Google officially has a date for its Pixel launch event: August 20th, 2025. As The Verge reports, in an invite sent out last week, Google announced that the event will take place in New York City at 1PM ET, where the company will show off “the latest on our Pixel phones, watches, buds, and more.” […]
Apple has sued the well-known leaker Jon Prosser for the alleged theft of trade secrets related to iOS 26. As The Verge reports, Prosser has been accused of tasking another man, Michael Ramacciotti, with secretly accessing an Apple employee’s development iPhone and using that information to report on Apple’s planned changes in the then-unannounced iOS 26. […]
A week after Elon Musk’s Grok dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and spewed antisemitic stereotypes, the US government has announced a new contract granting the chatbot’s creator, xAI, up to $200 million to modernize the Defense Department. As The Verge reports, xAI is one of several leading AI companies to receive the award, alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. But the […]
Google’s head of Android has said that the company plans to combine its mobile operating system with ChromeOS, the software that currently runs across Google’s Chromebook laptops. Sameer Samat, president of Google’s Android ecosystem, told TechRadar that “we’re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform.” Samat, who’s responsible for Android’s implementation across […]
ICEBlock, an app that lets users anonymously report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, has soared up the App Store charts after receiving criticism from the Trump Administration. As The Verge reports, last week, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem responded to CNN’s coverage of ICEBlock in a post on X, calling it an “obstruction of […]
If you have an Anker Power Bank that wasn’t recalled earlier this month and thought you were safe, think again. As The Verge reports, Anker has already issued its second product recall so far in June, warning customers that five additional power bank models should stop being used “immediately due to the risk of overheating, melting, smoke, […]
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as… the Black Screen of Death. Whoop de do. […]
Google is taking another step toward making Gemini a more helpful assistant. As The Verge reports, it’s rolling out “scheduled actions,” a feature AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers can use to ask the AI assistant to perform tasks at specific times, like providing a summary of their calendar at the end of each day or […]
When Fortnite players meet Darth Vader in the game’s ongoing Star Wars event, they will be able to speak with the Sith Lord directly, and he’s going to respond with a voice that sounds exactly like James Earl Jones. As The Verge reports, although Darth Vader has previously appeared as an NPC (and a battle pass skin) in Fortnite, Epic Games announced […]
Microsoft is testing a dramatic overhaul of the controversial Windows 11 Start menu. Potentially rolling out later this year, the changes aim to address some of the many criticisms that have dogged the menu over the years. Windows tester phantomofearth enabled an overhauled version of the Start menu from a recent Windows 11 beta build, the menu’s […]