Five questions for Dr. Rubin, who’s armed with a mic and a bowtie
Bullshit is cheap but truth is expensive. Anyone with half a brain cell can post wild misinformation that goes mega…
Category: Gadgets
Hoto’s PixelDrive screwdriver is down to $60, matching its best price
If your Prime Day purchases included a new desk, TV stand, bookshelf, or other furniture you still haven’t assembled, Hoto’s…
America’s greatest idea is still under threat
The United States of America recently turned 250 years old. What a spectacle! The fireworks were amazing, and millions of…
Former Xbox studios Double Fine and Compulsion will keep games after going indie
When Compulsion Games was founded in 2009 as an independent studio, we were just a few dreamers in a leaky…
UTA heads Raina Penchansky, Ali Berman on creators, influencers, and AI
We’ve got another special episode of Decoder today, recorded at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the South of France.…
Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market
When I first started testing Vizio’s 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was…
Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids
Most Americans don’t trust AI. It’s proven that it doesn’t know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don’t even…
The complicated history of Keurig and K-Cups
Before Keurig, the coffee in your office was almost certainly terrible. Old, burned, made by someone who would rather poorly…
Mr. Lif’s Emergency Rations EP is post-9/11 hip hop at its most daring
There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to…
Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier…