Americas
Latest news and updates from Americas.
The boring, insidious world of the womanosphere
Usha Vance has a new podcast: Storytime with the Second Lady. It's exactly what it sounds like. Each episode begins with a brief introduction, after which JD Va...
Samsung announces 2026 Frame TVs and the Pro cost less than last year’s
Samsung has announced some more details about The Frame and Frame Pro, and the most interesting news is that this year's Frame Pro will be a little less expensi...
Tesla’s sales recover slightly, but the trend lines are all bad
Tesla's first quarter sales report is out, and depending on how you look at it, the numbers are good but also bad. The company's sales are up a modest 6 percent...
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?
Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the landmark social media addiction trials that just resulted in two major verdicts against Big Tech. There’s one case in...
Indie Pass is a new subscription service just for indie games
Indie.io, which offers a platform to help independent game developers publish their titles, is launching a new subscription service called Indie Pass. The servi...
Microsoft’s new ‘superintelligence’ game plan is all about business
Mustafa Suleyman has been preparing for his new job description for a long time. Suleyman is Microsoft's inaugural CEO of AI, but after the company underwent a...
This even smaller credit card-sized e-reader has one tragic flaw
There’s a new smallest e-reader in my life. The Xteink X3 is even smaller and thinner than Xteink’s X4 while also improving on the X4 with refined (but still fa...
Google Home’s latest update makes Gemini better at understanding your commands
Google is launching another update to its Home app, which is supposed to make controlling your smart home with its Gemini AI assistant "more natural and reliabl...
United adds TSA wait times to its mobile app
If you're flying United Airlines you'll now have a better idea of when you need to get to the airport to make your flight. Yesterday the airline announced sever...
Rising gas prices are good news for EV sales, for now
It's become an American truism: Once you buy an SUV, there's no going back. And our love affair with pickups has been documented in a million country songs and...
Transfer Point is a modern adventure game made with 40-year-old software
One of the year's most intriguing games was developed using software first released 40 years ago. Transfer Point looks and plays like a classic Mac point-and-cl...
Insider trading or random guy? It doesn’t matter to Polymarket
In mid-March, conspiracy theories swirled claiming Benjamin Netanyahu had been replaced by an AI clone. Though there was no actual proof that the Israeli Prime...