‘One Piece’ Straw Hat Pirates, Ranked

If One Piece is a testament to anything, it’s that you can’t choose your family, but you can for damn sure choose your chosen family. Speaking anecdotally, after reading 100 chapters ...

Anthropic says it will challenge Defense Department’s supply chain risk designation in court

In a new blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has admitted that it received a letter from the Defense Department, officially labeling it a supply chain risk. He said he doesn’t “believe this action ...

Huawei Mate 80 Pro Goes Global: Record 8,000 Nits Display And Kirin 9030 SoC

Huawei officially introduced the Mate 80 Series in China in November 2025, setting a new industry benchmark for display technology. The lineup consists of four models: the standard Mate 80, the Mate ...

‘Girl Dinner’ Takes on a Deliciously Grisly New Meaning in This Speculative Short Story

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest ...

X’s Exclusive Threads feature lets creators paywall the end of tweet threads

Today, X announced some updates to its creator subscriptions platform. The leading change gives participating accounts the option to make part of tweet threads only visible to subscribers. This new ...

Huawei Watch GT 6 Series Gets Inclusive Activity Tracking For Wheelchair Users

Huawei has announced a significant update to its smartwatch ecosystem by introducing a dedicated wheelchair mode for its Activity Rings functionality. Originally unveiled during the GITEX 2025 ...

Please Just Let the Metaverse Go

If you’ve been busy dancing on the grave of Meta’s failed metaverse, I’m going to have to ask you to pause for a moment. In fact, you may just want to sit down and rest your ...

COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time

Today the US Senate unanimously passed proposed legislation known as COPPA 2.0. This measure, fully named the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act, aims to create new protections for ...

Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon Wear Elite at MWC 2026, Bringing Dedicated On-Device AI to Wearables

At MWC 2026 in Barcelona, Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon Wear Elite platform, its most advanced wearable processor to date, and the first in this category to carry the ...

Not Just for the GoPro-Pilled

The Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition pitches itself as the total creative’s package, so long as you’re really, really keen on the dude-bro-iest action cameras. Asus seemed to ...