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TechCrunch All Stage 2025: Prepare 4 VC’s Jason Kraus will instruct on how to turn chaos into momentum
Being a founder often feels like you’re building the plane midflight. You’re juggling fundraising, product-market fit, marketing strategy, hiring — while quietly wondering if you’re even doing it right. TechCrunch AllStage 2025, which is happening on July 15 at the SoWa Power Station in Boston, is built to answer those questions. Whether you’re pitching VCs, […]
3 hours ago
Adidas’ 3D-printed sneaker review: What are those!?
A shoe engineered to be made entirely from additive manufacturing will be polarizing in the first quarter of the 21st century. That's certainly been my experience wearing Adidas' new 3D-printed Climacool sneakers on the beach, trail, or in the city. I felt more eyes on my footwear than normal, with a determined flick upward to […]
4 hours ago
Donald Trump takes aim at more water and energy efficiency standards
Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum Friday afternoon directing the Department of Energy to “consider using all lawful authority to rescind” or weaken regulations for water and energy efficiency for dishwashers and washing machines. The action also includes water use standards for showers, faucets, toilets, and urinals. It closes out a week of attacks on […]
10 hours ago
Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy violations
Google is set to pay $1.375 billion to settle claims of data privacy violations brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to a press release. Texas filed two lawsuits in 2022 against Google for “unlawfully tracking and collecting users’ private data regarding geolocation, incognito searches, and biometric data,” the release says. Before now, no […]
10 hours ago
Deltarune’s next chapters will launch alongside the Switch 2
The paid release of Deltarune, Toby Fox’s episodic Undertale spinoff, will be available for most people at the same time the Nintendo Switch 2 launches in Japan, Fox says in the Deltarune newsletter for May 2025. Deltarune’s first two chapters, released in 2018 and 2021 respectively, were free, but this new release, which adds chapters […]
09/05/2025
You can now use Apple Pay to buy games on your PS5
PS5 users can now buy games in the PlayStation Store using a new payment method: Apple Pay. You could use Apple Pay in the browser or via the mobile app already, but now the method joins other on-console options like using a saved credit or debit card, and PayPal. As reported by 9to5Mac, you may […]
09/05/2025
Figma’s CEO on his new approach to AI
Tech event season is in full swing. This week, Stripe and Figma gathered thousands of people in downtown San Francisco for their respective conferences. I caught up with Figma CEO Dylan Field after his opening keynote at Config, where he announced the most significant product expansion in the company's history. Below, you'll find our chat […]
09/05/2025
Samsung’s Galaxy Ring is on sale with a $100 gift card starting at $299.99
Smartwatches have come along way since the first Apple Watch arrived on the scene more than a decade ago. However, despite how ubiquitous they’ve become, they’re still nowhere near as discrete — or long-lasting — as a smart ring like the Samsung Galaxy Ring. Thankfully, if you’re looking to ditch the watch, Samsung’s first-gen smart […]
09/05/2025
Scaling startups in the European market
From cybersecurity and aerospace to generative 3D, startup leaders are scaling ambitious companies from European soil and taking on global markets. In this conversation at the StrictlyVC event in Athens, we talked to three founders about what it takes to go from idea to impact while navigating the continent’s unique challenges — and why building […]
09/05/2025
Investing in overlooked European ecosystems
John Tsioris sold Instashop to Delivery Hero for $360 million. Nate Clarke took Tyme from startup to global digital bank. In this candid conversation at the StrictlyVC event in Athens, the two entrepreneurs open up about what drives them, how they’re choosing their next bets, and why they’re investing in ecosystems that others overlook.
09/05/2025
The US is reviewing Benchmark’s investment into Chinese AI startup Manus
Manus AI is one of the hottest AI agent startups around, recently raising $75 million at a half-billion dollar valuation in a round led by Benchmark. But two unnamed sources told Semafor that the investment is now under review by the U.S. Treasury Department over its compliance with 2023 restrictions on investing in Chinese companies. […]
09/05/2025
Trump illegally fires Democrats on Consumer Product Safety Commission
On Friday, Donald Trump abruptly removed the three sitting Democrat appointees on the five-person U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission — the independent watchdog agency that issues recalls and regulates everyday products, including consumer electronics. With no apparent cause for removal, the firings violate existing Supreme Court precedent dating back to 1935, as did Trump’s removals […]
09/05/2025
Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16
Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. Scheduled for May 20 to 21 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, I/O will showcase product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. Expect plenty of news relating to Android, Chrome, Google Search, YouTube, and — of course — Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini. Here’s […]
09/05/2025
Remember Moviefone? Well, it’s back.
For millions of movie enthusiasts in the ’90s, Moviefone’s 777-FILM number was the go-to source for obtaining showtimes. Now, under new ownership, Moviefone is trying to make a comeback. On Friday, as part of its 35th anniversary celebration, Moviefone announced the relaunch of its mobile app and a new nationally syndicated broadcast TV series. Set […]
09/05/2025
Border agents are going to photograph everyone leaving the US by car
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans on photographing every single person who leaves the US by car, an agency spokesperson told Wired. The agency says it will start using facial recognition technology at official border crossings to match all outbound travelers’ faces to their passports, visas, or other travel documents, though there’s no public timeline […]
09/05/2025
These investors are betting on Greece’s founders
Several of Greece’s region’s most active early-stage investors joined StrictlyVC and TechCrunch at our event in Athens to share where they’re placing bets, how founder expectations are shifting, and why Europe’s next wave might be its strongest yet. The conversation explores everything, like emerging ecosystems, cross-border growth, and what it takes to win deals in […]
09/05/2025
Don’t expect to hear about the Outer Wilds team’s next game for ‘years’
Outer Wilds developer Mobius Digital is working on a new game, but it might be a very long time before we hear anything about it, the studio’s head of production tells The Verge. “It’s going to be quite awhile before we have any news or hints about our next game,” says Jackie Kreitzberg. “Likely on […]
09/05/2025
The Department of Labor just dropped its investigation into Scale AI
The U.S. Department of Labor has dropped its investigation into Scale AI’s compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to a source directly familiar with the matter. The FLSA is a federal law that regulates misclassification of employees as independent contractors and unpaid wages. TechCrunch first reported that Scale was the subject of such […]
09/05/2025
An in-depth interview with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad
It's my final day at The Verge and Vox Media after over 13 years. And as luck should have it, I was able to wrap up my tenure here by interviewing Tom Conrad, the interim CEO of Sonos. I've covered this company more extensively than any other, and as our readers know, Sonos has been […]
09/05/2025
Greece is having a Big Tech moment
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has an inside look at how the country is positioning itself as a refreshed hub for innovation, investment, and participation from the world’s technology industry. During a StrictlyVC event in Athens, Mitsotakis explored everything from policy changes to new global partnerships, as well as what’s behind Greece’s tech momentum. He […]
09/05/2025
Seagate on track for 100TB HDDs by 2030 — claims current top drive will triple in capacity in 5 years
Seagate claims that it is on track to sell a 100 TB hard drive by 2030, representing a 3x increase over its largest currently available model.
09/05/2025
TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla denied ‘Robotaxi’ trademark, Aurora loses a co-founder, and tariffs start to take a toll
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Remember last week when Aurora met a major milestone — just squeaking by under its own deadline — and launched a driverless self-driving truck service? Welp, this […]
09/05/2025
Epic Games and Spotify test Apple’s new App Store rules
Fortnite maker Epic Games and Spotify are testing Apple’s new App Store policies by submitting apps for review that would have previously never been allowed. On Friday, both companies submitted new versions of their respective apps to Apple’s App Review. For Epic Games, it would mean the return of Fortnite to the App Store. Apple […]
09/05/2025
Serena-backed health tech lands first FDA approval for home cervical cancer test
For the first time, the FDA has just approved a device that lets people screen for cervical cancer from home. Known as the Teal Wand, from the company Teal Health, the prescription device lets patients self-collect samples and mail them to a lab to receive the same testing as would be done at a doctor’s […]
09/05/2025
ESPN’s standalone streaming service might just be called ESPN
Disney is getting ready to launch ESPN’s standalone streaming service – and apparently, it may just be called “ESPN,” according to a report from CNBC. Sources tell CNBC that ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro chose the name “to simplify what’s become a cluttered streaming world, filled with different media products that can be bundled with other […]
09/05/2025
FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers
U.S. authorities indicted three Russians and one Kazakhstan national for hacking and selling access to a botnet made of vulnerable internet-connected devices.
09/05/2025
SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content
SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform. As spotted by tech ethicist Ed-Newton Rex, the latest version of SoundCloud’s terms include a provision giving the platform permission to use uploaded content to “inform, train, [or] develop” AI. […]
09/05/2025
Newark Airport radar outage strikes again, delaying more flights
Just days after an outage briefly knocked out radar and communications between air traffic controllers and planes at Newark Liberty International Airport, the FAA confirmed it happened again on Friday morning: There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications and radar display at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark […]
09/05/2025
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its […]
09/05/2025
Startups Weekly: Different paths on the road to liquidity
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week was busy for startups: While there were no IPOs of note, there were other exits and even unusual liquidity events, as well as a significant […]
09/05/2025
Rippling raises $450M at a $16.8B valuation, reveals YC is a customer
HR tech startup Rippling has raised a $450 million Series G round at a $16.8 billion valuation, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. It is also conducting a $200 million tender offer to give current and former employees some liquidity. The equity raise marks a big jump in valuation from a year ago. In April 2024, […]
09/05/2025
China's premier chipmaker SMIC faces chip yield woes as equipment maintenance and validation efforts stall
SMIC has begun to feel the effects of U.S. export controls on chipmaking tools, as disruptions from issues with maintenance and equipment installation led to yield losses and output shortfalls that will reduce its Q2 revenue by up to 6%.
09/05/2025
SF’s BART expects ‘major delays’ after a computer problem ground subways to a halt
San Francisco’s BART subway system is back up and running after service was suspended and shut down on Friday morning due to a “computer networking problem.” The service is back online “system wide” as of about 9:17AM PT, but BART says to “expect major delays in service toward all destinations due to an earlier train […]
09/05/2025
Noctua NH-D15 G2 gains offset mounting bars for Arrow Lake CPUs to optimize cooling performance
Noctua has introduced a new offset mounting solution for the NH-D15 G2 optimized for Arrow Lake processors. The new mount provides up to a three-degree drop in temperatures with a specific variant of the G2.
09/05/2025
Arlo’s new AI features summarize what your camera sees
Arlo is introducing some new AI capabilities that allow its security and doorbell cameras to describe events and alert users when certain concerns are detected. The features are included in Arlo Secure 6, the latest version of Arlo’s home security subscription service, which is set to start rolling out to customers sometime this month. Adding […]
09/05/2025
Peacemaker is back for season 2 in August
It’s been a few years, but Peacemaker is finally about to make its return to streaming: Max announced that the DC series will back for eight episodes starting on August 21st. The news came along with a teaser trailer that includes the titular lead (played again by John Cena) seemingly struggling to join a new […]
09/05/2025
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.
09/05/2025
Microsoft Build 2025: How to watch this year’s conference
Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s biggest event of the year, is on the horizon. It’s scheduled to start May 19 at the Seattle Convention Center, and it’ll run through May 22. The keynote address featuring Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott will take place May 19 at 9:05 a.m. PT. That’ll be followed by a […]
09/05/2025
RISC-V makes its way into DeepComputing's $349 AI PC
DeepComputing has released the new DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard II for Framework Laptop at a starting price of $349.
09/05/2025
Google inks deal to develop 1.8 GW of advanced nuclear power
Google is promising to add at least 600 megawatts of generating capacity at each of the three sites.
09/05/2025
MSI Z890 Godlike Motherboard Review: All the features for all the money
MSI’s Z890 Godlike offers next-level flagship-class features and a high-end aesthetic, but the price will be a turnoff for most.
09/05/2025
CoreWeave reportedly looks to raise $1.5B in debt as IPO disappoints
Data center operator CoreWeave is reportedly seeking a $1.5 billion debt deal after a disappointing IPO. According to the Financial Times, CoreWeave is holding a roadshow this week with bankers at JPMorgan for debt options. The company’s executives intend to use the meetings to gauge investor interest. New Jersey-based CoreWeave listed its shares in March, […]
09/05/2025
Lenovo's in-house Arm chip could rival Qualcomm and MediaTek, spotted in Yoga Pad Pro 2-in-1 convertible
Lenovo is reportedly working on a custom in-house SoC for its Yoga Pad Pro family, rumored to be built on TSMC's 5nm process.
09/05/2025
Spotify’s iPhone app could soon sell audiobooks with links, too
Spotify is working on an update that could allow iPhone users in the US to purchase audiobooks through external links. In a post on Friday, Spotify says it has submitted the update to Apple, and if approved, it would also let Premium users buy “top-ups” for additional audiobook listening time. The change comes in response […]
09/05/2025
Leaked document reveals more about Eufy’s first smart display
A brochure shared on Reddit provides new details on Eufy’s first smart display. The Eufy Smart Display E10 hasn’t been officially announced by Anker yet, but it’s already received FCC certification and was recently demonstrated at a private event in New York. The smart display’s manual has also leaked. According to the brochure, the Smart […]
09/05/2025
Whoop angers users over reneged free upgrade promises
Whoop just announced its new Whoop 5.0 fitness tracker yesterday, but some existing users are already calling foul. Previously, Whoop said people who had been members for at least six months would get free upgrades to next-generation hardware. Now, the company says that members hoping to upgrade from a Whoop 4.0 to 5.0 will have […]
09/05/2025
Nvidia readies cut-down HGX H20 GPU for China to comply with export control rules
Nvidia plans to launch a downgraded HGX H20 AI processor with reduced HBM memory capacity for China by July to comply with new U.S. export rules, if a new rumor is correct.
09/05/2025
Brilliant launches new smart home control panels
Smart home controller maker Brilliant NextGen has launched its second generation of touchscreen panels that replace traditional light switches. The new hardware, which looks like the previous model, has a 4x higher resolution screen and dual-band WiFi (2.4GHz and 5GHz) to help curb interference. It also has a more powerful processor that Brilliant says is […]
09/05/2025
Tall Tales is a critique of AI — so why do people think it was made with AI?
For the past three decades, multidisciplinary artist Jonathan Zawada has produced art across various mediums: sculptures, paintings, videos, installations, and more. He's also been making visualizations with his friend Mark Pritchard, a record producer and experimental musician. They became close friends, talking nearly every day. But the relationship changed when Pritchard brought him a new, […]
09/05/2025
X notifications are broken
Some parts of X’s notification system have been down since Thursday afternoon, making it hard for users to see when accounts they follow have posted something. User reports can be seen across Reddit and X, and my colleagues at The Verge have noticed zero new notifications even with alerts enabled on accounts that have posted […]
09/05/2025
Jony Ive’s next product is driven by the ‘unintended consequences’ of the iPhone
Former Apple designer Jony Ive says the work on his next product is driven by owning the “unintended consequences” associated with the iPhone. During an interview with Stripe, Ive said there’s “not anything that I can be more preoccupied or bothered by” than the potentially adverse effects smartphones have on their users. “I think when […]
09/05/2025
X timelines aren’t updating for many users
Sometime Thursday night, timelines stopped updating for a number of users on X, the social network owned by billionaire Elon Musk. Many users report that their notifications stopped working yesterday, meaning they aren’t being alerted to new posts by the people they follow on X. This reporter is experiencing the issue, as well. My X […]
09/05/2025
LegoGPT creates Lego designs using AI and text inputs — tool now available for free to the public
A Carnegie Mellon University research team builds an AI LLM called LegoGPT, which allows you to generate LEGO brick designs from text.
09/05/2025
Apple said to be developing new chips for smart glasses, Macs, and more
Apple is reportedly developing new chips to drive smart glasses similar to Meta’s Ray-Ban Meta as well as more powerful Macs and AI servers. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman notes that one of the chips is inspired by the Apple Watch’s low-power processors. Apple aims to put these chips into mass production with TSMC by the end […]
09/05/2025
Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors for social media accounts has failed
The bill would have required social media companies create encryption backdoors to allow access to users' private information.
09/05/2025
Huawei's Kirin X90 may be the company's 'Apple Silicon' moment — Matebook Pro 2025 features in-house hardware and software
Huawei's upcoming Matebook Pro not only uses the homegrown HarmonyOS operating system, but rumors say it might also include its in-house Kirin X90 SoC.
09/05/2025
Why Apple is trying to save Google
Google is in antitrust court, fighting to preserve the search engine business that has made it so historically successful. At a few different moments through the various stages of the trial, high-powered executives from Apple have taken the stand - and largely taken Google's side. Just this week, Apple's Eddy Cue made the case that […]
09/05/2025
Nvidia's GB10 Superchip trails Apple's M3 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite in latest benchmarks
Preliminary Geekbench 6 results show Nvidia's GB10 Superchip trailing Apple's M3 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite in both single- and multi-thread tests, which could mean a bug or the processor's focus on AI workloads.
09/05/2025
Nvidia's RTX 5060 will launch without reviews since chipmaker opts not to supply press drivers to reviewers
Nvidia confirmed that it will only release drivers for the RTX 5060 on May 19 and that reviewers won’t get access to a pre-release driver for testing.
09/05/2025
Amazon now sells prescription pet pills
Amazon is expanding its prescription medication business to include your pooches and pussycats. Through its Vetsource partnership announced on Thursday, Amazon says that “hundreds of prescription pet medications” will now be available for US customers to purchase via Amazon’s storefront, including treatments for fleas, ticks, and chronic conditions. Prescription pet drugs can be found by […]
09/05/2025
Best Build Plates for 3D Printers
The best aftermarket build plates to improve your 3D printer.
