DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3, the baby steadicam, is one of the most popular gadgets the company’s ever made. But you’ll pay a hefty Trump tax to get one in the US: $799 after tariff-fueled back-to-back price hikes this spring. What if I told you DJI may have found a way to dodge those tariffs and […]
Panther Lake is the most important chip Intel has made in years. It’s the one that will tell the world if a smaller, more focused Intel can still meet or beat the competition from Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm. It’s the first on Intel’s 18A process, the one Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger claimed would right the […]
Google’s third foldable features plenty of improvements from its second, from a world-first IP68 rating to magnetic Qi2 charging, brighter displays, and a bigger battery. But one area it hasn’t improved is the size and shape – in fact, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold is a gram heavier and a fraction of a millimeter thicker […]
Last week, Amazon and Google kick-started what could be the next chapter of the smart home. Their new voice assistants, Alexa Plus and Gemini for Home, have been rebuilt from the ground up on generative AI and large language models to be more conversational, understand context, and take actions. This marks the biggest shift in […]
When OpenAI released its new AI-generated video app Sora last week, it launched with an opt-out policy for copyright holders – media companies would need to expressly indicate they didn’t want their AI-generated characters running rampant on the app. But after days of Nazi SpongeBob, criminal Pikachu, and Sora-philosophizing Rick and Morty, OpenAI CEO Sam […]
To: Bari Weiss RE: Good luck, babe! I honestly cannot believe you’ve willingly decided to go into the worst kind of job that exists: management at a dying company. This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs Managing sucks! It sucks even when you like the people you’re managing and it’s a low-stress […]
The tech industry has championed the development of new technologies that filter carbon dioxide out of the air as a way to try to undo the damage caused by planet-heating emissions. Over the past several years, they’ve made a slew of splashy announcements to fund these kinds of projects, called direct air capture (DAC). That […]
If the only thing Roland ever released was the TR-808, the company would still deserve a place in the music gear hall of fame. The 808 is arguably the most important instrument since the creation of the electric guitar. It’s been a cornerstone of hip-hop, electronic, and pop music for 45 years now, used by […]
Life is a series of battles, and I just lost my last one against four gyoza on a skewer. It was an unexpected blow, because honestly, who could have expected me – a springy, respectably proportioned hot dog – to lose against a seemingly inflexible spear of small, unassuming dumplings? This is my struggle in […]
Spotify has found itself the target of artists’ ire for many reasons over the years: poor audio quality, terrible payouts, giving Joe Rogan millions of dollars… the list goes on. But recently it’s been CEO and founder Daniel Ek’s extracurricular activities that have been cause for consternation. Over the past few months his funding of […]