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Rivian is pushing a software update to its second-generation vehicles that includes a hands-free highway driving feature, the company said on Tuesday. It was a notable announcement, considering the company has lagged behind its competitors in introducing partially automated driving features similar to Tesla's Autopilot and General Motors' Super Cruise. The update enables drivers to [...]

Niantic Labs has announced that it's selling its video game division to Saudi Arabia-owned mobile developer Scopely for $3.5 billion after struggling to replicate the success of Pokemon Go across its other AR games. The newly inked agreement includes Niantic's Pokemon Go, Monster Hunter Now, and Pikmin Bloom mobile gaming titles. Niantic games have always [...]

Google Messages has been updated to address slowdowns, failures, and other issues that are preventing some users from receiving images and videos. Some users have reported RCS issues related to incoming media files, saying the Messages app slows down or freezes while loading attachments, photos cannot be clicked on or interacted with, and that images [...]

Google has updated its affiliate ads policy for Chrome extensions after creators accused PayPal's popular Honey browser extension of being a scam." Honey was accused of taking affiliate revenue from the same influencers it paid for promotion by using its Chrome extension to swap in its own affiliate link before you checked out. According to [...]

PayPal's Honey browser extension has been lauded for years as an easy way to find coupons online. But some are calling it a scam" after a deep dive from YouTuber MegaLag, who accused Honey of stealing money from influencers." The video shines a light on Honey's use of last-click attribution, an approach to online shopping [...]

The US Department of Justice antitrust division will be led by Gail Slater following a successful Congressional confirmation vote today. Slater will take over multiple antitrust cases against large tech firms, filed under both Donald Trump and Joe Biden -including a high-profile Google search monopoly suit. The Senate voted to confirm Slater with bipartisan support [...]

Ahead of the debut of its new Devil May Cry adaptation next month, Netflix has released yet another trailer to get you acquainted with some of the characters who will be gunning for Dante. In the new trailer it appears there are two different armies dead set on destroying demon hunter Dante (Johnny Yong Bosch) [...]

Tesla stock plunged 15 percent on Monday, its steepest drop in five years. The price is down over 50 percent since its December highs. Tesla owners, disgusted with Elon Muskas slash-and-burn tactics for the Trump administration, are selling their vehicles at a big loss. And Tesla showrooms across the country are becoming magnets for large [...]

At a White House event where he promised to buy a Tesla, President Donald Trump says he'll label violence at Tesla locations as domestic terrorism. Over the past few weeks, protests against Tesla CEO and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk have escalated at Tesla locations. There have been reports of situations like [...]

After a tumultuous 2024, in which iRobot lost its founder and CEO, Colin Angle, Amazon abandoned itsacquisition plans, and the company laid offa large portion of its staff, iRobot is back with a major shake-up of its robotic vacuum line. This week, the company that invented the robot vacuum over 20 years ago announced eight [...]

The internet is filled with awesome stuff to read, and there's new awesome stuff to read being published every day! That's the good news. The bad news is that finding the good stuff feels harder than ever. You either find your favorite writers or sources and check them religiously or just hope that the algorithm [...]

aBig timea confusion has wracked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) staff since last month, the agencyas chief operating officer, Adam Martinez, testified before a federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday. Martinez's testimony a which will continue on Tuesday afternoon a is meant to address questions around what's happening at the financial regulation agency, [...]

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) must comply with a request to disclose its internal records. In a ruling on Monday, US District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper wrote that DOGE is likely covered by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), adding that the public would be irreparably harmed by an indefinite delay in [...]

Even with uncertainty surrounding the TikTok ban, the platform is still trying to address safety concerns with a new reminder that tells teens to stop using the app at night and more controls for parents. If a teen under 16 is still using the app after 10PM, TikTok will interrupt their feed with a full-screen [...]

Davey Wreden does not tend to make conventional games. He exploded onto the indie scene in 2013 with The Stanley Parable, a choose-your-own adventure story set in a workplace hall of mirrors. Its follow-up, 2015as The Beginneras Guide was a tour through a series of games created by an untraceable hobbyist developer. Both are undeniably [...]

Agents are said to be the future of AI, and now OpenAI is trying to help developers build their own. The company is releasing a new Responses API that offers building blocks for developers to create agents capable of searching the web, digging through files, and performing tasks on a computer on their behalf. There [...]

