Oppo Reno16 series. Great phones with a pricing problem
Oppo's freshly launched Reno16 duo is a textbook example of good hardware wearing the wrong price tag. Both phones went…
AI Abuse Imagery Surge. UK Watchdogs Urge Parents to Rethink Sharenting
Posting your kid's first-day-of-school photo used to feel harmless. Now the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) is asking parents to…
Wyldfyre. The prediction market betting on where California burns next
Prediction markets have wagered on elections, sports, oil prices and even disease outbreaks. Now they've found a grimmer subject: wildfires.…
Built Robotics and Penn xLAB. Teaching machines to watch the humans around them
Construction sites are chaotic, dangerous places — and that makes them a brutal proving ground for physical AI. On June…
Avride Delivery Robot R3. When a cloud brain teaches machines to read a scene
Autonomous delivery robots are brilliant at spotting obstacles and hopeless at understanding them. A lidar point cloud can tell a…
Chandra X-ray Observatory. Four cosmic portraits for America’s 250th birthday
NASA marked the United States' 250th anniversary on July 4 by turning its most powerful X-ray eye on the cosmos…
Junji Ito Strange. Japan’s horror maestro finally translates well to live-action
For decades, adaptations of Junji Ito's work have struggled to capture what makes his manga so deeply unsettling — the…
Pokémon TCG Scalping. Nintendo talks tough but passes the buck
The Pokémon Trading Card Game has become one of the hottest resale markets on the planet, and not in a…
Apple in the Enterprise. When a Security Patch Breaks the Office Grows Costly
Apple's climb into the corporate world has been one of the quieter success stories of the past decade. What was…
vivo X300e. A compact flagship with a monster battery inside
The vivo X300 lineup keeps growing, and the latest leak points to a sixth member: the vivo X300e. First spotted…