President Donald Trump may have a tendency to put his name on everything, but his administration decided to go with the more authoritative The White House App for his latest pursuit. Now available on the App Store and Google Play store, the official White House App claims to gives Americans “a direct line to the White House.”

From the press release, the app provides “unfiltered, real-time upgrades straight from the source.” In more practical terms, the White House App is a one-stop shop for official communications from the administration and more. On the app, you can find press releases, livestream announcements and even a photo gallery, along with turning on notifications so you get official communications as soon as they happen.

However, it only takes a few minutes of digging through the app to question its value. The White House App’s News tab features a carousel of about 35 articles that seem suspiciously cherry-picked with articles that favor the Trump administration. In the Affordability window, the app points out year-over-year prices that have dropped for things like eggs, milk and bread, but conveniently omits the recent swell in gas prices.

In the Social tab, there’s a button to “Text President Trump,” which auto-populates a new text with “Greatest President Ever!” before ultimately trying to get you to sign up for a marketing blast. The press release mentioned a way to “send your voice and feedback directly to the Administration” but the app’s functionality doesn’t seem to promote that. Most notably, there’s even a way to submit a tip to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the app’s Get in Touch section.

While it’s convenient to have all your Trump administration announcements in one place, the White House App is mostly just a portal that ends up opening external websites. Traditionally, official White House accounts on social media platforms are passed on during the transition of presidents. However, it’s hard to say what will happen to the app after Trump leaves office, but one only has to look towards the lasting triumph of TrumpRx, Trump Mobile or even Trump University.

YouTube is in a slightly tricky position right now. On one hand, it’s encouraging creators to use AI tools to make content faster and more easily than ever. On the other hand, it’s also saying it will take action against what it calls “AI slop”, which basically means low-effort, mass-produced videos that don’t offer much value.

That contrast is hard to miss. The platform clearly wants more AI-driven content, but only the kind that feels useful, original, and worth watching, not content that simply fills up space.

So, what are we supposed to take from this?

YouTube CEO, in a NYT video interview, recently said:

A.I. can be a tool to produce amazing content or further democratize content creation, but it can also allow for the creation of lots of low-quality content. There are aspects of it that are not new. The part that’s new is the scale, but the notion of low-quality content, clickbaity content — we’ve been able to deal with that on YouTube. I also think that we have to have a bit of a delicate hand on this. And I would tell you that every day we’re trying to really strike that balance, but we’re very, very focused on making sure that when you open up the YouTube app, it’s not a feed of A.I. slop.

The real challenge, though, isn’t just accepting that low-quality AI content exists. It’s dealing with how much of it there can be. Platforms have always had to handle mediocre content, but AI changes things completely. What once took time and effort can now be created in huge numbers within minutes. An average video is easy to ignore. Thousands of them, uploaded all at once, become much harder to manage.

Those feel-good words don’t hit the same anymore

“Delicate balance” sounds great, doesn’t it? It’s quite reassuring. But when you actually stop and think about it, the question becomes pretty obvious: what does that even look like in practice? On YouTube, it’s easy to call out the obvious stuff. Fully automated videos, robotic voiceovers — sure, that’s AI slop. But what about the grey area? A video where AI writes the script, edits the clips, designs the thumbnail, and a human just sprinkles a bit of polish on top. Is that smart use of tools, or just low effort dressed up nicely? The line isn’t just blurry, it’s practically moving while you’re trying to draw it.

The platform already leans heavily on algorithms to decide what gets seen and what gets buried. But when uploads start pouring in at scale, even the smartest systems can struggle to keep up. AI content doesn’t arrive with a neat little label saying “I’m generated.” In fact, the more convincing it looks, the harder it is to catch. A lot of it isn’t obviously bad, it’s just…good enough. And that “good enough” quickly turns into a flood.

For years, the platform has rewarded volume. Post more, stay consistent, keep the machine fed. That’s how you grow. And guess what fits perfectly into that system? AI. It lets creators, and let’s be honest, content farms, churn out videos at a scale that just wasn’t possible before. So while the platform says it wants to cut down on low-quality content, the way it’s built doesn’t exactly discourage it either.

