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The scariest thing about gray-market peptides is how little we know

Researchers found that BPC-157 users tend to wait two months before disclosing usage to doctors — if they disclose at all.

Victoria Song
We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’

Tech companies with new AI hardware want you to agree that always-listening, often-recapping devices don’t count as recording.

Victoria Song
Prick’s theatrical industrial punk is perfect for spooky season

If Trent Reznor studied musical theater instead of computer engineering NIN might have sounded like Prick.

Terrence O'Brien
The rise, fall, and rise of portable MP3 players

Apple perfected the media player with the iPod, then abandoned it.

Terrence O'Brien
3D movies are finally worth watching

It took decades, but the technology is finally ready.

Sean Hollister
Can VR glasses save VR?Can VR glasses save VR?
Sean Hollister
This blog could help you poop better

Fibermaxxing might help boost an underconsumed nutrient, but you should also be wary of ‘maxxing’ trends.

Victoria Song
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
You’ll have to wait until 2027 to slip the Commodore 64 into your pocket.

Blaze Entertainment’s handheld remakes of the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum were supposed to launch in October but the company has “made the decision to move the release date from 15th October 2026 to 22nd April 2027” for all versions following production issues where it “identified areas where the product construction was not meeting our high standards.”

Blaze Entertainment’s TheC64 and The Spectrum handhelds side by side.
Image: HyperMegaTech!
Out of the Park Baseball lets me enjoy baseball even when the Mets suck

OOTP Baseball is a nitty-gritty, hyperrealistic baseball sim that puts you in the GMs office.

Terrence O'Brien
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

The shutdown of June Oven is another reminder that the cloud was never ours to keep.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute

Meta wants to stuff this guy into everything and entrust it with productivity, health, and relationship goals.

Victoria Song
All roads lead to cable

In their fight to win the war for our attention, streamers are re-creating cable from first principles.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Your ‘health age’ is fake

Can we just agree that your age is your age?

Victoria Song
The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection

The 1980 record from the San Francisco band is raw, infectious, and shockingly modern.

Terrence O'Brien
Your car is selling your data

The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.

Andrew Hawkins
New standards for masculinity are stacked against men’s health

Chasing unrealistic standards encourages men to turn themselves into DIY science experiments.

Victoria Song
Solar power is having its toaster moment

The US is finally reclassifying plug-in solar as a household appliance to offset high energy costs.

Thomas Ricker
Continuous glucose monitors are about to get more complicated

Abbott’s new 2-in-1 CGM will help diabetics monitor ketone levels. But can it avoid the wearable hype cycle?

Victoria Song
Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

It’s basically mid-aughts Brooklyn in audio form.

Terrence O'Brien
Your Oura Ring can’t measure what’s going on in your skull

A new lawsuit charges the company with duping customers. Who’s at fault?

Victoria Song
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an intimate coming-of-age horror film

With Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma out in theaters, now is the perfect time to revisit Jane Schoenbrun’s first film.

Terrence O'Brien
Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe

Rockstar’s latest epic is almost here, and it seems nothing can stop it.

Andrew Webster
The wearable future is stuck in weird, experimental, existential limbo

I sat down with Google to discuss its vision for the next generation of wearables. It’s a work in progress.

Victoria Song
Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal crafted a hip-hop breakup masterpiece

DOOMED! pairs Eagle’s deeply personal lyrics with some of Segal’s most commanding beats.

Terrence O'Brien
Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore

For years, fears about AI systems slipping human control were dismissed as speculative.

Robert Hart
Wearables are getting a taste of much-needed minimalism

Going screenless proves you can afford to be intentionally inefficient.

Victoria Song
No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives

Now if only they’d give us some new episodes.

Terrence O'Brien
AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

Tools that promise to detect AI writing can be dubious, but educators and publishers are using them anyway.

Emma Roth
Foldables are sort of boring now — and that’s great news for Apple

Folding screens are no longer novel, but they’re finally good enough for an iPhone.

Dominic Preston
Maybe we shouldn’t give 24-year-olds billions of dollars to bet on AI

This 24-year-old first-time hedge funder screwed up his AI fund with one weird trick.

Elizabeth Lopatto
The vertical video takeover is here

How TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube copied their way to victory.

David Pierce
What I track in a day

Living an optimized, self-quantified life can get a little out of hand.

Victoria Song
The sci-fi movie that imagines AI isn’t so dystopian after all

An interview with ‘Sheep in the Box’ director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Robyn Kanner