The organisation explained that a number of internal and external factors have impacted working life and profits at Epic.
US games and software developer Epic Games has announced plans to lay off more than 1,000 people amid a drop in the popularity of its online gaming platform Fortnite over the last 12 months.
In a memo issued to Epic’s workforce, CEO Tim Sweeney said he was sorry that the organisation is once again in this position, having previously cut 16pc of its workforce in 2023. He explained that the downturn in Fortnite engagement, which began in 2025, has resulted in the organisation spending more money than it is currently making.
“This layoff, together with over $500m of identified cost savings in contracting, marketing and closing some open roles puts us in a more stable place,” said Sweeney.
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He added: “Some of the challenges we’re facing are industry-wide challenges, slower growth, weaker spending and tougher cost economics, current consoles selling less than last generation’s and games competing for time against other increasingly-engaging forms of entertainment.”
However, he explained that some of the issues are unique to Epic. For example, last week, Epic raised the prices of Fortnite’s in-game currency, saying that “the cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills”.
Sweeney also noted that despite its prevalence in the industry and wider workplace conversation, the layoffs have not been prompted by AI. “To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can.”
Impacted employees will receive a severance package that includes at least four months of base pay, extended Epic-paid healthcare coverage, an acceleration of stock options vesting through January 2027 and extended equity exercise options for up to two years. There is to be a meeting on Thursday (26 March) to discuss the matter further.
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In November of last year, Google and Epic Games reached a settlement over an antitrust lawsuit that was filed in 2020 by Epic, in which the search engine giant was found to hold a Play Store monopoly.
The more than five-year conflict began when Fortnite was removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store for violating their policies with its in-game payment system that would allow users to pay directly for in-app purchases. At the time, Epic said the process where organisations took a 30pc cut from every transaction made through apps on their platforms was unfair.
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Although not really a cost-effective or a required skill unless you have some very specific needs not met by off-the-shelf power resistor options, making your own own wirewound power resistor is definitely educational, as well as a fascinating look at a common part that few people spare a thought on. Cue [TheElectronBench]’s video tutorial on how to make one of these components from scratch.
The resistance value is determined by the length of nichrome wire, which is an alloy of nickel and chromium (NiCr) with a resistivity of around 1.12 µΩ/m. It’s also extremely durable when heated, as it forms a protective outer layer of chromium oxide. This makes it suitable for very high power levels, but also requires the rest of the power resistor assembly to be able to take a similar punishment.
For the inner tube of this DIY power resistor a tube of alumina ceramic was used, around which the nichrome wire is wound. This resistor targets 15 Ohm at a maximum load of 50 Watt, this means a current of about 1.83 A is expected at 27.4 V. The used nichrome wire has a measured resistance of 10.4 Ohm, ergo 1.44 meter has to be cut and wound.
This entire assembly is then embedded in refractory cement (fireproof cement), as this will keep the wire in place, while also able to take the intense temperature cycling during operation. As a bonus this will prevent toasting the surrounding environment too much, never mind lighting things on fire as the nichrome wire heats up.
As explained in the video, this is hardly the only way to create such a power resistor, with multiple types of alternative alloys available, different cores to wind around and various options to embed the assembly. The demonstrated method is however one that should give solid results and be well within the capabilities and budget of a hobbyist.
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An important point with nichrome is that you cannot really solder to it, so you’ll need something along the lines of a mechanical (crimping) connection. There are also different winding methods that can affect the inductance of the resistor, since this type of resistor is by its design also a coil. This is however not covered in the video as for most applications it’s not an issue.
Overall, this video tutorial would seem to be a solid introduction to nichrome power resistors, including coverage of many issues you may encounter along the way. Feel free to sound off in the comment section with your own experiences with power resistors, especially if you made them as well.
New Smartsheet executives, top row from left: Robson Grieve and Toyan Espeut. Bottom row: Pratima Arora and Kelsi McDonald Harris. (LinkedIn Photos)
Enterprise software giant Smartsheet on Thursday announced four C-suite changes — two hires and two promotions. The Bellevue, Wash., company, which is best known for helping businesses organize and track work, has undergone two rounds of layoffs in the past six months and appointed Rajeev Singh as CEO in October.
“I came to Smartsheet because I believed in the opportunity. We are assembling an incredible team ready to seize that opportunity,” Singh said a LinkedIn post sharing the changes.
The moves continue a pattern of Singh recruiting from his past, as all four have prior ties to the CEO.