09/05/2025
Nvidia RTX 5090 can crack an 8-digit passcode in just 3 hours — password cracking benchmarks show tremendous performance
Hive Systems discovers that 12 RTX 5090 graphics cards can crack a basic numerical eight-digit password in 15 minutes.
09/05/2025
Threads adds dashboard to better explain post and account restrictions
Threads is getting a new transparency feature that allows users to see how their accounts are being reprimanded for breaking the platform’s rules. Video ads are also making their debut on the platform. The new account status dashboard is similar to existing account features on Instagram and Facebook, showing when posted content has been removed […]
09/05/2025
This is your last chance to exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI — don’t miss out
Applications are almost closed, and you have until 11:59 p.m. PT tonight to reserve your exhibitor table at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, our premiere industry event that’s happening at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on June 5. Imagine walking into a room filled with 1,200+ investors, founders, enterprise leaders, and journalists — all hunting for the next […]
09/05/2025
Why am I internet-stalking the pope?
The moment the white smoke appeared above the Sistine Chapel, I immediately turned on my television, because I wanted to see who the new pope would be, and then hopped on social media, because I knew that the internet could tell me more about the new pope faster than television could. That, and the memes […]
09/05/2025
Netflix is removing Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Netflix is removing the last two shows listed on its Interactive Specials page: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, reports What’s on Netflix. The two specials will be pulled on May 12th, 2025, according to the publication, so if you want to watch them, you’ll want to catch them soon. […]
09/05/2025
One of Elon Musk’s long-time VCs is suing his former employer after allegedly being fired
Josh Raffaelli, who has long roots as a Silicon Valley investor and has backed a number of Elon Musk companies, is suing his former employer, the massive trillion-dollar AUM Brookfield Asset Management, reports the New York Times. Much of Raffaelli’s complaint concerns how Brookfield covered pandemic-related real estate losses and alleges the company fired him […]
08/05/2025
Instagram CEO testifies about competing with TikTok: ‘You’re either growing, or you’re slowly dying’
When Adam Mosseri took over Meta-owned Instagram as CEO in 2018, the app was experiencing what he'd later call "concerning" drops and plateaus in user engagement, thanks partly to fierce competition from a new app: TikTok. Instagram estimated in 2019 that 23 percent of the decline in time spent on Instagram in the US was […]
08/05/2025
Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says
Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we don’t allow our employees to use the DeepSeek app,” Smith said, referring to DeepSeek’s application service (which is available on both desktop and mobile.) Smith […]
08/05/2025
A timeline of South Korean telco giant SKT’s data breach
In April, South Korea’s telco giant SK Telecom (SKT) was hit by a cyberattack that led to the theft of personal data on approximately 23 million customers, equivalent to almost half of the country’s 52 million residents. At a National Assembly hearing in Seoul on Thursday, SKT chief executive Young-sang Ryu said about 250,000 users […]
08/05/2025
Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky sentenced to 12 years in prison
Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud that led to “billions in losses,” the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Celsius, which held $25 billion in assets at its peak, abruptly halted withdrawals and transfers during a broader […]
08/05/2025
Aurora to add night driving, new routes as it ramps driverless trucking
In 2025, Aurora plans to operate fully driverless trucks at night, in poor weather, and beyond Houston and Dallas and into El Paso and Phoenix.
08/05/2025
Apple has a new ‘Viral’ playlist on Apple Music and Shazam
Apple is launching a new global Viral Chart playlist in Apple Music that consists of tracks people are discovering through the company’s Shazam service. The playlist, which is updated daily, shows the top 50 songs people have heard playing out in the real world and have logged through Shazam. You can see charts on Shazam’s […]
08/05/2025
Aurora co-founder Sterling Anderson is leaving the self-driving truck startup
Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the nascent autonomous vehicle sector and co-founder of Aurora, is resigning just a week after the company launched its commercial self-driving truck service in Texas. Anderson held the chief product officer position at Aurora. The resignation was posted in a regulatory filing along with the company’s first-quarter earnings report. His […]
08/05/2025
Appfigures: Apple made over $10B from US App Store comissions last year
Over $10 billion — that’s how much revenue Apple’s U.S. App Store raked in last year, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures. The firm’s estimates indicate that U.S. App Store revenue from commissions more than doubled between 2020 and 2024. In 2020, Apple’s share of App Store commissions was approximately $4.76 […]
08/05/2025
ChatGPT’s deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code
OpenAI is enhancing its AI-powered “deep research” feature with the ability to analyze codebases on GitHub. On Thursday, OpenAI announced what it’s calling the first “connector” for ChatGPT deep research, the company’s tool that searches across the web and other sources to compile thorough research reports on a topic. Now, ChatGPT deep research can link […]
08/05/2025
Razer’s Clio is a $230 surround sound head cushion
Razer has announced three new products today, including an alternative to wireless headphones called the Clio that’s designed to attach to your gaming chair and double as a head cushion. Powered by a 5,400mAh battery that Razer says is good for up to 14 hours of use, the Clio uses adjustable straps to attach to […]
08/05/2025
The US is reportedly encouraging countries to adopt Musk’s Starlink in tariff trade talks
The US government is bringing up Starlink adoption in the midst of tariff trade talks with other countries, according to a report from The Washington Post. In recent weeks, several countries have moved forward with licensing the Elon Musk-owned satellite internet company, including India, Somalia, Lesotho, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam. […]
08/05/2025
Congress votes to pull funding for free Wi-Fi hotspots at schools and libraries
The Senate has voted to end a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that used federal funding to cover Wi-Fi hotspots that could be used outside of school and libraries. The program, first implemented by former FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, applied funds from the $2.6 billion federal E-Rate program to a program that enabled schools and […]
08/05/2025
Ex-Synapse CEO reportedly trying to raise $100M for his new humanoid robotics venture
Sankaet Pathak’s last startup, fintech Synapse, filed for bankruptcy in 2024 amid issues with partner Evolve Bank & Trust. Tens of millions of dollars in deposits made by consumers, mostly customers of fintechs that worked with Synapse, remain unaccounted for. Yet according to The Information, Pathak is reportedly moving full steam ahead on attempts to […]
08/05/2025
Social media startup Fizz sues Instacart and Partiful for trademark infringement over new Fizz app
Social media startup Fizz is suing grocery delivery giant Instacart and party planning app Partiful for trademark infringement, the company announced on Thursday. Earlier this week, Instacart launched a new drinks and snack delivery app for parties called Fizz and announced that Partiful had integrated Fizz directly into its platform. Founded in 2020, Fizz is a […]
08/05/2025
Chinese chipmaker readies 128-core, 512-thread CPU with AVX-512 and 16-channel DDR5-5600 support
Hygon shares processor roadmap, detailing the Chinese chipmaker's plans to launch the Hygon C86-5G, a 128-core, 512-thread processor soon.
08/05/2025
Meta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research lab
Meta has chosen Robert Fergus to lead its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, according to Bloomberg. Fergus had been working at Google DeepMind as a research director for roughly five years, per his LinkedIn. Prior to Google, he worked as a researcher scientist at Meta. Meta’s FAIR, which has been around since 2013, has faced […]
08/05/2025
DOJ and FTC invite the public to complain about Ticketmaster
If you’ve been harboring complaints about Ticketmaster, now’s the time to let it all out. The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are inviting the public to submit comments about harmful practices in live ticketing as part of efforts to “identify unfair and anticompetitive” behavior in the industry. In March, President Donald Trump […]
08/05/2025
Google launches ‘implicit caching’ to make accessing its latest AI models cheaper
Google is rolling out a feature in its Gemini API that the company claims will make its latest AI models cheaper for third-party developers. Google calls the feature “implicit caching” and says it can deliver 75% savings on “repetitive context” passed to models via the Gemini API. It supports Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 […]
08/05/2025
Instagram Threads is getting video ads
Instagram Threads will begin testing video ads, Meta announced on Thursday. The test, which will make Threads look more like its competitor X, is an expansion of Threads’ advertising initiatives, which began last month with the opening up of ads to global advertisers. The news was announced at Meta’s presentation at the IAB NewFronts, where […]
08/05/2025
C# 14 – Exploring extension members
C# 14 introduces extension members. See how the `extension` syntax offers flexibility for extension authors and continuity for developers using extensions The post C# 14 – Exploring extension members appeared first on .NET Blog.
08/05/2025
Ecobee’s video doorbell now integrates with Google Home
Ecobee has announced an update to its Smart Doorbell Camera that finally adds integration with Google’s Home app and smart displays. The company’s video doorbell debuted with support for both Apple Home and Amazon Alexa when it launched in late 2023, but integration with Google’s smart home ecosystem was promised as a future update arriving […]
08/05/2025
Apple is planning smart glasses with and without AR
Apple has “made progress” on a chip for potential smart glasses that would be competitors to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, according to Bloomberg. The chip is apparently based on the chips Apple uses for the Apple Watch, though the company has removed parts and is being designed in such a way that it can […]
08/05/2025
PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted
Schools in Toronto and North Carolina are reporting extortion attempts.
08/05/2025
Roborock’s S8 MaxV Ultra, our favorite robovac, is $800 off
If you’re tired of spending your weekends cleaning, you might want to check out today’s deal on Roborock’s S8 MaxV Ultra. It’ll take care of the vacuuming and mopping for you so you can reclaim your free time, and is currently available at an all-time low price of $999.99 ($800 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, […]
08/05/2025
Cadence releases new AI supercomputer — uses Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 GPUs to improve simulation run time
Cadence is releasing a new supercomputer that takes advantage of Nvidia's latest AI chips.
08/05/2025
Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scams
Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome. The tech giant is going to start using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model (LLM), on desktop to protect users against online scams. It’s also launching new AI-powered warnings for Chrome on Android to help users be […]
08/05/2025
China’s Geely moves to take EV startup Zeekr private amid trade war with US
China's Geely has offered to take its EV startup Zeekr private, one year after the company debuted on the NYSE.
08/05/2025
The next Lord of the Rings movie debuts in December 2027
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, the new LOTR movie that will feature Andy Serkis as both its star and director, will premiere in theaters on December 17th, 2027, Deadline reports. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens, who were all key to the original film trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, will […]
08/05/2025
Former SK hynix employee transferred advanced chip packaging technologies to Huawei
A former SK Hynix employee has been charged with stealing wafer bonding and image sensor technologies to secure a job at Huawei’s HiSilicon, raising alarm over tech IP leaks to China.
08/05/2025
Exhibit your startup at TechCrunch Sessions: AI while you still can!
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to act, this is it. You have just 24 hours left to secure your exhibit table at TechCrunch Sessions: AI and position your brand at the center of the conversation shaping the future of the AI industry. TechCrunch Sessions: AI is bringing together the brightest builders, boldest […]
08/05/2025
Judge dismisses most charges against FTX’s celebrity boosters
A federal judge in Florida dismissed most claims against athletes, actors, YouTubers, and other celebrities who endorsed Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange, ruling that there isn’t sufficient proof that they knew about FTX or Bankman-Fried’s fraudulent acts. The high-profile defendants, sued by a group of FTX investors, include Tom Brady and his ex-wife, the model Gisele […]
08/05/2025
Starlink’s launch in India now a matter of when, not if
Elon Musk’s Starlink has received anticipated state approval in India, opening the door to enter the world’s second-biggest internet market after China — over three years after SpaceX’s previous attempt to launch its satellite-based broadband in the country eventually failed. On Wednesday, the Indian Department of Telecommunications gave its nod to Starlink to start working toward […]
08/05/2025
How to View Your Command History in Any Linux Operating System
Often overlooked, history is an archive of all the commands that our user has typed. But what can we do with these commands and what tools can we use?
08/05/2025
Sequoia leads $1.5B tender offer for sales automation startup Clay
It took seven years of hard work for Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of sales automation startup Clay, to see the company’s product finally take off in 2022. Since then, the startup has experienced explosive growth, reached a valuation exceeding a billion dollars, and expanded its employee count from low double digits to over 200. […]
08/05/2025
Kickstarter’s new Tariff Manager is now available to campaign creators
Kickstarter’s new Pledge Manager, featuring tools that “simplify logistics and fulfillment” after funds have been successfully raised, is now available to all creators. It was first announced last February as part of a sneak peek at Kickstarter’s 2025 Product Roadmap. Initially only available through the platform’s beta program, the Pledge Manager includes Kickstarter’s new Tariff […]
08/05/2025
Threads was originally going to live inside the Instagram app
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is on the stand today in Meta’s antitrust trial. In trying to prove the social network is not a monopoly, he shared that the Threads app could have been just a feature inside of Instagram. Meta was working on built-in Threads features for Instagram first to compete with Twitter, which pioneered […]
08/05/2025
OpenAI hires former head of the Facebook app
OpenAI has hired Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and former Facebook app chief, as the head of the company’s apps business. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says introducing the new role will allow him to “focus on research, compute, and safety.” After joining Facebook in 2011, the company appointed Simo […]
08/05/2025
Wikipedia fights the UK’s ‘flawed’ and ‘burdensome’ online safety rules
The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation is challenging the United Kingdom’s online safety rules in court over concerns they may enable “vandalism, disinformation, or abuse” to go unchecked on its Wikipedia platform. Wikimedia announced on Thursday that its legal challenge specifically targets the Online Safety Act’s (OSA) categorization regulations, which the foundation says are written broadly enough […]
08/05/2025
Startup trains AI models with gaming GPU setup under $100K
Fastino, an AI startup, is training its AI models using affordable graphics cards intended for gaming, saving the company money with a setup that costs under $100,000.
08/05/2025
The Old Guard’s immortal action continues in sequel’s first trailer
The Old Guard was one of Netflix’s more memorable action flicks, and if the first trailer is anything to go on, the same will be true of its sequel. The streamer just released the first proper look at The Old Guard 2, which continues to follow Andromache (Charlize Theron) as the leader of a squad […]
08/05/2025
Apple asks court to halt App Store rule changes while it appeals
Apple asked a judge to halt an order forcing it to give up control over App Store payments while it appeals the decision. In a filing on Wednesday, Apple says the order contains “extraordinary intrusions” that could result in “grave irreparable harm” to the company. Last week, California District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found […]
08/05/2025
RTX 5060 reviews are reportedly in jeopardy — Nvidia allegedly withholding pre-release drivers from reviewers
Nvidia is reportedly withholding pre-release drivers for the RTX 5060 until launch on May 19th, leaving reviewers with no lead time for testing before they head to Computex.
08/05/2025
OpenAI launches a data residency program in Asia
OpenAI is introducing a new data residency program in Asia, the company announced Thursday, following the rollout of its data residency program in Europe in February. The new program, which is available for OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the OpenAI API, aims to help Asia-based organizations meet local data sovereignty requirements while using the […]
08/05/2025
Reuters is ready to stand up for the press — and embrace AI
Today, I’m talking with Paul Bascobert, who is the president of Reuters, the news and information service you have undoubtedly heard of. This is part of a special Thursday series we’re running this month to explore how leaders at some of the world’s biggest companies make decisions in such a rapidly changing environment. You know, […]
08/05/2025
HarmonyOS replacing Windows on Huawei laptops — delivers connectivity across the ecosystem
Huawei's HarmonyOS 5 set to replace Windows on its laptops starting May 19
08/05/2025
Bill Gates tells his foundation to spend it all by 2045
The Gates Foundation is expected to spend $200 billion over the next 20 years to support causes related to health and human development.
08/05/2025
How To Monitor CPU and RAM Resources in Any Linux Distro
Keeping an eye on system resources is a must, no matter if you are using a Raspberry Pi or a multi-million dollar data center. We show you how to monitor your systems from the Linux command line.
08/05/2025
Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being ‘involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children’
Bill Gates took aim at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk during an interview with The New York Times, saying funding cuts to USAID will cause childhood deaths to increase. “On childhood deaths, which over the next few years should have gone from five million to four million — now, unless there’s a big reversal, […]
08/05/2025
The Delta emulator’s new update makes it easier to join its Patreon
Following companies like Amazon and Spotify, the Delta emulator is the latest iOS app to take advantage of last month’s ruling by Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Although it has appealed the decision, Apple has complied with the ruling that it can no longer restrict developers from directing users to alternate payment […]
08/05/2025
Peloton downplays tariffs and embraces AI
Peloton said it’s not sweating tariffs in its Q3 2025 earnings today, noting it is “predominantly a subscription business” while acknowledging that macroeconomic uncertainty could impact demand for its pricey bikes and treadmills. “During the period of GDP decline between 2008 and 2009, external data showed that us spend[ing] on fitness continued to grow, and […]
08/05/2025
Oh no, I turned everything into an AI podcast
Ever since Google introduced the "Audio Overviews" feature into its NotebookLM research tool, I have been experimenting with feeding it bodies of text that I did not want to sit and read: stereo instructions, Wikipedia rabbit holes, my Q1 performance review, etc. With this AI tool, two uncanny valley robot voices are generated to "dive […]
08/05/2025
Whoop wants everyone to give a whoop about the new Whoop 5.0
The Whoop 5.0, announced today, is a significant hardware and software update with subscription pricing that seems keen on broadening its appeal to a wider audience. When I reviewed the Whoop 4.0, I said it was a tracker that made sense for athletes, but not so much the average person. Between hyper-performance-focused features and a […]
08/05/2025
Meta’s new AI glasses could have a ‘super-sensing’ mode with facial recognition
Meta is developing what’s described as “super-sensing” vision software that can recognize people by name, according to The Information. The company is reportedly working on two pairs of smart glasses for next year, internally called Aperol and Bellini, and has recently reworked its processes for assessing privacy and safety risks to release products more quickly. […]
08/05/2025
Nvidia celebrates dumping of Biden-era AI chip export rules — simpler new policy promised
The Trump administration plans to scrap the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule that restricted AI chip exports to most countries, replacing it with a simpler, negotiation-driven policy that maintains tough controls on China but opens doors for bilateral deals.
