The French government is moving to a domestically developed platform called Visio, part of its broader Suite Numérique initiative, a full productivity stack designed to replace American services like Teams and Slack for civil servants. 

The update, now available in public preview, introduces a modernized layout, updated navigation, and a streamlined product flow that will eventually replace the existing browser experience.

And while TikTok insists everything is normal, the backlash from users and creators suggests otherwise.

With an update a bit more than a refresh, the new Apple AirTag is here. The tracker has been a mainstay to help users find and keep track of those items that can become challenging to locate, TV remotes, car keys, bike locks, etc, those things we need often. Air Tags use the Find My Network, a powerful Apple-powered peer-to-peer network, to help users recover the items they've tagged. At the heart of the second-generation Air Tag sits Apple's Ultra Wideband Chip, the same one powering the new iPhone 17 and the Apple Watch Series 11.

Maia 200 is optimized specifically for inference and is already being deployed in select Azure datacenters.

This week, Microsoft’s CEO hits Davos to defend the company’s AI spending spree, insisting it is all part of a grand vision while everyone else wonders if GPUs have become the new gold bars.

Internal teams were instructed earlier in January to finalize headcount plans for 2026. Several sources described the upcoming cuts as broad in scope and tied to a continued effort to reduce corporate overhead and streamline operations.

It's been in the news for a long time, with the popular short-form content social media platform even going dark for users in the United States once. Today, we can put all that behind us, as ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, has agreed to sell its operations to an investment group without any Chinese members. The US investment group has three managing investors, Silver Lake, Oracle, and MGX, each holding 15 percent. Completing the ground is Dell Family Office, the investment firm of Michael Dell, who is chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies.

Developer_Direct kicked off the 2026 gaming announcements with a packed showcase highlighting major titles coming to Xbox this year. Playground Games, Game Freak, and Double Fine brought the goods with extended gameplay trailers and behind-the-scenes insights into their upcoming projects. It's important to note that all titles shown do support Xbox Play Anywhere, meaning you buy it once and enjoy it on all your devices. Your saves and achievements will stay in sync across all of your devices. Game Freak kicked things off with a deeper look into Beast of Reincarnation, an action RPG set in the haunting future of Japan.

Paint’s updates take a different direction by emphasizing creativity and user control. The new Coloring book feature uses AI to generate coloring pages from text prompts, offering a playful and accessible way to experiment with visual ideas.

It's cold, and winter weather is here for a lot of the East Coast, myself included. If you've got to stay inside, then check out the four titles featured this weekend for Free Play Days. This weekend, check out Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, South Park Snow Day, The War of Mine: Final Cut, and Call of the Lamb. These titles are available from Thursday, January 22nd, until Sunday, January 25th. If you enjoy these titles, you can get some good deals during Free Play Days to continue playing your favorites. Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is just $4.49, and it's worth noting that the Xbox reviews have given it a five-star rating so far.

One of the most requested features for GeForce NOW has finally arrived. Flight controller support is here. It's live starting today, following the announcement at CES 2026. Virtual pilots can now set up their dedicated flight systems with GeForce Now. Supported controllers start with the Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS One. You can roll, yaw, and throttle up today! To kick things off, you can win a T.Flight Hotas One MSFS Edition and one month of GeForce NOW Ultimate by following the instructions below. Five winners will be chosen. Make sure you enter before January 24th to have a chance to win!

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has unveiled the platform’s 2026 roadmap, and the centerpiece is yet another round of AI initiatives. According to Mohan, YouTube is preparing a new set of AI-powered tools designed to improve Shorts, assist creators, and curb the flood of low-quality AI content that has overtaken large parts of the platform. It is an ambitious pitch. It is also a familiar one. The tech industry continues to promise that AI will solve the problems created by earlier AI deployments, and YouTube is no exception. Below is a closer look at what Mohan announced, what it means for creators, and why the strategy feels like a recycled attempt to automate creativity while ignoring the deeper issues.

Dell is broadening its education portfolio with new Windows and ChromeOS devices designed specifically for the demands of modern classrooms. The company is positioning these systems as essential infrastructure for schools preparing students for AI‑driven learning, with durability, serviceability, and performance at the center of the refresh.

Satya Nadella arrived at the World Economic Forum this year projecting the confidence of a leader convinced that artificial intelligence remains the next great platform shift and the economic engine capable of pulling the world out of its current instability.

In a world where everything is fast-paced and productivity expectations keep rising, producing everything to the highest quality is often challenging. That's where AI-driven workflows come in. Today, Adobe has brought together Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Express into a single, powerful AI-driven workflow to make it much easier to process your data into a presentable form. The new Generate Presentation feature in Adobe Acrobat turns your documents into a ready-to-use slide deck without any design skills from you. You can drop your product sheets, reports, or links into PDF Spaces, Acrobat's AI-powered workspace, and ask the assistant to analyze your document and push everything into a ready-to-go presentation.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II lands January 29 and delivers large scale combat, co-op missions, and a steady flow of enemies to carve through. It is positioned as one of the month’s biggest action releases and should appeal to players who enjoy high intensity battles and squad based play.

The most striking detail is the level of compatibility. More than 85 percent of the Game Pass catalog already works on Arm-based Windows 11 PCs. These are local installs, not cloud-only workarounds.

For decades, TV fans have shaped the outcome of their favorite shows. I can't help but say American Idol comes to mind here. Whether it's a music show or a reality housemate show with voting each week. Netflix users have also been doing it for years by voting their favorite shows up or down. Now that's going a step further with real-time voting on Netflix. Starting today, you can interact with special live events as they unfold. This all starts tonight with Star Search at 6 pm PT/9 pm ET. Viewers can vote in real time and influence the show's outcome.

Perhaps most intriguing is the suggestion that the N1X may incorporate graphics performance comparable to an RTX 5070 class GPU, based on similarities to the N1 silicon used in NVIDIA’s DGX Spark system. If these details hold true, the N1X could become one of the most powerful Arm laptop chips.

The Xbox division is in a transitional period. Console sales are down, Game Pass growth has slowed, and Microsoft’s broader strategy increasingly revolves around reach. The company wants Xbox games on more screens, in more regions, and in front of more demographics.

The Wikimedia Foundation framed the move as a pragmatic evolution, a way to turn the nonstop scraping of its servers into actual revenue through its commercial API, Wikimedia Enterprise.

Every once in a while, the tech industry hits a week where every major storyline feels like it’s trying to out‑chaos the last one, and this was one of those weeks.

If you're a fan of EA Play, you like rewards, and Game Pass memberships, then this is the weekend for you, and in some cases, you'll enjoy the rest of the month. A new year is a new possibility. A new batch of rewards kicks off with Battlefield 6, the latest title in EA's FPS lineup. You can purchase the game this weekend with a 10 percent member discount on the digital version or the full game with the EA Development Pack, EA Play Season 1 Pack, and Battle Pack XP Boost.

For those who enjoy open-world driving and racing, this one is exciting. We don't have any gameplay trailers yet, just the teaser video (found down below). It would appear that the X account (formerly known as Twitter has leaked a screenshot containing preorder and release time frames. It's expected that Microsoft will announce the official dates at the Developers Direct event next week. The screenshot does reveal that early access for Forza Horizon 6 kicks off May 15th, four days before the public launch. Forza Horizon 6 is expected to have a bigger map than its predecessor.