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Many gadgets marketed as being “smart” make me wonder if they would be better off dumb. Some examples are smart TVs that insist on sending your activities to businesses to track you, smart fridges that use the Internet to cycle through ads, smart gym equipment that won’t work offline, smart toothbrushes whose batteries drain too quickly, or virtually any gadget that forces you to use a minimally effective or otherwise unimpressive app. Too often, modern technologies, like inter-device connectivity and artificial intelligence, are shoehorned into gadgets that would be more intuitive to use, affordable, accessible, and/or durable without them. Dory…

California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a new sales tax on digital software and making his point about it in the weirdest way possible. He claims to shop at Best Buy all of the time, but I’m not convinced he’s even used a computer since Windows Vista. Last week, Newsom took a break from podcasting and shitposting about President Trump to argue that California’s state sales tax of 7.5 percent should apply to software companies too, many of which are based in his state. He tried to point out the absurdity of the loophole with an equally absurd personal anecdote:…

If you thought that the abysmal sales are the only issue with Sony’s flagship smartphones, you may be wrong. After the AI Camera Assistant controversy, the Xperia 1 VIII may hold another surprise.Thicker than the specs sheetOn its website, Sony says its latest flagship is 8.3 mm thick, but that may be a misleading statement. A measurement taken by leaker OnLeaks shows that the device is actually 8.59 mm thick.While the difference of 0.29 mm, which equals just a bit over 0.01 inches, is nothing the vast majority of users would even notice, the discrepancy doesn’t look good. However, the…

Lanterns, the new DC Universe series coming to HBO Max, dropped a surprising teaser in March that swapped the usual superhero hijinks for gritty realism more in the vein of True Detectives and Slow Horses. Personally, I liked the change; it pushed a series that was barely on my radar to my 2026 list of ones to watch. I guess HBO was concerned people would miss the superhero vibes, though, because the latest teaser trailer interweaves the grittier aspects with a lot more superpowers and intergalactic elements. And you know what? I’m still here for it. Per the official logline, “The…

Sony is reportedly done publishing its biggest PlayStation 5 single-player games on PC, apparently starting with Ghost of Yōtei and Saros. This comes from Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, who stated on social media today that PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff today in a town hall that PlayStation first-party single-player narrative games will be PlayStation-exclusive going forward. This seemingly confirms Bloomberg‘s reporting from March, which stated that online games like Marathon and Marvel Tokon would still be multi-platform, but games like Ghost of Yōtei and Saros, which might have hoped for PC releases months or even a year or…

AI might be more hype than magic in some industries, but telecom networks are experiencing tangible benefits. T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon are all using the tech to make their networks smarter, though it will still be some time before they achieve their most ambitious visions.Customers are already winningT-Mobile is currently testing ways to bake AI right into the Radio Access Network (RAN) — the crucial link connecting devices to the core network. During the Q1 earnings call, the company’s CEO, Srini Gopalan, shared how the company used AI to self-regulate its network during a severe winter storm in late January.…

Archaeologists used a combination of advanced CT scans and 3D digital reconstruction to identify one of the Pompeii victims who died in 79 CE during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as most likely having been a Roman doctor, according to an announcement by the Pompeii Archaeological Park. As previously reported, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, spewing molten rock, pumice, and hot ash over the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in particular. The vast majority of people in Pompeii…

Microsoft has launched a new user feedback tool called Xbox Player Voice. It will give players another sounding board to share their concerns and requests. Most importantly, it’s supposed to provide transparency about which improvements and changes to the platform Microsoft is prioritizing and why. “When you submit feedback, teams review and organize it so it can be understood and considered alongside other work,” a new blog post about the tool reads. “In some cases, ideas will move forward. In others, they may take longer to implement or may not be something we can act on. When there are meaningful…

While the AI upgrades to the iOS 27 and the foldable iPhone are more likely to steal the show during Apple’s September event this year, the company is also expected to launch new smartwatches. A new rumor claims they may feature sensor upgrades and a design refresh of at least one model.Apple Watch 4 Ultra may get a major redesignApple is preparing to launch a new flagship smartwatch this fall, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone Ultra. According to a new Digitimes report, the Apple Watch Ultra 4 will feature a “major redesign” and new sensors.While the new report…

Additionally, he tried to blame Rajala for another woman’s reply on the thread, which linked to a mug shot of a convicted rapist. Despite the mug shot link displaying another man’s name and photo, D’Ambrosio claimed he had been defamed and had “suffered emotional distress, emotional loss, loss of professional opportunities, and damage to his reputation and relationships.” His goal, Hamilton’s opinion noted, was to sue “anyone remotely associated with those posts for all possible, imaginable claims, including the woman who dated him and her parents, women commenting on posts, the operators of the Facebook group, and Facebook itself.” In…