Buying a TV in 2025? Expect lower prices, more ads, and an OS war.
If you're looking to buy a TV in 2025, you may be disappointed by the types of advancements TV brands will be prioritizing in the new year. While there's an audience of enthusiasts interested in...
View ArticleNvidia partners leak next-gen RTX 50-series GPUs, including a 32GB 5090
Rumors have suggested that Nvidia will be taking the wraps off of some next-generation RTX 50-series graphics cards at CES in January. And as we get closer to that date, Nvidia's partners and some of...
View ArticleCompanies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study
Return-to-office (RTO) mandates have caused companies to lose some of their best workers, a study tracking over 3 million workers at 54 "high-tech and financial" firms at the S&P 500 index has...
View ArticleAfter decades of talk, Seagate seems ready to actually drop the HAMR hard drives
How do you fit 32 terabytes of storage into a hard drive? With a HAMR. Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR, since at least 2002. The firm has occasionally...
View ArticleZ-Wave Long Range and its mile-long capabilities will arrive next year
Z-Wave can be a very robust automation network, free from the complications and fragility of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Just how robust, you ask? More than a mile long, under the right circumstances, as...
View ArticleArm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X...
Arm and Qualcomm's dispute over Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips is continuing in court this week, with executives from each company taking the stand and attempting to downplay the accusations from...
View ArticleThe Backbone One would be an ideal game controller—if the iPhone had more games
In theory, it ought to be as good a time as ever to be a gamer on the iPhone. Classic console emulators have rolled out to the platform for the first time, and they work great. There are strong...
View ArticleAmazon’s RTO delays exemplify why workers get so mad about mandates
Amazon announced in September that it will require workers to be in the office five days a week starting in January. Employee backlash ensued, not just because return-to-office (RTO) mandates can be...
View ArticleIntel is testing BIOS updates to fix performance of its new Core Ultra 200S CPUs
Intel's Core Ultra 200S desktop processors—the company's biggest overhaul of its desktop platform since 2021—consume less power and run a lot cooler than the company's 13th- and 14th-generation Core...
View ArticleHome Assistant’s Voice Preview Edition is a little box with big privacy powers
Home Assistant announced today the availability of the Voice Preview Edition, its own design of a living-room-friendly box to offer voice assistance with home automation. Having used it for a few...
View ArticleVPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network
In the hit virtual reality game Gorilla Tag, you swing your arms to pull your primate character around—clambering through virtual worlds, climbing up trees and, above all, trying to avoid an infectious...
View ArticleGoogle will apparently offer “AI Mode” right on its main search page
Google will soon take more steps to make AI a part of search, exposing more users to its Gemini agent, according to recent reports and app teardowns. "AI Mode," shown at the top left of the web results...
View ArticleNew AA-powered AirTag case promises 10-year lifespan
On Wednesday, Elevation Lab announced TimeCapsule, a new $20 battery case purported to extend Apple AirTag battery life from one year to 10 years. The product replaces the standard CR2032 coin cell...
View ArticleThe next two FIFA Women’s World Cups will only air on Netflix
If you want to watch the next two FIFA Women’s World Cups in the US, you’ll need a Netflix subscription. FIFA confirmed the news today, marking an unexpected change for the sports event, which has...
View ArticleStartup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first
Earlier this month, startup Embodied announced that it is going out of business and taking its Moxie robot with it. The $800 robots, aimed at providing emotional support for kids ages 5 to 10, would...
View ArticleGreen sea turtle gets relief from “bubble butt” syndrome thanks to 3D printing
Charlotte, a green sea turtle, was hit by a boat back in 2008. This left it with an affliction colloquially referred to as the “bubble butt,” a kind of floating syndrome that makes it impossible for a...
View Article$2,100 mechanical keyboard has 800 holes, NYC skyscraper looks
For $2,100, you could buy over a dozen upper-quality mechanical keyboards. Alternatively, you could buy just one mechanical keyboard kit. Costing the same as a desktop computer, The Icebreaker keyboard...
View ArticleI keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps, and I can’t stop
It started, like so many overwrought home optimization projects, during the pandemic. My wife and I, like many people stuck inside, were ordering takeout more frequently. We wanted to support local...
View ArticleFTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Microsoft in a wide-ranging probe that will examine whether the company’s business practices have run afoul of antitrust laws, according to people familiar...
View ArticleYou can love or hate AI, but it’s killed crappy 8GB versions of pricey PCs...
I'd describe myself as a skeptic of the generative AI revolution—I think the technology as it currently exists is situationally impressive and useful for specific kinds of tasks, but broadly oversold....
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