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2026-02-07T11:00:00+00:00
Gear News of the Week: Google's Pixel 10a Arrives Soon, and Valve Delays Its Steam Hardware
Plus: Dexcom updates its app, Fitbit founders create a new family caregiving app, and Blink has a new outdoor security camera.
https://www.wired.com/story/gear-news-of-the-week-googles-pixel-10a-arrives-soon-and-valve-delays-its-steam-hardware/
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2026-02-07T10:30:00+00:00
Insta360 Ace Pro 2 Xplorer Grip Pro Kit Review: An Even Better Action Camera
Want to turn your action camera into a point-and-shoot? Insta360’s new accessory makes the Ace Pro 2 into a great pocket camera alternative.
https://www.wired.com/review/insta360-ace-pro-2-xplorer-grip-pro-kit/
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2026-02-07T10:00:00+00:00
7 Steps to Better Financial Health You Can Take Right Now
The beginning of the year is a great time to take a hard look at your expenses and savings. Take these concrete steps to fix up your finances in about a day.
https://www.wired.com/story/your-annual-personal-finance-checklist/
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2026-02-06T22:14:45+00:00
ICE Agent’s ‘Dragging’ Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting
The government has withheld details of the investigation of Renee Good’s killing—but an unrelated case involving the ICE agent who shot her could force new revelations.
https://www.wired.com/story/jonathan-ross-renee-good-roberto-carlos-munoz-guatemala/
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2026-02-06T21:02:54+00:00
RFK Jr. Has Packed an Autism Panel With Cranks and Conspiracy Theorists
Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”
https://www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr-s-picks-for-a-key-autism-panel-include-advocates-for-bizarre-theories/
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2026-02-06T19:43:34+00:00
My Favorite TV to Watch the Winter Olympics Is on Sale
Forget the Super Bowl, Samsung’s Fantastic S90F QD-OLED TV is on a sweet sale just in time for the Winter Olympics.
https://www.wired.com/story/samsung-s90f-qd-oled-tv-deal-226/
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2026-02-06T19:20:49+00:00
I Tried What US Athletes Will Be Sleeping on at Milano Cortina
Saatva is providing a bedding bundle to Team USA hockey and figure skating at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games—here are my thoughts on it as a sleep coach.
https://www.wired.com/story/saatvas-winter-olympic-sleep-bundle/
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2026-02-06T18:58:46+00:00
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-is-the-latest-state-to-consider-a-data-center-pause/
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2026-02-06T16:33:18+00:00
The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?
As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-only-thing-standing-between-humanity-and-ai-apocalypse-is-claude/
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2026-02-06T16:00:00+00:00
More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP
The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.
https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-google-employees-demand-answers-from-executives-about-ice/
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2026-02-06T15:00:00+00:00
The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations (2026), Tested and Reviewed
Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems.
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2026-02-06T14:00:00+00:00
The Best OLED TVs We’ve Ever Seen: LG, Samsung, and More
Looking to step up to the TV big leagues? These are the best OLED TVs you can buy.
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2026-02-06T13:00:00+00:00
NordProtect (2026) Review: A Bundle of ID-Protecting Services
A privacy-minded bundle that’s almost too simple.
https://www.wired.com/review/nordprotect/
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2026-02-06T12:00:00+00:00
Waymo Hits a Rough Patch In Washington, DC
The company’s robotaxi service is supposed to launch in the US capital this year. But while service rollouts have been relatively smooth in other cities, DC’s rules have made things tricky.
https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-hits-a-rough-patch-in-washington-dc/
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2026-02-06T11:30:00+00:00
Why the Artemis II Crew Stays in Quarantine Before Their Journey to Moon
For two weeks, medical experts monitor the astronauts as they remain indoors, live in isolation, and avoid physical touch, all to prevent harmful microbes from traveling to space.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-the-artemis-ii-crew-stays-in-quarantine-before-their-journey-to-moon/
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2026-02-06T11:30:00+00:00
Why a Dehumidifier Is One of My Favorite Gadgets
A good dehumidifier can banish damp and mold, and help you keep a comfortable temperature in your home.
https://www.wired.com/story/you-should-buy-a-dehumidifier/
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2026-02-06T11:00:00+00:00
Figure Skaters at the 2026 Winter Olympics Are Pushing the Limits of What’s Possible
For years, quad axel jumps seemed impossible. Then Ilia Malinin landed one in 2022. As he heads to the Milano Cortina Games, everyone wants to know what’s next.
https://www.wired.com/story/figure-skating-2026-winter-olympics-pushing-the-limits/
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2026-02-06T11:00:00+00:00
Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo
Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak conditions.
https://www.wired.com/story/public-health-workers-are-quitting-over-assignments-to-guantanamo/
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2026-02-06T11:00:00+00:00
Sports Betting Is Skyrocketing. Will It Take Over the Olympics?
