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Here’s a cool new app for people who treat every p...
Mocha Frame is a free iPhone app that dresses up photos with clean frames, watermarks, EXIF details,...
Prosus profit roughly doubles as its e-commerce be...
For years Prosus was, in effect, a single bet wearing the costume of a diversified investor: a spraw...
Australia moves to double Big Tech fines and arm i...
Six months after Australia became the first country to bar under-16s from social media, the governme...
China’s CXMT wins a reported $3bn memory deal with...
ChangXin Memory Technologies has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3bn of memory chips, two peo...
Austria asks the EU to consider giving Anthropic a...
European government has, in writing, asked the European Union to find a way to host an American arti...
Iran’s cyberattacks on Israel tripled in a year, I...
Israel logged roughly 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, up from about 1,600 a year earlier...
I tried turning the Red Magic 11S Pro into a handh...
The Red Magic 11S Pro is an unapologetic gaming phone with extreme performance, active cooling, stro...
Instagram is testing a more convenient way to tune...
Instagram is testing new shortcuts for Your Algorithm, making it easier for users to adjust recommen...
A YouTuber 3D printed an entire outfit, but the co...
A YouTuber spent 33 hours modeling and 560 hours printing a full 3D-printed outfit. The shorts are s...
The memory crisis isn’t going to ease, and you wil...
Two research firms just confirmed what the memory crisis feels like: more expensive phones and lapto...
China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cyberse...
China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it ...
Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed inde...
Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming ...
AI chatbots can often feed into your delusions. Re...
A Wall Street Journal report highlights three chatbot behaviors -- sycophancy, language mirroring, a...
Lost access to your crypto wallet? Don’t Google yo...
A new scam is targeting cryptocurrency owners by disguising malware as wallet recovery software for ...
Chinese AI lab says it can match Anthropic’s all-p...
The Wall Street Journal reports that China's GLM-5.2 AI model can match Anthropic's Mythos in cybers...
Screens before age two may come with serious devel...
Researchers say babies and toddlers under two should avoid regular screen time, warning that phones ...
Baidu’s chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 bil...
Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning to go public in Hong Kong at a target valuation of $50 bi...
Apple’s next Mac Studio could get a new M5 Ultra c...
New reports claim that Apple is preparing an M5 Ultra Mac Studio this year, with an M7 Ultra model a...
China claims the world’s fastest supercomputer
Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world's fastest supercomputer for t...
Nvidia-backed Firmus will build a 360MW AI data ce...
Firmus Technologies, an Australian AI infrastructure company valued at $5.5 billion, will build its ...
I tried the AI-powered Extend photo trick in iOS 2...
Apple's new Extend tool in iOS 27 Photos is one of the most ambitious AI photo features the company ...
The Cube is Jim Henson’s little-known proto-Black ...
I'm sure we're all familiar with Dark Crystal, so we know that Jim Henson can be weird and tackle sl...
Researchers built an AI therapist that reads your ...
Mental health chatbots all share the same limitation: the user has to reach out first. That is not a...
Doctors built an AI stress pal that picks body sig...
Researchers have built an AI assistant that uses data from smartwatches, smartphones, and earbuds to...
Micron briefly surpassed Meta and Tesla in market ...
Micron Technology briefly surpassed Meta and Tesla in market valuation on Thursday, closing the week...
Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the P...
Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which b...
California will tax downloaded software for the fi...
California Governor Gavin Newsom and top Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion state bud...
The BIS warns an AI bust could hit credit markets ...
The Bank for International Settlements warned on Sunday that an AI investment bust could hit credit ...
Auto repair is one of the least digitised industri...
North America has more than 280,000 independent auto repair shops. Most run on workflows a 1990s sma...
I bought Kodak’s viral keychain camera, and the ba...
The Kodak Charmera is tiny, technically underwhelming, and completely unnecessary, yet its lo-fi pho...
Google is rationing Gemini access to Meta because ...
Google has placed limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models because it cannot provide as much com...
Nest’s quest to fix your thermostat
The founding story of Nest is pretty much a perfect tech myth. A legendary product maker (in this ca...
Ad-free streaming is a luxury now
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For...
India’s payments chief says AI will drive UPI from...
India’s Unified Payment Interface has grown to over 750 million daily transactions, and the head of ...
Instagram wants to make algorithm customisation a ...
Instagram head Adam Mosseri previewed new ways to surface Your Algorithm, the feature that lets user...
Salesforce employees are confused about why the co...
When Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Tuesday, a high-profile AI product that works as a persistent ...
The 33-year-old ex-Snap exec Nadella is trusting t...
Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old executive Satya Nadella promoted to run Copilot in March after just o...
Apple’s historically high tax for RAM upgrades on ...
Apple’s Mac RAM upgrades were already expensive enough to raise eyebrows. After the company’s latest...
TMD’s keyless bike lock is a $280 solution to a $6...
I've seen lots of so-called "smart" bike locks over the years, but none so far could justify the add...
Getting to Mars may require a pit stop in orbit, a...
NASA just tested a fully automated refueling coupler for spacecraft, and if it works, it could funda...
Leaked iPhone 18 Pro motherboard hints at Apple’s ...
A new leak claims Apple's A20 Pro chip could feature redesigned packaging for better thermals, but t...
Teenage Engineering adds lo-fi mode, USB audio, an...
Teenage Engineering has already issued multiple substantial updates for its surprisingly capable $32...
Finding Android apps on the Google Play Store just...
Google has launched the Google Play connected app for Gemini, allowing users to discover apps, make ...
Forget console wars. Steam Machine may help kill l...
Valve’s Steam Machine may not be the most powerful gaming PC, but its fixed hardware target and Stea...
Apple Books apparently has the same knockoff probl...
Joanna Stern says AI-generated knockoff versions of her book keep appearing on Apple Books, highligh...
Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garba...
Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed as...
Windows 11 is getting a new Screen Tint mode, and ...
Microsoft is testing a new Screen Tint accessibility feature in Windows 11 that helps reduce eye str...
OpenAI’s poaching from Apple hints at ChatGPT-powe...
Apple's Vision Pro engineering chief is leaving for OpenAI, hinting that the company's AI hardware a...
Apple’s looking at a politically radioactive fix f...
Apple wants to buy memory from CXMT, a Chinese company on the Pentagon's blacklist, and it's lobbyin...
Apple wants permission to buy memory from a blackl...
Apple is looking to alleviate some of the pressure on its supply chain by seeking an exception from ...
