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I’ve found the Goldilocks of portable MIDI controllers
I have tested more portable MIDI controllers than I can keep track of, and I will tell you right now: 37 keys is the ide...
Elon Musk is encouraging race riots on the eve of SpaceX’s IPO
Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoin...
Is Apple TV the new HBO?
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated...
The Nintendo Switch 2 is $15 off at Woot
Woot is hosting a small, but welcome deal on the Nintendo Switch 2 through June 19th. New customers can save $15 on the ...
The Weather Channel app now predicts bad allergy days
The Weather Company announced an "enhanced allergy experience" now available through its The Weather Channel app designe...
With the World Cup looming, there’s still no clear replacement for sports Twitter
Three years ago, when the women's World Cup kicked off in Australia and New Zealand, my social feeds were in a strange p...
Cash App’s launching a phone service
Cash App's AT&T-based MVNO will offer an unlimited 5G data plan for $40 per month including taxes and fees. The new ...
I went to the woods to drink surprisingly great espresso
As summer returns, I'm again reminded of my limits as I head into the great outdoors: I can put up with a heavy, uncomfo...
Boox’s new e-reader could replace your Kindle, Kobo, and digital notepad
Boox has announced a new version of its smallest e-reader that expands the Go 6's functionality to now include note-taki...
Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
Anthropic has apologized for stealthily throttling its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, with hidden guardrails that undermi...
The library rules (and so do library streaming services)
Summer is almost here, and that means getting outside, having fun in the sun, and touching grass. But if you need to coo...
iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe
After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported back in Februa...
YouTube is introducing DMs (again)
YouTube is reintroducing private messaging after testing new ways for users to share videos and "have conversations abou...
Ryanair is under investigation over charging parents to sit with their kids
European economy airline Ryanair is under investigation in the UK for charging parents mandatory fees to sit with their ...
Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services
Deezer will now scan your playlists on other streaming platforms to detect AI-generated music. Deezer was the first of t...
Bluesky is getting ‘communities’
Bluesky will be getting "communities," which will function as smaller spaces where you can "go deeper and hang out with ...
Framework delays its first Laptop 13 Pro shipments by a month
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is delayed. The new 13-inch Framework flagship was set to launch in June, but shipments from...
Apple’s new Siri AI knows when to shut up
Apple's new Siri AI is finally here, and so far, it seems like it works. I have access and have been messing around with...
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Typing a few letters and numbers into my web browser, I find myself gaping at the identity documents of complete strange...
Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs
Microsoft's Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft's...
Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4
Apple and Google are updating their smart home streaming devices to Thread 1.4. As first spotted by Matter Alpha and 9to...
Kalshi adds required employment verification for some prediction market bets
The CFTC is considering its first regulation for prediction markets, as arrests over "insider trading" on everything fro...
Fable won’t answer basic biology questions
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and prai...
Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft w...
The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenani...
Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI
If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria musi...
You can just tell the Instagram algorithm what you want now
Instagram is going to let you tweak what its algorithm shows you on your main feed. With the Your Algorithm feature, "yo...
Amazon’s Echo speakers can now help kids wind down and fall asleep
Amazon has launched a new feature for its Echo and Echo Kids smart speakers called Sleep Studio that's designed to make ...
Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns
Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it's already causing concerns inside Mic...
Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training
Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it w...
Boox’s quirky page-turning remote won me over
Following the launch of the surprisingly popular Kobo Remote, Boox has released its own device to ease the burden of rea...
The Apple Watch Series 11 is back to its best price
Apple’s upcoming watchOS 27 update will bring Siri AI and other exciting features to the Apple Watch Series 9 and newer ...
Valve is phasing out physical Steam gift cards due to scammers
After over a decade, Steam will no longer sell physical gift cards in stores. In a support page spotted earlier by Windo...
Five questions for the duo behind The Pelley Minutes
Websites are so back! Today's website worth visiting is The Pelley Minutes, a clever project that puts the career of lon...
Insta360’s Luna Ultra 8K stabilized camera is now available in the US
Following months of teases, leaks, a secretive debut at NAB 2026, and an initial launch in China, Insta360 finally annou...
The three sets of earbuds I reach for
I have been an audio reviewer for 20 years. My time as a freelance headphones panelist at Wirecutter, and the multitude ...
BYD to install thousands of 5-minute EV chargers across Europe
Chinese EV colossus BYD has announced plans to speed up its conquest of the European auto market with the rollout of sup...
Xbox exploring ‘radically different’ console business models
The RAMageddon crisis has got Microsoft rethinking its Xbox console hardware business. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox str...
Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month
Microsoft's Office 2019 apps for Mac will stop working next month, because the company isn't renewing a certificate that...
Waymo built a virtual driver to study how humans react to surprises on the road
Waymo has a lot of experience building virtual systems to help its autonomous vehicles better understand the real world....
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