For years, major game publishers and developers have been chasing a particular north star: Fortnite. With its internet-shaking live events and copious celebrity cameos, Epic's battle royale shooter became the epitome of what a live-service game could be, one that reached a level of cultural ubiquity that few other entertainment products could match while also […]

Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon is expanding to Congress. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is working on a new bill to "codify" Anthropic's red lines and ensure humans make the ultimate decisions in questions of life and death, and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) recently introduced a bill to limit the Defense Department's ability to use AI […]

First announced earlier this year at CES 2026, Xthings is planning to release two new long-range wireless security camera kits sometime in the second quarter of this year, with pricing ranging from $489.99 to $989.99 depending on the number and types of cameras included. The cameras will use the Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) protocol to wirelessly […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle CTO and executive chairman Larry Ellison, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Google cofounder Sergey Brin will be the first four members of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), according to the Wall Street Journal. The panel, which will "weigh in on AI policy," will include 13 […]

Ring has announced its first battery-powered 2K and 4K doorbell cameras. The Ring Battery Video Doorbell Pro 2nd Gen ($249.99) offers 4K video resolution and 10x digital zoom, while the Battery Video Doorbell Plus 2nd Gen ($179.99) offers 2K video and 6x zoom. The Battery Video Doorbell 2nd Gen ($99.99) also has 2K but uses […]