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Retro gaming is being overrun with AI
Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, ...
Startup equips genetically enhanced dogs with Palmer Luckey’s military tech
A new Texas-based defense startup has a plan to improve military and police dogs in the US: it's going to genetically mo...
No, the iPhone Duo isn’t a small phone
When we published our review of the iPhone Duo, I got a lot of hopeful questions from my fellow Mini fans who took note ...
Etsy is cracking down on AI slop listings
Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform. ...
Spotify says yes, it is busting people for using Family Plan sharing too widely
Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on this week's earnings call that the company is trying to catch Spotify Family p...
The next-gen Xbox won’t cost you $1,800. It can’t. Can it?
Fortune dropped a bombshell report on the future of gaming this week. According to the publication's Microsoft insiders,...
Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them
Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from ...
PC shipments dropped over 20 percent in Q3 due to RAM price hikes
Demand for new PCs took a hit after months of price hikes, with Counterpoint Research reporting global PC shipments fell...
Fall 2026 earnings watch
Every company is suddenly an AI company. Compute is an asset. Cars are flying. We’ve been promised robots — again. It’s ...
Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites...
Meta turns Muse sharing back on
Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers had reported that public conversation links could be easy to...
The FCC is beginning to block gadgets with ‘foreign surveillance chips’
On October 13th, Brendan Carr's FCC gave itself a new power - it can block gadgets for containing any computer chip made...
Republican politicians have embraced anti-Indian racism — and it’s costing them votes
Two years ago, University of Houston student Vasant Bhatt was doing everything he could to help Republicans regain power...
Google tells Android users to update as parts of Canada adopt permanent daylight saving time
As the US gets closer to permanently adopting daylight saving time following the House advancing the Sunshine Protection...
Discord now formats Markdown previews right
Discord's latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly ins...
The new Fire TV Stick 4K is already half off
Despite being announced just a few weeks ago, both Amazon and Best Buy are now offering the latest Amazon Fire TV Stick ...
Amazon renames Kindle Unlimited to Kindle Plus and expands access to audiobooks
The plus-ification of subscription services continues unabated with Amazon becoming the latest company to follow suit wi...
Elon Musk says Tesla will sell 5 million cars by 2030 — math says otherwise
On Tesla's earnings call Wednesday, Elon Musk made one of his patented pie-in-the-sky predictions that typically sends h...
Arc browser is shutting down
The Browser Company plans to "sunset" its Arc browser on December 22nd, according to a post on the Arc website. The comp...
The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch
Hackers attempted to exploit the PHP flaws impacting sites across the web days before they were patched, according to a ...
Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’
Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and Para...
Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
After renaming Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps following Trump's executive orders, Google CEO Sundar ...
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters
It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter be...
Apple’s Magic Keyboards for iPad are about half off, with a small catch
You can outfit your iPad Air or iPad Pro with one of Apple’s slick Magic Keyboards for considerably less than the access...
PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web
Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some account...
You could just get a refurbished Samsung phone on Amazon
I recently bought a used Galaxy phone, and now Samsung is leaning into that market on Amazon after raising prices on its...
Coolfly’s solar-powered Aura Smart Bird Feeder is nearly 50 percent off
I’m not sure when birdwatching became so popular, but it seems everybody’s getting into it these days. If you want to se...
Coolpad’s new $150 Android phone has a wider screen like the iPhone Duo, but doesn’t fold
The design of widescreen folding phones like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, Huawei Pura X View, and now the iPhone Duo, is...
Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may ha...
Apple will label apps that are ‘Made for iPhone Duo’
Apple is rolling out a new badge in the App Store to indicate whether an app is optimized for its new foldable. The new ...
The Atari VCS saga will come to an end next year when its software store closes
Following a decade long saga of delays, name changes, and Atari having to assure backers of a crowdfunding campaign that...
Birdbuddy’s budget feeder foiled my squirrels
Birdbuddy's next-generation smart bird feeders have finally arrived. After spending a few days with the BirdBuddy Nook (...
Just because Tesla’s Optimus is in production doesn’t mean it’s actually ready
On Tesla's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company had begun early production of its humanoid ...
Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to...
The world’s first triple 200-megapixel camera phone is great
Oppo's Find X10 Pro Max is the first phone with a triple 200-megapixel camera, which you're likely to see as either a ma...
Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots
Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmar...
YouTube says it isn’t testing hiding the dislike button
On Tuesday, I published a story about how YouTube appeared to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, with at le...
Tesla says customers can add their own vehicles to the robotaxi fleet next year — will it happen?
For years, Elon Musk has been making big promises to Tesla owners about unsupervised autonomous driving and the ability ...
Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has...
Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push
Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report re...
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