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China's chatbot industry is fiercely competing for customers. Cue the freebies
- Business
- John Ruwitch
- Mar 30, 2026
- US
Chinese AI companies are focused less on being cutting edge and more on attracting customers. That means holiday promotions, and making chatbots useful in everyday life.
All the latest in AI ‘music’
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 30, 2026
AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists. There are technical and legal challenges, fierce eth...
Bluesky’s new app is an AI for customizing your feed
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 29, 2026
The latest app from the team behind Bluesky is Attie, an AI assistant that lets you build your own algorithm. At the Atmosphere conference, Bluesky's former CEO, Jay Graber, and CTO Paul Frazee, unvei...
Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 29, 2026
It's rare for a movie to get technology right. And it's even rarer for that movie to be a thriller or horror, where realism takes a backseat to scares and tension. But Red Rooms mostly gets it. Nothin...
Can my favorite Game Boy gadget tell fake cartridges from real?
- Technology
- Sean Hollister
- Mar 29, 2026
The $50 Epilogue GB Operator has a brand-new trick up its sleeve. In addition to backing up Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges and saves to a PC, it can now plug into your phone...
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
- Technology
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
- Mar 29, 2026
In the coming years, HBO wants its new Harry Potter series to become "the streaming event of the decade" as it adapts each of the franchise's seven original books. The show could very well become a hi...
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is a great time to get a fancy, AI-powered bird feeder
- Technology
- Brandon Widder
- Mar 29, 2026
Bird feeders have come a long way since their inception in the early 1900s. These days, it’s not all that surprising to see feeders kitted out with cameras and solar roofs, two marquee features you’ll...
The Macintosh changed computers forever
- Technology
- David Pierce
- Mar 29, 2026
Apple's most legendary computer has two legacies: there's the computer itself, and there's the commercial. That commercial. Only a couple of days before Steve Jobs debuted the computer that would both...
Apple’s long, bitter App Store antitrust war
- Technology
- Adi Robertson
- Mar 29, 2026
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the legal travails of Big Tech, follow Adi Robertson. The Stepback arrives in our subscribe...
He wants children's bikes made in the U.S.A. — and tariffs against his rivals
- Business
- Scott Horsley
- Mar 29, 2026
- US
Nearly all the bicycles sold in the United States are made overseas. An Indiana company set out to change that — and it's seeking a push from the Trump administration's tariffs.
Suno leans into customization with v5.5
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 28, 2026
Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving us...
SteelSeries’ feature-packed Nova Pro Wireless headset is $80 off
- Technology
- Cameron Faulkner
- Mar 28, 2026
The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless came out almost four years ago, yet it’s still one of the best gaming headsets you can buy. Turns out, it’s not easy for other companies to duplicate all that...