From CRN: Amazon Web Services confirmed to CRN that Amazon’s latest 9,000 employee layoff round will impact a “small, single-digit percentage” of AWS employees.

Furthermore, AWS told CRN that the $85 billion worldwide cloud market share leader will still have more employees in 2023 than it had in...

From The Verge: Nvidia’s latency-reducing Reflex technology is coming to Counter-Strike 2. Reflex is designed to make games feel more responsive by reducing the amount of time between when you click your mouse and when you see the action on-screen. It’s all-important in competitive shooters, and up...

From CNET: New artificial intelligence features are coming to Google Search. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, CEO Sundar Pichai said advances in conversational AI have the potential to supercharge Google's search engine.

"Will people be able to ask questions to Google and engage with...

From PC Mag: Expedia is testing a beta ChatGPT interface to help people plan their vacations.

The in-app AI, rolling out globally in English on the Expedia iOS app, can recommend places to go, where to stay, how to get around, and what to see and do. It also automatically creates a "trip" and saves...

From Forbes: Not only is Apple planning a refresh of the MacBook Air, it is also preparing to bring OLED display technology to the popular macOS-powered laptop. But what of the MacBook Pro? Given the professional nature of the 14-inch and 16-inch macOS laptops, will the advanced display technology...

From PC World: Remember when Seagate made special edition storage drives made from “Beskar steel,” that stuff Boba Fett and other Mandalorians wear to make them incredibly marketable impervious to plasma blasters? Well the company’s back with its Star Wars-flavored PC hardware, and this time it’s...

From Forbes: A future set of AirPods or AirPods Pro could look radically different than the current model, a new patent suggests. According to Patently Apple, the Cupertino giant is working on ideas for an AirPods case with extra interactive capabilities.

The patent is titled “Devices, Methods and...

From The Verge: Motorola hasn’t had much of a presence in the flagship phone space in the past couple of years, but that might be about to change. The company is unveiling the Edge 40 Pro, which is a global version of the X40 it released in China at the end of last year. It comes with a Snapdragon 8...

From CNET: Google Drive no longer has a 5 million item limit, a Google Workspace spokesperson said Monday evening.

The about-face comes after people began complaining on Reddit and Google's own support site of a previously unknown 5 million item cap on Drive. When people found out that Google...

From PC World: Today Microsoft launched the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock, noteworthy for one key absence: the Surface Connector, which has now been replaced with a standard Thunderbolt 4 interface.

Why is this important? For years, Microsoft Surface devices were driven and charged via the Surface...