The PlayStation 5 Pro is Sony’s most baffling console release

The PlayStation 5 Pro has been one of the worst kept secrets in the video game world. Everyone knew it was coming, with rumors and leaks circulating for months. On Tuesday, Sony finally showed its hand. And it might be the most poorly timed product launch in the company’s history.

Sony unveiled the PS5 Pro in a 10-minute online presentation that was heavy on jargon and featured a brief sizzle reel of game footage. The new system will retail for a jaw-dropping $700 (optical drive an

Why James Earl Jones let AI use his Darth Vader voice—and what it means for voice actors

Over the course of an acting career that spanned more than six decades, James Earl Jones’ voice became an indelible piece of his work as a performer.

On screen, Jones, who died Monday at 93, brought to life a reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in “Field of Dreams” and a haughty king of a fictional land in “Coming To America.” On stage, he won tw

Cottage cheese is having a comeback thanks to TikTok

Are you in your cottage cheese era?

The dairy product is staging a comeback thanks to a flood of TikTok videos claiming it as a protein-packed superfood. Spooned straight from the tub, spread on bagels, added to pancake mix, or used to make ice cream or

TikTok may be the real winner of the election

Just a few months ago, a TikTok ban was imminent. President Biden signed a bill in April that required TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell it or face a ban in the U.S. And many Americans supported the order.

Fast forward to today. Both presidential candidates ar

Why Apple’s iPhone event felt like such a horn of plenty

There was a time—it went on for years and years—when a large percentage of Apple’s product strategy was about subtraction. Most famously, it didn’t matter whether you were perfectly happy plugging in your wired headphones. The company went right ahead and removed the iPhone headphone jack back in 2016,

Why Reddit is the internet’s last great hope

“Welcome to the front page of the internet.”

Everyone who enters Reddit’s San Francisco headquarters is greeted by that phrase, emblazoned right above the front door in bold red lettering. It’s how the company has described itself for years. But cofounder and CEO Steve Huffman acknowledges that it no longer captures the sprawling, 19-year-old community site’s essence.

Likening Reddit to a newspaper’s front page was originally “an aspirational joke,” he tells me. “And then

Truth Social was awash in bigoted attacks against Kamala Harris during Tuesday’s debate

On Truth Social, the social media platform majority-owned by Republican nominee Donald Trump, Tuesday night’s presidential debate provided an opportunity to size up the candidates on both their speaking abilities—and their looks. 

Whereas Truth Social was awas

Gen Z will be watching tonight’s debate on TikTok

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will square off at 9 p.m. ET tonight, for their first—and possibly only—one-on-one debate. While there won’t be a live audience, the debate will air on ABC News and other major networks, including CNN, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, NewsNation, and BBC. But instead of tuning in live to watch it t

Those AI-generated ducks on X are part of a racist MAGA lie

A racist lie about Haitian immigrants, spread by former president Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance, is now disseminating widely through memes on X. 

In an email blast sent out Monday, the Trump campaign claimed that 20,000 Haitian immigrants had taken over Springfield, Ohio, where they were “decapitating ducks” and “kidnapping residents’ pets.” The story has already been debunked: It originated with a one-off arrest that was picked up and amplified by MAGA in


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