Your Galaxy Watch is losing a health feature, and the replacement needs another gadget

Samsung Health is notifying US Galaxy Watch users that Vascular Load will disappear in late July, with Blood Pressure Trend replacing it in Samsung Health 7.0 and One UI Watch 9

OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom 
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom 

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Financial Times. CEO Sam Altman argued that giving the public a financial interest in the company would be the best way to share […]

Opera’s new Paste Protect feature stops the clipboard attack your antivirus can’t catch

Opera’s new Paste Protect feature blocks ClickFix attacks natively in its desktop browser, making it the first major browser to address a threat that antivirus software isn’t designed to catch.

Nothing’s next budget earbuds are coming for boring AirPods clones

Nothing has confirmed that Ear (3a), its next affordable wireless earbuds, will launch on July 7 in White, Black, Yellow, and Pink color options

Sony is helping bury physical games, and preservation is being left to clean up the mess

Sony’s reported 2028 PS5 disc cutoff would push PlayStation deeper into digital licensing, leaving preservation advocates to deal with the mess the industry still hasn’t properly solved.

Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor
Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor

Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating in low-Earth orbit to light up its Starlink internet competitor. With last night’s launch, Amazon Leo has 396 satellites deployed, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes,” according to Chris Weber, VP heading up business and product for Amazon Leo. That puts the company […]

X wants you to go live with its new streaming hub, and is offering $1 million to make it worth your while

X has launched Live Studio, a dedicated streaming command center inside Creator Studio, and is putting $1 million on the table to incentivize creators to go live on the platform.

E-bikes bring both bad and good, but one greatly outweighs the other
E-bikes bring both bad and good, but one greatly outweighs the other

Spend enough time reading the news and you’d be forgiven for thinking e-bikes are society’s newest menace. Every week seems to bring another headline about reckless teenagers weaving through traffic, riders flying down sidewalks, battery fires, or poli…

PS Plus adds Modern Warfare III in July, plus two games worth your time

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III headlines July’s PS Plus lineup, and even with a widely criticized campaign, its multiplayer package makes it worth adding to your library.

Apple’s entry-level MacBook Pro could be up for a redesign
Apple’s entry-level MacBook Pro could be up for a redesign

Apple is working on a “revamped” version of its entry-level MacBook Pro that it could launch as soon as the first half of 2027, Bloomberg reports. The company is also testing four new iPad Pros that are set to launch in the spring with a focus on “internal improvements.” The updated MacBook Pro, which will […]