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But more than anything, the polish of the laptop’s design and the quality of its components are what make it feel on par with Apple. You can get it with either a 13.8- or 15-inch screen size. The smaller model has a slightly larger display than its predecessor (up from 13.5 inches) with thinner bezels and rounder corners. It’s brighter, too, and features a 120-Hz screen refresh rate, giving it an edge over the MacBook Air. Content looks vivid and sharp, even outdoors in broad daylight (but you’ll have to crank it up to about full brightness under direct sunlight).My…
Super Bowl games can be emotional roller coasters, as any football fan knows all too well. Universal Orlando Resorts is hoping viewers will be in the mood for more thrills and excitement.Universal Orlando’s Super Bowl 60 ad, “Lil’ Bro,” continues its “This Changes Everything” brand platform, which repositions the resort as a weeklong vacation destination.The 60-second spot was created by Lucky Generals, directed by Ben Quinn through Superprime, and will air just before the halftime show.“Lil’ Bro” focuses on a young boy feeling increasingly irate at his elder sibling’s insistence on addressing him as “little man.”It’s during a trip to…
PayPal said on Tuesday it is hiring HP’s Enrique Lores as its CEO and President, replacing current chief executive, Alex Chriss. Lores, who has been the chair of PayPal’s board since July 2024, will also take up the role of president. PayPal said the appointment was made because company’s pace of change and execution was “not in line with the Board’s expectations” given broader market trends. Chriss joined PayPal in September 2023 from Ituit, succeeding Dan Schulman. PayPal’s CFO and COO, Jamie Miller, will take over as interim CEO until Lores joins the company. The appointment comes as PayPal on…
Nintendo’s Virtual Boy is arguably one of the strangest-looking gaming contraptions I’ve laid eyes on. It sits on a desk like a little portable grill, but you look into it like a microscope. Your eyes are enveloped in a ruby-red interface, where you can play retro 3D games with the paired controller.Last week, I got a chance to spend some time with some upcoming video game releases for the Nintendo Switch 2—like Mario Tennis Fever and Resident Evil Requiem—along with new hardware like the fairly faithful reimagining of the 1995 Virtual Boy. The latter stuck with me the most because…
In Rippling’s first Super Bowl ad, the software firm makes its point quickly: even devious plans can be undone by bad software.The 30-second spot, which the company debuted Tuesday, stars Tim Robinson as a would-be corporate mastermind whose grand ambitions are derailed by a cascade of small but maddening operational failures. What begins as a plan for world domination devolves into frustration as routine tasks—onboarding employees, provisioning laptops, managing finance, and benefits—refuse to cooperate.The ad marks Rippling’s debut on the Super Bowl stage and the official reveal of its new brand campaign, “Rule Your Business,” which introduces the enterprise software company…
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered an unusually sharp rebuke to Meta, warning that it would not allow the social media giant to “play with the right to privacy” of Indian users, as judges questioned how WhatsApp monetizes personal data. The comments were made as Meta appealed a penalty imposed over WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy. The judges repeatedly asked the company how users can meaningfully consent to data-sharing practices in a market where the app is pretty much the default communications platform. With more than 500 million users, India is WhatsApp’s largest market and a key growth area for Meta’s…
Jonathan Nolan saw this coming. As a screenwriter, he’s worked on several of his brother Christopher Nolan’s films, from Interstellar to the Dark Knight movies. Partnered with his wife Lisa Joy, he created HBO’s Westworld and executive produced Amazon Prime’s Fallout. But before that, he cut his TV teeth creating Person of Interest, a CBS procedural about a solitary tech billionaire who creates a piece of surveillance software aimed at stopping crime before it happens. It was fiction, but it’s hard not to feel its prescience.With Fallout, now in its second season, Nolan also has his sights on the future.…
Matthew McConaughey might be best known for True Detective, Dallas Buyers’ Club, his mid-aughts spree of crowd-pleasing rom-coms, and his iconic Texas drawl. But advertising has also been both additive to his personal brand and a uniquely challenging part of his career.Inside his trailer on the set of Uber Eats’ ad shoot for Super Bowl 60, McConaughey reflected on what he enjoys about making ads, and what it takes for him to endorse a brand.“Overall,” he said, settling into his seat, “does the ad reinforce some values I believe in and not siphon off of my credibility?”Some are worth it…