To be fair, this isn’t YouTube’s first rodeo. It has dealt with spam, clickbait, and every kind of “hack the system” trick in the book. And it has adapted over time. But AI changes the game. What used to be a manageable problem now shows up multiplied. And that’s really where those feel-good promises start to lose their shine. The intention is there, no doubt. But right now, it feels more like a careful statement than a clear plan. Because spotting the problem is the easy part. The real test is whether the platform can actually keep it under control before your feed turns into a fine line of “just good enough” content.

Cars didn’t always have steering wheels. The very first car—the 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, invented by Karl Benz—used a tiller system: a horizontal bar with a handle mounted to a vertical bar. The lever-like handle was similar in many respects to a boat’s rudder. Amazingly, it would be another nine years before French engineer Alfred Vacheron saw sense and fitted the first known steering wheel to his 4-horsepower Panhard for the Paris-Rouen race. Just four years later, in 1898, Panhard made the infinitely preferable and safer steering wheel standard on all its cars. And we’ve been using them ever since.

Hans-Peter Wunderlich is Mercedes’ creative director of interior design. He has been designing steering wheels for 35 years. “I started in 1991 on my first,” he tells me. “A steering wheel is really the most challenging and difficult element to sculpture, to design, to develop in the car.” It is so difficult that Wunderlich has used the wheel as a test on potential recruits.

“When we hire a designer, I have given them the task, after I see a nice portfolio, to draw me a steering wheel,” he says. “The steering wheel is, for me, the proof. Should I hire them or not? If a designer is able to create a perfect steering wheel, even just as a scribble, then they will be a good designer for the total interior of a car.”

CAD design renders of Mercedes and Maybach designs before prototyping.

Courtesy of Mercedes

It was this challenge, in part, that attracted Ive and his team. “Our starting point was trying to understand the essential nature of the problem to be solved, and that normally means dismissing received wisdom,” Ive tells me. “A car is the aggregation of multiple products, and, in many ways, we’re designing furniture. We’re designing complex and sophisticated input methods. One of the challenges was to try to create cohesion. You don’t get something to be cohesive by a set of rules. That was a wonderful new challenge, and one wrestled with over a number of years.”

For both Ive and Wunderlich, science accompanies the art of design. They talk of the intricacies of the ergonomics, the logic of the switches, factoring in an “exploding element in the center” (the airbag), which is getting more and more complicated, says Wunderlich. “Even the rim is an ergonomic science in itself,” he adds, saying that his team works hand in glove with Mercedes’ in-house ergonomics department on these stages. “It’s almost 50-50. We get requirements data from engineering and ergonomics.”

Spinning Out

Look closely at your steering wheel rim; in cross-section, it won’t be round. Cut it into segments, and each will likely have a different profile, aiming to optimize grip wherever your hands grasp the wheel. Even the padding has to be just right. “It mustn’t be like bone but also not too fat. You need a nice balance,” Wunderlich says. “[It must say] this car is solid, it’s quality, it’s strong, it’s powerful, but it’s not crude.”

“If you hold the wheel on the three and nine o’clock positions, you can carve in with your fingers on the rear of the rim—so you have the hump, the scallop of the rim,” Wunderlich says. “And then we carve into a valley where your fingers could rest. That means your hands can close. You have the feeling you’re holding the car. This is so challenging, because in that area you have such a technical structure to maintain—complex electronics and heating elements. We torture the engineers to keep that area so small so we can sculpt it out.”

Ive tortured Raffaele De Simone, Ferrari’s chief engineer and head development driver. De Simone is sometimes described at the company as “Customer No. 1” because, apparently, no Ferrari road car leaves the factory until he is satisfied with its performance.

Day 2 of the BGIS Grand Finals was chaotic in the best way possible. A variety of teams got into the top three, but Soul was ultimately the one left without a challenge. Genesis also showcased some of the best assault gameplay. They ranked second without winning a single game. Here’s everything that happened on the second day of the BGIS Grand Finals 2026.

Match 7 & 8: OG Bounce Back, Genesis Go Ruthless

The day kicked off with instant action. Nebula was put under heavy pressure early and lost three players quickly to Team Tamilas. OG, on the other hand, came out firing with five finishes within the first circle itself. LEFP was the first team to be wiped out after getting caught in a crossfire while rotating into the zone. K9 followed soon after, continuing their rough tournament run.

