2025-01-15

Will the Nintendo Switch 2 get revealed this week? Here's everything we know

As the world turns, so do the console generations. The Nintendo Switch is over seven years old, so it’s due for a refresh. Nintendo Switch 2 rumors have been swirling for years, but now they are rea [...]

2025-01-15

President Biden signs executive order to open up federal land to speed up AI data center construction

DoD and DoE set to identify “frontier AI data center” locations with high compute power and clean energy. [...]

2025-01-15

Meta takes us a step closer to Star Trek’s universal translator

The computer science behind translating speech from 100 source languages. [...]

2025-01-15

Google brings real-time information from The Associated Press to Gemini

Google is partnering with The Associated Press to bring real-time information from the news agency to its Gemini app, the search giant announced on Wednesday. The financial terms of the agreement were [...]

2025-01-15

AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do?

WIRED’s advice columnist cracks open the publication’s archive to consider past promises about AI agents, and to get some advice on how we can use automation while retaining our humanity. [...]

2025-01-15

Axios partners with OpenAI, forgetting the scorpion stung the frog

Axios is expanding its local newsletter presence from 30 to 34 cities. The catch? OpenAI is funding it. In its continued pretense of benefiting newsrooms, OpenAI has partnered with Axios in a three-y [...]

2025-01-14

Mecha Comet is a modular open source handheld computer that reminds me of the Indian PDA that may have inspired the iPhone

You can snap on new extensions, like a keyboard or game controller. [...]

2025-01-14

Pixelfed, Instagram's decentralized competitor, is now on iOS and Android

Pixelfed is now available as a mobile apps for both iOS and Android. The open source, decentralized platform offers image sharing similar to Instagram. However, Pixelfed has no advertisements and does [...]

2025-01-14

How to talk to ChatGPT on your phone

ChatGPT has had support for voice conversations since the end of 2023, but if you’re new to OpenAI’s chatbot, figuring out how to converse with it can be tricky since there are a couple of ways to [...]