Meta Is Making Oakley Smart Glasses for Athletes

BloombergreportedTuesday that the two companies had teamed up on a smart glasses partnership. The glasses will be marketed to athletes, according to the report. Second, Meta is broadening its smart glasses technology to other fashion brands owned by partner Luxottica Group SA. © Stuart Franklin/Getty Images That includes a new version dubbed Supernova 2 that is based on Oakleys Sphaera glasses. While details about how such glasses would actually function are currently slim, the whole idea seems somewhat ridiculous....

January 22, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Robert Harris

MrBeast Is Officially Trying to Buy TikTok

Now, we have a new contender: viral influencer Jimmy Donaldson (aka MrBeast). Okay fine, Ill buy Tik Tok so it doesnt get banned, Donaldsonposted on Xlast week. Commentators have noted whata political fumblethis was, given how overwhelmingly popular TikTok is with young voters. © Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Prime Video When he returned to the White House this week, Trump easily took advantage of Bidens unpopular decision. There are signs that Trump could be supportive of the Donaldson deal, however....

January 22, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Carrie Murray

My Hero Academia‘s Anime Spinoff Enters the World of Vigilante Justice

My Hero Academias final season is slated to hit the anime airwaves sometime later this year. Earlier today, Bones released a new trailer for the spin-off prequel series of creator Kohei Horikoshis shonen epic. The one-minute-thirty-second trailer is packed with action and heart that fans have come to love about the original series. © Studio Bones Coupled with its new trailer, Bones revealed the voice actors behind its new hero team....

January 22, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Levi Harris

NASA Astronauts Set to Search for Life Clinging to the ISS Exterior

The samples will be analyzed back on Earth. When everything gets to the station, these microbiomesbecome part of the space station microbiome. Some of these organisms survive, adapt, and even reproduce. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy performing an ISS spacewalk in 2020.© NASA The unique environmental pressures eventrigger microbial mutations that dont exist on Earth, which is another story entirely. As a consequence, astronautsfrequentlyswab the ISS interior to monitor its unique microbiome....

January 22, 2025 · 1 min · 79 words · Julie Reed

OpenAI Reportedly Launching ‘Operator’ That Can Control Your Computer This Week

OpenAI is reportedly preparing for the launch of Operator sometime this week. Operator will not complete a transactionthe user will remain in the loop and complete the checkout process. Gizmodo has reached out to OpenAI for comment but has not heard back. It is easy to imagine certain ways Operator could be useful. So-called computer use agents do come with potential risks. We have already seen a startup introduce a web-navigating bot to automate the process ofposting marketing spam to Reddit....

January 22, 2025 · 1 min · 172 words · Stephanie Cook

Samsung Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+ Hands-On: Two Powerful Little Phones

You used to have to compromise if you wanted something smaller. First things first, the phones. There is the 6.2-inch Galaxy S25 and the 6.7-inch Galaxy S25+. A big Galaxy S25+ (left) and a smaller Galaxy S25 with the same RAM (right)© Adriano Contreras / Gizmodo They feel light, like a thin piece of perfectly buttery crust from a freshly baked croissant. They are fingerprint magnets, so much so that scrubbing them out of all the photos was challenging....

January 22, 2025 · 2 min · 294 words · Martin Bass

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Hands-On: Light, Thin, and Packed With AI

However, Samsung is putting its best foot forward here. Other AI features havebeen contextualizedto become more integrated with the Samsung equipment. Theres even a more conversational algorithm. © Adriano Contreras / Gizmodo But dont be surprised if some of the AI features sound familiar. The Galaxy S25 Ultra doesnt move the design mark on Samsungs ultimate, everything-you-could-want-flagship. (I would have liked to see 16GB instead since thats where Google and OnePlus are....

January 22, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Cindy Murphy

Samsung Teases AR Glasses at Galaxy Unpacked

If 2025 is the year of agentic AI, its also the age of smart glasses. Samsung has both, or at least it will later this year. It just wont have anything real to share until later this year. © Samsung During its Galaxy Unpacked 2025 conference, Samsung took roughly five minutes to talk about its Android XR initiatives. These arent the same as Samsungs Project Moohan, developed alongside Google to execute the new Android XR OS....

January 22, 2025 · 1 min · 191 words · Robert Taylor

Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Is Thinner, Lighter, and Stuffed to the Gills With AI

The age of Agentic AI arrives with the Samsung Galaxy S25 phones. At its latest Unpacked conference, Samsung revealed the the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra. Though they all share the same chip and RAM specifics, the three phones maintain the S24s pricing structure. © Photo: Adriano Contreras / Gizmodo The starting $800 Galaxy S25 comes back with more curved corners. It shares a very similar frame to the $1,000 S25+....

January 22, 2025 · 2 min · 364 words · Eric Erickson

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch for Kids Is the Perfect Feature for Helicopter Parents

Google Family Link will let parents block apps even after theyre installed. The watch-centric features will roll out over the coming weeks. There are a few more kids-friendly watch face apps, like Unicorn Academy and Rebel Girls Watch Faces. © Samsung Children can still roll out the full gamut of apps on the Play Store with parental approval. These watch features are all tied to the Galaxy Watches, at least at launch....

January 22, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Bryan Massey

Tech Billionaires Announce ‘Project Stargate’ With Trump, But Where’s Elon?

And all of this new AI investment will supposedly lead to tools that will help the average person. That seemed to be the message that each of the billionaires wanted to repeat on Tuesday. This was really going to help the average person, they insisted in a press conference livestreamed onYouTube. Donald Trump, accompanied by (R-L) , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, and Oracle CTO Larry Ellison speaks as he leaves a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC....

January 22, 2025 · 2 min · 284 words · Stephanie Esparza

The Stars ofStar Trek: Section 31Know Why You’re Nervous About the Movie

[Gene] Roddenberry created a universe that was utopian in his ideals. And to fight for it and get it, then you have to fight to keep it. They would see [the Federation] destroyed to fit their moral relativism, Kazinsky argued. © Paramount+ Then Section 31 is a crucial part of that story, and I think we explore that. Lets believe in that again, Omari Hardwick, who playsSection 31s team leader Alok, added....

January 22, 2025 · 1 min · 152 words · Patrick Miller

There’s Something Fishy About This Fish Tech Startup

An Indonesian agriculture tech startup that raised hundreds of millions of dollars comes off as a giant fraud. That means its revenue was 75% lower than it had presented. You could call it a pescatarian ponzi. A fish tech startup in Indonesia reportedly faked hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.Afriadi Hikmal/NurPhoto via Getty eFisherys CEO was fired after an investigation by the board quickly turned up accounting inconsistencies. What are the odds the founders of eFishery got their inspiration from 4chan?...

January 22, 2025 · 1 min · 171 words · Pamela Butler