Robson Grievejoins as chief marketing officer, coming from San Francisco-based software company Motive. Grieve previously worked in the Seattle area at Concur Technologies, where he overlapped with Singh, who was Concur’s co-founder, president and chief operating officer.
Toyan Espeut is Smartsheet’s new chief customer officer. Espeut spent more than 11 years at Apptio, a Seattle-area enterprise software firm, where she most recently served as executive vice president of sales for the Americas and previously held the title of chief customer officer. Singh is a past Apptio board member.
Pratima Arora is now chief product and technology officer, adding technology to her purview after less than a year as Smartsheet’s CPO. Her past roles include leadership positions for companies including Chainalysis, Atlassian, Salesforce and Concur.
Kelsi McDonald Harris has been promoted to chief business officer, after serving as senior VP of business operations and Singh’s chief of staff. Her prior role was chief people officer at Accolade, a company Singh previously led.
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— Armoire named Morgan Cundiffas head of product and machine learning for the Seattle-based fashion rental startup.
Cundiff joins from LTK, a shopping app and platform where online creators share product and lifestyle picks that help people decide what to buy. She was at the startup for nearly four years, building and scaling LTK’s data science and machine learning capabilities. She previously worked at the e-commerce tech company ShopRunner, which was acquired by FedEx.
Armoire is ranked No. 40 on the GeekWire 200, an index of the Pacific Northwest’s top startups.
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— Longtime tech leader and entrepreneur Javier Páramo has launched AIQLinea, a Redmond, Wash.-based startup helping companies navigate the rapid adoption of new AI technologies.
“We help enterprise leaders turn fragmented AI experimentation into clarity, aligned strategy, governed execution, and decision-ready roadmaps,” Páramo said on LinkedIn.
Páramo spent nearly two decades at Microsoft, departing in 2010 as senior director of worldwide field strategy, where he focused on education products. He later served as executive director of information services strategy at the Providence healthcare system before founding AIQLinea.
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— Barry Padgett, former CEO of the Seattle-based consumer data startup Amperity, has been promoted to president and chief operations officer of SentinelOne. Padgett joined the Mountain View, Calif., cybersecurity platform one year ago as chief growth officer.
And to continue connecting the Concur dots, Padgett was also with the enterprise software company, working there for more than 20 years and leaving in 2016. Two years prior, SAP acquired Concur, which is now SAP Concur.
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— Jake Silsbyhas joined Seattle’s Tin Can as head of industrial design. The startup is selling landline-style, Wi-Fi-enabled telephone for kids and in December raised $12 million from investors. Silsby was previously an industrial design manager for the business consulting company tms and has worked for Rad Power Bikes and Starbucks.
“I had the opportunity to freelance with the team on their flagship phone, and I’m looking forward to helping shape what’s next for this small but mighty brand,” Silsby said on LinkedIn.
Since launching its flagship product earlier this year, Tin Can quickly went “viral,” sold out its first two production runs and built a near-six-figure waitlist.
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— Washington Roundtable, a business advocacy organization, appointed two new board members:
Dominic Carr, executive VP and chief communications and corporate affairs officer at Starbucks and a longtime past leader at Microsoft
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— Ian Haydon is leaving his role as director of communications and AI policy for the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design. Haydon joined IPD in 2012 as a graduate student in the lab of David Baker, who would later win the Nobel Prize.
In a LinkedIn post announcing his departure, Haydon called his job “an honor.”
“The protein design methods that I learned as a grad student became obsolete once new deep learning tools emerged,” he added. “Watching the field reinvent itself — and seeing seemingly distant ideas become doable and then done — has been astonishing.” Haydon did not disclose his next move.
— Jonathan Hunt has left Microsoft as a corporate VP in AI business solutions to join Anthropic as global head of commercial operations and strategy. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and past employers include Databricks and Salesforce.
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— Cotiviti, the parent company of Bellevue, Wash.-based health software company Edifecs, named Ric Sinclair as CEO. The Utah-based healthcare giant acquired Edifecs last year.
— Pacific Northwest National Laboratory computational scientist and biological physicistMargaret Cheung was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society.
This week, we saw major decisions that could rock the tech world, as social media was called addictive in a landmark trial, and the US banned foreign Wi-Fi routers.
To catch up on this, as well as the latest reviews and other essential tech news stories, scroll down for our full ICYMI recap of the week.
