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The best e-reader to buy right now

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • Feb 20, 2026

Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more book-like reading experience, with fewer...

Microsoft says today’s Xbox shakeup doesn’t mean game studio layoffs

  • Technology
  • Sean Hollister
  • Feb 20, 2026

Xbox has new leaders today, now that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are out - and you'd be forgiven for assuming that means yet another round of layoffs and shuttered studios, especially one day after So...

Xbox shakeup: Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are leaving Microsoft

  • Technology
  • Stevie Bonifield
  • Feb 20, 2026

After nearly 40 years at Microsoft, Xbox chief and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is leaving the company, along with Xbox president Sarah Bond. Spencer’s retirement was announced in a memo from Mic...

SCOTUS rules Trump’s tariffs are illegal — but the fight is far from over

  • Technology
  • Mia Sato
  • Feb 20, 2026

The US Supreme Court struck down some of Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign imports, which have become a hallmark of the chaos of the second Trump administration. The court's ruling deals specifically...

Read new Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s memo on the future of Xbox

  • Technology
  • Sean Hollister
  • Feb 20, 2026

Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has just announced he's leaving the company after 12 years leading Xbox and nearly 40 at Microsoft in total. His replacement: Asha Sharma, formerly head of developme...

Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo about leaving Microsoft

  • Technology
  • Tom Warren
  • Feb 20, 2026

Xbox chief Phil Spencer has just announced in an internal memo that he's leaving Microsoft after 38 years. In a memo entitled "A new chapter for Microsoft Gaming," Spencer reveals to Xbox employees th...

Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

  • Technology
  • Tom Warren
  • Feb 20, 2026

Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft after nearly 40 years at the software giant. Xbox president Sarah Bond is also leaving Microsoft, in what is a major shakeup to the management of Xbox and...

Sarah Bond is leaving Xbox

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • Feb 20, 2026

Sarah Bond, the president of COO and Xbox, is leaving the organization, along with CEO of Microsoft Gaming Phil Spencer. Her departure is being announced at the same time as Spencer's, with Asha Sharm...

Trump is making coal plants even dirtier as AI demands more energy

  • Technology
  • Justine Calma
  • Feb 20, 2026

The Trump administration just tossed out Biden-era restrictions on mercury and other toxic pollutants from power plants. It's repealing Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) just as electricity dema...

Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • Feb 20, 2026

SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, is fighting back against Google's copyright lawsuit that accuses it of vacuuming up search results "at an astonishing scale." In a mo...

You can save $30 on Sony’s DualSense Edge controller by buying refurbished

  • Technology
  • Cameron Faulkner
  • Feb 20, 2026

If the PlayStation 5 is your console of choice — and you’re not satisfied with the DualSense gamepad it comes with — the DualSense Edge may be what you’re looking for. Luckily, if its high asking pric...

America is at risk of becoming an automotive backwater

  • Technology
  • Andrew J. Hawkins
  • Feb 20, 2026

For decades, America's auto industry was the envy of the world, driven by mass production, the rise of Detroit's Big Three automakers, and the iconic stylings of the 1950s and '60s. Then, through a se...