TikTok goes full YouTube
Vertical video platform TikTok wants users to turn their phones around and start shooting horizontal videos — long ones, too. TikTok appears to be incentivizing creators to start posting horizontal videos…
Meta’s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4
Meta’s latest update to its code generation AI model, Code Llama 70B, is “the largest and best-performing model” yet. Code Llama tools launched in August and are free for both research…
SmartLess is leaving Amazon for $100 million
SiriusXM has inked a multiyear deal with SmartLess Media for exclusive rights around the flagship podcast hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes as well as a number…
Anker’s MagSafe-friendly 622 Magnetic Battery is half off right now
While the new 6,600mAh MagGo Power Bank recharges your phone twice as quickly, Anker’s magnetic Qi charger still delivers a respectable 7.5 watts of power to MagSafe-compatible phones. It also weighs…
The MSI Claw will not have a VRR screen after all
The MSI Claw will be one of the first handheld gaming PCs with an Intel Core Ultra processor inside — but despite what the company told us at CES 2024,…
The $10 trillion benefits of overhauling our food system
One of the most ambitious assessments yet of our global food system calculates the health, environmental, and economic losses of business as usual. It also outlines what governments can do…
GM should just bring back the Chevy Volt
General Motors’ shift from an internal combustion engine-producing company to one that makes electric motors is sputtering. EV sales are up, but growing slower than expected. The company’s next-generation Ultium…
6 TV shows you need to watch in February
Robert Falconer / Netflix Have you already caught up on some of the best new shows that premiered in late January, like Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air starring Austin…
Nomad’s first Qi2 charger is shipping now for $10 less than its MagSafe model
Qi2 (properly Qi v2.0 MPP, for Magnetic Power Profile) is a new magnetic wireless charging standard that can charge compatible devices at up to 15W. Like Apple’s MagSafe, it uses…
Japan’s Moon probe regains power after landing upside-down nine days ago
Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has been resurrected, over a week after the probe ran out of electricity following its troubled lunar touchdown on January 20th, leaving it…