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JLabI’m not sure I’d actually walk down the street wearing these, but JLab’s Blue XL oversized headphones have been stuck in my head. These absurdly large, impossible-to-ignore headphones make you do a double-take, just like they’re supposed to. According to JLab, they’re not so much headphones as wearable Bluetooth speakers.A comic twist on the intersection of tech and fashion, these giant headphones practically shout, “I’m here, and so is my playlist!” Whether draped around your neck or sitting on a table, they’re hard to ignore, and oddly captivating.JLab Blue XL: Wearable TheaterJLabThe Blue XLs aren’t subtle, and that’s the point.…

Discounts on Google’s Pixel 10 series continue this week, with price cuts also hitting the OnePlus 15, multiple Redmi Note 15 Pro variants, and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S11 lineup. The OnePlus 15 is currently available with a £50 discount. It is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC and packs a 7,300mAh battery with 120W fast charging support. You also get a 6.78-inch LTPO AMOLED display with a 165Hz refresh rate, a triple 50MP rear camera setup, and an IP69K rated build. Google’s Pixel 10 lineup, including the base model, the Pixel 10 Pro, 10 Pro…

Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks like law and corporate analysis. At the time, the scores were pretty dismal, with every major lab scoring under 25%, so we concluded lawyers were safe from AI displacement, at least for now. But AI capabilities can change a lot in a couple of weeks. This week’s release of Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 shook up the leaderboards, with Anthropic’s new model scoring just shy of 30% in one-shot trials, and an average of 45% when given a few more cracks at the problem. Notably, the release…

Summarize This Article:ChatGPTPerplexityGrokGoogle AIDue to the exclusive nature of AirDrop, sharing files between Android phones and iPhones has always been inconvenient. Late last year, Google introduced a way to share files with iPhones through an updated Quick Share. However, at the moment, this AirDrop-compatible Quick Share is limited to the Pixel 10 Series. That said, this was just the beginning, and many of us expected the feature to eventually roll out to more devices.Earlier this year, Google also promised to bring the updated Quick Share to older Pixel devices. Now, a Google official has confirmed that the AirDrop support will…

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a time when carmakers want the metal for electric-vehicle batteries, nickel concentration at Eagle Mine is falling and could soon drop too low to warrant digging.Demand for nickel, copper, and rare earth elements is rapidly increasing amid the explosive growth of metal-intensive data centers, electric cars, and renewable energy projects. But producing these metals is becoming harder and more expensive because miners have already exploited the best resources. Here’s how biotechnology could help.—Matt Blois What we’ve…

Carbon-removal startup Terradot is acquiring competitor Eion, the two companies announced today. The sale was driven largely by big investors like sovereign wealth funds, which want to work with companies that can handle large contracts. Eion was simply too small, Eion CEO Anastasia Pavlovic Hans told The Wall Street Journal. Both companies spread pulverized rocks on farm fields to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Known as enhanced rock weathering (EWR), it speeds up a natural process and has the potential to be a low-cost way to remove carbon, but it requires large and distributed operations. The spread between what…

At the end of January, Motorola unveiled two mid-range models, the Moto G67 and Moto G77, and two entry-level phones, the Moto G17 and G17 Power. What do you think – can one of these be your next phone or do you have another model in mind? The Motorola Moto G77 features a 6.78” 120Hz OLED display, a sharp 1,272 x 2,772px panel with 10-bit colors, HDR support and Gorilla Glass 7i protection. That’s great for multimedia, but the Dimensity 6400 chipset isn’t suitable for serious gaming. The G77’s claim to fame is the 108MP main camera with OIS that…

AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for these facilities is next-generation nuclear power plants, which could be cheaper to construct and safer to operate than their predecessors.We recently held a subscriber-exclusive Roundtables discussion on hyperscale AI data centers and next-gen nuclear—two featured technologies on the MIT Technology Review 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026 list. You can watch the conversation back here, and don’t forget to subscribe to make sure you catch future discussions as they happen. How social media encourages the…

Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors was scrambling to raise a Series D funding round in 2017. It had courted Ford as a potential investor, but Jia Yueting, the founder of rival EV startup Faraday Future, had quietly amassed around a 30% stake and was essentially blocking new investors. David Stern, a mysterious businessman and close advisor to former Prince Andrew, saw an opportunity to break the logjam: bring in Jeffrey Epstein.  “Ford will likely be lead in $400m Series D in Lucid. Big strategic move,” Stern wrote to Epstein in emails released last week as part of the Department of…

Image Credit: PolkThe Seattle Seahawks face the New England Patriots this Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Super Bowl LX brings elite athletes who play at peak form and chase the Lombardi Trophy. Speed, power, and pressure define every snap, which sets the stage for a huge night.Football will not carry the spotlight alone. Fresh off a Grammy win for Album of the Year, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny steps onto the Super Bowl stage for the biggest TV concert in the US. That mix of sport and music gives you one more reason to look at the…