Americas News
Amazon’s best Echo speakers and screens just got their biggest discounts
- Technology
- Cameron Faulkner
- Mar 16, 2026
While Amazon’s previous lineup of Echo speakers and smart displays was boring, frankly, its late 2025 hardware refresh brought better hardware, improved performance, and Alexa Plus to several models....
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web’s homepage
- Technology
- Nilay Patel
- Mar 16, 2026
Today, I’m talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the sear...
This chair gives half-worn clothes a home
- Technology
- Jess Weatherbed
- Mar 16, 2026
Seating technology may have reached its peak for those of us who struggle to keep our lightly worn clothing piles away from furniture. The Laundry Chair - developed by YouTuber and viral inventor Simo...
Apple’s $549 AirPods Max 2 add better ANC and live translation
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Mar 16, 2026
Apple has just announced the AirPods Max 2 with better noise cancellation and sound quality. The second generation of Apple's over-ear headphones starts at $549 and comes equipped with an H2 chip, pow...
This is not a fly uploaded to a computer
- Technology
- Robert Hart
- Mar 16, 2026
Last week, a few posts about a so-called virtual "embodied fly" tore through X, boosted by AI hype accounts and excited commenters who didn't seem to understand what it was they were excited about. Th...
The classic Apple Macintosh mouse inspired Spigen’s retro AirPods case
- Technology
- Andrew Liszewski
- Mar 16, 2026
If you've already given your iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max a retro '80s facelift with Spigen's Macintosh 128K and Apple Lisa-inspired Classic LS cases, you might as well make your wireless earbuds match....
OpenAI’s adult mode will reportedly be smutty, not pornographic
- Technology
- Jess Weatherbed
- Mar 16, 2026
OpenAI's delayed "adult mode" for ChatGPT is expected to support saucy text conversations at launch, but not the chatbot's ability to generate images, voice, or video. Speaking to The Wall Street Jour...
These Musical Instruments of the Future Sound Weird, Wacky—and Are Easy for Anyone to Play
- Technology
- Boone Ashworth
- Mar 16, 2026
A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.
My fitness tracker is a secret weapon against my chronic illness
- Technology
- Arielle Duhaime-Ross
- Mar 16, 2026
One of the first major crashes I experienced as a chronically ill person happened on an unusually sunny January day in New York City. It was 2023, and I was riding my bike with a friend, flying high f...
Aether OS is computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 15, 2026
Aether OS puts a full-fledged desktop in your browser that ties directly into the AT Protocol. That means it connects to your Bluesky account and other public records. It offers a pretty full suite of...
Sotomayor’s Wabi Sabi is the funnest record of 2026
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 15, 2026
Shout out to subscriber N_Gorski for today's pick. They popped into the comments on last week's recommendation to ask what I thought of the new Sotomayor record. Well, I hadn't actually heard it yet,...
AI Czar David Sacks wants Trump to ‘get out’ of Iran
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 15, 2026
David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto czar, has warned that a continued war in Iran could be catastrophic. On the All In podcast, Sacks said that "we should try to find the off-ramp." He expres...