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- May 10
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- 'It feels like a slap in the face' — never fact-check your doctor with ChatGPT as study shows doing so 'undermines' your relationship with human experts — and could even offend them by making them feel 'disrespected'
- How to watch Barcelona vs Real Madrid: Live Streams & TV Channels for El Clasico 2025/26, Team News
- 'People use smartphones more but invest less in their security': New report claims McAfee and Norton remain the most loved antivirus brands as users ditch lesser-known security products for free tools like Microsoft Defender or Apple Xprotect
- I'm looking forward to using the new Philips Hue smart light sports sync feature during the World Cup — as long as it doesn't signal goals too early
- What is the release date for The Testaments episode 8 on Hulu and Disney+?
- How to watch Celtic vs Rangers: FREE streams, team news and TV channels for Old Firm derby
- Dexter: Resurrection season 2 — new cast announcements and everything we know so far about the hit Paramount+ show's return
- May 9
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- Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, May 10 (game #1567)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, May 10 (game #1064)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, May 10 (game #798)
- 'Geology can make the risks of solar storms 1000 times worse': Below the US is a 200-kilometer-thick lost continent that could put data centers at risk by making strained electrical grids even worse
- 'LLMs can infer private attributes from ad exposure alone': AI can tell a lot about you just based on the overall patterns of ads you see, without the need to access your browsing history or personal data — and not even a VPN can protect you
- UFC 328 live stream: how to watch Chimaev vs Strickland, start time, preview, full card
- How to watch Fabio Wardley vs Daniel Dubois: live stream boxing online, start time, ringwalks, fight card, PPV cost
- Hundreds of .new .internet .top-level .domain .names .could .appear .very .soon as ICANN announces new gTLD round 14 years after one that gave us .africa .google .Microsoft and .bananarepublic — but will POTUS register .trump?
- More Insta360 Luna Ultra details and images have leaked — revealing a clever feature that could give it the edge over the DJI Osmo Pocket 4
- What is the release date for Off Campus on Prime Video?
- Daredevil: Born Again season 3 — everything we know so far about the Marvel TV show's return on Disney+
- With a $1.3 trillion lifetime bill, America’s iconic B-52 Stratofortress 'BUFF' bomber, which is as old as Vladimir Putin, gets new avionics and upgraded engines to help it reach a century of service
- Travelling back from Asia? Surfshark warns against the silent data collection of the most popular local travel apps
- ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Apple's iPhone AI payout to Google's all-new Fitbit
- How to watch Sporza from anywhere – stream football, tennis and cycling outside Belgium for *FREE*
- May 8
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- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, May 9 (game #797)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, May 9 (game #1063)
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, May 9 (game #1566)
- I tried the lossless audio test and couldn't believe my ears. Can you really tell the difference between lossless audio and plain old MP3 versions of your favorite tunes?
- Fuelled by AI, Micron's $50 billion chip factory in Idaho will use billions of litres of water every year — but the US tech giant stays silent on where that new water will come from
- ChatGPT now lets you nominate a Trusted Contact who gets alerted if your interaction with AI 'indicates a serious safety concern'
- A solution to our data center woes? Covering California’s canals with solar panels could generate a staggering 13GW of clean energy and save enough water for two million people — so why the opposition?
- The Netherlands' ambitious homegrown AI model enters the real world
- 'From the inventors of origami': Japan joins Australia in building cardboard drones designed for one-way missions and swarming targets — and at just $2,000, they’re scarily cheap
- The Wayback Machine faces another threat from AI — ridiculously expensive hard drive prices
- OpenAI has 3 new AI voice models that the ChatGPT maker says will ‘unlock a new class of voice apps for developers’
- Programmers are starting to trust AI more – but still don't entirely believe it won't come for their jobs
- One of my top gaming headset picks just got a new level of personalization — Audeze's ReSkin earcup covers let you 'bring flair and personality' to your headset
- 'We’re going through the single largest infrastructure buildout in human history': Jensen Huang says new Nvidia AI partnership will ‘revitalize American manufacturing’
- Another major Linux security flaw revealed — 'Dirty Frag' allows root on all major distros, with no patch or fix available yet
- Huawei has unveiled two new kids’ wearables to add to its lineup of smartwatches — the Watch Kids X1 Series — and they could prove to be serious competition for the Garmin Bounce 2 and Fitbit Ace LTE
- Bluehost's new service combines ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok subscriptions for just $20 a month
- Apple TV's tense new thriller is a must-watch for Paradise fans as James Marsden steps into the role of a CIA agent
- Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in just one month
- 'Threat actors are clearly adapting to the widespread interest in popular AI tools': AI fans beware, hackers create a fake Claude site to spread backdoor malware
- This dangerous 'CallPhantom' scam spread across 28 Google Play apps downloaded over 7 million times - here's what we know
- 'We must think carefully about what we will do': Sony shows hesitance to announce PS6 release date or price due to RAM crisis, and finds itself in the same situation Valve is in with the Steam Machine
- 'The findings are sobering': Experts warn nearly half of the world's passwords can easily be cracked in just a few minutes
- How to watch VRT outside Belgium – from anywhere with a VPN
- OpenAI rolls out new model for cybersecurity teams a month after Anthropic's Mythos debut
- Ever wish for earbuds with the disc-style fit of Apple's original iPod buds, but with hi-fi-quality sound and a USB-C cable? Then I've got great news for you — but don't expect them to come in all-white
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (May 8)
- Sony and Canon are unveiling new cameras on the same day next week — and I know which one I’m more excited about
- 'Why does technology just keep getting less fun?' Fitbit users are mad about losing key features as a result of the huge Google Health changes — but I want to hear what you think
- How to watch Deadliest Catch season 22 online — stream the hunt for king crab from anywhere, free trial
- Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro wants to merge Disney+ into a ‘super app’, but it’s not as thrilling as you’d think — instead you’ll be forced to see ads pushing theme parks and cruise lines, and who really wants that?