The nonprofit Media Matters for America filed suit against X this week, accusing Elon Musk's social media company of harassment" and Musk of a globetrotting litigation campaign against Media Matters." After Media Matters reported on X placing ads next to pro-Nazi content in 2023, X filed three lawsuits against the nonprofit accusing it of threatening [...]

Here's everything you need to know about Tesla's first pickup truck, which Elon Musk has called heart-stopping" and his personal favorite" of Tesla's vehicles. Pickups have become more popular lately - their share of the US light vehicle market increased to 17.5 percent in 2019, from just under 13 percent in 2012. They're also the [...]

Looking to spend some time outside the US? Anker has announced a new travel adapter featuring a relatively slim design that's less than an inch thick thanks to plugs that can fold down and retract. The Anker Nano Travel Adapter is available now for $25.99, but you'll need to provide all your own cables and [...]

Google could be adding an extra camera to the base model Pixel 10, according to renders from leaker OnLeaks published by Android Headlines. Theimagesshow that the Pixel 10looksnearly identical to the Pixel 9, but with a wider pane of glass on the rear camerabarthat hints at a third rear camera. The outlet writes that the [...]

There's an unbelievable amount of work going on right now to boost the performance of lithium-ion batteries. PhDs around the globe are, at this very moment, furrowing their respective brows, trying to eke out a few percentage points of extra energy density, shave a few minutes off of charging times, or add a few months [...]

The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars - but focused on much more expensive hardware. Right now, like USB-C and Android phones, the Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is on a greater variety of cars. Meanwhile, Tesla's plug was long compared to Apple [...]

Google and a number of automakers are spearheading the movement to get automated vehicles on America's roads. Self-driving cars are street legal in three states, and Google's fleet has collectively logged over 300,000 miles of time on the road. However, there are several obstacles in the path of widespread adoption, with legal and moral opposition [...]

Although original estimates set the cost of the Las Vegas Sphere at $1.2 billion, Sphere Entertainment eventually spent around $2.3 billion to build the interactive venue. As the company looks to expand to other cities, it's also looking to scale down the venue, making it more affordable to build and operate. Sphere Entertainment is currently [...]

Itas no secret that AMD has been dominating in PC gaming CPU performance, but you always had to make a difficult choice between Intel and AMD if you used your gaming PC for professional workloads as well. With AMDas $699 Ryzen 9 9950X3D, you donat need to choose: AMD now has the best CPU for [...]

Apple rarely offers you more for less, especially in its most popular products with the broadest appeal. It has perfected the measured, iterative year-over-year product cycle. But for the 13- and 15-inch M4 MacBook Airs, Apple has put new chips in its established design while shoring up the deviceas biggest flaws and dropping the price [...]

Appleas new top tier Mac Studio, powered by the M3 Ultra chip, contains so much computing horsepower that itas never going to be on the radar of most tech enthusiasts a let alone your average consumer. It starts at $3,999, but if you upgrade every spec to the best on offer (including an astonishing 512GB [...]

The US smartphone market is pretty boring. There are iPhones, there are Galaxies, Google will happily give you a Pixel if you remember it exists, and thatas about it. But as soon as you get out and see the world a little, you realize: there are a lot of new ideas about smartphones out there. [...]

Ford is making some changes to how it handles its EV charging accessories. The company was the first to announce its plans toadopt Tesla's North American Charging Standard(NACS) connector for its EVs, and was also first to distribute NACS adapters to its EV customers free of charge. But now that grace period is over, with [...]

Microsoft is ending support of its Remote Desktop app for Windows on May 27th. If you use the Remote Desktop app to connect to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, or Microsoft Dev Box machines then you'll have to transition to the Windows app instead. The new Windows app, which launched in September, includes multimonitor support, [...]

It fit! Despite Brompton embiggening everything on its iconic folding bike, I was chuffed to see the new model G e-bike collapse into a compact package I could hoist onto the narrow tray inside my adventure van a the first crucial step in testing what Brompton calls athe most versatile e-bike in the world.a The [...]

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there's something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera [...]

