Cheifet produced more than 400 episodes of TV tracing the rise of personal computing. Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on PBS, died on December 28, 2025, at age 87 in Philadelphia. Cheifet created and hosted Computer Chronicles,…
Amazon brings back browser-based Alexa but will eventually add a paywall. Anyone can now try Alexa+, Amazon’s generative AI assistant, through a free early access program at Alexa.com. The website frees the AI, which Amazon released via early access in February, from hardware and makes it as easily accessible…
Optimus SSDs will continue with the same model numbers that the WD SSDs used. In late 2023, storage company Western Digital announced plans to split itself into two companies. One, which would still be called Western Digital, would focus on spinning hard drives, which are no longer used much…
Google TV will let you generate and watch AI content on the big screen. Soon, even loafing around on the couch won’t help you steer clear of AI. TV makers are busily integrating AI models into the experience, and Google is no different. At CES, the company announced a…
Streaming may get a little worse before it gets better. We’re far from streaming’s original promise: instant access to beloved and undiscovered titles without the burden of ads, bundled services, or price gouging that have long been associated with cable. Still, every year we get more dependent on streaming…
Remembering Windows 10’s rollout can help diagnose what ails Windows 11. If you’ve been following our coverage for the last few years, you’ll already know that 2025 is the year that Windows 10 died. Technically. “Died,” because Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date came and went on October 14, as the…
Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM. SIM cards, the small slips of plastic that have held your mobile subscriber information since time immemorial, are on the verge of extinction. In an effort to save space for other components, device makers are finally dropping the…
US drone makers are happy—US drone hobbyists, not so much. Americans will be unable to buy the latest and greatest drones because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has banned foreign-made drones as of today. On Monday, the FCC added drones to its Covered List, which it says are communications…
Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too. Since I’m fascinated by new display technologies and by improving image quality, I’ve never been a fan of home projectors. Projectors lack the image quality compared to good TVs and monitors, and they’re…
LG says it’ll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren’t going away. Online fury erupted this week after an LG TV owner claimed that a firmware update installed unremovable generative AI software on their smart TV. The controversy began on Saturday, when a Reddit user posted…
