Gizmodo
40 years ago, Swamp Thing was meant to meet Jesus. Then DC backed out. This is Rick Veitch's story of how it happened—and why it's finally being resurrected this month.
Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform said some of its systems are down and that it’s “investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos” (that’s Bluesky’s typo, not mine). Th...
Gizmodo
Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.
Gizmodo
Much of the U.S. is in for some whiplash weather as record-breaking warmth rapidly transitions to wintry conditions.
Gizmodo
The Inzone M10S II offers a lot for FPS gamers, even if it means sacrificing QHD resolution.
Mashable
Bluesky, the social media app popular with X expatriates, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday, April 16. And in a thread posted on the official Bluesky profile, the app's leaders revealed the cau...
NASA has confirmed the pending launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover, which is being sent to Mars. The current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Ken...
Gizmodo
Researchers have tracked the Miocene Epoch’s version of the Colorado River to a now dry lakebed east-southeast of the Grand Canyon.
Engadget
Panic, the company behind the tiny and excellent Playdate console, is taking a stand on generative AI. The company has published an AI disclosure that says as of this month, the Playdate Catalog “will...
Gizmodo
The 'Daredevil' star says he's finally touched the acclaimed RPG he headlines (if you count its tutorial).
CNET
You can also celebrate the start of the NHL playoffs with EA Sports NHL 26.
New York Times
METR’s chief executive, Beth Barnes, and its president, Chris Painter, at their Berkeley, Calif., office.
Wired
AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.
New York Times
Producers and the cultural authorities hope that technology can overcome a language barrier and take the country’s shows to the world.
Mashable
We're still several months away from Apple showing us the iPhone 18, but we can still bask in leaks until then.This week, we've got a pair of leaks involving the cameras and colors for the upcoming fl...
Gizmodo
Theater productions in South Korea and some overseas are handing out smart glasses as a mean of real-time translation.
CNET
The grocery store aisle holds more promise than most coffee snobs will admit. Armed with curiosity and a trained palate, I tracked down five bags of beans that are worth brewing.
Mashable
TL;DR: The MacBook Neo is sold out at Apple (shipping dates have slipped into May), but you can still buy right now for Amazon's best-ever price of $589.99. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple MacBook...
Engadget
The rules of Exit 8, both the cult indie game and the recent film adaptation, are simple: You're stuck in a subway station that loops around endlessly. If you notice any anomalies on your current loop...
CNET
You can set a timer for bedtime or breaks, or just get rid of Shorts once and for all.
Gizmodo
High pollution days could spike people's risk of severe migraine episodes, new research finds.
Gizmodo
We spoke to the 'Star Wars' director recently about the challenge of bringing his Disney+ show to the big screen.
Engadget
In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then begin offering a more robust image editor. Now, a...
CNET
It's not an image generation tool, which makes sense if you've used Claude.
I Ran 30 Miles and THIS Is the Most Accurate Smartwatch
Apple just completely changed the MacBook lineup, so here is what you should actually buy.
Anthropic today launched Claude Design, a new product from its Anthropic Labs division that allows users to create polished visual work — designs, interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and ...
Mashable
SAVE 46%: As of April 17, you can get the Monster Shock portable Bluetooth speaker for just $26.99, down from $49.99. That's a 46% discount or a $23 price cut. Monster Shock portable Bluetooth speaker...
Amidst ongoing legal trouble with several states and more than 100 pending lawsuits, this week Roblox announced a $12 million settlement with Nevada, allowing the company to avoid going to trial in th...
Startup Donut Lab made a splash at the start of the year with some astonishing — and suspicious — claims about its solid state batteries. Now Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports an individual ...
Wired
A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702—a spy program the FBI has used to look into members of Congress, protesters, and political donors.
For the past year, early adopters of autonomous AI agents have been forced to play a murky game of chance: keep the agent in a useless sandbox or give it the keys to the kingdom and hope it doesn't ha...
Gizmodo
The film's new IMAX extension is in part due to Amazon agreeing to delay the film's release on Prime Video.
CNET
These baby monitors can provide safety alerts, track your child's sleep habits, allow for multiple users and more.
Gizmodo
TCL now has its own RGB TV that it explicitly says offers less value than its new 'super quantum dot' mini LED screens.
Wired
Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.
Mashable
DJI has unveiled the Osmo Pocket 4, the next iteration of its popular handheld gimbal camera. Sadly, it may be a while before people in the U.S. get to try it out.Since its release in 2023, DJI's Osmo...
Ars Technica
Welcome to Edition 8.37 of the Rocket Report! NASA is still climbing down from the high of the Artemis II mission, the first flight by humans to the Moon since 1972. What a mission it was! Now, attent...
Gizmodo
Plus, Takashi Yamazak talks Godzilla's attack on New York in 'Minus Zero'.
CNET
The Super Quantum Dots of TCL's 2026 TV range promise more colors and brightness than ever.
