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Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar

  • Technology
  • Allison Johnson
  • Jan 24, 2026

By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating convincing imagery, and even won Apple's business. So last week's news that it was enabling somethi...

The Loch Capsule dishwasher is small, fast, and efficient — it even sanitizes gadgets

  • Technology
  • Thomas Ricker
  • Jan 24, 2026

A dishwasher is a luxury item some people can't live without. It's one of the first major kitchen devices I bought just as soon as I could afford one. And now that the kids are grown, it's the applian...

Chromebooks train schoolkids to be loyal customers, internal Google document suggests

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • Jan 24, 2026

Internal documents revealed as part of a child safety lawsuit hint at Google's plan to "onboard kids" into its ecosystem by investing in schools. In this November 2020 presentation, Google writes that...

Leak: Nvidia is about to challenge ‘Intel Inside’ with as many as eight Arm laptops

  • Technology
  • Sean Hollister
  • Jan 24, 2026

Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It's not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. There...

US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo

  • Technology
  • Dell Cameron, Matt Giles
  • Jan 23, 2026

The ruling in federal court in Minnesota lands as Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces scrutiny over an internal memo claiming judge-signed warrants aren’t needed to enter homes without consent.

Congress doesn’t seem to know if the TikTok deal complies with its law

  • Technology
  • Lauren Feiner
  • Jan 23, 2026

TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmakers who passed that law still don't seem to know what's going on. The c...

Meta is stopping teens from chatting with its AI characters

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • Jan 23, 2026

Meta is "temporarily pausing" the ability for teens to chat with its AI characters as it develops a "new version" of the characters that will offer a "better experience." The company made the announce...

What TikTok’s new owners mean for your feed

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • Jan 23, 2026

TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd, ByteDance - TikTok's Chinese parent company - and a group of investors...

Casio teased a retro gaming-inspired sampler

  • Technology
  • Terrence O’Brien
  • Jan 23, 2026

Casio showed up to NAMM (CES for music gear nerds) this year with a prototype sampler called the SX-C1 that looks every bit the lovechild of a Game Boy and an SP-404. The top has a directional pad and...

The best instant cameras you can buy right now

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • Jan 23, 2026

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button,...

Weather influencers are going viral. How much should we trust them?

  • Business
  • Ava Berger
  • Jan 23, 2026
  • US

The weather genre online spans a wide range of sources. Experts say that while weather influencers can help fill an information gap, social media platforms tend to prioritize likes over accuracy.

Hang on, there’s a Trump Phone Ultra coming too?

  • Technology
  • Dominic Preston
  • Jan 23, 2026

Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the...