Soul looked strong early with 7 kills, but were surprisingly eliminated early by VE, missing out on position points. WF and RNTX also fell quickly, while GodLike couldn’t get going and was eliminated with just a single point. That opened the door for OG, MYTH, and VS. MYTH were taken out first by OG, and from there, OG sealed the deal with a much-needed chicken dinner.

The second match started with MYTH getting caught off guard by Genesis, who carried forward their momentum from Day 1. RGE and NINZ were the first teams to go, followed by VE in a shocking early exit. NBE’s struggles continued, and GodLike once again had a middling outing.

But the story of this match was Genesis. They were relentless, picking up 15 kills and dominating the lobby. In the final moments, it came down to Genesis, LEFP, and WF. Genesis had the zone disadvantage and were taken out by LEFP, but WF—who had zero kills until then—stepped up and wiped LEFP to steal the chicken dinner.

Match 9 & 10: Chaos, Upsets, and Early Exits

The third match had chaos written all over it. MYTH was dismantled early by multiple teams and eventually finished by Genesis. OG, coming off a chicken dinner, had a shocking exit after losing a straightforward 4v1 against LEFP.

One of the biggest moments was GodLike taking down VS in a bold play that got the crowd going. The final zone was insane, with Soul, GodLike, and NIMZ playing some of the best BGMI we’ve seen so far. GodLike were taken out first thanks to NIMZ’s grenades, followed by Soul, who were down to a single player.

The fourth match began cautiously, with teams playing it safe for position points. MYTH got things rolling by picking off WF players, eventually eliminating them. Soul tried an aggressive push but lost two players in the process. Genesis’ early exit from a shack was one of the biggest surprises. Nebula, OG, and GodLike were also eliminated quickly, with Revenant Xspark playing a key role in third-party fights. Soul was eventually taken out in 7th place due to the playzone.

Match 11 & 12: Nebula Comeback, Soul Finish Strong

The fifth match started explosively, with LEFP losing three players to VE in a drop clash. TT and NINZ both found themselves in messy fights and were left with just one player each. WELT was the first full team to go after a fight involving K9 and a GodLike third party. WF, LEFP, and VS followed, while K9 made a major blunder and was eliminated without scoring. Genesis crossed the 100-point mark in this game, but the real story was Nebula. After a rough run, they finally showed what they were capable of—securing a chicken dinner with over 10 kills.

The final match of the day had everything. LEFP started strong by wiping WF without losing a player. K9 tried to bounce back by taking down VS, but couldn’t sustain momentum and was eliminated early. A chaotic mid-game fight between Nebula, RNTX, Genesis, and MYTH saw multiple teams getting wiped out. Genesis was regrouping when Soul third-partied and eliminated them. GodLike once again fell early, and Soul found themselves in a strong position heading into the final zones. The final fight took place in a church compound, with five teams battling for control. But the zone shifted away, forcing everyone into the open.

In the end, it came down to Soul, LEFP, and OG. LEFP were bombarded with grenades, OG were eliminated, and Soul closed it out to secure their first chicken dinner of the day. For the full standings, click here.

After a relatively quiet few months, Amazon is bringing back another of its famously invented shopping holidays. The Amazon Spring Sale is in its third year, running now through March 31. Like during last year’s event, Amazon is promising customers thousands of deals across various daily, themed categories.

Of course, as we’ve seen in the past with Prime Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, the true discounts on good products will likely be buried among junk deals on shoddy wares. The WIRED Reviews team tests gear all year long, and we fact-checked discounts on the products we actively recommend to our friends, family, and readers. We’ve highlighted the best deals from the Amazon Spring Sale below.

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• Huawei introduces Atlas 350 with significant FP4 compute performance claims
• New accelerator card focuses on inference workloads and multimodal AI processing
• Huawei Atlas 350 delivers higher memory capacity and improved bandwidth efficiency

Huawei has officially launched the Atlas 350 accelerator card, featuring its new Ascend 950PR processor, at the Huawei China Partner Conference 2026 in Shenzhen.

The company claims this NPU delivers 1.56 PFLOPS of FP4 compute performance, which is reportedly 2.87 times higher than Nvidia’s H20.