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AWS Outage Reminds Us Why $2,449 Internet-Dependent Beds Are a Bad Idea The Morning After: Not So Smart After All Honestly, I woke up last week feeling a bit like I was still in a bad dream. My Twitter feed was a graveyard of frustrated users, and news alerts were screaming about an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that had effectively broken a significant chunk of the internet. As a tech journalist who’s spent 8+ years diving deep into cloud computing and SaaS solutions, I’ve seen my share of internet hiccups, but this one hit a little different. ...

My Take: October Prime Day Laptop Deals Are Fading Fast – Don’t Make My Mistake (Again!) Alright, folks, grab a virtual coffee with me. We need to talk. Because as I’m writing this, we’re deep into the final hours of Amazon’s second Prime Day sales event of the year, affectionately known as Prime Big Deal Days. And let me tell you, if you’ve been eyeing a new laptop, now’s the time to act. Seriously. ...

Don’t Pay More: My Guide to Getting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at the Old Price (For Now!) Alright, grab a coffee, because we need to talk. If you’re anything like me, you probably raised an eyebrow (or let out a less-than-polite exclamation) when Microsoft dropped the news about the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hike. From $14.99 to $16.99 previously, and now a whopping jump from $19.99 to $29.99 per month for Ultimate? And PC Game Pass went from $11.99 to $16.49? Look, I get it – inflation hits everyone, even tech giants. But a 50% jump on Ultimate? That’s a gut punch. ...

The Box is Dead, Long Live the Ecosystem: Why PlayStation and Xbox Are No Longer About the Station or the Box Hey everyone, Jithin Joseph here, grabbing a virtual coffee with you today to talk about something that’s been bubbling under the surface of the gaming world for a while, and honestly, it’s a seismic shift. We used to call them the “console wars,” right? PlayStation vs. Xbox, Nintendo always doing its own thing, Sega a fond memory for some of us. It was all about whose box sat under your TV, whose logo was emblazoned on the startup screen. But here’s the thing: that paradigm is, frankly, obsolete. ...