That time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda
In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda in South America. A National Geographic camera crew was on hand for the 2022 expedition that documented…
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Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches
Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now…
Here are over 20 gadgets that’ll help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions
It happens every year: we set ambitious New Year’s resolutions – work out more, spend less, keep the house cleaner – full of optimism and motivation. Then life happens, and…
Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails
If you’re one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue. What was the issue?…
Wing’s drone delivery is coming to 150 more Walmarts
Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its drones will be flying above 150 more locations this year, including…
How TiVo killed live TV
For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-list Hollywood fans; it became a verb as ubiquitous…
I went looking for weird phones and CES 2026 did not disappoint
Not every phone needs to be a black rectangle. It’s January, which means there’s a whole year of rectangular glass slabs ahead of us. But before that happens, I managed…
Will you have to show your ID at the app store?
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the action (and inaction) of lawmakers seeking to rein in tech…
The oceans just keep getting hotter
Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world has crunched the numbers on how much heat the world’s oceans are absorbing each year. In 2025, their measurements broke…
Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week
In 2023, what was then still called Twitter, open-sourced at least portions of the code that decided what it served up in your feed. But that GitHub repository is hopelessly…