I visited the newest Micro Center in Santa Clara, and it’s amazing

I visited the newest Micro Center in Santa Clara, and it’s amazing

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority When it comes to buying the latest and greatest smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs, and more, Americans have a pretty limited set of options for shopping in a physical retail store. Over the past 15 years, the number of stores focused exclusively on electronics has dwindled. Even Best Buy, the…

Strategy’s Michael Saylor wants to ‘talk Bitcoin’ with Joe Rogan

Strategy’s Michael Saylor wants to ‘talk Bitcoin’ with Joe Rogan

Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor has publicly expressed interest in discussing Bitcoin on the world’s most-listened-to podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. “Hey @joerogan, let’s talk about Bitcoin,” Saylor said in a May 31 X post in response to a Joe Rogan fan account asking, “Who’s one guest you’d love to see Joe Rogan interview that he hasn’t…

Meta plans to automate many of its product risk assessments

Meta plans to automate many of its product risk assessments

An AI-powered system could soon take responsibility for evaluating the potential harms and privacy risks of up to 90% of updates made to Meta apps like Instagram and WhatsApp, according to internal documents reportedly viewed by NPR. NPR says a 2012 agreement between Facebook (now Meta) and the Federal Trade Commission requires the company to…

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…