Niantic is giving its cute AR cartoon companions a voice that will let them guide you around in the real world and point out interesting facts. The feature is being demo’d first in Snap Spectacles.

An AI chatbot developed by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is now more popular than DeepSeek. The feat proves that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.

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Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

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A big investment is rewarded with massive sound, but a few compromises.

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Proton Mail gives you encrypted email, but more importantly, it puts you in the driver’s seat of your inbox.

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Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.

The Beyerdynamic Amiron 300 hit their lowest price yet.

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The hardware largely remains the same, but performance gets a boost.

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These budget-friendly gaming headphones have a real pedigree and a perfect fit.

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These are high-power, high-performance handhelds—but steep pricing and a cluttered UI hold Xbox's first portables back from greatness.

Ditch the old Word doc that's hanging on by a thread. A proper resume builder can help you stand out from the crowd.

A Tesla Takedown alum has launched a campaign for stricter regulation of autonomous vehicles in the US.

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

Google's autonomous taxi subsidiary will hit the UK's capital next year, regulations permitting—but its first international service could be Waymo's biggest challenge yet.

This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.