Hello and welcome to Regulator. I was recently riding a Lime scooter around downtown DC (don’t hate the player) and zipped across the intersection of 16th Street and I Street NW when I zoomed by the Motion Picture Association’s office building. Except now it had the logo of America 250 over the door. The last […]
Google is previewing a new Gemini AI model designed to navigate and interact with the web via a browser, letting AI agents do things inside interfaces designed for use by people and not robots. The model, called Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, uses “visual understanding and reasoning capabilities” to analyze a user’s request and carry out […]
Day one of Prime Big Deal Days is here, and while there are plenty of big-ticket discounts, not everyone is looking to shell out a bunch of cash (myself included). The good news is you don’t have to spend a fortune to score something good during the two-day event, which ends Thursday, October 9th, at […]
Trump’s Department of Energy wants to cancel billions more in awards that were granted by the Biden administration, and startups are in the crosshairs.
On Tuesday, three physicists received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanics in the 1980s. Researchers John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis created a circuit with no electrical resistance to demonstrate a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, or how atoms and subatomic particles can move through a […]
AltStore PAL, which launched as one of the first alternative iOS app stores in the EU last year, is coming to more countries, developer Riley Testut announced today. “Specifically, we plan to launch in Japan, Brazil, and Australia before the end of the year, with the UK to follow in 2026,” Testut says. Launching in […]
The Kindle Paperwhite is one of the best ereaders, bar none. It’s easily worth its full $149.99 cost if you enjoy reading, but thankfully you can get $25 off for October Prime Day — its first-ever discount. The model with 16GB of storage and ads on the lockscreen is available at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target for $124.99. The […]
The app, which lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, is now available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina and Pakistan.
