Leading electric dirt bike Stark Varg lets owners download a new trick
Leading electric dirt bike Stark Varg lets owners download a new trick

The Stark Varg has quickly become one of the most capable electric off-road motorcycles on the market (plus a pretty impressive on-road version as well), and now it’s getting another major performance upgrade without owners ever needing to visit a deal…

Apple’s historically high tax for RAM upgrades on Macs has now become absurd

Apple’s Mac RAM upgrades were already expensive enough to raise eyebrows. After the company’s latest round of price hikes, some of them now look ridiculous. Apple recently raised prices across its Mac and iPad lineup, along with other products, citing …

Teenage Engineering adds lo-fi mode, USB audio, and more to its KO II sampler
Teenage Engineering adds lo-fi mode, USB audio, and more to its KO II sampler

Teenage Engineering has already issued multiple substantial updates for its surprisingly capable $329 EP-133 KO II sampler. Its latest is one of the biggest yet. OS 2.5 adds audio over USB, selectable sample rates for lo-fi fun, sample reverse, an arpeggiator, equal-length autochopping, and it extends the maximum length of a sample from 20 seconds […]

Apple Books apparently has the same knockoff problem as Amazon

Joanna Stern says AI-generated knockoff versions of her book keep appearing on Apple Books, highlighting a growing problem with digital bookstores.

Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’
Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’

Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed as part of the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. As it usually does at these things, the issue of AI came up, and Atwood didn’t mince words. According to Deadline’s recap, Atwood said she’d used an AI […]

Windows 11 is getting a new Screen Tint mode, and your eyes might thank Microsoft

Microsoft is testing a new Screen Tint accessibility feature in Windows 11 that helps reduce eye strain with customizable color overlays.

OpenAI’s poaching from Apple hints at ChatGPT-powered wearables coming for your face

Apple’s Vision Pro engineering chief is leaving for OpenAI, hinting that the company’s AI hardware ambitions may extend well beyond ChatGPT.

Apple’s looking at a politically radioactive fix for the memory crisis, and the US government isn’t happy about it

Apple wants to buy memory from CXMT, a Chinese company on the Pentagon’s blacklist, and it’s lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to do exactly that.

Apple wants permission to buy memory from a blacklisted Chinese supplier
Apple wants permission to buy memory from a blacklisted Chinese supplier

Apple is looking to alleviate some of the pressure on its supply chain by seeking an exception from the Trump administration to buy RAM chips from CXMT, a company blacklisted by the Pentagon over ties to the People’s Liberation Army, according to the Financial Times. The skyrocketing prices of RAM and storage have driven Apple […]

Your next EV battery could start life as a plastic water bottle

Penn State researchers have developed a way to turn discarded plastic bottles into battery-grade graphite for use in electric vehicles and smartphones.