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Compare Our Top 10 Sleep MasksMore Sleep Masks We TestedPhotograph: Kat MerckDrowsy Silk Eye Mask for $79: This 22-momme, padded mulberry silk mask might be one of the most comfortable sleep masks I’ve ever worn. It covered a large surface area on my face, but instead of it feeling suffocating or smothering, it felt calming, like a Thundershirt for my eyes. I also loved that it didn’t leave marks on my face in the morning, and that the Velcro closure never snagged on my hair or bedding. However, even though my mask was dark navy blue, the inside looked dirty…

The enterprise software firm Rippling will make its Super Bowl debut this year with a 30-second spot starring Tim Robinson, marking the SaaS company’s largest brand campaign to date and its first appearance during the Big Game.The ad, which will run during Super Bowl LX in the third quarter, introduces a new campaign called “Rule Your Business.” The spot, created in partnership with the agency Tombras, features Robinson as a would-be corporate mastermind whose grand plans are repeatedly undone by clunky, fragmented business software. The Super Bowl ad is one of five planned spots starring Robinson, which will roll out across…

Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on open source technology, is benefiting from concerns that arose over TikTok U.S.’s change in ownership last week. The startup, a maker of a short-form, vertical video app similar to TikTok, says it has now topped over 380,000 users and is continuing to grow after a busy weekend. Launched last year and backed by Mark Cuban and other investors, Skylight’s mobile app is built on the AT Protocol, the technology that also powers the decentralized X rival, Bluesky, which now has north of 42 million users. Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed…

Here’s the thing: this is a fairly large laptop. While I don’t have official specs on it yet, the Lenovo reference device is around the same size as the 16-inch MacBook Pro, but the slight wedge shape makes it thicker by the hinge. It is already the size of a machine that could squeeze in a discrete graphics card, and as powerful as the Core Ultra X9 388H is, it’s still a solid 25 percent behind even an older graphics card like the Nvidia RTX 4050, as well as Apple’s M4 Pro.I love the idea of not needing a dedicated…

Oakley Meta is making its Super Bowl debut, marking the smart eyewear brand’s biggest marketing moment yet as it pushes AI-powered glasses into the mainstream.The brand released a teaser today (Jan. 26) for its first Big Game commercial, created by Mother LA and set to air nationally on Feb. 8. The spot will feature director Spike Lee alongside streamer iShowSpeed, NFL star Marshawn Lynch, PGA Tour pro Akshay Bhatia, and Olympians Kate Courtney, Sky Brown, and Sunny Choi.“Each talent brings the capabilities of Oakley Meta Performance AI Glasses to life in thrilling, high-energy, and visceral ways that showcase how they gain…

Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200, which the company describes as a silicon workhorse designed for scaling AI inference. The 200, which follows the company’s Maia 100 released in 2023, has been technically outfitted to run powerful AI models at faster speeds and with more efficiency, the company has said. Maia comes equipped with over 100 billion transistors, delivering over 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision and approximately 5 petaflops of 8-bit performance—a substantial increase over its predecessor. Inference refers to the computing process of running a model, in contrast with the compute required to…

Apple’s AirTag has become the de facto “Bluetooth tracker” since its 2021 debut, upending established players like Tile. Now, Apple is finally upgrading the hardware. The second-generation AirTag still costs $29 for one, and $99 for a four-pack, and it’s available today.It’s powered by the second-generation Ultra Wideband chip (U2), which Apple has already employed in recent iPhone and Apple Watch models. It improves the ability to find the tag’s exact location when using Apple’s Precision Finding mode, with up to 1.5 times greater range. You can lift your iPhone, and you’ll receive visual, audio, and haptic feedback as the…

At Super Bowl 60, Budweiser is going all in on its roots with an ad featuring a galloping Clydesdale, a bald eagle, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.Earlier in January, the brewer teased that a mysterious creature hidden by a bucket would be joining its brood of horses in its 48th Big Game commercial. Now, it’s been uncovered as an eagle chick. Soundtracked by Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird, the minute-long spot from BBDO New York opens with a Clydesdale foal peering from its stable. He quickly comes across a chirping baby bird next to an overturned tree. At first, the foal turns, but…

