Twitter Begins to Recover After Mobile App Goes Down
It’s not you, it’s the bird. Twitter users reported outages on the Twitter iOS app Wednesday, but using the social media site on a desktop seemed to be doing just fine.
Digital Hoarders Rejoice, Western Digital’s My Book External Drives Now Max Out at 44TB of Storage
For those whose internet access isn’t reliable enough to stick everything on the cloud, or for those who simply don’t trust their data to live anywhere but on their desk, Western Digital has updated its My Book and My Book Duo external drives with significant storage boosts so users may never have to delete a file…
Google’s CEO Tells Staff to Spend Hours Working Out ‘Bard’ AI Kinks
Google knows its AI just isn’t ready for prime time, so it has a new plan to iron out all the kinks, by forcing thousands of its workers to spend hours poking and prodding the poor AI until it won’t embarrass the company when it’s finally released.
Ant-Man Director Peyton Reed on Completing a Marvel Trilogy and Designing the Quantum Realm
Ten years ago, when it was announced that Peyton Reed was taking over Ant-Man from Edgar Wright, it was met with some skepticism. Really? The Down With Love and Bring It On guy? Sure, those movies are great, but can he really do superheroes? Well, the answer turned out to be a resounding “Yes”—and now, with the…
Big Tech CEO’s Hit With Congressional Subpoenas Over Government ‘Collusion’
The House Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday that it had subpoenaed several of the biggest tech CEOs in the U.S., from Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Meta, for documents and communications related to more vague and so-far unfounded hints of government “collusion.”
The Future Doesn’t Look So Bright in Apple TV’s Extrapolations
Climate change looms like a final boss that gets stronger by the day in Extrapolations, a new sci-fi limited series on Apple TV+.
Incredible Astro Boy Reimagining Pluto Gets Incredible-Looking Anime
Imagine, if you will, someone remade a classic Looney Tunes cartoon where Elmer Fudd tries to hunt Bugs Bunny. But instead of just updating the animation, that someone used the cartoon as the basis for a sprawling epic that turned Elmer and Bugs’ face-off into a sprawling, tense game of cat-and-mouse, extrapolating…
The $350 Logitech G Cloud Needs the $399 Valve Steam Deck to Not Exist
The Logitech G Cloud is one of the first handhelds specifically designed to play AAA games by streaming them from the cloud, or from a nearby console. Because of that, it doesn’t need AAA specs itself. Instead, it’s put that budget into being one of the most comfortable big screen portables I’ve ever used, with a long…
El Salvador Is Planning a ‘Bitcoin Embassy’ in Texas After Losing Tens of Millions on Crypto
El Salvador, which has already lost tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on its authoritarian millennial president’s beleaguered effort to embrace cryptocurrencies, now says it plans to open a “bitcoin embassy” in Texas. The Central American country’s continued commitment to bitcoin comes despite last year’s crypto…
Former NASA Astronaut Calls Out Elon Musk for Wanting to Curb Ukraine’s Use of Starlink
This past Saturday, ex-astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, criticizing his company for planning to prevent the Ukrainian military from using Starlink to control drone strikes. With typical Muskian bluster, the billionaire said he didn’t want his devices to “enable escalation of the conflict that may…