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Market concerns and Google’s position Alphabet’s recent market performance has been driven by investor confidence in the company’s ability to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, as well as its development of specialized chips for AI that can compete with Nvidia’s. Nvidia recently reached a world-first $5 trillion valuation due to making GPUs that can accelerate the matrix math at the heart of AI computations. Despite acknowledging that no company would be immune to a potential AI bubble burst, Pichai argued that Google’s unique position gives it an advantage. He told the BBC that the company owns what he called a “full…

Apple TV+ is offering six months of access for only $36 for Cyber Monday. The deal is live now for new and eligible returning subscribers and runs through December 1, giving you a chance to stream shows like Silo, The Morning Show and For All Mankind for less. It’s a short-term offer, so you’ll want to grab it while it’s available before Cyber Monday ends. The biggest caveat to the deal is that you must subscribe directly through Apple and not through a third-party service.Apple TV+ continues to have one of the strongest and most varied lineups in streaming. Its…

If you know a Lego fan — and, come on, isn’t everybody one? — then you’ll want to get them this mosaic maker. With it, they’ll get to see themselves in Lego-like form, all pixelated. All they do is upload an image of themselves to the Mosaic Designer app, download it and then use it as a guide as they piece together a mosaic of themselves using the 4,702 pieces in the set. In the end, they’ll have a memorable keepsake, a cool one-of-a-kind portrait of themselves. (Or they can disassemble it and make a new one.)

With Black Friday over, we enter the realm of Cyber Monday deals, where serious savings on top-tier gaming PCs still abound. Literally thousands are being cut from the prices of some models.I’ve been PC gaming for over a decade, and have experienced many systems and builds during that time. In light of this, I’ve selected what I think are the best gaming PC Cyber Monday deals around right now.Highlights include the remarkable Lenovo Legion Tower 5, now just $1,899.99 at Lenovo, which is over $1,000 off. When I tested this model, I thought it gave the best gaming PC a…

As Kent Halliburton stood in a bathroom at the Rosewood Hotel in central Amsterdam, thousands of miles from home, running his fingers through an envelope filled with 10,000 euros in crisp banknotes, he started to wonder what he had gotten himself into. Halliburton is the cofounder and CEO of Sazmining, a company that operates bitcoin mining hardware on behalf of clients—a model known as “mining-as-a-service.” Halliburton is based in Peru, but Sazmining runs mining hardware out of third-party data centers across Norway, Paraguay, Ethiopia, and the United States. As Halliburton tells it, he had flown to Amsterdam the previous day, August 5,…

You’ve found Engadget’s expert-crafted list of the best Cyber Monday deals on bluetooth speakers, soundbars and smart speakers. We’ve been sifting through the digital weeds all month looking for the steepest speaker discounts. Several of the best deals have been live for a while, but new ones are popping up all the time, so we’ll be on the beat (get it) until the last deal fades to quiet. So far, we’ve found offers on JBL soundbars, Sonos smart speakers, Ultimate Ears portable bluetooth speakers and other audio champions. Check out the list now to find your new favorite gear.Best Cyber…

Cyber Monday deals are coming in hot. Not only will you save on laptops, audio gear and gifts, you can also save on streaming service subscriptions. We found a Prime Video add-on deal that’ll get you Apple TV for a paltry $6 per month.The streaming service formerly known as Apple TV Plus is one of the add-on subscriptions that Prime Video offers, and now you can sign up for a subscription for only $6 per month for six months. You need a Prime membership, which costs $15 per month or $139 per year, to get Apple TV through Prime Video (and snag…

Black Friday is over, but the deals haven’t stopped: most people still shopping for tech will know that Cyber Monday is ground zero for more great deals on online shopping.Garmins are super-popular buys in the Cyber Monday deals every year, but often it’s older models you see discounted, not the best, brightest, and shiniest new entries to the lineup. Not so this year: almost every Garmin watch has a discount in some form or another.I’ve been testing Garmin watches for years. I wrote TechRadar’s buying guide to the best Garmin watches overall, and I’ve been testing fitness kit for a…

The goals are sound, but ultimately they depend on users reading the dialog windows that warn of the risks and require careful approval before proceeding. That, in turn, diminishes the value of the protection for many users. “The usual caveat applies to such mechanisms that rely on users clicking through a permission prompt,” Earlence Fernandes, a University of California, San Diego professor specializing in AI security, told Ars. “Sometimes those users don’t fully understand what is going on, or they might just get habituated and click ‘yes’ all the time. At which point, the security boundary is not really a…

Black Friday is technically over, but long gone are the days in which all of the deals dry up at midnight. Black Friday is very much a multi-day event now, with most of the best deals (as long as they don’t sell out) lasting through Cyber Monday. This year, we’ve found some of the best prices of the year on tech like headphones, game consoles, robot vacuums, speakers and more.Below, we’ve collected the best Black Friday deals you can still get today. We expect many of these to run through Cyber Monday this year, but we’ll keep this post updated…