For a long time, enterprise teams have been stuck with an uncomfortable trade-off. In 2026, WordPress breaks it. You could scale fast, but only by accepting rigidity, brittle tooling, and a growing maintenance burden. Or you could stay flexible, at the cost of control, consistency, and long-term sustainability. That false choice has shaped how digital platforms are designed, built, and governed for over a decade. Until now, that is. WordPress is no longer just a publishing platform: it’s evolving into an intelligent CMS. One that combines structured data, reusable patterns, and increasingly agentic workflows to help teams move faster without…

British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago. Unlike some other AI startups that are still a long way from turning a profit, Synthesia has found a lucrative business in transforming corporate training thanks to AI-generated avatars. With enterprise clients including Bosch, Merck, and SAP, the London-based company crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April 2025. This milestone explains why Synthesia’s venture backers are literally doubling down.…

Personal exoskeletons were everywhere at CES 2026. There were ambitious designs from newcomers WiRobotics, Sumbu, Ascentiz, and Dephy, while Skip Mo/Go was back promoting its long-overdue tech trousers. Dnsys (pronounced Deen-sis), a comparatively well established name, had some new launches to tease, Hypershell was back with its top model, and Ascentiz had us sprinting across the show floor.An exoskeleton is a relatively new class of wearable device designed to enhance, support, or assist human movement, strength, posture, or even physical activity. The main piece goes around your waist like a belt, and from it, a pair of hinged, mechanized splints…

If your Gmail account didn’t seem to be working properly Saturday, you were not alone. But Google says the issue has been be resolved. The official status dashboard for Google Workspace suggests that problems began at around 5am Pacific on Saturday morning, with users experiencing both “misclassification of emails in their inbox and additional spam warnings.” For me, that meant my Primary inbox was filled with messages that would normally appear in the Promotions, Social, or Updates inboxes, and that spam warnings were appearing in emails from known senders. Other users complained on social media that “all the spam is…

In recent months, some of the major players in science fiction and popular culture have been taking firmer stances against generative AI. Separate decisions by San Diego Comic-Con and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) illustrate the depth of AI opposition within some creative communities — though they’re certainly not the only ones, with music distribution platform Bandcamp also recently banning generative AI. Back in December, when SFWA announced that it was updating its rules for the Nebula Awards. Works written entirely by large language models would not be eligible, while authors who used LLMs “at any point…

AI chatbots are getting better at answering questions, summarizing documents, and solving mathematical equations, but they still largely behave like helpful assistants for one user at a time. They’re not designed to manage the messier work of real collaboration: coordinating people with competing priorities, tracking long-running decisions, and keeping teams aligned over time.  Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, thinks closing that gap is the next major frontier for foundation models. The company this week raised a $480 million seed round to build a “central nervous system” for the human-plus-AI economy.…

Sunny Sethi, founder of HEN Technologies, doesn’t sound like someone who’s disrupted an industry that has remained largely unchanged since the 1960s. His company builds fire nozzles — specifically, nozzles that it says increase suppression rates by up to 300% while conserving 67% of water. But Sethi is matter-of-fact about this achievement, more focused on what’s next than what’s already been done. And what’s next sounds a lot bigger than fire nozzles. His path to firefighting doesn’t follow a tidy narrative. After nabbing his PhD at the University of Akron, where he researched surfaces and adhesion, he founded ADAP Nanotech,…

From the moment a pixelated Gengar and Nidorino faced off in the opening animation of the first Pokémon games on the original Game Boy back in 1996, the Pokémon franchise has been a perennial favorite of kids and adults alike. With 2026 marking Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, Lego’s first-ever collaboration with the enduringly popular monster-catching megahit is perfectly timed—a crossover of pop culture titans with just one problem: Anyone who isn’t an ultra-fan with cavernously deep pockets isn’t invited.The recent announcement of a line of Lego Pokémon wasn’t a surprise—the Danish brick brand first revealed it had entered into a “multi-year…