Will Shanklin

Apple is finally opening up NFC to third-party developers in iOS 18.1Apple isn’t just opening up Near-Field Communication (NFC) access in the European Union; it’s offering third-party access to […]

Now it’s Democrats who want the House to investigate X for political censorshipThe House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to his committee’s chair, Jim Jordan (R-OH), o […]

Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6: How the best foldables stack up Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold is here, evolving the company’s foldable phone formula from the lineup’s debut a year ago. The c […]

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold has a bigger, brighter inner display and the same $1,799 price Google’s second foldable phone, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, has arrived. The good news is its eight-inch inner display is the l […]

Microsoft and Palantir partner to sell AI to government agenciesMicrosoft is teaming up with secretive data analytics company Palantir, which has been accused of (among other wretched acts) […]

Proton Pass now supports Touch ID and Windows Hello biometric loginsProton’s password manager is gradually catching up with rivals like 1Password. The company, known initially for its e […]

PaleoScan is a cheap imaging device democratizing fossil research An innovative scanner created by an NYU computer scientist is allowing scientists to digitize previously isolated fossils in […]

RIP Chromecast: Looking back at 11 years of Google streaming Google’s Chromecast is no more. With Tuesday’s introduction of its successor, the company laid to rest the brand that kic […]

Sonos Ace owners can now swap TV audio with the Ray and Beam soundbarsSonos has delivered on its promise to expand TV audio swap for its new Ace headphones, which launched in June. When the […]

NVIDIA’s AI team reportedly scraped YouTube, Netflix videos without permissionIn the latest example of a troubling industry pattern, NVIDIA appears to have scraped troves of copyrighted content for AI […]

Apple's latest iOS 18 beta walks back some changes to the redesigned Photos app Apple is pumping the brakes on some of its updates to the Photos app in iOS 18. The company made some changes — removing s […]

Apple’s iPad mini drops to a record low of $380If you’ve been holding out for a deal on an iPad mini, it may be time to make a move. Apple’s mini-tablet has dropped to a r […]

Warner Bros. Discovery sues the NBA in a last-ditch effort to block Amazon’s new streaming package Warner Bros. Discovery followed through on its threat to “take appropriate action” against the NBA for rejecting its bro […]

Apple’s M3 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM is $200 off right now Apple’s M3 MacBook Air combines Apple’s lightest and thinnest laptop design with the impressive horsepower of thi […]

California Supreme Court upholds classification of gig workers as independent contractorsRide-share companies scored a victory in the California Supreme Court, allowing them to continue classifying gig workers as […]

AI video startup Runway reportedly trained on ‘thousands’ of YouTube videos without permission AI company Runway reportedly scraped “thousands” of YouTube videos and pirated versions of copyrighted movies without per […]

The US Senate unanimously passes a bill to empower victims of intimate deepfakesThe US Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday designed to hold accountable those who make or share deepfake porn. The […]

Search engines that don’t pay up can’t index Reddit contentWhen Reddit said last month that it would block unauthorized data scraping from its site, everyone’s (rightful) first r […]

Russia-linked hackers cut heat to 600 Ukrainian apartment buildings in the dead of winter, researchers sayCybersecurity company Dragos has flagged malware that can attack industrial control systems (ICS), tricking them into […]

Prime Video gets a much-needed UI overhaul with a new content bar and AI recommendations For all its stacked selection of original content, like Fallout, The Boys and Rings of Power, Prime Video has historically […]