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OpenAI released what it calls “our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” yesterday, March 5, 2026. ChatGPT 5.4—AKA...
Nothing’s Phone (4a) launches today, March 5, 2026, fulfilling the year-long wait that Nothing fans have withstood since 2025’s Nothing Phone...
After a tiff with the Pentagon, Anthropic found itself on the outs with the US government, and its arch-competitor, OpenAI, swooped in to pick up the...
Last August, we reported on the revival of the WideLux, a bizarre 35mm film camera from the 20th century with a swiveling lens. For those who hadn’t...
DuckDuckGo is the most prominent alternative search engine for those wary of Google and Microsoft Bing’s greed for recording their search activity....
ARPANET. If you know your internet history, ARPANET was the forerunner of the internet. Dating back to 1969, it gave birth to the World Wide Web...
I’m stingy with my VPN (virtual private network) recommendations. Many, maybe most of them, are sketchy or ineffective. Lots of them—especially...
2FA stands for two-factor authentication. It’s that annoying extra step when you’re signing in to a website, app, or account, and after entering...
You know the drill. You add somebody—or you get added—to a group chat on WhatsApp, and there’s an immediate need to get the addition up to...
“How many hours ahead is that, again?” somebody asked. “Six. Amsterdam is six hours ahead of New York.” I already felt bleary-eyed just from...
OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E, Sora, and ChatGPT, has been on a tear lately. Its new Sora app, a combination of an AI video generator and a social...
Polymarket want a cracker? Polymarket has crackers. Lots of them. It doesn’t just sell them. It gives them away for free. The Polymarket is a free...
Playing Music League with my friends is surely ruining my Spotify Wrapped for 2026. I can feel it approaching from the near future in the universe,...
AI truly is everywhere, even when it comes to the race cars that whizz around Formula 1’s racing tracks worldwide. Atlassian Williams F1 announced a...
While I ditched Apple Maps for Waze long ago and never much liked Google Maps for driving navigation, Google Maps has been my go-to map app for...
Buy off-season. It’s one of the most durable, widely applicable lessons of being a smart capitalist pig, as we all are to some degree. All of my...
What does space have to do with AI? Well, the former (in the form of SpaceX) has a lot of cash that the latter (in the form of xAI) could use to keep...
One of humanity’s newest inventions has also given birth to one of humanity’s newest mental health concerns: AI psychosis. It’s a delusional...
You know when you hit “reply all” on an email thread, and it quickly spirals into something like a flaming, out-of-control snowball rolling down a...
The Roku Ultra 4K and Roku Streaming Stick 4K are two of the best TV streaming devices on the market for watching 4K-resolution television shows,...
Microsoft has released an urgent security update on January 26, 2026, for Microsoft Office 2016 and Microsoft Office 2019. They’re pleading for...
You come across a way-too-long video on YouTube, such as instructions on how to assemble an IKEA table, and hit the playback button to speed up the...
Manus AI. Ever heard of it? No? Even with the glut of stories about AI clogging up headlines from Facebook to CNN? You’ve surely been gagging on the...
Can it be that Apple launched the AirTag just five years ago? It feels simultaneously that that revelation is shockingly short for a device that seems...
Apple TV teased me. I have a feeling that there’s nothing special about me, and that it’s out there teasing a lot of people. Maybe even everyone....
How does an AI know what it’s supposed to do and not do? Their creators can tell the public all about their ideals, but if the AI itself doesn’t...
I don’t know about you, but my Google Drive is a mess. It’s the digital equivalent of a hoarder’s under-the-bed stash of loose-leaf papers,...
Kudos to DuckDuckGo for managing to snag the domain www.voteyesornoai.com, with which they’re running a very (I’d say oversimplified) poll asking...
This far along into the life of the internet, we know to be skeptical of emails, search results, Facebook posts, Instagram links, and dang near...
Software companies love offering apps on a subscription. Why take a customer’s money once for the old-fashioned “buy it and own it forever”...
Proton is one of the shining stars of privacy software. While I’ve used several good VPNs (and tons of bad, sketchy ones) and password managers,...
Apple has been conspicuously absent from the AI race that has consumed many of the world’s largest tech corporations. From AI-focused newcomers...
Revolutionary, it was. Apple’s iPod wasn’t the first portable music player that could stream music files and didn’t require a physical disc or...
Folks romanticize CDs, but I remember using portable CD players back when there was no other option. Even mild bumps would cause the audio to cut out...
Apple may have touted iOS 26 as a major update to the iPhone’s operating system, but nearly 84 percent of iPhone users have so far chosen not to...
Two things are happening concurrently. One is that economists and tech industry experts are increasingly fearful that we’re entering an AI bubble....
AI only looks easy and seamless on the user’s end. Where all the user’s queries are computed is a constellation of massive data centers packed...
Doesn’t it just look like it’s ready to pounce on your dirty messes and vacuum them up, and then maybe up and onto your legs to cover you with...
Ever wonder what your friends are listening to? As in exactly right now, in the moment? Spotify just introduced Live Activity to their mobile apps,...
DJI has its hands full these days. With a newly imposed ban on introducing new drone models into the US kicking in just before Christmas 2025,...
Perhaps The Terminator had it only partly correct. Instead of SkyNet, an omnipresent grouping of military weapon systems, being the robot menace that...
We’re getting misty-eyed over here at VICE as the Christmas trees spread their dried-out needles all over the streets as they wait curbside for...
Every year, some don’t make it to New Year’s Eve. Tech is like life in that way. Apps and services that once had so much energy and promise are...
Spend any time shopping for headphones or earbuds, and you’ll see “ANC” pop up in the marketing material of all but the most budget models. What...
Look at us. It’s not even New Year’s Eve, and we’re already casting our eyes upon next year. We don’t pretend to have a crystal ball, but we...
There’s nothing like the cool breeze of the wind washing over your face as you pedal down the street. Okay, maybe motorcycles, and cars if you have...
One more year down, and one more year on which to look back at all the gadgets that made their debuts in 2025. Here’s a backward glance at the three...
Got a bike without suspension that feels like it’s going to shatter your butt every time you go over a pothole or a tree root? You can’t feasibly...
Dedicated IPs are here, everyone. Not all that many virtual private network (VPN) services offer it yet, but more are beginning to fold it into their...
This one’s a bit of old news. In fact, I’ve been waiting for most of 2025 to hear more word about what Lectric Bikes plans to do with its new...
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