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The promise and peril of a new online shooter

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • Jan 27, 2026

The routine is familiar by now. A new online shooter with bright, colorful graphics launches and rockets up the charts despite the fact that you maybe haven't even heard of it. Or maybe it just has a...

Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions

  • Technology
  • Robert Hart
  • Jan 27, 2026

Google is making Search less about links and more about AI. The company is upgrading its AI-powered search features, adding Gemini 3 to AI Overviews and letting users ask follow-up questions "seamless...

I grew up with Alex Pretti

  • Technology
  • Kristen Radtke
  • Jan 27, 2026

The day Alex Pretti was shot 10 times in the street by federal agents, I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, who died the way we're supposed to: old, asleep, surrounded by family. Because it's...

Pornhub will block new users in the UK next month

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • Jan 27, 2026

Pornhub will soon begin restricting UK users from accessing its website in response to the country's "failed" online safety regulations, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The site's owner, Aylo...

Dozens of nudify apps found on Google and Apple’s app stores

  • Technology
  • Stevie Bonifield
  • Jan 27, 2026

Removing or restricting access to Grok's AI image editor might not be enough to stop the flood of nonconsensual sexualized images being generated by AI. A report from the Tech Transparency Project (TT...

You’ll be able to change the color of Virtual Boy games on Nintendo Switch Online

  • Technology
  • Andrew Liszewski
  • Jan 27, 2026

Following the initial reveal last September, Nintendo has released a new trailer detailing which Virtual Boy games will be available to Switch Online subscribers starting on February 17th alongside re...

Yahoo Scout looks like a more web-friendly take on AI search

  • Technology
  • David Pierce
  • Jan 27, 2026

Yahoo's big AI play is, in many ways, actually a return to the company's roots. Three decades ago, Yahoo was known as "Jerry's guide to the world wide web," and was designed as a sort of all-encompass...

Tesla’s robotaxis are cheaper than Waymo, but the wait times are longer

  • Technology
  • Andrew J. Hawkins
  • Jan 27, 2026

Tesla's robotaxis are not robotaxis in the sense that they're not fully driverless and still feature safety monitors with access to a kill switch in case anything goes wrong. But the automaker is shak...

Amazon’s ‘free, no hassle returns’ issue results in over $1 billion settlement

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • Jan 27, 2026

Amazon is resolving claims that it incorrectly processed returns with a proposed settlement valued at over $1 billion, as reported earlier by Reuters and Bloomberg Law. The settlement includes $600 mi...

Pinterest cuts workforce by around 15 percent to focus on AI

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • Jan 27, 2026

Pinterest is planning to lay off hundreds of workers and reduce its office space to reallocate resources for its artificial intelligence initiatives. In a regulatory filing posted Tuesday, Pinterest s...

The Samsung Trifold will cost nearly three grand

  • Technology
  • Allison Johnson
  • Jan 27, 2026

Samsung's much-anticipated Galaxy Z Trifold goes on sale on this Friday, January 26th, and the price is every bit as steep as we'd feared: $2,899, which gets you 512GB of storage and a phone that kind...

Truth and AI in Minneapolis

  • Technology
  • David Pierce
  • Jan 27, 2026

When federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, video of the shooting - from lots of people, and lots of angles, with wildly varying levels of quality - immediately began to...