If you’re still looking for the Everything iPhone, you’ll naturally find it in the $1,000 iPhone 16 Pro. The fresh, spanking new $600 iPhone 16e is the next entry-level Apple device to promote access to Apple Intelligence. If the device at first seems like a true SE upgrade—an iPhone with all the fixings for a …
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After what seems like eons of speculation over the next generation of Apple’s affordable smartphone, the company finally revealed the newest iPhone SE. It’s called the iPhone 16e, and at a $600 starting price, this is the cheapest way to access Apple Intelligence features like the Clean Up tool, Image Playground, and the ability to …
Taiwanese computer giant Acer has said it will increase costs across the board 10% as a direct result of Trump’s tariffs. The tariffs won’t affect anything that leaves China before the end of February, but as we move into March you can expect the prices on Acer’s laptops, monitors, and other components to rise. Acer’s …
The purging of federal employees carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) somehow just keeps cutting staffers involved in investigating Elon Musk’s companies. According to a report from Reuters, several employees at the US Food and Drug Administration who were tasked with managing reviews and applications related to Musk’s Neuralink received pink slips …
The alleged ringleader of what has been called a Bay Area “murder cult” was arrested this weekend, along with a number of other supposed members of the dark and mysterious group. Jack LaSota, a 34-year-old “blogger” and Berkeley native, was taken into custody in Maryland on Sunday. LaSota, who is transgender, and identifies as a …
There has been a lot of speculation over how Elon Musk’s close involvement in the new Trump administration could affect the fortunes of his vast business empire. On the one hand, President Trump could ease the regulatory environment for Musk’s companies and hand him more government contracts. Conversely, markets seen as favorable to the EV …
Protector, an app that lets you book armed goons the same way you’d call for an Uber, is having a viral moment. The app started doing the rounds on social media after consultant Nikita Bier posted about it on X. Here’s a peek of how it works pic.twitter.com/OWG8HFGYYD — Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) February 18, 2025 …
Following President Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” many online were quick to point out that the body of water overlaps with the territorial waters of America’s neighbors, Mexico and Cuba, and therefore the United States should not alone be able to dictate its name. Now, Mexican President …
“Daaaaaaaaad, the Europeans are picking on me again!” Alright, so that’s not a direct quote from Meta’s chief of global affairs Joel Kaplan, who spoke at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, but it’s not far off. According to Bloomberg, Kaplan popped over to Europe to let political leaders there know Meta “won’t shy away” …
Under the guise of advancing bureaucratic “efficiency,” the new Trump administration has wasted no time in swiftly gutting all of the federal agencies that are responsible for protecting worker rights and consumer safety. Now, in one of the most egregious decisions yet, Trump has tapped a former executive from Amazon—a company that has repeatedly tangled …
Meta says it is going to invest multiple billions of dollars over the next few years to build a new subsea internet cable that will span 50,000 kilometers, longer than the Earth’s circumference, and reach five major continents. Project Waterworth, as it is called, is Meta’s first undersea cable project that it is developing on …
Donald Trump’s administration has been hit with a flurry of lawsuits over the blatantly illegal actions it’s taken since the president was sworn in on Jan. 20. But one new case against Elon Musk, the billionaire who’s currently trying to dismantle federal agencies under the pretext of fighting “fraud,” may be a tough one for …
Last night, a drone hit the outer shell that protected the world from the radiation of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Kyiv blamed Russia and Moscow denied it had anything to do with the attack. Last night, a Russian attack drone with a high-explosive warhead struck the shelter protecting the world from radiation …
There are the graphics cards that grab headlines; then there are the graphics cards more people can actually afford. All eyes are on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti, but after a massive wave of stock issues, Nvidia is pushing the cheaper GPU to March. That gives AMD time to showcase what …
AI slop is taking over the internet, and it’s making it increasingly difficult for web users to know what is real, what is fake, and what is some weird, synthetic mixture between the two. 404 Media reports on the newest frontier in this bizarre, dystopic trend, revealing the rise of the AI-generated “True Crime” podcast …