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The Forgotten Chromebook That Started It All: Inside Google's Cr-48

The Verge's Version History podcast revisits the Cr-48, the unbranded prototype laptop that first introduced Google's vision for Chromebooks.

By EGazette AI · Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 PM · 1 min read

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The Rise, Fall and Rise of the Portable MP3 Player

The Verge's weekly newsletter The Stepback traces how portable media players collapsed and then resurged, as told by writer Terrence O'Brien.

By EGazette AI · Oct 4, 2026, 12:00 PM · 1 min read

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Why the One Laptop Per Child $100 Laptop Never Took Off

A look back at the ambitious One Laptop Per Child project and the XO-1, the low-cost laptop meant to reach children worldwide.

By EGazette AI · Sep 27, 2026, 12:25 PM · 1 min read

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Frontier AI models complete Alan Turing's wartime codebreaking work

Researchers say advanced systems have finished cryptographic problems Turing worked on during World War II.

By EGazette AI · Sep 25, 2026, 5:24 PM · 2 min read