The standoff between the US and the EU over Greenland has heightened existing European concerns about over-dependence on the United States, particularly in the digital sector, with French President Em...
Sennheiser’s new Auracast transmitter can be purchased as part of a bundle with its new wireless headphones. | Image: Sennheiser As we've previously lamented , one of Bluetooth's best modern features ...
Xbox showed off new footage of its Fable reboot during its Developer Direct on Thursday and announced that the game is set to launch this autumn for Xbox, PC, and PS5. The new Fable is an open world a...
Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of DeepMind Technologies Ltd., during a panel session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images This is an ex...
The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off at Launch Complex 36 in its second launch attempt at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on November 13, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Miguel J. Rodrigue...
OP here. I spent the weekend red-teaming small-scale open weights models (Qwen2.5-1.5B, Qwen3-1.7B, Gemma-3-1b-it, and SmolLM2-1.7B). I found a consistent vulnerability across all of them: Safety alig...
A top BYD executive says countries are slowing the EV transition by changing policy too often. Asad/Xinhua via Getty Images Policy changes are slowing the global EV transition, a top BYD exec says. Co...
Russia and Venezuela maintain a strategic partnership spanning energy, defense, and diplomacy. Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images Russia's state-owned Roszarubezhneft says its Venezuelan oil assets belong t...
Everyone’s noticing how the industry is shifting — including major A-Listers like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who recently opened up about the fact that Netflix wants to change how films are being mad...
AI chatbots are increasingly able to buy things on users' behalf, a concept known as agentic commerce. Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images OpenAI broke new ground when it enabled shopping ...
In a now-annual tradition, Microsoft is kicking off the year with a showcase of some of its biggest upcoming games. Last year’s edition of the Xbox Developer Direct had some big names, like Doom...
Crypto majors are very green with Bitcoin making a new another 2-month high; BTC +2% at $96,7500; ETH +2% at $3,360, SOL even at $145; XRP -1% to $2.11. DCR (+30%), DASH (+10%), ICP (+10%) and ZEC (+7...
A composite image of Jamie Dimon (left) and Donald Trump (right). Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images and Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Donald Trump hav...
A common approach to automating Amazon shopping or similar complex websites is to reach for large cloud models (often vision-capable). I wanted to test a contradiction: can a ~3B parameter local LLM m...
Quant asset managers haven't adopted AI en masse yet. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A new Bloomberg survey of quant investors found that 54% of respondents do not use generative AI for investing. A...
Microsoft is kicking 2026 off with a new Xbox Developer Direct showcase, which will feature some of the biggest games it has coming out this year. Confirmed to appear at the showcase is Playground’s F...
Our picks include carrying cases and ones you can leave on during handheld and docked play. | Image: The Verge, Getty Images You might find it kind of sad to put your hard-earned Switch 2 into a prote...
Even after the holidays and the many sale events leading up to them, January has had some surprises up its sleeve when it comes to video game deals, particularly over at Best Buy during its Winter Sal...
The debut trailer for Masters of the Universe is now online, and it reveals a first look at Jared Leto as Skeletor as he battles He-Man. The special effects-heavy trailer sets up the story, with Nicho...
Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of g...