Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
…There was a time before Google Search came along, there were a number of search engines and so on, but now we have basically one search engine. We have basically one social…
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Toy Story 5 has the right take on tech
…Collections are a clever way to solve Mastodon’s big discovery and search problem, and a good way to help people get started on a new social network. Plus, you can let…
Here’s how easy it is to sneak a drone past the FCC
…This June, Iturbe discovered the most brazen attempt yet. The DJI fingerprint led him to the FCC filings for a company named Odyssey Robot, which does business as Galiview Tech. In March…
A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower
…the Silicon Valley foothills in search of proof. At the very first house on my itinerary, my heart skips a beat. Looking down into one person’s hilly backyard from the sidewalk…
Welcome to the AI crisis in math
…You’ve got similar quotes from all these other mathematicians in the piece, and it seems like they’re soul-searching against a thing that hilariously they cannot verify, which is, “How…
Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to
…Discovery and whatever else it’s been over the last 20 years, I think when you look at it, the only person who really came in and said, “I have an idea…
Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 series hands-on: squircle squad
…I swear, the squircle looks nicer in person than in renders. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/257844_Samsung_Unpacked_July_2025_AJohnson_0015.jpg?quality=90…
Does Google even want to win at AI?
…Search”? There’s a big difference between, “We’re going to let him chase the singularity,” and, “We’re going to let him do a lot of research into biology, drug discovery…
Sam Altman didn’t need another lawsuit
…Google scanning millions of books to create a searchable database, for instance, or the sheer amount of piracy YouTube indirectly enabled in the early 2000s. Apple implied in its legal filing…
Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot…