At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere

If there was one thing that was obvious this from Meta Connect this year, it’s that the social media giant is all-in on its burgeoning line of smart glasses. Indeed, the glasses were pretty much everywhere at the annual event, where Meta shows off its newest hardware and AI products.…

5 settings every new Android Auto user needs to change ASAP

The year is 2025 — an entire decade since the launch of the first iteration of Android Auto — but I’ve only now taken possession of a motor vehicle with the infotainment utility built into it for the very first time. Over the years, I’ve had on-again, off-again experience with…

Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

Crusoe, a Denver-based AI data center startup that recently raised $3.9 billion, has ended plans to use a new line of stationary power plants developed by fellow Denver company Boom Supersonic. Founded in 2018 as a bitcoin miner that ran on excess natural gas from oil fields, Crusoe has since…

Can you block ads in your favorite streaming apps? It’s complicated

One of the ironies of modern-day capitalism is that whole industries depend on foisting ads on customers, despite the fact that no one actually wants them. Most of the material I get isn’t even relevant to my interests. When I lived in Alberta, for example, I repeatedly got ads for…

Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge

After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites. Fifty-three “user-provided images” were “posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed,” the company said for the first time; the…

The new Apple TV 4K just leaked, and it could launch soon

The long wait for a new Apple TV 4K might finally be almost over. For years now, rumors and reports have suggested that Apple is working on a new Apple TV 4K, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reporting just last month that a new model is “nearly ready to launch” and…

Meta opens early access program for new Muse features

After announcing a host of new features for Meta’s Muse AI app at its Connect 2026 developer conference this week, the company is opening up requests for early access. Meta shared on Friday that you can now ask Muse to put you on the list to try out its latest…

Don’t make these 3 common 4K UHD collector mistakes

I’ve been a physical media lover for much of my life, and I’ve been collecting 4K Blu-ray discs for years now. Over those years, I’ve made my fair share of mistakes and wasted some money. I haven’t outright regretted any of my purchases, even my Morbius steelbook, but I certainly…

Mark Wahlberg is coming to Disrupt 2026

Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke out in 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and in the nearly three decades since, he’s built one of the highest-wattage careers in Hollywood: two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nod for “The Fighter,”…

One of John Wayne’s most memorable Westerns is now free to stream

Whenever I think of a good Western movie, it’s hard not to think of one of John Wayne’s classics. Over his five-decade career, Wayne helped define and popularize the Western genre with films like Stagecoach, Red River, The Searchers, Hondo, and True Grit, the latter of which earned him an…