Uber Returns to Autonomous Vehicles with a New StrategyUber is deploying its own autonomous vehicles again, but this time the focus is on data collection, not robotaxi operations. The company's new AV Lab project uses a single Hyundai Ioniq 5 equipped with full self-driving hardware—including camera...

Polyend Endless: The First AI Guitar Pedal for Custom EffectsThe Polyend Endless is a $299 programmable guitar pedal that uses AI to let you create custom effects from text prompts. Powered by an ARM processor and paired with the Playground web app, this innovative pedal translates your ideas into f...

The Rising Cost of Smart Home OwnershipThe dream of a fully connected home is getting more expensive. Smart home companies, including Google and Amazon, are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to create new revenue streams. However, for consumers, this shift often translates into hi...

GitHub's Fight for Survival Under MicrosoftNearly eight years after Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion, the platform is battling for its survival. A surge of outages, security vulnerabilities, and a mass exodus of talent have left GitHub struggling. In recent weeks alone, GitHub experienced ...

Spotify and UMG Strike Landmark AI Remix Licensing DealSpotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced a groundbreaking licensing deal that will enable users to create AI-generated remixes and covers of streaming songs. This new feature, designed as a paid add-on for Premium subscribers, allo...

Workplace Surveillance Tools Leak Employee Data to Third PartiesA groundbreaking study has exposed a hidden truth about employee monitoring software: these tools are not just reporting to your boss, but also sharing your personal information with major advertising platforms like Meta and Google. The...

Spotify Reserved Program: How It WorksSpotify has announced a new Reserved program, designed to offer concert tickets to real fans of participating artists. The initiative aims to reduce the hassle and stress of securing tickets for popular shows. However, eligibility requires a Spotify Premium subs...

Spotify Studio: Your AI-Powered Daily Podcast CreatorSpotify is revolutionizing personalized audio content with the launch of Spotify Studio, a standalone AI app that generates a daily briefing, podcasts, and playlists tailored specifically to you. This new AI agent uses your Spotify listening histo...

AI Video Moves Beyond Clip SlopHollywood is cooked — or so a growing number of people on social media would like you to believe. Their purported proof: AI-generated clips of Daniel Craig riding a Vespa through an Italian city, Godzilla fighting King Kong, or The Avengers zooming through Manhattan. I...

SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Massive AI Compute DealEarlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a groundbreaking compute partnership granting the AI company access to SpaceX's Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN. Now, SpaceX's recently released IPO filing (S-1) provides unprecedented financial ...

Introducing the Flipper One: A New Era in Portable ComputingNearly six years after the launch of the popular Flipper Zero, Flipper Devices has unveiled its latest innovation: the Flipper One. This pocket-sized device is not just a wireless hacking multi-tool; it’s a fully functional open-source Linu...

How Google AI Studio Builds an Android App From a PromptOn Tuesday, when Google showed off AI coding on a Doom-like game, we joked that I should make MOOD — a Doom-like text adventure game called Modern Online Oratory Dungeon. That was all Google needed to start. When I typed "Make me a Doom-like te...