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Sony revives the original Walkman headphones, adds USB-C

Sony has brought back the MDR-3-series headphones that debuted in 1979 alongside the Walkman TPS-L2 cassette player. In this marketing image Sony shared, you can see the Walkman TPS-L2. Credit: Sony Originally called the…

Instagram launches free Edits video editor for Mac with 4K exports

Instagram first launched Edits on phones in April 2025 as a rival to CapCut, the editing app owned by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. More than 50 million creators now use the mobile version, the company told Gulf…

Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

Google faced the ire of educators and parents earlier this week when it announced a new AI policy for K–12 schools . Google said that it developed its new approach to give schools more control, but early reporting also…

Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.

A grand jury indicted Cheryl Gates on charges of attempted first-degree murder and food contamination in October. About a week prior, the accusations that ChatGPT was a co-conspirator in the attempted murder came in a…

Bose recalls S1 Pro battery packs due to fire and overheating risks

The good news: the speaker itself is fine. The bad news: the battery pack inside may be less than fine. Bose and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a recall on Thursday, covering nearly 635,000…

Ads in Chatbots Have Arrived. Here’s What’s Working—and What’s Not

The company’s recent IPO filing didn’t even mention the possibility of selling ads to make money from the AI chatbot. It’s easy to maintain the high ground with about $112 billion in investor cash. The chatbot industry…

'One Windows Tablet. Three Modes': This 611g ingenious modular x86 device lets you swap between a keyboard, cooling stand, and tablet without migrating files

The central idea is that users retain the same computing components, applications and documents while changing how the computer is assembled. Weighing 611g and measuring 6.1mm at its thinnest point, the fanless…

Serve Robotics launches new business to become the AWS for robots

The company, which spun out of Uber’s acquisition of Postmates in 2021 and went public in 2024, said Thursday it will launch a new business line called Physical AI Services. Specifically, Serve Robotics will offer…

Meta adds real-time voice chat and animated avatars to its Muse app

The update also gives Muse an animated avatar that reacts as the conversation goes on. The feature is available now in the Muse app on phones, the web and Mac, but only in the US for the moment. Users start a call by…

Google is ditching Firebase Studio soon, and it wants you to use its newer AI tools instead

In March, Google announced it was "sunsetting" Firebase Studio , its online integrated development environment (IDE), in favor of coding tools that put AI at the center. The company's preference for Antigravity and…