2025-12-16

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Not long ago, like many of you, I read what I feared might be The Next Web’s final article. In late September, TNW’s co-founder announced that the tech conference and news site would be winding do [...]

2025-12-16

The Anker Laptop Power Bank soothed my (self-inflicted) battery anxiety

For the longest time, I refused to upgrade my work-issued MacBook. I was leery of the hassle, and would much rather hang on to an aging Intel-powered laptop than have to transfer files, set up apps an [...]

2025-12-16

Zoom says it aced AI’s hardest exam. Critics say it copied off its neighbors.

Zoom Video Communications, the company best known for keeping remote workers connected during the pandemic, announced last week that it had achieved the highest score ever recorded on one of artificia [...]

2025-12-16

Fallout Season 2 review: Viva New Vegas

The follow-up to a successful debut is often harder to make than the first, and that goes double when the inspiration for a show comes from the most beloved installment of the underlying franchise. Th [...]

2025-12-16

LG will debut its first Micro RGB television at CES

LG is getting in on one of the newest trends for televisions with the introduction of Micro RGB. The company will unveil the LG Micro RGB evo at CES 2026, but it shared some preliminary information ab [...]

2025-12-16

The best board games to gift and play with the family for the 2025 holiday season

Once upon a time, a "board game" meant Monopoly or Risk. Then several brave souls dared to ask the question: "What if this was fun?" Thirty years later, we're blessed with tab [...]

2025-12-16

Watch Instagram Reels on your TV now - these sets get the app first

Amazon Fire TV devices will be the first to have the new Instagram for TV app. Here's how to get started. [...]

2025-12-16

New Head of Trump's Cancer Panel Questioned Links Between Vaccines and Cancer

Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has speculated about a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he'll chair the President's Cancer Panel. [...]

2025-12-16

I've been using Dyson's new ultra-light vacuum for two weeks – these are the pros and cons so far

Dyson shrank down all this vacuum's insides and squeezed them into the handle – so what's it like to use? [...]