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Topical Dancer is propulsive, playful, and political
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 22, 2026
Last week's recommendation, Sotomayor's Wabi Sabi, has a very particular vibe that you don't find in a lot of records. One of the few things it called to mind was 2022's Topical Dancer from Charlotte...
Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 22, 2026
Reviews of Crimson Desert have been mixed, but the bigger issue for the game has been the discovery of what appeared to be AI-generated assets in the final release. Now the developer has acknowledged...
Musk says he’s building Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 22, 2026
Elon Musk announced plans to build a Terafab plant in Austin, Texas, that will be jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. The goal is to eventually build chips at scale for robotics, artificial intelligence,...
The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever
- Technology
- David Pierce
- Mar 22, 2026
The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. It wasn't supposed to be anything in music, really. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a sim...
The pint-sized Sonos Roam 2 is more over 20 percent this weekend
- Technology
- Brandon Widder
- Mar 22, 2026
Sonos is no stranger to the occasional sale. The iconic audio company routinely runs sales around Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day, and the Super Bowl, though it’s rare to see substantial discounts on i...
Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Mar 22, 2026
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about online age verification and your privacy, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in...
AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games
- Technology
- Jay Peters
- Mar 22, 2026
AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and even entire games from a chat box. On the show flo...
Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Mar 21, 2026
Lux Optics co-founder Sebastiaan de With made headlines when he joined Apple in late January. The company was behind Halide, one of the most popular photography apps for the iPhone, which gained a cul...
The AirPods Pro 3 are $50 off right now, nearly matching their best-ever price
- Technology
- Brandon Widder
- Mar 21, 2026
Less than a week ago, Apple announced the forthcoming AirPods Max 2, a pair of over-ear headphones that leverage the company’s H2 chip for AI-powered live translation, conversation awareness, and a ho...
Here are 20 of our favorite outdoor deals from REI’s Member Days Sale
- Technology
- Brandon Widder
- Mar 21, 2026
REI’s latest sale is in full swing. The outdoor retailer’s exclusive shopping event runs through Monday, March 23rd, bringing with it a batch of discounts on Garmin watches, tents, portable stoves, an...
The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics
- Technology
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
- Mar 21, 2026
Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the public in 2024. Though she didn't fully understand the technology,...
Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell
- Technology
- Geoffrey Bunting
- Mar 21, 2026
The funny shape of eggs is the curious lifeblood of Oeuf, the new physics platformer by prolific developer Increpare Games. In a gaming landscape saturated with complex systems dropped into simple gam...