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YouTube is tightening its policies on gambling content. The platform has announced that it will soon prohibit creators from verbally referring to gambling services not approved by Google, as well as displaying their logos and linking to them in videos. The new rules, which go into effect on March 19th, may also put age restrictions [...]

Though only out for a grand total of four days, Monster Hunter Wilds has sold an astonishing 8 million copies. That's according to Capcom, reporting that the monster hunting action RPG has become the company's fastest selling title ever. The Monster Hunter franchise has racked up a number of superlatives for its publisher with 2018's [...]

Apple is pushing back against the UK's secret order to give the government access to encrypted iCloud files. The company has filed an appeal with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which deals with complaints about the unlawful intrusion" of UK intelligence services and authorities, according to a report from the Financial Times. As noted by FT, [...]

The Nintendo Switch is now eight years old and the company is announcing what could be its final retail bundle push before the introduction of the Switch 2. The new bundle includes the Nintendo Switch OLED system with a digital copy of Super Mario Bros. Wonder and a 3-month Nintendo Switch Online individual membership for [...]

Dotemu, the studio and publisher best-known for retro revivals like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and Streets of Rage 4, has announced its next game - and this time it's a brand-new property. Called Absolum, and it's a fantasy beat em up with roguelike elements; it's being described as a rogue em up." Dotemu [...]

After a whole lot of teasing, it's now official: remakes of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 are on the way. Activision officially announced the new release - called Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 - which will include remakes of both seminal skateboarding games and is launching on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and [...]

Sony is launching a new PlayStation beta program to offer an easier, more consolidated way for gamers to sign up to participate in future PlayStation betas across a wide range of PlayStation experiences," according to a blog post by Sony's Sid Shuman. By signing up for the beta program (technically called the Beta Program at [...]

Split Fiction, the new game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, doesnat do anything particularly new. The game is a straightforward co-op adventure that strings together disparate sci-fi and fantasy games like links on a chain. If you bundled together the sci-fi and fantasy sections as separate entities, they wouldnat form a cohesive experience [...]

The cameras on our phones wonat stop getting bigger. Xiaomias new 15 Ultra is dominated by an enormous ring of cameras on the back, Nothing has rethought its camera layout from scratch to fit a periscope into the Phone 3A Pro, and consistent rumors suggest that even Apple is going to strap a big ola [...]

Leadership and staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are clashing in court over whether the Trump administration is seeking to wind down the agency and if it has allowed workers to continue their legally required duties. Now, a key agency executive is expected to testify in a hearing next week, after a judge [...]

For the first time in more than two years, there's a new base-model iPad on the market. Apple just announced the 11th-generation iPad with a press release, as it has done with a number of recent devices. The new iPad comes equipped with an upgraded A16 chip, along with double the starting storage" at 128GB. [...]

The iPad Air is a tricky tablet. At times, it has been the most compelling of Apple's lineup, the Goldilocks-perfect combination of features and price. Other times, it starts to feel like an awkwardly placed option, both too expensive and not good enough. With the new model, which Apple just announced via a press release, [...]

2024 was the year OLED cemented its victory - and 2025 might let more gamers actually afford the glorious screens. Today, Alienware says it will try* to bring the price of a QD-OLED gaming panel down to $549 this summer with the AW2725D, a new 27-inch 2560 x 1440 QHD monitor that'll offer OLED's incredible [...]

The RTX 50-series launch hasnat gone smoothly so far. Severely limited stock, high prices, and manufacturing issues have left PC gamers frustrated. Now, Nvidia is trying to get things heading in the right direction with the RTX 5070, a GPU that it promised would deliver $1,599 RTX 4090-like performance for $549. It doesnat, and it [...]

If you're a Windows and Android user who has been envying the iPhone mirroring capabilities of macOS, there is a similar feature you can use a albeit with a caveat. First, the good news: this is a free tool thatas built right into Windows 11, with no extra download required. It works as part of [...]

Bald head. Big muscles. Once a renowned businessman, now making a series of questionable decisions in order to obtain more political power. Weird side hobbies, some involving rockets. Perfect recipe for a Bond villain! Also a decent description of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. So maybe itas appropriate that Amazon has struck a deal to give [...]

President Donald Trump has followed through on his temporarily delayed tariff threats. The US will impose a 25 percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico and Canada, while China will face an additional 10 percent tariff on top of the 10 percent tax previously enacted. On Monday, Trump dashed hopes that a deal could be [...]

Today's the day: Waymo's unlikely partnership with Uber is now live in Austin, Texas. The former rivals have joined forces in the hopes of accelerating the transition to autonomous vehicles, and as of today, any Austin resident with a desire to take a trip in a fully driverless robotaxi can open their Uber app and [...]

The Nothing 3A phones were just announced with a new take on the company's make tech more fun again" ethos. These devices have improved hardware over the Phone 2A, updated cameras, and a new feature called the Essential Space to store and index your miscellaneous screenshots, voice memos, and photographs, all through a dedicated button. [...]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. - the world's biggest chipmaker - will invest at least $100 billion to expand chip manufacturing in the US. During a press conference on Monday, President Donald Trump said the funding would go toward building two additional chip manufacturing facilities in Phoenix, Arizona. The $100 billion investment builds upon the $65 [...]

Google is making some changes to Google Play on Android devices to better highlight apps that include widgets, according to a blog post. The changes include a new search filter for widgets, widget badges on app detail pages, and a curated editorial page dedicated to widgets. Historically, one of the challenges with investing in widget [...]

At least a dozen probationary staffers at the Federal Trade Commission were terminated last week, The Verge has learned. The terminations took place across the agency, according to two sources familiar with the matter, one of whom said that included both the Bureau of Consumer Protection and Bureau of Competition. The sources did not definitively [...]

The Vision Pro is Apple's newest computing platform, and that means we're going to see a whole bunch of new apps. Apple pitches apps built for the Vision Pro as spatial" experiences, and even after our initial review experience, we'll have to see how those differ from or improve upon the virtual reality and mixed [...]

SwitchBot's inexpensive, adjustable smart roller shades are finally here. First announced in September, the SwitchBot Roller Shades are now available at switch-bot.com, claiming to be the world's first adjustable smart shades. This means you don't need to worry about getting your measurements right before ordering, as you can adjust the width of both the shade's [...]

Apple's latest iOS 18.4 developer beta adds the Visual Intelligence feature, the company's Google Lens-like tool, to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, as reported by 9to5Mac. Apple had told Daring Fireball that the feature would be coming to those iPhones in a future software update but didn't say which. Barring any [...]

At Microsoft's New York City event today, it's announcing an all-new Copilot experience. The new Copilot design includes a new card-based look across mobile, web, and Windows. Copilot is getting more personalized with features like Copilot Vision, which adds the ability to see what you're looking at, an OpenAI-like natural voice conversation mode, and a [...]

Update, March 3rd:AThe Google Pixel 7 Pro has sold out at Best Buy. It may be a few years old at this point, but the Google Pixel 7 Pro is still a good investment given it currently costs less than some of the best budget phones on the market. Right now, you can pick up [...]

EV maker BYD unveiled Lingyuan," a vehicle-mounted drone launching system developed in collaboration with DJI that is available for all of the company's vehicles, reports Chinese state media outlet Xinhua. The system is only available in China, like BYD's vehicles, and costs 16,000 yuan (or about $2,197). BYD's video below, reposted by YouTube channel ShanghaiEye, [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook just teased the launch of a new device coming to its Air lineup this week. In a post on X, Cook posted a short video with the text, There's something in the air" alongside a caption saying this week." Though Cook doesn't specify which device Apple plans to launch, it's likely [...]

A little doom and dread always helps Doctor Who hit that much harder, and the show's new season 2 trailer makes it seem like it's going to come out swinging when it returns to Disney Plus in a few weeks. Though many of the Doctor's (Ncuti Gatwa) companions have been amazed by their adventures to [...]

Google is disabling the original uBlock Origin ad blocker for more Chrome browser users, alongside other extensions that are no longer supported as the browser migrates to its new extension specification, Manifest V3. According to Google, the new standard aims to improve privacy and security, but also removes a feature that some ad blocking extensions [...]