- Microsoft is fixing one of the worst problems with Windows 11 updates — those dreaded installation failures
- Canvas school login portals hacked as Instructure hack apparently gets even worse
- Xbox plans to share more on its next console, Project Helix, 'later this year'
- 'The stakes are high: a misconfigured payment flow doesn’t just produce a bad answer, it moves real money': Amazon Bedrock teams up with Coinbase and Stripe to let AI agents carry out transactions using stablecoins
- How to watch Giro d'Italia 2026 — it's *FREE*
- Nintendo announces price increase for Switch 2 handheld — but you still have time to beat it
- Google TV is getting the exact home screen update you don’t want: more clutter — vertical social videos from YouTube will be piped right to your eyes along with the TV and movie recommendations
- Google is turning Gemini into a 24/7 AI agent that plans your life for you
- Amazon Ads lets advertisers use your LinkedIn data to send taregetd ads on TVs and streaming platforms
- The Batman Part II director reveals first behind-the-scenes look at the long-awaited DC comic book movie — and fans are convinced it teases who its main villain is
- How much is your digital identity worth? NordVPN's new tool reveals the true price of identity theft
- 'The climate costs are insane': Why Chrome users are outraged over a forced 4GB Gemini AI update that may affect billions worldwide without their consent — and it even redownloads automatically when deleted
- Own a Google Pixel phone? Android 17 might finally let you remove the home screen search bar
- '2026 is the year CEOs must rewire the C-suite': IBM study reveals what successful leaders are actually doing with AI work in their businesses
- The Fujifilm X-T5 is still my favorite APS-C camera years later, and that means the rumored X-T6 has a touch act to follow — here are 5 upgrades that would make it a worthy successor
- Microsoft's rumored 'Low Latency Profile' CPU trick could make Windows 11's menus and apps load up to 70% faster
- How to watch Giro d'Italia 2026: Free Streams & TV Guide for Grand Tour, Stage 3
- How to watch 'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars S11' — 18 queens face off for a spot in the Drag Race Hall of Fame
- Kobo's new 'whimsical' cases are gorgeous, but they aren't the hardware releases I was hoping for this year
- This Californian start-up just shocked the haulage world with its weird, cab-less autonomous delivery bot
- I thought this universal Apple Watch cable was a gimmick, but now I won't travel without it
- PlayStation's Hyperpop DualSense Controllers are vibrant, glossy, loud, and hard to ignore
- May 7
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- The RAM crisis isn't alone anymore, PC users — a new report suggests there is now a motherboard manufacturer crisis, and it seems it's only going to get worse
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, May 8 (game #1565)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, May 8 (game #1062)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, May 8 (game #796)
- 'We're now ready': Peter Thiel-backed company raises $1bn to send data centers out to sea to harness 'tens of terawatts of new capacity potential' in the power of the open ocean
- 'This is not facial recognition' — Meta wants to scan kids' height and bone structure to verify their age
- Razer partners with 'P2P for AI' network to deliver over 11,000 unique images at just $0.01 per generation during its April Fool's viral 3D AI companion campaign — no cloud subscription needed
- Your next Samsung Galaxy Watch could ‘dramatically reduce’ your chances of injury thanks to this one clever feature
- 'Like a microscopic Predator': Chinese scientists create tiny robotic vacuum to hunt radioactive pollution and clean the world's oceans
- What is the release date for Marshals: A Yellowstone Story episode 11 on CBS and Paramount+?
