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The decentralized social platform confirms service disruption affecting users across at least one region, marking its second significant outage this month.

The rugged SUV that defined early-2000s adventure culture is coming back, and its loyal fanbase has been waiting since 2015.

South Korean designer Hong Jeongyeon's Red Dot-winning device merges turntable nostalgia with generative AI for hands-on music remixing.

The open-source video model is already flooding social platforms with hyper-realistic content. Traditional production barriers are dissolving.

A firebombing attempt on the OpenAI CEO's residence raises urgent questions about the ideological movements fueling extremism in AI opposition.

Individual plans climb to $15.99 and Family to $26.99 as Google joins the industry-wide push to extract more from subscribers.

The London design studio's new project strips digital interfaces back to first principles, asking what screens would look like if we started over.

The Gray Lady's stylometry-driven investigation into Adam Back reads less like journalism and more like a Magic 8-Ball consultation.

Artemis II's crew will carry Nikon gear to lunar orbit. The images they capture matter more than we admit.

Before screens became passive consumption devices, a generation learned to see technology as something you shaped with your hands.

The internet didn't suddenly die when AI showed up. It was hollowed out years ago by the advertising model that made engagement more valuable than truth.

Two cultures separated by an ocean share a surprising amount of common ground, from whiskey to muscle cars.

Cheng Lou's Pretext library enables DOM-free text layout in pure JavaScript, potentially ending CSS's stranglehold on web typography.

As vehicles and appliances grow smarter, a growing number of consumers are deliberately seeking out analog alternatives that can't be tracked, updated, or disabled.

The iconic tape brand returns with a Bluetooth-enabled cassette player that feels like a deliberate statement about what we've lost.

Waymo’s driverless cars weren’t collateral damage. They were a message: when modernity arrives without consent, it ceases to be progress. As it often happens, what burned was not just technology, but the myth that we’re all invited to the future.

Crypto without privacy is surveillance with extra steps. If digital currencies can’t replicate the anonymity of cash, they’ll never be as useful. Privacy isn’t a feature—it’s the foundation. Until we treat it that way, crypto will remain a shattered mirror reflection of the system it aimed to replace.

A new embryo screening tool from Nucleus Genomics lets parents rank embryos by health and traits—raising profound questions about ethics, equity, and our desire to control fate.

The Trump-branded crypto wallet launch sparked confusion as the Trump family denied involvement, highlighting challenges in crypto branding and decentralization.

Anthropic’s new free AI Fluency course helps everyday users understand how AI systems work—and why that understanding is becoming essential. Explore what AI fluency means for today’s workforce, tomorrow’s students, and the future of digital literacy.

Crypto was born as a protest. A decentralized answer to centralized corruption and failure. But now that the institutions are listening, the movement is stalling. When the purpose is to fight, what happens when the fight is over?

Palmer Luckey doesn’t look like a threat. That’s the point. In a culture obsessed with outward polish, Luckey’s brightly patterned shirts and casual indifference mask one of the most formidable minds in defense tech. This isn’t laziness—it’s camouflage. His style is a strategic counterpunch to the performative intensity of Silicon Valley. While others broadcast ambition, Luckey obscures it. That’s how he wins.

In a world where everything can be faked, Gen Z is looking to the past in order to signal authenticity. Castlecore and Y2K core aren’t just looks, they're a plea for realness.

In a digital world overwhelmed by bots and synthetic content, the case for a human-only social network is growing stronger. Real presence, real accountability, and real conversation might be the antidote to algorithmic noise.

Fortnite players can now talk to Darth Vader using ElevenLabs’ AI voice tech, bringing James Earl Jones’ legendary tones to life. This collaboration with Epic Games showcases the future of AI-powered interactive gaming.

Right now, every customer is a human. But increasingly, their AI gets there first. It scans your site, parses your docs, filters your offering—and decides whether the human ever sees you. The websites of the future won’t just be mobile-first. They’ll be AI-first. One version for humans. One for machines. And they’ll look nothing alike.

Airbnb’s latest update is a clear pivot: from place to stay to platform for everything. Chefs, massages, event tickets, AI trip planners—it’s all part of their push to become the default operating system for travel. But hospitality doesn’t scale like code, and moving into real-world services means Airbnb is stepping into much messier territory. The vision is big. The execution will be the test.

Retail buyers aren’t celebrating the 90‑day tariff truce—they’re clearing shelf space and booking every container they can find. The moment duties dropped to a “mere” 30 %, the playbook snapped into place: lock holiday POs now, flood West Coast ports by July, and sit on a mountain of inventory so August politics can’t torch Q4. In trade‑war math, a warehouse full of goods is cheaper than a single day of uncertainty.

Skype’s closure marks the end of a pioneer in digital communication. This article explores how Skype lost its lead to Zoom and others, offering lessons for startups on why being first doesn’t guarantee lasting success.

METR introduces a new benchmark to track how long AI can reliably complete real-world tasks.