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Acer’s answer to the MacBook Neo is a $699 laptop with Intel chips and 8GB of RAM

  • Technology
  • Antonio G. Di Benedetto
  • May 29, 2026

Acer is aiming to take on the MacBook Neo more directly with a new Swift Air 14, a new 14-inch laptop that starts at $699. The laptop will use Intel's lower-cost Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" chips - e...

Backrooms is at the forefront of horror’s YouTube wave

  • Technology
  • Charles Pulliam-Moore
  • May 29, 2026

Though YouTube has always been a place where up-and-coming artists could be discovered and make it big, in recent years the platform has become a launching pad for some of Hollywood's most exciting ne...

Trump Mobile’s website still says the T1 Phone is ‘American-made’

  • Technology
  • Dominic Preston
  • May 29, 2026

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. As the phone's supposed launch continues, we noticed...

Jony Ive’s funky Ferrari

  • Technology
  • David Pierce
  • May 29, 2026

Most people will never own, drive, or even sit inside a Ferrari Luce. (If you can, or do… hit us up.) There's still no question that Ferrari's first electric vehicle is one of the most interesting, su...

Hundreds of prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike

  • Technology
  • Mia Sato
  • May 29, 2026

Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of trust on the internet. But last week, volunteer editors and contributors were alarmed to hear that a small but important team of engineers at the nonprofit tha...

This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

  • Technology
  • Robert Hart
  • May 29, 2026

AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch - because, despite what its website says, there's always a catch - is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, t...

This is MSI’s new Claw 8 EX AI Plus gaming handheld

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • May 29, 2026

MSI has unveiled a new Claw 8 handheld gaming PC ahead of the Computex 2026 show, and this model swaps out its predecessors' Intel Lunar Lake mobile chip for a specialized handheld processor. MSI desc...

Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern

  • Technology
  • Jess Weatherbed
  • May 29, 2026

AI image tools rarely make me feel like I'm part of the creative process. They are, afterall, mostly designed so that people with no design experience can type in a few words and get back a usable res...

Blue Origin explosion is a major setback for NASA’s Moon plans and Amazon’s Starlink competitor

  • Technology
  • Thomas Ricker
  • May 29, 2026

While Blue Origin investigates the root cause behind last night's spectacular explosion of its New Glenn rocket, it's already clear that this will be a major setback for NASA's Moon base plans and Ama...

Nintendo’s newest WarioWare is a weirdo smartphone app

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • May 28, 2026

A decade ago, Nintendo made a big splash into the world of mobile gaming with a new Super Mario platformer directed by none other than Shigeru Miyamoto. But even though the game proved popular, it was...

Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a speed boost and cleaner design

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • May 28, 2026

Microsoft is launching a revamped version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a cleaner design that the company claims loads twice as fast. As part of this update, Copilot will provide more reliable an...

Amazon’s last-gen Paperwhite is on sale for less than the entry-level Kindle 

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • May 28, 2026

If you like to read by the pool or at the beach, the 2021 Kindle Paperwhite remains one of the best e-readers available despite its age. That’s because, unlike Amazon’s latest entry-level Kindle, the...