Supreme Court opens door to social media age-gating in US
The Supreme Court will let Mississippi’s social media age verification law take effect while the case is being argued in court. In an unsigned ruling on Thursday, the court declined…
The best Xbox controller to buy right now
We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from even one console generation…
China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card
MicroSD cards are tiny but slow; the M.2 storage sticks in your PC are blazing fast but bigger and fully enclosed. Now, a new type of SSD out of China…
Everything we think we know about the Google Pixel 10 phones
This is an official Pixel 10 image released by Google, though it’s probably the Pro. Google is readying its next set of hardware announcements, and has already confirmed that the…
Cowboy’s e-bikes granted a second life
The step-through Cruiser ST model at the heart of the recall. | Image: Cowboy After months of speculation over the e-bike maker’s imminent demise, Cowboy says it now has the…
Tesla’s graphics are about to get Unreal
Tesla’s in-car visualizations for features like Autopilot and Full Self-Driving might be getting an upgrade with a switch to Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. As reported by Not a Tesla App,…
Kodak says it’ll figure things out and won’t shut down
In a regulatory filing on Monday, Kodak warned investors that the 133-year-old photography company didn’t have the financing it would need to pay around $500 million of debt obligations that…
Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned
Stripe, a financial services company that acts as a payment processor for millions of businesses including itch.io, has issued an apology following reports that members of its support team told…
Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans
If you’ve enjoyed Elon Musk’s ongoing beef with Sam Altman and OpenAI, get ready for a whole new chapter: soon they’ll be rivals not just in AI, but in brain-computer…
ChatGPT won’t remove old models without warning after GPT-5 backlash
After the backlash to replacing its 4o model with GPT-5, OpenAI will no longer get rid of old models without a heads up. “In retrospect, not continuing to offer 4o,…
Elon Musk says he’s suing Apple for rigging App Store rankings
There’s a sore loser in this popularity contest. Elon Musk says that his artificial intelligence company xAI “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store…
Russia might be responsible for the PACER hack
Just a few days after administrators announced that the “federal Judiciary is taking additional steps to strengthen protections for sensitive case documents in response to recent escalated cyberattacks,” the New…
Taylor Swift’s 12th announced at 12:12 on the 12th
Taylor Swift at NFL Game. Taylor Swift leaned into her love for symbolism with the announcement of her dozenth album, titled The Life of a Showgirl. TS12 was introduced in…
GTA V now has DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support
Rockstar Games is adding Nvidia’s DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support to Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced today. Nvidia is also releasing a new Game Ready driver today that will…
Ford is doubling down on EVs — the timing is awful
On Monday, Ford introduced an innovative new manufacturing process that it says will help make its EVs more sustainable, more desirable, and more importantly, more affordable. The timing couldn’t have…
Epic says Fortnite is coming back to iOS in Australia
Epic Games has announced that it’s bringing Fortnite back to iOS in Australia, after the country’s federal court ruled that Apple and Google’s app marketplaces are anticompetitive. Epic CEO Tim…
That viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is a fake
Did Tesla remotely deactivate a Cybertruck in the middle of a highway because the owner featured it in an unauthorized music video? The story already seemed highly unlikely, and on…
AOL is finally shutting down dial-up
AOL dial-up is ending on September 30th according to a statement posted on the company’s website. It marks the end of the service that was synonymous with the internet for…
We found stuff AI is pretty good at
Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples of how those AI…
7 password managers to help keep your apps safe
Passwords still seem to be the most popular method of ensuring that the right person is using the right app or service, despite the slow adoption of passkeys, which are…
How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industry
How it started When I was growing up in the Midwest, everyone I knew drove small cars. My dad had a light pink Volvo 240, my mom drove a Dodge…
Inside the automated warehouse where robots are packing your groceries
It’s the lack of noise you notice first. There’s no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space,…
RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks
Kennedy asserts that wearables will help Americans “take control” of their health. It’s not that simple. I keep hearing the same sentence repeating in my head. “My vision is that…
Aura’s Aspen impressive digital frame is the most affordable it’s been
Returning to work or school from summer vacation is never easy, but the Aura Aspen could help you hold onto your favorite memories by putting them front and center. And…
Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time
Now that we’re about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, we can take stock of his administration’s destruction of online environmental resources. It’s worse than…
I went camping in a heat dome, and these five gadgets saved my vacation
This EcoFlow portable power station was a huge help in making sure my family didn’t breakdown during sweltering temps in the Tennessee mountains. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The…
Is This Seat Taken? makes seating fussy people fun
Creating seating arrangements can be pretty stressful; the empath part of me strives to find the perfect seat for every person even if it’s a nearly impossible task. If it’s…
ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it
OpenAI is bringing back GPT-4o in ChatGPT just one day after replacing it with GPT-5. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company will let…
The best Android phones
The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of…
A decade later, Windows is still bringing Control Panel features to the Settings app
I kid you not, we wrote these words in 2014: Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list…