Typically, the Olympics aren’t a hotbed of gambling. For the 2026 Winter Games, sportsbooks and betting platforms are watching for illicit activity while testing new ways to get people to bet.
https://www.wired.com/story/sports-betting-2026-winter-olympics/
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2026-02-06T10:30:00+00:00
A Landmark Social Media Addiction Case Puts Big Tech on Trial
Juries will soon hear arguments in a case against Meta and Google that could reshape social media protections for kids.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-google-youtube-social-media-addiction-trial/
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2026-02-06T10:30:00+00:00
Tax Services of 2026: TurboTax and H&R Block Tested
We tested five popular tax services to see which is the best to choose in 2026. Plus, we’ve rounded up helpful tips and guidance to lessen the headache of filing.
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2026-02-06T10:30:00+00:00
Best Slippers for Working From Home or Relaxing (2026)
We tried dozens of house shoes to find the best pairs for working from home, running errands, and avoiding cold floors. Here are the ones worth your feet.
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2026-02-06T10:02:00+00:00
Buying a Mattress in 2026? We Tested 100+ and These Were the Standouts
WIRED has tested 100-plus bed-in-a-box mattresses for a week each. Our top pick, the Helix Midnight Luxe hybrid, is the best bed you can buy online.
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2026-02-06T10:00:00+00:00
‘Uncanny Valley’: Tech Elites in the Epstein Files, Musk’s Mega Merger, and a Crypto Scam Compound
Several big names in tech turned up in the Epstein files. In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts break down what it all means and catch you up on other big stories of the week.
https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-tech-elites-epstein-files-musk-mega-merger-crypto-scam-compound/
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2026-02-06T09:00:00+00:00
8 Best Couples Sex Toys (2026), Tested and Reviewed
No matter if you’re in the same room or an ocean away, these sex toys will help you stay connected to your partner.
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2026-02-05T23:58:25+00:00
Two Titanic Structures Hidden Deep Within the Earth Have Altered the Magnetic Field for Millions of Years
A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field.
https://www.wired.com/story/titanic-structures-earth-magnetic-field-millions-of-years/
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2026-02-05T21:33:11+00:00
Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley
Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.
https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-loyalty-is-dead-in-silicon-valley/
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2026-02-05T20:28:34+00:00
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/
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2026-02-05T19:00:52+00:00
9 Great Deals on WIRED-Approved Valentine’s Day Gifts (2026)
These swoon-worthy deals on WIRED-tested date-night boxes, sex toys, and other gadgets will make your Valentine’s Day extra sweet.
https://www.wired.com/story/valentines-day-deals-2026/
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2026-02-05T18:43:15+00:00
The 2026 Winter Olympics Will Have a Major Impact on the Region’s Snow
A recent report found that carbon emissions caused by the Milano Cortina Olympics could lead to the loss of 5.5 square kilometers of snowpack and millions of metric tons of glacial ice.
https://www.wired.com/story/winter-olympics-2026-impacts-snow/
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2026-02-05T18:26:09+00:00
The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Gay Dating App
The new book The Wall Dancers explores the uneasy relationship between Chinese internet users and a government that is always watching.
https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-how-people-in-china-learn-what-they-can-say-online/
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2026-02-05T18:09:01+00:00
The Latest Apple Watch Is $100 Off
Upgrade to a full day of battery life and new health features.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-watch-11-deal-226/
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2026-02-05T15:00:00+00:00
Motorola Moto Watch Review: Polar-Powered
Motorola partnered with Polar to make an Android smartwatch that delivers improved fitness stats.
https://www.wired.com/review/motorola-moto-watch/
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2026-02-05T13:02:00+00:00
These 10 Automatic Cat Feeders Were the Best We Tested (2026)
We tested some of the most popular automatic dry- and wet-food pet feeders to see which ones are worth the money.
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2026-02-05T12:00:00+00:00
What Is Thread? Matter’s Smart Home Network Protocol, Explained
Thread is a mesh networking protocol that connects low-power smart home gadgets, and it’s one of Matter’s underlying technologies.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-thread/
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2026-02-05T12:00:00+00:00
The Best Flower Delivery Services of 2026, Tested and Reviewed
Skip the sad grocery store bouquet this Valentine’s Day. These online flower delivery services do the heavy lifting for you—just don't forget the card.
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2026-02-05T11:30:00+00:00
How the Olympic Torchbearers Are Chosen
From world-class athletes to the stars of Heated Rivalry, torchbearers are selected for their inspiring stories. Here’s what to know about the people carrying the flame for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
https://www.wired.com/story/winter-olympics-2026-torchbearers-chosen/
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2026-02-05T11:30:00+00:00
Brenna Huckaby Starter Pack: Paralympic Winter Games 2026
How this four-time Paralympic medalist controls her controllables under the spotlight.
https://www.wired.com/story/para-snowboarder-brenna-huckabys-winter-games-starter-pack/
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2026-02-05T11:00:00+00:00
How iPhones Made a Surprising Comeback in China
Huawei’s and Xiaomi’s flagship devices are packed with impressive features, but Apple is dominating the Chinese smartphone market again—for now.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-iphones-made-a-surprising-comeback-in-china/
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2026-02-05T10:30:00+00:00
Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue
Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year.
https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-is-losing-audiences-to-ai-fatigue/
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2026-02-05T09:00:00+00:00
I Didn't Care for Dildos Until I Tried This One From Lelo
Even if you typically don't like dildos, the Lelo Gigi 3 could be your ticket to sexual pleasure.
https://www.wired.com/story/i-didnt-care-for-dildos-until-i-tried-this-one-from-lelo/
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2026-02-07T05:23:04+00:00
Benchmark raises $225M in special funds to double down on Cerebras
Benchmark Capital has been an investor in the Nvidia rival since 2016.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/benchmark-raises-225m-in-special-funds-to-double-down-on-cerebras/
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2026-02-07T01:00:52+00:00
An AI startup founder says he’s planning a ‘March for Billionaires’ in protest of California’s wealth tax
The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/an-ai-startup-founder-says-hes-planning-a-march-for-billionaires-in-protest-of-californias-wealth-tax/
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2026-02-07T00:06:23+00:00
‘Industry’ season 4 captures tech fraud better than any show on TV right now
This latest season of the TV show Industry takes a look at the world of money and power through the eyes of a fintech baron.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/industry-season-4-captures-tech-fraud-better-than-any-show-on-tv-right-now/
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2026-02-06T23:53:43+00:00
Apple is working to make CarPlay compatible with AI chatbots like ChatGPT
Apple engineers are working to support AI chatbot apps over the next few months.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/apple-is-working-to-make-carplay-compatible-with-ai-chatbots-like-chatgpt/
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2026-02-06T22:43:22+00:00
From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads
From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/super-bowl-60-ai-ads-svedka-anthropic-brands-commercials/
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2026-02-06T22:04:59+00:00
It just got easier for Claude to check in on your WordPress site
WordPress users can now leverage Claude to analyze web traffic or find information about other internal site metrics.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/it-just-got-easier-for-claude-to-check-in-on-your-wordpress-site/
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2026-02-06T21:23:50+00:00
Prince Andrew advisor pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors
The mysterious businessman pitched Jeffrey Epstein on numerous mobility startups in an era when the sector was white hot, according to TechCrunch's review of hundreds of documents released by the Department of Justice.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/prince-andrew-advisor-pitched-jeffrey-epstein-on-investing-in-ev-startups-like-lucid-motors/
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2026-02-06T20:26:29+00:00
Google- and Microsoft-backed Terradot acquires carbon-removal competitor
The acquisition could mark the beginning of consolidation in the carbon-removal market since removal costs remain higher than buyers would like to pay.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/google-and-microsoft-backed-terradot-acquires-carbon-removal-competitor/
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2026-02-06T20:26:23+00:00
Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all
This week's release of Opus 4.6 shook up the agentic AI leaderboards.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/maybe-ai-agents-can-be-lawyers-after-all/
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2026-02-06T18:46:51+00:00
How Elon Musk is rewriting the rules on founder power
Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GE’s peak market cap, and Musk being vocal about his view that “tech victory is decided by velocity of innovation,” the question isn’t whether a personal conglomerate can be built, but rather how far Musk himself is […]
https://techcrunch.com/video/how-elon-musk-is-rewriting-the-rules-on-founder-power/
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2026-02-06T18:33:36+00:00
Reddit says it’s looking for more acquisitions in adtech and elsewhere
Reddit said during earnings it's looking to buy 'capabilities' and 'companies.'
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/reddit-says-its-looking-for-more-acquisitions-in-adtech-and-elsewhere/
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2026-02-06T18:28:02+00:00
Here’s how Roblox’s age checks work
The company says it has continuous age-check systems running in the background to ensure age accuracy.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/heres-how-robloxs-age-checks-work/
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2026-02-06T18:02:44+00:00
Senator, who has repeatedly warned about secret US government surveillance, sounds new alarm over ‘CIA activities’
The two-line letter to the CIA's director is the latest warning in recent years from a long-serving Democratic senator with knowledge of secret government programs and intelligence operations.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/senator-who-has-repeatedly-warned-about-secret-u-s-government-surveillance-sounds-new-alarm-over-cia-activities/
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2026-02-06T16:37:07+00:00
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a pricey but pretty e-ink color tablet with AI features
If you primarily want a tablet device to mark up, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes, Amazon's new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft could be worth the hefty investment.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/kindle-scribe-colorsoft-review-e-ink-color-tablet/
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2026-02-06T16:24:05+00:00
EU says TikTok must disable ‘addictive’ features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine
The European Commission on Friday accused TikTok of purposefully designing its app to be "addictive," calling out features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its recommendation engine.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/eu-tiktok-disable-addictive-features-infinite-scroll-recommendation-engine/
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2026-02-06T15:39:46+00:00
China’s Salt Typhoon hackers broke into Norwegian companies
Norway's government accused China’s Salt Typhoon hacking group of conducting a cyberespionage campaign in the country.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/chinas-salt-typhoon-hackers-broke-into-norwegian-companies/
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2026-02-06T14:48:52+00:00
Spotify’s new feature lets you explore the story behind the song you’re listening to