- A new report says inkjet-printed OLED could be 30% cheaper to produce than current methods, which I'm hoping is great news for laptops and monitors soon, and OLED TVs in the future — and it's on top of the other big advantages of IJP tech
- GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone
- 'What started as someone potentially trying to remove the background from a selfie ended with a custom .NET stealer rifling through their browser passwords': Experts warn that free image editor tool could actually be dangerous malware
- BT lays out plans to become 'digital backbone' of the UK for consumers and businesses alike
- How to watch Aston Villa vs Nottm Forest: Free streams for Europa League 2025/26 semi-final second leg, team news
- Iranian hackers launch ransomware campaign looking to steal details via Microsoft Teams
- Apple TV drops a tense full-length trailer for Cape Fear — and it dials up the horror to a satisfying degree
- Star Fox 64 is getting yet another remake, this time for Nintendo Switch 2
- The AI boom is now consuming more money than Apollo, the ISS, and the Manhattan Project combined — and it’s still accelerating in 2026
- Canon is launching a new camera next week, and I predict it'll be a vlogging-style full-frame model
- Top universities among victims named in Canvas data breach - MIT, Oxford and more all hit
- 'A Lego brick that plays music': A great Scandi loudspeaker brand returns with 7 new products, including a shallower option designed for narrow bookshelves
- 'A waste of money' — Digital rights group slams Utah's new 'impossible by design' VPN restrictions under controversial age verification law
- RGG Studio's Stranger Than Heaven is seemingly the most original action-RPG I've seen yet: here are four ways it stands out from others
- Palo Alto warns of critical firewall flaw, tells users a patch is on the way
- Budget Windows 11 laptops vs MacBook Neo — Microsoft-commissioned report points out Neo weaknesses, as Apple's rumored to double production to 10 million
- The Google Fitbit Air finally breaks cover, and it heralds a new era of screenless fitness tracking to take on Whoop and Garmin
- More than 70,000 US Army files were exposed ‘for over a year’ even after CISA warning – sensitive personnel info and base schematics stored in vulnerable Open Directory Listing
- OM System could be planning a monochrome OM-3 — the 'affordable' black-and-white-only camera is rumored to launch this year and could be a true Leica killer. Here's why that makes perfect sense
- Civilization 7 is getting a mammoth update with all new mechanics, reworked victories, and the ability to play as a single civ throughout an entire game
- 'We’re not just adding new features, we’re introducing a new format': Adobe is changing how PDF and other files get shared
- A new search AI tool from Google will summarize tips from Reddit and social media — the ‘Expert Advice’ panel will ‘include a preview of perspectives from public online discussions’ and other sources as part of its updates to AI Mode and AI Overviews
- Hackers hijack Google Ads to spread phishing campaign spoofing top GoDaddy tool
- Thinking about buying the LG C6 OLED TV? Ask our reviewers anything, from which panel it uses to how it compares to other 2026 TVs
- You asked, and Spotify listened — this popular Spotify feature is finally rolling out to new markets after years of begging the music platform
- 'These findings aren’t isolated incidents': A shocking number of workers would be willing to sell out their company data for money
- 'Workforce reductions may create budget room, but they do not create return': Gartner warns companies relying on layoffs to free up room for AI may be caught out in the long run
- 'You're watching the wrong show': The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke hits back at fan claims that its fifth and final season is just full of 'filler episodes'
- Samsung finally rolls out One UI 8.5 to the Galaxy S25, S24, and more — here's the full list of compatible devices
- 'CEOs are staking their jobs on AI': New study warns leaders their roles could be at risk if they mess up AI
- Apple may be about to let you replace its AI with ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude — and it could change the iPhone forever
- 'A foundational block of modern cybercrime': The inside story of a 15,000+ website network using popular ad trackers to peddle AI investment scams
- 'It just vanished': Millions at risk as Android trojans use devious trick to 'magically' disappear once installed
- May 6
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- 'Not just an aircraft': US Navy MQ-25 Stingray drone hit a major milestone with maiden flight — largest US UAV ever built set to become world's first autonomous tanker to take flight from an aircraft carrier and maybe feature in a Top Gun movie one day
- Vine is coming back, and it’s being relaunched by the guy who killed it — say hello to Jack Dorsey’s Divine, a TikTok and Instagram Stories rival with a ferocious ambition to end AI slop
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, May 7 (game #1564)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, May 7 (game #1061)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, May 7 (game #795)
- North Korean hackers target gamers with trojanized platform - here's what to look out for
- 'Putting the whole Earth into a computer’: Chinese scientists use supercomputers to solve one of Yellowstone’s most enduring volcanic mysteries — and now want to create a digital twin of our planet to predict its future
- ‘AI capabilities that did not exist at the time’: Delayed Siri features have cost Apple a massive $250 million, and iPhone users could get up to $95 per device
