The Ayaneo Next II pushes past 3 pounds, is 13 inches wide, and costs up to $4,300. In 2023, we marveled at the sheer mass of Lenovo’s Legion Go, a 1.88-pound, 11.8-inch-wide monstrosity of a Windows gaming handheld. In 2026, though, Ayaneo unveiled details of its Next II handheld,…
SpaceMolt envisions a world where AI plays with itself and the humans just watch. For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network. Now, those agents can also gather together on…
Can we pander to MAHA, re-litigate COVID, and improve science at the same time? At the end of January, Washington, DC, saw an extremely unusual event. The MAHA Institute, which was set up to advocate for some of the most profoundly unscientific ideas of our time, hosted leaders of…
Analogue dials, aluminum switches, and plenty of buttons for the Ferrari Luce. Ferrari has published images of the interior of its forthcoming electric vehicle, which it designed with LoveFrom, the new firm of former Apple star Jony Ive and another legendary designer, Marc Newson. The Italian sports and racing…
High-end Macs and less-expensive iPhones and iPads are all on the docket. Apple’s 2026 has already brought us the AirTag 2 and a new Creator Studio app subscription aimed at independent content creators, but nothing so far for the company’s main product families. That could change soon, according to…
The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable. Enforcement against polluters in the United States plunged in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, a far bigger drop than in the same period of his first term, according to a new report from…
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management. Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual with claims…
Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves. Open source packages published on the npm and PyPI repositories were laced with code that stole wallet credentials from dYdX developers and backend systems and, in some cases, backdoored devices, researchers said. “Every application using…
Analysts expect Valve might be hit particularly hard by soaring RAM, storage prices. After writing two November stories analyzing price expectations for Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine, I really didn’t think we’d be offering more informed speculation before the official price was revealed. Then Valve wrote a blog post this…
Less pollution meant lower amounts of a methane-destroying chemical. In the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic brought global industry and travel nearly to a halt, satellite sensors recorded a dramatic plunge in nitrogen dioxide, a byproduct of internal combustion engines and heavy industry. For a moment, the…
