Apple has announced Apple Invites, an event planning app for the iPhone that will let iCloud subscribers create and share invitations to parties and other events. Recipients can RSVP regardless of whether they have an iCloud subscription or an Apple device. It’s also available on the web. With Invites, Apple …
Read More »Verizon bundles Google AI into its wireless plans for an extra $10
Verizon is adding a new option to bundle Google One AI Premium into its wireless myPlan and myHome internet plans, the company announced today. The add-on will be available for an extra $10 per month, or about half of the $19.99 Google charges for the subscription on its own, starting …
Read More »Cybercriminals’ sneaky game plan to take advantage of Super Bowl fans
Super Bowl LIX is set to take place this Sunday at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans and is expected to draw a record-breaking audience of 116.8 million viewers. While this massive event generates excitement, it also attracts cybercriminals looking to exploit unsuspecting fans. Here are four common ways hackers …
Read More »California bill would make AI companies remind kids that chatbots aren’t people
A new bill proposed in California (SB 243) would require AI companies to periodically remind kids that a chatbot is an AI and not human. The bill, proposed by California Senator Steve Padilla, is meant to protect children from the “addictive, isolating, and influential aspects” of AI. In addition to …
Read More »Fantastic Four: First Steps blasts off in new trailer
Rather than rehashing the details of how Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Sue’s brother Johnny (Joseph Quinn), and Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) gain their powers, Fantastic Four: First Steps’ new trailer is more focused on emphasizing how famous the quartet has become after their first mission to …
Read More »How to easily transfer files and photos off a computer to your hard drive
Is your computer gasping for breath, drowning in a sea of photos, documents and random downloads? We’ve all been there: that moment when your computer feels like it’s about to burst at the seams, threatening to crash your system and lose those precious memories. Today, I’ll walk you through steps …
Read More »Nintendo Switch 2 announcement: all the news on the next console
It’s finally time: after months of teases and rumors, Nintendo has finally revealed the successor to the Switch. A new console generation is always a big deal, but this is an especially pivotal one for Nintendo. Now we have official answers to at least some of them — you can …
Read More »SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says AGI will arrive ‘much earlier’ than he thought
SoftBank isn’t just part of the group investing $500 billion into Project Stargate to build American AI infrastructure capacity for OpenAI. It’s also making a Japanese joint venture with OpenAI, will spend $3 billion deploying OpenAI tech across SoftBank companies, and claims it will revolutionize business with AI agents through …
Read More »WWE Raw runs into its first streaming problems on Netflix
Netflix and WWE nearly made it a whole month streaming Raw without any major technical hiccups, but that streak was broken on Monday night. Throughout the February 3rd episode, some viewers were annoyed by the feed intermittently cutting out to a black screen. Audio would also drop whenever these glitches …
Read More »Treasury Department sued over DOGE takeover of payment systems
President Donald Trump’s administration is being sued over Elon Musk’s alleged “massive and unprecedented” intrusion into the American government’s payment systems. The suit, filed in a Washington, DC federal court Monday evening by the advocacy group Public Citizen, calls for the court to stop the “unlawful, ongoing, systematic, and continuous …
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