For years, the enterprise CMS conversation has treated lock in as a feature. Proprietary platforms promise stability by owning the stack end to end. Integrations are gated. Extensibility comes at a premium. Exit paths quietly disappear over time. The assumption is simple. If leaving is hard enough, customers will stay. But in an increasingly complex digital environment, that logic is breaking down. As organisations scale across channels, products, and regions, trust is no longer earned by control. It is earned by openness. By clean integration. By the confidence that your data, your schemas, and your systems are not trapped. This…
Nuclear fusion conjures images of massive reactors or banks of dozens of large lasers. Avalanche co-founder and CEO Robin Langtry thinks smaller is better. For the last several years, Langtry and his colleagues at Avalanche have been working on what’s essentially a desktop version of nuclear fusion. “We’re using the small size to learn quickly and iterate quickly,” Langtry told TechCrunch. Fusion power promises to supply the world with large amounts of clean heat and electricity, if researchers and engineers can solve some vexing challenges. At its core, fusion power seeks to harness the power of the Sun. To do…
A new report published Tuesday finds that while violent threats to public servants across the US have been increasing, “comprehensive” state-level consumer privacy laws do not provide adequate protections for those civil servants, creating a “data-to-violence pipeline.”The report was published by researcher Justin Sherman of the Security Project at the Public Service Alliance, a platform that provides free and discounted security services to current and former public servants. While Trump officials have referred to documenting federal immigration agents’ behavior on the job as “violence” and “doxing,” Sherman says the report focuses on the more traditional, widely accepted definition—the publication of…
Anheuser-Busch is the biggest advertiser in the 2026 Super Bowl, with 2.5 minutes of ads across three brands, two of them light beers: Michelob Ultra and the ever-present Bud Light. Maybe it’s a stretch to call light beer part of America’s health movement, which is reflected in the ranks of wellness-focused advertisers in this year’s game. But with its lower carb and calorie counts, that’s how many perceive it. It’s also how it got started.In 1951, biochemist Joseph Owades took a job with the Rheingold brewery in Brooklyn. In the lab, Owades hit on an enzyme called amyloglucosidase, which allowed yeast…
Ring’s AI-powered “Search Party” feature, which leverages the company’s network of cameras to find lost dogs, is now available to all Ring customers in the U.S. For the first time, the feature will be made available to those who don’t own a Ring camera, too. Launched last fall, Search Party uses AI to find possible matches for lost dogs across neighbors’ camera footage. When a neighbor reports a lost dog in the Ring app, nearby outdoor cameras use AI to scan for possible matches. If a match is found, that camera owner receives an alert and can optionally choose to…
The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a blog post published Monday, Notepad++ developer Don Ho said that the cyberattack was likely carried out by hackers associated with the Chinese government between June and December 2025, citing multiple analyses by security experts who examined the malware payloads and attack patterns. Ho said this “would explain the highly selective targeting” seen during the campaign. Rapid7, which investigated the incident, attributed the hacking to Lotus Blossom, a…
AI is already having a seismic impact on how software is written, with much of the grunt work of programming now performed by swarms of agents and subagents. But as developers experiment with new interfaces and form factors for human-AI collaboration, it’s become hard for even the most advanced AI labs to keep up. The current trend is for agentic software development — systems where AI agents can work independently on coding tasks — epitomized by the Claude Code and Cowork apps. In the meantime, OpenAI has been gradually building out its Codex tool, which launched as a command line…
Publicis Groupe has reported another strong set of financial results for Q4 and 2025, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) -powered creative and media-powered work.As AI platforms, including Google’s Gemini and OpenAI, prepare to introduce ad products, Publicis chief executive (CEO) Arthur Sadoun is bullish that the legacy holdco is evolving quickly enough to stop client dollars from straying.The numbers5.9% – organic growth in Q4$8 billion – in new business last year. Wins included Coca-Cola North America’s media account, Mars’ media account, and Nespresso’s global creative brief.$17.18 billion – in net revenue in 2025. Up 5.6% on 2024, and up 20% since…