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April 9, 2026
John Deere Is Paying Farmers $99 Million for Allegedly Monopolizing Repair
The tractor maker is paying for its years as the central opponent of right-to-repair. Consumer advocates say it’s still not enough.
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April 9, 2026
This AI Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle
Two former Apple Vision Pro developers made an AI wearable that only listens when you tap it. They hope to win where other AI gadgets have fumbled: privacy.
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April 8, 2026
Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles
In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store.
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April 7, 2026
The iPhone Gets a D- for Repairability
It’s a better rating than the company has gotten from repairability experts before, at least. Samsung is second worst with a D.
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April 4, 2026
Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law
A state bill is a glimpse of how corporations are limiting people's ability to make their own fixes and upgrades.
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April 2, 2026
Tech Companies Are Trying to Neuter Colorado’s Landmark Right-to-Repair Law
A bill in Colorado is a glimpse into the future of how corporations are working to limit the freedom people have to make their own fixes and upgrades.
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April 2, 2026
Your Art Can Go in This San Francisco Alley
A trio of tech pranksters have launched a website where you can submit artwork and vote on which pieces belong in the final design. Of course, AI will scan for dick pics.
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March 31, 2026
AI Has Flooded All the Weather Apps
Weather forecasting has gotten a big boost from machine learning. How that translates into what users see can vary.
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March 28, 2026
Your Vape Wants to Know How Old You Are
Companies hope that biometric age-verification tech in cartridges could put flavored vapes back in business. But it's unlikely to solve the real problems.
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March 25, 2026
The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse
“This is my home”: At a VR comedy club in Horizon Worlds, users mourn Meta's plans for the platform.
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March 20, 2026
Gamers Hate Nvidia's DLSS 5. Developers Aren’t Crazy About It Either
Nvidia’s new AI upscaling gaming technology struck gamers as uncanny and off-putting. Developers don't seem to like it either, but it could be “the default” in a few years.
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March 19, 2026
Meta Will Keep Horizon Worlds Alive in VR ‘for the Foreseeable Future’
A day after saying it would shut down its metaverse, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced the service will remain available in VR—with limited support.
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March 17, 2026
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
Meta’s flailing virtual reality social experience is being discontinued in June. It's part of Meta’s broader moves to slim down the business that became its namesake.
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March 16, 2026
These Musical Instruments of the Future Sound Weird, Wacky—and Are Easy for Anyone to Play
A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.
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March 13, 2026
Toss Your Not-Quite-Clean Clothes on Simone Giertz’s Laundry Chair
Inventor and YouTuber Simone Giertz built an elegant chair that holds your half-dirty clothes while still functioning as a seat.
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March 11, 2026
This Digital Picture Frame Wants to Bring People Closer to a Holographic Future
Brooklyn-based Looking Glass has been dabbling in 3D screens for nearly a decade. It's finally launching Musubi, an AI-powered holographic frame to bring your photos and videos to life.
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March 6, 2026
This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won’t Work
Deveillance’s Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics.
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March 4, 2026
These Official ChromeOS Flex USB Sticks Can Give Your Old Mac or Windows PC a Second Life
Google is partnering with Back Market to sell USB sticks that let you install ChromeOS Flex on older Windows and Intel-powered Macs collecting dust.
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March 3, 2026
This AI Agent Is Ready to Serve, Mid-Phone Call
Deutsche Telekom, the German cell provider—which holds a majority stake in T-Mobile—is partnering with ElevenLabs to enable an AI assistant on all of its network’s calls in Germany. No app required.
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March 2, 2026
Pico’s Project Swan XR Headset Wants to Go Where the Apple Vision Pro Failed
The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is “not just for gaming” anymore by giving you a digital office.
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February 27, 2026
The Latest Repair Battlefield Is the Iowa Farmlands—Again
A new bill that would give farmers in Iowa the right to repair is a big threat to tractor manufacturer John Deere.
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February 25, 2026
On Running Is Finally Ramping Up Production of Its ‘Hyper-Foam’ Spray-On Shoes
Swiss shoemaker On’s newest kicks—the LightSpray Cloudmaster 3 Hyper—are laceless shoes with a single-piece, stretchy, sprayed-on toe box.
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February 24, 2026
Tide’s Evo Tiles Are a Fresh, Overengineered Take on the Tide Pod
Tide’s Evo Tiles are lightweight, fibrous squares of detergent that simplify the laundry process—and also act as a slightly more eco-friendly alternative to the Tide Pod.
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February 20, 2026
A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon
The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.
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February 16, 2026
Makers Are Building Back Against ICE
In hacker spaces and at their homes, creative protesters are laser-cutting and 3D-printing tools to resist an occupation.
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February 10, 2026
These Hackers Are Turning Dead Vapes Into Musical Synthesizers
Instead of throwing that spent Elf Bar nicotine vape into the trash, you can pull most of the guts out, plug in a circuit board and some controls, then suck on the mouthpiece to play digital sounds.
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February 9, 2026
Ferrari’s New Jony Ive–Designed EV Is Swathed in Glass and Aluminum
We got a peek at the interior of Ferrari’s new Luce electric car, which was dreamed up by famed ex-Apple designer and his firm, LoveFrom. It looks and feels a whole lot like an Apple product.
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February 2, 2026
How to Watch the 2026 Winter Olympics
Chill out and watch all the hockey, skiing, and skating competitions through the whole month of February.
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January 28, 2026
Google’s Smart Glasses Will Have the Best Software. But They’ll Have to Win on Style Too
When Google releases its smart glasses in the coming months, the strength of its AI-powered software will be its biggest leg up on its rivals. But will people want to be seen wearing them?
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January 22, 2026
Legislators Push to Make Companies Tell Customers When Their Products Will Die
A pair of bills in Massachusetts would require manufacturers to tell consumers when their connected gadgets are going dark. It should be a boon for cybersecurity as connected devices grow obsolete.
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