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Fighting Trump will make or break Disney’s new CEO

  • Technology
  • Charles Pulliam-Moore
  • May 13, 2026

A week ago, newly appointed Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro was busy regaling investors with plans to turn Disney Plus into the company's "digital centerpiece." By last Friday, though, his attention had presu...

Netflix’s ad ambitions just keep growing

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • May 13, 2026

For the second year in a row, Netflix's ad-supported tier more than doubled its monthly viewerbase. During its 2026 upfront presentation, Netflix revealed that its $8.99-per-month plan reaches more th...

Everything at The Criterion Collection is 30 percent off right now

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • May 13, 2026

If you’ve been meaning to grow your physical movie collection, now’s a good time to do it. Through May 25th, The Criterion Collection is taking 30 percent off every disc on its site, including standar...

Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • May 13, 2026

Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls "Instants," which are ephemeral photos that you can't edit and that you can only sha...

Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat

  • Technology
  • Stevie Bonifield
  • May 13, 2026

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is "the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers." Messages in Incognito Chat aren't saved or stored in...

Microsoft doesn’t want any of this

  • Technology
  • Elizabeth Lopatto
  • May 13, 2026

Maybe I'm just punch drunk in my third week attending Musk v. Altman, but I have become very, very fond of Microsoft during the course of this trial. They don't want to be here any more than I do. The...

Sony ups its new A7R VI to 66.8 megapixels and jumps the price to $4,500

  • Technology
  • Antonio G. Di Benedetto
  • May 13, 2026

Sony announced its new flagship high-resolution camera, the A7R VI. The standout feature is its fully stacked full-frame sensor with 66.8 megapixels of resolution and up to 16 stops of dynamic range....

Garmin’s mini satellite communicators are on sale for up to 40 percent off

  • Technology
  • Brandon Widder
  • May 13, 2026

REI’s annual Anniversary Sale doesn’t start until March 15th, but that hasn’t stopped Garmin from rolling out discounts on a range of devices — including its InReach Mini satellite communicators. Righ...

Swatch’s latest luxury collaboration is a $400 pocket watch

  • Technology
  • Andrew Liszewski
  • May 13, 2026

Following a series of cryptic newspaper ads and Instagram teasers that had watch fans speculating about its next collaboration, Swatch announced a new timepiece collection created with luxury watchmak...

Why does the Googlebook exist?

  • Technology
  • Antonio G. Di Benedetto
  • May 13, 2026

Google announced its new Googlebook laptop platform yesterday, and so far I've been left asking, "Why?" Why is Google blowing up its Chromebook and ChromeOS platform for this? I've been excited by the...

The border is everywhere

  • Technology
  • Gaby Del Valle
  • May 13, 2026

No one paid attention to the gunshots that echoed through the convention center. They were real enough, and so were the screams that accompanied them, in the sense that they were recordings of real pe...

Nintendo says it has more Switch 2 games in store for 2026

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • May 13, 2026

With the Switch 2 getting a price hike in September, this holiday season will be pivotal for Nintendo. That increased cost means that the company will rely heavily on new games to sell its current con...