Take a gander at these early Home Depot Black Friday deals and get a lead on the masses who’ll be ready to crowd the digital gates before the Thanksgiving turkey even gets cold. Winter means, for more of us than not, spending a lot more time at home than... Read more

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. OpenAI’s announcement last night apparently resolved the saga that has beset it for the last five days: It is bringing back Sam Altman as... Read more

Miscreants are actively exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities to wrangle routers and video recorders into a hostile botnet used in distributed denial-of-service attacks, researchers from networking firm Akamai said Thursday. Both of the vulnerabilities, which were previously unknown to their manufacturers and to the security research community at large,... Read more

Comedian and viral TikTok star Matt Rife is facing criticism after making light of domestic violence in his recent Netflix comedy special “Natural Selection.” According to a recent Forbes report, in the opening bit of his special, Rife told a story about going to a “ratchet” Baltimore restaurant where... Read more

Video game confession time — I own a Nintendo Switch, and I’ve never played even a single minute of a Zelda game. I do know Link, of course, because he’s one of the worst drivers in Super Mario Kart and one of the best fighters in my favorite Nintendo... Read more

When Chuck Mumford first launched Pit Viper, the Salt Lake City-based sunglass company he founded with college buddy Chris Garcin in 2012, he picked up an old Samsonite briefcase at Goodwill, spray painted it neon colors, and filled it with a bunch of the outrageously bright military-grade sunglasses he’d... Read more

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. The philosophical battle between AI “accelerationists” and “doomers” has erupted into full view at OpenAI. Basically, the accelerationists advocate for rapid advancement in AI... Read more

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman is set to reclaim his position as CEO after being ousted by the company’s board just days ago, reports Axios. Additionally, a revamped board, led by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, has been announced. This agreement “in principle” follows... Read more

While VPNs, or virtual private networks, are great at protecting your privacy, there’s an unavoidable trade-off: slower internet speeds, often by 50% or more. It’s the nature of how VPNs work, where your data has to bounce to another server to be encrypted, and there’s really no way around... Read more

Every single year I tell myself that I’m not going to go overboard for the holidays. Then I start shopping for all 20 of my 20 closest family members and friends. Pair that big list of people with the fact that gift-giving is my love language, and you’ve got... Read more