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Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date
An Amazon Leo terminal being installed. | Image: Amazon Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's space-internet service Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) will "launch in mid-2026." I'm going to...
JBL Live 780NC and 680NC review: Great leaps, greater missteps
JBL introduced two new headphones to its Live series lineup and both are fighting to live up to expectations. Don’t get me wrong, the JBL Live 780NC and 680NC are both a solid set of cans, but in a...
OpenAI ‘pauses’ its Stargate UK data center plan
OpenAI is putting the brakes on Stargate UK, according to Bloomberg. That’s the company’s AI infrastructure project with NVIDIA that’s meant to help the UK build out its sovereign computing...
I tested three Windows laptops in the MacBook Neo’s price range — there’s no contest
The Neo king of affordable laptops. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge When the MacBook Neo arrived last month, I knew Windows laptop makers were in trouble. For $599, the Neo offers...
Google makes it easy to deepfake yourself
YouTube Shorts is rolling out a new AI-powered feature giving creators an easy way to realistically clone themselves on camera. The launch, hinted at earlier this year, reflects the platform's...
Spotify now lets you turn off all its videos
The new controls apply to both individual and family accounts. | Image: Spotify Spotify is adding new toggles to stop any and all video from playing inside the app, for both music and podcasts. The...
The myth of the downwardly mobile college graduate
"Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators occupy a park near Wall Street in New York, October 3, 2011. | AFP via Getty Images The heyday of the “high-skill” worker is ending. As corporations find new ways...
Google bakes NotebookLM, its research tool, into Gemini
Google has fully integrated NotebookLM, its AI-powered research tool, into the Gemini app. The company launched a standalone NotebookLM app last year, but as it said in its announcement, “keeping...
The surprising truth about logging
A northern spotted owl in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest. | Greg Vaughn/Getty Images The value of forest ecosystems is hard to overstate. Blanketing roughly a third of the US, they supply clean...
Amflow’s latest e-bikes raise the bar again
150Nm of raw climbing assist. | Image: Amflow Amflow, the e-bike brand spun out of DJI, is back with two impressive electric mountain bike ranges built around its incredibly dense Avinox motors. The...