On Wednesday, a Los Angeles jury found that Meta and Google are liable for designing products that are deliberately addictive, a case that could change social media forever. The plaintiff, a woman known only as KGM, testified that “she became addicted to YouTube at age six and Instagram at nine”, leading to body image issues and self-harm.
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KGM’s lawyers, in their closing remarks, said: “How do you make a child never put down the phone? That’s called the engineering of addiction.” We pinpointed three persuasive tricks social media companies use to keep users glued to their screens, and exactly how the infinite-scroll loop hijacks children’s still-developing brains — all according to the latest scientific research.
2. We heard the Sonos Play in all of its glory
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We’ve spent a few weeks testing the Sonos Play speaker, and it’s a real return to form for Sonos. Not because it’s the best-sounding speaker in the world (though it’s really impressive for something that size) or because it has every feature imaginable (though it offers more options than basically anything else in its price range) — but because it gets back to what Sonos was known for: speakers so convenient that you’ll listen to more music than ever.
It’s a battery-powered portable speaker that’s compact and light enough to grab and take around with you, but that’s also powerful and high-quality enough to use as your main home wireless speaker in a room. That means it’s always grabbable at a moment’s notice, so we found ourselves using it more often, in more places, than with other portable speakers.
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The great, durable design with a charging cradle is what helps cement this as maybe the ideal do-anything wireless speaker for the home, though it’s not cheap.
3. We flew the DJI 360 drone
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We’ve tested the DJI Avata 360, and our verdict is in: it’s the 360 drone to beat. It’s more agile and versatile than the previous frontrunner, the Antigravity A1, and boasts excellent 10-bit image quality — did we mention it’s more affordable too?
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Yes, other DJI drones offer better pure image quality, and 360 footage requires post-production editing. Still, as an all-rounder that’s both a capable 360 camera and a thrilling FPV flyer, the Avata 360 delivers brilliantly.
4. US banned non-American routers
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In this week’s rendition of what weird tech law the Trump administration will dump on us, it just banned new non-US-made Wi-Fi routers — meaning they’ll be banned unless they’re made in the States.
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According to the FCC, routers manufactured outside the US represent both a “supply chain vulnerability” and a “severe cybersecurity risk”. Essentially, they fear these foreign routers could be used to spy on US citizens.
While this isn’t the most illogical move, the big trouble is that finding American-made routers isn’t easy, and all of the best we’ve tested are made outside the country — meaning a new router you ‘upgrade’ to could in fact be a downgrade.
5. OpenAI killed Sora
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Sora, we barely knew ya. Just six months after launching what might be the world’s first social AI app and just 18 months after launching the Sora generative video model into the world, OpenAI pulled the plug.
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Sora, as a platform and app, seems to be no more.
OpenAI announced the news in a social post and has since offered little explanation. We have some guesses, like the skyrocketing costs of supporting all that video generation, the shrinking interest in the app, or maybe OpenAI’s preparation for going public. It’s something they might need to do since Disney also just pulled out of a $1B deal with the AI company.
6. iOS 26.4 sparked a controversy
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iOS updates usually deliver fun new treats for iPhone fans, but this week, iOS 26.4 came with a less welcome gift — age verification checks for UK users.
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When you install the update, you have to prove you’re over 18, and that’s caused problems for many who don’t have a driving license or a credit card to scan. The buggy process and concerns around the security of age verification checks have also doused this already hot topic with extra gasoline.
If you’re having iOS 26.4 issues, we’ve outlined some potential fixes in our guide below. This controversy is likely only just getting started, but maybe WWDC 2026 (also announced this week for June 8) will help give us some answers.
7. Netflix hiked prices
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It’s that time of year again! We’re not talking about the changing of the seasons, no, of course, it’s Netflix hiking prices. Yippee…
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The world’s biggest streaming service has quietly announced that the Standard with ads tier is going up by $1 to $8.99, while both ad-free tiers, Standard and Premium, are going up by $2 to $19.99 and $26.99, respectively.
What’s more, Netflix’s extra member fee will rise from $7.99 to $9.99 — yikes!
It’s not clear if this change will launch outside the US anytime soon, but you can always count on three things in life: death, taxes, and Netflix price hikes.
Tozero’s plant outside Munich was set up in six months and is capable of producing 100 tonnes of high-purity lithium carbonate from old batteries each year.
German battery and raw materials recycling start-up Tozero has opened a new industrial plant for the production of domestic lithium and graphite, which it claims as a European first.
