Hardware & Devices
NASA's moon orbiter has spotted an impact crater that only happens once a century
Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter led to the discovery of a moon crater that's 728 feet wide. Impacts like that only happen once a century.
Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'
Executives from OpenAI and Microsoft were reportedly worried about ChatGPT training that scraped millions of news articles.
Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that
On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unawa…
Waymo is expanding to Singapore
Waymo has announced its next international location: Singapore.
Waymo says Singapore will be its next international robotaxi city
Waymo says it will launch a robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, as the Alphabet-owned company continues to eye overseas markets for expansion. Waymo's vehicles will begin arriv…
eGPUs do work, but they come with some notable limitations
You're probably better off buying a basic gaming PC than messing with an eGPU.
Google's revamped CC is an AI agent for families and groups
CC gives an AI agent its own Google account in your family or group and sends all members a daily briefing.
Anthropic says Claude 'leads' 26 percent of its AI R&D work
The company shared the stat alongside three measurements that help communicate the pace of AI development.
FAA says laser strikes on aircraft fell for the third consecutive year
The FAA says the 4,470 laser strikes recorded so far this year is "still too high."
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became r…
Candy Crush developers are planning a strike for next week
King's staff want to get negotiations back on track after years of bargaining.
Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to G…
Save $30 or more on a refurbished Apple TV 4K
Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can offset some of the increased costs on an Ap…
Lofi Girl returns with a new house music station and vinyl compilation
The old "where'd lofi girl go" trick again, I see.
Scammers have been inserting fake songs onto real artist's pages on Spotify and other platforms
A distribution loophole lets scammers collect royalties uploading fake songs to profiles for real bands.
Lucid and Bolt plan to deploy at least 25,000 robotaxis across Europe
At least that's the hope.
Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making
When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever …
Your robotaxi might be a narc
In early September, two teenagers got into a Waymo, but then ended up in the back of a police car. The robotaxi company said it detected "a violation of our terms of service invol…
Camp Snap’s 110D gives slim retro film cameras a digital upgrade
Camp Snap is expanding its small collection of screenless digital point-and-shoot cameras with the new pocket-friendly 110D featuring a thin horizontal design first popularized by…
Razer refreshes the one-handed Tartarus Pro keyboard with improved switches
The new version of this keyboard-like thingamajig will have some small improvements.
Lunacy Audio Nova is a place to build and sell your own AI-powered music plugins
Lunacy, purveyor of fine VST plugins like Cube, a synth that you control by moving a ball around a 3D space, has just launched Nova, a platform where creators can build custom mus…
AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income inequality. The survey questioned …
Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regula…
Europe's EU Kids Act would ban social media access for children under 13
It's the most sweeping proposal yet to limit kids' access to social media.