Looking Back at the Delightful, Unhinged Jar Jar Binks Merchandise of 1999
Image: eBay Star Wars and merchandise have been hand in hand since the very beginning. But there was still something unlike anything the galaxy had ever seen when, 25 years…
Cybertrucks Come With Special Tricks: Breaking Fingers and Slicing Legs
A worker sticks a picture of a Swiss army knife on a window of a Victorinox store in Zurich, SwitzerlandPhoto: Arnd Wiegmann (Reuters) The Swiss Army Knife has become such…
Apple Vision Pro Sales Slump, Robot Weapons Get Scarier, TikTok Ban Is Here and More
The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on its back. Yes,…
Elon Gives a Cringe Deposition, X Screws Up Twitter Links, LG TV Needs an Update and More
Photo: Nathan Stirk (Getty Images) X owner Elon Musk has made it no secret that Twitter, the former name of the social media company he bought for $44 billion in…
Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Stores Get Phased Out, Trump Sues Truth Social Founders, and More
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) A little over a week ago, Trump Media Technology Group, which owns Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, became a publicly traded company. Around…
Stanley Cups, AI Nurses, a Bad Interview for Elon and More
Screenshot: X/Neuralink Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup, live-streamed an interview with its first patient on Wednesday. The man in question, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who identifies himself as Noland Arbaugh, said…
Lego’s Dungeons & Dragons Set Is a Critical Hit
Image: Lego After weeks of teasing, Lego has finally revealed its huge collaboration with Dungeons & Dragons to celebrate the legendary roleplaying game’s 50th anniversary—and it’s huge in many ways,…
OpenAI Sora’s Breaks Our Brains, Vision Pro Loses Its Luster, and More Big Tech News
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Weekend Tech Roundup January 27, 2024
Photo: Tada Images / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security…
Self-Checkout on the Outs, Google Search Kind of Sucks, and More
Photo: Reshetnikov_art / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Don’t ring the funeral bells just yet, but the self-checkout kiosk horror show could be nearing its end. So far, the grand experiment in robot…