The new facility in Munich is capable of processing 1,500 tonnes of waste per year by turning end-of-life lithium ion batteries into domestic supplies of lithium, graphite and nickel-cobalt blends at an industrial scale.
Such materials are considered critical for use in electric vehicle, grid-scale storage and industrial electrification, but Tozero said that Europe and the US are currently massively reliant on materials imported from China.
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It said its technology can give Europe “a domestic source of critical materials” for use by companies across construction, ceramics and lubricants, with further materials and industries to follow.
“Europe doesn’t yet have the critical raw materials it needs to build and scale its own energy transition and battery industry,” said Sarah Fleischer, co-founder and CEO of Tozero.
“Our technology, now scaled 10,000 times, changes this by enabling us to recycle end-of-life batteries and extract these materials at industrial scale for the first time.”
The plant at the Gendorf chemical park, outside Munich, was set up in six months and is capable of producing 100 tonnes of high-purity lithium carbonate from old batteries – which Tozero equated to “saving 6,000 electric vehicles’ worth of batteries from landfill” – each year.
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The company said the Gendorf plant will now form the blueprint for a full-scale commercial facility, planned for 2030 and capable of processing 45,000 tonnes of battery waste per year.
“In just under four years, Tozero has gone from lab-scale experiments to industrial operations and we’re consistently proving that recycling isn’t just a pilot project – it can be delivered at a level capable of giving Europe a homegrown, circular supply of critical materials its future runs on,” Fleischer added.
The Munich-based company was founded in 2022 by Fleischer – a serial entrepreneur and mechanical engineer – and Dr Ksenija Milicevic Neumann, an expert in metallurgy.
Tozero claims a “proprietary, acid-free hydrometallurgy process” allows battery recycling to happen “in a single, superior cycle”, ensuring recovered materials are pure enough to feed directly back into manufacturing and creating a circular European supply chain.
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It has completed pilots with companies such as BMW and works with partners in 10 European countries.
Last month, R3 Robotics – founded in Luxembourg but based in Karlsruhe, Germany – raised €20m to scale its automated disassembly of electric vehicles for preservation and recycling of valuable materials such as lithium batteries.
Updated, 2.15pm, 27 March 2026: This article was amended with updated figures for annual waste treatment capacity, Sarah Fleischer’s quoted scaling ratio of Tozero’s technology, and output equivalence of electric vehicle battery salvage numbers.
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Netflix just raised prices across every subscription tier in the U.S., and at this point, nobody should be surprised, but that doesn’t make it any easier to swallow. The ad-supported plan climbs to $8.99, the standard tier jumps to $19.99, and the premium plan now hits $26.99 per month, with extra member fees rising alongside them. Netflix says the increases support its push into new formats like video podcasts and live sports, which sounds ambitious until you realize your monthly bill is quietly funding the experiment.
What makes this one harder to ignore is the timing. Netflix walked away from the Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount drama with nearly $3 billion for its trouble, and now subscribers are being asked to chip in even more. At the same time, the company is pouring close to $900 million into a massive new studio complex at Fort Monmouth, less than two miles from my front door on the Jersey Shore, and is set to open within the next two years. Growth is clearly the priority. Whether customers feel like willing participants or just the revenue stream is another story.
Netflix’s financials make the latest price hike feel less like survival and more like strategy.
The company pulled in $12.1 billion in revenue for Q4, edging past expectations and capping off a year where revenue climbed to roughly $45 billion with more than 325 million subscribers globally. Growth isn’t the issue here; Netflix is still printing money, fueled by higher subscription prices, a rapidly expanding ad business, and massive engagement driven by tentpole content.
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Advertising is quickly becoming the quiet co-star. Netflix’s ad tier continues to scale, with projections pointing to ad revenue doubling again to around $3 billion in 2026, which helps explain why the “cheaper” plan just got more expensive.
And then there’s content—the real engine behind all of this. The final season of Stranger Things delivered a major bump in viewership and engagement, helping drive that strong quarter. But Netflix isn’t done squeezing that lemon. The company has already announced a massive (and not cheap) complete series box set, with internal expectations reportedly targeting over one million units sold. In other words, even as the show ends, it’s still being monetized like a Marvel franchise with a Hawkins zip code.
So when Netflix tells you price increases are about “investment,” they’re not wrong. They’re just not hurting either. Between rising margins, a booming ad business, physical media cash-ins, and a content machine that keeps feeding itself, this is a company operating from a position of strength and not desperation.