08/05/2025
New surgeon general nominee cofounded ‘biowearables’ startup with DOGE operative
Before she was chosen as Donald Trump's latest nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Casey Means came from the world of healthcare startups - and cofounded one with a tech entrepreneur who's now a key DOGE operative in charge of dismantling the IRS. In 2019, Means, a holistic medicine doctor who rose to prominence in the […]
08/05/2025
Baidu developing AI-driven animal to human translator – Dr Doolittle plans revealed in patent application
Animal owners seeking a deeper understanding of their beloved Fido or Tiddles have new hope after a recently filed patent from Chinese search giant Baidu was unearthed.
08/05/2025
Palworld had to remove game features because of Nintendo lawsuit
The ongoing lawsuit between Nintendo and Palworld developer Pocketpair has forced the studio to make some changes to its Pokémon-like game. In a new blog post, Pocketpair explained that a patch in November removed certain gameplay features, and that an upcoming update will cull even more. “We have had to make certain compromises in order […]
08/05/2025
Match to lay off 13% of staff
Dating app giant Match Group is laying off 13% of its staff as part of a reorganization that aims to reduce costs and simplify its organizational structure.
08/05/2025
Amazon’s newest AI tool is designed to enhance product listings
Amazon said Thursday it is releasing a new generative AI-powered tool to help merchants improve their listings with missing details or attributes. Sellers often have hundreds of products listed on Amazon, and they need to update information related to them from time to time, which can be a cumbersome task. The e-commerce tech giant wants […]
08/05/2025
Alienware's new Aurora laptops are for gamers who crave some design subtlety
Alienware's new 16 and 16X Aurora laptops are designed for subtlety and portability, with a toned-down design.
08/05/2025
Asus ROG Swift PG27UCDM 4K 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: High-end in every way
Asus’ ROG Swift PG27UCDM is a high-end gaming monitor in every way with a 27-inch 4K QD-OLED panel that runs at 240 Hz with Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, wide gamut color and every feature one could ever need or want.
08/05/2025
I put four robot lawnmowers through a brutal backyard battle — and only one person got injured
It's a scorching afternoon in August 2024, with temps hovering at 101 degrees. I'm flat on my back, sweating under a 1970s Land Rover, trying to rescue a Segway Navimow. It turns out that the first rule of using a robot lawnmower is "don't let anyone park on your lawn." Robot lawnmowers have been around […]
08/05/2025
Here’s Alienware’s fresh take on entry-level gaming laptops
Alienware is introducing a pair of new, more affordable gaming laptops: the Aurora 16 and 16X, starting at $1,149 and $1,949, respectively. Unlike the flagship Area-51 laptops announced back at CES, the Auroras are meant to be a little more versatile, portable, and comfortable for general laptop use. They replace the older Alienware M, X, […]
08/05/2025
Intel teases Arc Battlemage professional GPUs for Computex — Variants with 24GB of VRAM alleged
Intel is set to announce new Arc GPUs for the professional market at Computex, likely powered by its latest Battlemage (Xe2) architecture.
08/05/2025
How India’s spiritual tech startups are monetizing faith for the algorithm age
When covid-19 lockdowns swept across India in 2020, they brought religious life to a halt. Temples were shuttered, large gatherings banned, and in-person rituals suspended - many for the first time in living memory. Millions of devotees were suddenly cut off from their usual spiritual routines, from daily temple visits and bhajans (community singing sessions) […]
08/05/2025
Reddit intros new profile tools for business customers
Reddit on Thursday announced profile enhancements for businesses that’ve joined Reddit Pro, the company’s suite of tools designed to help brands discover, join, and contribute to the social network’s communities and conversations. Now, Reddit will now generate suggested profile bios for businesses during Reddit Pro sign-up. Once businesses provide their website, they can choose from […]
08/05/2025
How To Find Large Files on Any Linux Machine
In this how-to, we will look at several approaches to finding large files. We will look at a simple way to list all directory contents in size order and then look at ways of searching and identifying files that are larger than a size we specify.
08/05/2025
Asking chatbots for short answers can increase hallucinations, study finds
Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have. That’s according to a new study from Giskard, a Paris-based AI testing company developing a holistic benchmark for AI models. In a blog post detailing their findings, researchers at Giskard say prompts for shorter answers to […]
08/05/2025
Corsair's newest case, the modular mid-tower Frame 4000D is on sale at its lowest-ever price of just £67
Corsair's fantastic Frame 4000D is already discounted to £67, an outrageous price for a brand-new release.
08/05/2025
You can now submit your claims for Apple’s $95 million Siri spying settlement
Eligible Apple customers can now apply for their share of a $95 million Siri snooping payout. A website has been set up to distribute the funds, allowing Apple device owners in the US who experienced an unintended Siri activation during private conversations between September 17th, 2014, and December 31st, 2024, to submit a claim. The […]
08/05/2025
VC firm Insight Partners confirms personal data stolen during January hack
The venture capital firm has over $90 billion in assets under management, including cybersecurity giants.
08/05/2025
Musk’s Colossus is fully operational with 200,000 GPUs backed by Tesla batteries — Phase 2 to consume 300 MW, enough to power 300,000 homes
The first 150-MW substation is finally complete, allowing the Memphis Supercluster to get power from the TVA grid.
08/05/2025
Nvidia reportedly halts RTX 5090D deliveries in China — undelivered orders canceled, GPU ban speculated
Nvidia reportedly cancelled the sales of the RTX 5090D in China.
08/05/2025
After projecting losses of $1.5 billion, AMD CEO Lisa Su calls for a balance between export controls and national security
Following an $800 million inventory charge due to U.S. export controls, AMD CEO Lisa Su echoed Nvidia's warnings that restricting access to the Chinese market could undermine American leadership in AI by enabling rival ecosystems.
08/05/2025
Intel Arrow Lake processors bottleneck PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs by 16%, limiting peak speeds to 12Gb/s instead of 14Gb/s
Arrow Lake CPUs are allegedly bottlenecking PCIe 5.0 SSDs in Z890 motherboards, causing 5.0-capable drives to peak at 12GB/s rather than 14GB/s.
08/05/2025
Intel’s XeSS 2 expands support to 10 new games, XeSS surpasses 200-game milestone
Intel’s XeSS 2 upscaling tech gains traction with more game support and promising FPS gains
08/05/2025
How To Mount and Unmount Drives on your Linux machine
Mounting and unmounting drives using both the terminal and the GUI is an essential Linux skill. In this article, we show how to do this and how to work with ISO image files.
08/05/2025
Why Hims & Hers turned to the autonomous vehicle industry to find an AI-savvy CTO
Hims & Hers, the telehealth and wellness company, has hired a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry as its next chief technology officer. The move, according to Hims & Hers co-founder and CEO, Andrew Dudum, was intentional. Hims & Hers on Thursday said its next CTO would be Mo Elshenawy, the former president and CTO […]
08/05/2025
ASML accelerates 50-football-fields-size mega expansion plans in the Netherlands
ASML appears to have accelerated its ambitious expansion plans in the Netherlands. The site may be in action up to two years early.
08/05/2025
Tesla finally calls it quits on Cybertruck range extender
Tesla has officially scrapped the range extender accessory it was making for Cybertrucks. In emails seen by Electrek, Tesla confirmed to Cybertruck owners that it’s “no longer planning to sell” the $16,000 battery pack, and that it would be issuing full refunds for the $2,000 deposit put down by customers. The range extender would have […]
08/05/2025
Toshiba says Europe doesn't need 24TB HDDs, witholds beefy models from region
Toshiba has withheld the European launch of its 24TB N300 and N300 Pro NAS hard drives despite rivals offering similar models there, citing low demand.
08/05/2025
Apple tries to delay ruling that bars it from taking a cut on external app payments
Apple is trying to delay a court ruling that forces the company to let iOS app developers accept payments via non-Apple systems and avoid paying a cut.
08/05/2025
Lenovo's new Legion 9i gaming laptop sports an 18-inch dual-mode 3D display and flagship specs
The new 18-inch Lenovo Legion 9i is a monster gaming machine with up to 192GB of RAM, 8TB of storage, an RTX 5090, and a 3D display.
08/05/2025
Lenovo’s flagship gaming laptop has a 2D / 3D screen and carbon fiber lid
Lenovo is announcing a new 10th-generation Legion 9i gaming laptop coming soon to China and scheduled for the fall in North America. The 18-inch behemoth is packed with top-end specs, including the option for a 4K-capable 2D / 3D screen, Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU, up to 192GB of RAM, […]
08/05/2025
Nintendo expects the Switch 2 to be just as successful as the original
Nintendo has forecast global sales of 15 million Switch 2 consoles by the end of March 2026, which would be roughly comparable to the original Switch’s first year on sale, despite retailing for a much higher price. The company suffered an expected slump in both hardware and software sales this year, according to its latest earnings […]
08/05/2025
Bosch Ventures’ new $270M fund is turning its attention to North America
The venture arm of Bosch has a new $270 million fund that will continue in its tradition of investing in deep-tech startups. And this time, Bosch Ventures plans to put more of its money into North American startups. Bosch Ventures, which launched in 2007, is on its sixth fund. And while the corporate VC is […]
08/05/2025
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI
Simo, already a board member at OpenAI, will transition out of Instacart over the next few months and join the AI company full-time as Application CEO.
08/05/2025
Samsung finally has a launch date for the Galaxy S25 Edge
Samsung will formally unveil the Galaxy S25 Edge during a virtual Unpacked event on Monday, May 12th at 8PM ET. This answers at least one of our many questions about Samsung’s upcoming slim phone which the company teased back in January. A blog post published with today’s announcement reveals another tidbit or two, but for […]
07/05/2025
Eddy Cue is fighting to save Apple’s $20 billion paycheck from Google
Microsoft's Bing or DuckDuckGo probably won't disrupt Google's dominance in search, said Apple senior vice president of services Eddy Cue - but AI services easily could. Cue was returning to a courtroom in Washington, DC where he last testified in the Justice Department's trial against Google's search monopoly in September 2023. During the current remedies […]
07/05/2025
The best Mother’s Day gifts you can still grab
Running out of time but still want to impress Mom this Mother’s Day? Don’t panic – there’s still time to grab a gift that ships fast and won’t scream “last-minute.” Whether you’re after something to make her life easier or something to help her unwind, we’ve rounded up the best gadgets and goodies to do […]
07/05/2025
Fastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by Khosla
Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it’s invented a new kind of AI model architecture that’s intentionally small and task-specific. The models are so small they’re trained with low-end gaming GPUs worth less […]
07/05/2025
Stripe unveils AI foundation model for payments, reveals ‘deeper partnership’ with Nvidia
Fintech giant Stripe announced Wednesday a slew of new product launches at its annual Stripe Sessions user event. The highlights include: a new AI foundation model for payments; stablecoin-powered accounts; a new Orchestration offering, and a recent migration with chip behemoth Nvidia. Stripe’s payments foundation model has been trained on tens of billions of transactions, […]
07/05/2025
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.
07/05/2025
Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ and ‘Cybercab’ trademarks hit roadblocks ahead of June launch
Tesla’s attempt to trademark the term “Robotaxi” in reference to its vehicles has been refused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for being too generic, according to a new filing. Another application by Tesla to trademark the term “Robotaxi” for its upcoming ride-hailing service is still under examination by the office. In addition, applications […]
07/05/2025
Trump cuts Energy Star program that saved households $450 a year
The Trump administration is moving to shut down the Energy Star program, which saves homeowners an average of $450 a year. “If you wanted to raise families’ energy bills, getting rid of the Energy Star label would be a pretty good way,” says Steven Nadel of the American Council for Energy Efficiency. The program, which […]
07/05/2025
OpenAI and the FDA are reportedly discussing AI for drug evaluations
OpenAI has met with officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to discuss the agency’s use of AI to speed up drug evaluations, Wired reported on Wednesday. According to the report, OpenAI and the FDA have discussed a project called cderGPT, which seems to be an AI tool for the Center for Drug Evaluation […]
07/05/2025
The Papal ‘conclave cam’ is slow TV
On YouTube, hundreds of thousands of viewers around the world are staring at an unmoving broadcast of the Sistine Chapel chimney. Occasionally, a seagull will swoop in and perch atop the roof for a few minutes. But for the most part, nothing happens. On Wednesday, the College of Cardinals started the process of picking the […]
07/05/2025
Google launched a Gemini app for iPad
Google has announced a dedicated iPadOS version of the Gemini app. Previously, you could only run the iOS version of Gemini in compatibility mode on an iPad. Here’s some of the announcement, which Google spokesperson Elijah Lawal emailed to The Verge: With the new app, you can use the split view on the iPad to […]
07/05/2025
Delta debuts its Patreon-supported iOS app update after US App Store policy change
A game emulator called Delta is taking advantage of the recent court decision around Apple’s App Store to support its business by linking to its Patreon membership page. The update, approved Wednesday for release on the U.S. App Store, allows Delta users to join the Delta team’s Patreon directly from the mobile app, without giving […]
07/05/2025
Delta debuts its Patreon-supported gaming app update after US App Store policy change
A game emulator called Delta is taking advantage of the recent court decision around Apple’s App Store to support its business by linking to its Patreon membership page. The update, approved Wednesday for release on the U.S. App Store, allows Delta users to join the Delta team’s Patreon directly from the mobile app, without giving […]
07/05/2025
Delta’s game emulator becomes a Patreon-supported app after US App Store policy changes
A game emulator called Delta is taking advantage of the recent court decision around Apple’s App Store to support its business by linking to its Patreon membership page. The update, approved Wednesday for release on the U.S. App Store, allows Delta users to join the Delta team’s Patreon directly from the mobile app, without giving […]
07/05/2025
Reddit will keep old Reddit online ‘as long as people are using it,’ says CEO
The old Reddit layout sometimes looks a bit outdated, but it’s beloved by many Reddit users, including me. I’ve worried for some time that Reddit would eventually pull the plug on it in favor of the newer and more modern interface, but based on a recent post from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, it doesn’t sound […]
07/05/2025
Sony WH-1000XM6 headphone specs and details leak early
Sony will launch a successor to its WH-1000XM5 noise cancelling headphones on May 15th, according to leaked information reported by Dealabs and Android Authority. Details of the new headphones model, called the WH-1000XM6, come from a now pulled Amazon Spain listing for the product that was first spotted by a Reddit user. The XM6 will […]
07/05/2025
Rove, founded by a 22-year-old, is helping Gen Z earn airline miles without credit cards
During his junior year study abroad, Max Morganroth, traveled to 30 countries, primarily flying in business and first class. His jet-setting was funded almost entirely by airline points he collected through strategic credit card applications and miles redemptions. Morganroth told TechCrunch that just about everyone he knew was “begging” him to teach them how to […]
07/05/2025
Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ trademark refused for being too generic
Tesla’s attempt to trademark the term “Robotaxi” in reference to its vehicles has been refused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for being too generic, according to a new filing. Another application by Tesla to trademark the term “Robotaxi” for its upcoming ride-hailing service is still under examination by the office. In addition, applications […]
07/05/2025
Anthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web search
Anthropic is launching a new API that allows its Claude AI models to search across the web. Developers using it can build Claude-powered apps that deliver up-to-date info, the company said in a press release published Wednesday. The rollout of the API comes as AI companies look to augment their models in various ways that […]
07/05/2025
Snap Map reaches new milestone of 400M monthly active users
Snapchat announced on Wednesday that Snap Map now has more than 400 million monthly active users, a new milestone for one of the app’s core features. Launched in 2017, Snap Map was originally a way for users to see their friends’ locations and browse public snaps from around the world. Overtime, the feature has evolved […]
07/05/2025
Lucid Motors’ Gravity SUV dealing with early ‘hiccups,’ interim CEO says
Lucid Motors has been working through some quality “hiccups” in the early stages of delivering its long-awaited electric SUV, according to interim CEO Marc Winterhoff. “It is true that we had some technical issues that we had to overcome around software” and the Gravity’s heads-up display, Winterhoff said on a conference call Tuesday. “There have […]
07/05/2025
SpaceX’s Starlink has become a big benefactor of Trump’s tariff trade war, leaked memos show
SpaceX’s satellite internet service, Starlink, is directly benefiting from the Trump Administration’s tariff trade war, according to leaked State Department memos obtained by the Washington Post. The memos show the U.S. pushing countries to adopt Starlink. Some show that countries believe that doing so could help lubricate their U.S. trade and tariff negotiations. One memo […]
07/05/2025
FTC loses appeal to stop Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal that already happened
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost its appeal of a ruling in its case against Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In 2023, the FTC requested a preliminary injunction to prevent the companies from finalizing the deal while its legal challenge to the acquisition from 2022 was in progress. “With control of Activision’s […]
07/05/2025
Rockstar says new GTA VI trailer was ‘equal parts gameplay and cutscenes’
A second trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI had a surprise drop this week, and it looked like it mostly focused on the story and world at the expense of gameplay. However, developer Rockstar Games says that isn’t actually the case, and that the trailer was “comprised of equal parts gameplay and cutscenes.” The fact […]
07/05/2025
Windows 10 support is ending — but End of 10 wants you to switch to Linux
End of 10 is encouraging people with Windows 10 PCs to install Linux and skip buying new Windows 11 PCs.
