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The original Switch is officially Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time after surpassing the DS handheld in lifetime sales. In its latest earnings release, Nintendo reports that the Nintendo Switch has, as of December 31, 2025, sold 155.37 million units since its launch in 2017, compared to 154.02 million units for the 2004 Nintendo DS. […]
Google Cloud, Alphabet’s cloud computing unit, and Liberty Global, one of Europe’s largest telecoms groups, have entered into a five-year strategic partnership to modernize the company’s European telecom and TV business using Google’s AI and cloud tech, Reuters reported Monday. The partnership will focus on deploying Google’s Gemini AI models and cloud tools to power […]
Posted February 2, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by State Street Investment Management: Click here to learn more about State Street Investment Management The income squeeze: How market concentration is reshaping equity returns Why a small-cap break out is bullish for the broader economy The tailwinds that have lead […]
Consider These Floodlight Cameras Photograph: Simon Hill Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi (Wired) for $230: Similar to our Reolink pick above, the difference with the Elite Floodlight is that it’s a fixed dual-lens camera designed to give you a wide 180-degree view (59 degrees vertically), rather than a pan-and-tilt camera. If you want a fixed camera […]
This 3D floor in Thailand tricks your senses into feeling movement while you stay still. 📹Daniyanizami11 pic.twitter.com/Og6hDPrkfz — Science girl (@sciencegirl) January 30, 2026 Bezos’s Blue Origin to ‘pause’ space tourism to focus on moon efforts Phys.org The United States Is Suffering Stomach-Churning Brain Drain Futurism Once Thought To Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out To […]
How many of the companies with recent layoffs are truly adapting their workforces to the efficiencies and challenges of artificial intelligence? And how many of them were just using AI as an excuse to cover other problems? That’s the question posed by a New York Times article on the trend of “AI-washing,” where companies will […]
What caught my eye this week. Where were you for the Great Crash of 2026? Cowering behind the sofa? Or toasting your short positions in the back of an Uber on the way to snag a Lambo? [Lamb-OH, dear. It’s a car, not a quadruped. Eh? Yes I know we usually have roast dinner on […]
Ravie LakshmananJan 31, 2026Social Engineering / SaaS Security Google-owned Mandiant on Friday said it identified an “expansion in threat activity” that uses tradecraft consistent with extortion-themed attacks orchestrated by a financially motivated hacking group known as ShinyHunters. The attacks leverage advanced voice phishing (aka vishing) and bogus credential harvesting sites mimicking targeted companies to gain […]
I came across two new tools for looking at the historical inflation of the various components that make up the average. Jesse Livermore created a tool at Philosophical Economics that allows you to compare 300 different goods and services to the inflation rate over time. For instance, this is the price of eggs versus the […]
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters that the company will “invest a great deal of money” in OpenAI’s latest funding round, according to Bloomberg, after The Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that the two companies were rethinking a previous $100 billion deal that hasn’t “progressed beyond the early stages” of negotiations. Speaking to reporters […]
