X is revamping the algorithm that ranks posts in the "For You" feed. The engineering team said it will post changes to the algorithm on GitHub every four weeks, including explainers on changes. The ...

Looking back on this crazy year, one event, right at the start, seems to me to encapsulate the whole. In January, recording his podcast in a studio in Austin, Texas, the host, Joe Rogan, and the actor ...

Decades ago, people went from tiny flip phones with numeric keypads to large-screened devices that function like miniature computers in their pockets. These devices are aptly named smartphones, and ...

The Peter Farrelly-directed 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber, starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, served as an unlikely source of inspiration for streamer and YouTuber IShowSpeed. In an interview with ...

Nayeema Raza, the creator and host of the podcast “Smart Girl Dumb Questions,” has signed with CAA for representation. Raza, previously a senior staff editor with The New York Times’ opinion section, ...

I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola Razrs were all the rage. Since then, I've written about everything from consumer electronics to internet culture ...

Kit Harington also appears in this Apple TV action-comedy follow-up set over the winter holidays in London and Paris. By Frank Scheck Can’t get away for the holidays? Depressed over not being able to ...

What does it mean to be “smart” or “dumb”? Few questions are more deceptively complex. Most of us have strong opinions about what those words mean, but scratch the surface and it becomes clear that ...

Some generations get a nationally televised car chase featuring O. J. Simpson fleeing police in a white Bronco. Others get the communal adrenaline rush of frantically “CTRL-F”-ing a House Oversight ...

Smart dumb phones continue to gain traction in 2025 as reliable, compact, and distraction-free alternatives to smartphones. These devices offer core connectivity features like 4G, app support, and ...

Highbrow cinephiles will disagree, but the 1994 film "Dumb and Dumber" is a comedy classic. From the opening credits to the end, it provides more humor per minute than any other film ever made. Jim ...

What is surprising is the feedback that Bush and Zootopia 2 co-director Byron Howard gave Giacchino when he submitted an original take on music for the movie: “Can it be dumber?” “The most insane ...