07/05/2025
Android’s splashy new paint job won’t yank Gen Z from iPhones
Android's new design language looks extremely… Gen Z. That much is obvious from the concept images in the leaked blog post that surfaced today (published by Google, as it tends to do). While the theme is customizable, Google highlighted pink, purple, and coral throughout the interface. It's a decidedly younger, bubblier, and more fun design […]
07/05/2025
Amazon debuts a warehouse robot with a sense of ‘touch’
Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” some of the items it touches. The two-armed Vulcan, which can maneuver goods inside the storage compartments Amazon has in its warehouses, uses force sensors to help it know when it makes contact with an object. One arm rearranges items in a […]
07/05/2025
3D X-DRAM aims for 10x capacity of today's memory — NEO Semiconductor's memory has up to 512 Gb per module
NEO Semiconductor has announced progress on its new 3D X-DRAM technology, with new 1T1C and 3T0C chip designs increasing DRAM speeds by an order of magnitude for tomorrow’s top-end computing.
07/05/2025
New court filing shows that Meta execs agreed that Facebook was losing to TikTok
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, and other Meta execs thought that TikTok was beating Meta at its own game. That’s according to a new filing in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant, published on Monday. The document, dated February 2022, includes conversations among a number of Meta […]
07/05/2025
Uber-rival BluSmart investors propose resolution with $30M backing for its revival
A group of investors are considering a plan to inject another $30 million into BluSmart in a bid to revive the Indian cab-hailing startup that abruptly halted operations last month, TechCrunch has learned. The proposal from these existing investors has a catch: its contingent on BluSmart co-founder Anmol Singh Jaggi agreeing to resign. The proposed […]
07/05/2025
BluSmart investors propose $30M in new funding to revive the Uber rival
A group of investors are considering a plan to inject another $30 million into BluSmart in a bid to revive the Indian cab-hailing startup that abruptly halted operations last month, TechCrunch has learned. The proposal from these existing investors has a catch: its contingent on BluSmart co-founder Anmol Singh Jaggi agreeing to resign. The proposed […]
07/05/2025
OpenAI wants to team up with governments to grow AI infrastructure
OpenAI is launching a program, OpenAI for Countries, that the company says will enable it to build out the local infrastructure needed to better serve international AI customers. As a part of the new program, OpenAI will partner with governments to assist with efforts like building out data center capacity and customizing OpenAI’s products, including […]
07/05/2025
Apple’s Eddy Cue: ‘You may not need an iPhone 10 years from now’
Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, gave an ominous warning today that the iPhone could go the way of the iPod 10 years from now. And the reason, as one might guess, is artificial intelligence. Cue’s remarks came during the Google Search antitrust remedies trial today while discussing how AI has the potential […]
07/05/2025
Mitsubishi’s next EV is based on the upcoming Nissan Leaf coming in 2026
Mitsubishi will launch a new electric vehicle in North America next summer that’s based on Nissan’s upcoming third-generation Leaf. The new EV, which will be Mitsubishi’s second-ever in the US after the pioneering i-MiEV, is part of the company’s “Momentum 2030” growth plan where it will launch “a new or significantly revised vehicle every year […]
07/05/2025
Nintendo Switch 2's SoC die shot reveals 8x A78C cores, 1,536 Ampere shaders, and Samsung's 8N process
Geekerwan managed to procure a non-functional Nintendo Switch 2 board, and utilized a FIB-SEM to dissect and analyze its internal details.
07/05/2025
Google searches are falling in Safari for the first time ever —probably because of AI
Google searches fell in Safari for the first time ever last month, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said during Google’s antitrust trial on Wednesday. “That has never happened in 22 years,” Cue added. Cue linked the dip in searches to the growing use of AI, which the company is now considering putting […]
07/05/2025
Why we built our startup in C#
Tracebit built their B2B SaaS security product using C#. The post Why we built our startup in C# appeared first on .NET Blog.
07/05/2025
ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks
Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year. ServiceNow said that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Data.World, a cloud-native data catalog and data governance platform. Austin, Texas-based Data.World was founded in 2015, and previously raised more than $130 million in venture financing from firms such as […]
07/05/2025
Clippy resurrected as AI assistant — project turns infamous Microsoft mascot into LLM interface
New “software art” piece brings Clippy back to your desktop, serving up locally installed LLMs from the mouth of a paperclip.
07/05/2025
Apple is looking to add AI search engines to Safari
Apple is looking at adding AI search engines from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic into Safari, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, made the statement during his testimony in the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alphabet. Cue’s disclosure was part of his testimony regarding Apple and Google’s estimated $20 billion-a-year […]
07/05/2025
Raptor Lake instability saga continues as Intel releases 0x12F update to fix Vmin instability
Intel launches another microcode update addressing Raptor Lake instability. This time the update addresses rare cases where Vmin Shift can occur.
07/05/2025
Figma’s big AI update takes on Adobe, WordPress, and Canva
Figma is expanding its creative software ecosystem to allow product designers to complete entire projects without jumping to third-party apps. Four new products for website building, AI coding, branded marketing, and digital illustration were introduced at Figma’s Config event today, aiming to fill in any gaps holding Figma back from being an all-in-one platform that […]
07/05/2025
Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari
Apple is “actively looking at” bringing AI search options to Safari. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, made the statement during Google’s antitrust trial on Wednesday, saying the company will likely add AI search features to Safari in the coming year as they continue to improve. “To date, they’re just not good enough,” […]
07/05/2025
Figma releases new AI-powered tools for creating sites, app prototypes, and marketing assets
Design company Figma today announced multiple features, including AI-powered site and web app creation, a way for marketers to create assets in bulk, and a new drawing tool. With this launch, the company is taking on other creative solutions such as Canva and Adobe, along with AI-powered website and prototype creators such as WordPress, Wix, […]
07/05/2025
Carta abandons startup shutdown business, instead backs SimpleClosure’s $15M Series A
In February of 2024, equity management startup Carta revealed that it was getting into the startup winddown business with a new offering called Carta Conclusions. By December, the company had decided to “retire” that offering, according to a blog post. And now, SimpleClosure, a startup that has described itself as “the Turbo Tax of shutting […]
07/05/2025
Microsoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agents
Microsoft says that it’s embracing Google’s recently launched open protocol for allowing AI “agents” to communicate with each other. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it would bring support for Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) spec to two of its AI development platforms, Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio. Microsoft has also joined the A2A working group on […]
07/05/2025
Tariffs could increase tech prices by up to 70% and reduce GDP by $69 billion according to CTA report
U.S. tariffs enacted in April could raise tech product prices by 11% to 70%, slash consumer spending by $123 billion annually, and reduce GDP by $69 billion, according to a Consumer Technology Association report.
07/05/2025
Uber invests $100M in WeRide to fuel robotaxi expansion across 15 more cities
Uber has committed $100 million to Chinese robotaxi firm WeRide as they expand to 15 more cities.
07/05/2025
Uber invests $100M in WeRide to fuel robotaxi expansion across 15 more cities
Uber has committed $100 million to Chinese robotaxi firm WeRide as they expand to 15 more cities.
07/05/2025
Reviews show AMD's RX 9070 GRE trails the RTX 5070 in raster — ray tracing is on par, and it's $50 cheaper
Reviews for the AMD's China-exclusive RX 9070 GRE have gone live in China, where it falls 5-10% behind the RTX 5070 in rasterization but costs $50 less.
07/05/2025
Amazon to invest $4B in Chile to launch AWS infrastructure region
Amazon is making a sizable investment to support new and existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers in Chile. The tech conglomerate announced on Wednesday that it will pour more than $4 billion into building an AWS infrastructure region of data centers in Chile by the end of 2026. The investment will go toward establishing three […]
07/05/2025
Tesla’s cheaper RWD Model Y is now available in the US
Tesla has started taking orders for its cheaper rear-wheel drive Model Y in the US. The $45,990 vehicle costs $37,490 after federal tax subsidies (as long as they still exist), making it the second-cheapest EV in the company’s lineup after the RWD Model 3. The new option, which Tesla says will start US delivery within […]
07/05/2025
How Microsoft shrunk its Surface devices
Microsoft has brought me inside the Surface hardware lab from time to time over the years, showing me how its engineers test the hinges and fabrics that go into its products. They're usually typical engineering demonstrations, but last month I was invited to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to see how the company built its […]
07/05/2025
Spotify will let you hit ‘snooze’ on good songs you’re getting tired of
Spotify is testing a new “Snooze” button that will let you temporarily remove a track from your recommendations in case you need a short break from hearing it. The option will appear for songs you choose to hide from your playlists, and it will prevent Spotify from putting them in your recommendations for 30 days. […]
07/05/2025
CrowdStrike says it will lay off 500 workers
The cybersecurity company said it will lay off 5% of its global workforce.
07/05/2025
The web series is back – only this time, they’re TikToks
“Day 25 of starting over my whole entire life,” Raegan Lynch narrates over a short video. “Right now, I’m wandering around the city I just moved to, in a country I’d never seen, all by myself after my relationship ended, and I had to leave my old life behind.” It’s a pretty enticing hook, which […]
07/05/2025
PlayStation announces new studio focused on ‘immersive multiplayer worlds’
Sony just announced a new internal studio called Team LFG, which will be developing “a team-based action game.” According to Sony Interactive Entertainment studios CEO Hermen Hulst, the studio “originated at Bungie, but has also rallied developers from across the industry to bring to life an ambitious incubation project that I’m very excited about.” Curiously, […]
07/05/2025
Apple’s sci-fi epic Foundation is back for season 3 in July
One of Apple’s biggest series will start streaming again this summer. The company announced that season 3 of Foundation will hit Apple TV Plus on July 11th, with new episodes weekly through September 12th. As part of the announcement, Apple also released the first teaser for the third season. The show originally premiered in 2021, […]
07/05/2025
Mistral claims its newest AI model delivers leading performance for the price
French AI startup Mistral is releasing a new AI model, Mistral Medium 3, that’s focused on efficiency without compromising performance. Available in Mistral’s API priced at $0.40 per million input tokens and $20.80 per million output tokens, Mistral Medium 3 performs “at or above” 90% of Anthropic’s costlier Claude Sonnet 3.7 model on “benchmarks across […]
07/05/2025
HP Omen Max 16 review: Hefty, premium
There’s a lot to like about the HP Omen Max 16, but it will weigh heavily on your back and your wallet.
07/05/2025
Spotify’s latest update gives users more control over their listening experience
Spotify on Wednesday announced an update to its app designed to give users more control over their listening experience and recommendations. The refreshed experience introduces a handful of new features that will roll out gradually to Spotify users and Premium subscribers, including those to help you manage your Queue, your current listening experience, aid with […]
07/05/2025
LinkedIn’s new AI search tool lets you describe your ideal job
LinkedIn is launching a new generative AI tool that allows users to find job listings by describing their perfect role. The platform’s updated AI-powered search bar now provides users with job posting results based on natural language descriptions, such as “find me entry-level brand manager roles in fashion,” and “jobs for analysts who love sustainability […]
07/05/2025
Ford hikes Mustang Mach-E price due to Trump’s tariffs
Ford is raising the price of the all-electric Mustang Mach-E SUV and popular entry-level Maverick pickup by as much as $2,000 due to the import taxes President Donald Trump is placing on vehicles made in Mexico, according to Reuters. Higher prices could make it harder for traditional automakers like Ford to sell their EVs. Ford […]
07/05/2025
Trump admin plans to shutter money-saving Energy Star program
The program’s signature yellow labels appear on appliances and electronics for sale throughout the U.S.
07/05/2025
Trump administration plans to shutter money-saving Energy Star program
The program’s signature yellow labels appear on appliances and electronics for sale throughout the U.S.
07/05/2025
Asus ROG Ally 2 leaks with AMD Z2 Extreme CPU and 64GB RAM — black variant features a dedicated Xbox button
Asus and Microsoft are introducing a variant of ROG Ally 2, which reportedly features AMD's top-end Z2 Extreme APU and 64GB of RAM.
07/05/2025
EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes
The US is finally getting a version of EcoFlow’s DIY balcony solar system that I reviewed in Europe last year. EcoFlow says its Stream Series will be the first plug-in solar products to go on sale domestically, allowing anyone in a house or apartment rental to easily lower their energy bill, while also providing a modicum of […]
07/05/2025
Grifters thrive under Trump’s scam-friendly administration
On April 22nd, Fight Fight Fight LLC, a company with ties to President Donald Trump, announced that the 220 top investors in its meme coin $TRUMP would be invited to meet with Trump himself. The event was billed as an "intimate private" dinner, but with obvious hints that attendees were buying an elected official's time. […]
07/05/2025
Game, Sett, Funding: a startup building AI agents for game development emerges from stealth with $27M
Games drove the creation of GPU processors back in the 1990s, so it’s only fitting that artificial intelligence — the technology that GPUs are used to power nowadays — is making its way into nearly every aspect of video game design. In keeping with that trend, on Wednesday a startup called Sett — which is […]
07/05/2025
VSCO is launching an AI-powered collaborative moodboard
Photo and video editing platform VSCO has launched an AI-powered collaborative moodboard to expand how its products are used by photographers and artists.
07/05/2025
AI data startup WisdomAI nabs $23M with a smart way to avoid hallucinations
Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar has a new data startup called Wisdom AI. It offers an agentic data analyst that works with structured, unstructured, even “dirty” data.
07/05/2025
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI ad tool sounds like a social media nightmare
Tech executives have long talked about how AI is going to revolutionize the advertising industry. In particularly, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been quite vocal about how exactly he wants his company to lead the transformation. Speaking onstage at Stripe’s annual Sessions conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Zuckerberg laid out his plans to automate […]
07/05/2025
Disney’s streaming business is picking up momentum
Disney Plus and Hulu saw another leap in profitability over the past few months. In its second fiscal quarter earnings results released on Wednesday, Disney revealed that the services’ combined operating income grew to $336 million, up from $47 million during the same time last year. With ESPN Plus included, Disney’s streaming business finally became […]
07/05/2025
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Faceoff
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D faces off against the Core Ultra 9 285K to determine which chip reigns supreme in the consumer desktop processor market.
07/05/2025
Breathe lands $21M Series B to predict battery performance
Breathe has developed a suite of tools that it says helps automakers and others get the most out of their batteries.
07/05/2025
Netflix debuts its generative AI-powered search tool
After hinting at a new AI-powered search experience during its recent earnings call, Netflix officially unveiled the feature at its tech and product event on Wednesday. This new search experience will utilize OpenAI’s ChatGPT to provide users with a conversational discovery experience. Users can enter their preferences using natural phrases like “I want something funny […]
07/05/2025
Netflix is getting a big TV revamp
Netflix is about to look different on your TV. The company is starting to roll out a big UI redesign for its TV app “in the coming weeks and months” globally, according to a blog post. “Our redesigned TV homepage is simpler, more intuitive, and better represents the breadth of entertainment on Netflix today,” Chief […]
07/05/2025
Netflix will try a TikTok-like feed on its mobile app
Netflix is going to start testing a TikTok-like feed of vertical video in its mobile app to help you discover something new to watch. The test will begin in “the coming weeks,” according to a blog post. From the clips, you’ll be able to watch the show or movie right away, or you can add […]
07/05/2025
Netflix is getting into short videos with a new vertical feed for mobile
Netflix announced on Wednesday that it’s currently testing a short-form video feature, signaling that even a streaming giant with over 300 million subscribers is concerned about losing viewers’ time spent on mobile to apps like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels. The company debuted the feature at its first-ever product and tech event, where it […]
07/05/2025
Poker Face’s formula wasn’t broke, so Rian Johnson didn’t want to change it
Season 1 of Poker Face, Rian Johnson's eclectic crime dramedy starring Natasha Lyonne as a woman who can always tell when someone is lying, was one of Peacock's first truly fantastic series. Each Columbo-esque episode spun a uniquely wild tale of murder, mystery, and people realizing how different their understandings of the truth can be. […]
07/05/2025
Matter’s latest update brings tap-to-pair setup
Two new features coming to Matter are designed to make setting up smart gadgets easier. Multi-device QR codes and a tap-to-pair onboarding via NFC are new options for adding devices like smart lights, plugs, locks, and more to a Matter home network. The updates are part of the new 1.4.1 specification for Matter announced today […]
07/05/2025
Sennheiser’s new affordable open earbuds are less affordable in the US
Sennheiser has announced the first pair of open earbuds as part of its affordable Accentum range, but just how much of a bargain they are depends on where you live. US customers will have to pay more, presumably to offset increased import costs thanks to Trump’s recent tariffs. The Accentum Open earbuds will cost $129.95 when […]
07/05/2025
Ampere sneaks out a 192-core CPU with 12-channel DDR5 memory
Ampere expands lineup of AmpereOne CPUs with AmpereOne M processors featuring a 12-channel DDR5 memory subsystem that can address 3TB of DRAM.
07/05/2025
Kapor Capital’s managing partner Ulili Onovakpuri is leaving the firm
Kapor Capital’s managing partner Ulili Onovakpuri said yesterday that she is leaving the firm. Onovakpuri started as a principal at Kapor Capital more than a decade ago, and rose through the ranks to become managing partner, and eventually (with Brian Dixon) took over the reins from the firm’s co-founders Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein. […]
07/05/2025
Ox Security lands a fresh $60M to scan for vulnerabilities in code
As “vibe coding” gains in popularity and tech companies push devs in their employ to embrace generative AI tools, a platform that scans for vulnerabilities in AI-generated code has raised a fresh round of funding. Ox Security, which models risk across both AI- and human-produced code, on Wednesday announced that it closed a $60 million […]
07/05/2025
Amazon develops a robot that ‘feels’ touch, just like its human workers
Amazon has announced a new AI-infused warehouse robot that it says has a sense of touch. This allows the Vulcan robot to pick and stow roughly three-quarters of the items stocked in the company’s warehouses, a task that was previously handled predominantly by human workers. “Vulcan represents a fundamental leap forward in robotics,” says Aaron […]
07/05/2025
Mitsubishi in talks to source its new EVs for Australia, New Zealand from Foxconn unit
Mitsubishi Motors is in talks with Taiwan-based Foxconn's EV division to source an EV model for the Australia and New Zealand markets.
