Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones, an OLED TV, or a laptop just to find out that you could have gotten it for cheaper somewhere else just a few days or weeks later. That’s why, in order to keep customers happy and prevent them from shopping elsewhere, some retailers offer […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump will recruit workers from Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants to form the US Tech Force, a new program that aims to "modernize the federal government," according to an announcement on Monday. Under the new program, Trump plans to hire around 1,000 technology specialists to work across federal agencies […] Read more ›
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In 2025, you might wonder if Fitbit is still relevant. Despite being acquired by Google, Fitbit remains one of the most recognizable names in the industry. Fitbit trackers aren’t meant for the most hardcore of athletes, but they’re still excellent devices for tracking overall activity as well as monitoring certain health and wellness metrics, like […] Read more ›
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Bungie's Marathon, its upcoming extraction shooter that it delayed from a planned September release, will now launch in March 2026. The studio is "targeting" a price of $39.99, and "purchasing Marathon will give you full access to the game, including a roadmap of free gameplay updates as the year progresses," according to a blog post. […] Read more ›
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Luminar, the lidar manufacturer that rode a wave of self-driving car hype to land deals with major automakers like Volvo and Mercedes-Benz, filed for bankruptcy Monday. The company has been mired in a legal fight with its founder and former CEO, Austin Russell, who was ousted earlier this year following an ethics inquiry. As part […] Read more ›
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General Motors is adding native Apple Music to the infotainment systems of select 2025 model year Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles, the company announced today. The news comes as the automaker is racing to add more native app experiences to some of its vehicles to make up for the absence of popular phone mirroring services like […] Read more ›
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Google notified users in an email today that, beginning next month, it will stop sending its dark web reports, an opt-in feature that alerted users when Google detected their personal information on the dark web, as reported by 9to5Google. On January 15th, Google will stop scanning for that data, like contact info and home addresses, […] Read more ›
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After years of false promises and missed deadlines, several Tesla vehicles have been spotted over the weekend driving autonomously without safety monitors on public roads in Austin. For months, Tesla's robotaxis in Austin and San Francisco have included safety monitors with access to a kill switch in case of emergency - a fallback that Waymo […] Read more ›
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The second season of Fallout is debuting one day earlier than previously announced: the new season will now launch on Tuesday, December 16th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on Prime Video, Amazon says. The season will have eight episodes that will premiere weekly on Wednesdays (besides this first episode), with the season finale airing […] Read more ›
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Earlier this month, the GNOME Shell Extensions store updated its review guidelines to include a new section specifically stating that "extensions must not be AI-generated," as reported by It's FOSS and Phoronix. Developers producing add-ons for the Linux desktop environment can still use AI as a tool, but if their extension's code contains signs of […] Read more ›
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If you’re looking for a last-minute gift for a gamer, you’re in luck. Both Best Buy and Target are offering the 128GB Meta Quest 3S VR headset for around $249 ($50 off) and include a $50 gift card on top of that. Best Buy has bundled the headset with a copy of The Walking Dead: […] Read more ›
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Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 - and that word is "slop." The dictionary-maker defines "slop" as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence," something that many people have become familiar with as AI-generated content permeates the internet. This year, some of the […] Read more ›
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Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on the show in 2022, one month before ChatGPT launched. While the generative AI boom had tons of impact on all sorts of companies, it immediately upended everything about Stack Overflow in an existential way. Stack Overflow, if […] Read more ›
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Most people know at least two things about 5K monitors: they look great, and they're usually expensive. The Apple Studio Display is the most popular model, and it costs $1,599. But I've been testing one that's similar in some important ways and costs just $355 (!?) at its cheapest-ever price. Unsurprisingly, at a fraction of […] Read more ›
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"Not ideal." "Completely unacceptable." "Shameless." "Predatory." "Some bullshit." "Total bullshit." This is how musicians, producers, and others in the industry are describing the relentless spread of AI clones. Of course, AI fakes aren't new, but as the scammers have gotten more brazen, artists are responding with increasing furor. We got a taste back in 2023 […] Read more ›
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Amazon has launched a new AI feature in the Kindle app that gives spoiler-free answers to questions about the book you're reading, and confirmed that authors can't opt out from the feature. The company calls Ask this Book an "expert reading assistant" in its announcement, and says that it's capable of answering questions about "plot […] Read more ›
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When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launched in 2023 as essentially a staffing agency, albeit a highly automated one. Language models reviewed resumes and did the interviewing. […] Read more ›
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A collision in space was narrowly avoided last week when a newly deployed Chinese satellite came within a few hundred meters of one of the roughly 9,000 Starlink satellites currently operating in low Earth orbit. SpaceX is laying the blame on the satellite operator for not sharing location data. "When satellite operators do not share […] Read more ›
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iRobot, the owner of the Roomba robot vacuum, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, stating that it will be acquired by its contract manufacturer, Picea Robotics. The Chinese-based company assumed iRobot's $190 million loan earlier this month and, under the terms of iRobot's restructuring, will waive that debt, along with the $161.5 million iRobot owes […] Read more ›
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After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following issuing warnings earlier this year that it was fast running out of options, iRobot announced it will enter Chapter 11 protection and plans to be acquired by its contract manufacturer, the Chinese-based Picea Robotic. The company says […] Read more ›
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My introduction to Sudan Archives was the song "Nont for Sale" from her first EP Sink in 2018. I've been a die-hard fan ever since. With each album, she finds new ways to sculpt the sound of her violin, contorting it in defiance of expectations. Athena found her in conversation with it, leaving its timbre […] Read more ›
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