Meta settles a lawsuit that said it addicted students and left schools to deal with the damage
The Kentucky district claimed addictive design features forced schools to divert resources from education
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Philips made a monitor with screens on both sides, and it's actually kind of brilliant
Potentially perfect for collaboration, presentations, front desks, and saving desk space
Steve Wozniak told graduates they have "actual intelligence," and they loved it
Woz mentioned AI in graduation speech and gets cheers instead of boos
Redditor creates ungodly gaming PC with 13 internal screens and 15,000 looping GIFs
"I would not recommend this type of pc build project to anyone"
Herman Miller's new Coyl gaming desk starts at $1,095
Optional accessories push the price to nearly $2,000
Jeff Bezos isn't worried about the AI bubble: "the good ideas will pay for all of the losers"
The Amazon founder argues speculative AI spending could leave behind infrastructure and breakthroughs long after investors take losses
Sounding off: Concerns over an AI bubble have intensified as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon collectively pour hundreds of billions into data centers, chips, and model development. But Jeff Bezos believes that even if the boom collapses financially, the long-term technological gains could still justify the frenzy. His comments arrive at a moment when OpenAI alone is reportedly valued at $852 billion and looking to IPO, underscoring just how unprecedented the AI spending race has become.
Kickstarter is walking back mature content rules after backlash
Kickstarter blamed payment processor Stripe for the misstep
Researchers hit 112Gbps over wireless in a breakthrough that could shape 6G
100Gbps-class wireless communication could be the next big thing
Looking ahead: Researchers at Japan's Tokushima University, the University of Tokyo, and Gifu University have developed a terahertz wireless communication system capable of transmitting data at 112Gbps in the 560GHz band. This is significantly faster than the few-gigabit-per-second data rates typically achieved by conventional terahertz communication systems operating at similar frequencies.
A Broken Sword movie adaptation is coming from the studio behind Sonic the Hedgehog
The 1996 point-and-click classic is the latest game to get Hollywood's attention
This gorgeous fanless RTX 5080 PC turns passive cooling into a thermal nightmare
A triple-radiator chimney was not enough to tame over 500W of hardware
WTF?! We've seen PC builds that prioritize performance, ones that focus on silence, and those that look like they belong in a cyberpunk art gallery. Billet Labs' latest project falls firmly into the latter – as usual. It's a custom passive water-cooled gaming PC with no fans, lots of copper, and enough heat to make its creator admit the internet might have had a point.
One company now controls more than 4% of all Bitcoin
Strategy is closing in on one million Bitcoin after spending another $2 billion
Forget Raspberry Pi: this computer is literally the size of a credit card
A Redditor's 1mm-thick build includes Wi-Fi, NFC, an e-paper display, and its own battery
The first computer mouse: how many buttons did it have?
One button, two buttons... three?
Japan is using $4,000 animatronic wolves to scare off bears, and can't make them fast enough
Japan's answer to record bear attacks is a nightmare-inducing robotic Monster Wolves
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's AI-heavy graduation speech goes badly as graduates drown him out with boos
Schmidt's attempt to sell students on AI followed another boo-filled commencement speech days earlier
Doom's original soundtrack is now preserved by the Library of Congress
Bobby Prince's 1993 MIDI metal score joins the National Recording Registry, putting Doom alongside Mario and Minecraft
Sounding off: Video game music has spent decades shaping popular culture, but only a handful of game soundtracks have been formally recognized as part of America's recorded history. Doom's induction into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry is another sign that the sounds of early PC gaming are no longer being treated as disposable background noise, but as cultural artifacts worth preserving.
The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is the anti-flagship flagship: headphone jack, microSD, and thick bezels in 2026
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 inside, headphone jack outside – and it costs more than Samsung's best phone
The Steam Controller's hidden Wilhelm scream Easter Egg is pure Valve genius
A one-off gag, or the start of a whole new trend?
The EU is going after TikTok and Meta over addictive algorithms and child safety failures
As always, Brussels is especially thinking about the children
Unitree reveals $650,000 production-ready mecha that punches through walls and crawls like a spider
The robotics firm insists the GD01 is a real product, not a viral prank
UCF graduates boo commencement speaker for calling AI "the next industrial revolution"
The speaker tried to steady the room by comparing AI to the early internet, but the boos returned
OpenAI sued after ChatGPT allegedly advised teen before fatal overdose
His parents say the chatbot offered personalized drug-use advice instead of urging him to seek medical help
Amazon employees are inflating AI usage to top leaderboards and impress managers
Are employees unknowingly helping prep their replacements?
Meta is using its own employees' activity to train AI, and laying off 8,000 of them at the same time
Employees are calling the changes "incredibly demoralizing"
Samsung put Dua Lipa's face on TV boxes without asking. Now she's suing for $15 million
Samsung denies "intentional misuse"