07/05/2025
AMD posts highest quarter result ever — Strong CPU sales, but GPUs and gaming trail behind
AMD delivered record-breaking Q1 2025 results driven by strong sales of premium client CPUs, server processors, and AI accelerators, but warned that newly imposed U.S. export restrictions could reduce annual revenue by up to $1.5 billion.
07/05/2025
Patreon’s iOS update allows creators to bypass in-app purchases
The latest version of Patreon’s iOS app allows creators in the US to accept payments outside of Apple’s App Store payment system. First seen by TechCrunch, the 125.5.0 update released on Monday enables Patreon creators to link out to web payments, avoiding the up to 30 percent commission that Apple charges on in-app purchases. This […]
07/05/2025
Amazon is working on an AI code generation tool
Amazon Web Services is building a new AI-powered code generation tool codenamed “Kiro,” Business Insider reported, citing internal documents it had viewed. The tool can use prompts and existing data to generate code in “near real-time” by connecting with AI agents, the report said. The tool is said to have web and desktop apps, multimodal […]
07/05/2025
Software engineer taught Microsoft Copilot to analyze Windows crash dumps
Brings crash dump analysis into the AI era by integrating GitHub Copilot with WinDBG.
07/05/2025
Microsoft and Asus’ Xbox handheld appears in leaked photos
The first photos of the Asus ROG Ally 2 have surfaced online thanks to regulatory listings, but with a twist: there are two versions of the gaming handheld, and one features a dedicated Xbox button. We reported two months ago that Microsoft was working with Asus to develop an Xbox-branded handheld codenamed “Project Kennan,” and […]
07/05/2025
Samsung adds Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz, and Polk to its audio empire
Samsung subsidiary Harman has agreed to acquire the audio business division of Masimo, taking ownership of audio brands like Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, and Polk Audio. The $350 million deal brings them under the same roof as JBL, Harman Kardon, Arcam, AKG, Mark Levinson, and Revel, which Samsung acquired back in 2016 with its $8 […]
07/05/2025
OpenAI expects to cut share of revenue it pays Microsoft by 2030
OpenAI currently has a deal to share 20% of revenue with Microsoft, but the AI company expects to cut that share to 10% by 2030, The Information reported.
07/05/2025
Amid Greek tech boom, a prominent seed-stage firm locks down €75 million
Marathon Venture Partners, a venture firm in Athens that prides itself on being “day one partners to Greek tech partners,” just closed its newest fund with €75 million in capital commitments, according to partner Panos Papadopoulos. The vehicle brings the firm’s total assets under management to €175 million — a meaningful amount for an eight-year-old, […]
07/05/2025
Senate Dems propose ban on presidents investing or endorsing crypto assets
After abruptly pulling their support from what would have been the Senate’s first stablecoin regulatory bill, Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that they would introduce a new bill that would prevent federal officials and their families from issuing digital assets – a bill directed at Donald Trump and his family’s current stablecoin and meme coin holdings. […]
06/05/2025
Amazon’s Zoox issued a robotaxi software recall after a crash in Las Vegas
Amazon-owned Zoox says it issued a software recall for all 270 of its vehicles after an unoccupied robotaxi in Las Vegas crashed into a passenger vehicle on April 8th, Reuters reports. The update rolled out between April 16th and 17th to address a risky situation that could arise when the vehicle operating at over 40mph […]
06/05/2025
Meta awarded $167.25 million over Pegasus spyware attack
NSO Group, the Israeli spyware-maker behind Pegasus, must pay Meta $167.25 million for hacking 1,400 users across WhatsApp. A federal jury in California made the decision on Tuesday after the court found the NSO Group liable for the attacks last year. Meta sued NSO Group in 2019 after Citizen Lab found a vulnerability that allowed […]
06/05/2025
Hugging Face releases a free Operator-like agentic AI tool
A team at Hugging Face has released a freely available, cloud-hosted computer-using AI “agent.” But be forewarned: it’s quite sluggish and occasionally makes mistakes. Hugging Face’s agent, called Open Computer Agent, is accessible via the web and can use a Linux virtual machine preloaded with several applications, including Firefox. Similar to OpenAI’s Operator, you can […]
06/05/2025
Rivian earnings: EV maker cuts delivery guidance because of Trump’s tariffs and trade wars
Rivian said in its earnings report Tuesday it will likely deliver fewer vehicles this year than previously forecasted due to President Trump’s tariffs and other regulatory changes, making it the latest automaker to be affected by the new administration’s chaotic economic policies. The company said Tuesday it expects to deliver between 40,000 and 46,000 EVs […]
06/05/2025
Be careful what you read about an Elden Ring movie
On Tuesday, a publication called Nexus Point News published a headline for what looked to be a major piece of entertainment news: "EXCLUSIVE: Alex Garland Set To Direct 'Elden Ring' Film For A24." The article claimed that Elden Ring "is expected to be Garland's next film" and that shooting is expected to start in 2026. […]
06/05/2025
DOJ’s proposed Google changes would ‘deeply undermine user trust,’ search chief says
The government's proposal to make Google share its search data with competitors would "deeply undermine user trust" by putting queries in the hands of potentially less secure rivals, the company's search chief Elizabeth Reid testified Tuesday. The Justice Department has proposed forcing Google to syndicate its ranking signals and other search data to competitors, something […]
06/05/2025
NSO Group must pay more than $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for spyware campaign
The five-year legal battle between the Meta-owned company and the most notorious spyware maker in the world ends with a huge win for WhatsApp.
06/05/2025
A new bill would force Apple to allow third-party app stores
Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) introduced a bill Tuesday that would require “large app store operators” like Apple to let users install third-party app stores and set them as their default. The bill, called the App Store Freedom Act, aims to “promote competition and protect consumers and developers in the mobile app marketplace,” according to a […]
06/05/2025
Substack launches audio-only livestream feature
If you’re a Substack publisher who prefers not to turn on your camera while livestreaming, you’re in luck. Substack announced on Tuesday that it’s launching an audio-only livestream feature for publishers who want a lower-pressure way to connect with their followers. This is also ideal for those who wish to remain anonymous. To use the […]
06/05/2025
IBM CEO urges the Trump Administration to increase — not cut — federal AI R&D funding
Like many leaders in tech, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased — not the other way around. “We have been an extremely strong advocate — and this is both the company and me personally — on that federally funded R&D should be increased,” […]
06/05/2025
Rivian cuts delivery guidance because of Trump’s tariffs and trade wars
Rivian says it will likely deliver fewer vehicles this year than previously forecasted due to President Trump’s tariffs and other regulatory changes, making it the latest automaker to be affected by the new administration’s chaotic economic policies. The company said Tuesday it expects to deliver between 40,000 and 46,000 EVs by the end of 2025. […]
06/05/2025
Google’s Android battery health indicator is only for the newest Pixels
Google has been working on a battery health menu that could help you determine why your Android phone isn’t lasting as long between charges as it used to. It’s similar to an iPhone feature that launched in 2018, but unlike that rollout, it won’t be available on the older devices that probably need it the […]
06/05/2025
Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered, human-impersonating bots on the “Change My View” subreddit. The large-scale experiment was designed to explore just how persuasive AI can be. The bots posted over 1,700 comments, adopting personas like abuse survivors or controversial identities […]
06/05/2025
Minecraft’s VR support is now gone
Minecraft’s official support for virtual reality and mixed reality devices is over. Mojang announced last year that Minecraft would stop supporting VR headsets after March 2025, and per today’s Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.21.80 Update patch notes, that support has been removed, as reported by PCWorld. When Mojang announced the end of support for VR in […]
06/05/2025
Patreon’s app can now accept web payments after U.S. App Store changes
Creator platform Patreon has quietly rolled out an updated version of its app that now allows users to make purchases via the web, in the wake of the Apple-Epic court ruling that forced Apple to allow app developers to include links to alternative forms of payment without being subject to Apple’s commission. Previously, on version […]
06/05/2025
Amazon-owned Zoox issues recall following robotaxi crash
Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, paused its driverless testing program for more than a week and issued a voluntary recall of its software following a crash in Las Vegas, according to the company and a filing with federal safety regulators. The April 8 crash, which involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle and a […]
06/05/2025
TechCrunch Sessions: AI welcomes Tanka CEO Kisson Lin to talk AI-native startups
We’re ecstatic to announce that Kisson Lin, founder and CEO of Tanka, will be joining us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI for a provocative — and instructive — interview titled “Your Next Co-Founder Will Be AI.” She’s among the many excellent speakers joining the event June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, and there’s still plenty […]
06/05/2025
Microsoft will soon allow AI to change your Windows 11 settings
Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with even more AI features, one of the highlights is a new AI "agent" that will be able to assist users inside the settings app, providing troubleshooting assistance and changing Windows 11 settings at the user's request.
06/05/2025
New FPGA-powered 'laptop' is retro-inspired — OneChipBook-12 dev kit with a built-in display and mechanical keyboard
The Cyclone EP1C12Q240 at the heart of the device should be capable of emulating vintage processors like the 40-year-old Z80
06/05/2025
iRobot’s vacuum-only Roomba j7 is nearly 75 percent off
When the dust bunnies in your home are getting large enough to adopt as pets (and yes, I’m talking about my own living quarters at this point), maybe it’s time to stop promising yourself you’ll clean up “one day” and get yourself a robot vacuum. Admittedly, they’re not inexpensive, so it’s a good idea to […]
06/05/2025
FutureHouse previews an AI tool for ‘data-driven’ biology discovery
FutureHouse, an Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit that aims to build an “AI scientist” within the next decade, has released a new tool that it claims can help support “data-driven discovery” in biology. The new tool comes just a week after FutureHouse launched its API and platform. The tool, called Finch, takes in biology data (primarily in the […]
06/05/2025
Amazon Kindle’s iOS app adds new ‘Get Book’ button following Apple payments ruling
Thanks to a recent ruling that ordered Apple to stop charging a 27% commission on purchases through iPhone apps, Amazon’s Kindle iOS app now has a “Get book” button that makes it easier to buy titles. “We regularly make improvements to our apps to help ensure we are providing customers the most convenient experience possible,” Amazon […]
06/05/2025
Intel officially cuts Core Ultra 7 200-series desktop CPU prices by up to 25%
In an unusual move, Intel has officially cut the suggested retail prices of its Core Ultra 7 265K and 265KF desktop CPUs by $100 to boost Arrow Lake-S demand.
06/05/2025
Uber turns to Chinese companies to snap up robotaxi market share in Europe, Middle East
Uber announced its third partnership with a Chinese autonomous vehicle company this week, revealing the ride-hail and delivery giant’s appetite for global domination in the emerging robotaxi sector. Uber said Tuesday it would work with Guangzhou-based Pony AI, which late last year went public on the Nasdaq at a $5.25 billion valuation, to launch robotaxis […]
06/05/2025
Sonos and Ikea are ending their partnership
After several years, the collaboration between Sonos and Ikea on “Symfonisk” products like lamp speakers, bookshelf speakers, and even picture frame speakers has reached its conclusion. Sonos confirmed to The Verge on Tuesday that current inventory of the Symfonisk lineup is being phased out globally at all Ikea locations and no future devices are planned. […]
06/05/2025
Nvidia and MediaTek may unveil jointly developed 'N1' Arm chips for Windows PCs at Computex
Nvidia and MediaTek are expected to unveil their jointly developed N1 and N1X Arm-based PC processors at Computex 2025, but it is unclear when they are set to be available.
06/05/2025
What OpenAI’s restructuring plan means for its corporate future
OpenAI said on Monday it is pursuing a new restructuring plan after conversations with Delaware and California’s attorneys general, both of whom were closely watching as OpenAI tried to break free of its odd corporate structure. Currently, OpenAI’s nonprofit board governs the organization’s for-profit operations. Under the new plan, OpenAI’s for-profit arm will become a […]
06/05/2025
Can the Cadillac Celestiq EV make GM’s luxury brand great again? Don’t rule it out
Nearly three years after unveiling the concept version of the flagship Cadillac Celestiq EV, GM has finally released the real thing: a $360,000 electric vehicle that oozes luxury and a come-gawk-at-me exterior designed to lure in passersby. But is this bespoke EV enough for Cadillac to regain its position as the “Standard of the World?” […]
06/05/2025
NBC will use Jim Fagan’s AI-generated voice for NBA coverage
NBC’s upcoming NBA coverage will include the AI-generated voice of Jim Fagan, a longtime sports narrator who died in 2017. In an announcement on Tuesday, NBC said the AI-generated voice of Fagan will appear across select title sequences, show opens, and promos when the network resumes airing NBA games in October. Fagan’s voice appeared in […]
06/05/2025
Particle brings its AI-powered news reader to the web
Particle, the startup behind an AI-powered newsreader that aims to help publishers, not just steal their work, is bringing its product to the web. On Tuesday, the company announced the launch of the new Particle.news website that connects news consumers with headlines and AI summaries from a variety of sources, plus the ability to delve […]
06/05/2025
Google’s iOS app will use AI to simplify jargon
Google has a new AI tool that can help iPhone users to better grasp complicated or confusing writing online. The Simplify feature, rolling out in the Google app on iOS starting today, generates a simpler, more digestible version of any highlighted text without leaving the current web page. Simplify is built on Google’s Gemini AI […]
06/05/2025
Finom, a challenger bank aimed at SMBs, lands $105M in growth funding from General Catalyst
Finom, an Amsterdam-based digital bank for small- and medium-sized businesses, has raised €92.7 million (roughly $105 million) in a growth investment from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, the company tells TechCrunch exclusively. The capital infusion “will be used exclusively and only for growth” and not for operational expenses or product development, Kos Stiskin, Finom’s chairman […]
06/05/2025
Google’s new ‘Simplify’ feature for iOS uses AI to make dense text easier to understand
Google’s iOS app is getting a new “Simplify” feature that uses AI to make complex or technical text on the web easier to understand, all without leaving a web page. Simplify features a prompt refinement approach developed by Google Research, and uses Gemini to make complicated text more digestible, without losing key details. Google says […]
06/05/2025
Google debuts an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model ahead of I/O
Google on Tuesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition), an updated version of its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model that the company claims tops a number of widely used benchmarks. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) is available via the Gemini API and Google’s Vertex AI and AI Studio platforms, […]
06/05/2025
Opera has new ways for Android users to manage tabs
Opera has added new tab features to its Android web browser that give users more control when organizing web links. Opera says version 89 of its browser introduces “the best tab management system for Android devices,” providing new tab layout options, grouping features, and capabilities for searching, muting, and restoring tabs. This update includes Tab […]
06/05/2025
The new flying ID restrictions are here, and they’re a mess
At long last, the deadline to get a REAL ID is here. On May 7th, after nearly two years of kicking the can down the road, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will finally require travelers to have REAL IDs - or other compliant forms of identification (more on that later) - to board domestic flights […]
06/05/2025
To combat counterfeit thermal paste, Arctic rolls out scratch-off QR code authentication
Arctic Cooling has emailed Tom's Hardware with details of its new MX Authenticity Check system, raising concerns that its business is being impacted by counterfeiters.
06/05/2025
Intel's Core Ultra 7 265K drops to $300 across various retailers
Intel has discounted its 20-core Core Ultra 7 265K to $300 or less at various retailers in different regions.
06/05/2025
Xbox is selling a lot of games on PlayStation
More than a year after Microsoft announced plans to start releasing games on rival platforms, the publisher seems to have hit its stride on PlayStation. Sony released its monthly most-downloaded charts for PS5 games, and for April, the top three titles in both Europe and North America all came from Microsoft. No sales numbers were […]
06/05/2025
Unblocked raises $20M for AI to help devs understand codebases
Every developer has their own unique style of writing code. Despite companies establishing best practices and drawing up documentation, it can be hard for developers to understand someone else’s codebase. To solve this problem, Dennis Pilarinos built a tool called Unblocked — an AI-powered assistant that answers contextual questions about lines of code. Pilarinos is […]
06/05/2025
NewLimit, founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstorng, raises $130M to develop age-reversing treatments
NewLimit, a startup that aims to increase how long people can live a healthy life by genetically programming their cells, has raised $130M.
06/05/2025
NewLimit, founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raises $130M to develop age-reversing treatments
NewLimit, a startup that aims to increase how long people can live a healthy life by genetically programming their cells, has raised $130M.
06/05/2025
DOJ asks court to split up Google’s ad tech empire
The US Department of Justice filed a plan in court to make Google divest its advertising marketplace and ad management platform, part of a proposal to address the company’s “decade-long campaign of exclusionary conduct,” which a judge has declared violates antitrust law. On Monday, the DOJ and Google both filed requests for remedying the tech […]
06/05/2025
Uber Eats comes to Turkey via $700M Trendyol Go acquisition
Uber is expanding its presence in Turkey with its latest acquisition. The ride-hail and delivery giant has acquired an 85% controlling stake in Trendyol Go, the online meal and grocery delivery business based in Istanbul, for about $700 million in cash. The deal gives Uber instant market share for Uber Eats in the country, where […]
06/05/2025
Nvidia will release its RTX 5060 on May 19th
Nvidia has announced a May 19th release date for its $299 RTX 5060 graphics card and the first laptops, which start at $1,099, that will feature it. The company says they’ll be available to buy from retail partners starting at 9AM PT / 12PM ET. At 3,840 CUDA cores, the RTX 5060 has nearly 800 […]
06/05/2025
'World's First' encrypted 26TB hard disk debuts with diskAshur DT3 and DT2 models
iStorage raises storage limits for its encrypted diskAshur DT3 and diskAshur DT2 desktop drives
06/05/2025
RTX 5060 launches May 19 on desktops and laptops, priced from $299 and $1,099, respectively
Nvidia just released the official availability date of the RTX 5060.
