Author: Adam

Introduction PS5 Pro and PS5… amateur? | Image: Sony On September 10th, PlayStation held a “technical presentation” that confirmed the long-rumored PS5 Pro’s existence and souped-up specs, like a buffed GPU, Wi-Fi 7, and support for Sony’s AI-driven upscaling technology, PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, or PSSR. It will also come with features like PS5 Pro […]

Introduction With an IP68 waterproof and dustproof rating, the JBL Charge 6 should easily survive a trip to the beach. | Image: JBL JBL has announced new versions of two of its popular Bluetooth speakers. The JBL Flip 7 features a more rugged design, an upgraded tweeter, and two extra hours of playtime, while the […]

Introduction Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, they have gone from being utilitarian devices that sweep your floor to full-fledged home robots that can vacuum and mop […]

Introduction The X social media platform has been up and down all morning, with brief but repeated outages preventing posts from loading across both mobile and desktop. The first widespread issue started at around 5:40AM ET this morning, according to Downdetector, leaving timelines consistently unable to refresh on mobile apps and some X users stuck […]

Introduction The OnePlus 13 and its Alert Slider. OnePlus plans to do away with its signature Alert Slider and replace it with a configurable button in the future, company CEO Pete Lau said in a OnePlus community forum post today, reports 9to5Google. The Alert Slider, which has been on most OnePlus phones (it disappeared for […]

Introduction Though the main My Hero Academia anime series is set to end later this year, its gritty prequel is about to make its streaming debut on Crunchyroll. Today, Crunchyroll announced that it has secured the exclusive, global (outside of Asia) rights to stream studio Toho’s My Hero Academia: Vigilantes from director Kenichi Suzuki (JoJo’s […]

Introduction Across U.S. politics, it’s become fashionable to blame nearly all the internet’s ills on one law I co-wrote: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Everyone from President Donald Trump to some of my Democratic colleagues argue that Section 230 has let major tech platforms moderate too much or too little. Trump’s Federal Communications […]

Introduction Today, I’m talking with Almar Latour, who is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent company Dow Jones, which you can think of as a huge research and data provider for companies of all sizes. Dow Jones itself is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.  Latour is a fascinating […]

Introduction The set will tower over the rest of Lego’s Mario Kart collection that was announced last year. | Image: Lego Lego has announced a new addition to its Mario Kart collection that first debuted last August. But don’t expect Lego’s latest Super Mario set to fit in with the rest of the racers. At […]