Engadget
TCL introduced its new flagship X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at CES 2026, and now a few months later, the company is ready to expand its lineup with more SQD-Mini LED models and its first RGB-Mini LED TV. All...
Wired
Coolfly’s Aura is colorful, clever, and flexible, but its signature feature ends up being more hassle than help.
How Bob Odenkirk and the ‘Nobody’ team set out to elevate the genre with ‘Normal’
CNET
A cheaper MacBook has trade-offs for my too-many-tabs lifestyle.
CNET
The Philadelphia 76ers guard plays his home games in the Xfinity Mobile Arena and is helping spread the word about Xfinity's one-stop destination for NBA fans watching at home.
CNET
The festival closes out with its second weekend of live performances, and you can stream it all.
CNET
Commentary: Tech prices won't come down in the near future, but you can still come out ahead when shopping for a new phone.
Gizmodo
The gritty sci-fi survival tale starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, and Josh Brolin has just dropped its first trailer.
Wired
These are our favorite portable speakers of all shapes and sizes, from clip-ons to a massive boom box.
CNET
The Whoop band won't tell you the time, but it might change the way you work out. Here's who should wear which.
Getting started with Starlink Roam
Engadget
So a shoe company turned into an AI company…. That’s it, that’s the joke. In this episode, Devindra chats with Engadget’s Daniel Cooper about Allbirds’ sudden transformation and what it says about the...
The Verge
The iPhone 17E is the best cheap iPhone, no surprises there. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at the...
Some of us take a kind of “eat to live” rather than a “live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If tha...
NASA's Artemis II mission concludes with a perfect splashdown in the Pacific
The Verge
Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "e...
Mashable
TL;DR: Amazon has the ASUS ROG Swift 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor on sale for $899.99, down from $1,299. That saves you $399.01 on a premium OLED display with a dual-mode panel that switches between...
Mashable
SAVE OVER $50: As of April 17, the Soundcore AeroFit 2 by Anker earbuds are on sale for $79.98 at Amazon. This is $50.01 off their list price of $129.99. Opens in a new window Credit: Soundcore Soundc...
Wired
MagSafe accessories make your phone feel uniquely yours. These are our favorites, including Android-friendly Qi2 picks.
Engadget
You’ve probably seen DJI’s stick vlogging cameras everywhere. At trade shows and tech events I’ve attended, it’s often the de facto video camera used by reporters and influencers alike. The Osmo Pocke...
The Verge
The latest AirPods Pro $50 off at multiple retailers, which is their second-best price to date. From OLED TVs to smartphones, Best Buy’s Upgrade Sale has slashed prices on all kinds of tech, including...
Mashable
SAVE $40: As of April 17, the Keurig K-Mini coffee maker is discounted to $59.99 at Amazon. This is $40 off its list price of $99.99. Opens in a new window Credit: Keurig Keurig K-Mini Single Serve K-...
CNET
When it comes to epic TV, Disney's got you covered.
CNET
A courier can now pick up items you want to send back.
Ars Technica
Sometime around 2010, sophisticated malware known as Flame hijacked the mechanism that Microsoft used to distribute updates to millions of Windows computers around the world. The malware—reportedly jo...
Gizmodo
We thought 'The Bear' star Jeremy Allen White voicing Rotta the Hutt in 'Star Wars' was a small role, but, apparently, it's not.
New York Times
Is anti-A.I. radicalization a growing trend?
Wired
Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out.
Wired
The Spectral:ON CF 8 is a do-it-all, full-carbon electric mountain bike with an 800-Wh battery and under $4,500. Yes, please!
Mashable
TL;DR: Walmart has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box up for preorder at $114.99, down from $149.99. TCGplayer's unopened listings start at $118.56 with shipping included. O...
Wired
From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is full of people who are abstaining from sex—and it’s not just incels.
Mashable
SAVE $10: As of April 17, the Roku Streaming Stick 4K Plus is on sale for $29.99 at Amazon. That's a 25% discount on the list price. Opens in a new window Credit: Roku Roku Streaming Stick Plus $29 at...
CNET
Some of the new 2.0 plans can save you money, though one goes over the top in cost and features.
CNET
Gemini is just a quick keyboard shortcut away now.
Wired
It's no Pixel 10a, but the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro is a close second if you're after a midrange phone in the US.
Wired
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
The Verge
Perfect Lovers II | Photo: Nik Massey Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinetic scul...
The Verge
"This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust," wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on X last week, quoting a post with a video of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers throwing a body of...
The Verge
People keep trying to make Peloton more than what it is, when the product itself is enough. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that disse...
Wired
Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in the area increases, analysts are getting creative.
The Verge
In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a...
The Verge
All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe's time has come. The Creative Cloud provider's suite of design tools have been considered t...
