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Is your iPhone about to stop being nearly useless when you’re off the grid?

Bloomberg’s Apple reporter Mark Gurman just wrote an entry in his Power On newsletter about the dream of a satellite-powered iPhone. To be clear, no, the iPhone is not on the verge of becoming a fully functioning satellite phone like the one that gets eaten by a dinosaur in Jurassic Park 3 (I can’t be the only one who remembers this). But Gurman points to some new features likely on the way that could…

At least one of the big AI brains at the Chinese chatbot leader DeepSeek has announced that he’s worried—like many U.S. AI luminaries before him—that AI will hurt the world.

But in China, unlike the U.S., the state can and does regulate tech with a heavy hand, and in that context such a sentiment comes across as slightly more substantive than when, say, OpenAI’s Sam Altman hypes up his future investment by saying things like, “A.I. will probably most likely lead to the end of…

Before 2025 ends, Netflix is inviting fans of Squid Game and Stranger Things to immersive fan experiences centered on its two big sci-fi shows. Fitting, since they’ll both be complete by year’s end.

The two Netflix House experiences—”Escape the Dark” and “Survive the Trials“—will be open to the public in Dallas, TX on December 11. Like the One Piece and Wednesday experiences over in Philadelphia, the Dallas areas feature games and challenges themed after their…

If you weren’t alive, or weren’t news-cognizant, back in 2007 when the slow motion debt crisis all around us started to give way to The Great Recession, what was eerie was that it felt like you were always hearing about refinancing debt. You couldn’t turn on a TV, or click a page on MySpace, without someone offering to refinance your debt. This was because there was a huge—and for most people, hidden—market for things called mortgage-backed securities. This piece at the Onion…

If you weren’t alive, or weren’t news-cognizant, back in 2007 when the slow motion debt crisis all around us started to give way to The Great Recession, what was eerie was that it felt like you were always hearing about refinancing debt. You couldn’t turn on a TV, or click a page on MySpace, without someone offering to refinance your debt. This was because there was a huge—and for most people, hidden—market for things called mortgage-backed securities. This piece at the Onion…

I feel no compunction telling you the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite gaming headset wasn’t made for most of the people reading this review. How premium is it? It costs $600.

It comes with a special GameHub that will hook up to three consoles or PCs at once to let you seamlessly swap between all your devices. It also costs $600. It has some of the best premium audio I’ve heard from a gaming headset all year. It will ask you to fork over…

During hurricane season, meteorologists rely on a variety of different forecast models. As this season comes to an end, experts are taking stock of which ones performed well and which ones didn’t, and Google’s rookie model has left them absolutely gobsmacked.

Though Google DeepMind’s Weather Lab only began releasing forecasts in June, it was by far the best model for predicting hurricane track and intensity this season, according to a preliminary analysis by Brian McNoldy, a…

AI is good for a lot of things—namely cheating on stuff and pretending like you’re more productive than you actually are. Recently, this affliction has spread to a number of professions where you would have thought the work ethic is slightly better than it apparently is.

Case in point: lawyers. Lawyers apparently love chatbots like ChatGPT because they can help them power through the drudgery of writing legal briefs. Unfortunately, as most of us know, chatbots are also prone to…

AI is good for a lot of things—namely cheating on stuff and pretending like you’re more productive than you actually are. Recently, this affliction has spread to a number of professions where you would have thought the work ethic is slightly better than it apparently is.

Case in point: lawyers. Lawyers apparently love chatbots like ChatGPT because they can help them power through the drudgery of writing legal briefs. Unfortunately, as most of us know, chatbots are also prone to…

By now, there’s a mountain of evidence that social media—not to mention, like, the internet in general—is not particularly good for children. With an iPhone, the average teenager has access to every terrible thing on the web that adults do, but none of the emotional maturity to handle it. Teens now spend hours on their phones every single day, and, despite the fact that many teens say social media is bad for them, they can’t seem to pry themselves loose from it.

And the problems…