• Get $100 off Apple’s Mac mini M4 desktop

    January 16, 2026

    The holiday season is fully in the rear view mirror and real life is here to stay. But that doesn’t mean the time for gifts is over — especially ones for yourself. You can still take advantage of great January sales on some awesome tech products. Take the Apple Mac mini M4, which is down to $500 from $599. The 17 percent discount gives you 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD for only about $20 more than the computer’s Black Friday sale. Its beefier models are also on sale: opting for 512GB of SSD will cost you $690, down…

  • The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them

    January 16, 2026

    It took Rebecca Yu seven days to vibe code her dining app. She was tired of the decision fatigue that comes from people in a group chat not being able to decide where to eat.  Armed with determination, Claude, and ChatGPT, Yu decided to just build a dining app from scratch — one that would recommend restaurants to her and her friends based on their shared interests.    “Once vibe-coding apps emerged, I started hearing about people with no tech backgrounds successfully building their own apps,” she told TechCrunch. “When I had a week off before school started, I decided it…

  • Italian regulators are investigating Activision Blizzard’s monetization practices

    January 16, 2026

    The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has into Microsoft-owned game studio Activision Blizzard, centered around the mobile games Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty: Mobile. The AGCM alleges the free-to-play games use “misleading and aggressive practices” to encourage in-game purchases. Regulators say the games rely on a “deceptive user interface design” meant to encourage longer and more frequent play sessions while bombarding players with reminders and opportunities to spend real money in-game. Players might be reminded to buy a limited-time item before it’s gone or urged not to miss out on rewards, with in-app messages and push notifications that reach players…

  • ASUS stops making some NVIDIA GPUs due to memory supply crunch

    January 16, 2026

    If you thought we were , the hunger for memory and GPUs is making many companies reassess their priorities. YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed discovered ASUS has stopped producing the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch. Both GPUs are 16GB models, making them more expensive to manufacture in the current climate. “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained. We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working closely with our suppliers to maximize memory availability,” an NVIDIA spokesperson told Engadget. At CES 2026, we saw PCs and computing…

  • Mentra’s first smart glasses are open-source and come with their own app store

    January 16, 2026

    Mentra will soon start shipping its first smart glasses, the Mentra Live. At first glance, there’s nothing obvious setting Mentra’s glasses apart from its more well-known competitors, but they come with their own dedicated app store, and employ an open-source OS with an SDK that developers have had access to since early 2025. Mentra says the MiniApp Store is the first app store of its nature for smart glasses, and it will be available to iOS and Android users through the Mentra app. It might be a bit of a reach to call it the smartphone-ification of smart glasses at…

  • The best midrange smartphone for 2026

    January 16, 2026

    Gone are the days in which you needed to spend a fortune to get a good smartphone. In 2026, features once exclusive to high-end smartphones – big batteries, multi-camera arrays, high refresh rate OLED displays and more – have made their way down to more affordable models. Yes, you’ll still need to buy a flagship smartphone to get the best camera or fastest processor, but you don’t have to make nearly as many compromises as you once did if you have a strict budget to adhere to when you go shopping for your next smartphone. If you have less than…

  • Wikimedia announces AI partners including Meta and Microsoft

    January 16, 2026

    As part of Wikipedia’s , parent company Wikimedia a slew of partnerships with AI-focused companies like Amazon, Meta, Perplexity, Microsoft and others. The deals are meant to alleviate some of the cost associated with AI chatbots accessing Wikipedia content in enormous volumes by giving the tech companies streamlined access. As noted by , the timeline on these deals is a little squirrely. The Wikipedia foundation says that several companies became enterprise partners “over the past year,” while listing Amazon, Google and Meta as “existing” partners. It appears today is the first time they have been officially announced. The organization on…

  • New Horizons 3.0 expansion has arrived earlier than expected

    January 16, 2026

    For a number of very obvious reasons, we don’t want to roll back the clock to early 2020. No thank you. But if there was a feel-good lockdown story, it was the perfectly timed arrival of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which allowed friends who could no longer meet up IRL to do so virtually on their carefully pruned islands. The game will almost certainly never be as popular as it was back then again, but Nintendo is hoping a good chunk of lapsed islanders will return for its latest DLC drop, which arrived on January 14, a day earlier than…

  • Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion

    January 16, 2026

    Anthropic has appointed Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its India business as the U.S. AI startup prepares to open an office in Bengaluru. The move underscores how India is becoming a key battleground for AI companies looking to expand beyond the U.S. for major growth markets. Ghose brings deep big-tech operating experience to the role. She spent 24 years at Microsoft before stepping down in December 2025. Her appointment gives Anthropic a seasoned executive with local enterprise and government relationships as it gears up to establish an on-the-ground presence in one of the world’s fastest-growing…

  • How to Build a Safe, Autonomous Prior Authorization Agent for Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management with Human-in-the-Loop Controls

    January 16, 2026

    def _now_iso() -> str: return datetime.utcnow().replace(microsecond=0).isoformat() + "Z" def _stable_id(prefix: str, seed: str) -> str: h = hashlib.sha256(seed.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:10] return f"{prefix}_{h}" class MockEHR: def __init__(self): self.orders_queue: List[SurgeryOrder] = [] self.patient_docs: Dict[str, List[ClinicalDocument]] = {} def seed_data(self, n_orders: int = 5): random.seed(7) def make_patient(i: int) -> Patient: pid = f"PT{i:04d}" plan = random.choice(list(InsurancePlan)) return Patient( patient_id=pid, name=f"Patient {i}", dob="1980-01-01", member_id=f"M{i:08d}", plan=plan, ) def docs_for_order(patient: Patient, surgery: SurgeryType) -> List[ClinicalDocument]: base = [ ClinicalDocument( doc_id=_stable_id("DOC", patient.patient_id + "H&P"), doc_type=DocType.H_AND_P, created_at=_now_iso(), content="H&P: Relevant history, exam findings, and surgical indication.", source="EHR", ), ClinicalDocument( doc_id=_stable_id("DOC", patient.patient_id + "NOTE"), doc_type=DocType.CLINICAL_NOTE, created_at=_now_iso(), content="Clinical note: Symptoms, conservative management attempted,…