Initially, I was going to tell you about a good deal happening on the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, which is down from the $500 it’s sold at most of the year to ...
Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year
Nintendo is making a new version of the Switch 2 with a replaceable battery in Europe - but its predecessor has a very different future. As part of an...
Inside the big business of the creator economy, with the agents making it happen
We’ve got another special episode of Decoder today, recorded at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the South of France. I’m talking with Ali Ber...
Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees today, and more than 30 percent of the job losses are in the company's Xbox division. The significant gaming c...
A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is layi...
One hundred dollars will buy you 8 pounds of glitter; 10 Domino's pizzas; 406 miniature disco balls from Temu; or 100 cans of Coors Light. For a frien...
Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids
Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But no...
Mr. Lif’s Emergency Rations EP is post-9/11 hip hop at its most daring
There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip hop. While the label featur...
Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines ...
Before Keurig, the coffee in your office was almost certainly terrible. Old, burned, made by someone who would rather poorly eyeball than properly mea...
NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth
The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it's in danger of burning up in Earth's atmospher...
White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US
The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country. The d...
The Sourdough Sidekick automates the boring bit of baking
Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff...
Despite my initial skepticism, I'm now sold on wireless Qi chargers that add integrated fans to keep your phone cool while charging. I figured they'd ...
Amazon quietly updated 2023’s Fire HD 10 tablet with 4GB of RAM
The Fire HD 8 that launched in 2024 was the last new addition to Amazon's budget-minded tablet lineup, but the company has quietly updated the Fire HD...
This slim camera has a transparent LCD screen for a viewfinder
Despite the fact that smartphones have become impressively capable shooters, standalone point-and-shoot cameras are enjoying a renaissance. The tiny K...
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. One year on, our phones have finally arrived. 12 months, 16 days, 21 hours, ...
At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls frag...
While you’re watching the World Cup, the feds may be watching you
It's a big year for America. It's the semiquincentennial, otherwise known as America250, and the United States is cohosting the World Cup. But spectat...
Jon Prosser responds to Apple lawsuit by blaming the other guy
YouTuber Jon Prosser has finally filed a formal response to Apple's lawsuit made against him and another defendant over allegedly stealing iOS secrets...
A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered
Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn't shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating imag...
The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself
Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detection methods being impl...
Hey number pad lovers, this is a keyboard we can finally agree on
I know a vocal group of people who swear by the number pad on their keyboard. And yet, for years I haven't cared about using one - until I put my hand...
Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed
The video game disc is dead, and Sony's been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony's discmak...
Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market
When I first started testing Vizio's 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was back and that it had a quantum-dot TV for...
Tesla driver faces manslaughter charges over Texas crash that killed a woman inside her home
The man whose Tesla struck and killed a woman inside her Texas home last month is now facing manslaughter charges, as reported earlier by The Wall Str...
Since its inception, Apple TV, née Apple TV Plus, has built a reputation on quality over quantity. It has far fewer shows and movies than the likes of...
Meta has a new app to let you make little AI experiences
Meta has launched a new social app called Pocket that lets you make and share little interactive "gizmos" with an AI prompt, as reported by Business I...
The Ikko MindOne Pro is delightfully small. I keep calling it a square phone, which isn't quite right; the screen is square, but the phone itself is s...
Rockstar's long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI is launching November 19th, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles. The game will be availabl...
