From CNET: Verizon has followed rival T-Mobile in laying off staff, CNET has learned. The wireless carrier would not disclose the exact number of employees it's cutting but did confirm the move had occurred.

"Throughout the year, our company makes adjustments to our headcount depending upon the...

From TechCrunch: Amazon this morning announced plans to acquire iRobot for an all-cash deal valued at $1.7 billion. The home robotics firm, best known for pioneering the robotic vacuum, was founded in 1990 by MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab members Colin Angle, Rodney Brooks and Helen Greiner...

From PC Mag: During the Tesla annual meeting of stockholders(Opens in a new window) held yesterday, Elon Musk confirmed that the Cybertruck will no longer carry a base price of $39,900.

As part of the meeting held in front of a live audience, Musk answered a number of questions posed by...

From Tom's Hardware: Intel is close to signing a deal with the Italian government to set up subsidized chip factories within the Mediterranean country. According to Reuters sources, the deal will bring in $5 billion of investment from Intel initially. In turn, Rome will help with funding the...

From Tom's Hardware: Being the world's No. 1 supplier of notebook platforms, Intel must adopt the latest technologies as soon as possible to maintain this lead. In addition, one of the key selling points of laptops is a fast Wi-Fi connection, so adopting the latest tech version is crucial for the...

From PC Mag: Ukraine has traced a Russian propaganda operation to a bot farm that was secretly operating in the country’s own capital of Kyiv.

The farm operated more than 1 million bot accounts, which helped the propaganda operation build an audience of over 400,000 users on social media, according...

From The Verge: Twitter has a new feature useful to brick-and-mortar businesses that can put crucial information near the top of their Twitter profiles. The new Location Spotlight feature, launching widely today, lets businesses add information like store hours and address, a Google Map with...

From ExtremeTech: Samsung’s 2022 lineup of TVs and monitors got a gaming upgrade in June with the addition of Stadia, GeForce Now, and Xbox Cloud Gaming support. At the time, Samsung said its new Gaming Hub would get support for Amazon Luna in the future, and the wait was shorter than expected. As...

From ADATA Press Release: ADATA Technology today unveils its latest series of memory modules for creators, the ADATA ACE series. Creators can choose from two models depending on their budget and performance requirements, namely the ADATA ACE 6400 DDR5 and ACE 3600 DDR4. The series also includes a...

From PC Mag: AMD’s next-generation Ryzen chips will arrive a little earlier this year. On Tuesday, CEO Lisa Su said the products will launch during this quarter, which ends on Sept. 30.

“Looking ahead, we’re on track to launch our all new Ryzen 7000 desktop processors and AM5 (motherboard) platform...