April 22, 2025

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

If You Like to Get Nerdy in the Kitchen, Try Roasting a Chicken on a Stick

A few days later, bird number two was not the smashing success that its predecessor was, mostly because I didn’t account for the effects of the weather. On this cooler, wetter day, the grill simply didn’t get as hot, meaning that pulling it at 148 degrees didn’t carry over as much as I wanted it

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Tech tariff exemptions are only temporary, according to Trump’s commerce secretary

The tech industry may not be safe from new tariffs, according to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The Trump administration announced Friday evening that consumer electronics such as laptops and smartphones would be exempt from the tariffs it unveiled earlier this month. (While Trump delayed many of those tariffs this week, he left a 10%

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Get Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows for just £39

TL;DR: Give your PC the gift of versatility with a lifetime licence to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for just £38.27 (reg. £168.49) through April 27. Ready to rediscover your love of Microsoft Office apps? If you’ve been going without these handy tools, you may want to take advantage of the last few hours of

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What ‘The Last of Us’ Season Premiere’s Final Moments Really Mean

These tensions emerge in season 2 in Jackson, Wyoming, where dozens of survivors of the Cordyceps plague have built a somewhat safe and stable existence. Joel’s brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna) and his wife Maria (Rutina Wesley) helped establish the settlement; Ellie, now an effective fighter and sharp-shooter, helps protect it. But it has also become

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Apple reportedly working on a Vision Pro that plugs into your Mac

Apple isn’t giving up on its mixed reality headset the Vision Pro, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company has been debating the best direction forward for the product after disappointing sales, Gurman says, but is now moving forward with two different models. One would address probably the two biggest complaints about the initial product

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‘The Last of Us’ Season 2, episode 1: What is a Stalker?

If you survived The Last of Us Season 1 and the sheer terror of all the Clickers, Bloaters, and cannibals, we’ve got some grim news: You’re not out of the woods in Season 2. The second season of Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s HBO adaptation amps up the threat level for Ellie (Bella Ramsey), Joel

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FTC v. Meta Trial: The Future of Instagram and WhatsApp Is at Stake

The US Federal Trade Commission’s trial against Meta begins in Washington, DC on Monday, as the tech giant fights to avoid the spinoff of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC alleges that Meta illegally acquired the two startups in an effort to suppress competition. Meta (then Facebook) bought the photo-sharing startup Instagram for $1 billion in

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UK founders grow frustrated over dearth of funding: ‘the problem is getting worse’

According to Dealroom data cited by the Financial Times, British start-ups raised just £16.2 billion last year, far less than the more than £65 billion raised by their counterparts in Silicon Valley during the same period. In fact, the U.S. appears to be pulling further ahead each year. In 2024, 57% of global venture capital

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Netflix tests out new AI search engine for movies and TV shows powered by OpenAI

Black Mirror may be able to draw inspiration for future episodes from the very platform it streams on. Netflix has just recently rolled out access to a new AI search engine tool to some of its subscribers, according to a report from Bloomberg. The AI search engine, which is powered by ChatGPT creator OpenAI, takes

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GHD Duet Blowdry Review: Power and Fantastic Styling—for a Price

GHD says the Duet Blowdry checks the surface temperature of the device 400 times per second to make sure it’s maintaining the heat throughout your use—even more than the 250 times a second in GHD’s similarly equipped Chronos Max hair straightener (7/10, WIRED Review). Also similar to the Chronos straightener, which has just one heat

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