Which brings us back to the bill. The numbers say Netflix is thriving. The price hike says they’d like to thrive a little more with your help.
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Warner Bros Drama Ends, Netflix Cashes the Check and Raises Your Bill?
Netflix thought it had Warner Bros. Discovery locked up late last year with an $82.7 billion deal focused on studios and streaming assets, marking a major shift from its long-standing “build, don’t buy” strategy. But that deal barely had time to breathe before Paramount, backed by Skydance and the Ellison war chest, crashed the party with a series of increasingly aggressive all-cash offers for the entire company.
What followed wasn’t a negotiation, it was a corporate knife fight. Paramount kept raising the stakes, eventually landing at roughly $31 per share (about $110 billion total), a bid Warner’s board ultimately deemed “superior” thanks to its all-cash structure and clearer regulatory path. Netflix had a short window to respond and walked away, deciding the numbers no longer made sense.
And just like that, Netflix went from presumed winner to spectator with a $2.8 billion breakup fee as a consolation prize.
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Netflix can frame this however it wants; investment, growth, evolving content strategy, but the math isn’t complicated. The company is profitable, growing, and sitting on billions from a deal it didn’t even complete, while simultaneously funding a massive studio buildout and expanding into new formats like sports and podcasts. None of that comes cheap, and none of it is being funded out of goodwill.
This is how it gets paid for: higher subscription prices, rising add-on fees, and a steadily more expensive “entry-level” tier that isn’t really entry-level anymore. Existing subscribers absorb the increase immediately, new subscribers enter at a higher baseline, and the ad tier quietly becomes more lucrative on both sides of the equation.
Netflix isn’t alone in doing this, but it’s doing it from a position of strength, not necessity. And that’s the distinction that matters. The service is still delivering value for millions of people, but the direction is clear: more content, more expansion, more revenue per user.
Who pays? You do. And unlike that Warner Bros. deal, there’s no option to walk away with a check.
Switching between AI assistants has always had one deeply irritating flaw. No matter how polished the interface or how clever the answers, every new chatbot relationship begins with a bureaucratic ritual. You have to explain yourself all over again. Your preferences, your habits, your projects, your weirdly specific recurring requests, all of it has to be painstakingly reintroduced like you are onboarding a very enthusiastic intern with no notes.
Google clearly knows this is annoying, because Gemini has enhanced its memory features to make that process much less tedious. Gemini will help you bring over all the information another AI chatbot has accumulated about you in a couple of simple steps. That means it will import everything ChatGPT, Claude, or other platforms know about you and your preferences, so Gemini can feel more familiar with how you’d like it to behave. The company is pitching it as a smoother path for people who are curious about trying Gemini without losing the personalized feel they have already built up elsewhere.
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I have used ChatGPT long enough that it has accumulated plenty of information about me, so I decided to see what Gemini could learn from it through the process. I clicked on the “Import memory to Gemini” button in the settings menu, and was offered the option of either uploading my conversations with an AI chatbot in a zip folder or using a provided prompt to gather the information.
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The prompt, which I would present to my AI of choice, asks it to “go through our past conversations and sum up what you know about me” and provide all that information in a clean list format with demographic details, preferences and interests, relations, events, and any rules I’d given it.
I gave ChatGPT the prompt, and it wrote out an almost worryingly thorough list that I then submitted to Gemini.
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Gemini knows
Gemini did not suddenly become a clone of ChatGPT, but suddenly it knew a lot about me, from where I live to the kinds of hobbies I have, and even my coffee preferences. It gained the familiarity ChatGPT had accumulated over multiple years. It had more context about me and how I want it to behave, so I wouldn’t need to constantly clarify my prompts.
That friction reduction is more important than it sounds. The promise of AI assistants has always been convenience, but convenience falls apart quickly when every platform makes you start over. A model that understands your patterns is often more useful than one that is technically stronger but has no idea how you think.
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That creates a lock-in effect. The more a chatbot learns about your preferences, the harder it becomes to leave, even if another tool is better in some other way. Google’s import feature is a direct response to that problem.
Most people won’t want to feel married to one AI service forever just because it happens to remember that they like concise answers or very strong coffee. The more portable that context becomes, the easier it is to move around and compare tools without sacrificing all the setup work that made one of them feel helpful in the first place.
AI companies are still racing on speed and capability, but continuity is important too. They do not just want to be the smartest assistant. They want to be the one who already knows how you’d like it to operate.