06/05/2025
Can the Celestiq EV make Cadillac great again? Don’t rule it out
Nearly three years after unveiling the concept version of its flagship Celestiq EV, Cadillac has finally released the real thing: a $300,000 electric vehicle that oozes luxury and a come-gawk-at-me exterior designed to lure in passersby. But is this bespoke EV enough for Cadillac to regain its position as the “Standard of the World?” I […]
06/05/2025
Cnaught wants to make carbon credits easy for businesses small and large
Cnaught is a market maker seeking to ease the pain of buying carbon credits for companies without dedicated teams.
06/05/2025
Agree.com raises $7.2M to take on Docusign, Bill.com with AI
Agree.com says its AI-powered e-signature platform is different from competitors because it includes invoicing and payment processing. That’s why the company might have a shot at tackling the industry goliath, Docusign. Because the startup makes its money from transaction fees for any money movement facilitated by its platform, Agree.com has made e-signatures free to all […]
06/05/2025
Cadillac Celestiq first drive: the bespoke, $360,000 EV is here
The first hands-on experience I had with the $360,000, ultraluxury Cadillac Celestiq was as a backseat passenger. It was mid-April, and I was on the way to a dinner in West Hollywood. While GM insists most Celestiq buyers are drivers, the company wanted to create a vehicle that could be especially compelling for those who […]
06/05/2025
My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes
Here's what it's like to live with Linux as my desktop OS.
06/05/2025
Grand Theft Auto VI’s second trailer sets up its Bonnie and Clyde story
It’s been quite some time since Rockstar set the internet on fire with the first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer, and then subsequently delayed the game, but now we finally have a second look. The new trailer is — like the first — pretty heavily focused on setting up the characters and world, without much […]
06/05/2025
Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gains M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard
A Chinese forum user has discovered that Gigabyte silently added M.2 NVMe SSD boot support to the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard via a firmware update.
06/05/2025
Nvidia to drop CUDA support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs with the next major Toolkit release
Nvidia indirectly prompts developers to upgrade as Maxwell (GTX 900), Pascal (GTX 1000), and Volta (data-center) GPUs will not be supported in the next major CUDA version.
06/05/2025
Microsoft’s new Surface devices ditch magnetic charging port for USB-C
Microsoft has just announced two new Surface devices, and neither comes with the company’s Surface Connect charging port. The Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch can now only be charged through USB-C ports on the devices, after years of Microsoft equipping its Surface laptops and tablets with the company’s proprietary magnetic charging port. While […]
06/05/2025
Amazon now has a ‘Get book’ button in its iOS Kindle app
Following a ruling on April 30th by the Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, Apple can no longer collect a 27 percent commission on purchases made outside of apps or restrict how developers can direct users to alternate payment options. Apple has appealed the decision, but is also complying with it in the […]
06/05/2025
Microsoft’s smaller Surface Pro has a 12-inch display and starts at $799
Microsoft is launching a new Surface Pro tablet today that has a 12-inch display and lots of design changes over the larger 13-inch Surface Pro 11. The Surface Pro 12-inch, as Microsoft is calling it, is an Arm-powered device that is a spiritual successor to the even smaller Surface Go tablet that Microsoft tried to […]
06/05/2025
Microsoft shrinks its Surface Laptop down to 13 inches, priced at $899
Microsoft is announcing a slightly smaller version of its popular Surface Laptop today. The $899 Surface Laptop 13-inch is Arm-powered like the larger Surface Laptop 7, and shares a similar design with some changes to the specifications and ports. I got to spend some time with the new Surface Laptop 13-inch model at Microsoft’s headquarters […]
06/05/2025
Oura adds AI-powered glucose tracking and meal logging
Oura is doubling down on metabolic health with two new AI-powered features: glucose tracking and meal logging. The former comes a few months after announcing a strategic partnership with Dexcom, which released its over-the-counter Stelo continuous glucose monitor (CGM) last year. Meanwhile, meal logging is the third experimental feature to come out of the company’s […]
06/05/2025
Death is the policy
"Do your own research," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents considering vaccination for their children during an 80-minute televised interview with Dr. Phil last week. He offered the loaded directive with some of his go-to antivax falsehoods: common shots are neurotoxic, the measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is "leaky," the MMR vaccine hasn't been […]
06/05/2025
The new Backbone Pro could be the one controller for all your gaming
Backbone’s new gaming controller looks like it should have a phone inside. The Backbone Pro has the same basic shape as the company’s previous device, the excellent Backbone One — its two oblong halves are connected by a strip of plastic and metal that expands enough to dock your smartphone into the exposed USB-C port. […]
06/05/2025
Instacart’s new app lets the whole party order snacks and drinks
Instacart is launching Fizz, a new app that will let partygoers order and pay for their own snacks, drinks, and party supplies — all for a flat $5 delivery fee. With Fizz, hosts can create a cart that everyone can access through a link, allowing guests to add items and see what their friends are […]
06/05/2025
Windows 11 is getting a new Start menu this month
Microsoft is revamping the Windows 11 Start menu and adding a glut of new AI features over the next month, coming first to Windows Insiders running Snapdragon X Copilot Plus PCs like the newly announced Surface devices. The new Start menu, first discovered last month in an early build preview, is roomier and gives easier […]
06/05/2025
Samsung Wallet will let you send money to other phones and cards
Samsung is making it easier for Galaxy phone users to quickly send money to friends and family. A contactless Tap to Transfer feature will be available for Samsung Wallet users in the US “later this month” that allows users to directly pay into someone else’s bank account without using third-party services like Venmo or Cash […]
06/05/2025
Relevance AI raises $24M to help businesses build AI agents
Individuals may work closely with AI agents as they become increasingly prevalent in the workplace. According to a report by Boston Consulting Group, the market for AI agents is expected to grow at a 45% compound annual growth rate over the next five years. Just like human employees, AI agents could be onboarded to learn […]
06/05/2025
Instacart launches Fizz, a new app for ordering drinks and snacks for parties
Instacart has launched a new drinks and snack delivery app called Fizz, the company announced on Tuesday. The 21+ app is built for friends and family and is designed to make it easier to stock up for a party or get-together. The host of a party can invite guests into their Fizz cart to allow […]
06/05/2025
Meet Posha, a countertop robot that cooks your meals for you
In 2017, Raghav Gupta set out to solve a personal problem: he wanted easy access to the home-cooked meals he grew up eating without having to spend time cooking or spend money on takeout or hiring a private chef. He turned to robotics, which led him to found the startup Posha. Posha, a former TechCrunch […]
06/05/2025
Spotify now shows how many times people listened to podcast episodes
YouTube continues to dominate the podcasting space, but Spotify is actively working to close the gap. The latest development: a new feature that lets users see how many times an audio-only or video podcast episode has been actively listened to or watched. The streaming giant revealed its new podcast metric called “plays” on Tuesday, making […]
06/05/2025
HyperX Cloud III S Wireless Review: Like the Cloud III Wireless, but better
HyperX's Cloud III S Wireless headset brings Bluetooth and a built-in mic to the most comfortable headset we've ever used.
06/05/2025
Microsoft announces colorful new 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop with Snapdragon X Plus
Microsoft's new 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop are colorful Snapdragon X Plus machines with relatively affordable prices.
06/05/2025
Asetek's key watercooling patent expires today as the company seeks to sell its cooling business
With the expiration of its foundational patent on May 6, 2025, Asetek loses a key competitive edge in the all-in-one liquid cooling market, opening the door for rivals to innovate.
06/05/2025
Nvidia GPU tracking tech proposed by US lawmakers in smuggling crackdown
A U.S. representative will introduce a bill requiring chip manufacturers to put built-in tracking and a kill-switch for their most advanced chips.
06/05/2025
Radeon RX 9060 XT listed by retailer in Brazil — 16GB triple fan model from Gigabyte detailed without pricing
Brazilian electronics outlet Terabyteshop has published a listing for the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC 16GB.
06/05/2025
SilverStone Hela 850R Platinum power supply review
The SilverStone Hela 850R Platinum is a high-quality ATX 3.1 PSU delivering solid performance and excellent efficiency but its premium price puts it up against fierce competition.
06/05/2025
The best budget cooler for your PC build just got cheaper — Thermalright's Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB cooler is an unbelievable £17 right now
Superb cooling with an unbeatable £17 price tag. Thermalright's Peerless Assassin offers great price-to-performance.
06/05/2025
Boosted by defense and Starlink, Orca AI pulls in $72.5M for its autonomous shipping platform
The autonomous navigation market — where ships, guided by AI, steer themselves, resulting in fuel and time savings — is projected to sail past $11 billion by 2028. As a result, companies in this space are pushing on an open door. The latest is Orca AI, which closed a Series B funding round of $72.5 million […]
06/05/2025
Nvidia warns U.S. AI hardware export rules could backfire, empowering Huawei to define global standards
Nvidia warns that restricting access to U.S. AI hardware under new export rules could backfire by empowering rivals like Huawei to define global AI standards — just as Huawei once did in 5G — threatening not only Nvidia's dominance but America's influence over the future of technology.
06/05/2025
US DoJ wants Google to sell two of its ad products
The U.S. Department of Justice is proposing that Google sell two of its advertising products to restore competition in the ad tech space, according to a new filing. The proposal comes after a judge found Google guilty of “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the digital ad space last month. The DOJ’s filing notes […]
06/05/2025
Blinq lands $25M to further its mission to make business cards passé
It’s 2025, but business cards are still in vogue — just visit any conference or industry expo and you’ll end up with a pile that’s likely to be discarded sooner than later. But as smartphones have become our repositories of information and contacts, people are understandably keen to try out digital alternatives to business cards. […]
06/05/2025
DoorDash to buy UK’s Deliveroo for $3.86B
DoorDash said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy its U.K. rival Deliveroo for about £2.9 billion (around $3.85 billion).
06/05/2025
Musk clashes with neighbors in exclusive Austin suburb
Elon Musk may have a sizable fan base, but residents of the upscale Austin suburb of West Lake Hills, Texas, are unimpressed by their celebrity neighbor, reports the New York Times. Instead, a $6 million home Musk purchased in 2022 has become the center of a battle after his team erected an unauthorized 16-foot chain-link […]
06/05/2025
Employer.com scoops up another fintech in purchase of MainStreet.com
Employer.com has acquired MainStreet.com for an undisclosed amount, the latest fintech startup to get snapped up by the workforce management company. In a post on X, Employer.com Chairman and co-founder Jesse Tinsley said the two companies were “merging forces to simplify business back office solutions into one powerhouse platform.” Tinsley confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch. […]
06/05/2025
Waymo ramps up robotaxi production at new Arizona factory
Waymo has played coy for years about exactly how many Jaguar I-Pace EVs are in its autonomous fleet — a figure that covers vehicles used in testing and commercial robotaxi operations. On Monday, the Alphabet company finally provided a peek at the commercial side of the fleet. Waymo said Monday, as part of a larger […]
05/05/2025
Here’s the first teaser for Squid Game’s third and final season
One of Netflix’s biggest shows is about to end — and you can get a brief glimpse at it in the first teaser trailer. The streamer just released a new clip of Squid Game’s third season, and while it doesn’t show much, it manages to evoke the series’ distinct brand of tension, this time with […]
05/05/2025
Uber and WeRide set their robotaxi sights on 15 more cities
Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide plan to expand a commercial robotaxi partnership and bring the service to another 15 cities over the next five years. The expansion comes five months after the two companies launched a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi. The companies said the expansion will include cities in Europe. Under […]
05/05/2025
Google just leaked Android’s new design language
Google just accidentally revealed its next big Android redesign: Material 3 Expressive. In a now-deleted blog post spotted by 9to5Google, the company describes the change as the “most researched” update yet, with the goal of making its interface more appealing and easier to use. You can find an archived version of the deleted webpage on […]
05/05/2025
FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new “Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees.” The rule, set to take effect on May 12, prohibits hidden fees for live events, hotels, and short-term rentals. It also bans practices such as “bait-and-switch pricing” and any actions that conceal or misrepresent total prices […]
05/05/2025
People struggle to get useful health advice from chatbots, study finds
With long waiting lists and rising costs in overburdened healthcare systems, many people are turning to AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT for medical self-diagnosis. About 1 in 6 American adults already use chatbots for health advice at least monthly, according to one recent survey. But placing too much trust in chatbots’ outputs can be risky, in […]
05/05/2025
A stealth AI model beat DALL-E and Midjourney on a popular benchmark. Its creator just landed $30M.
Recraft, the startup behind a mysterious image model that beat OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney on a respected industry benchmark last year, has raised a $30 million Series B round led by Accel, it exclusively told TechCrunch. Other investors in the round include Khosla Ventures and Madrona. Based in San Francisco, Recraft previously raised a $12 […]
05/05/2025
Google accidentally reveals details about its new Android design language, Material 3 Expressive
Google will unveil a new version of its Android design language at its upcoming Google I/O developer conference, according to an event schedule posted to its website as well as an accidentally published Google blog post. The I/O session title hints at significant changes in store for Android’s design system, which will evolve from “Material […]
05/05/2025
Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips
Quantum computing has long been announced as “just around the corner,” but several companies are now determined to make this a commercial reality, with the promise of solving complex problems beyond classical computers’ reach. The problems in question are wide-ranging, from medicine and cybersecurity to materials science and chemistry. But first, there are very practical […]
05/05/2025
Here are Latin America’s biggest startups based on valuation
Not so long ago, the idea of public tech companies emerging from Latin America seemed far-fetched, and Mercado Libre once appeared as rare and mythical as a true unicorn. Today, however, the region is home to several startups that have reached billion-dollar valuations. Some of these startups, propelled into the spotlight by cross-border expansion, are […]
05/05/2025
Anduril is working on the difficult AI-related task of real-time edge computing
Anduril announced its ninth acquisition on Monday with the purchase of Dublin’s Klas, makers of ruggedized edge computing equipment for the military and first-responders. Anduril wouldn’t reveal financial details of the deal, and the purchase is subject to regulatory approval, but the company did say that Klas employs 150 people. Relatedly, on Monday, Anduril also […]
05/05/2025
Rivian gets $16 million from Illinois to build new supplier park
Rivian is receiving $16 million in state incentives to help construct a new 1.2 million-square foot supplier park near its EV manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois, according to Illinois Governer JB Pritzker and Rivian, who both made official announcements today. As part of the deal, Rivian will invest nearly $120 million towards the project, which […]
05/05/2025
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. However, the recent […]
05/05/2025
YouTube is experimenting with a Premium plan for two people
YouTube is testing a YouTube Premium subscription plan designed for two people to use, Moneycontrol reports (via Android Authority). Company spokesperson Alex McQuiston confirmed to The Verge that the pilot is taking place in India, France, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. “We’re experimenting with new ways to provide greater flexibility and value to our YouTube Premium […]
05/05/2025
Layoffs hit General Fusion as the fusion power startup runs short on cash
CEO Greg Twiney posted an open letter on the company’s website today pleading for money.
05/05/2025
Leak: Here is DJI’s first 360-degree camera
DJI hasn’t even announced a 360-degree camera yet, but the DJI Osmo 360 has now spilled its guts all over the web. Leakers Hakasushi and Igor Bogdanov have published over a dozen pictures of a prototype dual-lens camera, including both external and internal photos and images of its Quick Start Guide. Together, they suggest that […]
05/05/2025
Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the US government. Tesla is taking the hit.
Elon Musk has long been credited with turning Tesla into a beacon of innovation, the visionary who pushed the world into an era of electrification. But his slide into politics — specifically his alignment with President Trump and activities within the federal government — has dragged Tesla into uncertainty. For many would-be Tesla buyers, the […]
05/05/2025
OpenAI admits it screwed up testing its ‘sychophant-y’ ChatGPT update
Last week, OpenAI pulled a GPT-4o update that made ChatGPT “overly flattering or agreeable” — and now it has explained what exactly went wrong. In a blog post published on Friday, OpenAI said its efforts to “better incorporate user feedback, memory, and fresher data” could have partly led to “tipping the scales on sycophancy.” In […]
05/05/2025
Why I love my Brother 1034D Serger
Cath Virginia is the senior designer here at The Verge, who creates illustrations and collages for our articles. However, she also has “dabbled” (as she puts it) in feature designs for articles such as 2004 was the first year of the future (which won the 2025 ASME Award for Best News and Entertainment Design), How […]
05/05/2025
States sue Trump over ‘existential threat’ to wind energy
The District of Columbia and 17 states — including New York, Arizona, Massachusetts, California, Colorado, and Illinois — sued the Trump administration Monday over its attempts to stop wind energy developments across the US. The states argue that by signing a presidential memorandum on his first day in office that halted federal approvals for wind energy […]
05/05/2025
Why Ford decided to merge its next-gen architecture with its current platform
When Ford poached Doug Field from Apple in 2021, the company had high hopes for the mild-mannered engineer. Field would lead the charge on developing "the next-gen Blue Oval Intelligence tech stack to deliver smart, connected vehicles, and services that improve over time through constant updates," it said in the release. Now, as Ford grapples […]
05/05/2025
Apple’s latest iPad Mini has dropped to its lowest price in months
It’s true that Apple’s latest iPad remains an excellent value, especially when it’s on sale for $299. However, if you want features like Apple Intelligence and Apple Pencil Pro support without spending a fortune on an iPad Pro, the latest iPad Mini might be the better option. That’s especially true now given Apple’s smallest tablet […]
05/05/2025
OpenAI abandons plan to be controlled by for-profit board
OpenAI has been working for months to no longer be controlled by a nonprofit. It's now giving up. In a company blog post published on Monday, nonprofit board chairman Bret Taylor said that OpenAI is abandoning its plan to become controlled by a for-profit after "hearing from civic leaders and engaging in constructive dialogue with […]
05/05/2025
YouTube is testing a discounted two-person Premium subscription tier
YouTube is testing a new two-person Premium subscription plan in select countries, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The tier is being piloted in India, France, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The news was first reported by Money Control. “We’re experimenting with new ways to provide greater flexibility and value to our YouTube Premium subscribers, […]
05/05/2025
Buffalo put a window on its new hard drive so you can see it at work
To help celebrate the 50 years its parent company has been in business, Japan’s Buffalo has announced a limited edition external hard drive with a window that lets you see its inner workings. Don’t whip out your credit card just yet, though; the Buffalo Skeleton Hard Disk is limited to just 50 units priced at […]
05/05/2025
GlobalX, airline used for Trump deportations, gets hacked: report
Hackers claiming to be part of the hacktivist group Anonymous claimed the data breach.