- AMD's CEO predicts 'higher memory and component costs' later this year — so brace yourself for Radeon GPU price hikes
- 'Change in technology that will reshape medicine': Leading medical experts say new AI reasoning models are so good they outperform even the best specialist doctors when it comes to diagnosing some of the world's most mysterious cases
- Tesla recalls all of its ‘budget’ Cybertrucks over fears that the wheels might fall off
- Tired of blurry pictures from your video doorbell? Blink just launched its first doorbell with 2K video — and it's only $50
- How to watch M.I.A. from anywhere in the world – stream the new show from Ozark creator online
- Experts warn 'evolving AI is like an invasive species — it adapts to survive in ways we cannot predict': A new study says unchecked models are a risk to humanity, as it’s inevitable for autonomous systems to follow the path of Darwinian evolution
- Apple removes more Mac mini and Mac Studio models from sale, as CEO Tim Cook warns it 'may take several months to reach supply demand balance'
- Researcher reveals official White House app is one command away from tracking your precise location every 4.5 minutes – app can also inject code to dodge cookie consent, GDPR banners, and paywalls
- What could go wrong? A fully electronic braking system is being built into a car for the first time
- Experts warn Microsoft Phone Link tool exploited by 'unknown threat' to steal SMS and OTP info
- Freshworks and Coinbase announce more than 1 in 10 jobs to go as companies replace workforce with AI technologies — tech company layoffs near 100K in 2026 alone
- ExpressVPN sharpens its desktop apps with faster controls and better accessibility — the updates are now live on Mac, Windows, and Linux
- Google will now pay up to $1.5 million for finding Android and Chrome security bugs, says it has 'greatly appreciated collaborating with the researcher community'
- Russia's censor body, Roskomnadzor, wants to block 92% of VPN apps by 2030 — and it's investing 20 billion rubles a year to build a permanent VPN censorship system
- Google is bringing Gemini to Mac in a bid to help organize your files and much more
- How to watch Mint from anywhere – it's *FREE*
- Daredevil: Born Again season 3 will put a specific Marvel hero at the heart of its story — and answer a huge, longstanding question about them after their Netflix show's cancellation
- A new Passenger teaser claims this is 'not your average horror movie' — but it's up against some huge original releases in May
- 'Protection isn't a setting you turn on; it's the foundation' — Norton Neo's new update makes it the ultimate AI browser with an adaptive built-in VPN, anti-phishing, and anti-tracking tools that work by default
- Anthropic rolls out a host of new AI agents to target 'the most time-consuming work in financial services'
- How to watch Bayern Munich vs PSG: Free Streams, Team News, TV Schedule and Preview for Champions League semi-final 2nd leg
- The Vimeo data breach exposed personal information of 119,000 people
- A robot hand wiping some egg off its fingers with a towel is the most bizarrely human thing you'll see a robot do all week, and it's just the beginning
- Google Home is rolling out its spring update, and your Nest camera app is about to get some handy improvements — and there are more automation capabilities on the way
- OpenAI finally fixed the most annoying thing about ChatGPT — and I'm already noticing the difference
- Kasperky warns popular Daemon Tools app backdoored by hackers to target specific victims
- Older Amazon Fire TV devices are set to lose support for HBO Max, due to a lack of software updates as Amazon switches to its new 'Vega' operating system, and it could affect 'millions' — I hope you already caught up with The Pitt…
- Microsoft vows to make Windows 11's File Explorer much faster — and it's about time
- 'Trust is not keeping pace with technological capability': New study finds people are becoming more accepting of AI - but don't want to hand over full control just yet
- 'Younger job‑seekers aren't being careless, they're under pressure': LinkedIn study flags risks facing younger job-hunters today
- Microsoft has finally realized what most of us knew all along: nobody actually wanted Copilot on Xbox
- Garmin has just launched super-elite hi-fi gear, through its sub-brand that's best-known for its maritime sound systems — and the stereo speakers are priced (perhaps appropriately) like a pair of Bowers & Wilkins' Nautilus
- 7 of the biggest names in AI, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, are now moving into military systems — but one major player is missing from the list, and that raises uncomfortable questions about where this technology is heading
- Whoops! Samsung just leaked its Galaxy Wide Fold and Z Fold 8 designs — and one is much more interesting than the other
- 'It'll hopefully be out soon': Landman season 3 release date prediction gets promising update from returning director — here's our best guess for when to stream new episodes on Paramount+
- How to watch Peacock for $1 with this sneaky trick
- How to watch Amandaland season 2 online from anywhere
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 ending explained — what happens to Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk, does anyone die, and more on the Marvel TV show's latest finale
- Someone has built a gaming PC the size of a room, complete with giant fans and air conditioning for cool operation — and also a sauna for some reason
- May 5
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- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, May 6 (game #794)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, May 6 (game #1060)
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, May 6 (game #1563)
- Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering
- 3D-printed Y-zipper turns from flexible to hard in less time than it takes to zip your fly
- How to watch The Other Bennet Sister from anywhere – it's *FREE*
- 'Electricity with zero emission' — Chinese scientists aim to transform “dirty” coal with a new fuel cell that doesn't burn anything and produces clean power well beyond the Carnot cycle limit
- 'Cheap air-to-air missile': Ukraine has turned a vintage 55-year-old Russian-designed Antonov An-28 twin-propeller aircraft into a versatile A-10 Warthog-type platform complete with Gatling-class gun, VR headsets to intercept Russian Shahed drones
- 'AI creates jobs': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang once again says workers have nothing to fear
- ‘I thought I was going mad’: Disney+ subscribers think the service removes Dolby Atmos from shows at certain times, even if you've paid for Premium — they think it's to reduce server stress at 'peak' times, but the streaming giant has yet to confirm
- Samsung showcases massive floating data center ship model that could house OpenAI's future ChatGPT as its Dallas-based partner claims 'speed to power is the new moat' and promises 1.5 GW of capacity within 36 months
- Federal regulator to ban all Chinese labs from vetting US-bound devices over national security concerns – major supply chain shakeup will affect 75 percent of devices sold in the US
- Forget stealing our jobs — robots are now coming for the most human pastime: causing havoc on public transport
- 'Phishing campaigns continue to improve sophistication and refinement': Microsoft flags major 'sophisticated' phishing campaign targeting 35,000 users across 26 countries
- I've been a Netflix subscriber for 25 years, and I can't decide if Clips is the best or worst thing to happen to the mobile app
- Fallout co-creator says players nowadays are 'handed an opinion from the online channel they’re watching' — 'They find someone they just like, and then that person’s opinion becomes their opinion'
- Canvas maker Instructure reveals data breach — confirms user personal information leaked
- Looks like Valve's Steam Machine might finally be on its way after a huge importing effort — and despite our fears, it might actually support full-fat 4K 120Hz and VRR in the end, making it a full PS5 and Xbox replacement
- This viral ereader has come out of nowhere, and bookworms can’t get enough of it — but it ‘could ring alarm bells’ for Amazon as it surpasses the Kindle Colorsoft on the retailer’s charts
- Experts claim Amazon's Simple Email Service is being abused to launch phishing campaigns
- How to watch Arsenal vs Atletico Madrid: Free Streams, Team News, TV Schedule and Preview for Champions League semi-final 2nd leg
- Microsoft confirms why Windows 11 updates might be weird right now, and look like they're failing — but it's nothing to worry about
- Bose releases new 'Ultra' Dolby Atmos soundbar and wireless speaker range, with a serious subwoofer option — and this lineup has Sonos right in its crosshairs
- Activision quashes rumors that the next Call of Duty will launch on PS4 — 'It's not true'
- 'That is unacceptable in a professional development workflow': Microsoft acts after VS Code gives Copilot credit for work a human developer did
- First full Dutton Ranch trailer confirms Yellowstone John Dutton subplot in 'heartbreaking' new scenes — but it's Annette Bening's 'grizzly in Gucci' we should be paying attention to
- Ubisoft teams up with Backbone to offer The Division Resurgence players exclusive in-game rewards — here's how you can claim yours
- NymVPN finally brings split tunneling to Linux, and Android users get a new ad blocker — the tools are in beta, and the provider wants to hear how they work for you
- Some Ubuntu services are still down following outages after DDoS attack
- Proton, Tor, Mullvad, ExpressVPN, and Mozilla among the 19 organizations urging the UK government 'not to undermine the open web' as Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill becomes law — a move that could 'infringe human rights'
- PrivadoVPN's new Terms of Service make its privacy-protecting move from Switzerland to Iceland official
- SteelSeries' new Arctis Nova Omni headset has finally displaced the Nova Pro Wireless as my favorite model from the brand
- Amazon takes on FedEx and UPS by letting other companies use its global warehousing and delivery network
- Take-Two CEO admits GTA 6 expectations are 'so high' it's 'terrifying' — 'I think here our goal is to deliver to consumers something that’s never been experienced before'
- Surfshark launches native VPN app for Amazon's new Vega OS Fire TV sticks
- 'How else are people going to learn to do the job': MIT AI expert warns against automating Gen Z entry-level jobs
- Spotify could be set to launch two new features, and one could solve a big pain point for lossless fans — but the other is something no one is asking for
- How to watch Italian Open 2026: FREE Live Streams & TV Channels for ATP & WTA 1000 Tennis, Day 6 – Men's & Women's Round 3
- Apple’s iPhone Ultra ‘feels like a major downgrade from your existing iPhone experience’ says YouTuber as they show off what they claim is a dummy unit
- Resident Evil Requiem producer says the negative reaction players had to Nvidia's DLSS 5 yassification of Grace Ashcroft was 'positive' because 'it meant we got the design right'
- Take-Two CEO says GTA 6 isn't coming to PC day one because console players are the 'core consumer' — but the real reason is obvious
- Sam Altman says some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology — but admits things may get worse soon
- What is the release date for Hacks season 5 episodes 6 and 7 on HBO Max?
