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Apple just announced a refresh for the ever-popular MacBook Air series, just one month after launching the Vision Pro headset. The big takeaway here? The new MacBook Air is outfitted with the company's proprietary M3 chi...

This week's puzzle is difficult. Not because it has an exceedingly complicated solution, but because the idea that underlies it is deep and ingenious. I only know of one method to solve it, but I'm curious whether altern...

Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified defense secrets on Discord, has pled guilty. The New York Times reports the 22-year-old withdrew his not-guilty plea on Monday, tradin...

If you have a cave full of gold and an achingly lonely toy shelf, Hake's Auctions has a stash of well-preserved vintage collectibles ready to serve your needs. While we probably won't be bidding on any of the lots--inclu...

Light up your vocals and your setup with the Razer Seiren V3 Chroma. This USB microphone has stream-reactive lighting.   -Enhance your show: Make your content visually appealing with lighting compatible with Chroma-inte...

If you want to stay grounded--which is to say, you want a haunting reminder of your own diminutive size and mortality--do I have the tool for you. Meet Galactic Compass: an app which will point the user towards the whopp...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr once said that artificial intelligence "could kill us all" if it were used improperly. Still, concern about the misuse of AI apparently hasn't stopped RFK Jr. from arguably misusing it. Instead, the ...

Tropic Haze, the popular Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator developer, appears to have agreed to settle Nintendo's lawsuit against it. Less than a week after Nintendo filed the legal action, accusing the emulator's creators o...

X has, once again, quietly changed its rules around deadnaming and misgendering without an explanation. With the latest change , it seems that there will be no penalties for misgendering or deadnaming people on X after a...

You'll need to have the lid closed, but it's a welcome upgrade over the M1/M2.

Apple revealed some new M3 MacBook Air laptops today and one of the marquee features is that they can drive two external displays while the lid is closed. It's pretty weird when the Air line gets a feature missing from t...

Parked apps include browsers, games, and video apps.

Tron: Legacy is the type of sequel modern Hollywood dreams about, but rarely gets right. I figured this out a few weeks ago when, after seeing that Disney was finally in production on a long-awaited Tron 3, I went back a...

Google is releasing new features for the first-gen Pixel Watch, and they include the health-monitoring capabilities that launched with its successor. The older wearables will now be able to detect whether you're working ...

Instagram launched direct messaging tools way back in 2013, but there hasn't been a way to edit them after the fact. That changes today. Meta just rolled out a software update for the Instagram app that finally allows fo...

The internet is in an uproar after a question and answer session featuring Google co-founder Sergey Brin over the weekend, where an attendee in a mostly male audience wore a shirt depicting a naked woman's body.

After a decade of dominance climaxed in Avengers: Endgame shattering records along its way to cultural and box office royalty, it isn't entirely unfair to say that Marvel has had a bit of a rollercoaster time setting the...

Anthropic, a startup born out of OpenAI defectors, claims its new chatbot, Claude 3, has broken new ground for the AI world. The updated AI chatbot, released on Monday, outperforms ChatGPT and Google Gemini's most advanc...

It's day 4 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday's match-up was the biggest blowout we've seen yet with Google Maps taking 96 percent of the vote and eliminating Yel...

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Microsoft has announced its second games showcase of 2024 and this one is all about projects from its third-party partners. The second Partner Preview stream is set for March 6 at 1PM ET. It will run for around 30 minute...

An ambitious NASA project designed to test satellite refueling in space, known as OSAM-1, has been discontinued after significant technical, cost, and scheduling difficulties. The cancellation comes in the wake of an Oct...