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Wing’s drone delivery is coming to 150 more Walmarts
11 Jan 2026, 3:00 pm by Andrew J. Hawkins
Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its drones will be flying above 150 more locations this year, including in four new cities: Los Angeles, St. Louis, Miami, and Cincinnati.
In June 2025, the companies said they would expand their delivery partnership to 100 additional stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa. So far, they’ve launched at several stores in Atlanta, in addition to Walmart locations in Dallas-Forth Worth and Arkansas. They currently operate at approximately 27 stores, and with today’s announcement, the goal is to eventually esta …
How TiVo killed live TV
11 Jan 2026, 2:00 pm by David Pierce
For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-list Hollywood fans; it became a verb as ubiquitous as Google or Xerox. The love was well-earned, since TiVo had created a product that felt genuinely like magic. You could pause live TV. And rewind it. And even set shows to record for later, knowing they’d be there whenever you needed them.
There’s a reason you almost certainly don’t have a TiVo now, though. The company quickly became a victim of its own success, and never managed to turn its game-changing concept into a big business or a truly lasting hit product. Meanwhile, the changes it hel …
I went looking for weird phones and CES 2026 did not disappoint
11 Jan 2026, 2:00 pm by Allison Johnson
It’s January, which means there’s a whole year of rectangular glass slabs ahead of us. But before that happens, I managed to find phones of a different shape lurking around the corners of the CES convention center halls. They weren’t center stage, of course. That was reserved for robots doing laundry badly. But in the margins at tech’s biggest show, I saw some glimmers of hope that the future of phones might not look as same-y as it has for the past half decade – at least, if you know where to look.
A phone for your phone
Clicks, the company known for its keyboard cases, didn’t just launch a combination MagSafe power bank and slide-out key …
Will you have to show your ID at the app store?
11 Jan 2026, 1:00 pm by Lauren Feiner
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How it started
In the offline world, age verification is often as simple as flashing a cashier your driver’s license to buy a pack of beer, or an adult magazine (for whoever still does this kind of thing). Advocates for stronger barriers preventing children from accessing online porn have long argued for an equivalent on the internet: online age veri …
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