The annual Consumer Electronics Show is currently raging in Las Vegas, and as has become traditional over the past decade, automakers and their suppliers now use the conference to announce...
Samsung’s Ballie home robot, once promised for summer 2025, gets grim update
CES 2025: Samsung’s new AI robot assistant Ballie “Available to consumers this summer, Ballie will be able to engage in natural, conversational interactions to help users manage home environments, including...
AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah
Caution The first 250 renewals for each drug class will be reviewed by real doctors, but after that, the AI chatbot will be on its own. Adam Oskowitz, Doctronic co-founder...
Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”
Larry Ellison pledged $40B, but “he didn’t raise the price,” Warner chair says. Credit: Getty Images | Kenneth Cheung The Warner Bros. Discovery board has unanimously voted to rebuff Paramount’s...
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the impending end-of-life (EoL) of the expensive home theater devices. In October,...
Expired certificate completely breaks macOS Logitech apps, user customizations
If you’re a Mac user with Logitech accessories and you’ve noticed that your settings and customizations seem to have gone away this week, you’re not alone. The company’s Logi Options+...
SteamOS continues its slow spread across the PC gaming landscape
Over time, Valve sees that kind of support expanding to other Arm-based devices, too. “This is already fully open source, so you could download it and run SteamOS, now that...
Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data
On Wednesday, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority announced that it is halting the relicensing process for two reactors at the Hamaoka plant after revelations that the plant’s chosen operator fabricated seismic...
Advancements In Self-Driving Cars
Waymo goes Full San Francisco West Bay except for SFO: Jeff Dean: Exciting expansion! @Waymo now serves the whole SF Bay Area Peninsula from SF to San Jose and is...
HP’s EliteBoard G1a is a Ryzen-powered Windows 11 PC in a membrane keyboard
As a Windows system built inside of a functioning membrane keyboard, the HP EliteBoard G1a announced today is a more accessible alternative to other keyboard-PCs. The Commodore 64 made the...
With GeForce Super GPUs missing in action, Nvidia focuses on software upgrades
For the first time in years, Nvidia declined to introduce new GeForce graphics card models at CES. CEO Jensen Huang’s characteristically sprawling and under-rehearsed 90-minute keynote focused almost entirely on...
Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC
FCC hopes you like jammin’ too “Jamming will block all communications,” including 911 calls, CTIA tells FCC. Credit: Getty Images | da-kuk A Federal Communications Commission proposal to let state...
Dell’s XPS revival is a welcome reprieve from the “AI PC” fad
After making the obviously poor decision to kill its XPS laptops and desktops in January 2025, Dell started selling 16- and 14-inch XPS laptops again today. “It was obvious we...
News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.
Describing OpenAI’s alleged “playbook” to dodge copyright claims, news groups accused OpenAI of failing to “take any steps to suspend its routine destruction practices.” There were also “two spikes in...
Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs
While indirect rates (the money paid for indirects as a percentage of the money that goes directly to the researcher to support their work) average about 30 percent, many universities...
Nvidia’s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level
That gives those individual pixels time to fully transition from one color to the next before they’re illuminated, meaning viewers don’t perceive those pixels fading from one color as they...
Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze
In October, Ørsted raised $9 billion from investors in a rights issue after Trump’s attempts to block a rival developer’s project spooked investors. The US government then issued a stop-work order...
Magneto, Xavier reunite in new Avengers: Doomsday teaser
Marvel Studios continues to dribble out brief teasers promoting Avengers: Doomsday, which is slated for a December 2026 release—first playing in cinemas prior to Avatar: Fire and Ash screenings before...
Spot the difference: Sony’s electric car gets a crossover version
It’s all about AI The big news, at least in terms of detail, wasn’t the crossover, which Sony Honda Mobility says will go on sale in the US in 2028....
Fertility Roundup #6: The Art of More Dakka
The central message of the fertility roundups has always been that we have a choice. If we do want to raise fertility, we can do that. People respond to incentives....
