Kareem Anderson

Google didn't even let the applause from I/O settle before sliding a new price tag across the table. Less than a day after unveiling its latest AI upgrades, the company quietly confirmed that its Google AI subscription lineup is getting more expensive for anyone who wants the good stuff. And the timing feels intentional. When you spend an entire keynote showing off agents that can run your life, models that can remix your videos, and a new “frontier intelligence” tier, it's a lot easier to justify nudging people up the pricing ladder.

Microsoft's latest data center push has landed it in St. Joseph County, and the company is already discovering what every hyperscaler eventually learns. When you drop a massive AI facility into a community that's already juggling political tension, uneven development, and rising utility costs, people don't greet you with a fruit basket. They show up with protest signs.

Stardock is kicking off 2026 with a fresh release of DeskScapes, and it feels like the team set out to answer a simple question: what if your desktop

Xbox's leadership board is starting to look like a startup's whiteboard, with new names being added almost as quickly as Asha Sharma can send an internal memo.

Velloso's argument is straightforward. Microsoft bet big on Bing as its flagship AI showcase and saw no meaningful shift in search share. It pushed Copilot into Windows and Office, yet he says “not even 3 percent of paying users use it even when it is pre-deployed right in their faces”. He also points to the company's push for NPUs in new PCs, only for OEMs to discover that “nobody cares because not a single valuable use case was built for those in Windows or Office”. In his view, the company overbuilt, oversold, and under-delivered.

, seems to come from someone looking to close a meaningful chapter rather than slipping quietly out the side door. After all, it isn't every day that the person who helped steer Windows, Bing, MSN, Xbox, and Microsoft's consumer marketing machine decides it's time to step back.

arrives at a moment when Asha Sharma is working to re‑center the Xbox brand around the players who built it, and this storefront fits neatly into that mission. It's a small move on paper, but it speaks loudly to a community that's been craving signs of identity, cohesion, and care.

Join Kareem and David as they dive into the tech world's latest buzz, from Google's I/O surprises to Microsoft's eyebrow-raising Surface announcements. Discover the AI-driven future and why it might just be too much buzzword bingo. Are they innovating or just inflating prices? Get the scoop on the latest devices and why you might want to hold onto your wallet.

, a chip built to raise the baseline for affordable Windows machines. Instead of treating budget laptops as disposable hardware, Qualcomm is framing this platform as a way to bring longer battery life, cooler operation, and more reliable day‑to‑day performance to devices that typically struggle to keep up. With Apple's MacBook Neo redefining what a low‑cost laptop can deliver, Snapdragon C arrives as a timely counterweight that gives OEMs a clearer path to compete on both capability and price.

Dell just secured one of the biggest federal tech deals of the decade, a five-year agreement worth roughly $9.7 billion to modernize the Department of Defense's Microsoft software stack.