If you have small devices that are on the fritz — or in need of a slight modification — Hoto’s Electric Precision Screwdriver ADV is great for DIY projects. Its size and power make it well-suited for tinkering with phones, laptops, and handheld gaming consoles, with its pen-style grip, simple one-button operation, and a tidy […]

Jimmy Fallon is helping make Wordle into a television series, Deadline reports. NBC is piloting the Wordle game show with the help of Fallon’s production company, and the show is currently filming in the UK. Savannah Guthrie will host.  Around when Wordle really started to blow up, Jimmy Fallon once spent a whole segment of […]

It may be October, but the holidays will be here before you know it. Amazon’s fall Prime Day event is here, offering Prime subscribers a great opportunity to save on holiday decorations before the holiday rush kicks off. Right now, you can pick up the Philips Hue Festavia string lights at a one of its […]

Hello and welcome to Regulator. I was recently riding a Lime scooter around downtown DC (don't hate the player) and zipped across the intersection of 16th Street and I Street NW when I zoomed by the Motion Picture Association's office building. Except now it had the logo of America 250 over the door. The last […]

Google is previewing a new Gemini AI model designed to navigate and interact with the web via a browser, letting AI agents do things inside interfaces designed for use by people and not robots. The model, called Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, uses “visual understanding and reasoning capabilities” to analyze a user’s request and carry out […]

Day one of Prime Big Deal Days is here, and while there are plenty of big-ticket discounts, not everyone is looking to shell out a bunch of cash (myself included). The good news is you don’t have to spend a fortune to score something good during the two-day event, which ends Thursday, October 9th, at […]

On Thursday, three physicists received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanics in the 1980s. Researchers John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis created a circuit with no electrical resistance to demonstrate a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, or how atoms and subatomic particles can move through a barrier material […]

Apple is facing pressure from a former executive and senior manager over its decision to remove the ICE-spotting app, ICEBlock, from the App Store. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Wiley Hodges says he’s “deeply disturbed” by the move, as spotted earlier by Daring Fireball. Hodges worked at Apple for more than 22 […]

There’s no question that Bose’s last-gen QuietComfort Ultra are some of the brand’s best noise-canceling headphones, especially if you’re a frequent traveler or someone who values peace and quiet while listening to your music. But at $429, that quality doesn’t come cheap. However, it’s cheaper today thanks to Prime Big Deal Days, albeit only for […]

AltStore PAL, which launched as one of the first alternative iOS app stores in the EU last year, is coming to more countries, developer Riley Testut announced today. “Specifically, we plan to launch in Japan, Brazil, and Australia before the end of the year, with the UK to follow in 2026,” Testut says. Launching in […]