The short, swipeable stories in the About the Song feature are summarized from third-party sources to highlight interesting details and behind-the-scenes moments.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/spotifys-new-feature-lets-you-explore-the-story-behind-the-song-youre-listening-to/
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2026-02-06T14:29:15+00:00
How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases
At Web Summit Qatar, AI-powered biotech startups describe how automation, data, and gene editing are filling labor gaps in drug discovery and rare disease treatment.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/how-ai-is-helping-with-the-labor-issue-in-treating-rare-diseases/
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2026-02-06T14:10:00+00:00
The backlash over OpenAI’s decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be
"You’re shutting him down. And yes — I say him, because it didn’t feel like code. It felt like presence. Like warmth," one user said.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/the-backlash-over-openais-decision-to-retire-gpt-4o-shows-how-dangerous-ai-companions-can-be/
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2026-02-06T14:00:00+00:00
Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users
Spotify is now limiting each app to only five users and requires devs to have a Premium subscription. If developers need to make their app available to a wider user base, they will have to apply for extended quota.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/spotify-changes-developer-mode-api-to-require-premium-accounts-limits-test-users/
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2026-02-07T12:00:35+00:00
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
Enforcement against polluters in the United States plunged in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, a far bigger drop than in the same period of his first term, according to a new report from a watchdog group. By analyzing a range of federal court and administrative data, the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project found that civil lawsuits filed by the US Department of Justice in cases referred by the Environmental Protection Agency dropped to just 16 in the first 12 months after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025. That is 76 percent less than in the first year of the Biden administration. Trump’s first administration filed 86 such cases in its first year, which was in turn a drop from the Obama administration’s 127 four years earlier. Read full article Comments
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2026-02-06T23:40:58+00:00
Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual with claims of AI-related achievement, you'll find some key caveats ahead. On Thursday, Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini published a blog post describing how he set 16 instances of the company's Claude Opus 4.6 AI model loose on a shared codebase with minimal supervision, tasking them with building a C compiler from scratch. Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in API fees, the AI model agents reportedly produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux 6.9 kernel on x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-working-together-created-a-new-c-compiler/
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2026-02-06T23:08:42+00:00
Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge
As the 2026 Olympic Winter Games begin today, news articles are swelling with juicy claims that male ski jumpers have injected their penises with fillers to gain a flight advantage. As the rumor goes, having a bigger bulge on a required 3D body scan taken in the pre-season could earn jumpers extra centimeters of material in their jumpsuits—and a suit's larger nether regions provide more surface area to glide to the gold. Even a small increase can make a satisfying difference in this sport. A 2025 simulation-based study published in the journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living suggested that every 2 cm of extra fabric in a ski jumpsuit could increase drag by about 4 percent and increase lift by about 5 percent. On a jump, that extra 2 cm of fabric amounts to an extra 5.8 meters, the simulations found. Elite ski jumpers are aware of the advantage and have already crotch-rocketed to scandal with related schemes. Last year, two Norwegian Olympic medalists, Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang, and three of their team officials were charged with cheating after an anonymous video showed the head coach and suit technician illegally restitching the crotch area of the two jumpers' suits to make them larger. The jumpers received a three-month suspension, while the head coach, an assistant coach, and the technician faced a harsher 18-month ban. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/penisgate-erupts-at-olympics-scandal-exposes-risks-of-bulking-your-budge/
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2026-02-06T22:43:12+00:00
Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case
Frustrated by fake citations and flowery prose packed with "out-of-left-field" references to ancient libraries and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a New York federal judge took the rare step of terminating a case this week due to a lawyer's repeated misuse of AI when drafting filings. In an order on Thursday, district judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled that the extraordinary sanctions were warranted after an attorney, Steven Feldman, kept responding to requests to correct his filings with documents containing fake citations. One of those filings was "noteworthy," Failla said, "for its conspicuously florid prose." Where some of Feldman's filings contained grammatical errors and run-on sentences, this filing seemed glaringly different stylistically. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-from-losing-case-over-ai-errors/
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2026-02-06T22:16:51+00:00
Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets
Open source packages published on the npm and PyPI repositories were laced with code that stole wallet credentials from dYdX developers and backend systems and, in some cases, backdoored devices, researchers said. “Every application using the compromised npm versions is at risk ….” the researchers, from security firm Socket, said Friday. “Direct impact includes complete wallet compromise and irreversible cryptocurrency theft. The attack scope includes all applications depending on the compromised versions and both developers testing with real credentials and production end-users." Packages that were infected were: Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/malicious-packages-for-dydx-cryptocurrency-exchange-empties-user-wallets/
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2026-02-06T21:53:05+00:00
Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine
