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Rode has announced a new version of the Rodecaster Video portable production console it launched just over a year ago, but the Rodecaster Video S isn't a replacement. The Rodecaster Video S offers similar functionality to the original, including switching and mixing multiple video and audio sources and replacing blue or green screens, but with [...]

If you logged into your Movies Anywhere account in the past few days, you might have noticed some titles missing from your library, specifically content purchased on Google Play and YouTube. As of October 31st, movies from either platform are no longer available on Movies Anywhere. The change was announced on a brief help page [...]

Apple recently launched its latest fleet of smartwatches, including the Apple Watch Series 11, the SE 3, and the Ultra 3. Each wearable offers something a little different (their prices indicate their breadth of features). A new generation of watches means we probably won't see big price drops soon, but we're officially beginning our watch [...]

Gemini can now draw from your emails and documents while performing deep research" queries. Google's announcement blog called this one of our most-requested features" for Gemini Deep Research, which is an agentic feature styled specifically for creating research reports rather than just answering questions. The chatbot starts by creating a multi-step research plan, then it [...]

If you've been holding off on getting a new laptop, now's a great time to pick one up. Ahead of Black Friday, you can snag the base 13-inch M4-powered MacBook Air for $749.99 ($250 off) in multiple colors at Amazon. That's the lowest price we've seen on Apple's slim laptop, letting you save more than [...]

Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health to how well you've recovered from a hard bout of training. Even flagship smartwatches, which used to be lackluster trackers, have become pretty adept workout companions. Whatever your fitness [...]

If you've ever watched a synth video on YouTube, there's a decent chance you've seen the Arturia KeyStep at some point. The affordable keyboard and controller has been a steady presence since its release in January of 2016, especially in DAWless circles. Now Arturia is finally releasing a proper successor, the KeyStep mk2, and on [...]

With the swing of a bat, another October came and went for those of us who love baseball. As languid and habitual as the rest of the season can feel, October baseball at its best is pure chaos: Night after night, there's a promise of something new, that you might see something that's never happened [...]

Apple is preparing to power its AI-upgraded Siri with a custom version of Google's Gemini AI model, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The iPhone maker will reportedly pay Google around $1 billion annually to gain access to the technology, which will generate summaries and perform planning-related tasks. As noted by Bloomberg, Apple [...]

Last week, Nintendo surprised everybody with an announcement: Over four years after its "last major free content update," Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting a Switch 2 upgrade and a free update for all players. It's not often that an incredibly popular game goes years between updates, but since when has anyone been able to [...]

Third-party controller makers that have figured out how to wirelessly wake the Switch 2 from its standby mode are generally loud and proud about that feature. That's because there still aren't many controllers that can mimic one of the $89.99 Switch 2 Pro's biggest selling points, which is letting owners turn the console on from [...]

Amazon built a portal to Kraft Mac & Cheese, Goldfish crackers, and Nestle Drumsticks inside one of its Whole Foods stores - and it plans to do the same at others. In a blog post on Wednesday, Amazon details a Whole Foods concept store in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, where shoppers can order grocery items from [...]

Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin. And despite being designed around random chance, it has a vibrant speedrunning community, racing to see who can get to 10 heads the fastest. That's the only goal. You earn money with each heads and can spend that on four things: a more valuable coin, a [...]

If you've ever had to leave your car parked for a few days while traveling - or returned to find a new dent that wasn't there before - Baseus' PrimeTrip VD1 Pro might be worth checking out. The dash cam records in 4K and keeps watch even when the car's turned off, and right now, [...]

Nintendo is stepping further away from its original Switch console, with the company now planning to dedicate most of its attention to its successor. In a financial results briefing on Wednesday, Nintendo said that going forward, we will shift our primary development focus to Nintendo Switch 2 and expand our business around this new platform." [...]

Discord is expanding the safety controls parents and guardians have access to in its Family Center, including increased visibility of their teens' activity, allowing guardians to control sensitive content filtering and data privacy settings, and giving them more control over who can DM their teens. New Social Permissions toggles will allow guardians to choose whether [...]

If you've been reluctant to update to the new Apple Home architecture, you now have a few more months before Apple forces your hand. Apple has pushed back the deadline to February 10, 2026, rather than fall 2025. The refreshed version of Apple Home has been available for a couple of years now and adds [...]

