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Chatbots at the drive-thru are just the beginning
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For...
Samsung and its union meet Monday in a last attemp...
Samsung Electronics and its largest labour union will resume negotiations on Monday in what South Ko...
Destinus is raising €200M ahead of an IPO. The cru...
Destinus, the Netherlands-headquartered defence startup that manufactures cruise missiles and autono...
Asus crammed an RTX 5080 into a 3-litre box. It co...
Asus has launched the 2026 ROG NUC 16 in China, pairing Intel’s Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor wi...
Chinese EVs are arriving in Canada. Nearly 400 dea...
Michael MacGillivray, the CEO of Century Auto Group and Sigma Auto Group, oversees 10 dealerships ac...
Malta just became the first country to give every ...
OpenAI has signed a deal with the government of Malta to provide all Maltese citizens and residents ...
Asus ROG and Xreal built the first 240Hz AR gaming...
Asus Republic of Gamers and Xreal have opened pre-orders for the ROG Xreal R1, the world’s first 240...
A student with a laptop and a radio stopped four h...
At 23:23 on 5 April, a 23-year-old university student in Taichung transmitted a falsified General Al...
The man who put a Roomba in every home wants to re...
Colin Angle, the robotics engineer who co-founded iRobot and spent 25 years turning the Roomba into ...
Edifier’s new budget headphones put song lyrics on...
Edifier has launched the Auro Ace budget headphones with a customizable dot-matrix display that can ...
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to...
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have settled the first lawsuit of its kind, alleging that social media add...
I can’t live without iPhone shortcuts. These 7 are...
iPhone shortcuts can save you a surprising amount of time. Here are 7 of my personal favorites that ...
Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant...
After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xper...
NPR’s Manoush Zomorodi talks about living with too...
Manoush Zamorodi is an accomplished reporter, podcast host, and author. Her new book, Body Electric,...
Turtle Beach made a good SteelSeries headset clone...
I really liked the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, so the company didn't have to say much to g...
Here are 40 of our favorite deals from REI’s massi...
REI’s annual Anniversary Sale — the retailer’s biggest of the year — has arrived, bringing with it d...
Faraday Future raised $25 million for its robotics...
Faraday Future announced on Thursday that it has raised $25 million through convertible promissory n...
These are the laptops I recommend for pretty much ...
Need a new laptop? It’s a tough decision. If you’re like most people, a laptop is one of the most ex...
The app you need to clean up your computer
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Mixtape is a musical portrait of teenage life
Playing Mixtape is like playing a video game version of a high school movie. Kids banter about the m...
YouTube is giving creators a new weapon against AI...
YouTube is rolling out a new AI safety feature that could help creators spot deepfake-style videos u...
Four OpenClaw flaws let attackers steal data, esca...
Cybersecurity researchers at Cyera have disclosed four vulnerabilities in OpenClaw that, when chaine...
RJ Scaringe has raised $12 billion across three st...
RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12.3 billion across three startups, and the pace is accelerating. ...
Most CEOs think their boards are rushing AI, and B...
Sixty-one per cent of chief executives say their boards are pushing AI transformation too fast, ac...
Stripe’s John Collison says agentic commerce will ...
John Collison thinks keyword search is a “ridiculous” way to find things to buy. The Stripe co-found...
The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI co...
Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfather...
Xbox Elite 3 controller leak shows a familiar desi...
A leaked Xbox Elite Controller Series 3 appears to keep Microsoft’s familiar pro design while adding...
Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthro...
Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely...
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle school addiction ...
Snap, Google’s YouTube, and ByteDance’s TikTok have reached settlements in the first lawsuit brought...
Microsoft is finally fixing the most annoying thin...
Microsoft is testing one of the biggest Windows 11 interface shakeups yet, and it quietly brings bac...
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to see your bank account. The...
OpenAI has launched a personal finance experience inside ChatGPT, letting subscribers connect their ...
Japan’s Monster Wolf robot is a $4,000 scarecrow w...
Somewhere on a golf course in rural Hokkaido, a mechanical wolf with glowing red eyes is turning i...
Gemini Intelligence has strict requirements, and y...
Google’s Gemini Intelligence sounds like the next big leap for Android AI, but there’s a surprising ...
Chinese parts already power American cars, and tha...
Somewhere in the wiring of the car you drove this morning, there is almost certainly a Chinese com...
Asus has a sleek gaming mini PC to offer, but the ...
The ROG NUC 16 squeezes serious gaming hardware into a tiny box, then squeezes your wallet even hard...
This is the coolest laptop power bank I have ever ...
The Krafted Edge is shaped like a closed laptop, sits flush beneath your notebook while charging it,...
Xbox is now XBOX
Xbox just allcapsmaxxed: meet XBOX. This isn't a joke, Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding X...
Meta’s Ray-Ban Display now types messages from you...
Neural Handwriting is now live for every Ray-Ban Display owner, letting them type messages with fing...
WhatsApp is testing disappearing messages that wai...
WhatsApp is testing an After Reading timer for disappearing messages that starts the countdown only ...
YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection too...
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning jus...
Asus unveils the 320W ROG Strix Scar 18 with RTX 5...
The 2026 ROG Strix Scar 18 pushes 320W total, pairs it with the world's first 18-inch 4K 240Hz Mini ...
BMW Motorrad Vision K18 is a naked metal, six cyli...
BMW’s Vision K18 is a one-off concept built around a 1,800cc inline-six engine, and it sounds every ...
Spotted a mistake on your Instagram Story? You can...
Instagram is finally rolling out Edit Story, a long-requested feature that lets users make changes t...
Windows 11 tests an adjustable taskbar and resizab...
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 test will allow you to reposition the taskbar and change the size of t...
ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full ...
ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce ...
Volkswagen is bringing back the electric ID.Buzz b...
VW's electric microbus is back for 2027 with a fold-out mattress Tourer trim, Tesla Supercharger com...
ChatGPT will now dole out finance tips if you conn...
ChatGPT now lets Pro subscribers in the US connect their bank accounts through Plaid to get personal...
The Analogue 3D is finally getting save states
Analogue has released a new firmware update for its Analogue 3D console that adds the Memories save ...
OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to wi...
OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company p...
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation are betting $20...
Anthropic has committed $200 million over four years to a partnership with the Bill & Melinda ...
