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Spotify wants to be the next big video service
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and enter...
Your phone could one day become a real Steam gamin...
Valve is backing major technical efforts to run Windows PC games on ARM devices, the same chips that...
AI chatbots can be wooed into crimes with poetry
It turns out my parents were wrong. Saying "please" doesn't get you what you want-poetry does. At le...
Boost your AirTag’s battery life to 5 years with t...
Elevation Lab has announced a smaller version of its TimeCapsule battery-boosting case for the Apple...
OnePlus 15 launches US preorders after delayed FCC...
OnePlus has launched its delayed US preorders for the flagship OnePlus 15, almost a month after the ...
The Apple Watch SE 3 is still at its Cyber Monday ...
The Apple Watch SE 3 was one of the best smartwatches we tested in 2025, and you can still pick up t...
Meta could axe up to one-third of its ‘metaverse’ ...
Meta may slash its budget for metaverse projects by up to 30 percent next year, according to a repor...
Proton now has an end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet...
Proton has added a new privacy-focused spreadsheet app to its productivity suite to tempt users over...
I’m not expecting huge car news at CES 2026, but t...
A new year is right around the corner, and that means the countdown to CES 2026 has begun. CES is th...
Anthropic’s quest to study the negative effects of...
Today, I’m talking with Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some of the people responsible f...
The 25 best gifts for travelers who are always on ...
I'm convinced that whoever said it's about the journey, not the destination, has never traveled. Try...
Alexa+ on Prime Video can drop you straight into t...
The latest Alexa+ feature lets you jump to a scene without rewinding or forwarding on Prime Video. D...
Russia bans Roblox over ‘LGBT propaganda’ and ‘ext...
Russia is restricting access to Roblox after the country’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor acc...
Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPU driver restores Phy...
Nvidia launched its first RTX 50-series graphics cards earlier this year without support for PhysX, ...
Yahoo is using AI to recap football games in real ...
It's about to be week 14 of the NFL season, and stakes and storylines abound across the league. In a...
The EU is probing Meta over WhatsApp’s AI chatbot ...
The European Union has launched a formal investigation into Meta over antitrust concerns with AI res...
Get ready for an AI country music explosion
When songwriter Patrick Irwin moved to Nashville last year, he was entering a lottery. Each day hund...
Apple removed a Night mode photo feature from the ...
iPhone 17 Pro users have fewer ways to take photographs in low-light conditions compared to those us...
AI video: The creator’s first steps into the digit...
For years, there has been talk and much debate around AI video generation, and it’s been centered pr...
Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold is cool, but I’m more psy...
The Galaxy Z TriFold is a lovely engineering showcase, but the software and hardware innovations it ...
NASA heads to Death Valley to test new Mars drone ...
After reaching Mars with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter proved a ...
Antigravity’s 360-degree drone is here to help you...
With DJI facing an imminent import ban in the US and its flagship drones disappearing from shelves, ...
China tried to copy SpaceX’s Falcon 9 landing, but...
SpaceX has been successfully landing the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket for the last decade. Doi...
BMW iX3 first drive: a ‘New Class’ is in session
BMW has been peppering us with teasers and bits and pieces about its next-gen EV platform, Neue Klas...
Satellites keep photobombing the Hubble telescope,...
It’s getting harder and harder for the Hubble and other telescopes orbiting Earth to capture pristin...
Anthropic’s AI bubble ‘YOLO’ warning
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated...
You could soon ask ChatGPT how healthy your week r...
Hidden code in ChatGPT’s iOS app hints that a Health-app connector is incoming, giving AI-powered ch...
Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s goin...
Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and plans to replace it with...
Trump embraces gas guzzlers and air pollution by w...
President Donald Trump announced a new plan that lets carmakers pollute more by making less fuel eff...
Your next PC upgrade may soon get tougher and pric...
Crucial, a go-to name for affordable RAM and SSD upgrades for millions of PC users, is being phased ...
Apple’s head of UI design is leaving for Meta
Alan Dye, who has led Apple’s UI design team since 2015, is leaving to join Meta as its chief design...
Here are my 25 favorite deals from REI’s Cyber Wee...
REI took a hike during Black Friday, but the retailer is back with a full week of deals. Now through...
PlayStation is making an MLB The Show mobile game
MLB The Show is coming to iOS and Android. Sony has revealed MLB The Show Mobile, which it says is “...
You can now turn Spotify Wrapped into a multiplaye...
Wrapped Party transforms your yearly Spotify stats into a multiplayer event. Friends can join a shar...
Your Google Discover feed is getting an AI makeove...
Google is experimenting with replacing real news headlines in Discover with AI-generated rewrites. W...
This haptic mattress topper lets you feel a movie ...
Woojer is best known for its vibrating vests and belt straps that let you feel the sounds from games...
AI now drives product discovery for millions of Am...
A new study shows AI and social platforms are driving record traffic to online stores—but 80% of sho...
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to...
Micron is retiring the Crucial brand, marking the end of its line of budget-friendly solid-state dri...
Job listing mistakes to avoid to get top-tier cand...
A job search starts with a tiny choice: a title that’s plain, a salary range that’s visible, and a s...
The ugly Pebble 2 Duo is the smartwatch for me
Smartwatches have become health gadgets. Over the last five years or so, Apple, Garmin, Google, Sams...
Anyone can try to edit Grokipedia 0.2 but Grok is ...
Elon Musk envisions Grokipedia - xAI's AI-generated, anti-woke spin on Wikipedia - as a definitive m...
The annual app recaps for 2025: all Wrapped up
Spotify may have popularized the Wrapped user recap trend, but more companies are jumping on that ba...
This new Honeywell Home smart thermostat can answe...
Resideo’s newest thermostat looks like a compelling alternative to Nest or Ecobee if you’re looking ...
An unsettling indie game about horses keeps gettin...
Horses, a first-person narrative horror game, was banned from the Epic Games Store just hours before...
I’ve decided the PS6 launch games Sony needs to do...
Which are the PS6's launch games that will guarantee Sony's dominance continues? I've got some ideas...
One day, AI might be better than you at surfing th...
All I wanted was a pair of New Balances. I was done trusting stylish influencers who swore Vans, Con...
A leading kids safety bill has been poison pilled,...
Last year, the House of Representatives was the place where a leading kids online safety bill came t...
Dyson’s Purifier Hot+Cool HP2 De-NOx is now $699.9...
If you’ve been eyeing a high-end air purifier, a serious space heater, and a cooling fan, this is on...
Elon Musk is on a racist posting spree again
Billionaire Elon Musk — who’s long used his X (formerly Twitter) platform to stoke anger at immigran...
Linux usage on Steam hits a record high for the se...
After finally passing the three percent mark in October, Linux usage on Steam has peaked again in th...
