From PC Mag: Viasat looks poised to offer faster speeds to compete with Starlink after successfully launching its new F2 satellite into orbit last night.

The next-generation F2 satellite took off from Florida on board a United Launch Alliance Atlas V551 rocket before separating from the vehicle....

From PC World: Starlink offers some big benefits over regular home internet, but what we really need are competitors in that space. Amazon wants to be one of those competitors with Project Kuiper, a satellite internet service that’s still in the works and could be operational by 2026.

Satellite...

From CNET: Apple updated its App Review Guidelines page on Thursday, introducing changes to the handling of personal data sharing and the requirements that must be met before doing so. Noncompliant apps could be removed from the App Store.

The updated language in the rules calls out that personal...

From PC Mag: Google Play will soon warn you about apps that cause excessive battery drain.

The update was announced earlier this week alongside Google's guidelines for developers on a new metric called "excessive partial wake locks." It was developed in collaboration with Samsung and is designed to...

From PC World: Valve’s new Steam hardware announcements—a revived Steam Machine desktop-slash-console, a standalone Steam Frame VR headset, and a refreshed Steam Controller—are all anyone’s talking about right now. But none of them would have such high profiles without the Steam Deck, Valve’s smash...

From CNET: Apple is inking a deal with Google to make a custom Gemini AI model to power the next version of its virtual assistant Siri for spring 2026, according to a Nov. 2 report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. A subsequent report on Wednesday states Apple will pay $1 billion a year for this new 1.2...

From PC Mag: AMD's new roadmaps offer some hints at how it’ll upgrade its CPUs in the coming years.

While AMD's strategy for servers and enterprise AI took center stage at a recent analyst day, AMD executives also previewed coming advancements to its CPU architecture.

A presentation slide shows...

From PC World: First, the promo codes dried up, then the offers to departing subscribers stopped happening. Now comes word that the last reliable way to stream Paramount+ for free will soon go away.

In a letter to its shareholders reporting its third-quarter 2025 results, Paramount announced that...

From CNET: YouTube TV subscribers have missed another Monday Night Football game, with no sign at all of when ABC and other Disney channels might be restored to the service.

All of the Disney-owned streaming channels, including ABC, ESPN, the ACC Network and the SEC Networks, were removed from...

From PC Mag: SpaceX is giving select customers a little more time to update old Starlink dishes before the hardware is bricked.

Last month, the company began warning certain users that their dormant Starlink dishes would lose functionality on Nov. 17 unless the hardware received a critical update...