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Spotify’s latest ‘Wrapped’ covers your entire music history

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • May 12, 2026

Spotify is celebrating its 20th anniversary by giving listeners a "fully personalized look at their entire music history." Starting today, Spotify mobile app users can access a new Wrapped-like experi...

How to watch Google’s Android Show: I/O Edition today

  • Technology
  • Stevie Bonifield
  • May 12, 2026

Google I/O is still a week away, but Google's big announcements kick off today with the "Android Show: I/O Edition," where it's expected to announce the major Android ecosystem highlights coming to it...

eBay rejects GameStop’s $56 billion acquisition bid

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • May 12, 2026

eBay has officially rejected GameStop's offer to buy the online marketplace for $56 billion, citing concerns around "operational risks" and how the acquisition will be financed. In a letter to GameSto...

The economic chilling effect of Trump's immigration crackdown

  • Business
  • Greg Rosalsky
  • May 12, 2026
  • US

New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too.

These new Roombas are smaller and cheaper

  • Technology
  • Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
  • May 12, 2026

iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums just prior to filing for bankruptcy. This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improve o...

The clipping economy: How short-form video 'clippers' are overrunning the internet

  • Business
  • Bobby Allyn
  • May 12, 2026
  • US

Short-form clips of long interviews and shows are taking over the internet. But behind the sea of social media clips are marketplaces offering freelance clippers money per view.

Sony upgraded its wearable AC so it’s cooler and better at hugging your neck

  • Technology
  • Andrew Liszewski
  • May 12, 2026

Sony has announced a new version of the wearable personal air conditioner the company first revealed in 2019 ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The latest version is an upgrade to last year's Pro model...

OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos

  • Technology
  • Stevie Bonifield
  • May 11, 2026

OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create...

Yarbo says it will remove the intentional backdoor from its robot lawn mower

  • Technology
  • Sean Hollister
  • May 11, 2026

The company behind the robot lawn mower that ran me over has changed its tune. Yarbo now plans to completely remove the remote backdoor access that could have let bad actors reprogram the robot over t...

Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • May 11, 2026

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called "interaction models." The idea behind interaction models, according t...

Govee’s new portable smart lamp is on sale for the first time 

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • May 11, 2026

If you’ve always liked the idea of the Philips Hue Go portable lamp but couldn’t justify the $100+ price tag, Govee recently released a much cheaper alternative, the Govee Table Lamp Classic, and it’s...

Palantir’s true believers are wearing this jacket

  • Technology
  • Mia Sato
  • May 11, 2026

In late April, Palantir - the software company that, in recent years, has perhaps become best known for its defense industry contracts and work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement - announced tha...