Americas News
BMW iX3 has a lower starting price than comparable gas-powered X3
- Technology
- Andrew J. Hawkins
- May 7, 2026
The 2027 BMW iX3 is now available in the US, and its starting price my surprise and delight fans of the Bavarian automaker. The iX3, which is the first vehicle built on BMW's next-gen Neue Klasse plat...
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo could be at risk from rising RAM prices
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- May 7, 2026
The MacBook Neo might lose its most appealing trait thanks to the ongoing RAM shortage. According to analyst Tim Culpan, Apple could discontinue the budget-priced $599 base configuration of the Neo, l...
Samsung’s flagship laptop is a MacBook Pro clone gone horribly wrong
- Technology
- Antonio G. Di Benedetto
- May 7, 2026
II know I'm not the only person who wants a MacBook Pro for Windows: a sleek, ultra powerful, super portable machine with an excellent screen and high-quality build. Samsung's Galaxy Book6 Ultra certa...
OpenClaw and Claude can put your AI-generated podcasts in Spotify
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- May 7, 2026
Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool designed specifically for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex. If you're the kind of person who collects research on a topic, then feeds it...
Google’s taking a big swing at AI health with the Fitbit Air
- Technology
- Victoria Song
- May 7, 2026
It's a Whoop dupe. That was my first thought when I saw the new $99 Google Fitbit Air. You can hardly blame me. The band is screenless with a metallic fabric clasp. My eyes flickered between the Fitbi...
Ploopy’s new mouse makes the ThinkPad’s iconic TrackPoint portable
- Technology
- Andrew Liszewski
- May 7, 2026
Ploopy has announced another open source mouse alternative that skips touchpads and trackballs. While the new Ploopy Bean looks like a tiny travel-friendly mouse, you don't need to move it around. Ins...
Inside Dreame’s wild launch event — packed with products no one can buy
- Technology
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
- May 7, 2026
Hundreds of influencers, media folks, and a few C-list celebs (sorry, Woz) filled the cavernous halls of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts last week. They were assembled for Dreame's launch event,...
Gas prices keep rising, but do big oil companies plan to drill more? Not so far
- Business
- Camila Domonoske
- May 7, 2026
- US
The war in Iran has pushed global oil prices higher, which boosts oil company revenues. But major U.S. oil companies aren't signaling plans to increase production to bring down prices at the pump.
Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability
- Technology
- Elizabeth Lopatto
- May 6, 2026
I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone's minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testif...
Nintendo announces a new Star Fox for the Switch 2
- Technology
- Andrew Webster
- May 6, 2026
It turns out Fox McCloud's appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was a tease of things to come: Nintendo just surprise announced the first new Star Fox game two decades. The game is called, simpl...
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
- Technology
- Fernanda González
- May 6, 2026
To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.
Google shuts down Project Mariner
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- May 6, 2026
Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page n...