Category: Tech

X faces EU investigation over Grok’s sexualized deepfak...

X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot. In its a...

TikTok is still down, here are all the latest updates

More than a day after TikTok’s issues began, TikTok USDS says the problems are the result of a power outage at a data center and s...

Applicius Technologies - Mobile App & Software Developm...

Applicius Technologies is a digital solutions company specializing in web development, branding, SEO, app development, cybersecuri...

Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar

By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating convincing imagery, and even ...

This coming-of-age adventure game made me feel a little...

There's a lot about Perfect Tides: Station to Station's Mara that I find relatable. Like me, she's recently moved to a place simpl...

Get ready for the AI ad-pocalypse

I'll confess, with no shame whatsoever, that I really love ads. Artsy ones, funny ones, weird ones, emotional ones - TV commercial...

Gaming’s most fun sales data is full of old and obscure...

Every month, Circana video game analyst Mat Piscatella posts fascinating data about video game sales on Bluesky, highlighting tren...

ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis

Federal agents in Minneapolis repeatedly punched a man, forced him to the ground, and then shot him multiple times. The man was la...

Gmail’s spam filter and automatic sorting are broken

Some Gmail users may have noticed that promotional emails that normally go to their own siloed tab have started flooding their inb...

MicroSD Express cards and Anker’s travel adapter rule t...

Welcome to the weekend, friends! We’re still in a bit of a deals lull before the Presidents Day and V-Day sales begin, the bulk of...

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for cus...

The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops...

The day of the second killing

Steven Garcia, as told to Gaby Del Valle: I was in the middle of a frozen lake when I got the notification from the Minnesota Star...

The great e-bike crackdown has begun

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the e-bike movement, ...

🤖 IIT-Patna Hosts Pre-Event on AI Strategy Ahead of Ind...

IIT-Patna’s pre-event for the India AI Impact Summit 2026 will unite academia, industry, and global organisations to discuss AI st...

Hang on, there’s a Trump Phone Ultra coming too?

Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phon...

The best instant cameras you can buy right now

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magica...

Casio teased a retro gaming-inspired sampler

Casio showed up to NAMM (CES for music gear nerds) this year with a prototype sampler called the SX-C1 that looks every bit the lo...

What TikTok’s new owners mean for your feed

TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd, B...

Meta is stopping teens from chatting with its AI charac...

Meta is "temporarily pausing" the ability for teens to chat with its AI characters as it develops a "new version" of the character...

Congress doesn’t seem to know if the TikTok deal compli...

TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmake...

Leak: Nvidia is about to challenge ‘Intel Inside’ with ...

Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It's not just Apple ...

Chromebooks train schoolkids to be loyal customers, int...

Internal documents revealed as part of a child safety lawsuit hint at Google's plan to "onboard kids" into its ecosystem by invest...

The Loch Capsule dishwasher is small, fast, and efficie...

A dishwasher is a luxury item some people can't live without. It's one of the first major kitchen devices I bought just as soon as...

Tesla finally kills Autopilot in a bid to boost FSD sub...

Tesla scrapped its Autopilot driver assist feature that used to come standard in new vehicles, as it attempts to steer customers t...

AI labs wage a reputational knife fight at Davos

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscriber...