In a now-annual tradition, Microsoft is kicking off the year with a showcase of some of its biggest upcoming games. Last year’s edition of the Xbox Developer Direct had some big names, like Doom...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons got a big 3.0 update earlier this month, which alongside a lot of new content for everyone included a Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade with some fancy technological buffs. One o...
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
The 46th Separate Air Mobile Brigade showcased a clip of a drone with a fishing rod-style device trying to take down enemy quadcopters. Red annotation by Business Insider. 46th Separate Air Mobile Bri...
I went to NRF 2026. Jordan Hart/Business Insider AI dominated this week's discussions at Retail's Big Show, a leading industry conference. I attended for the first time and saw retail leaders showcase...
Samsung’s P9 microSD Express card is a relatively affordable way to upgrade Switch 2 storage. If you buy digital games for the Nintendo Switch 2, Samsung’s P9 microSD Express card offers an easier way...
There's a fresh update waiting for Nintendo Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World , with a couple of tweaks and a list of bug fixes. Today's patch, which brings Mario Kart World to version 1.5.0, now...
David Ellison's Paramount Skydance is putting data and insights front and center. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images David Ellison is making data a key pillar of Paramount Skydance. Paramount is b...
AI chatbots are increasingly able to buy things on users' behalf, a concept known as agentic commerce. Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images OpenAI broke new ground when it enabled shopping ...
Producer Rick Rubin DPA / Picture Alliance A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here . In Silicon Valley, AI is fu...
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter talked to Business Insider about how humanoid robots will transform the factory workplace. Sophia Tung Boston Dynamics revealed the latest iteration of Atlas, a 200-...
Former Activision boss Bobby Kotick has made a number of claims about the state of his former company, Call of Duty, and the console market as part of a response to a lawsuit. Kotick, who left Activis...
Xbox Game Pass is set for a big hitter at the end of January: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. This marks the debut of Saber Interactive’s hugely popular third-person action game in a subscription li...
January's list of PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions has been leaked online, and includes Resident Evil Village . As ever, this month's additions have been leaked ahead of time by Dealabs ' relia...
A star that may have ripped apart a planet, according to researchers REUTERS/NASA/Handout A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly Tech Memo n...
Partiful A new way to flirt just dropped. Partiful wants you to shoot your shot in the RSVPs. The party invite app recently launched a tool called "Crush" that lets people match with mutuals. ...
Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI tool, which has launched as a research preview this week. Anthropic Anthropic employees used Claude to build Cowork, its new agentic tool launched this week. The AI startu...
What is an Xbox? Microsoft has spent 25 years trying to answer the question, but for fans, the answer is easy: “Xbox” evokes one-eared headsets wired into the memory card slots of massive controllers ...
Kirill Avery is the CEO and founder of Alien. Courtesy of Kirill Avery Kirill Avery sold a percentage of his future earnings to fund startups like Alien and Human. He used a SAFE agreement to raise $5...
Companies of all sizes are looking to hire workers who know how to use AI. Sebastien Bozon/Getty Images Do you know what LLM even is? How about a GPU? A new vocabulary has emerged with the rise of AI....