AI Overviews gets upgraded to Gemini 3 with a dash of AI Mode
It can be hard sometimes to keep up with the deluge of generative AI in Google products. Even if you...
“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and death. These can be the consequences for vulnerable kids who get addicted to social media,...
Apple’s AirTag 2 is easier to find thanks to new chip
Apple is introducing a new version of its AirTag tracking device—simply dubbed “the new AirTag"—and claims it offers substantial improvements...
Doctors face-palm as RFK Jr.’s top vaccine advisor questions need for polio shot
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his stance clear...
How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft
In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys...
A decade of Star Trek-themed fart jokes: The Greatest Generation podcast turns 10
A decade is a long time for a TV series; no single iteration of Star Trek has made it that...
Telly’s “free” ad-based TVs make notable revenue—when they’re actually delivered
Telly, a company that accepts advertising data instead of cash for its TVs, has reportedly had a hard time getting...
Demand for Intel’s processors is apparently there, but the supply is not
Intel reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2025 yesterday, and the news both for the quarter and for...
TikTok deal is done; Trump wants praise while users fear MAGA tweaks
The TikTok deal is done, and Donald Trump is claiming a win, although it remains unclear if the joint venture...
This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art
The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800...