Fairphone Fairbuds 2: Two-minute review I don’t like Fairphone’s products because they’re more environmentally-friendly and repairable than anything else on the market (though they’re all definitely perks). I like them because they always offer something a little different to make them recommendable as some of the best wireless headphones by their own merits. Last year’s Fairbuds XL 2025 over-ears…
Intego is one of our favorite Mac antivirus tools. When we tested it out earlier in the year, it easily delivered software that was "powerful enough to offer you peace of mind," while still being very easy to use. With the company promising to scare off cyberthreats this Halloween, the Intego One Advanced two-year plan is now $78 (was $130) . With 40% off, that works out at $3.25 a month. In the U…
Tech stocks are taking a big hit on the stock market today, and they really only have themselves to blame. Just look at Google and Reddit's plummeting stocks. On Thursday, Google stock experienced its largest single-day drop ever , and Reddit is on track to have its worst-ever day on Friday. Other tech stocks are also down Friday. As of this writing, Intel is down 30 percent. NVIDIA is down almost…
Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.
We're seeing the first round of 'early' Black Friday deals this week as retailers look to ease into the end-of-year madness. Both Amazon and Best Buy have some genuinely worthwhile listings right now, but a real highlight is the Google Pixel 11 for $699 (was $899) . This is a record-low price for Google's latest flagship, which is only a few months of as of writing. Up until now, we've seen $100 d…
In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape. Fujifilm attributes the surge in archiving demand to the spread of generative AI, which the company remarked is producing "exponential growth" in data needs worldwide. The 5x increase in…
Starbucks could eventually show you a personalized digital menu when you pull up to the drive-thru. During an earnings call on Thursday , Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is going to explore "experiences that recognize participating customers as they arrive, present personalized digital menus, and make payment more effortless," as spotted earlier by More Perfect Union . It sounds simila…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday he expects to conclude negotiations with the European Union in June on an unprecedented partnership that would make Canada the bloc’s first “associate member,” even though the designation was left out of a joint declaration launching a new economic and security alliance. Carney said he would attend a meeting of European leaders in June to conclude ne…
The robotics industry wants humanoids to become part of everyday life, taking on work in homes and offices. Billions of dollars are flowing toward machines capable of increasingly complex physical tasks. The humanoid robot maker Figure raised more than $1 billion last year at a $39 billion valuation, while the robotics software startup Skild AI secured $1.4 billion in January to develop artificial…
The Celebrity Traitors season 2 Finale is out tonight, and it's starting to get really, really tense. After a tense round table saw Kenny use his double vote to banish Joanne, the traitors struck again. They left viewers baffled when they elected to kill Sharon over Michael, a decision that might prove costly. Michael seems to have been possessed by the spirit of Sherlock Holmes now as, after week…
An AI agent was connected to a secure internal Defense Department network The agent was given login details to allow it to perform coding tasks, but also allowed it to bypass security controls The agent sent sensitive information, including the credentials, to a high-risk third party website An Accenture contractor at the Department of Defense is in hot water over an AI agent that was given access…
The FDA-approved sleep apnea tracking feature will first come to the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, Watch 9, and Ring.
The iPhone has more screens ! The MacBook has a touchscreen ! The HomeView does CarPlay apps ! For the first time in a long time, Apple is in a period of unabashed gadget experimentation, and while the final results aren't always perfect, it's fun to watch the most successful product maker try some new things again. Even when, in this case, "trying" amounts to just slapping a touch panel on a love…
I’m finally ready to upgrade to a smart calendar – and Amazon’s newest Echo device looks like an organizational solution for my family and I.
Several states have abortion rights on the ballot again this midterm season—or candidates with strong stances on the issue. Among them are six state attorneys general who are seeking reelection, and who recently voiced their support for an embattled South Dakota abortion law that has been accused of violating free speech. On October 19, Attorneys General Brenna Bird of Iowa, Tim Griffin of Arkansa…
It took about 20 minutes for hackers to move billions of dollars out of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. Now, investigators are pointing to a group linked to another record-breaking crypto theft. Blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs has attributed the $6.3 billion attack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking unit blamed for last year's $1.5 billion Bybit heist , with "high con…
Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe (left) watches Rivian R2s being built after an event at the Rivian assembly plant on May 19th, 2026, in Normal, Illinois. | Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images During an hourlong earnings call last night , Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spent less time talking about the production ramp of the all-important R2 SUV than he did hyping the company's still-unproven autonomous v…
New York has banned AI chatbots from pretending to be human with children. Bots also may not build emotional dependency, encourage self-harm or hold sexual conversations with them. Governor Kathy Hochul signed the law on Wednesday, with a second law on baby monitor security. The banned features are off limits to anyone under 18 and […] This story continues at The Next Web
IPVanish has launched a dedicated IP, a feature reviewers have long flagged as missing. It gives you a fixed VPN IP address that no other user shares, with five locations at launch. It's aimed at people who need reliable logins and remote access, but there's a privacy trade-off to weigh up. IPVanish has launched a dedicated IP , an optional add-on that fills one of the most noticeable gaps in its…
Chris Metinko / Axios : Salesforce agrees to acquire Rune, which raised ~$30M to make AI military logistics software, as it expands its year-old Missionforce defense business — Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rune Technologies, a military software and hardware developer for logistics and sustainment.
