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The best October Prime Day deals under $25

Belkin’s BoostCharge Pro does MagSafe charging with a kickstand and it’s only $20 today. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Amazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway. For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. There’s arguably no better deal than one that makes a

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The best Prime Day earbud and headphone deals

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway. For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. We’re moving deeper into fall and inching toward the holidays, which means enticing discounts on wireless earbuds and headphones are starting to become more frequent. Amazon’s October

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C# challenges Java in language popularity

Microsoft’s C# language is creeping up on Java in the Tiobe index of language popularity, a trend that could see C# surpassing Java soon. The difference between fourth-ranked Java, with an 8.92% rating, and fifth-ranked C#, with 7.71%, was just about 1.2 percentage points in the just-published Tiobe index for October 2023. Software quality services

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Microsoft plans to deprecate VBScript and make the programming language an on-demand feature in future Windows releases before its eventual removal from the OS (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft plans to deprecate VBScript and make the programming language an on-demand feature in future Windows releases before its eventual removal from the OS  —  Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed.

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Microsoft says it received Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional tax payment of $28.9B (Jake Piazza/CNBC)

Jake Piazza / CNBC: Microsoft says it received Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS for an additional tax payment of $28.9B  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court on October 2, 2023 in Washington, DC.  Nadella is testifying in the antitrust trial to determine if Alphabet Inc.’s Google maintains …

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The best Prime Day smart home deals

Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge It’s another Prime Day — or Prime Big Deal Days, in Amazon parlance — which means another day to save a dollar or two on some great new gear for your smart home. Whether you’re looking for a robot helper to clean your floors, an extra set

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Letter: Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta’s platforms during the Israel-Hamas war (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Letter: Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta’s platforms during the Israel-Hamas war  —  – European regulator Thierry Breton shared a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday urging the billionaire to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation.

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