Southern creature comforts.

A tech startup claims it owns the Grok brand name.

The US is barreling toward a recession for no good reason, and dragging the worldand a few thousand penguins on remote Antarctic islandsdown with it.

These mid-tier earbuds have 15 hours of battery life with noise canceling, and a magnetic design that keeps them chargedno case required.

The A.I. prediction world is torn between optimism and gloom. A report released on Thursday decidedly lands on the side of gloom.

The company said it would offer customers the same prices it offers its employees on most of its vehicles.

MacworldWith the fear of tariffs overtaking the U.S., Verizon on Thursday announced a new three-year price lock guarantee on all myPlan and myHome network plans. Verizon says the guarantee ensures your core monthly plan price for calling, data, and texting wont change until at least 2028.On the surface, that sounds like a good deal. There isnt a commitment to stay for three years and the guarantee automatically applies to all existing myPlan customers, which is basically anyone whos signed up in the past couple of years. Additionally, customers can get a free phone (which varies depending on the plan) with any trade-in of an Apple, Google, or Samsung handset in any condition.But the price lock guarantee isnt all that guaranteed. The deal only applies to the then-current base monthly rate for your talk, text, and data, and excludes taxes, fees, surcharges, additional plan discounts or promotions, and third-party services. That basically ensures that youll be paying more for your phone plan in three years, even if the base monthly rate stays the same.For example, in February, Verizon added a $3 per line increase for myPlan customers with five or more lines and 20 cents per line to the Administrative and Telco Recovery Charge in January. Those very clearly fall under the category of a fee or surcharge.So go grab your free phone, but dont expect to pay the same plan rate today as you will in April 2028, no matter what Verizon guarantees.

Ming-Chi Kuo's Apple commentary is normally fairly insightful, but his latest batch on how Apple can shoulder President Trump's tariff burden is short-sighted, and doesn't make a great deal of sense.Apple CEO Tim CookAnalyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently outlined how the company could respond to a new wave of U.S. tariffs targeting hardware assembled in China, India, and Vietnam. The new policy imposes tariffs of 54%, 26%, and 46% on goods from China, India, and Vietnam, respectively.However, Kuo's analysis glosses over some incredibly major obstacles. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

It doesn't matter how smart technology gets in an all-digital world you're still going to need to fax something at some point. Here's how to fax from iPhone with the Municorn Fax app.Municorn Fax App turns iPhone into a fax machine. Image credit: MunicornA fax is like an email you send over 1980s phone technology using real paper. Chances are, you don't own a physical fax machine and no one really should in the year 2025.That said, it is inevitable that you'll have to send a fax from time to time. However, that's why online fax services exist. Continue Reading on AppleInsider

The College of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State UniversitySan Luis Obispo has shared its lecture poster and speaker information to round out our Get Lectured highlights for the spring.Organizers share: "URGENCIES is a project that was organized to motivate conversations across the five CAED departments: Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Construction Management. A cohort of respondents who are selected from all over the world will visit the Business Rotunda on Fridays at 5pm. Students and faculty are invited to participate in a conversation about how the built environment is interdependent on structures of power, colonization and extraction, with the hope that we can envision alternative futures together."Speakers for the remainder of the term will include CUNY Spitzer School associate professor Nandini Bagchee, Ruderals Sarah Cowles, Harvard GSD associate professor Dana M. White, a...