The first trailer for Andor season two dropped today, giving us a long-awaited look at Cassian’s return—and a rebellion coalescing into full, explosive effect. It’s full of tiny little glimpses of what we know are going to to be four distinct chapters setting the year-by-year stage for the Cassian we met in Rogue One, familiar faces from … Read more
Bongino pushed the conspiracy theory that the Trump campaign was being spied on, a situation he dubbed “spygate” and called “the biggest scandal in American history.” During one show, discussing the pushback against the nomination of Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, Bongino said, “My entire life right now is about owning the libs. That’s it. … Read more
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched a request for information from members of the public whose ability to post or be seen on tech platforms has been limited by said platforms — aka, those who are shadowbanned. Shadowbanning may refer to different things, but usually, it refers to a user’s posts or account … Read more
The U.K. government is pushing forward with plans to attract more AI companies to the region through changes to copyright law that would allow developers to train AI models on artists’ content on the internet — without permission or payment — unless creators proactively “opt out.” Not everyone is marching to the same beat, though. … Read more
What you need to know Google is beginning to offer one-time payment options for Preferred Care plans. These plans were previously only available for Fitbit products, but can now be purchased for new orders of Pixel phones, tablets, and watches. The one-time fee nets buyers Preferred Care coverage for two years at a discount compared … Read more
Kris Carlon / Android Authority TL;DR MediaTek’s Dimensity 7400 chips are 4nm octa-core components with an emphasis on power efficiency. Both chips offer AI features thanks to MediaTek’s NPU 6.0, and focus on game and camera performance. MediaTek also introduces its 6nm Dimensity 6400 for even more affordably priced devices. Maybe the biggest mistake you … Read more
AI-powered search engine Perplexity is developing its own web browser named Comet. “Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we’re also reinventing the browser,” a Perplexity spokesperson told TechCrunch. “Stay tuned for updates.” From the report: In a post on X on Monday, the company launched a sign-up list for the browser, which isn’t yet available. It’s … Read more
It’s a milestone day for MacRumors, as today marks our 25th birthday. MacRumors was coincidentally founded on Steve Jobs’ birthday of February 24, 2000, with articles starting just a few days later. MacRumors was founded by medical student Arnold Kim, and it remained a side project for over eight years until he decided to give … Read more
Anthropic OpenAI’s o3 and DeepSeek’s R1 models have some new competition. Anthropic announced Monday the release of its new “hybrid reasoning” model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Existing reasoning models like o3, R1, and Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking are designed to break down complex problems into smaller tasks, then deduce and verify their answers before responding, … Read more
PC gaming handhelds, including Steam Deck, are perfect for racing games. While some of the newer titles either don’t work that well or encounter frame rates lower than 60, there are loads of banging racing games that are light on resources and run wonderfully on the Steam Deck at high frame rates. I’ve spent more … Read more