As I write this, the most pleasing sound is washing over me—gentle waves ebbing and flowing onto the shore. Sadly, I’m not actually on some magnificent tropical beach. Instead, the sounds of the sea are being generated by my Mac.
Yet, more than just being pleasing to the ear, this sound, and others the Mac can generate, have helped boost my focus in recent months when I’m under deadline and trying to get work done. The feature is called “Background Sounds.” Here are some of t
The relentless hype around AI makes it difficult to separate the signal from the noise. So it’s understandable if you’ve tuned out recent talk about autonomous AI agents. A word of advice: Don’t. The significance of agentic AI may actually exceed the hype.
An Autonomous AI agent can interact with the environment, make decisions, take action, and learn from the proce
I don’t know about you, but I tend to think about my favorite tech tools as being split into two separate saucepans: the “classic” apps we’ve known and relied on for ages and then the newer “AI” apps that have shown up over the past several months to serve some super-specific purpose.
More and more, though, I’m realizing that the most effective apps are the ones that seamlessly blend those two concepts and create a whole new recipe with the best of both worlds.
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The official White House social media account is under fire for posts that resemble something typically found on the internet forum 4chan.
A post shared on February 14, styled like a Valentine’s card, read, “Roses are red, violets are blue, come here illegally and we’ll deport you.” It has since been viewed 36.6 million times. While many of President Donald Trump’
The prospect of banning the sale of so-called lab-grown meat might seem like a no-brainer in Nebraska, where beef is king, but some of the proposal’s staunchest opposition has come from ranchers and farming groups who say they can compete without the government’
Wikipedia has faced political threats for years, but this time, it may be at a breaking point.
Republicans have ramped up attacks against Wikipedia as yet another “woke” institution. Leaked documents from The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that, show a pl
The day after the Super Bowl, ZapperBox quietly raised the price on Amazon of its over-the-air DVR.
ZapperBox offers one of the best means of recording local channels from an antenna, and had been charging $275 for its flagship model. While the price hasn’t changed on ZapperBox’s website, it now costs $300 on Amazon. Gopal Miglani, ZapperBox’s
Within Walmart, employees known as merchants make decisions about which products the company carries online and in stores, as well as pricing for those items.
Naturally, the job involves plenty of data analysis, with merchants breaking down sales numbers by product category, sales channel, region, brand, item characteristics, and other factors. But manually running all of those reports and examining results using tools like Excel can be time-consuming, especially when merchants nee
With TikTok’s future in the U.S. still uncertain, Substack is doubling down on attracting video creators.
As of yesterday, creators can now publish video posts directly from the Substack app—a feature previously limited to desktop. This update marks a significant shift, enabling creators to upload, publish, and monetize videos entirely from their phones. They ca
Retro gaming is experiencing a revival thanks in large part to people born after the Game Boy era.
According to a new survey from Pringles, a popular gaming snack, 66% of Britons have bought retro tech of some kind in the p