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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, its widely used 365 services, Xbox, and Minecraft started suffering outages at roughly noon Eastern time on Wednesday, the result of what Microsoft said was “an inadvertent configuration change.” The incident—which marks the second major cloud provider outage in less than two weeks—highlights the instability of an internet built largely on infrastructure run by a few tech giants.Microsoft’s problems specifically originated from Azure’s Front Door content delivery network and emerged just hours before Microsoft’s scheduled earnings announcement. The company website, including its investor relations page, was still down on Wednesday afternoon, and the Azure status page…

Back in July we celebrated chipmaker Nvidia for hitting a valuation of $4 trillion making the company the first U.S. publicly traded firm to reach such a milestone. Now here we are near the end of October,. a little more than three months later, and Nvidia has become the first publicly traded company to be valued at $5 trillion. You might recall that Apple was the first to hit the $1 trillion, $2 trillion, and $3 trillion tiers on the back of its success with a popular device you might have heard of-the iPhone.How Nvdia became the first U.S. publicly…

Arc Raiders, the next game from The Finals developer Embark Studios, launches on October 30, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Read More: Arc Raiders Is So Good I’m Worried It Will Completely Take Over My Life As a PvPvE extraction shooter, Arc Raiders sees you setting out to explore and loot the remains of a fallen civilization still under control of a lethal artificial intelligence system known as “Arc.” The game has already been in the hands of players via a few technical tests and the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Still, you might not know much…

General Motors announced that it will cut more than 1,700 manufacturing jobs in reaction to changes in the electric vehicle market. “In response to slower near-term EV adoption and an evolving regulatory environment, General Motors is realigning EV capacity,” the company said in a statement reported by CNBC. “Despite these changes, GM remains committed to our US manufacturing footprint, and we believe our investments and dedication to flexible operations will make GM more resilient and capable of leading through change.”The layoffs are primarily happening at a Michigan plant that builds GM’s EVs and at an Ultium Cells battery cell plant…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The results of a literally groundbreaking trial in the United Kingdom suggest that graphene-infused roads may pave the way into the future. According to Essex County officials, a pilot test outside of London indicates that lanes imbued with one of the world’s strongest known materials outperforms and outlasts traditional asphalt. The name of the new super-street combination? Gipave. Road maintenance remains one of the most costly issues facing local, state, and federal governments. In 2021, an estimated $206 billion was spent on highway and street repairs.…

Motorola has been teasing the release of the Edge 70 for some time now, but it hasn’t officially announced it yet. Initially, the phone’s reveal was supposed to be on November 5, but the device is now listed on various Motorola websites across Europe and the United Kingdom. Those listings reveal the complete specifications and prices of the phone.Motorola Edge 70 is here to challenge the iPhone Air Motorola Edge 70 in Bronze Green. | Image credit – Motorola The Motorola Edge 70 is practically the global version of the Chinese Motorola X70 Air. The device’s key feature is the…

Even the best artificial intelligence agents are fairly hopeless at online freelance work, according to an experiment that challenges the idea of AI replacing office workers en masse.The Remote Labor Index, a new benchmark developed by researchers at data annotation company Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a nonprofit, measures the ability of frontier AI models to automate economically valuable work.The researchers gave several leading AI agents a range of simulated freelance work and found that even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work, earning $1,810 out of a possible $143,991. The researchers…

A decade ago, when smart speakers with built-in voice assistants were the hot new thing, many imagined they’d quickly evolve into highly intelligent companions. (Think C-3PO or Star Trek’s Data living inside a speaker.) That road has been much longer than expected, as virtual helpers like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant seemed to sit in neutral for years.But now that generative AI is here (for better or worse), smart speakers are finally scratching the surface of those expectations. Google’s new version, Gemini for Home, is now available to try. Here’s how.First, keep in mind that the Gemini for Home voice…

The Outer Worlds 2 is out today and finally available to play for anyone who didn’t pay for the early access edition. That includes tons of Game Pass subscribers across Xbox Series X/S and PC. There’s just one problem: A sudden Microsoft Azure outage is causing issues as another slice of the internet faces unexpected downtime. “Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services,” the company announced on Wednesday. “In addition, customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal.” Microsoft is currently blaming a “configuration change error”…

The OnePlus 15 is coming to the US, UK, and Europe on November 13, according to OnePlus Europe’s CMO Celina Shi. The exec answered many burning questions about the new device, which was unveiled in China on October 28, in an interview with technology website TechRadar.OnePlus reveals why it skipped the OnePlus 14The OnePlus 15 is the successor to the OnePlus 13, but the company says it didn’t skip a number because 4 is considered unlucky in Chinese culture. Instead, the device represents a two-generational leap in performance, intelligence, and design, which is why OnePlus skipped ahead to number 15.it’s…