Tech

Google's $32 billion acquisition of Wiz is the largest venture-backed startup deal in history. Here's why the cybersecurity firm was worth every penny — and what it signals for the cloud wars ahead.

In 2021, Clubhouse was the hottest app on earth. Invite codes sold for hundreds of dollars. Then it nearly vanished. The story reveals how social media hype actually works.

AI companies are hiring actors and writers to generate emotional training data. As creative labor becomes raw material for machine learning, what does that mean for the future of both?

Trump's H-1B fee hike to $100,000 has passed the six-month mark. The chaos has settled, but the deeper questions about US tech competitiveness and global talent are just beginning.

From Times Square launch events to silent server shutdowns, live-service games promised forever but keep delivering finality. What went wrong, and what comes next?

Buffon's Needle, a 1777 probability puzzle, can approximate pi using random chance alone. On Pi Day, we trace how this parlor trick became the Monte Carlo method powering modern science.

Apple's 2026 MacBook Air brings M5, Wi-Fi 7, and a $100 price hike. But the real story is the MacBook Neo sitting $500 below it — and what that means for how we buy laptops.

The Golden Globes partnered with Polymarket. From war timelines to Nobel Prizes, prediction markets now price every uncertainty. What does that do to the way we experience the world?

Friendship apps generated $16M and 4.3M downloads in the US in 2025. As loneliness becomes a public health crisis, a new app category is betting that algorithms can do what organic adult life can't.

Asus Cetra Open Wireless review: open-style gaming earbuds with a USB-C passthrough transmitter that changes the game for Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch 2 users.

OpenAI's new app integrations let ChatGPT book hotels, order groceries, build websites, and control Spotify—all from one chat window. Here's what that power shift really means.

The Galaxy S26 Ultra's built-in Privacy Display is the rare smartphone hardware feature that changes everyday behavior. But is it worth $1,300 when the rest is incremental?