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Microsoft isn’t planning to host its Build developer conference in its home city of Seattle next year. The conference is being relocated, and Microsoft has reportedly canceled all its holds for Build at the Seattle convention center “for all future years.”…

VanMoof, the poster child of bikeaggedon, just launched the first e-bikes developed under new leadership following its 2023 bankruptcy sale to McLaren Applied. The bikes were supposed to be revealed tomorrow, but a link provided to an early access program has…

A customer refuels a car at a Chevron gas station in San Francisco on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025. | Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images Things are getting nutty in the world of vehicle fuel economy standards. Last week, Transportation Secretary (and…

American Screen Actors Guild members have reached a “tentative” contract agreement with major gaming companies that could potentially end the 11-month-long video game actors’ strike. SAG-AFTRA announced the tentative contract on Monday without specifying terms or protections for performers. The strike…

Xbox has revealed its new handheld line, the ROG Xbox Ally and the Xbox Ally X, made in partnership with Asus. And I got the chance to play it during Summer Game Fest. My colleague Tom Warren has already broken down…

Meta is close to finalizing an almost $15 billion investment in Scale AI, the tech giant’s largest-ever external investment, which would give Meta a 49% stake in the company, according to The Information. As part of the deal, Meta CEO Mark…

It’s interesting that Threads is using an envelope symbol — like X — and not the paper airplane used by Instagram. Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform. Meta…

The Trump administration is working on an “AI.gov” website and API to “accelerate government innovation with AI,” 404 Media found based on code posted to Github and an early version of the site. The project appears to be run by the…

All sequels have to live up to their predecessors in some form, but few have as daunting a task as Mario Kart World. It's a follow-up to the best-selling game across Nintendo's last two console generations, and a game that eventually…

Snap’s 2024 version of Spectacles for developers. | (Photo by Nalani Hernandez-Melo for The Verge) Snap plans to start selling its first pair of augmented reality glasses to the public in 2026. The coming release is part of CEO Evan Spiegel's…