Tokyo is succeeding where the rest of the world has failed, reducing its reliance on Beijing for crucial rare earth elements—thanks to an enormous underwater deposit discovered on a remote island.
The Verge
This weekend's scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous. Success would signal an end to SpaceX's monopoly on reusable orbital launch vehicles, and set up a three-way race to make that "...
Casely has reannounced a recall of its Power Pods 5,000mAh MagSafe E33A charger after dozens of people were injured and one even killed by the defective devices, the US Consumer Product Safety Commiss...
Wired
Save on Foreo favorites, including LUNA cleansing brushes, BEAR microcurrent devices, and masks and accessories to level up your daily skincare routine at home.
Wired
Check out our deals for Nike this month, including 15% off select purchases.
Ars Technica
NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. So ...
Gizmodo
Pete Hegseth has previously said he'd like the U.S. economy to be placed on a "war footing."
Ars Technica
Lucasfilm released the final trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu last night at CinemaCon, to much applause. And why wouldn't there be? The trailer has all the elements that mark the best of the Star...
Ars Technica
Intel's Core Ultra laptop CPUs have been its flagships ever since it retired the older generational branding scheme and the i3/i5/i7/i9 branding a few years back. The Core Ultra Series 1, Series 2, an...
Netflix co-founder and current chairman Reed Hastings is leaving the streaming company’s board in June to focus on "his philanthropy and other pursuits," according to a shareholder letter released alo...
Ars Technica
On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows. Called GPT-Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin, the model appears to differ from mo...
Ars Technica
NASA is apparently pretty serious about building a base on the Moon, and the astronauts who just flew there say it is "absolutely doable." Within two days of landing on Earth, the Artemis II astronaut...
Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled the most ambitious architectural transformation in its 27-year history, introducing "Headless 360" — a sweeping initiative that exposes every capability in its platfor...
Ars Technica
Mozilla is the latest legacy tech brand to make a play for the enterprise AI market. But the company behind Firefox and Thunderbird isn’t releasing its own standalone AI model or agentic browser. Inst...
Engadget
Perplexity has just released Personal Computer. The software, which is available starting today for Mac, builds on the multi-model orchestration capabilities the company debuted with Perplexity Comput...
Engadget
A Call of Duty movie is still happening, but don't hold your breath for it to hit screens any time soon. Today, the popular FPS' social media revealed that the movie's theatrical release date will be ...
VentureBeat
Enterprise AI is entering a new phase — one where the central question is no longer what can be built, but how to make the most of our AI investment.At VentureBeat’s latest AI Impact Tour session, Bri...
Blackmagic Camera is one of the more powerful third-party smartphone camera apps available and it's now even more useful for solo creators. Blackmagic Design just announced that the latest iOS version...
Ars Technica
The Federal Trade Commission pressured three advertising firms into settlements that will likely result in more ad spending on conservative media platforms. The FTC and eight US states filed a lawsuit...
VentureBeat
The journey from a laboratory hypothesis to a pharmacy shelf is one of the most grueling marathons in modern industry, typically spanning 10 to 15 years and billions of dollars in investment. Progress...
Confirming it has reached 3 million weekly developers, OpenAI is massively updating its Codex developer environment via its Mac and Windows desktop apps today to bring it closer to the “Super App” the...
Ars Technica
A new version of OpenAI's Codex desktop app reaches users today. It brings a smorgasbord of new features and changes, ranging from new developer capabilities to expansion into non-developer knowledge ...
Ars Technica
It's been seven long years now since Metro Exodus wowed us with its early RTX-powered ray tracing in a chilling post-apocalyptic setting. A lot has changed in the intervening years, both in the game i...
New York Times
A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.
Ars Technica
A Chinese ship has tested a new device capable of slicing through submarine data cables thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface. That demonstration may exacerbate security concerns over a spate ...
Ars Technica
Stellantis, the global car company that owns brands from Alfa Romeo to Vauxhall (including Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram), has begun a five-year partnership with Microsoft. The tech company will use ...
Ars Technica
Google began rolling out "personal intelligence" in Gemini early this year, giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company's chatbot. Today, it's using persona...
Ars Technica
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced meeting dates for advisors to discuss lifting restrictions on 12 unproven peptides that the agency deemed to pose significant safety risks in 20...
Anthropic is publicly releasing its most powerful large language model yet, Claude Opus 4.7, today — as it continues to keep an even more powerful successor, Mythos, restricted to a small number of ex...
New York Times
The shoe company Allbirds announced on Wednesday that it would “pivot its business” to artificial intelligence.
New York Times
Doug Field, a top electric vehicle executive, will leave Ford Motor next month.
New York Times
The Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C.
New York Times
The timer function in the phone’s clock app is just one of the many features to aid home chefs.
New York Times
New tools tailored for use in senior living communities allow for shared experiences and social bonding.
New York Times
OpenAI says its technology is adept at finding bugs and other vulnerabilities in software.