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This even smaller credit card-sized e-reader has one tragic flaw

  • Technology
  • Andrew Liszewski
  • Apr 2, 2026

There’s a new smallest e-reader in my life. The Xteink X3 is even smaller and thinner than Xteink’s X4 while also improving on the X4 with refined (but still far from great) software, simplified butto...

Google Home’s latest update makes Gemini better at understanding your commands

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • Apr 2, 2026

Google is launching another update to its Home app, which is supposed to make controlling your smart home with its Gemini AI assistant "more natural and reliable," according to this week's release not...

United adds TSA wait times to its mobile app

  • Technology
  • Andrew Liszewski
  • Apr 2, 2026

If you're flying United Airlines you'll now have a better idea of when you need to get to the airport to make your flight. Yesterday the airline announced several updates to its iOS and Android mobile...

Rising gas prices are good news for EV sales, for now

  • Technology
  • Lawrence Ulrich
  • Apr 2, 2026

It's become an American truism: Once you buy an SUV, there's no going back. And our love affair with pickups has been documented in a million country songs and TV commercials. But a brutal spike in ga...

Transfer Point is a modern adventure game made with 40-year-old software

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • Apr 2, 2026

One of the year's most intriguing games was developed using software first released 40 years ago. Transfer Point looks and plays like a classic Mac point-and-click adventure game, and there's a very g...

Insider trading or random guy? It doesn’t matter to Polymarket

  • Technology
  • Mia Sato
  • Apr 2, 2026

In mid-March, conspiracy theories swirled claiming Benjamin Netanyahu had been replaced by an AI clone. Though there was no actual proof that the Israeli Prime Minister had been injured or killed, on...

Uber expands its $4,000 ‘Go Electric’ grant to drivers nationwide

  • Technology
  • Andrew J. Hawkins
  • Apr 2, 2026

Since last year, Uber has been offering drivers in a handful of locations - California, Colorado, Massachusetts and New York City - $4,000 to swap their gas guzzlers for electric vehicles. The company...

Have Trump's tariffs worked? This is where things stand a year after 'Liberation Day'

  • Business
  • Scott Horsley
  • Apr 2, 2026
  • US

It has been a year since President Trump announced double-digit tariffs on imports from around the world. So far, those levies have not produced the economic boom the president promised.

FIFA hikes World Cup prices, again. A finals ticket can now cost as much as $11,000

  • Business
  • Rafael Nam
  • Apr 2, 2026
  • US

FIFA has raised prices for over 40 games of the World Cup in its latest sale that kicked off Wednesday, according to an NPR count. The most expensive tickets to the final now cost $10,900.

Trump’s birthright citizenship ban may fail — but the administration already got too far

  • Technology
  • Gaby Del Valle
  • Apr 1, 2026

On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order banning birthright citizenship. Justices seemed skeptical...

NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • Apr 1, 2026

NASA's Artemis II flight, which is set to take four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, successfully launched on Wednesday evening. The Artemis II mission, part of NAS...

The Artemis Moon base project is legally dubious

  • Technology
  • Georgina Torbet
  • Apr 1, 2026

With NASA planning to launch four astronauts on Wednesday on its Artemis II mission, the race to return to the Moon is back on. The current mission will see astronauts aboard the Orion capsule travel...