The fight for net neutrality never seems to be truly won or lost. Federal net neutrality rules have been on and off for the past 15 years. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the Open I...
AI isn't new to Hollywood - but this was the year when it really made its presence felt. For years now, the entertainment industry has used different kinds of generative AI products for a variety of p...
Dub, a fintech startup that lets people copy influencers' stock trades, raised a $30 million Series A round in 2025. Dub The creator economy has captivated notable VCs' attention and checks. Some crea...
Gaming laptops are always a balance between price, performance, and portability. The Asus ROG Strix G16 manages to find a good balance between all three. Though a few more design updates would be welc...
Elon Musk's Neuralink startup develops brain-chip implants. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is planning to ramp up production of his Neuralink brain chips in 2026. Neuralink develops...
Long time lurker here. My family had a pen-and-paper game we'd play on long drives to visit my great-grandmother. After she passed, I spent the holidays recreating it: https://a26z.fun How it works: F...
Garry Tan is a top seed investor. Courtesy Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding. Founders launched companies ranging from...
It might be just my type. Clicks is expanding beyond keyboard cases and bringing its QWERTY keys for phones to another format: a magnetic power bank accessory with a slide-out keyboard. The Power Keyb...
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Three California teenagers created text-to-speech smart glasses powered...
Physical copies of Star Wars Racer Revenge are suddenly selling for over $300, as word spreads that an exploit in the game can be used to jailbreak PlayStation 5 consoles. Recently-completed eBay list...
Hi HN, Iâm a solo dev building a clinical search engine to help my wife (a resident physician) and her colleagues. The Problem: Current tools (UpToDate/OpenEvidence) are expensive, slow, or increasing...
Arc Raiders and its cutthroat PvP encounters have generated dozens of viral clips since launch, but some peaceful players prefer PvE to such a degree that theyâve started using the aggression-based ma...
Got me all twisted up. At CES 2026, Lenovo is announcing a new ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist laptop. Once a concept , the 14-inch thin-and-light sports a motorized pivoting hinge, allowing it to twi...
The ROG NeoCore concept router from Asus. The first Wi-Fi 8 routers and chips made a surprise appearance at CES 2026, and could launch this year, only a couple of years after Wi-Fi 7 debuted. So, if y...
New year, new opportunity for Jensen Huang to show off his shiny jackets at CES. We're not even a full week into 2026 yet, but Nvidia has already announced several products and updates to start the ne...
The DeskMate doesnât have its own display, it just uses your iPhoneâs. CES is packed with AI companions and assistant robots this year, but the DeskMate from Yoona is a clever take on the idea: it's a...
The Body Scan 2 will be available in Q2 2026, pending FDA clearance on some metrics. | Image: Withings Withings is back at CES 2026 with another smart scale: the $599.95 Body Scan 2. This time, it's g...
Canât wait to have a Jackery logo in my yard. | Image: Jackery Jackery, the home battery company, is back at CES with a solar-powered Gazebo it swears you'll be able to buy in the second half of the y...
Minecraft-style sandbox game Hytale looks set to be a significant hit even at the early access stage. Hot on the heels of predicting over 1 million players for tomorrowâs launch , its developer has sa...
If you're in need of at-home printing but you don't want to deal with the upfront cost of buying a printer or the hassle of purchasing ink cartridges when they run out, then HP is offering a plan that...