FCC’s import ban on the best new drones starts today
US drone makers are happy—US drone hobbyists, not so much.
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Tech // Product News & Reviews
The Splay is a subpar monitor but an exciting portable projector
Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too.
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LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems
LG says it’ll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren’t going away.
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Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs
BIOS checks will only affect a limited subset of Valorant players for now.
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YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers
Google loves AI content, except when it doesn’t.
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Peacock showing ads upon launch opens the door for more disruptive streaming ads
Subscribers will start seeing ads when selecting a user next year.
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RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice.
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Software leaks point to the first Apple Silicon “iMac Pro,” among other devices
Resurrected high-end all-in-one could be a worthy successor to 2017’s iMac Pro.
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Google will end dark web reports that alerted users to leaked data
Google says the reports lacked “helpful next steps.”
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How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking
Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options.
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Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids
“… AI toys shouldn’t be capable of having sexually explicit conversations, period.”
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Cable channel subscribers grew for the first time in 8 years last quarter
Sports and YouTube TV played big roles, MoffettNathanson report says.
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Kindle Scribe Colorsoft brings color e-ink to Amazon’s 11-inch e-reader
Amazon has added color e-ink to its devices more slowly than its competitors.
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AMD’s next-gen “FSR Redstone” brings big gains, as long as you’re using a new GPU
“Redstone” is a promising mix of old and new ideas, but Nvidia is years ahead.
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Google is reviving wearable gesture controls, but only for the Pixel Watch 4
Google will let you select and dismiss with a gesture, but only on the newest watch.
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Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100
The Pebble Index 01 isn’t quite a smart ring, but it can do some smart things.
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Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover
Paramount has already proven it can get a controversial merger done.
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Streaming service makes rare decision to lower its monthly fees
This could be just what Fubo and its subscribers need.
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Netflix’s $72B WB acquisition confounds the future of movie theaters, streaming
Netflix’s plans to own HBO Max, DC Comics, Harry Potter to face regulatory scrutiny.
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SteamOS tested on dedicated GPUs: No, it’s not always faster than Windows
Ars testing shows SteamOS fares better on iGPUs than powerful graphics cards.
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Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
Kohler is getting the scoop on people’s poop.
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OnePlus 15 finally gets FCC clearance after government shutdown delay—preorders live
The device starts at $900 and comes with a free gift for a limited time.
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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.
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The NPU in your phone keeps improving—why isn’t that making AI better?
Shrinking AI for your phone is no simple matter.
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After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
Micron cites AI data center demand as reason for killing DIY upgrade brand.
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Prime Video pulls eerily emotionless AI-generated anime dubs after complaints
In some cases, better dubs already existed.
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Mad Men’s 4K debut botched by HBO Max streaming episode with visible crewmembers
Producer Lionsgate reportedly contributed to the gaffe.
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Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem
Valve has work to do on the software side—but some fixes are coming.
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Google announces second Android 16 release of 2025 is heading to Pixels
The update is rolling out to Pixels starting today.
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Samsung reveals Galaxy Z TriFold with 10-inch foldable screen, astronomical price
Samsung’s long-awaited tri-fold phone is launching in Korea this month, with a US launch early next year.
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Even Microsoft’s retro holiday sweaters are having Copilot forced upon them
Microsoft has not one, not two, but three new sweaters available for $60 to $80.
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Netflix quietly drops support for casting to most TVs
Netflix will only support Google Cast on older devices without remotes.
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We put the new pocket-size vinyl format to the test—with mixed results
It’s a fun new format, but finding a place in the market may be challenging.
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Vision Pro M5 review: It’s time for Apple to make some tough choices
A state of the union from someone who actually sort of uses the thing.
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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week
Roku users will be hit first.
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GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere
Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.
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