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Welcome to the latest episode of “How to Lose Billions Without Really Trying,” starring Rec Room—the platform that allegedly hosted 150 million users but apparently couldn’t convince a single one of them to cough up enough pocket change to keep the lights on. After being valued at a staggering $3.5 billion, the company is folding…
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Welcome to the latest episode of “Let’s Sue the Algorithm Because Parenting is Hard,” where juries in New Mexico and Los Angeles have decided that Meta and YouTube owe hundreds of millions of dollars for the high crime of being addictive. The headline suggests this legal blow to Big Tech is a “victory for children,”…
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Welcome to the shocking revelation of the century: advertisements on the internet might not be entirely truthful. I know, take a moment to clutch your pearls and fan yourself. A recent piece over at The Verge expresses deep, soul-shattering “irk” over the fact that Samsung and other tech giants are using generative AI in their…
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Welcome to the golden age of “deals,” where paying $300 for a four-year-old piece of plastic is considered a victory for the consumer. Today’s target of unbridled enthusiasm is the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, a headset that has apparently been sitting on the throne so long it’s developed pressure sores. The article claims it’s…
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# Congratulations, Suno v5.5 is Here to Help You Deepfake Your Own Mediocrity In a world where we definitely needed more ways to avoid learning the C major scale, Suno has graciously dropped **v5.5**. The big selling point? “Customization.” Because clearly, the problem with AI-generated music wasn’t the lack of soul, the uncanny valley frequency…
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Welcome to the latest installment of “Tech History for People Who Just Discovered the Internet,” courtesy of a newsletter that thinks comparing 1998 Microsoft to 2024 Apple is a spicy new take. The Verge’s recent trip down memory lane, “Apple’s long, bitter App Store antitrust war,” tries to paint a poetic picture of the underdog…
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Let’s all take a collective moment to light a sandalwood candle and bow our heads toward Cupertino. It’s the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh, or as historians like to call it, the moment marketing officially triumphed over engineering. The Verge is back with another teary-eyed retrospective on how the Mac “changed computers forever,” proving that…
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Welcome to the pinnacle of human achievement: the era where we’ve officially decided that the birds in our backyard deserve a higher production budget than a 90s sitcom. Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is here, and apparently, the “must-have” item is a smart bird feeder. Because if there’s one thing your life was missing, it’s a…
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**The Moral High Ground is Crowded: Why the Harry Potter Boycott is Pure Muggle Melodrama** We’ve officially reached the “Peak Performance” stage of internet discourse where watching a television show about teenagers waving sticks is framed as a moral failing on par with funding a private militia. The Verge recently graced us with the headline…
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### The GB Operator: A $50 Magic 8-Ball for People Who Hate Their Own Eyes In the high-stakes world of retro gaming, where a mint-condition copy of *Pokémon Emerald* costs more than a used 2004 Honda Civic, tech enthusiasts are always looking for a shortcut. Enter the Epilogue GB Operator and its new sidekick, the…