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- The Tesla Roadster flew, drove upside down, and hit 60mph in under a secondby Andrew J. Hawkins on October 16, 2026 at 1:28 am
Elon Musk promised a flying car. And the Tesla Roadster did exactly that. Tesla demonstrated its next-generation Roadster at an event in Waco, Texas, where the electric supercar drove upside down, briefly flew, and accelerated to 60mph in under a second. It was an impressive demonstration of a car that likely will come with some
- Steam can now show game achievements in separate ‘sets’by Jay Peters on October 15, 2026 at 11:18 pm
Valve is introducing a major new feature for Steam achievements called “achievement sets” that lets developers list different groups of achievements for a base game and DLCs. “In games that support sets, you still unlock achievements by playing the game as usual,” Valve says. “But when you browse what you have unlocked afterward, Steam will
- ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs nowby Stevie Bonifield on October 15, 2026 at 10:43 pm
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT’s Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT’s web or desktop app, posting a demo video
- Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launchby Jay Peters on October 15, 2026 at 10:35 pm
Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI. Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the main game and all of its
- The tech backlash is now in theatersby Charles Pulliam-Moore on October 15, 2026 at 9:39 pm
Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can
- Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration workby Emma Roth on October 15, 2026 at 9:09 pm
President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House – but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a “restored” one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google’s AI detector as “made or
- Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on socialby Jay Peters on October 15, 2026 at 7:57 pm
Bluesky’s Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make “small” social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said
- Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other appsby Andrew Liszewski on October 15, 2026 at 7:52 pm
If you’re a new user of Withings’ fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it’s now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings’ support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th,
- Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macsby Jay Peters on October 15, 2026 at 6:15 pm
Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it’s the “most capable US open-weight model to date.” But the company also says that it’s the “the first model in its class” that can “run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework.” Meta and Apple,
- Sony made a $5,900 gold-plated Walkman MP3 playerby Terrence O’Brien on October 15, 2026 at 5:48 pm
Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched in between is the $2,999.99 Walkman NW-WM1AM3, which is nearly identical to the WM1ZM3, just minus the gaudy gold shell. All








