Category: Tech

Microsoft’s free Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming soon with ...

Microsoft has been testing its ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming service over the past few months, as I exclusively revealed in Octob...

Spotify is testing a feature that syncs audiobooks with...

Spotify appears to be working on a novel feature that will allow audiobook listeners to pick up where they left off in the physica...

Netflix revises Warner Bros. bid to an all-cash offer

Netflix has updated the acquisition terms for its Warner Bros. Discovery offer to an all-cash deal, replacing its initial $82.7 bi...

A second US Sphere could come to Maryland

Sphere Entertainment, the company behind the eye-catching interactive venue in Las Vegas, has announced its "intent to develop" an...

How much can a city take?

I live in Minneapolis. I grew up not far from here, in a suburb of St. Paul; after stints on both coasts, my wife and I settled he...

OpenAI’s 2026 ‘focus’ is ‘practical adoption’

OpenAI plans to focus on "practical adoption" of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar. As the company spends ...

Bungie’s Marathon shooter launches on March 5th

Bungie is putting an official date on Marathon today, its delayed extraction shooter. The slick-looking shooter from the makers of...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons added just enough to suck...

Animal Crossing has always been anti-instant gratification. By design, you have to take your time, wait for days to pass in real t...

Asus may have made its last phone

Asus chairman Jonney Shih told Taiwan's Inside that the company is done making phones for now, marking the end of its Zenfone and ...

This 5-foot lamp is a supersized tribute to the world’s...

Seletti, an Italian design brand known for everything from furniture to tableware, has debuted an unusual tribute to an icon of de...

Gamers love AI in game dev — they just don’t know it ye...

We’re back to start the year off with a very special live interview with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, which we taped in front of a ter...

Threads overtakes X on mobile, but still lags far behin...

After launching almost three years ago, Meta's Threads is now reportedly attracting more daily mobile users than rival platform X....

You need to listen to the cosmic horror-comedy podcast ...

It's relatively rare for a podcast to last 14 years, especially a fiction one. In fact, as far as I can tell, Welcome to Night Val...

Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on dystopian development...

Why Coinbase derailed the crypto industry’s political f...

January was going to be a landmark month for the crypto industry. The Senate would start negotiating the finer details of the CLAR...

Kaoss Pad V is the first major upgrade to Korg’s touch-...

The Kaoss Pad has seen many different iterations, but the mainline effect unit and sampler hasn't received an update since the lau...

Here are the 10 deals worth grabbing from Best Buy’s wi...

Good deals are often hard to come by at the beginning of the year — which is precisely what makes Best Buy’s Winter Sale worth che...

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 stopped som...

Microsoft released its first security update of 2026 for Windows 11 on January 13th. Just four days later, it was forced to releas...

The best deals on MacBooks right now

Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which r...

TCL’s PlayCube projector is more fun than a Rubik’s Cub...

The best all-in-one portable projector is the one that makes all the right compromises. It needs to balance image and sound qualit...