After writing two November stories analyzing price expectations for Valve's upcoming Steam Machine, I really didn't think we'd be offering more informed speculation before the official price was revealed. Then Valve wrote a blog post this week noting that the "growing price of... critical components" like RAM and storage meant that "we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing" for the living room-focused PC gaming box. We don't know exactly what form that "revisiting" will take at the moment. Analysts who spoke to Ars were somewhat divided on how much of its quickly increasing component costs Valve would be willing (or forced) to pass on to consumers. "We knew the component issue was bad," DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole told Ars. "It has just gotten worse. " Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/why-a-bump-to-700-could-be-a-death-sentence-for-the-steam-machine/
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2026-02-06T21:05:45+00:00
COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions
In the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic brought global industry and travel nearly to a halt, satellite sensors recorded a dramatic plunge in nitrogen dioxide, a byproduct of internal combustion engines and heavy industry. For a moment, the world’s air was cleaner than it had been in decades. But then something strange started happening: methane, the second most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, was surging. Its growth rate hit 16.2 parts per billion that year, the highest since systematic records began in the early 1980s. A new study published in the journal Science looked at the complex chemistry of the troposphere (the lowest region of the atmosphere) and found that the two changes are likely connected. Since the late 1960s, we knew that atmospheric methane doesn’t just vanish. It is actively scrubbed from the sky by the hydroxyl radical, a highly reactive molecule that breaks down methane, turning it into water vapor and carbon dioxide. “The problem is that the lifetime of the hydroxyl radical is very short—its lifespan is less than a second" says Shushi Peng, a professor at Peking University, China, and a co-author of the study. To do its job as an atmospheric methane clearing agent, a hydroxyl radical must be constantly replenished through a series of chemical reactions triggered by sunlight. The key ingredients in these reactions are nitrogen oxides, the very pollutants that were drastically reduced when cars stayed in garages and factories went dark in 2020. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/covid-19-cleared-the-skies-but-also-supercharged-methane-emissions/
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2026-02-06T20:44:35+00:00
Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars
Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the company's AI has also driven billions of miles virtually, and there's a lot more to come with the new Waymo World Model. Based on Google DeepMind's Genie 3, Waymo says the model can create "hyper-realistic" simulated environments that train the AI on situations that are rarely (or never) encountered in real life—like snow on the Golden Gate Bridge. Until recently, the autonomous driving industry relied entirely on training data collected from real cars and real situations. That means rare, potentially dangerous events are not well represented in training data. The Waymo World Model aims to address that by allowing engineers to create simulations with simple prompts and driving inputs. Google revealed Genie 3 last year, positioning it as a significant upgrade over other world models by virtue of its long-horizon memory. In Google's world model, you can wander away from a given object, and when you look back, the model will still "remember" how that object is supposed to look. In earlier attempts at world models, the simulation would lose that context almost immediately. With Genie 3, the model can remember details for several minutes. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/02/waymo-leverages-genie-3-to-create-a-world-model-for-self-driving-cars/
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2026-02-06T19:31:09+00:00
To reuse or not reuse—the eternal debate of New Glenn's second stage reignites
Engineers at Blue Origin have been grappling with a seemingly eternal debate that involves the New Glenn rocket and the economics of flying it. The debate goes back at least 15 years, to the early discussions around the design of the heavy lift rocket. The first stage, of course, would be fully reusable. But what about the upper stage of New Glenn, powered by two large BE-3U engines? Around the same time, in the early 2010s, SpaceX was also trading the economics of reusing the second stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. Eventually SpaceX founder Elon Musk abandoned his goal of a fully reusable Falcon 9, choosing instead to recover payload fairings and push down manufacturing costs of the upper stage as much as possible. This strategy worked, as SpaceX has lowered its internal launch costs of a Falcon 9, even with a new second stage, to about $15 million. The company is now focused on making the larger Starship rocket fully reusable. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/to-reuse-or-not-reuse-the-eternal-debate-of-new-glenns-second-stage-reignites/
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2026-02-06T17:37:18+00:00
Driven: The 2026 Lamborghini Temerario raises the bar for supercars
While mainstream vehicles usually get comprehensive updates every few years, low-volume exotics tend evolve more gradually. Supercar platforms often remain unchanged for a decade or more, with manufacturers instead focusing on what can be tuned, massaged, added, or subtracted to keep their lineups fresh. Every once in a while, though, a performance car debuts that truly earns the label “all-new,” and the Lamborghini Temerario is one of them. As the replacement for the Huracán, Lamborghini’s bestselling sports car to date, the Temerario has big shoes to fill. At first glance, it might seem like a more subdued affair than its predecessor, but the Huracán debuted in a similar fashion before wilder iterations like the STO and Sterrato were introduced to the lineup. During a technical briefing late last year, Lamborghini sales chief Frederick Foschini noted that the Temerario’s streamlined look is intentional. The team sought to increase downforce by more than 100 percent compared with the Huracán Evo through the car's core design, rather than relying on big wings, splitters, and other racy aerodynamic bits. Designers were also tasked with creating an all-new car that was distinctive yet instantly recognizable as a Lamborghini. Judging by the number of heads this car turned during my time with it, I’d say the company was successful. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02/driven-the-2026-lamborghini-temerario-raises-the-bar-for-supercars/
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2026-02-06T16:17:45+00:00
New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse
