Technology

We’re back at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, for this year’s edition of Google I These days, Silicon Valley is buzzing about the future of AI search, agents, vibe coding, and e-commerce, so you can bet we’re expecting…

Almost exactly two years ago, we were gawking at prototypes of 1,000 Hz monitors and wondering who really needed a display that could support such ludicrously smooth frame rates. Now that those prototypes are starting to develop into retail products,…

Andrej Karpathy, the influential 39-year-old Slovak-Canadian AI researcher and one of the original 11 co-founders of OpenAI, and former head of Tesla’s AI division, announced on Tuesday, May 19 that he’s joining rival lab Anthropic. As Karpathy posted from his…

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The 119th Congress might be one of the most dysfunctional and least productive legislative sessions in the 250-year history of the United States, but it seems there’s one thing it can agree on: Electric vehicles don’t cost their owners enough…

Read the full official rules for the 2026 ZDNET Big Guessing Game.

Sony debuts a special edition pair of 1000X-series headphones, striking a balance between modern style and function.

“Build a civilization to stand the test of time.” That was the promise on the box of Sid Meier’s Civilization, the first in a long-running strategy game franchise that has evolved over 35 years and seven mainline entries. Civ 7…

Ten years ago Sony introduced the MDR-1000X headphones. They combined noise canceling, good sound, design, and comfort in a way that we hadn’t quite seen before in a set of wireless headphones. (At the time, the Bose QC35 were the…

Google I/O 2026 kicks off today, with the event’s keynote presentation slated for 10AM PT / 1PM ET on May 19th.  Gemini is expected to be front and center once again at this year’s developer conference, with Google potentially introducing…