Startups
A retro startup chasing modern money Palmer Luckey — best known as the creator of Oculus VR — is back in hardware with ModRetro, a startup building nostalgia-first gaming devices. After releasing the Chromatic, a Game Boy-style handheld, in 2024, ModRetro has reportedly begun talks to raise capital at roughly a $1
Startups
Why Palmer Luckey is chasing 1990s consoles Palmer Luckey — the entrepreneur best known for founding Oculus and later building defence firm Anduril — is reportedly pitching a sizable funding round for ModRetro, a startup aiming to reimagine 1990s-era game hardware. The headline number circulating in the press is roughly $1 billion:
Gadgets
A new premium tier for Apple hardware Apple recently launched the MacBook Neo, and signals now point to a wider deployment of Apple’s "Ultra" label across its product lines — including refreshed iMacs and possibly other pro-focused devices. The "Ultra" name is no longer confined to
Enterprise
A quiet leadership change with loud implications On its public leadership page Apple recently added profiles for three executives: Jennifer Newstead, Molly Anderson, and Steve Lemay. The most notable of the three is Newstead, who took over as Senior Vice President and General Counsel on March 1. She replaced Katherine
Games
Why the chatter matters Rumors and early impressions about a Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive Pokémon life simulation — commonly referred to in conversation as "Pokémon Pokopia" — have stirred a lot of attention. Whether you’re a player thinking about upgrading hardware, a developer planning next-gen releases, or a founder sizing
Gadgets
What Samsung shipped and why it matters Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra arrived as a flagship focused on camera performance, battery life and — notably — a built-in Privacy Display. The idea is straightforward: prevent shoulder-surfers from reading your screen by narrowing the effective viewing angle. For people who work on sensitive
Games
Why the 'Storm Stories' contest matters ARC Raiders is built around emergent, team-driven moments in a hostile, mechanized world. A community competition like “Storm Stories” does more than reward dramatic clips — it amplifies player-driven narratives, helps creators grow, and gives developers raw feedback about what moments resonate. If
Mobile
Quick summary Recent Geekbench 6 results for the iPhone 17e reveal the handset runs Apple’s A19 chip and delivers near-identical CPU performance to the standard iPhone 17. The highest multi-core score recorded for the 17e is 9,241 — essentially the same as the iPhone 17’s average of 9,
Games
The headline: expensive expectations for Xbox's next big console A recent analyst note suggesting that Microsoft's upcoming console, codenamed Project Helix, could retail for $900 or higher has reignited a familiar debate: will gamers pay premium prices for the next step in console performance, or will
Gadgets
Why MacBook Neo matters beyond a lighter chassis When Apple’s Industrial Design leader Molly Anderson walked through the design process for the MacBook Neo in a recent interview, the headline that stuck was simple: material use was cut roughly in half. That’s a bold claim for a product
AI
Background: what was announced and why it mattered OpenAI signaled last year that it planned to introduce an optional "adult" content setting for ChatGPT — a configurable mode that would allow sexually explicit material and other content currently blocked under the service’s default safeguards. The idea was to
Security
What happened, in plain terms DJI has awarded $30,000 to security researcher Sammy Azdoufal after he unintentionally accessed a network of roughly 7,000 Romo robot vacuums while experimenting with a coding assistant called Claude Code. The incident highlights how quickly cloud‑connected consumer devices can be enumerated and