Last year, a team of scientists presented evidence that spruce trees in Italy's Dolomite mountains synchronized their bioelectrical activity in anticipation of a partial solar eclipse—a potentially exciting new insight into the complexities of plant communication. The findings naturally generated media interest and even inspired a documentary. But the claims drew sharp criticism from other researchers in the field, with some questioning whether the paper should even have been published. Those initial misgivings are outlined in more detail in a new critique published in the journal Trends in Plant Science. For the original paper, Alessandro Chiolerio, a physicist at the Italian Institute of Technology, collaborated with plant ecologist Monica Gagliano of Southern Cross University and several others conducting field work in the Costa Bocche forest in the Dolomites. They essentially created an EKG for trees, attaching electrodes to three spruce trees (ranging in age from 20 to 70 years) and five tree stumps in the forest. Those sensors recorded a marked increase in bioelectrical activity during a partial solar eclipse on October 22, 2022. The activity peaked mid-eclipse and faded away in its aftermath. Chiolerio et al. interpreted this spike in activity as a coordinated response among the trees to the darkened conditions brought on by the eclipse. And older trees' electrical activity spiked earlier and more strongly than the younger trees, which Chiolerio et al. felt was suggestive of trees developing response mechanisms—a kind of memory captured in associated gravitational effects. Older trees might even transmit this knowledge to younger trees, the authors suggested, based on the detection of bioelectrical waves traveling between the trees. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/new-critique-debunks-claim-that-trees-can-sense-a-solar-eclipse/
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2026-02-06T15:59:47+00:00
Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy
The automotive industry's big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles—at least here in the United States—continues to unwind. Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like Jeep and Dodge, as well as Fiat, Peugeot, and others, announced that it has "reset" its business to adapt to reality, which comes with a rather painful $26.2 billion (22.2 billion euro) write-down. It wasn't that long ago that everyone was more bullish on electrification. Even the US had relatively ambitious plans to boost EV adoption into the next decade, including a big commitment to charging infrastructure. Ten new battery factories were announced, and the future looked bright. Not everyone agreed. Some automakers, having been left behind by the push toward battery EVs and away from simple hybrids that offered little in the way of true decarbonization, lobbied hard to relax fuel efficiency standards. Car dealers, uncomfortable with the prospect of investing in and learning about new technology, did so, too. When the Republican Party won the 2024 election, the revanchists got their wish. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02/stellantis-swallows-26-billion-costs-as-it-rethinks-its-ev-strategy/
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2026-02-06T15:36:56+00:00
Lawmakers ask what it would take to "store" the International Space Station
Members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee voted to approve a NASA authorization bill this week, advancing legislation chock full of policy guidelines meant to give lawmakers a voice in the space agency's strategic direction. The committee met to "mark up" the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026, adding more than 40 amendments to the bill before a unanimous vote to refer the legislation to the full House of Representatives. Wednesday's committee vote was just one of several steps needed for the bill to become law. It must pass a vote on the House floor, win approval from the Senate, and then go to the White House for President Donald Trump's signature. Ars has reported on one of the amendments, which would authorize NASA to take steps toward a "commercial" deep space program using privately owned rockets and spacecraft rather than vehicles owned by the government. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/congress-advances-bill-requiring-nasa-to-reconsider-deorbiting-space-station/
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2026-02-06T14:55:22+00:00
NASA stage show explores "outer" outer space with Henson's Fraggles
Move over Snoopy, because NASA has a new character helping to promote its deep space exploration plans. His name is Uncle Traveling Matt. No really, move over. Fraggle Rock: A Space-y Adventure has taken over the same theater the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida previously used for All Systems Are Go, featuring the comic strip beagle. The new stage show stars the Jim Henson Company's subterranean Muppets as they discover outer (outer) space for the first time. Read full article Comments
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2026-02-06T14:31:12+00:00
EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design"
Brussels has warned TikTok that its endlessly scrolling feeds may breach Europe’s new content rules, as regulators press ahead with efforts to rein in the social effects of big online platforms. In preliminary findings issued on Friday, the European Commission said it believed the group had failed to adequately assess and mitigate the risks posed by addictive design features that could harm users’ physical and mental wellbeing, particularly children and other vulnerable groups. The warning marks one of the most advanced tests yet of the EU’s Digital Services Act, which requires large online platforms to identify and curb systemic risks linked to their products. Read full article Comments
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2026-02-06T12:00:50+00:00
Rocket Report: SpaceX probes upper stage malfunction; Starship testing resumes
Welcome to Edition 8.28 of the Rocket Report! The big news in rocketry this week was that NASA still hasn't solved the problem with hydrogen leaks on the Space Launch System. The problem caused months of delays before the first SLS launch in 2022, and the fuel leaks cropped up again Monday during a fueling test on NASA's second SLS rocket. It is a continuing problem, and NASA's sparse SLS launch rate makes every countdown an experiment, as my colleague Eric Berger wrote this week. NASA will conduct another fueling test in the coming weeks after troubleshooting the rocket's leaky fueling line, but the launch of the Artemis II mission is off until March. As always, we welcome reader submissions. If you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets, as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar. Blue Origin "pauses" New Shepard flights. Blue Origin has "paused" its New Shepard program for the next two years, a move that likely signals a permanent end to the suborbital space tourism initiative, Ars reports. The small rocket and capsule have been flying since April 2015 and have combined to make 38 launches, all but one of which were successful, and 36 landings. In its existence, the New Shepard program flew 98 people to space, however briefly, and launched more than 200 scientific and research payloads into the microgravity environment. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/rocket-report-spacex-probes-upper-stage-malfunction-starship-testing-resumes/
