Category: Hardware


  • All the news from Nintendo’s August Indie World showcase

    Nintendo’s latest livestreamed event is highlighting the smattering of indie games coming to the Switch consoles later this year, and the Indie World Showcase is scheduled to start on Thursday, August 7th, at 9 AM ET. Hades 2 might make an appearance, and there’s a slim chance the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong might show up…

  • RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook

    If anyone needed a reminder that US health secretary and fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no background in science or medicine, look no further than the video he posted on social media Tuesday evening. In the two-and-a-half-minute clip, Kennedy announced that he is cancelling nearly $500 million in funding for the development…

  • Choosing the best laptop can be a bit of a challenge — there are so many models, sizes and specs out there that it’s easy to feel lost in the shuffle. But the good news is that modern laptops are better than ever. Whether you’re looking for a powerful AI PC, a travel-ready ultrabook or…

  • Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Aug. 7

    Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. I was cruising through the Across clues on today’s Mini Crossword until I got to 5-Across, which threw me for a loop.…

  • The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025

    It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve been eyeing. The market has come a long way since the early era of true wireless earbuds when we had…

  • AI Sucks at Sudoku. Much More Troubling Is That It Can't Explain Why

    Chatbots can be genuinely impressive when you watch them do things they’re good at, like writing realistic-sounding text or creating weird futuristic-looking images. But try to ask generative AI to solve one of those puzzles you find in the back of a newspaper, and things can quickly go off the rails. That’s what researchers at…

  • Sonos confirms tariffs will increase its prices this year

    Tom Conrad took over as CEO of Sonos in January as it continues to recover from last year’s disastrous mobile app update, and now the company has issued its first quarterly earnings report after he dropped the interim tag from his title. Beyond the numbers, with $344.8 million in revenue and a net loss of…

  • Tea bills itself as a safety dating app for women, allowing users to anonymously share details about men they have met. A new app called TeaOnHer has emerged that attempts to flip the script, with men sharing information about women they date. And while Tea drew scrutiny last month after a data breach revealed user…

  • Tornado Cash sold crypto “privacy”; the US saw “money laundering.” A jury isn’t sure what to think.

    “Crypto mixers” exist because of a peculiar feature of cryptocurrencies—most are fully traceable using their public blockchain ledgers. To provide more privacy to crypto account owners, a mixer will let people toss their crypto into a large pool, where it is “mixed” with other people’s crypto. At a later date, each crypto owner can choose to…

  • US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

    OpenAI announced an agreement to supply more than 2 million workers for the US federal executive branch access to ChatGPT and related tools at practically no cost: just $1 per agency for one year. The deal was announced just one day after the US General Services Administration (GSA) signed a blanket deal to allow OpenAI…