Another AI-powered wearable is coming to market. It's not a pendant like Friend, nor a wristband like Amazon's Bee. This time, it's a smart ring called the Stream Ring from the company Sandbar founded by former employees of the neural interface startup CTRL-Labs that was acquired by Meta. Users can preorder the Stream Ring now [...]

Black Friday will bring huge discounts on all sorts of tech. But sometimes you just can't wait, especially if you just lost your last pair of earbuds, or perhaps they no longer hold a charge. If you need a great set of noise-canceling wireless earbuds - and you use an Android phone - you may [...]

OpenAI didn't plan to make a browser. Not at first, anyway. But ever since the company launched ChatGPT, it started to see lots of users do the same thing. "You'd have this tab open on chatgpt.com, and you'd be working on something else somewhere in your browser," says Adam Fry, a product lead on the [...]

Ever since Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games to build a persistent universe," there's been very little indication as to what that may eventually look like. But the latest collaboration between the two companies might be the biggest hint yet - and it looks a lot like Disneyland. On November 6th, Disney is launching [...]

The holidays have a way of sneaking up on us. One minute you're trick-or-treating with your kids, and the next you're panic shopping in a Buc-ee's gift aisle. But it doesn't have to be that way. With the right cheat sheet, you can keep the holiday spirit high and stress levels low. Fortunately, we did [...]

Elon Musk's AI company compelled its employees to submit their own biometric data to train its Ani" female chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal. Ani, an anime avatar with blond pigtails and an NSFW setting, was released over the summer for users who subscribe to X's $30-a-month SuperGrok service. After testing it, The Verge's [...]

The Motion Picture Association - the trade group in charge of movie ratings - has asked Meta to stop using its PG-13" rating when referring to the type of content that teen accounts will see on Instagram. The MPA sent a cease and desist order to Meta on October 28th, saying Meta's use of the [...]

Google Maps is bringing Gemini's AI chatbot to more features, including more conversational" route planning and the use of landmarks and nearby business for navigation. Google has slowly been adding AI to many of its products, including Maps, which last year got an updated version of Immersive View that allows users to ask questions about [...]

PlayStation has announced that cloud streaming is officially rolling out to the PlayStation Portal, after a beta test period that started last year. Starting later today (November 5th) at 6PM PT / 9PM ET, PlayStation Premium Plus members will be able to stream select titles from their own library without the need to connect to [...]

Zohran Mamdani owes his win as New York City mayor substantially to his internet presence. Mamdani - as numerous writers have outlined - is good on social video. He picked a message, stuck to it, and adapted that platform to snappy soundbites across multiple mediums. But Mamdani's best trait as an online communicator wasn't knowing [...]

Nintendo has released an official Nintendo Store app, allowing more fans to access the eShop on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Five years after exclusively launching in Japan as the My Nintendo" app, Nintendo has now expanded the iOS and Android experience under a new name to other regions, including the US, UK, Canada, and [...]

On July 1st, Perez Hilton uploaded a YouTube video with breaking news. Hello everybody, it is Perez, the queen of all media, the original influencer, and allegedly, I have been subpoenaed by Blake Lively," Hilton said, stretching out the four syllables in the word allegedly" as far as they could go. Since the actress sued [...]

Stability AI, the creator of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, was largely victorious against Getty Images on Tuesday in a British legal battle over the material used to train AI models. The case originally looked set to produce a landmark ruling on AI and copyright in the UK, but it landed with a thud [...]

President Donald Trump has once again picked tech billionaire Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA Administrator, five months after pulling the initial nomination he made last year. Isaacman, an Elon Musk ally and commercial astronaut who has travelled into orbit twice as a civilian aboard SpaceX rockets, was reportedly withdrawn from consideration over previous [...]

I've been as much of a thin phone skeptic as anyone. Why would I give up on camera specs and battery life just to shave a couple of millimeters off a phone's waistline? I asked pretty much exactly that when I first saw Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge earlier this year. But the Motorola Edge 70 [...]

Just when we thought Epic v. Google might be over, just one Supreme Court rejection away from a complete victory for Epic, both sides have agreed to settle Tuesday evening. And if Judge James Donato, who ordered Google to crack open Android for third-party stores, agrees to the changes, it might turn Epic's victory into [...]

Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and - thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains - rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, they have gone from being utilitarian devices that sweep your floor to full-fledged home robots that can vacuum and mop your [...]

Google has dreamed up a potential new way to get around resource constraints for energy-hungry AI data centers on Earth - launching its AI chips into space on solar-powered satellites. It's a moonshot' research project Google announced today called Project Suncatcher. If it can ever get off the ground, the project would essentially create space-based [...]

Valve is testing a low-power way to complete downloads on your Steam Deck without having to leave the handheld running with the screen on. As part of an update that's currently on the Steam Deck's Beta and Preview channels, the handheld can complete all active downloads in a new display-off low-power mode before going to [...]

Apple Podcasts will soon include automatically-generated chapters for shows in English and allow creators to add links at specific timestamps in their episodes. Timed links may also be added to episodes automatically whenever creators mention another podcast. Creators can opt-out of both features, and chapters will only be generated when creators don't add their own. [...]

Did your Stream Deck sprout a red Device Not Supported" badge where a button used to be? If so, you were probably using BarRaider's popular plug-ins, which apparently check to see if StreamDeck.exe is digitally signed - and it just so happens that Elgato's digital signature expired yesterday (see image below). But as of 5PM [...]

Things are looking bright for those who want to nab a great TV in 2025 at a substantial discount. There's usually a great deal happening on a mid- or high-end TV from LG, Sony, Roku, Hisense, or Samsung - even if the biggest discounts remain reserved for Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day, and the lead-up [...]

Microsoft's first in-house AI image generator, MAI-Image-1, is now available in two products, Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The company announced the model in October. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a post on X that the text-to-image model will be coming soon" to the EU. Suleyman added that the model really [...]

Nomad has announced updated versions of its Stand One and Stand One Max hubs that now support the Qi2.2 standard for faster wireless charging rates of up to 25W when used with compatible smartphones like the Pixel 10 Pro XL and the iPhone 16 and 17 series. As with previous versions, the new Stand One [...]

Amazon doesn't want to be a part of Perplexity's AI-powered shopping experience. In a post on Tuesday, the ecommerce giant says it has repeatedly requested" that Perplexity stop allowing its Comet AI browser to buy products for customers, which Perplexity has responded to by accusing Amazon of bullying." Perplexity's AI browser, Comet, currently offers an [...]

Hello and welcome to Regulator. Happy New York City mayoral election day to everyone who's voting, watching from afar, or just here for the memes. And happy 35th day of the federal government shutdown, which, as of today, is tied for the longest shutdown in history. But let's step back for a second, because there's [...]

This weekend, I turned my home into a test lab for Google's new Gemini for Home AI and subjected my family to 72 hours of surveillance as it watched, interpreted, and narrated our every move. My purpose? To find out if an AI that sees everything is actually helpful or just plain creepy. "R unpacking [...]

The legal fight over whether the president can send troops into Portland, Oregon, depends on whether judges believe their own eyes or their smartphones. Even before inception, the lawsuit has been dogged by a war on reality fueled by social media influencers, some of whom have direct lines to federal officials. At every turn, influencers [...]

Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which run the company's new operating system, macOS 26. The latest 14-inch MacBook Pro that debuted in October 2025 features the M5 processor, its fastest and most efficient yet, and it's already over $50 [...]

After debuting a matchbox-sized handheld called the Arduboy Mini and a banana-shaped version of the original Arduboy, creator Kevin Bates has announced a new model of Arduboy FX called the FX-C with some welcome upgrades and new color options. For the first time, the credit card-sized Arduboy now has a USB-C port for charging, syncing, [...]

Now that spooky season's over, it's time to swap the pumpkins and skeletons for something a little more cheery ahead of the holidays. Govee's Christmas Lights 2 are customizable string lights that will add some smart home magic to your tree, with plenty of slack left over to adorn your space. Right now, they're discounted [...]

OpenAI has brought its AI video app, Sora, to Android. The app, which lets you create, share, and remix AI-generated videos, is now available on the Google Play Store in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, according to an announcement on Tuesday. OpenAI launched Sora on iOS in September, with the app [...]