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Apple starts testing end-to-end encrypted RCS messages on iPhone

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • Feb 16, 2026

Apple is starting to test end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages with the developer beta of iOS 26.4 released Monday. Apple announced plans last year to support the feature, and once fully available...

Apple’s Podcasts app will let you ‘seamlessly’ switch between audio and video shows

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • Feb 16, 2026

Apple is upgrading its Podcasts app to let users "seamlessly" swap between audio and video podcasts using its HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. While listening to a show, users will be able to swi...

Apple’s doing something on March 4th

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • Feb 16, 2026

Apple is hosting a "special Apple experience" in New York City on Wednesday, March 4th at 9AM ET, instead of at the Apple Park location it typically uses for events. It's also hosting press in the cit...

Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

  • Technology
  • Nilay Patel
  • Feb 16, 2026

Today, let’s talk about the camera company Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state.  You probably saw this ad during the Super Bowl a couple of weekends ago: Since it aired for a massive audience...

Switch 2 pricing and next PlayStation release could be impacted by memory shortage

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • Feb 16, 2026

Sony and Nintendo are reportedly feeling squeezed by RAM shortages as demand from AI data centers takes up an increasing share of memory chip production. In response to rising costs and dwindling chip...

Samsung ad confirms rumors of a useful S26 ‘privacy display’

  • Technology
  • Dominic Preston
  • Feb 16, 2026

Samsung has released a new advertisement for its upcoming Galaxy S26 launch that all-but confirms rumors of a new display with a built-in privacy mode. Leaked videos show that the feature could be cap...

After spooking Hollywood, ByteDance will tweak safeguards on new AI model

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • Feb 16, 2026

TikTok creator ByteDance says that it is working to improve safeguards on its new AI video generator after Disney, Paramount, and Hollywood trade groups accused the tool of violating copyright protect...

A Star is born

  • Technology
  • David Pierce
  • Feb 16, 2026

Two hours before one of the most important live events in Netflix's history, LA's sprawling CBS Radford Studio Center is abuzz with the strangest combination of things. As I walk through one cavernous...

How Trump's tariffs push some importers into risky, high-cost loans

  • Business
  • Scott Horsley
  • Feb 16, 2026
  • US

President Trump's tariffs can create a cash crunch for importers. They have to pay the tariff bill before they can sell their products. Some have turned to a costly form of credit. But what looks like...

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

  • Technology
  • Terrence O’Brien
  • Feb 15, 2026

Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. He said that Steinberger has "a lot of amazing ideas" about getting AI agents to inte...

You need to watch the intensely surreal cult classic Possession

  • Technology
  • Terrence O’Brien
  • Feb 15, 2026

Let me just say that I highly recommend you go into Possession blind. Don't watch a trailer. Don't even finish reading this. Go watch it now over on Shudder, Criterion, or Metrograph. It's also availa...

Apple’s first-gen AirTags are still worth buying now that they’re $16 apiece

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • Feb 15, 2026

With Apple’s second-gen AirTags now widely available, we’re already seeing inventory of the first-gen model begin to dwindle. Case in point? Amazon is no longer selling a single AirTag, and it’s uncle...