If you're a football fan like me, you know that next week is the Super Bowl, which also signals the end of the 2026 season. Not a good day for me, but what is good is that it's time for this year's version of Madden, Madden 26, which comes to EA Play members. You can jump in on the action tomorrow. Members can also grab some perks and score the Supercharge Pack in Ultimate Team by logging in between February 5th and March 6th. The pack includes six Elite Player items, giving you a headstart to build your team in the off-season.

This is not how the market reacts to a company with healthy margins. It is how the market reacts when it stops believing the story the company is selling.

I was scrolling through my news feed when a short teaser from Made by Google flashed by, hinting at a familiar silhouette and promising that preorders would open on February 18.

On paper, it is a structural shift. In practice, it reads like a tacit admission that the company’s recent fixation on AI has come at the expense of the fundamentals that once defined its reputation.

These crowd favorites are part of Bose’s Valentine’s Day offers, running from February 6 to 16, giving shoppers a solid window to pick up something thoughtful without resorting to last minute panic buys.

The company has dropped the laptop to $2,400 dollars and is throwing in a 27 inch UltraGear QHD gaming monitor at no extra cost.

Oracle’s plan to raise up to $50 billion dollars in 2026 is being framed as a bold expansion of its cloud and AI footprint, but the scale and timing of the move reveal a company scrambling to keep pace while absorbing the consequences of its own costly bets.

Kareem and David dig into Microsoft’s FY26 Q1 earnings, where strong growth meets rising questions about AI infrastructure costs.

He was forwarding confidential Microsoft communications to Jeffrey Epstein in nearly real time, seeking Epstein’s advice on how to secure a better exit package, how to manage his reputation, and even how to land his next job at Apple or Samsung.

On the surface, it was a familiar corporate check‑in: a leader explaining where the OS is headed, how AI PCs fit into the roadmap, and why Windows remains central to Microsoft’s identity.

The numbers themselves are difficult to gloss over. Gaming revenue fell 9% year-over-year, with Xbox content and services slipping 5% and hardware collapsing by a staggering 32%.

Gamers, we have a packed lineup of Free Play Days this weekend, from January 29th through February 1st. Fallout 76, For Honor, Dead by Daylight, and Grounded 2 are all free for you to try with no Game Pass membership required. Fall Out 76 and Honor hang around for a bit longer until February 5th. As always, you can access these through Xbox.com or migrate to your subscription down to Game Pass and then to Free Play Days if you want to jump in directly from your console. Fallout 76 allows you to explore post-nuclear Appalachia in Bethesda's open world RPD.

The XREAL One and XREAL One Pro and it’s arriving just as the glasses hit a new sale price. If you’ve been on the fence about stepping into wearable displays, this is the moment to pay attention.

The most striking shift is the thermal strategy. Alienware has adopted a Positive Pressure Airflow system that directs all fans inward, forcing heat to exit through a passive rear outlet.

Those are the numbers Microsoft wants front and center. But the segment‑level details reveal a more complicated picture, one that helps explain why investors are not buying the company’s AI‑first narrative as readily as they once did.

The next evolution of Gemini in Chrome is here for macOS, Windows, and Chromebook Plus, bringing the powerful Google Gemini experience straight to your browser. These built-in models are all about multitasking, creating, planning, and getting things done online. Gemini will stay open in a persistent side panel while you browse, keeping your main tab focused on your task. You'll be able to do such things as summarize product reviews, compare options across sites, and adjust your calendar. Handing tasks without breaking your flow keeps you locked in. You can get creative with Nano Banana in the side panel as well and create quick mockups for projects, home designs, or a simple birthday card invitation for the kids.

Scenic mountain landscape during sunrise or sunset, featuring steep green cliffs in the foreground and layered forested ridges fading into the horizon. The sky transitions from soft orange near the horizon to pale blue above. Decorative elements like grass, flowers, and a water droplet frame the image with a translucent overlay of green and blue hues, emphasizing a nature-themed design.

These innovations are meant to “reduce tedious tasks, elevate your work, and help you exercise more precision and control, so you can maintain your creative momentum and spend more time bringing your creative vision to life”

The French government is moving to a domestically developed platform called Visio, part of its broader Suite Numérique initiative, a full productivity stack designed to replace American services like Teams and Slack for civil servants. 

The update, now available in public preview, introduces a modernized layout, updated navigation, and a streamlined product flow that will eventually replace the existing browser experience.

And while TikTok insists everything is normal, the backlash from users and creators suggests otherwise.

With an update a bit more than a refresh, the new Apple AirTag is here. The tracker has been a mainstay to help users find and keep track of those items that can become challenging to locate, TV remotes, car keys, bike locks, etc, those things we need often. Air Tags use the Find My Network, a powerful Apple-powered peer-to-peer network, to help users recover the items they've tagged. At the heart of the second-generation Air Tag sits Apple's Ultra Wideband Chip, the same one powering the new iPhone 17 and the Apple Watch Series 11.

Maia 200 is optimized specifically for inference and is already being deployed in select Azure datacenters.

This week, Microsoft’s CEO hits Davos to defend the company’s AI spending spree, insisting it is all part of a grand vision while everyone else wonders if GPUs have become the new gold bars.

Internal teams were instructed earlier in January to finalize headcount plans for 2026. Several sources described the upcoming cuts as broad in scope and tied to a continued effort to reduce corporate overhead and streamline operations.