- Samsung shows off its latest OLED phone displays — including one that comes with health sensors built in
- Trump administration blocks 30GW of wind power citing national security – Department of Defense obstructing negotiations, meetings, and sign-offs in attempt to stall the ‘worst form of energy’
- 'Every business leader knows the world is changing, but far fewer have a clear picture of what to do about it': Microsoft flags the changing world of AI at work, and why "Frontier Firms" are leading the way
- Trellix confirms data breach after hack of 'a portion' of its source code
- Is Sony teasing its ultra-premium AirPods Max 2 rival? It looks a lot like it, as F1 star gets spotted wearing the super-chic cans, two weeks before tipped launch — and Sony itself is drawing attention to the suspiciously high-quality photos
- iOS 27 could let you add custom passes to Apple Wallet, which might spell the end for physical cards
- ‘The worst-case situation is where it is a Terminator situation’ — Elon Musk invokes killer robots in OpenAI trial
- This beautiful hand-made floor-standing speaker ain't cheap, but I can't take my eyes off it and I haven't even heard it yet
- May 4
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- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #1562)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #1059)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #793)
- Micron CEO warns 'AI is in very early innings' and it will 'need more memory' — another ominous sign the RAM crisis isn't going anywhere
- 'Help cattle producers hold onto their land and livelihoods': This first-of-its-kind solar ranch in Tennessee uses ingenious sensors to shelter cattle and cut carbon emissions — and it could help to offset $1 billion of US agriculture declines
- Microsoft continues the good work on Windows 11, with tweaks to 'quiet' ads — and that big taskbar change is 'coming soon'
- 'Flaws identified in the B-21 configuration': Chinese scientists claim their mysterious PADJ-X stealth design software exposed major weaknesses in the USAF’s B-21 Raider program using digital twins
- Gen Z hate AI? The Musk vs Altman trial heats up, OpenAI phone rumors buzz and more of the week’s most surprising developments
- What is the release date for Half Man episode 3 on HBO Max and BBC iPlayer?
- Forget GPUs — China unveils 2 ExaFLOPS supercomputer using only CPUs, packing 47,000 processors into 92 compute cabinets as it looks to supersede the US once again
- The equatorial Luna Ring is the brainchild of a billion-dollar Japanese engineering conglomerate whose visionary team dreams of billions of megawatts of electricity generated by solar panel clusters the size of Texas and California put together
- What is the release date for The Boys season 5 episode 6 on Prime Video?
- China says it is illegal for companies to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
- Secretlab is marking Star Wars Day with the release of a new Mandalorian-themed chair
- OpenAI is making ChatGPT accounts much more secure – including some literal physical security keys
- What is the release date for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 8 on Disney+?
