Apple's New Siri AI Has Customization That Other Voice Assistants Need (Badly)At Apple's 2026 WWDC event, the news was dominated by Apple Intelligence and the newly branded Siri AI (mentioned over 100 times by our count), which added additional capabilities, some powered by a partnership with Google Gemini. Siri remains one of the top three voice assistants, alongside Amazon Alexa and...

The Internet Is Wrong: You Can't Speed Up a Smart TV That's SlowI don't know how misinformation about TVs spreads. Actually, that's not true, I absolutely do. Uninformed people make a claim online; it gets repeated as received wisdom; Reddit references it; and ChatGPT and other large language models use those posts as sources. As someone who has reviewed TVs since the early 2000s, and...

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 4, #558 Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for April 4, No. 558. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally...

Watch: BBC journalist caught in travel chaos at Houston AirportTravellers across the US are facing unusually long lines at airports, as hundreds of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents have quit while others continue to miss paychecks and call out of work amid a partial government shutdown. BBC journalist Christal Hayes was returning home after her honeymoon and was caught in the...

How the energy crisis fueled by the war in Iran is affecting Asia Asia is feeling the energy shock of the war on Iran. NPR's A Martinez talks to Sam Reynolds of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.