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If your smartphone videos are sounding a little rough around the edges, the easiest way to improve your audio quality is with a wireless lavalier mic. Pocketable kits like the DJI Mic 3 easily connect to your phone, giving you the ease of shooting video on mobile and the quality you’d expect from more professional […]
TikTok’s takeover in the US has prompted users to join an alternative social platform called UpScrolled. The app, which is available on Android and iOS, currently holds the 12th spot in Apple’s App Store, and it’s struggling to keep up with an influx of new traffic. UpScrolled was founded in 2025 by Issam Hijazi, a […]
More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand that United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) leave U.S. cities. “For months now, Trump has sent federal agents to our cities to criminalize us, our neighbors, […]
There’s a lot of activity in the lower end of the wireless router market, particularly in the sub-$100 price range. A wide variety of Wi-Fi 6 routers are available in this space from names you’re familiar with (Asus, TP-Link, Netgear, etc.) and some that might not ring any bells for you. Further compounding matters is […]
from the said-and-done dept This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the idea from DHS that it’s un-American to refuse to house federal officers: Except for the fact that we literally have an amendment in our constitution that says nobody has to house soldiers. […]
While Staff Engineer was first and foremost an attempt to pull the industry towards my perspective on staff-plus engineering roles, writing it also changed my opinions in a number of ways. Foremost, it solidified my belief that the industry too often treats engineers like children to be managed, rather than adults to be involved, and […]
TL;DR Android 17 is said to be shifting away from flat design toward translucent, blur-heavy visuals. Google could roll out a frosted-glass look across core UI elements, including the volume slider and power menu. Dynamic Color will reportedly tint blurred panels, helping the new transparency effects blend with your wallpaper and theme. Android 17 is […]
The New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks will face off in Super Bowl LX. For those of you who just can’t with Roman numerals, that’s Super Bowl 60, and it’s taking place this year at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, on February 8, starting at 6:30 p.m. ET. Like all other Sunday Night […]
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in […]
AI agents are accelerating how work gets done. They schedule meetings, access data, trigger workflows, write code, and take action in real time, pushing productivity beyond human speed across the enterprise. Then comes the moment every security team eventually hits: “Wait… who approved this?” Unlike users or applications, AI agents are often deployed quickly, shared […]
