Americas News
Beyond Meat’s protein soda might be its last chance and best hope
- Technology
- Dominic Preston
- Jan 28, 2026
Beyond Meat just launched a new product that's even further from meat than ever before: a protein soda. Beyond Immerse is the company's first product that makes no attempt to replicate meat whatsoever...
This soft humanoid robot is designed to be ‘physically safe and socially approachable’
- Technology
- Andrew Liszewski
- Jan 28, 2026
A startup called Fauna Robotics has revealed a new humanoid robot called Sprout it's been developing over the past two years. Standing around 3.5-feet tall, Sprout's design, featuring a soft padded ex...
My favorite folding phone is the one that doesn’t exist yet
- Technology
- Allison Johnson
- Jan 28, 2026
A book-style folding phone is a gadget that poses one radical idea: What if you always had a computer in your pocket? When you'd like to be writing a blog while your plane is taking off, and large ele...
This fanny pack robot helped me walk miles
- Technology
- Sean Hollister
- Jan 28, 2026
Oops, I did it again: I wore an exoskeleton to the world's biggest tech show, walking the streets and casinos of Las Vegas with a robot powering my legs. I don't mean I briefly tried a new gadget ther...
Apple aims to keep iPhone 18 price flat in face of RAM shortage, Kuo says
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Jan 28, 2026
Apple will try to avoid raising iPhone 18 prices "as much as possible" in the face of a global memory shortage, according to a report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to Kuo, Apple pl...
Send Help is an ode to every worker who has had a bad boss
- Technology
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
- Jan 28, 2026
When it comes to director Sam Raimi's films, you have to go into the theater understanding that you're about to experience a piece of cinema that vacillates between being absolute batshit and utterly...
Snap is turning its smart glasses team into its own company
- Technology
- Jess Weatherbed
- Jan 28, 2026
Snap is launching a separate business for its upcoming Specs augmented reality glasses in a bid to lure new investors to the project. The new company, aptly named "Specs," will operate under Snap as a...
Ted Lasso season 4 hits Apple TV in the summer
- Technology
- Andrew Webster
- Jan 28, 2026
One of Apple TV's biggest hits is returning later this year: the streamer confirmed that season 4 of Ted Lasso will premiere this summer. There's no firm date beyond that, but the announcement marks a...
Bluesky is testing ‘live’ features to take on X
- Technology
- Jess Weatherbed
- Jan 28, 2026
Bluesky says it's planning to make the app feel more "live" this year as part of ongoing efforts to build a competent rival to Elon Musk's X platform. Announcing Bluesky's 2026 development roadmap, pr...
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL
- Technology
- Mia Sato
- Jan 28, 2026
Across six top large language models, xAI's Grok performed the worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, according to a study published Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League. On the o...
Windows 11’s ability to resume Android apps on your PC is getting closer
- Technology
- Tom Warren
- Jan 28, 2026
Microsoft is getting ready to improve Windows 11's ability to resume Android apps on a PC. The software giant first introduced its cross-device resume last year, letting Windows 11 users resume OneDri...
Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives
- Technology
- Robert Hart
- Jan 28, 2026
A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered more than 800 previously undocumented "astrophysical anomalies" hiding in Hubble's archives. To do so, researchers David O'Ryan and...