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Personal Electronics Spiking in Price as AI Industry Buys Up All the Components
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (368+ words) Published Feb 21, 2026 9:45 AM EST The AI industry's obsession with building out enormous data centers to house power-hungry chips has put a major strain on the electronics market. First, the price of graphical processing units (GPUs) started shooting through the roof....
OpenAI's Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe
19+ hour, 47+ min ago (553+ words) Published Feb 20, 2026 4:01 PM EST Stuffing an AI chatbot into a consumer electronics device and turning out with a product people actually want has proven extremely difficult. We've come across creepy and widely-hated pendants designed to listen to everything you say,…...
Every Single Headphone That Researchers Tested Contained Horrifying Chemicals
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (340+ words) Published Feb 20, 2026 10:06 AM EST Eventually, it seems to turn out that every consumer product is killing you " from cooking utensils to menstrual care products, and literally the kitchen sink. Now, one of our most beloved creature comforts is getting its…...
AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (269+ words) Published Feb 17, 2026 4:06 PM EST Over the last couple of months, the AI industry's obsession with building out costly data centers has sent the price of RAM skyrocketing, turning a simple computer upgrade into a costly investment. And while there are…...
Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines
2+ week, 6+ day ago (430+ words) Published Feb 1, 2026 8:15 AM EST If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. The work, described in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, comes amid significant concern over how AI models can encourage delusional thinking, which in extreme…...
Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT's Responses When You're Cruel To It
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (463+ words) Published Jan 18, 2026 6:45 AM EST From a young age, many children have been instructed by their parents to be polite to smart assistants. Particularly following the advent of Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri, children are often encouraged to use words like…...
Red Hot Christmas Toy Crashes So Badly That Kids Can't Actually Use It
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (365+ words) Published Jan 11, 2026 12:00 PM EST Parents were left scrambling on Christmas day after the hot toy of the season appeared to crash and burn, in a perfect cautionary tale about the era of connected gadgets that can easily brick if their…...
Trump’s Golden Smartphone Is Getting Sketchier and Sketchier
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (354+ words) Published Jan 7, 2026 3:07 PM EST In June 2025, Donald Trump Jr. proudly announced the founding of a mobile operator called Trump Mobile, including a mobile virtual network operator offering services for $47.45 a month, and a gaudy-looking, gold-colored, $499 smartphone that was supposedly going…...
AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (594+ words) Published Dec 12, 2025 9:15 AM EST If you're one of the 28 percent of Americans who've shared an intimate relationship with an AI chatbot, we might have some bad news. Freshly reported testimony from the Data Worker's Inquiry " an international research initiative empowering…...
Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (506+ words) Published Dec 8, 2025 3:33 PM EST Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots still need plenty of help from a human teleoperator who's hidden from view. During a flashy event on a Hollywood movie studio lot in October 2024, for instance, an army of bipedal robots…...