Category: Technology

As YouTube prepares to air an exclusive NFL opening week game for free on September 5th, it’s hiring former Disney exec Justin Connolly. He’d most recently been running the streaming services and linear media networks, and will take over as YouTube’s new global head of media and sports, as first reported by Bloomberg, and confirmed…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially dropped its case against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The FTC filed an order to dismiss its complaint on Thursday, just days after it lost an appeal for a preliminary injunction to prevent Microsoft from finalizing its acquisition. “The Commission has determined that the public interest is best…

The Xiaomi PU7 matches the Tesla Model Y in size and acceleration, but demolishes it in range. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi unveiled its hotly anticipated PU7 electric SUV in China today, in the latest potential blow to Tesla’s position in the world’s hottest EV market. The electronics giant says the PU7 will get up to…

Notepad’s new Write feature uses generative AI to create content for you based on a prompt. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is now testing a new feature in Notepad that can generate text for you using AI.  It’s part of a Windows 11 update being released to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels with…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that House Republicans narrowly passed early Thursday would strip state legislatures of AI oversight and scale back consumer protection and climate initiatives while funding border surveillance, among many other provisions. The budget reconciliation bill still needs to be approved by the Senate, where some Republicans have voiced concerns with…

A source tells Bloomberg that Apple’s glasses will be similar to Meta’s but “better made.” Apple is planning to debut its first pair of smart glasses next year, according to a report from Bloomberg. The upcoming glasses will reportedly come with cameras, microphones, and speakers, “allowing them to analyze the external world and take requests…

The mystery is the point, but it’s also indicative of where AI hardware is. The last 48 hours have been a wild rollercoaster ride for AI hardware. On Tuesday, Google ended its I/O keynote – a roughly two-hour event with copious references to AI – with its vision for Android XR glasses. That included flashy…

Nvidia has gone too far. This week, the company reportedly attempted to delay, derail, and manipulate reviews of its $299 GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card, which would normally be its bestselling GPU of the generation. Nvidia has repeatedly and publicly said the budget 60-series cards are its most popular, and this year it reportedly tried…

Meta is beginning to test showing 3D photos on Instagram if you’re looking at your feed on a Meta Quest VR headset. “Thanks to our AI view synthesis algorithms, we can transform the existing photos that show up in Instagram feed pixel by pixel – no fancy 3D cameras required,” Meta says in a blog…

At $479.99, the AirPods Max are now at their second-best price to date. From savings on big-ticket items like LG’s C4 OLED TVs to smaller ones like the Garmin Forerunner 265, there are plenty of great Memorial Day deals to shop right now – many of which we’ve gathered in our roundup of the best…