Editor in Chief at Xataka On. Before joining Webedia, I was a tech reporter at Gizmodo and The Messenger. In recent years, I've been especially interested in Twitch, streamers, and Internet culture. LinkedIn
85 published news
January 2025
- 21 January
- ‘BIG TTS, DEE NUTZ, SM0LL PP’: Florida License Plate Denials Are Proof That Some Never Grow Out of Their Teenage Boy Era
- 20 January
- Does This Supergiant Sea Bug Look Like Darth Vader to You?
- 17 January
- Goodbye, Big Brother: GM Banned From Sharing Its Drivers’ Geolocation and Behavior Data With Insurance Companies
- 16 January
- Not Everyone Will be Banned From Using TikTok. It Looks Like the Biden Administration Made Some Exemptions
- 15 January
- With TikTok Ban Looming, Americans Say They’ve Found the Next Best Thing. Ironically, It’s a Chinese App Called RedNote
- 14 January
- Starbucks Has a New Message for the Public: Don’t Come In If You’re Not Going to Buy Anything
- 13 January
- What Caused the California Fires? Investigators Are Looking Into Arson, an Electrical Tower, and an Old Fire
- 03 January
- Pornhub Is Now Banned for 120 Million People in the U.S., but the Fight Over Porn Isn’t Over Yet
- 02 January
- The Internet’s New Queen Isn’t a Person, It’s the Walmart Copy of the Exclusive Birkin Bag
December 2024
- 31 December
- Superyachts Aren’t Doing It for Some Millionaires Anymore, so This Company Came Up With an Alternative: Luxury Submarines
- Someone Stole Keanu Reeves’ Exclusive Rolex Watch in Los Angeles in 2023. It Was Just Found It in the Most Random Place: Chile
- 30 December
- Hertz Dangles Cheap Used Teslas in Front of Customers in Effort to Offload Fleet
- 27 December
- Regulators Sue Walmart for Illegally Opening Bank Accounts for Its Spark Delivery Drivers Without Their Consent
- 26 December
- Florida Is Debuting a New Material for Building Roads. There’s Just One Problem: It’s Radioactive
- 23 December
- Long-haired and Bearded Men Are the Latest Jesus Commodity, and They’re Making Bank
- 20 December
- RIP Murder Hornet. Insect That Took Pleasure in Ripping Off Honeybees’ Heads Declared Eradicated in the U.S.
- 19 December
- Virginia Chosen as Site for World’s First Commercial Nuclear Fusion Power Plant. Its Goal: Generating Electricity for 150,000 Homes
- 18 December
- New FTC Rule Will Force Companies Make Hidden Fees Obvious, but That Doesn’t Mean They’re Going Away
- 17 December
- This Church Considers Psychedelic Mushrooms to Be Religious Sacraments. It Says the Universe Is Telling It to ‘Get Out of San Francisco’
- 16 December
- City Has a Plea for Residents: Stop Putting Googly Eyes on Public Sculptures
- 13 December
- The ‘Most Dangerous Toy in History’ Includes Real Samples of Uranium Ore. It Just Sold for $16,500
- 12 December
- Oldest Gun in the U.S. Found in Ruins of Spanish Stone-and-Adobe Building. It’s 480 Years Old and Was Never Fired
- 11 December
- Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart
- 10 December
- With New Ban, New Orleans Declares War on Mylar Balloons. Releasing One of Them Carries a $1,000 Fine
- 09 December
- Museum Worker Find Thousand-Year-Old Medieval Sword While Out for a Swim
- 05 December
- Secret U.S. Agency Is Paying $5 Million to Remove America’s Spy Satellites From New Vera Rubin Observatory Images
- 04 December
- The ‘Deaths in 2024’ Wikipedia Page Is the Most-Read of 2024. Here Are the Top 25 Most Popular Wikipedia Entries
- 03 December
- The Blue Grinch Meme Is Everywhere. Here’s What the ‘That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is Tomorrow’ Actually Means
- 02 December
- Crypto Millionaire Creates Real-Life Treasure Hunt in the U.S. The Prize: Five Boxes With Jewels, Gold, and a Moon Rock
November 2024
- 27 November
- The Debate Over American Water, Explained: Why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants to Ban Fluoride in Water
- 26 November
- Bird Flu Virus Found in Raw Milk in California, Highlighting Risks as Drink Goes Mainstream
- 25 November
- Scientists Have a New Origin Theory for Mars’ Potato-Shaped Moons: A Shredded Asteroid
- 23 November
- Tap Water Delivered to 113 Million Americans May Contain Toxic Chemical, Scientists Say
- 21 November
- Crypto Billionaire Buys Viral Duct-Taped Banana for $6.2 Million, Says He Plans to Eat It
- 19 November
- Scientists Discover World’s Largest Coral, Which Is Longer Than the Blue Whale and Can Be Seen From Space
- 18 November
- Infamous Duct-Taped Banana Set to Bring In More Than $1 Million at Auction, Replacement Bananas Not Included
- 15 November
- Elon Musk Is Looking for People to Work at DOGE. Here's What He's Offering: Tedious Work, Lots of Enemies, and Zero Pay
- 14 November
- Mark Zuckerberg Has Another Name: Z-Pain. The Meta CEO Is Now Publishing Songs and Collabing With Artists
- 13 November
- Delta and United Will Support New Apple Feature That Lets You Share the Location of a Lost Item With Airlines
- 12 November
- Costco Had a Peculiar Reason for Removing 80,000 Pounds of Butter From Its Shelves: The Label Didn’t Specify It Contained Milk
- 11 November
- Mattel Includes Link to Porn Site on Wicked Dolls for Kids, Calls It an ‘Unfortunate Error’
