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Levenger’s latest library tote is a great gift for the bookworm who brings home a stack of new books every week. The khaki ...

It’s changing some rules about interactions with minors, but plenty of other alarming behaviors remain.

We knew that phones, speakers and game consoles were going to be hit by tariffs. Now they’re making it harder and more expensive to get your hands on TTRPGs, retro video games, and vintage cameras too ...

Both Microsoft and Phison couldn’t recreate issues reported on social media.

The 2023 Amazon Fire HD 10 sports a 10.1-inch, 1080p display and 3GB of RAM, which is plenty if you’re streaming or browsing. It’s lighter than the last-gen model, too, and comes with support for both ...

Running a small-town grocery store isn’t as straightforward as it seems.

Inside the algorithm that gives Waymo its marching orders between rides. When a Waymo pulls up and parks in front of her home on a residential street in West Los Angeles, 10-year-old Morgan rushes to ...

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated Jon Batiste’s hometown of New Orleans. We now know that climate change made warm ocean temperatures that fueled the storm more likely and ...

Ben Davis writes for ArtNet on PragerU’s America 250-aligned Founders Museum, which is representing figures from American history with AI-animated clips in a way that “...suggests a nation with light ...

Unlike a lot of other gen AI-centric entertainment outfits focused on deploying the technology in ways that audiences aren’t necessarily meant to see, Saatchi and his team at studio Fable developed ...

Every platform wants to be the place you hang with friends — even Spotify as of this week — so it’s apparently time for TikTok to shore up its direct messaging feature! It told TechCrunch that over ...