Apple just shipped a new update for the Apple TV app on Android, and it adds support for Google Cast.

Microsoft made a big punt this year with Copilot. The company put its AI chatbot into a special line of laptops and has also tried to integrate it into other tech products. The latest place you may find Copilot is on your LG smart television, whether you want it or not. Several LG smart TV owners have taken to Reddit over the past few days to complain that they suddenly have a Copilot app on the device and cannot uninstall it. Two Engadget staffers discovered the app on a 2022 LG OLED and a ..

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a social media post that his company is testing driverless cars in Austin without a safety driver in the vehicle.

Dec 15 (Reuters) - "Battlefield" maker Electronic Arts forecast fiscal 2026 net bookings below analysts' estimates on Monday, as soft consumer spending and elevated console prices weigh on demand during a fiercely competitive holiday season. Read full story

'Sustained focus on Western critical infrastructure' Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind a years-long campaign targeting energy, telecommunications, and tech providers, stealing credentials and compromising misconfigured devices hosted on AWS to give the Kremlin's snoops persistent access to sensitive networks, according to Amazon's security boss.

The Youyeetoo NestDisk is a compact mini PC with four SSD slots, an Intel N150 CPU, dual 2.5Gb Ethernet, and complete NAS connectivity.

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Germany's lower house of parliament suffered a major email outage on Monday in what officials suspect was a cyberattack during high- stakes U.S.-Ukraine talks hosted by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nasdaq, one of the world's largest exchanges that is home to tech companies Nvidia, Apple and Amazon, is planning to submit paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to roll out round-the-clock trading of stocks, as it looks to capitalize on a global demand for U.S. equities. Read full story

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs is restructuring its influential technology, media, and telecom (TMT) investment banking group with an eye toward infrastructure deals and artificial intelligence, creating two new teams with new leaders, according to the internal memo seen by Reuters. Read full story

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Elon Musk on Monday became the first person ever worth $600 billion, Forbes said, on the heels of reports that his SpaceX startup was likely to go public at a valuation of $800 billion. Read full story

Want to back up an iPhone locally without iCloud fees? A small Linux-powered device offers encrypted USB backups but you've got to put in the work to set it up.

Dec 15 (Reuters) - OpenAI on Monday confirmed that it has appointed Albert Lee, senior director of corporate development at Google, as its vice president of corporate development. Read full story

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA has been subject to a cyberattack, it said on Monday, adding its operations were unaffected, even though four sources said systems remained down andoil cargo deliveries weresuspended. Read full story

Gaming laptops and pre-built systems are in trouble, as we may see more 8GB configurations as a result of RAM price hikes.

Store 8TB of your data for life for a one-time price with this FileLu Cloud Storage Premium Plan lifetime subscription, on sale now for $649.99 (reg. $1,600).

Apple is widely rumored to be finally dipping its toes in the foldable smartphone game next year with the device we're calling iPhone Fold (though it's unclear what the official name will turn out to be). Today on Weibo, the Chinese leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station has decided to share more details about the device. According to him, the iPhone Fold will have a side- mounted fingerprint sensor, in typical book-style foldable smartphone fashion. There won't be Face ID, nor an under-display ..

Zillow shares fell more than 11% on Monday as investors grew concerned that Google could be testing real estate listings on its search page.

Slop refers to the low-quality content created by artificial intelligence that's showing up across social media.

Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI- generated content.

Kioxia develops eight-layer stackable oxide-semiconductor transistors for 3D DRAM - yet commercial deployment remains years away.

Big Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week Oracle last week announced that it had divested from Ampere Computing. But while Big Red may no longer own part of the Arm CPU maker, it's not ready to stop using the chips just yet.

Just last month, Ford seemed to be on the brink of sunsetting the F-150 Lightning. Today, the vehicle manufacturer announced plans to reboot the truck as a hybrid. This next generation of the F-150 Lightning will contain Extended Range Electric Vehicle. An EREV is similar in concept to a plug-in hybrid but with a larger battery that's topped up by a gas generator the powertrain itself is all electric. This next generation of the F-150 Lightning will offer an estimated range of more than 700 ..

Tiiny AI Pocket Lab is a pocket-sized Mini PC running large language models offline with optimized CPU and NPU performance.

"Everything we've ever assumed about the Upside Down has been dead wrong."

Framework looks great for scenarios where a 62 percent completion rate is acceptable IBM researchers have released an open source AI agent called CUGA that aspires to automate complex enterprise workflows and get it right about half the time, depending on the task.

PayPal has applications pending with the state of Utah and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to establish PayPal Bank.

If the buy happens, the big question is will they integrate the codebase or keep it separate? ServiceNow is reportedly nearing a deal to buy security software company Armis for $7.1 billion to give its customers full stack visibility of their IT estate and eliminate security blindspots, according to Bloomberg .

Nearly two-thirds of poll respondents say the Pixel 10's battery is either average or great.

The word of the year is "Slop," according to the people at Merriam-Webster who decide what words mean.

Netflix just removed Google Cast support, and Apple is now adding the feature to its own streaming service.

Washington rediscovers that modern IT doesnt run itself After dissolving several federal tech modernization units and shedding large numbers of technologists, the Trump administration has launched a new talent recruitment initiative, suggesting it still needs people to help drag the government's IT into the present.

Photos taken at booths get uploaded on the internet where they can easily be downloaded.

The em dash a favorite of writers everywhere has become one of the signature giveaways of AI writing. Reddit users are sharing other common tells.

The company's bankruptcy comes after Amazon abandoned its planned acquisition of iRobot in 2024 due to mounting regulatory scrutiny.

Xiaomi's rollout of HyperOS 3 based on Android 16 has finally reached global 15 Ultra units in stable form. The update has arrived on our review unit, which is meant for the European market, as build 3.0.5.0.WOAEUXM. It's a whopping 8.9GB download, so make sure you grab it on a fast enough network, otherwise it could take hours to download. [#InlinePriceWidget,13657,1#] The full changelog is available in the screenshots below. It's huge, so we won't go into all of it here. But suffice to say, ..

The holidays are nearly here and if youre a bit behind on your gift shopping, youre not alone. The holidays can truly sneak up on you, and this year thats been more true than ever. Between wrapping things up at work before some well- deserved time off and making sure you have everything you need to host family and friends, it can be hard to find the time to go to a store to pick out presents. And when you do finally get there, you may be met with half-empty shelves. But this is where the ..

The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades.

The move comes as a response to the Trump administration's waning support for electrification and a weakening consumer market.

In a big win for winter warriors, Google Maps has resurrected its lost ski trails and lifts feature.