Sony is adopting new age verification policies for PlayStation users in the UK and Ireland. The company isn’t making this a blanket requirement, but steps to confirm age will be needed to access “communication, broadcasting, and certain in-game features” beginning in June 2026. That includes essentials for online and socialContinue Reading
Previously: Notes from the SF Party Scene Scott Alexander writes an excellent series of posts about Bay Area house parties. He’s written more than a half-dozen at this point. They all involve the straight-man audience/scott-insert (and the only sane man left alive, apparently) entering some strange lovecraftian event that, ifContinue Reading
Japan is the land of the train. 28 percent of passenger kilometers in Japan are travelled by rail, more than anywhere else in the developed world. France achieves 10 percent, Germany 6.4 percent, and the United States just 0.25 percent. Travel in Japan is over a hundred times more likelyContinue Reading
TCL introduced its new flagship X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at CES 2026, and now a few months later, the company is ready to expand its lineup with more SQD-Mini LED models and its first RGB-Mini LED TV. All sizes of the TCL QM8L SQD-Mini LED TV are available now. Meanwhile,Continue Reading
DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 gimbal-camera was a category-defining camera. Two years since its launch, everyone from vloggers to pro film makers continue to upload how-to guides and gushing reviews to YouTube. When the Osmo Pocket 4 landed at the FCC at the end of 2025 (followed by a credible leak),Continue Reading
By Kimeko McCoy • April 15, 2026 • Ivy Liu The days of marketers manually managing their Google search campaigns seem numbered as the industry barrels toward automation in the age of AI. Today, Google’s AI Max is moving out of beta. With that, campaigns using Dynamic Search Ads (DSA),Continue Reading
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a spiral galaxy. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole located in an unusual region of its galaxy. And to explain this phenomenon, a hypothesis has been put forward. For more than 30 years,Continue Reading
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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Managing a home with multiple people can feel like a thankless and never-ending project management exercise. From making sure the plants get watered, the pets are fed, the bathrooms are clean, and the kitchen is stocked up, it’s a logisticalContinue Reading
“Every frontier model we evaluated lost money over the season and many experienced ruin,” the authors of the paper concluded, with the AI “systematically underperforming humans” in this scenario. AI Model Mean ROI Best try Worst try Mean final bankroll Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 –11.0% –0.2% –18.8% £89,035 OpenAI GPT-5.4Continue Reading
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