The Nothing Phone (4a) offers more or less the same design as last year’s Nothing Phone (3a). The device still looks unique and interesting in a sea of monochrome phones, especially at this price point. It’s a bit larger and heavier than some compact phones you can also get at this price, although that’s not…
The media is full of anecdotal accounts of patients hiding their use of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, passing off their success as mysterious new reserves of self-discipline. The simple reason, I believe, is that these medical interventions are not sick, twisted, base or metallic. But researchers have discovered what they call a “perfect example of nature-inspired…
Netflix is launching an overhaul of its iPhone app today, as previously announced, with a redesign centered around a vertical video stream called “Clips.” Here are the new features. Netflix’s iPhone app changes navigation design and adds vertical video stream According to the Netflix press release: We’re rolling out a new mobile experience that makes…
It used to be that smart home gear felt less like buying useful devices and more like choosing sides. Each brand wanted me in their own app, account system, automation builder, and ecosystem logic. This sounds great until the house starts filling up with bulbs, sensors, switches, outlets, purifiers, and random gadgets that all want…
OpenAI today launched Codex for Chrome, a Chrome extension that allows Codex to work directly in the browser on Mac and PC. With the extension, Codex can use the browser to test web applications, get context across multiple tabs, use web development tools, and more. without taking over the user’s browser. OpenAI says that after…
Chesnot/Getty Images We learned earlier this month that Google and Anthropic had signed a deal that would grant the creator of the Claude AI models access to cloud servers and chips. Today, The information reported that Anthropic had agreed to pay a whopping $200 billion to Google…
It’s a big weekend in America for Apple and racing. F1 returns to the United States with the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday on Apple TV. Meanwhile, Apple and Porsche have collaborated on the design of an anniversary race car that will hit the California track, also on May 3. Porsche announced today that it…
Federal prosecutors arrested three men accused of committing the robbery. Federal prosecutors say three men violently hijacked an Apple delivery truck outside a New York mall and escaped with more than $1 million worth of iPhones, MacBooks and other products. The January armed robbery reportedly netted more than $1.2 million in stolen Apple products, including…
Digital Vision./Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. To those too young to remember, the idea of a landline of any kind must seem strange. After all, most of us use smartphones these days. And even modern landlines primarily use cordless handsets,…
Backyard Production/Getty Images We live in an age of consumer technology that favors cosmetic minimalism (generally speaking), which is part of the reason why remote controls continue to have fewer and fewer real buttons. Fortunately, brands like Amazon took this into account when designing its Fire TV…