On February 20, 2025, just before 6 p.m. Eastern time, a man named William Banks posted a video on X and Instagram that showed him breaking out of jail. It’s gone mega-viral and has been viewed more than 10 million times on X alone. “The one thing keeping me going is that the William Banks …
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Did you think the one missing feature on Vision Pro was the ability to create AI-generated emojis to text friends? On Friday, Apple launched the first few Apple Intelligence features on its $3,500 Vision Pro. While the features are well-known if you’ve used a Mac in the last six months, they may indicate Apple’s MR …
On Thursday, Japanese peripheral maker Green House released a line of Hello Kitty smartwatches that are so adorable that I was annoyed by how boring most smartwatches look these days. The budget smartwatches are themed around four iconic Sanrio characters: Kuromi, Cinnamoroll, Pompompurin, and Hello Kitty, who I recently found out is five apples tall …
February 20, 2025 was a big day for the world’s richest man and shadow President Elon Musk. He called an astronaut “fully retarded” during an online fight. The Wall Street Journal reported that his lawyers have been threatening companies with Federal regulatory problems if they don’t spend money advertising on X. And he capped off …
The British company that owns the rights to Paddington Bear has reportedly been hacked by a ransomware gang. The gang is now threatening to release sensitive information about the company that represents the lovable children’s book character. The Sun reports that the Rhysida ransomware group, which allegedly operates from Russia, has claimed responsibility for the …
The MAGA movement, which has sought to align itself with the principle of “freedom of speech,” sure isn’t too happy about criticism of its newly unelected bureaucrat, Elon Musk. Indeed, a federal attorney in Washington D.C., who was recently appointed by Trump, has launched a new initiative designed to prosecute those who “threaten” Musk and …
The world has yet to turn any of today’s AI hype and spending into a meaningful lift in the actual economy, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The comments were made during a podcast interview in which he put a measuring stick on AI’s true impact: Success will be measured through global economic growth rather than …
Apple rumors keep the world turning. Some people might say it’s gravity, but it’s Apple. Forget the Farmer’s Almanac; most farming relies on the iPhone release schedule. The iPhone 16e was revealed yesterday and brought a new future for Apple’s hardware, one where it makes all of its cellular chips. The iPhone 16e debuted the …
OpenAI may be preparing to slap a new coat of paint on ChatGPT with an updated AI model, GPT-4.5, as early as next week. If that’s not enough to get users excited, the Sam Altman-led company is on the path toward its ultimate model while trying to hint that this next step will finally achieve …
The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will expire in February 2026. While answering questions in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin dangled the possibility of extending it. The cost of the nuclear arms control treaty was subtle but clear. Putin wants everyone to ignore Kyiv’s “hysteria” over not being …
Admittedly, I do not have the same kind of history with the iPhone’s Home button as lifelong iPhone owners. I was there for a moment with the iPod touch and then, briefly, the iPhone 4S. I went back to Android. But I realize what a big deal it is that Apple has done away with …
Kash Patel has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the FBI on Thursday in a vote of 51-49. The vote to confirm Patel was mostly along party lines, with all Democrats voting against it and Republican senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine also voting no. Patel is a …
Elon Musk is not happy with Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking program that adds notes to correct misinformation on his social media platform X. And the billionaire says he’s now going to “fix” Community Notes so that it agrees with him, claiming without evidence that it’s being manipulated by governments and the media. “Unfortunately, @CommunityNotes …
The markup on Nvidia’s $2,000 GeForce RTX 5090 and $1,000 RTX 5080 GPUs has reached new heights. Cards fly off store shelves as soon as they’re posted online, and then they end up on eBay and other reselling platforms at a 50% or 150% markup. Nvidia’s new plan to help you get an FE card …
Hollywood keeps getting in trouble for using AI to modulate voices and the most recent scandal involves Netflix’s boneheaded decision to recreate the voice of murdered travel vlogger Gabby Petito. The Petito disappearance in the summer of 2021 transfixed Americans. Unfolding against the backdrop of the pandemic, the case went viral on social media, where …
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