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TikTok’s AI slop problem is worse than you think —...
A new study suggests AI-generated junk content has become one of TikTok's defining features. Worse s...
Apple’s design studio has lost nearly every Jony I...
Apple’s industrial design studio, once the most influential product design operation in the technolo...
iOS 27’s Liquid Glass slider looks simple, but it’...
After using iOS 27 on my iPhone for over a week, I've found the Liquid Glass slider to be one of the...
That viral clip you saw of someone winning big on ...
According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselv...
AirPods didn’t kill public life. They made it easi...
AirPods get blamed for making people antisocial, but tiny earbuds have also become a normal way to m...
Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws a...
Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update is causing problems across every supported version of Win...
Amazon says human-in-the-loop AI oversight is fail...
Amazon’s security leadership is arguing against one of the most widely accepted principles in AI gov...
How Roomba started a robot revolution
If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly ...
Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For...
Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans...
The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it ...
There will come soft pings, and every one of them ...
Smart rings, glasses, earbuds, and glucose patches are turning ordinary life into a stream of nudges...
New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lob...
Waymo delivers more than 500,000 paid rides per week across 10 US cities, raised $16 billion in Febr...
Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system a...
Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert...
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are ...
Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not con...
Windows 11’s modern Media Player is somehow worse ...
Microsoft’s modern Media Player for Windows 11 has received an Insider Preview update, but tests sug...
If you have a Mac, you should try this free and be...
Radix is a free, open-source Mac app that scans folders or drives and shows storage usage through an...
This free Mac app puts stunning glassy widgets on ...
The Mac lock screen is usually pretty empty. WidgetScreen makes it more useful with free glassy widg...
3D printed batteries could solve the battery anxie...
A new wave of startups is using 3D printing to create batteries that fit inside almost any shape, po...
Samsung may shelve the Galaxy Watch Classic this y...
New Galaxy Watch 9 leaks confirm no rotating bezel Classic, a redesigned Ultra 2, and a fresh color ...
The Sashimi robot is real and it doesn’t fumble at...
A Norwegian research team built a robot that can slice and serve salmon sashimi using three arms, AI...
Apple users are being targeted by a familiar tech ...
After years of scammers posing as Microsoft support, reports suggest Apple users are now facing a si...
iOS 27 puts a much better dictation experience on ...
iOS 27 quietly ships two dictation systems. The better one is off by default, requires 12GB of RAM, ...
Claude AI is better at raising funds for humans th...
A new study found Claude Opus 4.6 outperformed professional fundraisers and elite debaters in persua...
macOS 27 means the end of the Hackintosh Era, but ...
macOS 27 ends the Hackintosh era, but Apple's affordable Apple Silicon Macs may have made the DIY mo...
The Atlantic created a searchable database of the ...
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI mode...
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in ...
Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986, has died in a plane crash nea...
Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to...
Attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin that exposes ...
Harvard Business Review warns AI ‘workslop’ is rot...
Companies that pushed hardest to adopt generative AI are now contending with a problem the technolog...
I’ve tried nearly every iOS 27 feature, and these ...
I've spent a week testing iOS 27, and these are the three features that made the biggest difference ...
Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrenc...
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new strain of self-propagating malware that spreads t...
AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor nearly matches App...
Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor averaged 1.67% error compared to a medical-grade Polar H10 c...
Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the W...
Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTub...
Did you know that your iPhone bursts on-screen fir...
Your iPhone now celebrates birthdays with on-screen fireworks during phone calls, and it's one of iO...
Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresi...
From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to...
Instacart is testing camera-ready AI shopping cart...
Instacart's Caper Carts bring fast checkout, coupons, and loyalty perks to Weis stores, but their ca...
Toy Story has the right take on tech
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Jio Platforms files for India’s largest-ever IPO, ...
Jio Platforms, the digital and telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, filed its draft r...
OpenAI wants an all-knowing personal AI agent for ...
OpenAI is framing personal AGI as the mass-market endpoint of its AI race, but it still has to expla...
VocabOwl is the viral vocabulary test making word ...
VocabOwl’s viral vocabulary test turns 100 multiple-choice questions into a shareable estimate of yo...
ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Gard...
The cybercrime group ShinyHunters has published 45 gigabytes of data stolen from Madison Square Gard...
Wharton researchers coined ‘cognitive surrender’ t...
A pair of Wharton researchers have put a name to something that many AI users have quietly started d...
BYD rejects claims it violated Hungary’s environme...
BYD executive vice president Stella Li said the Chinese automaker has complied with all environmenta...
Sony’s wild PSN login patent could turn the DualSe...
Sony's PSN login patent could make a DualSense part of the account access flow, but the bigger secur...
The developer behind VLC’s 6 billion downloads now...
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer of VLC Media Player, has raised $5 million for his startup K...
SwitchBot’s Standing Circulator Fan is worth fight...
I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or D...
These new Alogic displays are basically a touchscr...
Mac users waiting for a touchscreen Mac now have more third-party options. Alogic’s new display line...
How Beatbot’s AI-Powered Pool Robots Are Changing ...
Prime Day brings significant savings across Beatbot's AI-powered pool-care ecosystem, from the flags...
Your old iPhone may have a security flaw Apple can...
A new exploit called usbliter8 affects some older iPhones and Apple Watches. It requires USB access,...
After social media ban, AI bans could be next for ...
Norway has announced a near-total ban on generative AI tools in elementary schools, citing concerns ...
Apple clears the air on watchOS 27 skipping multip...
Apple's watchOS team explained why five models are missing out on watchOS 27, and the answer points ...
