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The $599 Mac Mini is dead. AI data centres killed ...
Apple has discontinued the 256 gigabyte Mac Mini worldwide. The company’s cheapest desktop computer,...
The Academy has not banned AI from the Oscars. It ...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new eligibility rules on 2 May for the 99t...
Every AI company now wants to ride shotgun. The ca...
The Grok iOS app now contains a placeholder that reads “Grok Voice mode coming soon to CarPlay.” It ...
The best life advice I ever followed was deleting ...
I deleted Instagram on a whim, but what followed was much quieter than that. Somewhere between the r...
Planet Labs is not selling satellite images. It is...
At 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time on 3 May, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Ba...
DJI invented the consumer drone. Now it cannot sel...
On the morning of 1 May, staff at DJI’s flagship retail store in Beijing’s Guomao business district ...
Skio never hired a sales team, never ran an ad, an...
Kennan Frost dropped out of college, worked as an engineer at Pinterest, had a panic attack, quit, a...
Grok is about to join ChatGPT and Perplexity on yo...
Your car dashboard is quietly turning into the most contested AI real estate in tech. Grok is the la...
Amazon’s best quarter in years was half-built on a...
Amazon reported first-quarter 2026 net sales of $181.5 billion, a 17 per cent increase year on year ...
Tim Cook returned $1 trillion to shareholders. Joh...
For nearly 15 years, Apple’s financial strategy has been defined by a single number: more than $1 ...
The factory that built your iPhone is now building...
In April, a humanoid robot called the Honor D1 completed the Beijing half-marathon in 48 minutes and...
Reggie Fils-Aimé says Amazon once asked Nintendo t...
Way back in the DS days, Nintendo decided to stop selling to Amazon. During a recent lecture at NYU,...
Shokz’s bassy OpenRun Pro 2 are $40 off thanks to ...
If you’re looking to pick up a pair of open-ear headphones for yourself — or your mom — Shokz is run...
The Fitbit-for-your-brain era could be closer than...
The next big wearable trend may not count steps or calories at all—it may try to score your focus, f...
Motorola Razr+ 2026 vs. Razr Ultra: Is the $400 pr...
Both phones flip the same way, look nearly identical, and run the same software. So where exactly do...
How the internet’s favorite squirrel dad made the ...
It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the ...
These reusable digital Polaroids are a clever way ...
I love when my friends have their fridges covered in Polaroids. It’s often a visual crash course of ...
AI music is flooding streaming services — but who ...
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For...
I’m rocking an old Pixel 8a in 2026, and my latest...
My old Pixel 8a had every chance to feel cheap on vacation. Instead, it made the flagship upgrade it...
Google finally explains why Android AICore keeps e...
If you've ever noticed Android AICore taking up more storage than expected, Google now has an answer...
Yes, you should probably be nicer to your AI — her...
You've probably felt it — that slightly hollow, going-through-the-motions quality when an AI interac...
How to check if your Windows PC is ready for the s...
Not every Windows PC will automatically get the new Secure Boot certificates before the June 2026 de...
LG’s latest decadent gaming monitor is a 45-inch O...
LG’s UltraGear 45GX950B adds AI features like upscaling and scene optimization while keeping the sam...
Window’s Secure Boot certificates are expiring in ...
The Secure Boot certificates powering one of Windows' most critical security features expire in June...
As RAM crisis grips the gaming industry, Nvidia co...
Nvidia may relaunch the RTX 3060 as VRAM shortages impact gaming GPUs, offering a practical solution...
This Emmy-nominated sci-fi series is one of 3 unde...
A cancelled spy thriller, a rotoscoped animated drama, and a melancholic sci-fi anthology make up th...
Academy just said it out loud: AI can’t win an Osc...
The Academy confirms AI cannot win Oscars for acting or writing, reinforcing that human performance ...
This indie movie with 99% RT score is one of the 3...
These three films on Hulu this weekend explore what happens when reaching for something pulls you so...
I put Gemini in charge of my Gmail, and it was eye...
I didn’t stop worrying about privacy, I just stopped letting it slow me down. And honestly, my inbox...
AI got bougie? Research finds access skewed toward...
A new study finds AI awareness and usage are higher among wealthier groups, raising concerns about a...
US tech giants are laying off employees to spend o...
China is aggressively pushing AI adoption and simultaneously letting courts block companies from usi...
Meta’s historic loss in court could cost a lot mor...
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez won a historic sum of $375 million in a landmark child safet...
Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump’s war on Ir...
The ultra-low-cost air carrier Spirit Airlines shut down operations after 34 years in business and c...
Space data centers sound like a pipe dream. What i...
A UK firm has signed a deal with Nigeria's Katsina State to deploy 50,000 solar-powered smart lamp p...
Netflix finally opens to proper theatrical release...
Netflix is giving Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew a wide theatrical release with a full...
Foreign automakers are not staging a comeback in C...
In January and February 2026, Volkswagen reclaimed the top position in China’s passenger vehicle mar...
Aura’s delightful Aspen photo frame is on sale for...
Aura’s digital frames are kind of like living photo albums that get better with time, which is why w...
Nvidia built the AI engine. Alphabet is building t...
On Thursday, Alphabet’s share price rose nearly 10 per cent after the company reported first-quarter...
China has decided that firing a worker because an ...
A quality assurance supervisor identified only as Zhou joined a technology company in Hangzhou in No...
Think vibe-coding will turn you into a rich entrep...
A new report from the Association for Computing Machinery says vibe coding carries serious risks aro...
Anker’s discounted 2-in-1 USB-C cable is a great w...
I’ll never stop gushing about 2-in-1 USB-C cables. They’re really nice to have because, at this poin...
We built AI to save us from email, and it somehow ...
The grim future of AI is more than just job-stealing robots. It even has bots endlessly emailing oth...
The EVs America is losing in 2026 are not failing....
At least a dozen electric vehicle models have been discontinued, paused, or cancelled in the Unite...
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Playing Esoteric Ebb is like rolling the dice with...
It took me a while to get into Esoteric Ebb, a new CRPG from developer Christoffer Bodegård. The ele...
Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its lat...
Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the appl...
Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew ...
The flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Ma...
The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now d...
The company that built TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, the system that predicts with unsettling a...
Musk’s case against OpenAI lands roughly in its fi...
Three days of cross-examination in Oakland produced a $130bn lawsuit’s most awkward admissions, incl...
Apple’s $599 Mac mini is gone. Blame the AI agents...
Apple has quietly raised the desktop’s starting price to $799 after demand from developers building ...
