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If Google can’t  make AI agents useful, maybe no one can

  • Technology
  • Hayden Field
  • May 20, 2026

For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over the past six months, that has started to change, th...

The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • May 20, 2026

Utah may host one of the world's most colossal data centers, despite stark warnings from experts and fierce public backlash. Earlier this month, commissioners in Box Elder County signed off on the Str...

‘It’s in the air’: Apple TV’s hottest new shows explore different sides of OnlyFans

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • May 20, 2026

Apple TV is best known for its lineup of science fiction shows and feel-good sitcoms, but of late the streaming service has veered in a different direction. A pair of its current buzziest shows explor...

Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple’s Handoff

  • Technology
  • Dominic Preston
  • May 20, 2026

Google is adding a new Android feature that resembles Apple's Handoff, allowing you to start a task on your Android phone and continue it right where you left off from a compatible tablet. "Continue O...

Trump Wants to Be the Hero Vapers Don’t Really Need

  • Technology
  • Jamie Ducharme
  • May 20, 2026

The White House says Trump’s pro-vape stance is based on “gold standard science.” It feels more like vice-signaling to a demographic that often doesn’t vote—over products that are widely available.

Samsung workers set to strike at worst possible time

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • May 20, 2026

More than 47,000 Samsung Electronics workers are gearing up for an 18-day strike after bonus payment negotiations between the company and its union collapsed. The strike is set to start on Thursday, a...

Mercedes’ electric AMG GT 4-door coupe can go 0-60 in 2 seconds

  • Technology
  • Andrew J. Hawkins
  • May 20, 2026

The era of ultra-high performance Mercedes EVs is here. The German automaker finally revealed its new super sedan, the AMG GT 4-door coupe, with technology borrowed from the automaker's XX concept tha...

U.S. government to drop tax claims against Trump in broadening of IRS settlement

  • Business
  • The Associated Press
  • May 20, 2026
  • US

As part of the settlement agreement, the U.S. is "forever barred and precluded" from examining or prosecuting President Trump, his sons and the Trump organization's current tax issues, according to a...

Wear OS 7 will keep track of deliveries and sports scores on your wrist

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • May 19, 2026

Among the flurry of today's Google I/O announcements, Google shared details about Wear OS 7, the next major update to its smartwatch platform. To help you keep track of things like deliveries and spor...

Plex is tripling the price of a lifetime pass to $750 after doubling it last year

  • Technology
  • Sean Hollister
  • May 19, 2026

I am dying to know how much money Plex is about to make the next six weeks charging people to stream their own video from their own homes. Today, it's giving every prospective customer until July 1st...

Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?

  • Technology
  • Stevie Bonifield
  • May 19, 2026

Welcome to a "profound moment for humanity," according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O's keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google's cutting-edge research and pr...

We react to Google I/O 2026

  • Technology
  • Jacob Kastrenakes
  • May 19, 2026

What better way to unwind from a two-hour-long keynote presentation than to pour over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can converse with to DeepMind's leader saying the singulari...