Through the looking glass: Modern car technologies such as license plate readers and self-driving telemetry systems have been raising privacy concerns for some time now. However, a San Diego company's fleet observation devices might bring car surveillance to a new, uncomfortable level, especially when encountered by unsuspecting renters.

A woman recently took to social media after discovering that her Audi rental car's dashboard contained a camera recording her every

In brief: Here's some surprising news for those of us who nostalgically recall an era when calling someone meant picking up a landline phone and talking until your ear/face went numb. Those retro phones are making a comeback in a new guise, one that allows kids to stay connected to their friends without the distractions and dangers of smartphones.

Pinwheel, the US company that sells modified Android smartphones designed for children and

In a nutshell: Since Valve allowed Steam Machine owners to replace the mini PC's standard Linux-based operating system with Windows 11, it was only a matter of time before benchmarks comparing the two operating systems emerged. One of the first indicates that switching to Windows 11 does not sacrifice performance.

A brief benchmark from ETA Prime shows that games running on Valve's Steam Machine via Windows 11 mostly

A hot potato: Not everyone in the movie industry is against generative AI. Star Wars creator George Lucas is so pro-AI that he believes those who reject the technology are comparable to people who still believe the horse and buggy are a better option than cars.

Lucas expressed his opinion of AI in an interview with A Rabbit's Foot to promote the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

"Artificial intelligence means it'

Rumor mill: Stripe and the private equity firm Advent International have offered $60.50 a share for PayPal, a bid that values the veteran payments company at more than $53 billion and, if accepted, would fuse the two most widely used payment platforms for online merchants into a single operator handling roughly $3.7 trillion in payments each year. The offer was submitted earlier this month and carries

A hot potato: Linus Torvalds' stance toward AI appears to be softening. After pointing out that AI tech was 90% marketing and 10% factual reality in 2024, Torvalds just said that Linux is not an "anti-AI" project, and that anyone who has an issue with this can either walk away or fork the kernel.

Torvalds' comments came in response to a discussion about

Forward-looking: Thirty years after Sega partnered with Nvidia to bring its arcade fighting game Virtua Fighter to PCs running on the Nvidia NV1 multimedia card, the two companies have once again teamed up to launch the franchise's next title, Virtua Fighter Crossroads, on laptops and desktops powered by the Arm-based Nvidia RTX Spark. The collaboration will also extend to other upcoming Sega titles, the companies confirmed.

According

Always AI's Fault: IBM took the unusual step of warning shareholders ahead of its financial results for the second quarter of 2026. Revenue is still growing slightly, but the industry's AI-driven FOMO is expected to significantly affect the company's prospects across some of its most important product lines.

In a recent letter to investors, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna explained that the company experienced some unexpected