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Memorizing the dictionary doesn’t make you a great writer
Samantha Cole: Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds
Chatbots may be able to pass medical exams, but that doesn’t mean they make good doctors, according to a new, large-scale study of how people get medical advice from large language models.
I think there’s something to be understood here about the difference
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Celebrating record revenue with layoffs
Maddie Agne: Bandai Namco Hits Record High Net Sales Revenue
Bandai Namco has posted record high net sales for the first nine months of the 2026 financial year despite differences in home console title lineups impacting profits.
At this point, when I hear a tech or gaming company made record revenue numbers, I assume that
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iPhones need MagSafe
Hartley Charlton: Gurman: iPhone 17e Launch 'Imminent' With Four New Features
Gurman said that the new lost-cost iPhone will feature the A19 chip first introduced with the iPhone 17 last year. The device will also address one of the most glaring omissions from the current generation and add MagSage connectivity. The device
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Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show still slaps
I don't know if there's a Super Bowl halftime show I've rewatched more than this one. Obviously it helps that Kendrick has a great library to pull from, but I also really love the production value of it. It's unquestionably less bombastic than shows from The Weeknd
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A year in the life of MKBHD
I think The Studio, the behind-the-scenes channel for MKBHD, is always fun, but this most recent video, a feature-length documentary following the team as they go through all of 2025, is astounding. Amazing work from the team putting this together.
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AirDrop is coming to more Android phones in 2026
Adamya Sharma: Google just confirmed what Android fans have been praying to hear about AirDrop sharing
Speaking during a press briefing I attended at Google’s Taipei office during a Pixel Labs tour, Eric Kay, Vice President of Engineering for the Android platform, confirmed that AirDrop interoperability is set to expand well beyond Pixel phones
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Nvidia delayed gaming chips, may not deliver next gen ones until 2028
Stevie Bonifield: Nvidia’s RTX 50-series Super refresh is delayed, and the RTX 60-series might miss 2027
The Super refresh to Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs was expected at CES 2026 in January, but it didn’t make an appearance. The Information reports that in December, Nvidia managers decided not to release
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Begun, the tech pricing apocalypse, has
Edmond Tran: Steam Machine Pricing and Release Affected by Memory and Storage Price Hikes, Says Valve
Valve has published a blog post providing updates on the lineup of Steam Hardware that it announced late last year – Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame – indicating that it has postponed plans to announce specific pricing and release
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Complexly becomes a nonprofit
James Pollard: Hank and John Green's studio becomes a nonprofit as they aim to make 'trustworthy content' online
“Part of what Complexly’s trying to do is create good information on the internet,” Hank told the Associated Press. “Let’s actually just say that this is our goal. Like, our goal
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Gemini is catching ChatGPT
Lauren Forristal: Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
In comparison, Meta AI has reported nearly 500
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OpenAI swears their ads won't do what every single other ads platform has done
Richard Lawler & Hayden Field: Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads
OpenAI says its ad test will only appear for logged-in users on free or ChatGPT Go accounts, while maintaining that “Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on what’s most helpful to
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Xcode gets agentic coding
Apple released Xcode version 26.3 in beta today, and it introduces a new agentic coding feature. This is different from the coding assistant they've had since last fall, and my first impressions are that it is more capable. This is good, because what Xcode had before was far, far, far behind what
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The massive success of the Nintendo Switch
Ollie Reynolds: It's Official, The Switch Is Nintendo's Best-Selling Console Of All Time
So what are the specific figures? Well, the Switch has now sold a total of 155.37 million units, while the DS was previously sat atop the throne at 154.02 million. The Switch 2, meanwhile, has
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UbiSoft is serious that this game is totally coming out
Zack Zwiezen: Beyond Good & Evil 2 'Remains A Priority For Us,' Ubisoft Says
Ubisoft has confirmed with Kotaku that it is still working on the long-in-development sci-fi sequel Beyond Good & Evil 2. This follows previous reporting that the game survived Wednesday’s massive restructuring, which saw seven games
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Trump invited his friends over and you’ll never guess who happily showed up (with movie snacks, I can only assume)
McKinley Franklin: White House Holding VIP ‘Melania’ Screening Ahead of Doc Premiere With Mike Tyson, Tim Cook, Andy Jassy and More (Exclusive)
Guests include director Brett Ratner; Queen Rania of Jordan; Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; Apple CEO Tim Cook; New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Linsa Su; Mike Tyson; socialite and Fiat
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The White House is creating their own reality
Violet Jira writing for NOTUS: White House Admits to Sharing a Fake Photo of Minnesota Activist After Her Arrest
The White House communications team posted a digitally altered photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota social justice activist, on Thursday that makes it appear that she was weeping during her arrest by federal agents. The
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What's making us stupid now?
Nicholas Carr writing for The Atlantic: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing.
The
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Thing that everyone with a functioning brain said about tariffs is indeed happening
Tom Fairless writing for The Wall Street Journal: Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their
