SwitchBot is joining the AI voice recorder bandwagon, introducing its own clip-on gadget that captures and organizes your every conversation. The SwitchBot AI MindClip announced at CES records spoken information from your daily life and work meetings and converts those conversations into summaries, to-do actions, and a personal audio memory database. This announcement follows competing … Read more
Over the past few days, France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors. The chatbot, built by Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI and featured on his social media platform X, posted an apology to its account earlier this week, writing, “I deeply regret an incident on … Read more
SwitchBot’s new RGB desk light lets you put a teeny version of the Las Vegas Sphere in your home. The AI-powered Obboto lamp announced at CES is described by SwitchBot as an “expressive globe light companion” that can display preset animations and user-uploaded images and GIFs as pixel art, giving you a fun, customizable desktop … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) near year-to-date highs into Sunday’s weekly close as traders braced for liquidity grabs. Key points: Bitcoin enters classic fakeout territory as the weekly close coincides with the aftermath of the US-Venezuela news. BTC price action gains as much as 2% over the weekend, with $92,000 next on the bulls’ list. Crunch time for … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Traders are bracing themselves for upheaval when the oil market reopens on Sunday evening, after the US operation to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro created huge uncertainty over the future of the world’s … Read more
The Motorola Razr Fold is reportedly coming soon, according to prolific leaker Evan Blass. Details are scant at the moment. All the info we have is based on a single slide from a marketing deck that talks up the Fold’s camera system and displays, and squeezes in a mention of AI for good measure before … Read more
UPN Of all the canceled sci-fi shows out there, “Star Trek: Enterprise” is one of the more unfortunate cases. Previous “Trek” shows “The Next Generation,” “Deep Space Nine,” and “Voyager” all lasted for seven seasons, but Paramount pulled the plug on “Enterprise” after the fourth, preventing it from … Read more
Hardware maker Plaud launched a new AI notetaker called Plaude NotePin S, along with a desktop app that helps you take notes for digital meetings, ahead of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The company first launched its pin-styled notetaker in 2024, which my former colleague Brian Heater really liked. The new … Read more
The recent rise in the popularity of washed-out jeans began with the spring-summer 2026 runways when Dior and Maison Margiela, among others, included them in their summer collections. They also combine the boho vibes that are so popular among brands like Isabel Marant, too. In terms of silhouettes, washed-out jeans come in lots of versions … Read more
BBC “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight is not only bringing a feature-length film, “The Immortal Man,” to us in 2026, but also a “Peaky Blinders” sequel series that’s been approved for two seasons. Both are an awfully long way off, though, so what is there to watch in the … Read more