Nintendo’s Alarmo uses the tech that could solve Joy-Con stick drift

Nintendo’s Alarmo uses the tech that could solve Joy-Con stick drift

iFixit’s teardown of Nintendo’s Alarmo revealed a magnet and Hall effect sensor in the alarm clock’s control dial. | Image: iFixit Nintendo is still shipping the Switch with Joy-Con hardware that will potentially develop issues like joystick drift and false inputs over time. We’ll have to wait until April 2nd to find out if Nintendo…

How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has come into force, and it’s meant that some of the world’s biggest tech companies are having to make major changes to how they operate. The law, which is designed to increase competition in the EU’s digital markets, designates some large online companies and their services as “gatekeepers.”…

Apple is reportedly planning a design overhaul for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

Apple is reportedly planning a design overhaul for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

Apple plans to significantly redesign the look of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS later this year, Bloomberg reports. The changes, which are set to arrive with iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, will touch many parts of the operating systems, including “updating the style of icons, menus, apps, windows and system buttons,” Bloomberg says. The…

An iconic DJ turntable inspired this record player watch

An iconic DJ turntable inspired this record player watch

You can’t scratch on AndoAndoAndo’s new watch, but if you look real close you can probably read the time. | Image: AndoAndoAndo Do you want to drop a not-so-subtle hint that you prefer the analog sound of vinyl over digital music whenever someone asks you the time? AndoAndoAndo’s new Vinyl Record Automatic Watch looks like…

Sony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters

Sony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters

Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of at least one its PlayStation game characters. An anonymous tipster has shared an internal video from Sony’s PlayStation group with The Verge that demonstrates an AI-powered version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West. The video is narrated by Sharwin Raghoebardajal, a director of software engineering at…

Some Chromecasts are giving ‘Untrusted device’ errors today

Some Chromecasts are giving ‘Untrusted device’ errors today

The second-generation Chromecast was a colorful delight. Reports are cropping up today that second-generation Chromecasts and music-streaming Chromecast Audio devices are failing, displaying an error on the device they’re trying to cast from that seems to imply the streamers may no longer be supported, reports 9to5Google. Text from screenshots of the error posted to Reddit…

From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that…