Walmart’s inexpensive Vizio produces a nice, bright image, though its black levels aren’t that deep. | Photo: John Higgins / The Verge Modern smart TVs let you skip the streaming device, which is convenient, but they also come with their own issues, including privacy concerns and frequent updates. The Vizio Mini LED Quantum TV lets you cut out the rigamarole and just get straight to the HDMI ports…
San Francisco’s Biological Computing Co. released TBC Mischief 1, an image-to-video model built on Wan 2.2. It says insights from living neurons make it about five times faster at the same quality, priced at $0.005 per second of video. It has not published independent benchmarks. San Francisco startup The Biological Computing Co. has released an […] This story continues at The Next Web
PS5 Bazzite Deck is a new spin on this gaming-focused version of Linux It allows you to boot your PS5 to a Steam Deck interface and play PC games You need to jailbreak your Sony console to run it (via the PS5 Linux loader), and that's a risky path to take for a number of reasons Don't want to fork out all that cash for a Steam Machine ? If you've got a PS5, you could turn it into a spin on Valve's…
The first TPU in space is a running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
A vulnerability in some Netgear routers could allow an attacker with access to your network to run malicious commands on the device.
Google rolled out a small visual change to Gemini on non-Pixel devices, while improving the app's file management. As spotted by 9to5Google , the Gemini app on Android received a couple of upgrades this week. For starters, the Gemini overlay that pops up when you activate Google's AI assistant on Android devices now stands out a little more visually. The pill-shaped search bar now has blurred edge…
Avengers: Doomsday is coming, and it's presumed to be one of the biggest movies of the year. And that's saying something in a year when Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey became a hot ticket. Since opening in July, it's grossed more than $1.7 billion dollars worldwide, making it the eleventh highest-grossing movie of all time. But you know what's number one? Avengers: Endgame. And sure, Endgame boast…
The US has charged five individuals as part of the first broad federal crackdown on “ghost students”—fraudsters who steal the identities of hundreds of Americans to pose as fake college students and steal student loans. In a press release Thursday, the Department of Justice said it had uncovered a large-scale scheme relying partly on AI. The DOJ seized more than $750,000 in cryptocurrency from “a…
Proton, the Swiss company behind Proton Mail, will “re-interview” some of its staff about how they use AI at work. The results may affect who keeps their job. Internal messages show chief executive Andy Yen telling engineers to stop hand-writing code and use AI instead, 404 Media reported. Joseph Cox revealed the plan for 404 […] This story continues at The Next Web
I reviewed the MacBook Neo way back in March, and even then I knew there was very little chance that I'd be giving our Laptop of the Year award to any other device at the TechRadar Product of the Year 2026 Awards . It's not necessarily the best choice for everyone — many far more powerful laptops have been released this year, and if you want to play PC games on your laptop don't even think of buyi…
Thrive Holdings, the holding company set up by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital, has agreed to buy ADT for $10 a share in cash. ADT sells home security systems in the US. The deal values ADT at about $7.6bn in equity and $15.3bn in enterprise value. The price is a 45.6% premium to ADT’s close of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Ford CEO Jim Farley says the drivetrain in its new low-cost EV platform is about 30% more efficient than BYD’s, so Ford can use smaller, cheaper batteries. The platform debuts in the $28,350 Fathom pickup in late 2027. Ford did not say which BYD system it compared. Ford says the motors, gearboxes and inverters in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Yesterday, the world lost one of its great thespians. Sir Patrick Stewart, known on stage for his riveting portrayals of Shakespeare’s characters and, more broadly, for his film portrayals of the X-Men’s Professor X, passed away after a short battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. But of course, the role Stewart is best known for is playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the televisio…
Anthropic spent $2,745,874 on personal security for chief executive Dario Amodei in 2025, more than four times his $654,167 salary. The figure is in the company’s IPO filing. The filing also says its co-founders’ pledge to give away 80% of their stakes is not legally binding. Bilin Lin first highlighted the security costs for Fortune, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple's tvOS 27.2 update isn't a particularly transformative one, but it still introduces a handful of new features that are worth checking out. Apple's tvOS 27.2 update isn't a particularly transformative one, but it still introduces a handful of new features that are worth checking out.
Google details 42 fixes to its Home app and the devices compatible with it.
A new report from the analytics firm Quilty Space confirms that, outside of China, the world faces a significant shortage of rockets over the next five years. The firm estimates that between now and 2030, there will be a shortfall of about 150 launches compared to demand from satellite operators and civil space agencies. If demand from the US military is added in—and SpaceX does not extend the Fal…
Prusa’s Core One+ is the 3D printer that changed the way our expert changed prints and thinks about 3D printing. Scoring the full 5 stars in our review, and an Editor's Choice award, he ran it for weeks without a single misprint. And the speed outclasses other multi-filament 3D printers. So, I was excited to see the Core One+ for $999 in Prusa's early Black Friday sale (or £919 in the UK). Instead…
Sam Tobin / Reuters : London's High Court dismisses Meta, TikTok, and X's challenge to Ofcom's Online Safety Act information requests, rejecting arguments they were disproportionate — Meta (META.O), TikTok and X lost a legal challenge against British regulator Ofcom on Friday over information requests made under …
Cognition, the startup behind the AI coding agent Devin, has received investor offers that value it at $70bn to $80bn. The San Francisco company is seriously considering raising a new round before the end of the year. Katie Roof reported the talks for Business Insider on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The talks […] This story continues at The Next Web