Category: Hardware


  • Seeing in the dark: How home security camera night vision works

    Contrary to popular belief, most property crimes—including burglaries and package theft—happen during the day, not under cover of darkness. But night still brings unique challenges: fewer people around, limited visibility, and more opportunity for intruders to move unseen. If your security camera can’t see clearly after dark, you’re missing protection when you might need it…

  • Arc’s sister browser Dia launches paid plan for unlimited AI access

    The Browser Company is best known for its Arc browser, which aims to both innovate and simplify, with a keen focus on usability. But they also have a second browser called Dia in the works, which is being built from the ground up with AI features—and that one seems to be their project of choice,…

  • Ford switches gears, will push smaller EVs over full-size pickup and van

    The Ford Motor Company is adjusting its electric vehicle strategy. The automaker will prioritize smaller and more affordable EVs ahead of the replacement for the F-150 Lightning fullsize pickup truck and e-Transit van. The Lightning replacement, codenamed T3, should now appear later in 2027, with the van a year behind. Here in 2025, EV adoption…

  • Gemini has been acting strangely for some users over the past few weeks. There are multiple reports online of users getting responses from Gemini that are oddly self-flagellating. A screenshot from an X user back in June showed Gemini saying “…I am a fool. I have made so many mistakes that I can no longer…

  • This PC security guru fell for a scam. Here are 3 lessons from his mistake

    Humans aren’t infallible, as much as we’d like to be. That includes security experts, as Troy Hunt revealed yesterday. Turns out, the legend behind HaveIBeenPwned (a site that lets you see which data breaches you’ve been in) got phished when trying to log into Mailchimp. In a post titled “A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my…

  • Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Season 5's First Double XP Weekend Is Live Now

    The beginning of a new Black Ops 6 season is the perfect time for a double XP weekend. There’s a brand new battle pass and a healthy heaping of new weaponry to level up and earn attachments for. Developer Treyarch has your back with another double XP weekend and two boosts for players to take…

  • Google to kill Steam for Chromebook beta in 2026 — Installed games will 'no longer be available to play'

    Google has just announced that it will end its Steam for Chromebook Beta program on January 1, 2026, with devices losing access to installed games on that date. According to 9to5Google, you can still install Steam on your Chromebook through the ChromeOS Launcher, but it will show a warning saying that support for the service…

  • Everything we think we know about the Google Pixel 10 phones

    This is the one Pixel 10 image Google has released officially, and we think it’s the Pro. Google is readying its next set of hardware announcements, and has already confirmed that the Pixel 10 series is launching this month. We even know what one of the phones looks like, thanks to the official image up…

  • If you’ve held on to an aging Windows laptop for too long, it’s now a great time to upgrade. With all the hype around AI PCs, computer makers are rushing to release new designs featuring efficient new chips from Intel and AMD. And thanks to Microsoft’s Copilot+ initiative, which launched last year, we’re finally seeing…

  • OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus

    The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company’s Slack. “As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market,” wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared…