Meta’s messaging app WhatsApp could soon be subject to deeper scrutiny (and punishment) under the European Commission’s Digital Services Act, Reuters reports. Because the app’s broadcasting feature WhatsApp Channels grew to around 51.7 million average monthly active users in the European…
Aurora chaser catches a fox basking in the glow of Finland’s legendary ‘fox fires’ (photos)
In Finnish folklore, the northern lights are created when a mythical fox races across the Arctic tundra, its tail sweeping snow into the sky and setting it ablaze. Those glowing sparks, the story goes, become auroras — a legend reflected in…
Future AirPods may gain finer and faster gesture recognition
New research shows that Apple is looking to improve gestures on AirPods by dropping the separate detection circuitry of AirPods, and instead using the RF antenna to sense the gesture. In the future, the antenna may be used to sense a…
‘AI-generated music is awesome, somebody’s still generating it. When the machine’s doing it on its own, talk to me’ — will.i.am tells me how he tunes LG’s new speakers, and why TikTok rather than AI is the big danger to music
At CES 2026, LG announced a new wave of speakers in its xboom range, once again produced in collaboration with will.i.am. Last year’s models produced some real hits – we gave the xboom Stage 301 and the xboom Grab glowing reviews,…
America’s new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research
That’s partly because they recommend products like red meat, butter, and beef tallow—foods that have been linked to cardiovascular disease, and that nutrition experts have been recommending people limit in their diets. These guidelines are a big deal—they influence food assistance…