Innovative features, a few missteps

When we say that NordVPN is a good VPN that's not quite great, it's important to put that in perspective. Building a good VPN is hard, as evidenced by all the shovelware VPNs flooding the market. ...

HBO Is Making a ‘Baldur’s Gate’ TV Show

We’re going down, down, down by the river, and back to the city of Baldur’s Gate… albeit on TV, rather than in a game. Deadline reports that HBO is working with Hasbro to develop ...

X’s latest Community Notes experiment allows AI to write the first draft

X is experimenting with a new way for AI to write Community Notes. The company is testing a new "collaborative notes" feature that allows human writers to request an AI-written Community Note.It's ...

Samsung Teases Ultra Robot Vacuum As U.S. Models Disappear

It looks like Samsung is preparing the launch of its first Ultra-branded robot vacuum, coinciding with the quiet removal of its existing robot vacuum lineup from the U.S. market. ...

Doom Overtakes 3 Very Different Planets, Earth Included, in This Eerie Sci-Fi Short Story

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Death Echoes Overlapping” by ...

Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own

Meta is developing a standalone app for Vibes, its feed of AI-generated videos, according to reports from TechCrunch and Platformer. Vibes was introduced as a feature in the Meta AI app in September ...

AideaONE R27: AMD-Powered iMac Alternative Brings Up To 128 GB Of RAM

Seaviv has officially introduced the AideaONE R27, a new all-in-one desktop PC that targets the premium segment traditionally dominated by Apple’s iMac. Built around AMD’s latest ...

This Video of Hilariously Slow Robots Putting Olive Oil in a Bag Is Actually Pretty Impressive

Humanoid, a UK-based robotics company, may have just created the most hypnotically slow, mind-bendingly boring video of autonomous humanoid robots performing mundane tasks since the ...

The Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones drop to a record-low price

Now's a great time to consider upgrading your wireless headphones since you can get our favorites at their best price yet. The Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones are down to $398, which is $62 off and the ...

Wall Street Apparently Believes the Future Involves Making Your Software Instead of Buying It

If you read between the lines of a recent scramble on Wall Street to sell off certain stocks, you can make out the fuzzy outline of a weird future: one where when you need something ...