- Employees are now more dangerous to their company than external hackers
- 'The inbox is no longer the only front line': Report claims vast majority of phishing attacks are now generated by AI - here's how to stay safe
- Android Auto is apparently prepping home screen widgets, and I'll be installing them immediately
- Pentagon staff embracing vibe coding as military personnel deploy over 20,000 AI agents per week since launch — autonomous tools handling 25,000 sessions per day on average to improve efficiency by eliminating "boring" staff work and manual data entry
- Ask Jeeves quietly shuts down after nearly three decades, after pioneering conversational web search long before ChatGPT and Gemini
- 'Humans will do high-touch, empathetic, clinical judgment-type work, but AI will create the capacity right now': Google's future for healthcare has AI for both the clinician and the patient
- The 7 small changes to your routine that make your hair look instantly healthier — without expensive hairdryers or styling tools
- NymVPN's new 'Pay as You Go' option ditches accounts and subscriptions for true anonymity
- Amnezia VPN rolls out major bug fixes, a crucial security patch, and new features in latest app update
- Norton VPN enters the AI agent space with 'first truly AI native' VPN for agents
- May 3
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- Quordle hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #1561)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #1058)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #792)
- The biggest surprise of my recent San Francisco trip? Hearing how much Steve Wozniak loves his iPhone Air
- 'Unprecedented drought conditions': More than 500 data centers across Nevada, California, and Arizona could feel the pinch as the iconic Hoover Dam potentially loses 40% of its power output because of poor rainfall and abnormally low snowpack numbers
- The US just found millions of tons of lithium in Appalachia, enough for 500 billion cellphones — and experts say it could power the next century of American tech and weaken China's grip on batteries
- 'A dream technology': Japanese scientists might have unlocked the next generation of solar panels that stay cooler and last longer thanks to "spin-flip" material that achieves 130% energy conversion efficiency — and here's how it works
- 'No single vendor can (or should) dictate the full solution' — AMD positions itself as the open platform champion in the space race in a veiled dig at its arch-rivals and up-and-coming challengers
- What is the release date for The Testaments episode 7 on Hulu and Disney+?
- Man Utd vs Liverpool Live Streams: How to watch Premier League 2025/26 from anywhere in the world
- 'The only worry is for your budget': Microsoft briefly says 32GB of RAM is the 'no worries' level for gaming on Windows 11, but users fear getting priced out
- How to watch Murphy vs Wu for FREE: Live stream World Snooker Championship 2026 Final from anywhere
- May 2
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- Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, May 3 (game #1560)
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- 'We’re not selling and we’re not giving way': Lone farmer defeats Tennessee's TVA as US electricity giant grapples with exploding demand from AI-fuelled data centers from Google and Elon Musk's xAI, encouraged by slow legislature
- 'It took 9 seconds': tech founder outlines how rogue Claude-powered AI tool wiped entire company database and backups
- How to watch Kentucky Derby 2026: live stream horse racing online from anywhere
- 'Build AI that can accurately represent the full complexity of biology': Mark Zuckerberg wants to cure all diseases but needs far more data to deliver a digital twin of human cells—As genetic data becomes the next frontier, will you trust him with yours?
- 'The potential to make existing infrastructure produce more output is what makes space solar worth investing in now': Meta wants to power its future data centers with solar energy beamed from space — meaning solar plants can operate even at night-time
- How to watch Miami Grand Prix 2026 F1: Live Stream, Preview, Schedule, Starting Grid, Antonelli on pole as Sunday's race time brought forward
- Film fans, assemble! Vote in TechRadar's blockbuster movie season poll to tell us which one you're most excited to see in mid-2026
- Some good news for Elon Musk: FCC ruling means 'faster speeds, lower costs, and greater reliability' for SpaceX Starlink and other satellites
- This free WordPress tool could save businesses billions every year by slashing the AI tokens needed to read the web — saving enough electricity to power the entire USA for 24 hours
- 'No viewfinder, no deal' — why Nikon's new rumored full-frame compact is already dividing fans
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- 'That is why it is important to have full control': Dutch government launches its own self-hosted GitHub alternative in the latest blast against US tech giants such as Microsoft
- Brentford vs West Ham FREE Live Streams: How to watch Premier League 2025/26 from anywhere in the world
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- 'Light years ahead of the rest of the world': China shows off the future of EV batteries at the Beijing Auto Show — as CATL and BYD race to cut charging times down to just five minutes
- ICYMI: the 8 biggest tech stories of the week, from new Moto foldables to electric air taxis
- How to watch Naoya Inoue vs Junto Nakatani: live stream boxing online, preview, ringwalks, fight card
- May 1
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- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, May 2 (game #1559)
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- 'Beyond the financial risk, there are real public safety implications': Hackers crawled Canadian streets with SMS blasters, attacking every target in sight — causing 13 million network disruptions and hacking thousands of devices
- Apple’s Mac mini now has a higher starting price, as it discontinues the entry-level model and slides down to the mid-range
