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This is the first new product category in years for the company. While the experience is polished, the design doesn’t feel very Apple.

More than one-third of video game developers were impacted by layoffs in 2023, according to a new survey. With AI automation looming, the industry is facing an outflow of talent.

With AI projects booming and the physical limits of silicon looming, some startups are challenging Nvidia's dominance and say it’s time to reinvent the computer chip entirely.

Planning a trip in 2024? Don’t miss these deals on the luggage, hip packs, tablets, and more that you’ll need for it.

A new report from Chainalysis finds that stablecoins like Tether, tied to the value of the US dollar, were used in the vast majority of crypto-based scam transactions and sanctions evasion in 2023.

This week, we discuss how generative artificial intelligence will affect the 2024 US elections. We also consider the ways regulators, social platforms, and the voting public are dealing with it.

A new ad campaign is targeting the cultivated meat industry on TV and online. Industry supporters criticize it as unscientific.

Despite expensive legal battles and regulatory pressure, Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores are mostly unchanged. This week, Apple introduced a new fee on developers to protect its business.

Preorders are live for Samsung’s newest Android phones. We break down the key specs to help you choose the right one.

The audiophile brand may have cut the cost with its new wireless active speakers. But with an expansive, organized soundstage as good as this, you’ll never know these are bargain-basement KEFs.

Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web.

Recent Apple Watch models can’t be sold until a patent dispute over the blood-oxygen sensor is settled in appeals, a US federal court ruled on Wednesday.

Two new enhancements coming to Google’s search tools on phones use machine intelligence to make the search experience more efficient.

The top new features in Samsung’s latest lineup are all in the devices’ Galaxy AI software. Together, they form a testing ground for Gemini, Google’s new large language model.

Idaho’s capital city is seeing an influx of young people as they apply for tech jobs away from big coastal cities amid massive layoffs and a disillusion with Big Tech.

The year 2023 saw the “enshittification” of platforms from Facebook to Google Search. A new exit strategy means platforms will have to play nicely with your data, even if you leave for a rival.

Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.

Cases of scabies, a highly contagious parasitic skin disease, are on the rise across Europe. The UK in particular is struggling with a shortage of treatments.