Mariella Moon

Contributing Reporter

Mariella Moon has been a night editor for Engadget since 2013, covering everything from consumer technology and video games to strange little robots that could operate on the human body from the inside one day. She has a special affinity for space, its technologies and its mysteries, though, and has interviewed astronauts for Engadget. Mariella's work has previously appeared in other publications, including Popular Science, Entrepreneur, TechCrunch, USA Today and PCMag.

Articles by Mariella Moon

Meta's new board members include former Trump security advisor
Meta has announced that Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick are joining its board of directors on April 15.
The $70 Switch 2 version of ‘Breath of the Wild’ won’t even come with DLC
It'll cost you $20 extra to get the DLC for Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Switch 2.
Microsoft is rolling out its controversial Recall feature to Windows Insiders
Microsoft is gradually rolling out new preview features to Windows Insiders, including Recall, which has been the target of critics' security and privacy concerns since it was announced.
Lucid to buy Nikola's Arizona EV facilities after the latter's bankruptcy
Lucid Motors has announced that it's acquiring certain facilities in Arizona owned by EV truck maker Nikola.
OpenAI files countersuit against Elon Musk's 'bad faith' attacks
OpenAI has filed a countersuit against Elon Musk, accusing him of staging press attacks and malicious campaigns on "the social media platform he controls."
The Black Mirror game Thronglets is real and available for iOS and Android
Netflix has released a game called Thronglets based on episode seven of the latest season of Black Mirror.
Google is rolling out Pixel Watch 3's 'loss of pulse detection' feature in the US
The loss of pulse detection feature for the Pixel Watch 3 debuted in Europe last year. Now it's finally available in the US.
The White House wants federal agencies to maximize the use of 'American AI'
The White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released the administration's revised policies for the use of AI in federal agencies.
Amazon will use AI to generate recaps for book series on the Kindle
Amazon's new Recaps feature is part of the latest software update for the Kindle.
Amazon's 'Buy for Me' AI will purchase stuff from third-party websites
Amazon has started testing another AI-powered feature called "Buy for Me," which allows the e-commerce company to make purchases for you from other websites.
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at Amazon to run its video doorbell unit
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff left Amazon two years ago. Now he's back to run Ring and Amazon's units.
Midjourney launches its new V7 AI image model that can process text prompts better
Midjourney has released the alpha version of V7, which it says is an "entirely new" AI image generation model.
Bang & Olufsen's new Beosound Balance speaker model comes with a marble plinth
Bang & Olufsen's Beosound Balance Natura speaker features a sculptural marble base from Antolini.
Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI crawlers taking its content to train generative AI models. It has to find a way to address the problem, because it could slow down actual readers' access to its pages and assets.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S10 FE and Galaxy Tab S10 FE+ will be available on April 10
Samsung is releasing two Fan Edition models of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10, and they're both more affordable than their standard counterparts.
SpaceX launches Fram2, the first crewed spaceflight to explore Earth's polar regions
Fram2 is the first human spaceflight to explore the Earth's polar regions. It launched on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
OpenAI's built-in image generator for ChatGPT is now available to free users
ChatGPT's built-in image generation feature is now available to everyone, even non-paying users.
Sony has been backing up its PS5 game builds as part of a preservation effort
Sony's Preservation team has created the PlayStation Studios Vault to store everything it could find about Sony's game-making history.
Instagram will let you watch Reels at twice the speed
Instagram has rolled out an update for Reels that will let users go through more of them more quickly.
OpenAI delays rollout of ChatGPT's image generator to free users
Sam Altman said ChatGPT's new built-in image generator has been more popular than the company had expected.

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