Author: Hunter

In its final proposed remedy filing in the Google antitrust case, the Department of Justice reiterated that Google should stop paying partners for search placement—and divest its dominant Chrome browser. Read more

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on sanctuary cities’ policies at the U.S. Capitol on March 05, 2025 in Washington, DC. Meta may have caved on their content moderation policies for the sake of “free speech”, but there’s a world of other Big Tech companies out… Read more

The biggest YouTuber in the world is looking beyond videos to build a multibillion-dollar empire.  For the last several months, Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, has been talking with investors about raising $200 million in a funding round that would value his holding company, Beast Industries, at more than $5 billion. An investor pitch deck I’ve… Read more

Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word “Luigi” as potentially violent — even when the content isn’t. Earlier this week, a moderator from r/popculture saw Reddit’s AutoModerator system flag a post about the video game Luigi’s Mansion 3 because it included the word “Luigi,” giving them instructions to “check for violence.” A Reddit spokesperson,… Read more

Core sample boxes with oxidized uranium at a processing facility near Patterson Lake, Canada, on April 16th, 2024. | Image: Getty Images President Donald Trump’s tariff threats could raise the price of uranium used to fuel US nuclear reactors, which could have ripple effects on a tenuous nuclear renaissance spurred by the growth of energy-hungry… Read more

Gemini can now add events to your calendar, give you event details, and help you find an event you’ve forgotten about. Read more

Nokia’s Lunar Surface Communications System was supposed to be the first 4G network deployed on the moon and a test for future crewed missions. Things didn’t go to plan. Read more

The interior of the recently revealed Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 seems spartan but still has buttons. | Image: VW Volkswagen is planning a return to physical buttons in its future vehicles over haptic sliders and touchscreen toggles for vital functions such as climate controls. The automaker’s design head Andreas Mindt told Autocar that the company “will… Read more

This means the watch’s EKG features won’t face the same issues as its blood oxygen sensor. AliveCor has suffered another setback in its long-running patent case against Apple. Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a decision that the medical device maker’s EKG patents are not actually patentable. As a… Read more

The well-deserved hat trick that director Bong Joon Ho pulled off at the Oscars in 2020 with Parasite all but ensured that studios would fight tooth and nail to back his next cinematic project. It was always going to be difficult for Bong to top what he accomplished with Parasite — a shapeshifting masterpiece of… Read more