The first chunk of the show’s fifth and final season moves a little too fast for its own good.
US-based car reviewers are going gaga over Chinese EVs. Their audiences wonder why they can’t buy them.
Early Sony PlayStations doubled as high-quality CD players, but the PS4 and PS5 removed the feature. Yet the PS5 can technically play MP3s off discs if they pretend to be USB flash drives! Will It Work?, a fantastic concept for a YouTube channel, walks you through it:
[YouTube]
You’re in luck. I just published a big update to my robot vacuum buying guide following months of testing dozens of new bots. Plus, this week is the best time of year to buy a floor-cleaning machine, as they’re seeing major discounts ahead of Black Friday. (Well, all except my top pick!).
The Supreme Court decided that Shira Perlmutter can keep her job while it considers two other cases involving FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter and Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook, both of whom Trump also tried to fire. It’s important that the Copyright Office falls under the Library of Congress, which is historically run by, well, Congress, not the White House. Presumably, the line is drawn somewhere about who the president has the power to fire.
At the opening of a new Johannesburg office, Canva’s Global Marketing Lead for Affinity, Liam Fisher, commented to TechCentral that native Linux support for Affinity is one of the top requests, and it’s “being discussed seriously internally.”
A lack of professional creative apps is one of Linux’s biggest drawbacks, so it could be a huge win if it ever actually happens.
AI-generated images of food attached to nonsense recipes and Google AI Overview remixes of actual recipes are taking a huge toll on traffic for recipe bloggers. But home cooks are also wasting time and money following recipes that claim to be for cookies but only yield melted pools of cloyingly sweet dough. According to Bloomberg:
An AI-assembled version of [Eb] Gargano’s Christmas cake, for instance, would have people cooking a 6-inch cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F (160°C). “You’d end up with charcoal!” she said. Meanwhile, traffic to her turkey recipe is already down 40% year over year.
After launching everywhere else last month, the company warned that US pricing “may differ” due to tariffs once the Bambu Lab P2S was released in the US, but it turns out that’s not the case. The 3D printer is available now for $549 on its own, or $799 bundled with a multi-filament feeder.
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TikTok is a bad news source, but zoomers don’t care.
There’s “no separate mode needed,” OpenAI wrote on X. “You can talk, watch answers appear, review earlier messages, and see visuals like images or maps in real time.”
[X (formerly Twitter)]
Fortnite’s next major event takes place on Saturday, followed by an all new chapter, but a day later something weirder and more interesting happens: an animated Kill Bill short will premiere in the game, built using Unreal Engine and Fortnite characters.
Fresh off a settlement with the DOJ over its software allegedly enabling landlord collusion to raise rents, RealPage is now suing the state of New York over a new law that bans algorithmic rent pricing, claiming it violates the company’s First Amendment rights.
RealPage is seeking a judgment and injunction against a recently adopted statute that seeks to prohibit the use of math and publicly available information to provide advice or recommendations to RealPage’s customers who own and manage rental housing properties. Among other things, the statute seeks to ban software that uses public data about rental or lease terms to advise or recommend market-appropriate rent prices for rental housing properties.
Another spoiler-filled discussion of the latest from Vince Gilligan’s sci-fi series on Apple TV.
Both versions of the 3D-knitted iPhone Pocket quickly sold out earlier this month. Apple hasn’t announced any plans to restock the limited edition accessory created in collaboration with Japanese designer Issey Miyake, but there already plenty of reproductions on sites like AliExpress selling for much less than the real thing.
[MacRumors]
Good news. We just overhauled our buying guide ahead of Black Friday. Psst: just get an Apple Watch SE 3.
As the increasingly pricey future of Xbox depends less on an actual box, Microsoft announced the recent launch of Xbox Cloud Gaming in India (just as Nvidia delayed its GeForce Now launch), and some new stats:
Players are streaming their games more than ever — cloud gaming hours from Game Pass subscribers has increased 45% compared to this time last year. And, console players are embracing flexibility, spending 45% more time cloud streaming on console and 24% more on other devices.
Amazon’s lawsuit against Perplexity has blown the doors open on the great AI browser fight.
A curated mix of tech-y standouts, everyday favorites, and other delights for everyone on your list.
There’s no official recall yet, but the CPSC says that seven hair dryer models sold through DHGate.com that look similar to the Dyson Supersonic and Supersonic r can “cause death or serious injury due to electrocution and shock hazards” because they lack an “immersion protection device.” Stop using them immediately and cut their power cords.
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
If you need an alternative to quality family time over the next few days, Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden 2 have been added to the Switch’s NES app, while Bionic Commando and Kid Icarus are now in the Game Boy app. Both apps now also let you remap your controller using the in-game menu.
October sales are down 48.5 percent across Europe compared to 2024, according to data released by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association on Tuesday. For the year, Tesla’s sales are down about 30 percent in the region, while industrywide EV sales jumped 26 percent. While the company’s car business struggled, Elon Musk was focused on robots and winning shareholder approval for his newly minted $1 trillion pay package.
[ACEA - European Automobile Manufacturers' Association]
I admit, I have a British bias here, but like this commenter I was unreasonably pleased to see Google spell its upcoming Aluminium OS the right way.
fragileswift13:
huge win for folks who have always spelled aluminium correctly
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