Grok began 2026 as it began 2025 : under fire for its AI-generated images. Elon Musk's chatbot has spent the last week flooding X with nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors. Circula...
DramaBox is best known for romances and thrillers. DramaBox DramaBox is seeking to raise funding as the competition among micro-drama apps intensifies. The app from Singapore's StoryMatrix is a top pl...
Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college to focus on Facebook. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Meta acquired Manus , a startup that has created a "general-purpose" AI agent to do tasks autonomously. One o...
Hyperkin and GameSir have each made great controllers for PC , consoles and mobiles, but for CES 2026 they've teamed up for the first time to create a fascinating transforming controller: the X5 Alter...
Elon Musk is the CEO of xAI, the company that develops Grok. VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Grok AI image generation on X is now limited to paying subscribers after global backlash. El...
Deus Ex lead actor Elias Toufexis has branded the franchise's owners as "psychopaths," as the wait continues for a new entry in the dormant stealth action series. In a post on X, Toufexis laid out his...
If you're anything like me, you've been in countless situations where your raid leader is yelling at you to "focus up" and "pay attention". It's something I've always struggled with, but at CES 2026 ,...
CD Projekt has sold its DRM-free PC storefront GOG to its original co-founder, Michał Kiciński, for 90.7 million Polish złoty (approx. $25.2 million). Kiciński is also co-founder of CD Projekt itself,...
The show may be best known for the debut of high-end, budget-busting TVs - of which there was no shortage this year - but in recent years many companies have used CES to announce their latest charging...
Govee is known for putting lights in every corner of your room: in your bulb sockets, in the corner for a little multicolored bias lighting, and even behind the TV with its scene-matching LED strips. ...
The Freestyle Plus still looks like the original 1080p Freestyle projector. | Image: Samsung The Freestyle Plus all-in-one portable projector features 430 ISO Lumens, or "nearly twice the brightness o...
SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son delivers a speech during the annual general shareholders' meeting in Tokyo on June 27, 2025. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images SoftBank is acquiring data...
Not every good gaming mouse costs more than $100. There are plenty of perfectly capable options that you can find for an absolute steal, like our favorite budget gaming mouse, the SteelSeries Rival 3 ...
Vanran, a fast-paced soulslike action game with Shadow of the Colossus-sized boss battles, is getting a playable demo later this month. Check out the new trailer above, and the reveal trailer below. I...
China's DeepSeek has published a new AI training method that can scale models more easily and shape "the evolution of foundational models." credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty...
I used the time over Christmas and in between the years to redesign my website. This time I decided to make it in the theme of an evil Sith Lord that commands the Galactic Cookie Empire, because I fou...
Last year, IO Interactive revealed that musician and singer Lenny Kravitz would be making his video game debut in 007: First Light – not as the singer of a film-like Bond Theme, but as an actual chara...
I spend an embarrassing amount of time watching prices move, partly out of professional duty and partly because I hate paying full price. This week’s crop finally rewarded the obsession. There are a f...
Tailwind's CEO said the startup's revenue has decreased by 80% amid the rise of AI. id-work/Getty Images The popular web tool Tailwind cut three of its four engineers on Monday, citing an AI-driven re...
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