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Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery is cheaper than ever right now
We found the iPhone Air to have a pretty decent battery life for such a thin-and-light phone, somewhere in the region of 27 hours if you’re continuously streami...
Apple’s first-gen AirTags are still worth buying now that they’re $16 apiece
With Apple’s second-gen AirTags now widely available, we’re already seeing inventory of the first-gen model begin to dwindle. Case in point? Amazon is no longer...
Logitech’s new Superstrike is a faster, more customizable gaming mouse
Enthusiast gaming keyboard tech has made the jump to gaming mice - well, to one gaming mouse so far. The $179.99 Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike is the first to f...
I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being
After a few weeks living with Casio's AI-powered pet, Moflin, I finally understand why my mother hated my Furby so much. The fuzzy, guinea-pig-adjacent puffball...
Get a four-pack of first-gen AirTags on sale for only $64
Good deals on Apple products aren’t as frequent as we’d like them to be, but if there’s one of the company’s products that does seem to enjoy pretty regular pri...
AI can’t make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about video game industry's pushback against gene...
Why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs?
Many of the emails released by the Department of Justice from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are full of garbled symbols like: Or: The scrambled text is...
Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of the his powerful friends
The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein's emails into detailed dossiers on his associa...
Airbnb is testing out AI search with a 'small percentage' of users
Airbnb plans to double down on artificial intelligence to improve its user experience for both guests and hosts. During a fourth-quarter earnings call, Airbnb's...
Disney accuses ByteDance of 'virtual smash-and-grab' when using copyrighted works to train its AI
Disney is going after another generative AI tool, accusing ByteDance and its recently released Seedance 2.0 of using its copyrighted material without permission...
What to read this weekend: The unsettling new horror novel, Persona
Need something new for your reading list? Here are two titles we think are worth checking out. This week, we read Aoife Josie Clements' deeply unsettling Person...
OpenAI has officially retired the controversial GPT-4o model
OpenAI's GPT-4o may have survived its first brush with going offline, but it won't be as lucky this time. OpenAI has officially retired GPT-4o, the ChatGPT mode...