In recent years, Macs had been getting more and more affordable. Cheaper starting points, more memory and storage per dollar, and the introduction of MacBook Neo. For the first time, Apple had started to become one of the best values on the market. Unfortunately, Apple just drastically increased its prices because of the ongoing memory … Read more
Welcome to Pixelated episode 118. This week, Damien and Abner share their hands-on impressions of Google’s new laptop lineup with Will. What’s it like to use an Android-powered laptop? How different is the Googlebook platform from ChromeOS? And what steps does Google need to take post-launch to give it as strong of a chance at … Read more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted investors think of his electric automaker as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company now. He’s targeted a $20 trillion valuation—nearly four times the value of market leader Nvidia—on that premise. But his Tesla team was in Sparks, Nevada, on Thursday to focus on, well, an electric vehicle: the long-awaited … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. By @derzhaiev [ 7 Min read ] AI design generators rarely produce that code, and the people using them rarely know that … Read more
Google has started testing a way for shoppers in India to buy products from Walmart-owned Flipkart directly through Gemini and AI Mode, as the search giant looks to expand its AI services from product discovery into transactions. Users in the test see a “Buy” button on select Flipkart product listings appearing in Gemini and Google’s … Read more
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions around … Read more
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. After Missouri voters added abortion protections to the state constitution in 2024, Kelly McCoomb decided to keep her yard sign supporting the measure in the basement of her suburban St. Louis home. Abortion access is important to McCoomb. … Read more
Ansar Allah also said that Saudi Arabia has launched over 1,000 airstrikes in Yemen since the escalation began Ansar Allah announced on Thursday that its forces launched another wave of missile and drone attacks targeting the Saudi capital of Riyadh and oil infrastructure in Yanbu on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast as the war continues … Read more
If we can’t curb the violence of our own governments, what sense does it make to condemn the violent reactions of the states or movements they attack? asks Jean Bricmont. At the Tunisia-Libya border, thousands of people surge, trying to flee Libya just prior to the NATO “humanitarian intervention,” March 2, 2011. (U.N. Photo/UNHCR/Alexis Duclos) … Read more
An investigation has been launched into a hazard reduction burn in Sydney’s south-west that caused the destruction of a fire truck and the hospitalisation of a smoke-affected firefighter. Conducted by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, the planned burn at Wedderburn started at 10am Saturday after two successful test fires. The fire intensified at … Read more