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AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets
On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, an...
FedEx promises to refund customers for ‘illegal’ tariffs
FedEx plans to pass along any refunds resulting from the Supreme Court's ruling that some of President Donald Trump's tariffs are "illegal." In a statement on i...
Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus gets a better interface and a 40 percent discount
When Amazon first showed off its redesigned Fire TV OS at CES, we were impressed. It’s faster, better organized, and feels similar to Google’s top-notch TV inte...
Here’s your first look at Kratos and Atreus in Amazon’s upcoming God of War TV adaptation
With the likes of The Last of Us and Fallout out of the way for a bit, Amazon has seized its opportunity to put the spotlight on the next big video game adaptat...
AI vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines
Can AI firms set limits on how and where the military uses their models? Anthropic is in heated negotiations with the Pentagon after refusing to comply with new...
Woot’s ‘Video Games for All’ sale features some of our favorite games
There’s a sale happening at Woot that’s delivering Black Friday-esque deals on video games through March 5th. The “Video Games for All” sale includes discounts...
OpenAI secures another $110 billion in funding from Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank
OpenAI just announced a massive funding round of $110 billion, which is one of the biggest investment rounds in Silicon Valley history. The investors feature ma...
NASA overhauls Artemis program, delaying Moon landing to 2028
NASA is making major changes to its Artemis Moon program. On Friday, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency would carry out an additional fligh...
We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots
It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fu...
Celebrate Pokémon’s 30th anniversary with this Game Boy-shaped music player
Pokémon celebrates its 30th anniversary today, and as you’d expect, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are cranking up the nostalgia in every possible way. In add...
The US military reportedly shot down a CBP drone with a laser
The US military mistakenly shot down a drone belonging to Customs and Border Protection near the Mexican border in Fort Hancock, Texas, according to reports fro...
Pokémon Winds and Waves are coming to Switch 2 in 2027
The Pokémon leakers were right: the Gen 10 games are called Pokémon Wind and Pokémon Waves. The Pokémon Company confirmed the titles during a 30th anniversary s...