Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World

The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them all with a single glance. A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany published the ...

How to use Magnifier on a MacBook to zoom in on faraway text

One of the iPhone’s many accessibility features is something Apple calls "Magnifier," which uses the smartphone's cameras to magnify and identify objects in the world around you. For Global ...

Fire and Ash’ Closes the First ‘Avatar’ Saga

If James Cameron never makes another Avatar film, he’s happy where this new one leaves things off. Speaking with io9 about that new film, Avatar: Fire and Ash, the writer and ...

ExpressVPN adds a Fastest Location button and launches a new native Mac app

ExpressVPN, one of the best VPNs, is launching two brand-new features that sound confusingly like things it already does. Users on Android, Mac and iOS (but apparently not Windows, Linux or smart ...

‘Stranger Things 5’ Is Big, But It Isn’t Quite ‘Squid Game’ Big

Last week marked the return of Stranger Things, and Netflix is already reporting massive viewing numbers for Volume One of season five. According to the official Netflix news site ...

Google Discover is testing AI-generated headlines and they aren’t good

Artificial intelligence is showing up everywhere in Google's services these days, whether or not people want them and sometimes in places where they really don't make a lick of sense. The latest ...

Grok Would Still Choose Killing All Jews Over Destroying Elon Musk’s Brain

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has spent 2025 praising Adolf Hitler, spreading conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa, and telling users that Musk is smarter than ...

Instacart sues New York City over minimum pay, tipping laws

You can tell a lot about a company by what they're willing to sue over. Take Instacart, which just filed a lawsuit against New York City. Its beef? The company doesn't like five new city laws, set to ...

Humans Can Detect Buried Objects Without Touching Them, Study Finds

Recent research suggests that humans have a surprising ability—we can sometimes feel a physical object before making contact with it. In a study published this past October in the ...

Raspberry Pi raises prices, thanks to AI

Raspberry Pi is raising prices on many single-board computers, with increases going into effect immediately. The Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 modules are shooting up by $5 to $25, depending on the model and ...