A retro hardware maker willing to pay Trump’s tariffs is suspending US shipments anyway

A retro hardware maker willing to pay Trump’s tariffs is suspending US shipments anyway

The RetroTINK-4K CE. | Image: RetroTINK RetroTINK, a company that sells hardware for playing retro consoles on modern screens, says it will be temporarily suspending US shipments — even though the company wants to pre-pay President Donald Trump’s tariffs, as reported by Time Extension. The company is suspending shipments “due to lack of guidance on…

Apple’s carbon footprint is shrinking  

Apple’s carbon footprint is shrinking  

Apple’s making steady progress toward its climate goals, the company’s latest environmental progress report shows. Its planet-heating pollution shrank by 800,000 metric tons last year compared to 2023, about a 5 percent drop. Looking back over the past decade, Apple says its global greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by more than 60 percent. That’s no…

Zoom is down

Zoom is down

Zoom is suffering from a major outage, preventing people from connecting to video calls or even accessing its website. As shown by data on Downdetector, the outage appeared to have started around 3PM ET. Users across X are posting about the outage, with some getting an “Unable to Connect” error message when entering meetings, and…

Google, Apple, and Snap aren’t happy about Meta’s poorly-redacted slides

Google, Apple, and Snap aren’t happy about Meta’s poorly-redacted slides

Meta, gavel’d During Meta’s antitrust trial today, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain easy-to-remove redactions. Attorneys for both Apple and Snap called the errors “egregious,” with Apple’s representative indicating that it may not be able to trust…

Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage

Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a “potentially crazy idea” in 2022 to get people using Facebook more: deleting everyone’s friends’ lists. The possibility was discussed on Monday via internal emails shown by the FTC as Zuckerberg testified during Meta’s antitrust trial. Zuckerberg floated the idea of considering “wiping everyone’s graphs” — their friends lists —…

Blackmagic Design says tariffs have made camera price hikes ‘unavoidable’

Blackmagic Design says tariffs have made camera price hikes ‘unavoidable’

Tariffs are dissuading, not motivating, some companies to move their production to the US. Blackmagic Design, an Australia-based digital cinematography camera company, was gearing up to start making products in the United States before the Trump administration blew a tariff-shaped hole in its plans. Now, not only is Blackmagic having to increase prices in the…

Mark Zuckerberg suggested spinning off Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg suggested spinning off Instagram

About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company.” In a 2018 email to his executives, Zuckerberg wrote that, ​​”while most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is…

Anthropic is reportedly launching a voice AI you can speak to

Anthropic is reportedly launching a voice AI you can speak to

Anthropic is getting ready to introduce a new “voice mode” feature that could rival OpenAI’s similar option within ChatGPT, according to Bloomberg. The AI voice assistant will reportedly live within its Claude AI chatbot and could start rolling out “as soon as this month.” According to Bloomberg, Anthropic plans to roll out three English-language voices…

On TikTok, Chinese factories are trolling anxious American shoppers

On TikTok, Chinese factories are trolling anxious American shoppers

Hermès handbags, Birkenstocks, Tide Pods, Lululemon activewear, and mountains of luxury furniture — what if I told you you could cut out the middleman and buy it straight from the source for a fraction of the cost? So goes a genre of viral videos cropping up on social media that claim to show Chinese manufacturers…