Microsoft finally hits its goal of 1 billion devices running Windows 10
When it launched Windows 10 in 2015, Microsoft said it hoped to put the OS on 1 billion devices within three years of its release. Now five years later, Microsoft says that […]
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Nvidia will buy Arm for up to $40 billion, combining smartphone, GPU powerhouses
Nvidia agreed to purchase Arm for up to $40 billion in cash and stock, the companies said Sunday night. This mammoth deal in the chip industry is expected to bolster AI and […]
Report: Microsoft is in talks to buy Discord for over $10 billion
Report: Microsoft is in talks to buy Discord for over $10 billion
Buy an SSD while they’re still cheap: Contamination ruins 6.5 billion gigabytes
While the chip shortage continues, graphics cards and CPUs are hard to find and wickedly expensive on the secondary market. Newfangled DDR5 RAM is hard to find, and even motherboards are getting […]
Twitter explodes as Elon Musk attempts $43 billion hostile takeover
Elon Musk, one of the richest people on the planet, wants to buy Twitter. Not just buy it, in fact, but buy 100 percent of the company’s stock and make the social […]
Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion
On Monday, the Twitter board agreed to accept Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social media company. Musk said he will take Twitter private amid an effort to restore “free speech” to […]
Nvidia’s $1.4 billion GPU shortfall is great news for PC gamers
Nvidia’s run of sky-high financial results on the back of soaring GPU prices has come to an end. The company pre-announced second quarter 2022 revenue of $6.70 billion, versus the $8.10 billion […]
What the $52 billion CHIPS Act means for regular people
On Monday, President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, a $280 billion bill that paves the way for new chip foundries to be built on US soil. […]
IRS says Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes
One of the unique, visceral terrors of American adulthood is getting a letter with “Internal Revenue Service” on the return address. Just ask Microsoft’s accounting department. According to an SEC filing dated […]
Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, finally
United Kingdom regulators were effectively the last hurdle stopping Microsoft from purchasing Activision Blizzard, in the biggest merger the video game industry has ever seen. That hurdle was cleared this morning as […]
