You might be surprised how few are left — when we lost Fry’s Electronics, I mentioned how many other Valley stores had already closed or moved.

Now, Micro Center is returning to Santa Clara, CA after 12 years away. It’ll open its doors at 5201 Stevens Creek Blvd later this year. That’s just 1.6 miles away from Central Computer.

The deepfaked voice of Anthony Bourdain in Roadrunner is just one controversial application of AI in documentaries, and now the Archival Producers Alliance has drafted some “best practices.”

It’s calling for filmmakers to be “transparent” to viewers, to get consent from human subjects, and to prioritize primary sources. The group hopes to issue final guidelines this summer.

The proposal, reported by Axios, would give the president discretion to extend the initial six month period for TikTok to find a buyer and separate from its Chinese parent ByteDance. The Senate is already considering a longer timeframe for the forced sale, as many analysts doubt six months is sufficient.

Uber’s Lost & Found Index just came out, with a look at the most commonly forgotten items (clothes, luggage, not shocking), the most forgetful cities (get it together, Miami!), and the weirdest things people are leaving in their Ubers. Also, it’s Wednesday, which is apparently Leave Your Wallet In An Uber Day. Be careful out there!

404 Media reports that a parent soliciting advice in a Facebook group got something unexpected when Meta’s AI chatbot chimed in with some thoughts. The reply starts with “I have a child who is also 2e,” which refers to a child who is both academically advanced and has a disability. Let me stop you right there, AI chatbot.

That’s how many turns the subway system’s most high-traffic turnstile — No. 602 in Fare Control Area R238, located in Grand Central-42nd Street station — is estimated to do in a year. That’s more throughput than some whole transit systems combined. These durable three-armed machines called tripods are designed by a company called Cubic, which also oversees the MTA’s fare collection system. And boy are they built to last.

In response to reviews of the Humane AI pin, which tries to do a lot of things and mostly fails at all of them, Harry McCracken pens an ode to a beloved gadget that does exactly one thing, but does it very well.

Park Chan-wook has teamed up with Lionsgate to turn his classic revenge thriller / octopus horror movie Oldboy into an English-language TV show. There aren’t many details yet, but Lionsgate promises “the raw emotional power, iconic fight scenes, and visceral style that made the film a classic.”

Evercade — which makes handhelds and consoles that utilize proprietary game cartridges — has announced a new format called the Giga Cart “that is designed specifically for larger and more modern retro games,” particularly those originally released on CD. First up? A collection of the first three Tomb Raider games in July.

Citing national security concerns, the country’s interior ministry said it shut down access to the platform ahead of elections in February.

Though Pakistani users have complained of limited access to X for months, the government has not confirmed it restricted the website until now. X remains blocked, but another court has told the government it has a week to reevaluate the shutdown.

Tesla paid X $280,000 for advertising and other services, according to the company’s proxy statement. X paid Tesla $1.02 million for unspecified work. SpaceX paid Tesla $2.9 million for “certain commercial, licensing and support agreements.” Tesla paid SpaceX $800,000 for use of its corporate jet. And Tesla paid the Boring Company $1.2 million.

No one paid Neuralink anything.

Katie Notopoulos’ take on the Humane AI pin’s screen-free proposition is a delightful read that’s slightly tongue-in-cheek (she’s the former Editor in Chief of Threads, after all) and completely relatable. I, for one, am thrilled that she’s on team Screens are Good.

Lewitt’s new Ray is a $349 condenser microphone that uses sensor-based technology called Aura to measure your distance from the mic and adjust audio levels and tone accordingly.

It’s a cool trick for streaming or other live situations that might have you riding an audio fader when moving around a space. You can also set it to auto-mute for when you walk away from your desk on a Zoom call.

It’s using three times as much “clean electricity” now as it did in 2020, Apple said today. It’s part of the company’s commitment to become carbon neutral across its operations and supply chain by 2030. By the same date, Apple also plans to replenish fresh water it uses in drought-stressed areas — spending $8 million on that task since 2023.

The company first rolled the semi-truck on-stage during a cloud computing event in 2016. It’s designed to get companies’ data into the cloud by transporting a 45-foot-long trailer full of hard drives to an Amazon data center.

But now, CNBC reports that Amazon has stopped offering Snowmobile’s service. A spokesperson tells CNBC that Amazon has “faster and easier” ways to transfer data to AWS.