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Tesla sunsets its Solar Roof tiles
Here’s Elon Musk showing off the Solar Roof plans back in 2016. | Image: Dieter Bohn / The Verge Tesla has discontinued Solar Roof, its solar panels designed to look like regular roofing tiles,...
My cats hate each other, but this automatic feeder is helping
Over the course of nearly a decade, my husband and I have dutifully carried out a four-times-daily ritual of feeding a pair of lovely cat siblings who hate each other. This was mostly manageable for...
My cats hate each other, but this automatic feeder is helping
Over the course of nearly a decade, my husband and I have dutifully carried out a four-times-daily ritual of feeding a pair of lovely cat siblings who hate each other. This was mostly manageable for...
Patreon is changing its algorithm to help smaller creators get discovered
Patreon is developing over 30 new and updated tools, but some of them might never fully roll out to users. | Image: Patreon Patreon has announced a number of new and overhauled features that are...
CFTC’s Innovation Summit had everything: crypto lawfare, ‘fake news,’ hot dogs and a prediction market cage match
At the CFTC inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting, Wall Street veterans and upstarts from prediction markets agreed Washington needs clearer rules. They were rather less united on whether...
My big, fat, technophobic cat
He hates weigh-in days. My cat Pablo is a voluptuous boy. His primordial pouch, originally thought to protect cats' squishy insides, hangs low and wobbles to and fro. Once, when he was five or six,...
How to print your favorite photos like it’s 1996
Like many people, I have a contentious relationship with the Memories feature on my iPhone, the AI-powered nostalgia machine that serves up photos and slideshows from deep in your camera roll,...
The Supreme Court’s about to face an entirely new kind of voter discrimination
Demonstrators outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on October 15, 2025. | Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images On Tuesday, a federal appeals court struck down a South Carolina law that...
ChatGPT on Mac can now read and respond to Apple iMessages
OpenAI has rolled out a plugin that allows ChatGPT to control the Apple Messages app.
Why this year’s Medicare-for-all debate is different
Supporters look on as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a news conference to announce the re-introduction of the Medicare for All Act of 2023, outside the Capitol on May 17, 2023, in...