Google’s smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp. Google launched its big AI-fueled redesign of Google Home late last year, and it has been adding features here and there ever since. Today, the company announced a bigger update that might take care of…
We tour Ford’s top-secret Electric Vehicle Development Center in California. LONG BEACH, Calif.—2026 is a strange time for electric vehicles in the US. The current administration has no desire to push for their adoption and has rescinded the federal tax credit on which EV sales have depended for years.…
The Dutch road authority will ask other EU regulators to approve the driver assist. Following last year’s Tesla shareholder vote, CEO Elon Musk’s near-incomprehensible wealth is now inextricably linked in part to the number of active “FSD” subscriptions his electric car company can sign up. And last month, the…
Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app. I’ve recently developed a daily habit—perhaps one I should cut back on—of visiting several subreddits to keep up on things like audio production and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off;…
“To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version.” As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in 2003 by Don Ho, who continues…
Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay. GameStop yesterday made an unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. GameStop claims that eBay has underperformed and spends too much on sales and marketing and argues that it would become a stronger company…
2026’s Formula 1 championship now looks far from a foregone thing. After an unanticipated five-week break in the season, Formula One resumed action this past weekend in Miami. Held at a temporary circuit around Hard Rock Stadium, the event is emblematic of the Liberty era of F1: a turbocharged…
Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon. Last year, we noted how the long-standing vagaries of HDMI licensing and open source AMD driver development combined to prevent the upcoming Steam Machine from receiving official support for the HDMI 2.1 display standard. Now, though, it seems…
Chip shortages and demand from AI enthusiasts are both playing a part. Apple’s Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops have been increasingly difficult to buy over the course of the year—multiple configurations are listed on Apple’s site as “currently unavailable,” which almost never happens, and others will take weeks…
Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill. The Trump administration has brought US onshore wind development to a halt citing national security concerns, representing a major escalation in the president’s crusade against renewable energy. Approvals for about 165 onshore wind projects on private…
