Category: Tech
As AI manufacturing grows, so does the tech’s environmental damage
A new report from Greenpeace suggests AI is exacerbating global power inequities. The U.S. still has its sights on winning the global AI race. First stop: Commandeering AI manufacturing. Announced just last week, a $500 billion infrastructure investment from artificial intelligence giant Nvidia will bring domestic AI manufacturing to the U.S. — that’s half a […]
All the AI news of the week: ChatGPT debuts o3 and o4-mini, Gemini talks to dolphins
Here’s all the AI news you missed this week, from safety concerns to advanced image reasoning from OpenAI. Just like AI models, AI news never sleeps. Every week, we’re inundated with new models, products, industry rumors, legal and ethical crises, and viral trends. If that weren’t enough, the rival AI hype/doom chatter online makes it […]
Google Pixel 9a early reviews: Is this the new mid-range mobile to beat?
The reviews are in, and they’re positive to very positive, with few exceptions. We’ve been waiting for this one: The new Google Pixel 9a smartphone has officially landed, and early reviewers are (mostly) praising this affordable smartphone. Mashable’s own review will be going online early next week (we’re still evaluating the phone’s feature set and […]
Everything we know about the new Motorola Razr: Leaks, launch date, price
The next generation of Razr foldables is coming soon. It feels like a lifetime ago now that Motorola rebooted the Razr as a foldable device, reimagining the classic flip-phone for the modern era. Motorola has been iterating on the foldable Razr concept since its inauspicious 2020 debut, eventually settling on something popular enough to warrant […]
We tried the ChatGPT ‘reverse location search’ trend, and it’s scary
ChatGPT is getting remarkably good at identifying locations in photos, even suggesting specific addresses in our test. ChatGPT users have discovered that the popular AI chatbot can serve as a reverse-location search tool. In other words, you can show ChatGPT a picture, and it can pretty reliably tell you where it was taken. The trend […]
The first foldable e-reader reminds me of an ancient technology — books
One step closer to the seashell e-reader from ‘It Follows’… Among the eerie, slow-moving horrors of the 2014 film It Follows, the image I can’t stop thinking about years later is that famous seashell e-reader. Unfortunately, its genius design was made just for the movie, but a new e-reader just debuted that may get us […]
Wikipedia has a solution for the deluge of AI training bots hogging its servers
Non-human traffic has strained the nonprofit’s servers, but the organization may have a fix. You’re not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots training on Wikipedia articles has put enormous strain on the organization’s servers. To curb the influx of “non-human traffic” scraping the site for […]
Google just lost a big antitrust case for running illegal ad tech monopoly
The ruling adds to the legal woes Google faces around the world. Google has lost yet another huge monopoly case — and the search giant is still facing another antitrust-related trial later this month. On top of that, the company just received an antitrust cease-and-desist order from Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, which follows an antitrust […]
Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash preview in the Gemini app. What’s new?
Google’s hybrid reasoning model is now available to try out. Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, its hybrid reasoning model, is now available in preview for the standalone Gemini app. On Thursday, the company rolled out an “early version” of the model with updated reasoning capabilities. It can also better determine how much processing power or “thinking” […]
Massive medical company data breach impacts millions
It involves people who’ve been to certain Planned Parenthood locations. A major data breach at Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC), a medical non-profit, compromised sensitive information of 1.6 million people. LSC provides lab testing services to a number of Planned Parenthood centers and has warned that folks who’ve visited those centers could’ve been affected. “If you, […]
