Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options. Smart TVs can feel like a dumb choice if you’re looking for privacy, reliability, and simplicity. Today’s TVs and streaming sticks are usually loaded up with advertisements and user tracking, making offline TVs seem very attractive. But ever since smart…
“… AI toys shouldn’t be capable of having sexually explicit conversations, period.” Protecting children from the dangers of the online world was always difficult, but that challenge has intensified with the advent of AI chatbots. A new report offers a glimpse into the problems associated with the new market,…
Sports and YouTube TV played big roles, MoffettNathanson report says. In a surprising, and likely temporary, turn of events, the number of people paying to watch cable channels has grown. On Monday, research analyst MoffettNathanson released its “Cord-Cutting Monitor Q3 2025: Signs of Life?” report. It found that the…
Amazon has added color e-ink to its devices more slowly than its competitors. Amazon has been updating the large-screened Kindle Scribe tablet more frequently and regularly than it updates its standard e-readers, and today the company is announcing the tablet’s third hardware update in four years. The regular Scribe…
Google will let you select and dismiss with a gesture, but only on the newest watch. Long ago, Google’s Android-powered wearables had hands-free navigation gestures. Those fell by the wayside as Google shredded its wearable strategy over and over, but gestures are back, baby. The Pixel Watch 4 is…
The Pebble Index 01 isn’t quite a smart ring, but it can do some smart things. Nearly a decade after Pebble’s nascent smartwatch empire crumbled, the brand is staging a comeback with new wearables. The Pebble Core Duo 2 and Core Time 2 are a natural evolution of the…
Paramount has already proven it can get a controversial merger done. Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) streaming and movie studio businesses last week. But Paramount Skydance isn’t relenting on its dreams of owning WBD and is pushing forward with a hostile takeover bid. On…
This could be just what Fubo and its subscribers need. Somewhere, a pig is catching some sweet air. In a rare move for a streaming service, Fubo announced today that it’s lowering the prices for some of its subscription plans. Fubo is a sports-focused vMVPD (virtual multichannel video programming…
Netflix’s plans to own HBO Max, DC Comics, Harry Potter to face regulatory scrutiny. The bidding war is over, and Netflix has been declared the winner. After flirting with Paramount Skydance and Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has decided to sell its streaming and movie studios business to Netflix.…
Ars testing shows SteamOS fares better on iGPUs than powerful graphics cards. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about my personal homebrew Steam Machine, a self-built desktop under my TV featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G processor and a Radeon 780M integrated GPU. I wouldn’t recommend making your…