05/05/2025
11x CEO Hasan Sukkar steps down
Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, is stepping down from his role as CEO, Sukkar announced on LinkedIn this morning. Prabhav Jain, 11x’s CTO, has been named the company’s new CEO. Sukkar will move into a “non-executive chairman” position, where he will work with Jain on “strategic direction, product vision, industry relationships, and […]
05/05/2025
OpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations
OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit org, after the company initially announced that it planned to convert to a for-profit organization. According to the company, OpenAI’s business wing, which has been under the nonprofit since 2019, will transaction to a public benefit corporation (PBC). The nonprofit will control […]
05/05/2025
Epic will use an EU account to bring Fortnite back to the US App Store
Epic Games plans to use its Sweden developer account to submit Fortnite to Apple’s US iOS App Store, according to CEO Tim Sweeney. On Wednesday, following the major ruling in Epic Games v. Apple that blocked Apple from collecting fees on purchases outside of apps, Sweeney said that Fortnite would return to the US App […]
05/05/2025
Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education
More than 250 CEOs signed an open letter published in The New York Times on Monday calling for AI and computer science to be “core components” of K-12 curricula. The signatories, which include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, argue that computer science and AI education are essential […]
05/05/2025
Arrow Lake die shot shows off the details of Intel's chiplet-based design
Die shots of an Arrow Lake desktop CPU have been published online, revealing the inner design changes Intel has made to Arrow Lake, including its all-new chiplet (tile)-based design and improvements to the cache design.
05/05/2025
Google is making TV and movies to convince you that tech is not evil
Google is reportedly spinning up a film and TV production project called 100 Zeroes. According to a report from Business Insider, this initiative is intended to make young audiences feel more positively about Google’s products, as well as tech at large. Like Apple’s TV shows, where actors will use MacBooks and iPhones with clearly visible […]
05/05/2025
Anthropic launches a program to support scientific research
Anthropic is launching an AI for Science program to support researchers working on “high-impact” scientific projects, with a focus on biology and life sciences applications. The program, announced Monday, will offer up to $20,000 in Anthropic API credits over a six-month period to “qualified” researchers who’ll be selected based on their “contributions to science, the potential […]
05/05/2025
Apple appeals decision that forced it to allow links to external payments in apps
As promised, Apple has now filed its appeal to the recent court ruling that required it to open up its App Store to external payment mechanisms. Last week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers took the tech giant to task for defying the court’s orders in its battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games by not freely allowing […]
05/05/2025
Apple appeals court decision that forced it to allow links to external payments in apps
As promised, Apple has now filed its appeal to the recent court ruling that required it to open up its App Store to external payment mechanisms. Last week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers took the tech giant to task for defying the court’s orders in its battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games by not freely allowing […]
05/05/2025
The modified Signal app used by Mike Waltz was reportedly hacked
A hacker has obtained direct messages and contact information from TeleMessage, the Israeli software company that offers modified versions of Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and other apps to the US government, according to a report from 404Media. Last week, a photo of former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz appeared to show him using a Signal clone […]
05/05/2025
$899 Dual-screen NBook Fly laptop gets 'upgraded' to a 2020-era Comet Lake Xeon CPU
The dual-screen NBook Fly now features an octa-core Xeon W-10885M, a marginal upgrade over the existing hexa-core i7-10850H, with both CPUs sharing the 5-year-old Comet Lake design.
05/05/2025
Skype shuts down after 23 years
After more than two decades, Skype is shutting down. The once-monolithic video calling platform wasn’t able to keep pace with competitors like Zoom and FaceTime, so its parent company, Microsoft, is rolling the product into Microsoft Teams. In this video, we’re sending off the iconic platform and some other legendary apps.
05/05/2025
Microsoft announces a Gears of War remaster – and it’s coming to PlayStation, too
Microsoft just announced Gears of War: Reloaded, a remaster of the original game that’s launching on August 26th for Xbox Series X / S, PlayStation, and PC for $39.99. “Gears of War: Reloaded is a celebration of one of gaming’s most iconic franchises,” according to an Xbox Wire blog post. “Featuring 4K resolution, 120 FPS […]
05/05/2025
Pinterest’s AI will help you find the ‘right words’ to search for fashion
Pinterest is using AI to try and help you find the fashion accessories you’re looking for, even if you can’t describe them in your own words. The company is using a “Visual Language Model” to generate descriptive words of styles and the overall “vibes” of image Pins on its site, and will let you click […]
05/05/2025
Rork’s founders were almost broke when a viral tweet led to $2.8M and a16z
Rork founders Levan Kvirkvelia and Daniel Dhawan are living a life that sounds like a plot for a movie. But it really happened. They went from broke, life savings spent, and in debt $15,000 apiece on credit cards — Kvirkvelia was even sleeping on a mattress at a friend’s apartment — to $100,000 of revenue […]
05/05/2025
A new startup called Bono aims to modernize the way people donate to charities
Every year, donors contribute billions of dollars to charities, yet the donation process still feels outdated and cumbersome. Founders Dan Eblagon and Ron Levy believe there is an easier way to donate, leading to the creation of Bono, a platform designed to facilitate a more modern and streamlined approach to giving. The platform (named after […]
05/05/2025
The sporty Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 are on sale for $50 off for the first time
For the longest time, we considered the Beats Fit Pro to be the best gym earbuds around. However, with the arrival of the Powerbeats Pro 2 in February, Beats’ last-gen earbuds have become somewhat dated and a lot harder to recommend at full price. That’s especially true today, given the Powerbeats Pro 2 are now […]
05/05/2025
Windows 11 24H2 update is now automatically downloading on some PCs
Many Windows users will soon get Windows 11 24H2 automatically, indicates a Microsoft bulletin published just ahead of the weekend.
05/05/2025
Box art
Literary journals might have a stuffy reputation. But since its conception in 1998 by author Dave Eggers, McSweeney's Quarterly has been anything but, opting instead to be an endlessly mutating delivery system for writing and art. It has been a hardcover book, a paperback, a newspaper. Once it was a bundle of mail; another time, […]
05/05/2025
Waymo says it will add 2,000 more robotaxis in 2026
Waymo said it recently received its last delivery of Jaguar I-Pace SUVs, which will be retrofitted with sensors and autonomous driving technology at its factory in Arizona, before joining its robotaxi fleet. In a blog post published today, the Alphabet company said it currently has 1,500 Jaguars operating across its four main markets: San Francisco, […]
05/05/2025
The Pebble’s creator demos his new smartwatch
After announcing a new company called Core Devices and a pair of new smartwatches running the now open-source PebbleOS, the Pebble’s creator, Eric Migicovsky, has launched a podcast. In the first episode of Tick Talk w/ Eric Migicovsky, he gives a brief demo of the Core 2 Duo that’s still in development, talks about potential […]
05/05/2025
Meta’s AI app is a nightmarish social feed
If you took Pinterest, mashed it together with everything annoying about Threads, and sprinkled generative AI prompts on top - that'd pretty much sum up the newly launched Meta AI site's social feed. So far, prompting AI chatbots - those are the questions or requests you make - has primarily been a private affair. You […]
05/05/2025
Apple files appeal to wrest back control of its App Store
After a stinging rebuke in the lower courts over its legal battle with Epic, Apple filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit on Monday. The appeal will challenge last week’s ruling that prevents the company from charging developers fees on purchases made outside the App Store. In 2021, the Epic v. Apple lawsuit […]
05/05/2025
Pinterest updates visual search with more AI-powered features
Pinterest is upgrading its visual search feature with a handful of new capabilities. On Monday, the company announced it’s rolling out new functionality to improve its feature that allows users to search using an image instead of text. This includes new tools to more precisely narrow and refine searches, as well as those that make […]
05/05/2025
Apple ‘iPhone Air’ rumor suggests a bigger screen coming in 2027
Apple’s rumored super-slim iPhone “Air” isn’t expected until this fall, but supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says development has already begun on a redesigned version with a bigger screen. According to Kuo, Apple’s second iPhone Air / iPhone “Slim” model is planned for launch in the fall of 2026 as part of the usual annual […]
05/05/2025
RIP Skype — you were right about almost everything
"When I knew it was over was when I downloaded Skype." All the way back in 2003, Michael Powell, then the chairman of the FCC and the United States' chief regulator of the telecom industry, told a roomful of academics and executives at the University of California at San Diego that he had seen the […]
05/05/2025
Trump promises 100 percent tariff on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
President Donald Trump says his administration will institute high tariffs on movies that fit the nebulous category of "produced in foreign lands," a definition that could include anything from anime to the latest Marvel films. In a Sunday evening Truth Social post, Trump claimed that "Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw […]
05/05/2025
Microsoft finally retires Skype after 22 years of service
Today, May 5th, marks the final day for Skype, ending its 22-year run as a staple of daily communication.
05/05/2025
Tesla sales continue to slump across Europe despite April EV sales swell
Tesla’s new car sales in Spain fell 36% in April to just 571 vehicles year-over-year, Reuters reports. That slump comes as sales of electric cars made by other brands rose in the Iberian country. Tesla sales in Spain mirror those in Europe generally, which plunged in the first four months of the year by 37.2%, […]
05/05/2025
Datadog acquires Eppo, a feature flagging and experimentation platform
Datadog is on an acquisition spree. Just a few weeks after snatching up Metaplane, an AI-powered observability startup, the cloud monitoring and security company has acquired Eppo, a feature flagging and experimentation platform. Eppo will continue supporting existing customers and bringing on new ones under the brand “Eppo by Datadog.” Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, […]
05/05/2025
Skype shutting down today — these are the best alternatives
After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling service, is shutting down on Monday. Microsoft, the parent company, confirmed that the official sunset date for the service is today, May 5, 2025. Skype users can either migrate all their contacts and chat data to Microsoft Teams, or they can choose […]
05/05/2025
Skype is shutting down today — these are the best alternatives
After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling service, is shutting down on Monday. Microsoft, the parent company, confirmed that the official sunset date for the service is today, May 5, 2025. Skype users can either migrate all their contacts and chat data to Microsoft Teams, or they can choose […]
05/05/2025
Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell appears online with an eye-watering price tag of over $11,000
A retailer in Japan has listed the workstation GPU for over $11,000
05/05/2025
Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition review: a blue-chip convertible
The Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 stands out by excelling at the basics, including a great screen, long battery life, and hardware that feels good in the hands.
05/05/2025
10% surge in Taiwanese currency vs US dollar could hurt PC and components pricing
The currency of Taiwan, the 'silicon island,' has appreciated over 10% vs the USD in the space of just a few days, raising concerns about further price rises coming to U.S. consumers.
05/05/2025
TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US govt. officials, has been hacked
A hacker has exploited a vulnerability in TeleMessage, which provides modded versions of encrypted messaging apps such as Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, to extract archived messages and other data relating to U.S. government officials and companies who used the tool, 404 Media reported. TeleMessage came into the spotlight last week after it was reported that […]
05/05/2025
TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US government officials, has been hacked
A hacker has exploited a vulnerability in TeleMessage, which provides modded versions of encrypted messaging apps such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp, to extract archived messages and other data relating to U.S. government officials and companies who used the tool, 404 Media reported. TeleMessage came into the spotlight last week after it was reported that […]
05/05/2025
Apple plans to split iPhone 18 launch into two phases in 2026
Apple is planning to split the launch of its iPhone 18 range, expected in 2026, by about half a year, The Information reported, citing supply chain sources. The company is planning to release the Pro versions of the iPhone 18 in fall 2026, and push the release of the less expensive iPhone 18, along with […]
05/05/2025
Cursor is reportedly raising funds at $9 billion valuation from Thrive, a16z, and Accel
Startups providing AI-powered coding tools are striking a positive chord with investors. Cursor, one of the most popular tools in the segment, has attracted $900 million in a fresh round of funding led by Thrive Capital, as per a report from the Financial Times. The FT noted that other top venture firms such as Andreessen […]
05/05/2025
MoneyFellows raises $13M to take its group savings model outside Egypt
While most African digital lenders depend on working capital to fuel growth, MoneyFellows has quietly done what few others have: lend billions of Egyptian pounds with almost no debt or balance sheet exposure. Now, after raising $13 million in a pre-Series C round led by Casablanca-based Al Mada Ventures and DPI’s Nclude Fund, the Cairo-based […]
05/05/2025
Roku is looking into complaints about washed-out HDR streams
Roku is investigating user reports of washed-out colors when streaming HDR content from Disney Plus, according to a thread on the Roku issue tracking board. However, the issue seems to go beyond that, affecting almost any app for Roku TVs, suggest user comments on the thread over the last week. The problem appears to be […]
04/05/2025
Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?
Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a sign that the AI jobs crisis “is here, now.” In fact, Merchant spoke to a former Duolingo contractor who said this isn’t even a new policy. The company cut […]
04/05/2025
Trump says he’s willing to delay TikTok ban again
President Donald Trump has already delayed a TikTok ban twice, and he said Sunday that he’s willing to do it again. Axios reports that during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said that if a deal isn’t made to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to American owners before the current June 19 deadline, he […]
04/05/2025
Nintendo is suing accessory maker Genki after its unofficial Switch 2 mockups
Earlier this year, accessory maker Genki showed off a 3D-printed mockup it said was based on the Nintendo Switch 2’s official dimensions just days before the console’s first official reveal. The company has since started offering Switch 2 accessories that it says will be compatible with the system at launch. Now, Nintendo is suing the […]
04/05/2025
Residents of SpaceX’s Starbase launch site vote to incorporate as a city
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is getting its own official company town. Residents of an area around SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in southern Texas voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to incorporate as a city — also named Starbase. According to results posted online by the Cameron County Elections Department, there were 212 votes in favor and only six […]
04/05/2025
Nvidia pitches Star Wars vs. Star Trek fans in May The Fourth RTX 5090 competition
Nvidia has announced a competition for May The Fourth 2025, which should mean at least two PC enthusiasts win a free GeForce RTX 5090 by the end of the day.
04/05/2025
Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s Boca Chica Beach launch site on the Gulf of Mexico. The final tally was 212–6 in support of the measure, reports The Associated Press. The election took place […]
04/05/2025
Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI
While many tech companies are mandating that their employees return to their offices, and putting an emphasis on building in-person teams, they are also turning in droves to Latin America to find developer talent — especially for post-training AI models. Revelo, a full-stack platform of vetted developers in Latin America, is seeing a new surge in […]
04/05/2025
GPUs with 8GB of VRAM in 2025 are 'like bringing a butter knife to a gunfight' reckons Grok AI
Shipping graphics cards with just 8GB of VRAM is tantamount to 'bringing a butter knife to a gunfight,' opines the Grok AI, built-into Twitter/X
04/05/2025
Backstage access: Spotify’s dev tools side-hustle is growing legs
Spotify generates the vast bulk of its income from ads and subscriptions, but for the past few years the music-streaming giant has also been quietly building out a developer tooling business. Backstage, a project it open-sourced in 2020, has been adopted by more than 2 million developers across 3,400 organizations, including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twilio, and […]
04/05/2025
Wi-Fi 6E versus Wi-Fi 7: Which type of router is a better buy?
Wi-Fi 7 routers are available at a slight to significant premium over Wi-Fi 6E, depending on what you’re looking for.
04/05/2025
Amazon lists the unannounced WD Black SN8100 with 14.9 GB/s reads for $225 (1TB)
Amazon (Germany) is accepting pre-orders for the unannounced WD Black SN8100 SSD, promising 14.9 GB/s read speeds, set for launch on May 30.
04/05/2025
The fantasy of playing Final Fantasy
You are a negro bunny bound for greatness in the New World, as if the old were simply a mistake. You can't stop thinking about Sylvia Wynter and something like New World natives; you stall, with everyone else, rather than negotiate a true critique of the present, rather than pause Final Fantasy XIV as ordered […]
04/05/2025
Shotgun Cop Man is a weird-as-hell platformer about arresting Satan
Shotgun Cop Man is a strange platformer. You play as a square man with a round, bald head who's chasing Satan to arrest him. At the beginning of each of the game's nine worlds, Satan gives you the middle finger. And you don't just use guns for fighting, but for traversal as well. You start […]
04/05/2025
MSI Roamii BE Lite Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Affordable dual-band with class-leading long-range performance
MSI shoves its way into the dual-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh router market with the $225 Roamii BE Lite.
04/05/2025
Brain interface used to edit YouTube video — paralyzed Neuralink patient also uses AI to narrate with his own voice
Bradford Smith, an ALS patient, is the third patient to receive a Neuralink implant. This tech has allowed him to edit and upload a YouTube video, and even help him synthesize his voice using AI.