- 08 November
- FDA Proposal Could Change the Composition of Over-the-Counter Cold Medicines Like DayQuil and Mucinex
- 07 November
- Big Tree Hunters Find World’s Largest Pine Tree in Yosemite National Park: ‘It Was All By Itself in the Forest’
- 06 November
- Elon Musk’s Random $1-Million-a-Day Election Giveaway Isn’t so Random After All, His Lawyers Say
- 04 November
- Farmers Sound the Alarm About the Future of Potato Chips in America
- 01 November
- Cash App Users Have Until Nov. 19 to Claim Up to $2,575 in Data Breach Settlement
October 2024
- 31 October
- High School Students Discover 10 New Ways to Prove 2,000-Year-Old Pythagorean Theorem
- 29 October
- U.S. Forces Airlines to Automatically Refund Passengers for Flight Cancellations and Delays of More Than 3 Hours
- 28 October
- American Airlines Is Testing Out New System to Stop Passengers From Cutting in Line. The Key: Public Humiliation
- 24 October
- Scammers Are Using the Face of the CEO of HeyGen, an AI Company That Lets You Create a ‘Digital Twin,’ in Crypto Phishing Video
- 23 October
- Honolulu Is Running Out of Options for its 650,000 Tons of Trash, So It’s Thinking About Shipping It Somewhere Else
- 18 October
- FBI Says Man Who Hacked SEC’s X Account Conducted a Search Asking, ‘What Are the Signs That the FBI Is After You'
- 15 October
- A Restaurant With 73,000 Instagram Followers Claims It’s Austin’s Top Restaurant. There’s One Problem: It Doesn’t Exist
- 14 October
- Why Elon Musk’s Social Media Posts May Prevent Him From Launching More SpaceX Rockets From California
- 10 October
- Americans Are Skimping on McDonald’s French Fries. The Frycopolapse Has Cost More Than 400 Workers Their Jobs
- 08 October
- ‘Shrinkflation’ Has Made Coca-Cola Bottles and Cereal Boxes Are Smaller. Lawmakers Are Calling the Companies Out for It
- Days After Getting Battered by Hurricane Helene, Florida Holds Its Breath for Incoming Hurricane Milton
- 05 October
- License Plate Readers Are Reportedly Collecting Data on More Than Just Your Car
- 03 October
- Your Black Plastic Sushi Tray May Contain Banned Flame Retardants, New Study Says
- 02 October
- California Bans Fruit Loops, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, and Other Products Made With Synthetic Food Dyes From School Cafeterias
September 2024
- 27 September
- The Milk Recall in 27 States Is Critical to People Allergic to Almonds. Here’s What You Need to Know
- 26 September
- Next Week’s Annular Solar Eclipse Will Create a ‘Ring of Fire’ in the Sky
- California Orders School Districts to Ban or Limit Student Cell Phone Use by 2026
- 25 September
- U.S. Braces for Tropical Storm Helene. Forecasters Say It Could Become a Hurricane
- 23 September
- U.S. Households Will Be Able to Request Free COVID-19 Tests Under New Government Campaign
- Texas Is Getting a New Nuclear Reactor at an Unexpected Location: A University
- 21 September
- Goodbye, Paper: U.S. Citizens Can Now Renew Their Passports Online
- 19 September
- It’s Not Just You: Chicago Stinks, Literally. City Officials Say It’s Because of the Lack of Rain
- 18 September
- Earth Will Be Getting a New Mini-Moon for Two Months, but You’re Probably Not Going to Be Able to See It
- 16 September
- How to Watch Tuesday’s Rare Partial Lunar Eclipse
- 12 September
- The FDA’s New Mammogram Rules for Dense Breasts, Explained. Here’s What You Need to Know for Your Next Checkup
- Republicans Can’t Stop Saying That Haitian Immigrants Are Eating Cats. There’s No Proof It’s Happening
- 10 September
- Space Force’s Guardians Still Don’t Have Official Dress Uniforms, but Odds Are They’re Going to Look Like Something Out of Star Trek
- 06 September
- How a Bat Die-Off Led to a Rise in Infant Deaths in America
- 05 September
- For Some Students, Back-to-School Means Back to Sticking Their Phones in Yondr Pouches. Here’s What You Need to Know
- 04 September
- When Landslides Turn a Paradise Into Hell: A Look at the Crisis in Rancho Palos Verdes in California
- 03 September
- When Giving Out Free Water Is Against the Rules: Arizona Man Faces Off Against Homeowners Association Over Water Stand
- 02 September
- The Rise of Bystander Teslas: Police Are Towing Parked Cars They Believe May Have Recorded a Crime
- 01 September
- Engineer Proposes Weird But Cheap Idea to Keep Your Home Cool in the Heat: Coating Your Windows With Yogurt
August 2024
- 29 August
- Swifties for Kamala: How Taylor Swift Fans Are Demonstrating the Power of Fandom
- 28 August
- NASA Crashed Its DART Spacecraft Into an Asteroid as a Test. It May Have Accidentally Created the First Human-Made Meteor Shower
- Corn Sweat Is Real, and It’s Making the Heat Wave in the Midwest Even Worse
- 26 August
- Elon Musk’s Pay-Me-$8 Mantra Reportedly Had an Unlikely Beginning: A Cup of Starbucks
- 23 August
- San Francisco Parents Are Using Waymo’s Self-Driving Robotaxis to Shuttle Their Kids Around. They Might Have Given the Company an Idea
- 22 August
- What Happens When a Fried Chicken Restaurant Launches a Streaming Service? If Chick-fil-A Rumor Is True, We May Soon Find Out