This AI Tool Doesn’t Help With Homework. It Does It for You
A new AI tool called Einstein is pushing the boundaries of what automation in education looks like. Created by the startup Companion, Einstein does more than generate answers to homework…
Billions of dollars later and still nobody knows what an Xbox is
The last few years of Xbox have been expensive. Under Phil Spencer’s leadership, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in an attempt to build an ambitious future for gaming that…
6 Best Duffel Bags We Tested While Traveling (2026)
This is not a true duffel bag so much as “the world’s first true wide-mouth packing system,” as Rux calls it, but it is nevertheless an impressive piece of equipment…
The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden
The implication—fueled by new demonstrations of humanoid robots putting away dishes or assembling cars—is that mimicking human limbs with single-purpose robot arms is the old way of automation. The new…
Apple Could Launch at Least Five New Products, Including iPhone 17E, Next Week
Apple could announce at least five new products over a three-day event in early March that would include a low-cost MacBook, an iPhone 17E, new iPad Air and new MacBook…
Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash
Discord is attempting to distance itself from the age verification provider Persona following a steady stream of user backlash. In an emailed statement to The Verge, Discord’s head of product…
AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
A US court last year found that Anthropic’s training of LLMs on some copyrighted content could be considered fair use as it was deemed “transformative.” But it determined that storing…
Lamborghini is the Latest Automaker to Pull the Plug on Luxury EVs
I ask if Winkelmann can explain why luxury EVs are failing so badly when lower price points in the sector are doing so well. “First of all, there is no…
VPN flaws allowed Chinese hackers to compromise dozens of Ivanti customers, says report
In February 2021, software giant Ivanti discovered that Chinese hackers had breached the network of Pulse Secure, one of its subsidiaries that provided VPN appliances to dozens of companies and…
Half of US Adults Who Use Social Media Want Better Labels on AI Posts, CNET Finds
Anyone who’s scrolled social media lately knows that AI is everywhere. But we aren’t always great at spotting it when we see it. That’s a big problem, and our frustrations…

















