6 Unique Google Fitbit Air Features That Will Make You Make the Switch

Many Mashable writers and editors can be found with an Apple Watch or Whoop fitness tracker on their wrist. Fitbit may have popularized fitness trackers and the whole concept of “step counting,” but the brand has lost ground to feature-rich rivals in recent years. When one of our reporters ran the New York City Marathon […]

Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app

The time has come for the microdrama trend to become mainstream. As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly amass billions of dollars, Peacock announced Monday that it will launch two unscripted Bravo microdramas to stream on its app. These vertical video series are made up of approximately 60-90 second episodes and are designed for […]

Digg is trying again, this time as an AI news aggregator

Dig is back from the dead. Also. The reboot of Kevin Rose’s once-popular link-sharing site was shut down in March after the company changed direction, just months after launching. Originally redesigned as a competitor to the massive community forum site Reddit, the new Digg was unable to effectively manage the bot traffic that entered its […]

‘It’s too early to talk about an IPO,’ says Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO

Redwood Materials has finally found a new chief financial officer, about a year and a half after the last one left. He is a familiar face to former Tesla executives who run battery recycling and energy storage companies. Redwood Materials announced Monday that it has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja as its new […]

NYT’s Wordle becomes TV game show

The New York Times is betting that the Wordle craze isn’t over yet. On Monday, the Times announced that the hit mobile word game will be turned into a game show that will be televised on NBC. “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie will host the affair, with The Times and “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon […]

Venmo’s biggest transformation in years comes at a very interesting time

Venmo is rolling out a major redesign over the next few months that aims to make the app more useful, social, and easier to navigate. This is the peer-to-peer payment app’s biggest shake-up since 2021. The timing is notable. PayPal, which owns Venmo, is undergoing a reorganization to spin off Venmo as a separate business […]

Antropic claims AI’s ‘evil’ portrayal was the cause of Claude’s blackmail attempt

According to Anthropic, fictional depictions of artificial intelligence can have real-world effects on AI models. The company announced last year that during pre-release testing involving fictitious companies, Claude Opus 4 often attempted to blackmail engineers to avoid being replaced with another system. Anthropic later published research suggesting that other companies’ models had similar issues with […]