Eric Schmidt, who was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, is now the CEO of rocket startup Relativity Space, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. Schmidt will be replacing Relativity Space co-founder Tim Ellis in the CEO role. Schmidt isn't alone in the segment - Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are known for [...]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a former Columbia University student over his involvement in the pro-Palestine protests that swept the campus over the past year, even though he has a green card and was never charged with a crime. Columbia, the site of a monthslong pro-Palestine encampment, became a particular obsession for right-wingers [...]

Happy Mario Day! To celebrate the world's most iconic plumber, Nintendo has all sorts of treats for fans, including a new Nintendo Switch bundle, a new Mario Kart Lego set, and a new theme for its cutesy Alarmo clock. Nintendo has also launched a massive sale in commemoration of so-called MAR10 Day," which will run [...]

Bluesky is adding support for longer, three-minute videos - a notable improvement from the previous one-minute limit. The update is rolling out in Bluesky version 1.99, which also includes a new DM filter that allows you to you approve or reject messages from people you might not know. The new Chat Requests" feature is similar [...]

Apple plans to significantly redesign the look of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS later this year, Bloomberg reports. The changes, which are set to arrive with iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, will touch many parts of the operating systems, including updating the style of icons, menus, apps, windows and system buttons," Bloomberg says. The [...]

Do you want to drop a not-so-subtle hint that you prefer the analog sound of vinyl over digital music whenever someone asks you the time? AndoAndoAndo's new Vinyl Record Automatic Watch looks like a tiny turntable strapped to your wrist - but not just any old record player. The timepiece's designer, Yu Ando, drew inspiration [...]

Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of at least one its PlayStation game characters. An anonymous tipster has shared an internal video from Sony's PlayStation group with The Verge that demonstrates an AI-powered version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West. The video is narrated by Sharwin Raghoebardajal, a director of software engineering at [...]

Microsoft has started sending out invites to a 50th anniversary and Copilot event at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The April 4th event will take place on the day Microsoft marks 50 years since it was first founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. The event on Microsoft's campus will include an [...]

Google has announced a new AI feature that uses Gemini AI bot to add events to your Google Calendar based on emailed details in Gmail. Emails that Gemini thinks describe events will get a new Add to Calendar button" that starts the interaction. When you click it, the Gemini prompt sidebar will open to confirm [...]

When it comes to improving the sustainability of consumer electronics, there's a growing movement to design devices with a focus on upgradability and repairability that can extend their longevity, instead of just making them easier to recycle after a few years of use. At one time, nearly every laptop maker was caught up in a [...]

The developers of Infinity Nikki have finally solved one of the game's biggest problems: where the hell is everything? Piggybacking off similar efforts in other gacha games like Genshin Impact, the developers at Infold Games have created an interactive map that'll guide you to all the bits and bobs littered throughout the game's impressively expansive [...]

Today, the $700 PlayStation 5 Pro can already produce crisper, sharper, smoother, and more stable graphics than a PS5, if you sit close enough to appreciate them. But starting in 2026, the company hopes to imbue games with a new AI upscaling formula that'll make them even crisper, based on the AMD FSR 4 technique [...]

On September 10th, PlayStation held a technical presentation" that confirmed the long-rumored PS5 Pro's existence and souped-up specs, like a buffed GPU, Wi-Fi 7, and support for Sony's AI-driven upscaling technology, PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, or PSSR. It will also come with features like PS5 Pro Game Boost to improve the performance of supported PS4 [...]

This weekend, protests escalated at Tesla showrooms across the nation. Hundreds of people gathered to boycott Elon Musk and his involvement in the Trump administration as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is overseeing a massively disruptive effort to fire thousands of federal workers to slash government spending. Most of these [...]

Epic Games plans to bring its mobile game store and Fortnite to iOS users in Brazil in July, the company says in a post on X. The announcement follows a ruling in Brazil last week that gave Apple 90 days to allow sideloading in the country. Last year, Epic brought back Fortnite and launched the [...]

Across U.S. politics, it's become fashionable to blame nearly all the internet's ills on one law I co-wrote: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Everyone from President Donald Trump to some of my Democratic colleagues argue that Section 230 has let major tech platforms moderate too much or too little. Trump's Federal Communications Commission [...]

Greenhouse gas emissions could affect satellite launches in the future, new research suggests. As it builds up, the pollution causes Earth's upper atmosphere to contract, potentially raising the risk of satellite collisions in orbit. It's yet another way that fossil fuel emissions are having a tangible impact on things people rely on daily, especially as [...]