The Devil May Cry Show’s Intro Song Is So Stupidly Glorious

The Devil May Cry Show’s Intro Song Is So Stupidly Glorious

Earlier this week, Netflix pulled back the curtain on its 2025 slate, which includes the previously announced Devil May Cry adaptation. Along with a premiere date of April 3, we got a look at the show’s opening credits, and they’re a riot. What makes them so good? The song, naturally. Of all the tunes to open a … Read more

NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life “turn left?”

NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life “turn left?”

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space rock in a laboratory, hoping it would answer some of humanity’s most enduring questions.  For Danny Glavin, a senior sample scientist, he wanted to solve a relentless mystery in his life’s work: Why are … Read more

Google’s X spins out Heritable Agriculture, a startup using AI to improve crop yield

Google’s X spins out Heritable Agriculture, a startup using AI to improve crop yield

Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown.  As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight … Read more

These are the 10 most beautiful smartphones of the past 15 years

These are the 10 most beautiful smartphones of the past 15 years

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority When a new smartphone launches, we often spend a lot of time talking about its internal hardware specs and what it can do that most other phones cannot. However, the first thing anyone ever notices about a phone is how it looks, and that has a significant bearing on … Read more

After ‘Copilot Price Hike’ for Microsoft 365, It’s Ending Its Free VPN

After ‘Copilot Price Hike’ for Microsoft 365, It’s Ending Its Free VPN

In 2023, Microsoft began including a free VPN feature in its “Microsoft Defender” security app for all Microsoft 365 subscribers (“Personal” and “Family”). Originally Microsoft had “called it a privacy protection feature,” writes the blog Windows Central, “designed to let you access sensitive data on the web via a VPN tunnel.” But…. Unfortunately, Microsoft has … Read more

Henry Ford Does AI – O’Reilly

Henry Ford Does AI – O’Reilly

Back in August, I cavalierly said that AI couldn’t design a car if it hadn’t seen one first, and I alluded to Henry Ford’s apocryphal statement “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” I’m not backing down on any of that, but the history of technology is always … Read more

Ongoing attacks on Ivanti VPNs install a ton of sneaky, well-written malware

Ongoing attacks on Ivanti VPNs install a ton of sneaky, well-written malware

Networks protected by Ivanti VPNs are under active attack by well-resourced hackers who are exploiting a critical vulnerability that gives them complete control over the network-connected devices. Hardware maker Ivanti disclosed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0282, on Wednesday and warned that it was under active exploitation against some customers. The vulnerability, which is being exploited … Read more

Top Stories: iOS 18.3 Released, AirPods News, and More

Top Stories: iOS 18.3 Released, AirPods News, and More

January has come to a close, with Apple pushing out iOS 18.3 and related software updates in the final week of the month to deliver some refinements for Apple Intelligence, security fixes, and more. We’re looking ahead to more substantial updates with iOS 18.4, while we also shared news and rumors about AirPods and the … Read more