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Nintendo Switch 2 sales disappointed during Christmas, especially in the US, due to its $449 price versus Japan's $314. Nintendo cut Q1 2026 production from 6 million to 4 million units.
Spotify's new SongDNA beta feature creates an interactive web showing musical connections between songs, artists, and collaborators. Premium users can explore relationships through writers, producers, samples, and covers like...
The popular Payday heist franchise is expanding into virtual reality with Payday: Aces High, launching on Meta Quest and SteamVR later this year. The VR version maintains the series' core four-player co-op heist gameplay where...
Despite extremely dark conditions with minimal red lighting at a salsa club, an iPhone's automatic video processing successfully captured usable footage where manual cameras would have struggled to focus or expose properly. The...
Snapchat users sent nearly 2 trillion snaps in 2025, averaging 5.5 billion daily among 474 million users. This milestone shows high engagement as Snap pursues its goal of one billion users.
Humanoid robots dressed in McDonald's signature red-and-yellow uniforms are now greeting customers, serving meals, and entertaining children at a Shanghai outlet, offering a glimpse into the fast food industry's automated future....
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Anthropic has launched a new feature allowing Claude AI to directly control macOS computers to complete tasks autonomously. The system can open apps, navigate browsers, fill spreadsheets, and perform any desktop activity, first...
Joby Aviation launched its nationwide "Electric Skies Tour" with a demonstration flight over San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, showcasing its electric air taxi that can carry four passengers at 200 mph cruise speeds....
LG Display began mass-producing innovative "Oxide 1Hz" LCD screens for laptops that can drop to extremely low refresh rates to save battery power, claiming 48 percent longer battery life compared to existing displays. This...
The tech industry is rapidly commoditizing, where software tools quickly become obsolete, forcing knowledge workers and founders to compete on creativity rather than technical capabilities. As AI excels at tasks with clear right...
Developers created Cliamp, a terminal-based music player that recreates the nostalgic Winamp experience in a command-line interface. The application supports multiple audio sources including local files, streaming services like...
Wing has returned its drone delivery service to the Bay Area, delivering groceries, food, and packages up to five pounds within 30 minutes to residents.
DarkSword, an advanced iPhone hacking toolkit, was publicly leaked on GitHub, allowing hackers to easily target millions of iPhones and iPads running older iOS versions. Apple issued emergency updates as about 25% of users remain...
An inventor created a laser-based speaker system for MRI patients using light to heat materials like gold leaf, generating sound waves without magnetic components that interfere with equipment.
Nomad is a self-hosted travel planning application that allows multiple users to collaboratively organize trips in real-time using interactive maps, drag-and-drop scheduling, and budget tracking features. The progressive web app...
Apple plans to open its third Mexico City store at Mítikah shopping mall, according to a leaked real estate listing. The company currently operates two stores in Mexico's capital.
Apple will add ads to Apple Maps this year, letting businesses bid to appear in search results. This follows Google Maps' model and could generate significant revenue, though privacy concerns remain.
Instagram now lets users reorder photos and videos in published posts by long-pressing and dragging items. This eliminates the need to delete and repost content when images are in the wrong sequence.
Newly surfaced 1999 footage shows Steve Jobs addressing Apple employees just days after the iBook launch, predicting the company would "rock and roll the next few years" based on products he saw in development. Speaking two years...
Microsoft is overhauling Windows 11 to address user complaints about poor performance and intrusive AI features. Planned improvements include better performance, repositionable taskbars, less Copilot integration, and monthly-only...
MacShot is a free, open-source screenshot and screen recording tool built natively for macOS using Swift and AppKit, consuming only 8MB of memory at idle. Users can capture screenshots with one hotkey, annotate them with arrows,...
Astronomers have identified 45 rocky exoplanets located in the habitable zones of their stars where liquid water could exist, making them prime candidates for harboring life. Among these worlds are Proxima Centauri b and several...
String theory remains the leading candidate for a unified "theory of everything" that would explain all matter and forces in the universe, 58 years after its introduction. Despite its enduring popularity among physicists seeking...
Two companies are beating the hell out of their batteries in the race to launch flying taxis in Dubai this year, but experts say we're still a decade away from hailing an airborne ride. Despite ambitious promises from Joby...