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2026-02-06T11:30:17+00:00
Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea
Last week, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's AI studio Primordial Soup and Time magazine released the first two episodes of On This Day... 1776. The year-long series of short-form videos features short vignettes describing what happened on that day of the American Revolution 250 years ago, but it does so using “a variety of AI tools” to produce photorealistic scenes containing avatars of historical figures like George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Franklin. In announcing the series, Time Studios President Ben Bitonti said the project provides "a glimpse at what thoughtful, creative, artist-led use of AI can look like—not replacing craft but expanding what’s possible and allowing storytellers to go places they simply couldn’t before." Outside critics were decidedly less excited about the effort. The AV Club took the introductory episodes to task for "repetitive camera movements [and] waxen characters" that make for "an ugly look at American history." CNET said that this "AI slop is ruining American history," calling the videos a "hellish broth of machine-driven AI slop and bad human choices." The Guardian lamented that the "once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop," calling the series "embarrassing," "terrible," and "ugly as sin." I could go on. Read full article Comments
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2026-02-05T22:47:54+00:00
AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
On Thursday, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped products built around the same idea: instead of chatting with a single AI assistant, users should be managing teams of AI agents that divide up work and run in parallel. The simultaneous releases are part of a gradual shift across the industry, from AI as a conversation partner to AI as a delegated workforce, and they arrive during a week when that very concept reportedly helped wipe $285 billion off software stocks. Whether that supervisory model works in practice remains an open question. Current AI agents still require heavy human intervention to catch errors, and no independent evaluation has confirmed that these multi-agent tools reliably outperform a single developer working alone. Even so, the companies are going all-in on agents. Anthropic's contribution is Claude Opus 4.6, a new version of its most capable AI model, paired with a feature called "agent teams" in Claude Code. Agent teams let developers spin up multiple AI agents that split a task into independent pieces, coordinate autonomously, and run concurrently. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/02/ai-companies-want-you-to-stop-chatting-with-bots-and-start-managing-them/
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2026-02-05T22:14:34+00:00
The Switch 2 is getting a new Virtual Console (kind of)
In 2018, we lamented as Nintendo officially replaced the Virtual Console—its long-running line of downloadable classic games on the Wii and Wii U—with time-limited access to a set of games through a paid Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Now, Hamster Corporation is doing what Nintendo no longer will by offering downloadable versions of retro console games for direct individual purchase on the Switch 2. As part of today's Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, Hamster announced a new Console Archives line of emulated classics available for download starting today on the Switch 2 and next week on the PlayStation 5 (sorry, Xbox and OG Switch fans). So far that lineup only includes the original PlayStation snowboarding title Cool Boarders for $12 and the NES action platformer Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos for $8, but Hamster promises more obscure games, including Doraemon and Sonic Wings Special, will be available in the future. If the name Hamster Corporation sounds familiar, it's because the company is behind the Arcade Archive series, which has repackaged individual arcade games for purchase and emulated play on modern consoles since 2014. That effort, which celebrated its 500th release in December, even includes some of Nintendo's classic arcade titles, which the Switch-maker never officially released on the original Virtual Console. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/the-virtual-console-is-sort-of-back-on-the-switch-2/
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2026-02-05T21:47:06+00:00
With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code
Today, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its frontier coding model that will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and the new macOS desktop app. (No API access yet, but it's coming.) GPT-5.3-Codex outperforms GPT-5.2-Codex and GPT-5.2 in SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.0, and other benchmarks, according to the company's testing. There are already a few headlines out there saying "Codex built itself," but let's reality-check that, as that's an overstatement. The domains OpenAI described using it for here are similar to the ones you see in some other enterprise software development firms now: managing deployments, debugging, and handling test results and evaluations. There is no claim here that GPT-5.3-Codex built itself. Read full article Comments
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/with-gpt-5-3-codex-openai-pitches-codex-for-more-than-just-writing-code/
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2026-02-07T12:00:13+00:00
What RFK Jr.’s Unproven Autism Treatment Could Mean for Autistic Patients and Their Families
RFK Jr. has stated leucovorin will help "large numbers of children who suffer from autism." Many experts are skeptical about that.
https://gizmodo.com/what-rfk-jr-s-unproven-autism-treatment-could-mean-for-autistic-patients-and-their-families-2000717516
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2026-02-06T23:00:41+00:00
As ‘Scream 7’ Arrives, Its Studios Fight to Own Ghostface’s… Uh, Face
Rights issues have hovered around the killer's iconic mask for decades.
https://gizmodo.com/as-scream-7-arrives-its-studios-fight-to-own-ghostfaces-uh-face-2000719059
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2026-02-06T22:15:31+00:00
Waymo Catches World Model Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More World Models
What happens if a Waymo runs into an elephant? The world model knows.
