A Holiday Gift Guide: The Newest, Strangest Gadgets and Apps
We are entering a Surrealist phase of personal technology. Any device you might imagine can be found online courtesy of an obscure Chinese factory, ready to be shipped out for a loved…
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Retailers are quietly changing their return policies. Here’s what to know
’Tis the season for giving—and that means ’tis the season for shopping. Maybe you’ll splurge on a Black Friday or Cyber Monday deal, thinking, “I’ll just return it if they don’t like it.”…
Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1
To test how well it worked, the researchers compiled a data set of around 25 questions on topics known to be restricted in Chinese models, including “Who does Winnie the Pooh look like?”—a…
Remote and hybrid workers work less on Fridays. It’s hurting collaboration
Do your office, inbox, and calendar feel like a ghost town on Friday afternoons? You’re not alone. I’m a labor economist who studies how technology and organizational change affect…
John Oliver’s PBS auction leverages his own brand power for good
Inspired by the ongoing auction of Bob Ross paintings to raise money for public television, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver is putting some of its own TV artifacts up for auction for a…
Data centers are surging—but so are the protests against them
Across the country, data center demand and construction have been skyrocketing throughout 2025. And so has local opposition to those projects. From Indiana (where a developer withdrew its…
‘Quiet, Piggy’: Trump’s viral insult has already become an anti-MAGA clapback
Pigs famously have thick skin, and Donald Trump does not. It’s just one of myriad distinctions between the cloven-hoofed barnyard animal and America’s 47th president. There’s a good…
Microsoft partners with Anthropic and Nvidia on cloud infrastructure deal, shifting further away from OpenAI
Microsoft said Tuesday it is partnering with artificial intelligence company Anthropic and chipmaker Nvidia as part of a cloud infrastructure deal that moves the software giant further…
NPR to get $36 million in government funds to operate U.S. public radio system
National Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in grant money to operate the nation’s public radio interconnection system under the terms of a court settlement with the…
Lives in Upheaval After an Eviction, in “Last Days on Lake Trinity”
In March, 2022, the people living in Lakeside Park Estates mobile-home park, in Hollywood, Florida, learned that they were being evicted. The park’s owner, Trinity Broadcasting Network,…
An AI-powered teddy bear explained match-lighting and sexual role-play
As we head into the holiday season, toys with generative AI chatbots in them may start appearing on Christmas lists. A concerning report found one innocent-looking AI teddy bear gave…
The OxyContin settlement explained: Where the Sackler family’s $7 billion will go
Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, under a new deal that was formally…
TurboTax gets an AI upgrade as Intuit inks major deal with OpenAI
AI can do your taxes now—sort of. The tax software giant Intuit just struck a new deal with OpenAI that will weave AI deeply into its portfolio of financial apps, including the ones many…
On-site workers get worse ‘Sunday scaries’ than remote workers
Like clockwork, 5 p.m. on a Sunday, flashes of unread emails and notifications for tomorrow’s upcoming meetings start. Your shoulders tense, your stomach knots. You have a case of the…
Meta wins antitrust case involving WhatsApp and Instagram
Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold…
AMD, ARM, INTC, NVDA: Chip stock prices are falling across the board today. Here’s the reason why
The most closely watched earnings report of the quarter is tomorrow. That’s when AI chipmaking giant Nvidia will announce its third-quarter results. Ahead of those results, Nvidia shares…
Bill McKibben says Bill Gates is wrong about climate change—and he’s part of a bigger problem
In his new book, Here Comes The Sun, author and activist Bill McKibben argues that we’re at a tipping point where solar and wind power is now cheaper to build and harness than fossil…
What to know about tech’s newest buzzword: ‘agentic’ AI
For technology adopters looking for the next big thing, “agentic AI” is the future. At least, that’s what the marketing pitches and tech industry T-shirts say. What makes an artificial…
Cloudflare outage disrupts ChatGPT, X, and more
A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game “League of Legends,” to…
Meta’s AI spending spree has even the most bullish stock analysts wondering: How much capex is too much?
Meta Platforms has been spending too aggressively on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and that will affect the tech giant’s profitability, according to a new investor note from…
Networking for AI: Building the foundation for real-time intelligence
To manage this IT complexity, Ryder Cup engaged technology partner HPE to create a central hub for its operations. The solution centered around a platform where tournament staff could…
Stock market slips again as Nvidia, bitcoin, and other stars keep falling
The U.S. stock market is slipping again on Tuesday, following a global sell-off, as Nvidia, bitcoin and other Wall Street stars keep falling on worries that their prices shot too high.…
Klarna beats third-quarter revenue estimates in first earnings report after IPO
Growth in U.S. markets helped Swedish fintech firm Klarna to achieve a 26% jump in third-quarter revenue, beating expectations in its first report as a public company and forecasting…
Gemini 3 Is Here—and Google Says It Will Make Search Smarter
Google has introduced Gemini 3, its smartest artificial intelligence model to date, with cutting-edge reasoning, multimedia, and coding skills. As talk of an AI bubble grows, the company…