The most interesting story at this year’s CES was just a little tiny bundle of technology. One way to look at Lego’s new Smart Brick is as something like a Raspberry Pi, an endlessly remixable gizmo with infinite hacking potential – it can be anything, in the best possible way. Another way to look at […]
Insta360 has announced new Pro versions of its Link 2 and Link 2C webcams that first launched in September 2024. As with the previous versions, the new Link 2 Pro and 2C Pro can track the movements of onscreen subjects to ensure they’re always in frame, making them ideal for those presenting on a video […]
The PC market is bracing for a turbulent year ahead, but shipments managed to exceed expectations in the recent holiday quarter. IDC reports that shipments grew nearly 10 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2025, reaching 76.4 million in total. Microsoft’s end of Windows 10 support undoubtedly helped push PC shipments up, but IDC […]
Microsoft is removing its Lens scanner app from iOS and Android in the coming months. Microsoft Lens, or Office Lens as it’s known to most, will no longer be supported on February 9th, and the app won’t be functional after March 9th. The portable scanner features of Lens are available in OneDrive instead, making a […]
Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, these floor-sweeping bots have gone from utilitarian devices to full-fledged home robots that vacuum and mop your home, clean themselves, and […]
Just weeks after raising the price of its RAM modules, Framework has announced that it’s also increasing the price of its desktop PC in response to the global memory shortage. The Framework Desktop with 32GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 chip now starts at $1,139, instead of $1,099. “We held off […]
The Golden Globes winner has no social media, yet he’s everywhere online. Cyberpsychology reveals how prestige and parasocial relationships fuel celebrity influence.
Meta’s Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division’s metaverse employees, as reported by The New York Times. The layoffs are apparently a side effect of Meta’s AI ambitions, which are pulling focus away from its virtual reality division. According to the Times, Meta’s […]
If you’re planning on traveling at all this year, the Baseus EnerCore CG11 Universal Travel Adapter is worth a look. The adapter can power up to six devices at once, and now through the end of today, January 12th, it’s on sale for just $34.19 (about $36 off) at Amazon, matching the all-time low price […]
The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating nonconsensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the Grok AI chatbot, a criminal offense, as reported by the BBC. “The Data Act, passed last year, made it a criminal offence to create – or request the creation […]