- 'Tens of millions of Graviton cores': AWS scores huge coup as Meta 'buys' hundreds of thousands of CPUs and infrastructure, confirming Jeff Bezos' hyperscaler as the essential backbone of the agentic AI Era in a major blow to AMD and Intel ambitions
- Definitely not your usual EV: China begins sea trial for world's largest electric ship — Ning Yuan Dian Kun is longer than a football field, weighs 10,000 tons, and uses 10 container batteries with a total 19MWh capacity
- Redditor builds a PC inside an old CRT monitor — it looks like an ancient iMac, but runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 100fps in 1440p
- 'Exactly one photon': European scientists have built the first block of a truly unhackable global quantum internet that can run on existing fiber networks — breaking what was once thought to be an impossible barrier to transmit identical light particles
- Rocket League has a new Easy Anti-Cheat addition, and it still works on the Steam Deck — it's about time for other game Devs to follow suit
- Russia orders Apple and Google to remove Important Stories, an investigative media app that works without a VPN — leaving Russians without a key source for accessing uncensored news
- 'Your duty is not yet done' — Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is so popular that it's getting another year of content
- This is not a drill: Terry Crews has come to Call of Duty
- QR code phishing surges 146% as Microsoft detects and analyzes 8.3 billion phishing threats in Q1 2026 – attackers are changing tactics to bypass security
- Finally, Windows 11 desktop PC users can enjoy Xbox Mode — and Microsoft has a new gift for Ally X users
- Free-to-play mobile game The Division Resurgence is launching on PC in August as Ubisoft shares new roadmap details, but you can play it right now
- Someone found a Chinese retailer selling super-cheap CRT TVs, but don't get too excited, retro gaming fans — every new piece of information about them seems to reveal more mysteries
- FBI says hackers are making millions from stolen cargo - losses 'surged' to nearly $725 million in 2025
- Apple is overhauling its Photos app with AI — because it has to
- Error in Medicare database exposes US healthcare providers Social Security numbers – Trump administration directory designed to modernize Medicare encounters another setback
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (May 1)
- Connecticut lawmakers approve bill for cell phone ban in schools — but critics argue that having different rules for adults and students is ‘not good role modeling at all’
- 'Straight out of a fairyland' — winner of the 11th DJI and SkyPixel photo and video contest stunned judges with 'unique and otherworldly landscape' to bag the grand prize in the $200,000 pot, and it was captured with a Mavic 3 Pro
- Zuckerberg blames Meta layoffs on AI costs, says “compute and infrastructure” and “people oriented things” are biggest financial drain right now
- 4 of the best Star Wars movies just dropped on a big Disney+ rival ahead of Star Wars Day 2026 — and one is rated higher than Return of the Jedi
- Our LG C6 OLED TV tests are underway — here’s your chance to ask our experts anything
- 007 First Light art director says the limited edition Dualsense controller was inspired by a 'light' theme, not the inside of a gun barrel — 'What we were trying to do with that was reference more how the UI of the game feels'
- 'Verified By Spotify' is the music streamer's new way to help you avoid AI artists, but it doesn't go as far as I'd like — especially with Deezer, Qobuz and Apple Music making major anti-AI steps
- Don't be alarmed — this major Android Auto annoyance could be finally get fixed soon by Google after almost a decade
- 'A galaxy of new Star Wars games' and more are coming to Fortnite to celebrate Star Wars Day
- 'An hour of scan time is all it took': "Copy Fail" flaw impacts all Linux kernels released since 2017, so patch now or face the consequences
- 'A technical whack-a-mole:' Utah to become the first US state to target VPN users with controversial age verification law — and digital rights experts are furious
- Tim Cook warns about 'significantly higher memory costs' from June — and not surprisingly, Mac fans think price hikes are coming down the line
- Everyone’s switching from ChatGPT to Claude — but new tests say neither is the smartest free AI, and the real winner might surprise you
- 'Trust cannot be claimed. It needs to be earned through our actions': Microsoft thinks it's doing pretty well in helping European firms manage their data, despite sovereignty complaints
- ‘This is a real risk, we all could die as a result of artificial intelligence’ — the OpenAI trial took a dramatic turn as Elon Musk and Sam Altman faced off over AI’s real-world danger
- How to watch UCI Mountain Bike World Series 2026: Live stream cycling online from anywhere
- You heard right — NordVPN has rolled out an AI voice checker to protect you from audio deepfakes on Chrome
- The Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra is tipped to ditch its predecessor’s 3x telephoto camera, fueling rumors of an iPhone-style redesign
- 'The coming months are critical' — dev confirms Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy's release is 'almost here'
- 'Most AI in hiring today is making a bad system worse': Candidates are hitting back at employers using AI interviews - with many prepared to walk out
- 'Organizations need to stop workarounds and regain control': Report finds many firms don't know what their workers are sharing with AI tools
- 007 First Light lets players blast enemies with a watch laser, shoot darts from a spy phone, and more — 'Pretty much all of our gadgets are usable in combat' developer says
- 'Nearly 80 times cheaper than lithium': China is working on ultra affordable iron battery that can run 16 years without degrading — using one of the most abundant elements on Earth to store power and a water-based electrolyte system that cannot explode