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iRobot files for bankruptcy
After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following warnings issued earlier this year that it was fast running out of options, iRobot...
You need to listen to Sudan Archives’ violin opus for the club
My introduction to Sudan Archives was the song "Nont for Sale" from her first EP Sink in 2018. I've been a die-hard fan ever since. With each album, she finds new ways to sculpt the sound of her...
The mass shooting on Australia’s Bondi Beach, briefly explained
A police officer walks along cordon tapeline at the scene of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. | Darrian Traynor/Getty Images Two gunmen opened fire on a...
Google pulls AI-generated videos of Disney characters from YouTube in response to cease and desist
Google seems to be cracking down on the use of Disney characters in AI-generated videos on YouTube after it was hit with a cease and desist letter. According to reports by Variety and Deadline, the...
Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting
Grok's track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia is shocking. The AI chatbot has...
Grok is spreading inaccurate info again, this time about the Bondi Beach shooting
In the same month that Grok opted for a second Holocaust over vaporizing Elon Musk's brain, the AI chatbot is on the fritz again. Following the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia during a...
Kindle's in-book AI assistant can answer all your questions without spoilers
If you're several chapters into a novel and forgot who a character was, Amazon is hoping its new Kindle feature will jog your memory without ever having to put the e-reader down. This feature,...
Absynth is back and weirder than ever after 16 years
Abynth 6’s very pretty, but questionably useful preset explorer. Absynth is something of a cult classic in the soft synth world. It was originally released in 2000, and quickly found an audience...
Ayaneo's first smartphone is a major callback to the Xperia Play
Close enough, welcome back Xperia Play. After releasing a teaser video in early November, Ayaneo fully revealed its first smartphone called the Pocket Play. As suspected, the Ayaneo Pocket Play...
Inside the high drama of the iPhone 4
By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea - the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! - but it was clear that these big slabs of glass were...