I bought Alienware’s $350 OLED monitor and I can’t believe how good it is
I bought Alienware’s $350 OLED monitor and I can’t believe how good it is

I’ve recommended several OLED gaming monitors to readers over the years, and I’ve finally taken my own advice to buy one. Alienware’s new 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED has all the features that I want and a low $350 price that was too tempting to ignore. The AW2726DM model has five things that make it stand out […]

Call of Duty never made much sense for Xbox Game Pass
Call of Duty never made much sense for Xbox Game Pass

Yesterday Microsoft announced some surprising news: at a time when everything in gaming is getting more expensive, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate was actually getting a price cut. Going forward, the subscription service will drop from $29.99 to $22.99 per month, less than a year after getting a major hike. But there’s a caveat. Along with […]

Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw
Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw

In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who’d lost an eye while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine’s candidates […]

First vacuums — then the world
First vacuums — then the world

Many startups spend years trying to become a household name. Others just spend $10 million on a Super Bowl ad. That’s Dreame’s bet. The little-known Chinese robot vacuum company has grand ambitions to become a global consumer electronics giant and chose to run a pricey 30-second spot as its opening move. If it works, the […]

Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products
Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

Anker has announced its own custom silicon that the company says will bring local AI to audio devices, mobile accessories, and IoT devices. The Thus processor is the world’s first neural-net compute-in-memory AI audio chip, which is smaller than traditional chips, and requires less power to run complex computations. That makes it an attractive solution […]

Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands
Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands

Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, a powerful cybersecurity tool that the company said could be dangerous in the wrong hands, has been accessed by a “small group of unauthorized users,” Bloomberg reports. An unnamed member of the group, identified only as “a third-party contractor for Anthropic,” told the publication that members of a private online forum […]

SpaceX cuts a deal to maybe buy Cursor for $60 billion
SpaceX cuts a deal to maybe buy Cursor for $60 billion

With an IPO looming for Elon Musk’s SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 billion. Buying this startup that’s focused on AI coding could help xAI’s tools compete with market […]

ISS astronauts are getting new laptops
ISS astronauts are getting new laptops

Even astronauts need to level up their laptops once in a while – including the crew of Expedition 74 on board the ISS, which NASA announced last week is in the process of some computer upgrades. According to NASA, the crew met on Friday to review plans to “first replace network servers then activate their […]

Tim Cook was an innovator — just not the Jobs kind
Tim Cook was an innovator — just not the Jobs kind

Under Steve Jobs, Apple released the groundbreaking products that defined the company. But the company wouldn’t be what it is today without Tim Cook’s reign of ruthless efficiency. Jobs’ legacy has long been written at this point. He was stubborn, unpleasant, and a generational visionary. He pushed the limits of industrial design and brought technologies […]