During a recent subway outage in San Francisco I decided to build a webapp in the spirit of "Do I Need an Umbrella," basically to answer the question "Should I take the subway or a bus?" In the intere...
Across tech, pressure on workers to perform comes as leaders wait for AI bets to pay off. Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Big Tech firms like Amazon and Meta are doubling down on worker oversight and p...
PineDrama/Kiichiro Sato/AP. TikTok has rolled out a new micro drama app in the US and Brazil called PineDrama. The app's feed looks a lot like TikTok's, but just contains videos from mini drama series...
Capital One’s acquisition of Brex comes just months after the payment company launched support for stablecoins....
Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley set to take lead on listing...
Lenovo's most powerful 16" gaming laptop just dropped back down to Black Friday pricing. Right now you can pick up a Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 RTX 5090 gaming laptop for just $3,296 after you stack ...
Here's your chance to score an outstanding deal on one of Samsung's biggest and boldest monitors. For today only, Woot! (which is owned by Amazon) is offering the second generation 55" Samsung Odyssey...
The ransomware family’s abuse of Polygon smart contracts echoes techniques recently seen in Ethereum-based attacks....
If you're seeking the absolute best of the best in PC gaming performance, look no further than Alienware's flagship Area-51 prebuilts. Following CES 2026 , Dell has discounted an Alienware Area-51 AMD...
Our sneak peek at the most promising cars, trucks, and SUVs of the next few years....
Pope Leo has a new message about responsible AI. Maria Grazia Picciarella/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Pope Leo XIV urged the regulation of chatbots to prevent emotional manipulation and h...
This week, Nintendo finally removed an infamous, adults only-themed island from Animal Crossing: New Horizons . Existing since 2020, the suggestive fan creation was almost as old as the game, and gain...
This is The Stepback , a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the e-bike movement, follow Andrew J. Hawkins . The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' i...
Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC . With approval from both the US and China closing on the sch...
AMD announced an improved version of its popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor at CES earlier this month, and it's now confirming a release date and pricing today. The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D will debut on Ja...
It looks like Samsung is preparing to launch a new Qi2 battery pack for the upcoming Galaxy S26, which is rumored to support the upgraded charging standard. A report from Winfuture shows off leaked im...
The images in the background serve as covers for each song on The Eleven Album. | Image: ElevenLabs / The Verge ElevenLabs has released an album of AI-generated songs in its latest attempt to separate...
An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interc...
As we predicted , the world's biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads , but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs -...
The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and bl...