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There's a wave of nostalgia washing over youth culture this week, but it's not the nostalgia you are probably familiar with: Kids aren't pining for goldfish swallowing contests, raccoon coats, and saying "Flibberty-Gibbet." They're nostalgic for terrible Starbucks drinks from 2017, weird Tumbler subcultures from 2010, and forgotten Saturday Night Live sketches from 2018. You know, the good old days. Here's what's up. What is a Unicorn Frappuccino?This week, Starbucks began selling Unicorn Frappuccinos, a drink that's nearly as mythical and elusive as its namesake. The color-changing, crème-based concoction was introduced for a brief period in 2017 and was mainly notable for its absurdity: It's made of cream, mango syrup, sour blue flavoring, and pink powder, so it looks like you put a My ...

Recently, the Amazon-owned Twitch made headlines for announcing that it would allow users to opt out of having their streams, VODs, and chats fed into an AI training machine. This, understandably, made a lot of people upset. But, it turns out, Twitch might be one of the more moderate social media sites on this front. Most social media apps are training some kind of AI on your data, and few make it as easy as a single toggle to opt out at all. Almost every social media site out there makes it extremely hard to know exactly how your data is used these days. Training generative AI models like Google’s Gemini are often lumped in with more mundane (but still machine learning-powered) features like, say, YouTube’s algorithm. Sifting through privacy policies to even find out whether a social app ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. The appeal of a 360-degree camera is that you don't have to think as much about framing while you are recording, and the Insta360 X3 is one of the better-known options in the category, earning an “excellent” rating from PCMag. It is currently $229.99, down from $299.99, which price trackers show is its lowest price so far. Its two lenses capture everything around the camera in up to 5.7K resolution, so you can decide later whether you want the final clip to follow a skier, show the road behind a cyclist, or keep the camera pointed at yourself as you walk through a city. That flexibility is especially useful when you are filming alone...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. If you’re looking to upgrade your smart TV, this LG 65-inch OLED AI 4K Smart TV is now $1,799.99 (originally $2,699.99), marking its lowest price ever, according to price-tracking tools. It has 4K resolution, 120 Hz refresh rate, and is compatible with Alexa. Amazon will deliver the TV to your preferred room and unpack it for you for free—however, if you need to have your old TV hauled away, it will cost you $69.99. With over 8.3 million self-lit smart pixels and OLED technology, colors and black in every picture will be rich in contrast no matter how much light is in your room. If you use the display for gaming, its NVIDIA G-Sync te...