Google is giving Pixel users faster ways to reach frequent contacts, a new scam alert to fend off fraudulent texts and two months of Audible access coinciding with the launch of new Harry Potter audiobooks. The September feature drop comes a month after the release of Google’s Pixel 11... Read more

For Hollywood stars, press junkets are an opportunity to promote new work while connecting with fans. They tell funny or embarrassing stories about one another, give us a glimpse into the film production process, and reveal mannerisms that make them more relatable. So why would anyone want to talk... Read more

Polymarket launched event contracts tied to private-company milestones this week, expanding into IPO timing, valuation targets and secondary-market activity for firms including OpenAI, Anthropic and Stripe. The move landed the same week the Securities and Exchange Commission said it would seek public input before clearing prediction-market ETFs for launch,... Read more

A host of copyright infringement lawsuits filed by news organizations against the ChatGPT developer OpenAI are heading toward a new phase, and the Trump administration’s intervention is raising the question of just how costly it would be for AI companies to pay to license the content their models are... Read more

In the spring of 2020, as a new and highly contagious virus spread throughout the country, the US came to a standstill. The economy shut down, cities emptied, and white-collar workers were sent home en masse. Platforms like Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams surged in usage as WFH became... Read more

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on August 28 that sports-related event contracts offered by prediction-market platforms are not swaps under federal commodities law, clearing the way for Nevada to apply its own gaming regulations to those products. The decision, detailed in ReadWrite’s earlier coverage of the case,... Read more

MediaTek on Tuesday unveiled its new Dimensity 9600 Pro and 9600M phone processors, both of which highlight support for advanced gaming as well as artificial intelligence features for upcoming phones. Phone processors are an important component in any device — they help power everything from how fast a phone... Read more

I have similar feelings about the very large glass trackpad. For things like photo editing, the trackpad’s size is great, but I found my palms occasionally clicked the buttons at the bottom of the trackpad when I took a break from typing. It didn’t happen often, but I learned... Read more

Owners of the original Nintendo Switch should patch a security exploit immediately, especially if they game in public. Nintendo announced the vulnerability (PDF) on Sept. 10, shortly after releasing its latest 23.0.0 firmware update. The exploit applies only to original Nintendo Switch owners using the Send to Smartphone feature.... Read more

For the best part of a decade, abusive deepfake “pornography” websites have published thousands of nonconsensual videos depicting women, including high-profile celebrities, politicians, and public figures, into sexual situations. Now, in what is likely the largest takedown of explicit deepfake websites to date, officials in New York have seized... Read more