It’s a minimal update. Google didn’t bring many Pixel 10 features down to the Pixel 10A this year. Buy the berry color.
Musk used to call the Moon ‘a distraction.’ Now he says SpaceX is building a city there.
The Meta CEO walked through the public entrance of the LA Superior Court and past parent advocates and media waiting to learn if they’d get a seat to hear his testimony.
Acoalition including the American Public Health Association, American Lung Association, and Sierra Club havefiled suit against the Trump administration forrepealing the landmark ‘endangerment finding.’ The repeal — if successful — could strip away the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to to regulate planet-heating pollution.
Snap announced today that its subscriber count grew 71 percent year-over-year in Q4 2025. Its subscription offerings, including Snapchat Plus, Lens Plus, Snapchat Premium, and Memories storage plans, are projected to earn $1 billion in annual revenue. Snapchat creators will also soon be able to offercreator subscriptions to other users.
The shift comes just a few months after Amazonlaunched Blue Jay in October, calling it “an extra set of hands” for warehouse employees. Blue Jay wasn’t designed for the smaller, more flexible same-day delivery centers Amazon is focusing on now, though, including micro-fulfillment centers in the back of Whole Foods stores, asBusiness Insider reports.
If you’ve even wondered how important that lumen measurement is on projectors…
Here’s themonstrous Nebula X1 Pro next to the littleNebula P1. I’ve got both portable projectors with detachable speakers in for testing, but only one is viewable in ambient mid-day light.
The security camera maker’s Search Party feature, advertised during the Super Bowl, has sparked a surveillance backlash.
Look, if you’re going to build a product that sits below a car’s backup camera and squirts it clean every now and then, there’s really only one name you can give it, and it isn’tLens Lizard.
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disappointed that they decided against calling it the backup-bidet
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Otherwise, the TikTok parent will face “immediate litigation” for copyright infringement of Netflix’sStranger Things,KPop Demon Hunters,Squid Game, andBridgerton franchises:
“Seedance acts as a high-speed piracy engine, generating mass quantities of unauthorized derivative works utilizing Netflix’s iconic characters, worlds, and scripted narratives. Netflix will not stand by and watch ByteDance treat our valued IP as free, public domain clip art.”
Disney, Paramount, and Hollywood trade groups are equally concerned.
A partial YouTube outage knocked out access to Google’s video service on Tuesday night.
The outage appears to have started just before 8PM ET, but at least on the homepage, it appears to be resolved now. Anote on YouTube’s support page says it went down due to problems with the recommendations system. “The issue with our recommendations system has been resolved and all of our platforms (YouTube.com, the YouTube app, YouTube Music, Kids, and TV) are back to normal!
Update:The service is back online.
Samsung is teasing “a new Galaxy camera experience” coming next week, saying that “the latest Galaxy AI experiences will bring advanced creative tools to one place.” A handful of teaser videos — along withthose AI-generated ads — give me the impression that we’re going to see more AI tools crammed into the camera system. But maybe calling it “the brightest Galaxy camera system to date” confirms therumors of brighter apertures, which could do a lot more for image quality than some AI editing tools.
In case you missed our story, DJI’s first robovac launched with now-patched holes that could’ve let hackers or even tinkererssee inside your home from a world away. DJI tells us it’ll also address another vulnerability, whichwe deemed too risky to disclose, in the coming months. We’ll let you know if it doesn’t.
Starting on February 18th, Dropout fans will be able to drop into anew 24/7, ad-free livestream channel on the comedy-focused streaming service.“Dropout 24/7” will run all of its content, including the TTRPG seriesDimension 20, improv comedy showsGame Changer andMake Some Noise, and more, starting with a Dimension 20 marathon.
We can’t really tell from the photowhether it has a steering wheel, which was probably a deliberate choice. Elon Musk has said that the fully driverless vehicle will go intovolume production in April.
Govee’s RGBIC Floor Lamp is on sale for just $64.98 ($35 off)at Amazon. The 4.6-foot smart lamp can light up your home with over 16 million colors, syncs with music, and boasts dozens of preset effects. I’ve owned it for more than a year, and despite being a last-gen model, it’s a reliable way to brighten your living space.
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Anthropic launchedthe latest version of Claude Sonnet on Tuesday, which it says “approaches Opus-level intelligence,” featuring improvements in coding and computer use with tasks like navigating spreadsheets or filling out web forms. Sonnet 4.6 is now replacingSonnet 4.5 as the default model for free and pro Claude users.
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Just after we entered the courtroom, we learned that a juror has been hospitalized. The parties decided to postpone today’s testimony from former Meta employees to see if the juror can return. Regardless, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify tomorrow — either before the original juror, or an alternate.
EasySMX’sS10 Lite claims to offer “native compatibility” with the Switch 2, and I found out what that means when I unboxed one today. There are no weird steps to enable remote wake-up (some require you to remove a Joy-Con while holding your breath — only a slight exaggeration), and you can customize the GL/GR rear buttons in the console’s interface. We’ll see after more testing if it earns a place in our buying guide to thebest Switch 2 controllers.
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That works out to one crash for every 57,000 miles,according toElectrek, which has been tracking robotaxi crashes reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Tesla also updated a July 2025 crash to include information about someone being hospitalized — but since Tesla heavily redacts its crash reports, we have no more information about who was injured. The lack of transparency from Tesla also means we have no information about the cause or circumstances around any of those 14 crashes.
Focus Features is billingThe AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimistas an “eye-opening” exploration of “the most powerful technology humanity has ever created.” You’d think the doc might feature some critical voices, but itsnew trailer makes it feel like it might beone big commercial. The film premieres on March 27th.
