store for purchasing games and other software recently changed its appearance, but on the settings page it no longer offers a way to add or update two-factor verification methods, as reported by Kotaku. PC Gamer also notes that there are Humble Bundle support pages that discuss two-factor verification, and the author of … Read more

Outlook Outage: Microsoft’s Email Service Goes Down Nationwide

Outlook Outage: Microsoft's Email Service Goes Down Nationwide

Microsoft’s Outlook email service suffered a massive outage on Thursday, affecting users across North America and potentially other regions. “We are investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes across multiple connection methods in the Americas,” the company’s Microsoft 365 Status account posted on X at 12:54 p.m. ET. Microsoft did not provide … Read more