For the last couple years, it has been evident that Google cofounder Sergey Brin is back in the building. This week, he sent a clear message to hundreds of employees in Googleas DeepMind AI division, known as GDM: the pressure to win the AGI race is on. aIt has been 2 years of the Gemini [...]

The Blue Ghost spacecraft has landed on the moon, making history as the first private lander to successfully" achieve this feat according to its creator, Firefly Aerospace. The Texas-based commercial aerospace firm announced on Sunday that its lander had softly touched down on the Moon's surface in an upright, stable configuration." This is technically the [...]

Look out: there's a new fastest robot in the world. A Maserati MC20 Coupe with no one in the driver's seat set a new land speed record for autonomous vehicles, reaching 197.7mph (318km/h) during an automotive event at the Kennedy Space Center last week. The Maserati was running self-driving software developed by Politecnico di Milano, [...]

Chinese phone brand Infinix is known to show off a flashy concept, and at this year's MWC the company is looking skyward for inspiration. It's showing a phone with an integrated solar panel on the back, as well as a solar charging phone case. They're both in the concept phase, but the demo units I [...]

As Twitter continues to flail about under Elon Musk, all eyes are on the newly launched Instagram Threads as a potential replacement. Meta launched Threads on iOS, Android, and the web on July 5th - a little bit ahead of schedule. Two days in, Mark Zuckerberg said Threads has registered over 70 million accounts, and [...]

Lenovo has announced a new concept laptop at Mobile World Congress that encourages you to work outside by reducing your dependence on power cables. The Yoga Solar PC is an early proof of concept device featuring a solar panel integrated into the laptop's lid. It can harness light from any source to boost its battery, [...]

Lenovo has another funky experiment it's announcing at Mobile World Congress: the ThinkBook codename Flip" AI PC Concept. It's a productivity / business laptop with a flexible display, allowing it to be used as a traditional 13.1-inch clamshell, a folded-up 12.9-inch tablet, or a laptop with an extra-tall 18.1-inch vertical screen. The ThinkBook Flip uses [...]

In a pair of social media posts today, President Donald Trump named some cryptocurrencies he says will be part of a Crypto Strategic Reserve being created by an executive order he signed in January. Those include Bitcoin and Ether, which he says will be the heart of the Reserve." Trump said in the first of [...]

Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday ordered staff to begin finding tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal" to upgrade air traffic control communications, anonymous sources have told Rolling Stone. The story follows reports that Starlink may be taking the job from Verizon, which already has a multibillion-dollar contract with [...]

Just days after revealing the 15 Ultra in China, Xiaomi has announced a UK and European launch for its latest flagship phone, together with the base Xiaomi 15. There's no sign of the Pro model, but there is an array of tablets, earbuds, and fitness trackers appearing alongside the phones. The 15 and 15 Ultra [...]

Apple Intelligence was supposed to finally deliver a more natural version of Siri, but now, people who work in Apple's AI department believe the company won't release a "truemodernized, conversational version of Siri ... until iOS 20 at best in 2027, writes Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in today's Power On newsletter. Apple is expected to roll [...]

HMD announced a new set of earbuds today with a case that doubles as a backup phone battery. The aptly named wireless Amped Buds come in a Qi2 charging case that uses reverse wireless charging to boost your phone's charge. With a slim design and a 1,600mAh battery, it's a portable case that offers just [...]

After two years telling anyone whoad listen that Chinese manufacturer Vivo made the best cameras in any smartphone, last yearas Xiaomi 14 Ultra changed my tune. It became my favorite phone and camera, handling everything from holiday snaps to product review photoshoots. With the 15 Ultra, Xiaomi took the best and made it better with [...]

Xiaomi has given a European launch to its Buds 5 Pro, the first earbuds to use Qualcomm's S7 Pro chip to stream audio over Wi-Fi, in addition to Bluetooth, with no increase in power consumption. Qualcomm announced the technology in October 2023, and this is the first hardware to launch. The Buds 5 Pro were [...]