The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons’ expert demo there. So I thought:…
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Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who’ve found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged…
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review: a terrifying crisis of faith
Because there was such a long gap between the releases of 28 Weeks Later and 28 Years Later, it was surprising to hear that writer-director duo Alex Garland and Danny…
Anthropic shakes up C-suite to expand its internal incubator
Mike Krieger, the Instagram co-founder who joined Anthropic two years ago as its chief product officer, is moving to a new focus at the AI startup: co-leading its internal incubator,…
RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid could be a disaster for the environment — if Americans actually pay any attention to it
The Trump administration announced last week that it wants Americans to consume more protein, churning out a colorful illustration of an inverted food pyramid that prominently features a big, red…
Meta’s metaverse layoffs apparently include some of its VR studios
Meta is laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs metaverse division, and the cuts apparently include closing down some of its VR gaming studios. It “appears” Twisted Pixel…
Nissan is among the first to offer magnetic phone chargers in the US
The Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi2 standard, which was finalized in late 2023, includes specifications on the use of magnets to help properly align the wireless coils in chargers and mobile…
Verizon gets FCC permission to end 60-day phone unlocking rule
Following this decision, Verizon must follow a looser set of guidelines set by the CTIA wireless trade group, which says carriers should only unlock a customer’s postpaid phone after their…
Google’s Veo now turns portrait images into vertical AI videos
Google is making its Veo 3.1 AI video model pay closer attention to the reference images you want generated clips to be based on. The company is releasing new visual…
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams accused of $2.5 million crypto ‘rug pull’ as his NYC Token crashes
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams has come under fire after his new cryptocurrency token crashed just hours following its launch on Monday. As reported by CoinDesk, Adams’ “NYC Token” hit…