Bill Gates’ nuclear energy startup inks new data center deal
TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, struck a deal this week with one of the largest data center developers in the US to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. TerraPower and Sabey ...
Substack is spending $20 million to court TikTokers
The $20 million fund isn’t the first time Substack has offered a pool of money meant to entice creators. Under a program called Substack Pro, the company poached top media talen ...
Everything we saw at Xbox’s Developer Direct 2025
Though Nintendo can technically claim it had the first big gaming news event of the year, at least Xbox’s Developer Direct actually showed off some games and let us know when we can play them. The ...
Fitbit fined $12 million for Ionic smartwatches that burned 78 people
Fitbit is paying a $12.25 million fine over its Ionic smartwatches, which the company recalled in 2022 after reports that the watches’ lithium-ion batteries overheated and, in some cases, burned ...
Google’s Identity Check for Android keeps phone thieves out of your digital accounts
Google is officially launching a new Android security feature for Pixel devices with Android 15 to prevent phone thieves from accessing your digital accounts. The feature, called Identity Check, ...
Threads now lets you schedule posts
Following last month’s test, Threads will now let everyone schedule posts, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday. You can use the feature by creating a new post, selecting the three-dot ...
Android 16’s first public beta adds Google’s more limited take on live lockscreen notifications
Android 16’s first public beta has arrived, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride sharing and food delivery, following yesterday’s reveal of a similar feature in Samsung’s Galaxy ...
Heat pumps in EVs are making a big difference in cold-weather driving
But heat pumps, which can cut down on battery range losses in the cold, are becoming more prevalent in EVs, and they could help EV owners in the US who are dealing with the low temperatures across ...
Doom: The Dark Ages looks metal as hell and launches in May
Doom: The Dark Ages is coming to the PS5, Xbox, and PC when it launches in May.
Gamers are already using Nvidia’s DLSS 4 tech in Cyberpunk 2077
Added support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation for GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards, which boosts FPS by using AI to generate up to three times per traditionally rendere ...
Microsoft rumored to launch a smaller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop soon
Microsoft has already scheduled a “major” Surface for Business event next week. There, we’re anticipating variants of the current Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 CoPilot Plus PCs that have Intel’s ...
OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you
OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” ...