Rob Beschizza

Deaths from drug overdoses fell by a quarter between summer 2023 and January 2025, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The numbers have returned to the level they were at at the outset of the Covid pandemic in […]

George Foreman, the two-time world heavyweight and Olympic champion who forged a unique second career promoting his eponymous cookware brand, is dead at 76. He won his first world heavyweight championship in 1973 then did it again in 1994 when

Beset by Shein, Temu and all the other fast-fashion options, U.S. retailer Forever 21 is bankrupt again. This time it’s game over, too, with every store in the U.S. scheduled to close. If it has a future it is as

Among the many gadgets shown off at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona were oddities one can only hope end up on store shelves. Ars Technica’s Scharon Harding checked out the most intriguing ones on display, like the

Johnny Somali, an influencer noted only for his loathesomeness, is the winner of a stupid prize for his abusive antics: legal sanctions abroad. He turned up “late and hungover” to a court date in South Korea and pleaded guilty there

I’ve been rediscovering Limmy’s Show lately, and among his finest work is this sketch about the hovering salespeople in high-street electronic stores and how they transmit market segmentation to the customer. The key difference between Scotland and America is that

Apple yesterday announced the M3 iPad Air, as if there were a pressing need for more powerful models, and Aaron Perris of MacRumors noted that Apple’s Polishing Cloth, a steal at $19, was officially compatible with the upgraded devices. —

Honda’s Koraidon Project is a motorcycle designed to resemble the legendary Pokémon creature by that name. The item, shown off only dimly in a promotional photograph, will be exhibited at Honda Welcome Plaza Aoyama in Tokyo from Friday, March 7

Everyone can intuit professions vulnerable to AI. If you’re a digital concept artist, data entry clerk or a certain kind of writer, you’re thinking about the problem. But what businesses are verifiably being taken out back by the new tech?

Asus’s Flow Z13 13-inch gaming tablets have been around for a few years at the segment’s highest end, but the latest model is getting a lot of attention due to the integrated graphics offered by AMD’s Ryzen AI Max 390.