Americas News
Watch Sony’s elite ping-pong robot beat top-ranked players
- Technology
- Andrew Liszewski
- Apr 22, 2026
Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron's FOREPHUS that challenged amateur competitors at CES 2017. What sets Ace apart from the rest is that the robot, which was...
Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cyberscurity agency
- Technology
- Lauren Feiner
- Apr 22, 2026
Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic's new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation's central cybersecurity coordinato...
Microsoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership
- Technology
- Tom Warren
- Apr 22, 2026
Microsoft has started teasing a new Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership, just a day after lowering prices of its Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscriptions. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma...
Google Meet will take AI notes for in-person meetings too
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Apr 22, 2026
Google's AI meeting notetaker is no longer limited to Google Meets - Gemini can also generate summaries and transcripts of in-person meetings now, as well as meetings on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, as f...
Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’
- Technology
- Tom Warren
- Apr 22, 2026
Microsoft first revealed it was building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google all the way back in 2022. Former Xbox president Sarah Bond even went on stage at a Bloomberg event near...
Will a new CEO realize Apple’s smart home potential?
- Technology
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
- Apr 22, 2026
It took Tim Cook years to launch Apple into major new hardware categories, such as the smartwatch. But John Ternus could start his tenure right away with an ambitious new project: smart home hardware....
Sony’s PlayStation 5 is $200 off for the first time since December
- Technology
- Cameron Faulkner
- Apr 22, 2026
When the price increases for PlayStation 5 consoles went into effect on April 2nd, we weren’t sure when the next time a good discount would happen. Surely, not for at least a couple months, right? Wel...
Now Meta will track what employees do on their computers to train its AI agents
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Apr 22, 2026
Meta employees' activity at work is now being used to train the company's AI agents. As reported by Reuters, Meta is installing a tool it calls Model Capability Initiative (MCI) on US-based employees'...
It’s amazing how good Alienware’s $350 OLED monitor is
- Technology
- Cameron Faulkner
- Apr 22, 2026
I've recommended several OLED gaming monitors to readers over the years, and I've finally taken my own advice to buy one. Alienware's new 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED has all the features that I want and a l...
Call of Duty never made much sense for Xbox Game Pass
- Technology
- Andrew Webster
- Apr 22, 2026
Yesterday Microsoft announced some surprising news: at a time when everything in gaming is getting more expensive, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate was actually getting a price cut. Going forward, the subscrip...
The year’s weirdest game is hard to explain and even harder to put down
- Technology
- Alexis Ong
- Apr 22, 2026
The first rule of Titanium Court is that you can't explain Titanium Court. Not because we're living under the omerta of an 8-bit Fight Club, but because it's one truth I can stand by. For the past wee...
BMW’s flagship 7 Series gets its ‘Neue Klasse’ upgrade
- Technology
- Andrew J. Hawkins
- Apr 22, 2026
Ever since BMW first announced its "Neue Klasse" next-generation electric vehicle architecture and design language way back in 2021, the question on many fans' minds was when the new technology would...