Will Shanklin

In its first Threads case, Meta’s Oversight Board asked for clarity on death threats Meta’s Oversight Board has weighed in on its first Threads case and reversed the company’s initial decision and first app […]

Apple’s new MagSafe charger will juice up the iPhone 16 faster than the old accessory canAt its big iPhone 16 event, which also included a new Apple Watch and AirPods, the company snuck in a new MagSafe charging […]

Apple Watch Series 10 features a much larger screen and a much thinner design The new Apple Watch is here. A decade after the company revealed its first model, the Apple Watch Series 10 has a bigger […]

YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ’s Russia indictmentsYouTube confirmed its termination of five right-wing political channels believed to be connected to the Department of […]

The new Philips Hue Sync Box can keep up with your game console’s framerates Signify launched a more future-proofed Philips Hue Sync Box, the company’s gizmo that plugs into your TV and creates a l […]

You can now officially create and use Baldur’s Gate 3 mods on PC Baldur’s Gate 3 modding has arrived for PC players. After a closed alpha in June and an open beta in July, the long-awaited P […]

YouTube is making tools to detect face and voice deepfakesYouTube is developing new tools to protect artists and creators from the unauthorized use of their likenesses. The company […]

Balatro is coming to mobile, and it’s going to ruin my life Beware: The most addictive game of 2024 is coming to a device that’s always within reach. Balatro, a clever combination of p […]

Google’s Gemini-powered photo search arrives in early accessGoogle’s AI-powered Photos upgrades are beginning to trickle in. Ask Photos, the Gemini-powered chatbot that lets you get u […]

Verizon is reportedly near a deal to buy broadband provider Frontier CommunicationsVerizon is reportedly near a deal to buy fiber provider Frontier Communications. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal said […]

Volvo scales back its EV goals, will no longer be fully electric by 2030Over three years after saying it would sell only electric vehicles by 2030, Volvo has lowered its EV ambitions. The automaker […]

Cheaper Copilot+ PCs are coming with Qualcomm's 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chip Qualcomm is moving to make AI PCs more affordable. Following the company’s 12-core Snapdragon X Elite and 10-core S […]

Copilot+ features are coming in November to AI PCs powered by Intel and AMD’s latest chips Qualcomm’s exclusivity period on Copilot+ PCs is winding down. Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that Intel’s new 200V pro […]

MLB’s virtual ballpark returns for four regular-season games in SeptemberMajor League Baseball’s virtual ballpark is back. Like a metaverse experience for traditional (non-VR) devices, it lets you w […]

Google is rolling out more election-related safeguards in YouTube, search and AIAs the US speeds toward one of the most consequential elections in its 248-year history, Google is rolling out safeguards to […]

OpenAI and Anthropic agree to share their models with the US AI Safety InstituteOpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to share AI models — before and after release — with the US AI Safety Institute. The age […]

These robots move through the magic of mushrooms Researchers at Cornell University tapped into fungal mycelia to power a pair of proof-of-concept robots. Mycelia, the […]

Reddit is back up after a 30-minute outageReddit is back up after an outage took the site out for half an hour this afternoon. The site appears to have been down […]

GameStop pivots to retro gaming at select locationsGameStop is pivoting to retro games at select locations. As the industry moves to digital media — and the retailer s […]

Gemini will soon generate AI images of people again with the upgraded Imagen 3 Google’s generative AI tools are getting some of the boosts the company previewed at Google I/O. Starting this week, the c […]