Google’s new import tools are an attempt to catch up on that front, and after trying them, I can say they make Gemini feel much less generic. It still has its own voice, but I don’t have to tell it how to couch its answers or to accommodate my food preferences if I ask for recipe ideas.
Which is, in the world of AI assistants, a surprisingly meaningful upgrade.
Day 1 of the BGIS Grand Finals was spectacular. If you missed the games, our highlights should get you up to speed. We saw some amazing action from the likes of Soul, GodLike, and even VS, which topped charts. On the flip side, day one proved plenty challenging for teams like Nebula and TT, who struggled to find pace with the format. Day 2 is here, and it’s usually a day for comebacks in BGMI. Here’s what the schedule looks like for today.
BGIS 2026 Grand Finals Day 2 Schedule & Timing
Like yesterday, the live broadcast will begin at 12:30 PM IST. Fans can catch the games like on Krafton’s YouTube channel in Hindi, English, and a few other regional languages. Or, if you want to support your team live, head over to the Chennai Trade Center. Tickets are available on the Swiggy Scenes app, and there’s free entry available, too. Maps for today will include:
Match 7 — Rondo
Match 8 — Erangel
Match 9 — Erangel
Match 10 — Erangel
Match 11 — Miramar
Match 12 — Miramar
The BGIS Grand Finals format is pretty simple. 16 teams compete in 18 matches over three days. Points are awarded for each finish, and also for how long a team survives. In the end, the team with the most total points (position + finish) will be the winners.
Acer is one of the top largest PC manufacturers in the world, perhaps best known for its gaming line and budget-friendly options. If you’ve already got your eye on an Acer product like a laptop or monitor, and are shopping at the company’s online storefront, you should be using one of these Acer promo codes and coupons to save some cash on your purchase.
Save 40% on Accessories When You Build an Acer Bundle
If you’re buying from Acer, you’re most likely shopping for either a desktop PC or laptop. With this discount, you can get a really solid deal on accessories if you bundle it with a mouse, laptop bag, or headset. When you go to purchase a PC, just click “Build Bundle” and you’ll see some of the eligible options, all of which are reduced by 40%. The Nitro Mechanical Keyboard, for example, goes from $50 to just $30. That 40% is a real discount, too, as that same keyboard costs $50 on Amazon when I checked.
Beyond peripheral add-ons, you can also save 10% off Acer Care Plus extended service plans or McAfee LiveSafe antivirus subscriptions. You can bundle up to five products together to save the most money. If you’re headed off to college (or have a kid in the family), a bundle like this can get you everything you need for a gaming or studying setup on the go.
Shop Rotating Weekly Deals on Monitors and Gaming Gear
Acer’s PC gaming offerings come in either the flagship Predator brand or the budget-tier Nitro. Acer offers rotating weekly deals on everything from monitors to gaming laptops, some of which are my favorites that I’ve tested in their given category. The Acer Nitro V 16, for example, was a budget gaming laptop that I recommended quite a lot last year because of its incredible price. The one I tested was the entry-level version with an Nvidia RTX 5050 inside, but Acer has the RTX 5060 model in its own storefront. It’s $100 off right now at $1,200, which comes with 16 GB of RAM and a terabyte of storage. In fact, it’s only $30 more than the RTX 5050 model, despite offering a significant jump in gaming performance. These discounts are reflected right on the product pages, so there’s no promo code, discount code, or coupon code required.
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Acer has a wide selection of monitors available, too, whether that’s a massive 49-incher or a more modest 27-inch gaming workhorse. One of my favorite discounts I saw right now was the Acer Nitro XV2, a 27-inch 1440p display with a 300 Hz refresh rate. It’s 44% off at the time of writing, bringing the price down to just $250. Because these discounts are swapped out on a weekly basis, it’s worth checking back to see if the product you’re eyeing has a new discount.
Select Customers Can Get 15% Off Their Purchase
Acer also offers a number of added discounts at checkout, including 15% off for students. Students will need to verify through Student Beans or SheerID. Because a lot of the devices Acer offers are budget-friendly, they can be attractive for students, and the extra 15% off is the icing on the cake.
We tested the Acer Swift 16 AI last year and really enjoyed the high-resolution, OLED screen and impressively quiet performance. Acer has the smaller version of this same laptop available, the Swift 14 AI, which is currently $150 off. You also might check out the Acer Chromebook Plus 514, a laptop we liked quite a bit when we reviewed it in 2024.
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