Americas News
Nintendo turned its biggest flop into an expensive, uncomfortable novelty
- Technology
- Andrew Webster
- Feb 20, 2026
I've written about a lot of different video game hardware over the years, from new consoles to retro gadgets to whatever you want to call the Playdate. But I can't remember ever being perpetually sore...
Meta will ruin its smart glasses by being Meta
- Technology
- Victoria Song
- Feb 20, 2026
Whenever I write about Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, I already know the comments I'm going to get. Cool hardware, but hard pass on anything Meta makes; will wait for someone else to come along. It's h...
Tesla’s cheaper $60,000 Cybertruck is still a Cybertruck
- Technology
- Dominic Preston
- Feb 20, 2026
Tesla has announced a new all-wheel drive Cybertruck that starts at $59,990, the cheapest the controversial truck has been sold for yet - though still well above the $40,000 price tag Elon Musk had in...
Will Stancil, man of the people or just an annoying guy?
- Technology
- Gaby Del Valle
- Feb 20, 2026
I met Will Stancil two days before he got booted from his neighborhood Signal chat. We were at the Uptown Minneapolis VFW at an event hosted by Rep. Ilhan Omar, a thank-you party for Minnesotans who f...
Using saliva to detect disease holds promise, but it's not perfected yet
- Business
- Yuki Noguchi
- Feb 20, 2026
- US
Easier than a blood test, saliva tests have the potential to detect cavities, infections and even cancer. But a lack of insurance coverage and other obstacles stand in the way of wider use.
In a historic vote, Tennessee Volkswagen workers get their first union contract
- Business
- Stephan Bisaha
- Feb 20, 2026
- US
Two years ago, the successful union drive at this plant was expected to spark victories throughout the South. But now, as members vote to make their contract official, momentum has fizzled.
The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it
- Technology
- Lauren Feiner
- Feb 19, 2026
Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including teens...
An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years
- Technology
- Andy Greenberg
- Feb 19, 2026
A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death...
The Pitt has a sharp take on AI
- Technology
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
- Feb 19, 2026
Each episode of HBO's The Pitt features some degree of medical trauma that almost makes the hospital drama feel like a horror series. Some patients are dealing with gnarly lacerations while others are...
A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Feb 19, 2026
With Ring facing fierce backlash over its Search Party feature, a new program is challenging developers to move Ring doorbell footage off of Amazon's cloud - and into users' own devices. The Fulu Foun...
The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2026
- Technology
- John.Higgins
- Feb 19, 2026
It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve been eyeing. The market...
Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR
- Technology
- Jay Peters
- Feb 19, 2026
Meta, after laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs division, closing three VR studios, stopping new content for VR fitness app Supernatural, and discontinuing its metaverse for work, is annou...