Americas News
Apple II Forever!
- Technology
- Jason Snell
- Mar 30, 2026
When you think of Apple, you probably think of the iPhone, or maybe the Mac, or perhaps you've got fond memories of the iPod. But Apple's 50-year run of creating tech products that people fall in love...
These retractable studded tires might save our roads, ears, and lungs
- Technology
- Tim Stevens
- Mar 30, 2026
If you want to feel truly invincible when driving in the snow, you need a set of studded snow tires. They're illegal in some places, typically restricted to the frigid months of the year in others. Sp...
Steve Jobs and the greatest run of products in tech history
- Technology
- David Pierce
- Mar 30, 2026
"I'm pleased to report to you that Apple's back on track." It was May of 1998, and Steve Jobs was about 10 months into his second stint leading the company he'd cofounded more than two decades earlier...
‘Guns, Beer, Titties, Freedom’: Inside the World’s Toughest Off-Road Race
- Technology
- Matthew Reamer
- Mar 30, 2026
Every winter, 80,000 people gather in the California desert for King of the Hammers, a popular racing series featuring high-speed relays and rock crawling with dirt bikes, stock VW Bugs, and million-d...
China's chatbot industry is fiercely competing for customers. Cue the freebies
- Business
- John Ruwitch
- Mar 30, 2026
- US
Chinese AI companies are focused less on being cutting edge and more on attracting customers. That means holiday promotions, and making chatbots useful in everyday life.
All the latest in AI ‘music’
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 30, 2026
AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists. There are technical and legal challenges, fierce eth...
Bluesky’s new app is an AI for customizing your feed
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 29, 2026
The latest app from the team behind Bluesky is Attie, an AI assistant that lets you build your own algorithm. At the Atmosphere conference, Bluesky's former CEO, Jay Graber, and CTO Paul Frazee, unvei...
Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 29, 2026
It's rare for a movie to get technology right. And it's even rarer for that movie to be a thriller or horror, where realism takes a backseat to scares and tension. But Red Rooms mostly gets it. Nothin...
Can my favorite Game Boy gadget tell fake cartridges from real?
- Technology
- Sean Hollister
- Mar 29, 2026
The $50 Epilogue GB Operator has a brand-new trick up its sleeve. In addition to backing up Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges and saves to a PC, it can now plug into your phone...
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
- Technology
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
- Mar 29, 2026
In the coming years, HBO wants its new Harry Potter series to become "the streaming event of the decade" as it adapts each of the franchise's seven original books. The show could very well become a hi...
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is a great time to get a fancy, AI-powered bird feeder
- Technology
- Brandon Widder
- Mar 29, 2026
Bird feeders have come a long way since their inception in the early 1900s. These days, it’s not all that surprising to see feeders kitted out with cameras and solar roofs, two marquee features you’ll...
The Macintosh changed computers forever
- Technology
- David Pierce
- Mar 29, 2026
Apple's most legendary computer has two legacies: there's the computer itself, and there's the commercial. That commercial. Only a couple of days before Steve Jobs debuted the computer that would both...