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Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok

Oracle and investors that include Microsoft are in talks to take over TikTok in a deal being negotiated by the White House, reports NPR.

Fubo’s cheapest streaming plan is now $85 per month

Fubo has raised prices for all of its English-language plans by $5 per month, citing “rising costs” for the increase, less than two months after its Essential plan debuted.

All the news about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs

Nvidia’s new RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 promise big improvements over their predecessor, including through DLSS 4’s AI-powered frame generation.

Lok Digital review: a surreal puzzle game full of made-up words

Lok Digital is a strange puzzle game that’s available now on iOS, Android, and Steam.

Razer Laptop Cooling Pad review: Hyperboost works, if you have the right laptop

Hyperboost unlocks better 1080p performance on 2023 and 2024 Razer Blade 16 laptops, but for any other laptop, it’s expensive overkill.

OpenAI’s Project Stargate sparks reactions from Microsoft, Meta CEOs

The $100 billion OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle say they are spending on Project Stargate sparked illuminating responses from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

2025 looks like a great year for Xbox

Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct event set the stage for a busy 2025 of game releases. It looks like Xbox Game Pass is going to have something for everyone this year.

Hironobu Sakaguchi wants his next (and maybe last) game to be ‘a successor to Final Fantasy VI’

In an interview, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi talks about his latest game, Fantasian Neo Dimension, as well as plans for the future.

Samsung’s Galaxy S25 phones are thin, big, boring, and AI

The S25, Plus, Ultra, and Edge, the latest on the TikTok ban and the first week of President Trump’s administration, and the Netflix price hike, on The Vergecast.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: a new king of 4K is here

Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 graphics card is the best you can buy. But at $1,999, it’s really DLSS 4 that is delivering the big performance improvements.