Apple might abandon plans to develop its own in-house AI model to power Siri and could partner with OpenAI or Anthropic instead.According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the iPhone maker has talked to both companies about using either ChatGPT or Claude…
If you’re a savvy shopper like me, you already know that having an open mind to the possibilities of refurbished tech can serve as a real-life cheat code. It’s your best gateway to levelling up a home setup for seriously…
The landscape of YouTube drama channels has evolved over the platform’s 20 years, but they still rely on one tried and true marketing gambit: clickbait. And generative AI tools are bringing it back in big, and alarming, ways. Dozens of…
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Tumblr is ditching — or, at least, suspending — its plan to migrate over to WordPress. Relatedly, that also means pausing plans of integrating Tumblr into the fediverse. That news dropped Monday on the Decoder podcast from The Verge. Automattic,…
As we wait for more Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive games, it’s worth taking some time to test out how a handful of older Switch 1 games run on the new console.Now that the Switch 2 has had a couple of weeks…
If you’ve ever wound up with an unwanted in-game purchase in Fortnite, whether through your own fault or a child’s aimless button-pushing, you might be able to get some of that money back.The Federal Trade Commission has reopened a previously…
Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And…
The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times’ revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.With only a handful of…
ChatGPT is the most famous AI chat service by far, but that doesn’t automatically make it the best. Google Gemini is consistently topping leaderboards, and don’t count out Claude.If you’re not familiar with Claude, it’s the family of large-language models…
