Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving struck and killed a man crossing I-80
A 71-year-old man was fatally hit by a Tesla operating in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode while crossing I-80 in Vallejo, CA around 2:30 AM on Thursday, ...
In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse
Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives - shopping for us, working for us, talkin...
Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions
For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now "it is finally here," M...
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 with a Kindle Unlimited rebrand....
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 his fans into paroxysms of ecst...
Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI
The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featurin...
The Browser Company plans to "sunset" its Arc browser on December 22nd, according to a post on the Arc website. The company moved on to developing its...
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 report from Amazon Threat Inte...
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 ParaNorman. It's a sprawling fanta...
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 Pichai might be drawing the li...
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 between July and September, fede...
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 accessory usually costs at Woot. I w...
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 accounts, up to 70 percent of website...
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 newest phones. Its certified ...
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 see what all the fuss is about w...
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 starting to influence traditi...
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 have noticed Bill in the news mo...
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 "Made for iPhone Duo" badge wi...
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 its retro console wasn't doom...
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 robot on its high-volume line ...
Birdbuddy's next-generation smart bird feeders have finally arrived. After spending a few days with the BirdBuddy Nook (from $99) and longer with the ...
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased ver...
1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them
1Password is introducing a new feature that allows AI agents to sign into your accounts without actually seeing or handling your passwords. The aptly ...
Microsoft is closing down The Garage, a set of popular maker spaces where employees worked on experimental projects and collaborated on surprising new...
EEvery Googlebook laptop we've tested so far has great hardware. The problem is the software. While Googlebook OS has exciting ideas for how a laptop ...
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 nightmare. It told owners that "your s...
AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary.
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ...
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 least two users on X sharing scr...
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 to add their own vehicles to t...
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 become ground zero for the ph...
