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Apple has been conspicuously absent from the AI race that has consumed many of the world’s largest tech corporations. From AI-focused newcomers...
Revolutionary, it was. Apple’s iPod wasn’t the first portable music player that could stream music files and didn’t require a physical disc or...
Folks romanticize CDs, but I remember using portable CD players back when there was no other option. Even mild bumps would cause the audio to cut out...
Apple may have touted iOS 26 as a major update to the iPhone’s operating system, but nearly 84 percent of iPhone users have so far chosen not to...
Two things are happening concurrently. One is that economists and tech industry experts are increasingly fearful that we’re entering an AI bubble....
AI only looks easy and seamless on the user’s end. Where all the user’s queries are computed is a constellation of massive data centers packed...
Doesn’t it just look like it’s ready to pounce on your dirty messes and vacuum them up, and then maybe up and onto your legs to cover you with...
Ever wonder what your friends are listening to? As in exactly right now, in the moment? Spotify just introduced Live Activity to their mobile apps,...
DJI has its hands full these days. With a newly imposed ban on introducing new drone models into the US kicking in just before Christmas 2025,...
Perhaps The Terminator had it only partly correct. Instead of SkyNet, an omnipresent grouping of military weapon systems, being the robot menace that...
We’re getting misty-eyed over here at VICE as the Christmas trees spread their dried-out needles all over the streets as they wait curbside for...
Every year, some don’t make it to New Year’s Eve. Tech is like life in that way. Apps and services that once had so much energy and promise are...
Spend any time shopping for headphones or earbuds, and you’ll see “ANC” pop up in the marketing material of all but the most budget models. What...
Look at us. It’s not even New Year’s Eve, and we’re already casting our eyes upon next year. We don’t pretend to have a crystal ball, but we...
There’s nothing like the cool breeze of the wind washing over your face as you pedal down the street. Okay, maybe motorcycles, and cars if you have...
One more year down, and one more year on which to look back at all the gadgets that made their debuts in 2025. Here’s a backward glance at the three...
Got a bike without suspension that feels like it’s going to shatter your butt every time you go over a pothole or a tree root? You can’t feasibly...
Dedicated IPs are here, everyone. Not all that many virtual private network (VPN) services offer it yet, but more are beginning to fold it into their...
This one’s a bit of old news. In fact, I’ve been waiting for most of 2025 to hear more word about what Lectric Bikes plans to do with its new...
It’s refreshing to see an experiment that didn’t involve poking or injecting mice to change them internally. Instead, scientists decided to do...
Heck yeah, Jason Orsini, of Smithtown, New York. Not only does my birthplace have Melissa Joan Hart to its credit, but it also has a near-perfect...
Skelly might be a 12-foot-tall tower of plastic bones, but he’s a one-trick pony. Home Depot only sells the gigantic decoration in advance of...
LEGO makes a set for practically everything. Why not the New Year’s Eve ball drop? New Year’s Eve is kind of an annual s—t show when it comes to...
Every year on Christmas Eve, the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) mission shifts from “blow s—t up” to “glow s—t up”...
So it happened. Just last month, I’d reported on the looming possibility of Rad Power going out of business. Even Electrek, reporting on Rad...
You’ve got your eyes glued to the rear bumper of the car in front of you as the slow-moving mass of cars plays gridlock Tetris down the highway....
It’s only been available to the public for less than a week. Still, the latest, lightweight version of Google’s Gemini generative AI, Gemini 3...
Recently, I began a trial run—I could hardly call it an experiment… with a straight face—of replacing all my Google usage with DuckDuckGo and...
We’ve enjoyed watching robots fail at seemingly basic tasks ever since Honda’s Asimo ate s—t walking up a staircase nearly 20 years ago. Most of...
Blame all those car commercials that, for years, made it seem like unveiling a large vehicle with an equally large bow was the most dramatic Christmas...
Anytime there’s a new technology, there’s a glut of companies that try to strike it big. Look at the field of automobiles in the early 1900s,...
Early this year, the Camp Snap screenless, digital point-and-shoot camera was all over social media. Enough so that there were shortages all...
Even as AI-centric browsers proliferate, AI brands are keeping one hand firmly on the branch of the traditional browser before entrusting their full...
Named the Family Christmas Tree, this mammoth kit has the power to bring families together or, potentially, tear them apart. What family hasn’t...
It wasn’t even two weeks ago that the news pages walloped us all with word that Netflix had acquired Warner Bros., including HBO and Discovery, in a...
Remember this fella? The robot that was viciously attacked on camera for clicks by its creators? No? Well, you should watch it so that you can develop...
Apple Safari. Microsoft Edge. Google Chrome. These three browsers dominate the browser landscape, and why wouldn’t they? Just look at the company...
Love it or loathe it, Spotify Wrapped lands in early December each year like a gift-wrapped box parachuted from above, and by now most people know how...
The Lectric XP4 series of folding ebikes is a best-seller for the company Lectric Bikes. It pops up again and again whenever one finds discussion of...
Google dominates. It has a heavy presence when it comes to smartphones, smartwatches, smart homes, tablets, security cameras, smart doorbells, and...
Freedom from advertisements, they said. And for a while, they were right. We got used to paying an almost nominal fee and delving into a new sort of...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been on a tear lately to reduce the reasons why anyone would need to switch away from an open ChatGPT tab to access a new...
I’ll cut to the chase. You don’t want to hear me blather on about my childhood memories of gathering around the gigantic-yet-not-that-big-screened...
The YouTube app on TV streaming devices had always felt like playing hopscotch over a bunch of tires. Streaming apps need to be clean and...
You’d be forgiven for remembering that Meta also has an AI, Meta AI. Or for not knowing at all. There’s a crowded field of front-runners in the AI...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s “Code Red” declaration earlier this month seemed fairly mild in the face of the dramatic language used by Altman to...
Bread, milk, eggs, music, and heat. The essentials of daily life. Well, unless you’re gluten intolerant… or a vegan… or can’t consume lactose....
Eager to get away from Google’s, Microsoft’s, and Apple’s corporate dominance? Maybe you’ve just got (well-justified) trust issues. Or perhaps...
Remember when we didn’t just listen to music? We watched it. MTV pioneered music videos in the 1980s and then abandoned them for reality TV in the...
No, I didn’t just have a stroke. Despite the long hours I’ve put in these past few weeks in the run-up to Black Friday, I’m not yet at the point...
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