In brief: Google introduced Android XR, its answer to Apple's visionOS, in 2024. In October of this year, Samsung released the first headset for Google's platform, which undercut the Apple Vision Pro ...

Everyone keeps asking if AI avatars are coming for our jobs, so we put one to the test. How human can it act? How well can it communicate? Can it actually perform the tasks we rely on people for?

While writing “Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App” (10 November 2025), I commented that the Unified view’s Calls screen was more attractive if you had contact posters for ...

What if creating a professional, multilingual, and interactive video was as simple as typing a few prompts? Imagine replacing hours of filming, editing, and voiceover work with a platform that ...

I’m not one to click on promotional emails, but this one caught my attention, for some reason. “To celebrate the digital release of Until Dawn, the movie inspired by the PlayStation game, we’re giving ...

PC gaming is one of the fastest-growing landscapes in the games industry right now. With major storefronts like Steam leading the way, developers are pushing to prioritize PC as a platform and ...

Plus: chatbots of popular celebrities sent inappropriate messages to teenagers This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

Part 1 of TED Radio Hour episode "Are the kids alright? Part 1" As a new school year begins, teachers and students find themselves at a perplexing crossroads: how to use artificial intelligence in the ...

Talking in Twitch and YouTube chat just isn't the same as standing in a crowd watching your favorite vtuber perform. Live shows and concerts aren't new for Hololive, one of the biggest vtuber agencies ...

Jeff Lu spends his days working in the shadows of giants. His company, Akool, operates out of the same building that Mark Zuckerberg first grew Facebook in back in 2005. Like Zuck, Lu has big plans.

The latest One UI 8 release makes it possible to use Samsung DeX on PCs again, though you’ll need a third-party tool called scrcpy to do so. Samsung previously discontinued its “DeX for PC” ...

The VRChat Awards are a big deal, celebrating all the cool stuff happening in the virtual world. It’s a way to shine a light on the amazing creativity and hard work of people building things in VRChat ...