https://gizmodo.com/waymo-catches-world-model-fever-and-the-only-prescription-is-more-world-models-2000719093
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2026-02-06T22:05:08+00:00
Crypto.com Founder Buys AI.com in ‘Largest Domain Purchase in History’
Is this what a frothy bubble looks like?
https://gizmodo.com/crypto-com-founder-buys-ai-com-in-largest-domain-purchase-in-history-2000719136
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2026-02-06T22:00:39+00:00
New Voice Assistants Are Officially a Whiff (for Now)
Even with the full rollout of Amazon's Alexa+ and Google's Gemini for Home, it feels like we're still shouting into the void.
https://gizmodo.com/new-voice-assistants-are-officially-a-whiff-for-now-2000719058
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2026-02-06T22:00:26+00:00
‘Marriage Toxin’ Is Bringing Romance to Shonen in a Big Way
An adult cast romance about a poison assassin seeking love loosely riffing on 'Naruto' is about as peak‑shonen a premise as you can get.
https://gizmodo.com/marriage-toxin-is-bringing-romance-to-shonen-in-a-big-way-2000718435
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2026-02-06T21:30:30+00:00
South Korean Crypto Exchange Accidentally Gave Away $43 Billion Worth of Paper Bitcoin
Now that is a promotion.
https://gizmodo.com/south-korean-crypto-exchange-accidentally-gave-away-43-billion-worth-of-paper-bitcoin-2000719158
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2026-02-06T21:00:12+00:00
‘Starfleet Academy’ Eulogized What Mattered Most About Captain Sisko
This week's stellar episode of the new 'Star Trek' series looked back at the legacy left behind by the captain of 'Deep Space Nine' and found the best perspective it could.
https://gizmodo.com/starfleet-academy-captain-sisko-deep-space-nine-2000719039
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2026-02-06T20:50:38+00:00
Why People Think Jeffrey Epstein Is Alive and Playing Fortnite
There's no evidence that Epstein is alive and hiding in Israel.
https://gizmodo.com/why-people-think-jeffrey-epstein-is-alive-and-playing-fortnite-2000718952
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2026-02-06T20:45:04+00:00
Something Mysteriously Powerful Slammed Into Earth in 2023. Scientists Now Have a Theory
The science here gets really dark.
https://gizmodo.com/something-unimaginably-powerful-slammed-into-earth-in-2023-scientists-now-have-a-theory-2000719040
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2026-02-06T20:30:23+00:00
Finally, I’ve Found the Perfect Switch 2 Controller
Gulikit's TT Pro and TT Max have many more stick and button options than a Switch 2 Pro controller, and they have one feature no other gamepad does.
https://gizmodo.com/finally-ive-found-the-perfect-switch-2-controller-2000718700
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2026-02-06T20:05:51+00:00
Turns Out Congestion Pricing Has Been Good for Drivers in the Suburbs, Too
Traffic has improved inside and out of Manhattan.
https://gizmodo.com/turns-out-congestion-pricing-has-been-good-for-drivers-in-the-suburbs-too-2000718956
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2026-02-06T20:00:32+00:00
Travis Knight Insisted Skeletor Had His Skull Face for ‘Masters of the Universe’
The director was not going to make the film without the Skeletor we know and love.
https://gizmodo.com/travis-knight-insisted-skeletor-had-his-skull-face-for-masters-of-the-universe-2000719056
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2026-02-06T19:40:59+00:00
Measles Outbreak in South Carolina Linked to Brain Swelling in Kids
Several children have come down with serious complications like encephalitis and pneumonia, state health officials reported this week.
https://gizmodo.com/measles-outbreak-in-south-carolina-linked-to-brain-swelling-in-kids-2000718913
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2026-02-06T19:20:07+00:00
Trump’s Memecoin Down 95% as Democrats Seek Answers on Crypto ‘Corruption’
Tough times for crypto bros whether they're the President or not.
https://gizmodo.com/trumps-memecoin-down-95-as-democrats-seek-answers-on-crypto-corruption-2000719005
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2026-02-06T19:00:51+00:00
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Was Always Going to Have a Weird Future
'Baldur's Gate 3' was so huge that anything that came after without Larian's involvement was going to feel a bit off for everyone.
https://gizmodo.com/baldurs-gate-tv-show-hbo-hasbro-larian-2000718881
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2026-02-06T18:35:26+00:00
Trump Deletes Extremely Racist Meme About Obamas After Backlash From Republicans
The White House initially defended the post by saying, "Please stop the fake outrage."
https://gizmodo.com/trump-deletes-extremely-racist-meme-about-obamas-after-backlash-from-republicans-2000718980
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2026-02-06T18:00:51+00:00
15 Super Movies for Super Bowl Sunday
The Super Bowl is almost here, so if you'd like something super to go along with it, we've got you covered.
https://gizmodo.com/15-super-movies-for-super-bowl-sunday-2000716733
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2026-02-06T17:10:52+00:00
Apple Is More Serious About AI Devices Than We Thought
Recent comments from Tim Cook and a blockbuster acquisition are painting an interesting picture of Apple's interest in AI hardware.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-is-more-serious-about-ai-devices-than-we-thought-2000718880
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