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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Sony’s other PS Plus plans are going up in price too.

When it announced price hikes this week, Sony focused on the cheapest Essential tier. As we suspected though, now the new prices are live, Extra and Premium have gone up too. Extra now starts at $16.99 per month, while Premium is $19.99.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Flytrex will build drones in Texas for pizza delivery.

With imports from China effectively blocked, Israeli drone company Flytrex is opening a new “manufacturing and maintenance facility” in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with the capacity to produce “thousands” of drones annually. The company says the new facility is key to its plan to open 60 new delivery sites across DFW by mid-2027. Flytrex currently operates a drone delivery service with Uber Eats and DoorDash, with some of its drones capable of delivering a couple pizzas at a time.

1/4Image: Flytrex
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
CapCut editing is coming to Gemini.

CapCut announced on X that users will “soon” be able to edit images and videos directly within the Gemini app using CapCut’s editing capabilities.

“As creative workflows become more connected and seamless, we believe the future of creation will be more conversational, intuitive, and intelligently integrated across tools and experiences.”

‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

Bambu was set to become the Apple of 3D printers. Then it DM’d the wrong person.

Sean Hollister
In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is the risk factor

The rocket company says it’s ‘highly dependent’ on Musk’s leadership. And that his other companies are possible competitors.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
AMD’s Gorgon Halo is aimed at AI with 192GB of onboard memory.

“Gorgon Halo” is the successor to the Strix Halo that powered unprecedented mini-PC, tablet, and gaming handheld designs last year. Now with even more RAM for AI, coming Q3. Yes, that’s going to cost in this economy. Meanwhile, AMD’s own mini-PC with Strix Halo will open pre-orders in June for $3,999, exclusively at Micro Center.

‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis made a bold claim at this year’s I/O keynote. Not so fast!

Victoria Song
Mia Sato
Mia Sato
Check out this clip about clips.

I was on Vox’s Today, Explained podcast to talk about why our feeds are just clips now — what we’re calling “the clippening” of content online. You’ve probably seen these videos of podcasts, musicians, TV shows, livestreams and more. Underneath it all is an economy of clipping companies pumping out mountains of paid content.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Nvidia is officially no longer a gaming company in financial earnings.

Nvidia used to break out data center compute, networking, gaming, professional visualization, automotive, and more. But now that AI has become the Nvidia business and even networking is bigger than gaming, it’s throwing PCs, game consoles, workstations, robots, cars, and cellular base stations all into a new “Edge Computing” catch-all category.

Image: Nvidia
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Nvidia’s Q1 2027 data center revenue jumped 92 percent from last year.

The company reported record overall revenue of $81.6 billion and record data center revenue of $75.2 billion, driven by continued demand for its chips in AI data centers.

Nvidia says its next-generation Vera Rubin AI chip is “on track for the second half of this year, starting in Q3,” but noted that PC sales are down due to the RAM shortage and price hikes.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
The FCC voted to ‘streamline’ tracking US broadband quality.

But the nonprofit Public Knowledge argues its changes could make the National Broadband Map less effective. Public Knowledge broadband policy director Alisa Valentin:

Today, the Commission is once again invoking the term ‘streamlining’ as justification for creating a permission structure that allows providers to evade accountability while consumers experience the consequences of distorted broadband maps.