The most expensive products in technology history are often solutions looking for problems that don't yet exist at commercial scale. Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds on VR — removed from the Quest store in March, terminated on June 15 — after close to $80 billion in losses. Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse was a technically impressive solution to a problem that the market had not...
Meta's removal of end-to-end encryption from Instagram direct messages, set for May 8, 2026, could have implications beyond the platform itself. The decision, confirmed through a quiet help page update, is being watched closely by other tech companies and policymakers. Its consequences may help shape the future of encrypted communication online.
Encryption on Instagram arrived in 2023 following Zuckerberg's 2019 promise. It was opt-in...
In the impersonal world of corporate finance, Elon Musk has just made a profoundly personal statement worth nearly a billion dollars. His purchase of...
Apple's 2025 keynote presented two very different timelines for innovation. For hardware, the future is now, with the launch of the remarkably thin iPhone...
Google's new Pixel 10 family—comprising the 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro Fold—presents a remarkably cohesive and unified vision. Despite their different form factors...
OpenAI's GPT-5 is being hailed as a major breakthrough, but its release is also highlighting a critical, and often hidden, issue: its immense energy...
The company behind the ChatGPT phenomenon is reportedly approaching the summit of private company valuations with discussions about an employee share sale that could...
A massive investment in intelligence is underway as electric vehicle pioneer Tesla seals a transformative $16.5 billion deal with technology giant Samsung for revolutionary...
