Chrome for Android has a new Appearance menu that lets you customize the New Tab page, incorporating more color or even a photo into the browsing experience. The menu is in the “Customize your new tab page” section under the three-dot menu. From there, you can pick Chrome Default, upload an image from your device, […]

ChatGPT just got a lot better at understanding what you’re actually looking at. OpenAI has rolled out updates to its Chrome extension and desktop app that let ChatGPT read your open tabs, react to highlighted text, and answer questions about YouTube videos. The update arrived shortly after OpenAI shelved its standalone Atlas browser to shift […]

Amazon’s internal use of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet for a routine coding task appears to have cost the company $1.8 million, bringing it 9.6 times over budget. The project was supposed to link author data with Amazon product listings. Not only is it unclear whether the project was ever completed, but its wildly out-of-control budget went […]

Apple TV’s YouTube channel has shared the full panels for Matchbox The Movie, Widow’s Bay, Dark Matter, Mayday, and Silo, from its first-ever Hall H takeover at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Watch them below. Watch all five panels below Last Saturday, July 25, Apple held its first-ever Hall H takeover at San Diego Comic-Con, featuring […]

Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. Now the buyer on the other side of that judgment is starting to change, and Greg Ulrich, the company’s […]

Growing up music-obsessed, my household CD collection was substantial. Along with my own music, it was largely made up of albums my parents had accumulated separately. Like a library filled with books, it unlocked an educational portal on all things music and ignited my respect for the album. And yes, I use the best music […]

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Even though the brand is available every month of the year, July 2026 has proven an especially big month for Milwaukee. For one, there are several Milwaukee tools on deep discount in July, allowing supporters to stock up on niche […]

Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) gives some valuable insight on what small vehicles drivers should avoid because of low safety ratings. But when it comes to which ones are the most secure overall, the list actually doesn’t include popular models like the Corolla. […]

To quote an ancient Jedi Master “Begun, the AI price wars have!” OpenAI is sharply reducing the prices of two models in its GPT-5.6 frontier series, cutting GPT-5.6 Luna, the smallest and fastest model in the series, by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra, the mid-tier model, by 20%, while adding a premium Fast mode for its […]

Apple’s Mail app in iOS 27 promises to offer the feature upgrade that’s been at the top of my wishlist for years: search that “just works.” iOS 27 overhauls search in Apple Mail to make it more relevant and accurate Apple’s Mail app has long been plagued by lackluster search. I suspect that statement won’t […]