Congress removes right to repair language from 2026 defense bill

Congress removes right to repair language from 2026 defense bill

According to a statement from the Public Interest Research Group, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 has removed language ...
SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund SkildAI at $14B, nearly tripling its value

SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund SkildAI at $14B, nearly tripling its value

Skild AI is developing a hardware-agnostic foundation model for robots that can be customized for various uses.
Department of Commerce may approve Nvidia H200 chip exports to China

Department of Commerce may approve Nvidia H200 chip exports to China

This news comes as a bill was introduced in Congree last week to prevent these exact kinds of chip exports.
Google and Apple partner on better Android-iPhone switching

Google and Apple partner on better Android-iPhone switching

Google and Apple have long existed as polar opposites, each ruling over their tech kingdoms with little interest in cooperation. But the latest ...
TikTok announces shared feed and collections features

TikTok announces shared feed and collections features

TikTok just announced a couple of updates that that should make the app a bit more social. There's something called Shared Feed, which is ...

Anthropic's Claude Code can now read your Slack messages and write code for you

Anthropic on Monday launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly to Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the workplace messaging platform where much of their daily communication already happens.

The release, which Anthropic describes as a ...
Analogue is weaponizing your nostalgia with these translucent versions of its 3D console

Analogue is weaponizing your nostalgia with these translucent versions of its 3D console

Analogue just announced new colorways for its recently-launched Analogue 3D console. The appropriately-named Funtastic limited-edition ...
Google details security measures for Chrome’s agentic features

Google details security measures for Chrome’s agentic features

Google details how it is enacting security guardrails before rolling out agentic capabilities on Chrome.
Uber will start selling trip and takeout data to marketers

Uber will start selling trip and takeout data to marketers

Uber will begin selling customer data to marketers, according to a report by Business Insider. The company's ad division ...
Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales

Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales

Quilt has sold nearly 1,000 units in the U.S. and Canada, and the new funding should help expand sales operations to more states and provinces.
FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman

FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman

Zuckerman, who used to run the stalkerware apps SpyFone and SpyTrac, claimed the ban is hurting his unrelated business.
An AI copycat of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard went unnoticed on Spotify for weeks

An AI copycat of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard went unnoticed on Spotify for weeks

Despite making some moves to address the proliferation of AI-generated audio on its platform, Spotify failed to catch a copycat making imitations ...
Google’s AI try-on app Doppl adds a shoppable discovery feed

Google’s AI try-on app Doppl adds a shoppable discovery feed

The tech giant says the idea behind the new feed is to display recommendations so users can discover and virtually try on items. Nearly everything in ...
Tiger Global plans cautious venture  future with a new $2.2B fund

Tiger Global plans cautious venture future with a new $2.2B fund

Tiger's last fund did well with investmetments in OpenAI, Waymo and Databricks. But it warns investors that AI valuations are already 'elevated.'
How to watch Rivian

How to watch Rivian's Autonomy and AI day and what to expect

Rivian is about to give the public and its investors another taste of its future with an event focused on autonomy and AI on December 11. The ...
Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover

Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover

Paramount has already proven it can get a controversial merger done.
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Tech's biggest winners of 2025

Every December, the Engadget staff compiles a list of the year’s biggest winners. We scour over articles from the previous 12 months to determine ...
You can buy your Instacart groceries without leaving ChatGPT

You can buy your Instacart groceries without leaving ChatGPT

Shoppers will be able to go from recipe planning to checkout within the ChatGPT window.
Best Guess Live is Netflix

Best Guess Live is Netflix's take on HQ Trivia

Netflix has already committed to reviving Star Search for its streaming service, and now the company is turning its attention to a different type ...
The developer behind ICEBlock is suing the federal government

The developer behind ICEBlock is suing the federal government

The makers of ICEBlock, the community-based reporting app for ICE sightings and activity, are suing the federal government, ...
Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco after 30 years

Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco after 30 years

Katsuhiro Harada is departing Bandai Namco at the end of 2025. He announced the news both with a farewell note shared on X and, in possibly the ...
Investor letter reveals skyrocketing growth of Waymo’s robotaxi rides

Investor letter reveals skyrocketing growth of Waymo’s robotaxi rides

Six months ago, Waymo disclosed it was providing 250,000 robotaxi rides. But it's grown significantly since, a leaked letter says.
Lucid Motors’ former chief engineer sues for wrongful termination and discrimination

Lucid Motors’ former chief engineer sues for wrongful termination and discrimination

Eric Bach, who was fired in November, claims a top HR executive at the automaker called him a "German Nazi."
Environmental groups call for halt to new data center construction

Environmental groups call for halt to new data center construction

More than 230 organizations signed a public letter urging members of Congress to take action.
Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds

Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds

Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, letting developers delegate coding tasks from chat threads. It's part of a shift toward AI-embedded ...
Meta will let Facebook and Instagram users in the EU share less data

Meta will let Facebook and Instagram users in the EU share less data

Meta will soon allow Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union to choose to share less data and see less personalized ads on the ...
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Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future



Today, during the XR edition of The Android Show, Google showed off a bunch of updates and new features headed to its mixed reality OS. And ...
TikTok adds a space for organizing content with others, teases ‘Shared Feeds’

TikTok adds a space for organizing content with others, teases ‘Shared Feeds’

Shared Feeds will surface new content tailored to both users' tastes, such as sports, winter activities, and their favorite creators.
Petco’s security lapse affected customers’ SSNs, drivers’ licenses and more

Petco’s security lapse affected customers’ SSNs, drivers’ licenses and more

Petco said the exposure was due to an error in an application, and that it is notifying victims’ whose data was affected.
‘ONE RULE’: Trump says he’ll sign an executive order blocking state AI laws despite bipartisan pushback

‘ONE RULE’: Trump says he’ll sign an executive order blocking state AI laws despite bipartisan pushback

“I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week,” Trump posted on social media. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they ...