Month: June 2025
Runway is going to let people generate video games with AI
This week, I was granted access to a new interactive gaming experience that Runway plans to make available to everyone as soon as next week, according to CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela. The consumer-facing product is currently quite barebones, with a chat interface that supports only text and image generation, but Valenzuela…
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JCB debuts trio of Android rugged smartphones with midrange features – but I fear it won’t be affordable enough to bother rivals
JCB’s rugged phone trio enters a saturated market with a price that raises eyebrows JCB Toughphone P20’s thermal camera is unique, but won’t matter much to everyday users Midrange specs and premium pricing put the JCB M20 and E10 in a tight spot JCB has introduced three Android rugged smartphones,…
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Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ could mean slower Wi-Fi for you
The Senate version of the budget reconciliation bill, backed by President Donald Trump, removes protections for unlicensed spectrum that broadens the capacity of the 6GHz Wi-Fi band. This could result in slower Wi-Fi speeds. Under the bill, which may be voted on at the end of this week, the FCC…
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Eufy’s Omni C20 mopping robovac is $300 off for a limited time
After a long week, the last thing I want to do is clean my floors (they’re seriously overdue for a cleaning). Busting out the vacuum and mopping can be tiring. That’s why I’m a big fan of robot vacuums, especially ones with built-in mops that can handle all the cleaning…
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Google’s carbon emissions just went up again
Google’s carbon emissions jumped yet again as the company continues to push ahead in AI. The company’s 2025 sustainability report emphasizes that its “ambition-based emissions” grew 11 percent last year to reach 11.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution, marking a 51 percent increase compared to 2019. That puts…
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The best TV show on Prime Video? I can’t stop coming back to this comfortingly cringey comedy series from the 2000s
Some TV shows are like comfort food, and for me, there’s no show more comforting than Peep Show. The British sitcom from the early 2000s has been my go-to whenever I don’t know what to watch for quite some time now, and for good reasons. For the uninitiated, Peep Show…
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