Please, please don’t buy an ‘AI-optimized’ screen protector or phone case

Please, please don’t buy an ‘AI-optimized’ screen protector or phone case

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Call me a Luddite, but my eyes glaze over when a product claims it has an “AI-optimized” design. Whether it’s marketing oversaturation or a growing existential dread as AI threatens to take over both my career and my hobbies, the phrase goes into one ear and out the other as…

NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’

NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’

The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil rights group sent a letter Thursday to the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis Light Gas and Water criticizing the organizations’ “lackadaisical approach…

Deals: the Galaxy S25 series comes with a free tablet, Google Pixels heavily discounted

Deals: the Galaxy S25 series comes with a free tablet, Google Pixels heavily discounted

Amazon UK is offering a free Galaxy Tab A9+ with its whole flagship line – but that’s just the cherry on top. There are discounts across the board and you also get £100 Samsung Credit with each phone. This offer ends on June 26 – more details on how to claim the tablet here. The…

Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X, Pew says

Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X, Pew says

It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center attempts to quantify that shift. This comes as an update to Pew’s news influencer report released in November 2024, which did not include Bluesky in its numbers. The report focused on…