A powerful solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth
Earth was hit by a massive X-class solar flare, creating an hour-long radio blackout in parts of southeast Asia, New Zealand, and Australia. The flare …
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Apple TV Plus is now available on DirecTV Stream Device
Apple’s streaming service, Apple TV Plus, is now available on the DirecTV Stream Device. DirectTV Stream customers can now access the Apple TV app to …
Making good on Elon Musk’s promise, Twitter open sources its recommendation algorithm
It is officially a “new era of transparency” at Twitter. For a while now, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been promising that the company would …
Loki season 2 plot leak might explain a big season 1 cliffhanger
Loki season 2 won’t hit Disney Plus anytime soon if a recent leak is accurate. A September release for Loki 2 means we might be …
Waymo is bringing its fifth-generation Jaguar I-PACE self-driving cars to Texas
If you’re in Texas, you could see a self-driving car from Waymo on the road soon. In a blog post, the company announced that will …
IRS officially updates its EV tax credit rules, cutting out even more electric vehicles
Well, the day is here. Actually, the day is April 18th, but today is the day that we know the day is April 18th. Prospective …
GM EVs will ditch Apple CarPlay just before Apple’s huge upgrade
General Motors plans to phase out both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of a new built-in infotainment system developed with Google for future …
Sundar Pichai says Google Bard is getting an upgrade to compete with ChatGPT
It looks like Google is ready to turn on the jets for Bard, its ChatGPT competitor. As spotted by The Verge, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai …
We finally know who Emilia Clarke is playing in Secret Invasion
Ever since Marvel Studios revealed Emilia Clarke would be joining the MCU in an unspecified role for the Disney Plus series Secret Invasion, speculation has …
Samsung turned my iPhone into a Galaxy S23 and it was pure nightmare fuel
In its latest attempt to lure iPhone users into switching to the Galaxy side, Samsung wants Apple users to try out the new Galaxy S23 …
Today’s deals: Rare Amazon Smart Plug sale, SSD & microSD deals, $799 M1 MacBook Air, more
Friday’s top tech deals include some of the best sales we’ve seen all week. For example, the Amazon Smart Plug with 442,000 5-star reviews has …
Italy bans ChatGPT over privacy laws, and I’m not surprised
The other day, I told you Bing Chat getting ads will finally start the ChatGPT privacy conversation we need to have. And it looks like …
Google Maps security report shows us how Google stops sneaky scams
Navigation is easily one of the most common ways smartphones are used, with Google Maps being a fan favorite. In addition to providing directions to …
Buy a year of Microsoft 365 Personal, get a free $30 Amazon gift card
Our guide on the best Amazon gift card deals is packed with offers that get you up to $255 in free gift cards and discounts …
AirPods Pro 2 thief caught red-handed in front of his coworkers thanks to Find My
The revamped Find My integration is one of the best features available with AirPods Pro 2. Thanks to the Ultrawideband U1 chip, you always know …
Avengers 5 writer dropped a big spoiler about Kang’s mission
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania writer Jeff Loveness will also write Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, the first Avengers movie of the Multiverse Saga. And Loveness …
AirPods Pro are down to $199 at Amazon, but they keep selling out
Apple’s AirPods Pro are by far the most popular noise cancelling earbuds on the market. They offer a comfortable design, great sound quality, solid noise …
iPhone 15 Pro capacitive buttons will work with cases and gloves
One of the iPhone 15 series’ biggest design changes concerns the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max models. The more expensive smartphones will not …
White House Plumbers, from the producers of Succession and Veep, will be your next HBO obsession
In the opening moments of the newly released trailer for White House Plumbers — a new limited series from HBO dramatizing the Watergate scandal — …
The 9 best bone conduction headphones in 2023
Bone conduction headphones are ideal for runners and those who love to utilize headphones while they’re working out outside. See some of the best bone …
Audible is starting to bring ads to its audiobooks
What does everyone want to see when they’re in the middle of a good book? An ad for Pepsi, of course. Well, Audible has the …
NASA delays the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner once more
Boeing has just not had good luck when it comes to spacecraft. The well-known company behind some of the biggest aircraft in the world has …
Well, that was fast – Netflix’s The Night Agent gets a Season 2, just days after its massive debut
Netflix, like every streaming service, has a hit-or-miss track record when it comes to offering spy and spy-adjacent shows. Some of them, like Kleo, have …
GitHub will have to give up the user who leaked Twitter’s source code
Well, it looks like Twitter is definitely going to know who FreeSpeechEnthusiast is really soon. Earlier this week, a GitHub repository containing part of Twitter’s …
Google rolls out generative AI features for Gmail and Docs to first public testers
Google is already expanding its generative AI features for Gmail and Google Docs to the next round of “trusted testers.” In a post to Twitter, …
Scientists grew extinct woolly mammoth flesh in a lab… to make a giant meatball
The idea of digging into a juicy mammoth meatball might not sound that terrible if we were alive over 10,000 years ago. But to think …
Netflix finally launches ad-supported plan on Apple TV
Last November, when Netflix launched Basic with Ads for $6.99 a month, Apple TV owners were surprised to learn they couldn’t sign up for the …
Ford is getting out of the full self-driving car business
It looks like Ford, while going all-in on EVs, is bowing out of the full self-driving car business… at least for now. In a letter …
Google denies using ChatGPT data to train its Bard AI
It’s early days in the generative AI chatbot wars, but OpenAI’s ChatGPT has a marked advantage over Google’s Bard right now. The distance between the …
Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen reportedly has a major role in Deadpool 3
I cringe at Tom Wambsgans’ every attempt to please the Roys, including his wife, in HBO’s hit Succession, and that’s only because Matthew Macfadyen is …
