I picked up this cheap MP3 player, and it freed me from my phone so often, I wish I'd got it sooner

I ditched music on my phone for this cheap MP3 player — and two weeks on, I wish I'd done it sooner [...]

A private equity company has acquired Balatro publisher, Playstack

The new owner, Integrated Media Company, also owns Fandom, Gamespot and metacritic [...]

Here’s to the stable ones: In praise of Tim Cook

Tim Cook’s tenure as Apple CEO ends September 1 when he takes the role of executive chair. He will be replaced by John Ternus, a 25-year Apple veteran and head of its hardware engineering division. [...]

SiriusXM is becoming the exclusive audio ad seller for YouTube in the U.S.

Starting this fall, advertisers can buy guaranteed audio ad impressions against YouTube audiences directly through SiriusXM Media for the first time [...]

Comcast topped earnings estimates as NBC's Super Bowl and Olympics revenue lifted Q1 results

NBCUniversal's "Legendary February" drove a 61% jump in media revenue, while broadband losses improved by more than 100,000 year over year [...]

DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5

The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the rel [...]

Singapore police arrest alleged The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender leaker

People aren't thrilled with Paramount these days. After all, corporate consolidation and the transformation of CBS News into state media tend to do that. But here's someone who may not have [...]

The DOJ is backing xAI in its lawsuit against Colorado

The Department of Justice has announced that it's intervening on the behalf of xAI in the company's recent lawsuit against the state of Colorado. xAI first filed the suit in early April in r [...]

NASA's initial takeaways from the Artemis II mission, and more science stories

Now that Artemis II is all wrapped up, NASA has begun its post-game performance analyses of all the systems that worked together to get four astronauts safely to the moon and back earlier this month. [...]