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Amazon Prime Day is upon us, and with it comes great deals on many of our favorite smart home devices, including already well-priced speakers. We're big fans of Amazon's Echo Dot, recently naming its fifth generation the...

Stolen BIOS, stolen software, and half-busted hardware. But still... kind of neat?

Seven companies, mostly made up of American tech giants, have notified the European Commission that they meet the criteria to be classified as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, T...

MSG and Sphere Entertainment have started fully testing the Sphere, a 17,600-seat venue near The Venetian with an animated outer dome and a wraparound internal 16K LED screen. It displays images, video and animation on t...

OpenAI is forming a dedicated team to manage the risks of superintelligent artificial intelligence. A superintelligence is a hypothetical AI model that is smarter than even the most gifted and intelligent human, and exce...

Justin Bieber has seemingly lost more than 1.2 million real, fungible U.S. dollars on a single digital image of a sad chimpanzee. The multihyphenate pop sensation and mega-star joined in on the crypto/NFT celeb-endorseme...

Spotify is notifying users who've subscribed to its Premium service through Apple's in-app purchase system that it will no longer be supporting it as a payment method. As a refresher, Spotify hasn't allowed users to subs...

Canadian officials say the federal government will suspend all of its advertising on Facebook and Instagram following Meta's drastic decision to block access to news links in the region as retaliation to the country's pa...

It appears that the artificial intelligence fatigue is upon us: OpenAI's website traffic has fallen for the first time since the company launched the viral chatbot ChatGPT in November.

There's nothing I would like more than for Nothing's Phone (2) to actually look like a major upgrade from the company's first cellular device to hit the market. But instead, all the hints we now have about CEO Carl Pei's...

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) The first installment of the prequel trilogy, The Phantom Menace follows the young Anakin Skywalker as he embarks on a journey to become a Jedi.

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Facebook owner Meta is set to release Threads on Wednesday, a long-awaited Twitter copy-cat app poised to cause major problems for Elon Musk. Meta just pushed up the launch data for the app, and Threads is scheduled to b...

Set the mood in any space with the Nanoleaf Shapes Ultra Black Hexagons wall lighting panels. These limited-edition panels create a unique look in any space. Here are the features that make them remarkable.   - Limited ...

This past weekend The Witch From Mercury brought a surprisingly rapid-fire end to the latest Gundam show--and in one of its most satisfying moves, finally delivered on the sapphic love story it set up from the get-go. Bu...

Just like some people, elephants seem to prefer a rich palette of foods, research out this week suggests. Studying decades-old poop, researchers found that elephants tend to have diverse diets that can differ significant...

Science fiction promises us all sorts of sentient automatons once artificial intelligence becomes a part of our daily lives--not hockey puck-sized speakers. Determined to breathe more life into Amazon's smart assistant, ...

Last year, there was a rumor floating around that Tom Cruise was just about done with the Mission: Impossible franchise. The thought was that with everything that went into making the next two films in the franchise, Mis...

Huy Fong Sriracha prices are soaring as people become increasingly desperate to get their hands on a bottle one year into its chili shortage. Now online sellers are appealing to consumers' needs to get the highly coveted...

Two supernovae 22 million light-years away ejected dust into their region of the universe, Webb Space Telescope observations reveal, indicating that violent stellar deaths could give rise to new star systems.

Yup, that happened at the end of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Director James Mangold and the team took Indy to a place fans probably never dreamed we'd see him. And while there's been plenty of debate and discu...

The climate crisis has changed weather patterns, and this could increase crop failure in multiple agricultural regions around the world, a new study says. In a report published in Nature Communications this week, researc...