04/05/2025
A worthy sequel to one of the best websites ever
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 81, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy Finally Feels Like Summer Week to at least everyone who lives near me, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading […]
04/05/2025
Glorious Series 2 Pro Wireless Review: Ultra-light and slightly smaller
Glorious' new Series 2 Pro Wireless now has 8K polling and clicky optical switches, but do we need another stripped-down ultra-lightweight 8K mouse?
04/05/2025
More compact Arm variants of Microsoft Surface Pro and Laptop lines leaked
Microsoft is rumored to announce new compact 13-inch Surface Laptop 7 and 12-inch Surface Pro 11 models at their Surface event on Tuesday.
04/05/2025
Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ crashed some Windows laptops for years
Longtime Verge readers might recall the unusual story of how the music video for a Janet Jackson song, “Rhythm Nation,” could cause certain Windows laptops to crash just by being around when it’s playing. Now, in a blog post spotted by PCWorld, Microsoft employee Raymond Chen has revealed that a filter created to deal with […]
03/05/2025
Temu stops shipping products from China to the U.S.
Chinese retailer Temu has shifted strategy in the face of U.S. tariffs. Through executive order, President Donald Trump has ended the so-called de minimis rule, which allowed goods worth $800 or less to enter the country without tariffs. He’s also increasing tariffs on Chinese goods by more than 100%, forcing both Chinese companies like Shein […]
03/05/2025
Warren Buffett will step down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO
Legendary investor Warren Buffett announced today that he will ask the Berkshire Hathaway board to have Greg Abel replace him as CEO at the end of 2025. “I think the time has arrived where Greg should become the chief executive officer of the company at year end,” Buffett said at the end of the company’s […]
03/05/2025
Apple may stagger next year’s iPhones to make way for a foldable
Apple is planning to shuffle its iPhone release schedule next year as it releases the first foldable iPhone to make things more manageable, reports The Information. The plan is for the foldable to come out with the iPhone 18 Pro and “Air” models, while the standard iPhone 18 gets shunted back to the spring of […]
03/05/2025
Trump’s 2026 NASA budget would slash ISS crew and allocate more money for Elon
The Trump administration has released a proposal to cut about a quarter of NASA’s 2026 budget, slashing both International Space Station crew sizes and the amount of research done there. At the same time, it sets up new funding that would likely benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX by prioritizing human missions to Mars, and refocuses on […]
03/05/2025
Week in Review: Apple won’t raise prices — yet
Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got lots of news for you today: Amazon earnings, Apple earnings, ChatGPT sycophancy, Alibaba’s AI models, and much more. Let’s get to it! Well? During Apple’s earnings call yesterday, Tim Cook revealed that the company paid $900 million in tariffs last quarter. But despite this, the CEO didn’t […]
03/05/2025
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB loses up to 10% performance when using PCIe 4.0
When attached to a PCIe 4.0 interface, Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB video cards experience a massive performance hit in some game titles.
03/05/2025
27-inch 4K 160 Hz IPS gaming monitor is down to $289 at Amazon
The Asus VG27UQ1A 4K gaming monitor is currently available at Amazon for $289, one of its lowest prices to date.
03/05/2025
Google’s Gemini has beaten Pokémon Blue (with a little help)
Google’s most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game. Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted triumphantly on X, “What a finish! Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!” To be clear, the Gemini Plays Pokemon livestream was created by (in his own words) “a 30 year […]
03/05/2025
Storage device boiled in salt water, then grilled in an oven as proof of durability — Cerabyte's glass storage media claimed to be ultra-rugged
Storage startup Cerabyte has shared a video where it torture tests its memory media in boiling salt water and a pizza oven.
03/05/2025
Dynatron coolers support up to 660W for Intel Diamond Rapids and AMD Venice CPUs
Dynatron's CPU cooler listings indicate "Diamond Rapids" as the codename for Intel's upcoming Xeon CPUs and "SP7" as the socket for AMD's next-gen Venice CPUs.
03/05/2025
eBay and Etsy are relatively confident despite tariff pressures
Like virtually every sector in the business world, the secondhand industry is grappling with the ramifications of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. However, based on the comments made by eBay and Etsy earlier this week, both don’t appear to be overly concerned. The companies recently reported Q1 2025 earnings results, both addressing the pressing topic of […]
03/05/2025
Minecraft runs on 8MB of VRAM using a 20-year-old GPU
Budget-Builds Official has successfully run a playable instance of Minecraft using 8MB of VRAM on a 20-year-old GPU.
03/05/2025
Intel Arc Xe3 Celestial GPU enters pre-validation stage
LinkedIn profiles suggest that Intel Xe3 Celestial has already reached the pre-validation stage.
03/05/2025
Montech Century II Gold 1050W ATX 3.1 power supply review
The Montech Century II Gold 1050W ATX 3.1 is a balanced power supply offering good performance and aesthetics at an exceptional price point.
03/05/2025
Cheap stuff that doesn’t suck, take 2
While we all wait to find out what effect the upcoming — well, maybe upcoming — tariffs will have on prices, many of us are making mental lists of some of the items we might need that, hopefully, won’t demand a bank loan to be affordable. Last year, we asked the staff members here at […]
03/05/2025
Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 review: powerful graphics, LOUD FANS
The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is a gaming laptop, and it sure looks like one. It's an inch thick, weighs 5.5 pounds, and is awash in RGB lighting, stylized text, and curved plastic. This Aorus Master offers powerful hardware and a lovely high-res, high-refresh OLED display. It's the first of several laptops we're reviewing with […]
03/05/2025
Polygon’s new owner says it will ‘do what’s right for Polygon’
Polygon, The Verge's former sister site dedicated to covering gaming and entertainment, is now owned by Valnet, a company that owns more than 27 different brands covering gaming, entertainment, sports, travel, and more. The transition is, let's say, ongoing: a day after the acquisition, the site still said it was a Vox Media property, and […]
03/05/2025
Windows 11 won't let you shut down? Change this setting right away!
One or more apps can put a hold on Windows shutdown.
03/05/2025
How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers
Riot’s “anti-cheat artisan” Phillip Koskinas explains how he and his team go after cheaters and cheat developers to protect the integrity of games, such as Valorant and League of Legends.
03/05/2025
Google is going to let kids use its Gemini AI
Google is notifying parents using its Family Link parental controls via email that their kids will soon be able to access Gemini AI Apps on their monitored Android devices, The New York Times reports. The company says kids will be able to use Gemini to do things like help them with homework or read them […]
03/05/2025
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’
Sam Altman and Elon Musk aren't just competing in the AI race; they both have ambitions to build Silicon Valley's holy grail: an "everything" super app encompassing finance, social media, gaming, and more. Earlier this week, I got a peek at Altman's plan from a cavernous event space on the northern edge of San Francisco. […]
02/05/2025
AI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead of providing actually useful insights. Systrom said the tactics represent “a force that’s hurting us,” comparing them to those used by social media companies to expand aggressively. “You can see some of these […]
02/05/2025
Inside Sam Altman’s eye-scanning crypto party
On the evening of April 30th, the hottest ticket in San Francisco was a buzzy crypto startup's coming-out party at a warehouse-like complex on the northern edge of the city. It had all the makings of an event you'd only find near Silicon Valley: Anderson Paak, champagne, and a bunch of eye-scanning orbs. Onstage, Sam […]
02/05/2025
Trump’s proposed budget deals another big blow to science, clean energy, and the environment
President Donald Trump proposed drastic budget cuts today that could stymie green energy projects, gut environmental protections, and further hobble health and climate research in the US. Topline budget proposals released today for the 2026 fiscal year would ax $15 billion in federal funding for renewable energy and new technologies to capture carbon dioxide emissions. […]
02/05/2025
Aurora launches its driverless commercial trucking service, and a surprise bidder joins Canoo’s bankruptcy case
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Your usual host Kirsten has passed the reins to me, Rebecca Bellan, for the day, and I want to talk about Aurora Innovation and its last-minute save. […]
02/05/2025
TechCrunch Mobility: Aurora launches its driverless commercial trucking service, and a surprise bidder joins Canoo’s bankruptcy case
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Your usual host Kirsten has passed the reins to me, Rebecca Bellan, for the day, and I want to talk about Aurora Innovation and its last-minute save. […]
02/05/2025
Google will soon start letting kids under 13 use its Gemini chatbot
Next week, Google will begin allowing kids under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts to use its Gemini chatbot, according to The New York Times. The Times reports that Gemini will be available to kids whose parents use Family Link, a Google service that enables families to opt into various Google services for their child. A Google […]
02/05/2025
Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
Firefox could be put out of business should a court implement all the Justice Department’s proposals to restrict Google’s search monopoly, an executive for the browser owner Mozilla testified Friday. “It’s very frightening,” Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim said. The DOJ wants to bar Google from paying to be the default search engine in third-party browsers […]
02/05/2025
In praise of a special little bag
Nothing cements your relationship status with a new hobby like buying a special bag for it. Hiking? Cycling? Photography? You bet there's a special bag designed for just that. Getting into a new thing and accumulating gear for it is a joy. An important and underappreciated subcategory of that enjoyment is finding a special bag […]
02/05/2025
Apple is working with Anthropic on an AI coding tool for Xcode
Apple and Anthropic are building an AI-powered coding tool that will work in Xcode, Apple’s code-writing tool, Bloomberg reports. A new version of Xcode will integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model to “write, edit and test code on behalf of programmers,” Bloomberg says. Apple is slowly rolling this new version out internally initially and apparently has […]
02/05/2025
Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop
A beta build of Android 16 contains an early version of Google’s new Android Desktop Mode that, in the future, could let users simply plug their smartphone into a monitor and use it like a laptop or desktop computer. The new feature was shared by Android tinkerer Mishaal Rahman reporting for Android Authority. Rahman manually […]
02/05/2025
One of Google’s recent Gemini AI models scores worse on safety
A recently released Google AI model scores worse on certain safety tests than its predecessor, according to the company’s internal benchmarking. In a technical report published this week, Google reveals that its Gemini 2.5 Flash model is more likely to generate text that violates its safety guidelines than Gemini 2.0 Flash. On two metrics, “text-to-text […]
02/05/2025
Apple and Anthropic reportedly partner to build an AI coding platform
Apple and Anthropic are teaming up to build a “vibe-coding” software platform that will use generative AI to write, edit, and test code for programmers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The iPhone maker is planning to roll out the software internally, according to Bloomberg, but hasn’t decided if it will launch it publicly. The system is […]
02/05/2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang scores his first base salary increase since 2015
Despite Nvidia’s market value soaring 281-fold since 2015 to nearly $3 trillion, CEO Jensen Huang received his first base salary increase in a decade this year, raising his total 2025 compensation to $49.9 million.
02/05/2025
You can still snag an Xbox Series X / S before Microsoft’s price hike fully takes effect
Microsoft increased the price of Xbox Series consoles by up to $100 earlier this week, but thankfully, not all retailers have raised the price (yet). Dell, for instance, is still offering the digital-only Xbox Series X (1TB) for $449.99, saving you $100 on the new MSRP. The smaller, 512GB Xbox Series S is also available […]
02/05/2025
How to lock down your privacy in WhatsApp
The end-to-end encryption (E2EE) available on the WhatsApp messaging app gets you off to a good start when it comes to privacy and security. It means no one else - hackers, law enforcement, or Meta staff - can see your chats. Your stuff stays just between you and the person or persons you're chatting with. […]
02/05/2025
Uber’s latest autonomous vehicle partner? Chinese startup Momenta
Uber announced Friday yet another autonomous vehicle partnership as it leverages its dominant ride-hail and delivery position while relying on partners to supply the self-driving tech it isn’t building in-house. Today, the lucky startup is Chinese self-driving firm Momenta. The tie-up comes a day after Uber added Ann Arbor-based May Mobility to its roster of […]
02/05/2025
Dating app Raw exposed users’ location data and personal information
The app claims it uses end-to-end encryption, but spilled its users' dating preferences and granular location data to the open web.
02/05/2025
Energy use in a Kuwaiti city fell by over 50% after authorities cracked down on crypto mining
Over 100 houses are allegedly hosting crypto mining activities, with some of them using up more than 20 times the normal power consumption of the average Kuwaiti home.
02/05/2025
Startups Weekly: Drama or game-changer? You decide
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week was low on M&A and IPO news, but there was still some drama to follow, if that’s your thing — and more importantly, some worthy […]
02/05/2025
Apple expects to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. factories this year
Apple plans to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. facilities in 2025 — including tens of millions from TSMC’s Arizona fab — while investing $500 billion to expand its American operations.
02/05/2025
8BitDo’s wired Ultimate C Controller for Xbox and PC is just $20 right now
The 8BitDo Ultimate C Wired Controller for Xbox and PC is on sale at Amazon for $19.61 (44 percent off), its lowest price to date. But the sale is only for the dark green model. The dark gray and orange alternatives are only available for $31.49 (10 percent off) at checkout. Don’t get mad at […]
02/05/2025
Fubo isn’t giving up on its Venu-like sports bundle
Fubo is continuing its quest to cut a deal with sports broadcasters that can bring upon the holy grail of sports bundles later this year, just in time for football season. As reported by Deadline, Fubo CEO David Gandler said on an earnings call on Friday that the company is working hard to line up […]
02/05/2025
Ara Partners new $800M fund will decarbonize old industrial assets
Ara Partners recently raised an $800 million infrastructure fund focused on reducing carbon emissions in industrial sectors.
02/05/2025
Gaming desktop with a mobile CPU — Asus tries a different approach with the TUF Gaming T500
The Asus TUF Gaming T500 desktop comes with Intel's 13th-gen laptop chips paired with Nvidia's RTX desktop GPUs
02/05/2025
Let’s rewatch the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer
The delay of Grand Theft Auto VI into next year is a big deal. The game is the follow-up to arguably the biggest entertainment release of all time, one that originally debuted well over a decade ago. Even if GTAV is still going strong, now spanning multiple console generations and with a surprisingly enduring online […]
02/05/2025
Trump’s first 100 days: DOGE, tariffs, TikTok, and more
We hit the 100-day mark in Donald Trump’s second presidential term this week and, well — a lot of things have happened in that time. Verge policy editor Adi Robertson has been running a series of stories about the impact of these 100 days on the site all week. They’re great; we’ve linked them below […]
02/05/2025
OpenAI pledges to make changes to prevent future ChatGPT sycophancy
OpenAI says it’ll make changes to the way it updates the AI models that power ChatGPT, following an incident that caused the platform to become overly sycophantic for many users. Last weekend, after OpenAI rolled out a tweaked GPT-4o — the default model powering ChatGPT — users on social media noted that ChatGPT began responding in […]
02/05/2025
Canadians will also pay more for Leica cameras as a result of US tariffs
Price increases on electronics as a result of President Trump’s global tariffs are starting to be felt outside the US, as a Canadian camera shop recently discovered. As a result of how Leica imports its products into North America, a store in Calgary, Alberta, was recently notified by the camera maker that it would be […]
02/05/2025
Google’s NotebookLM Android and iOS apps are available for pre-order
Google’s NotebookLM Android and iOS apps are expected to launch on May 20, according to app store listings. The apps are currently available for pre-order. Since its launch in 2023, the AI-based note-taking and research assistant has only been accessible via desktop. Google is now gearing up to make the service available on the go. […]
02/05/2025
Microsoft has no plans to fix Windows RDP bug that lets you log in with old passwords
Microsoft RDP allows users to log into machines using older, invalid passwords that have since been changed.
02/05/2025
Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell 96GB graphics card benchmarked, specs allegedly confirmed
Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition graphics card with 24,064 CUDA cores and 96 GB of memory benchmarked in Geekbench 6, fails to beat GeForce RTX 5090 with 21,760 CUDA cores.
02/05/2025
Trump issues order to pull funding for NPR and PBS
President Trump issued an executive order on Thursday to end all federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” the order reads. It says the Corporation for Public […]
02/05/2025
The cargo-carrying Gitamini robot is getting a Star Wars droid makeover
If you’ve always wanted a droid but don’t have a need for an intergalactic translator or a starship mechanic, Piaggio Fast Forward is giving its Gitamini a makeover suitable for a galaxy far, far away. Adopting the alphanumeric naming convention of robots in the Star Wars universe, G1T4-M1N1 is a special edition of the company’s […]
02/05/2025
Thunderbolts* is Marvel’s latest attempt at clawing out of an existential void
Marvel's movies have yet to stop being box office juggernauts, but in recent years focused on multiversal storytelling, the studio's interconnected cinematic franchise has often felt adrift and unfocused. Rather than working as films that can stand on their own, the MCU's recent crossover features have generally resulted in dangling threads, like they're all just […]
02/05/2025
Apple approves Spotify app update that allows U.S. users to access pricing info, external payment links
Spotify said on Friday that Apple has approved its U.S. app update that will allow users to access pricing information and external payment links. The approval comes days after a U.S. judge ordered Apple to stop charging commissions on purchases through iPhone apps. “In a victory for consumers, artists, creators, and authors, Apple has approved Spotify’s […]
02/05/2025
Rockstar's hotly anticipated GTA VI delayed — dev confirms release now set for May 2026
Rockstar apologized to its fans for delaying the release of this much-awaited title, but at least we finally have a definitive date.
02/05/2025
Stripe already has a way for iOS developers to dodge Apple’s payment system
Payment processing platform Stripe just added a way for iOS developers to accept payments by linking outside their apps, dodging Apple’s commission fees. The move comes after a landmark ruling on Wednesday in the Epic v. Apple antitrust case. Apple can no longer charge developers 27 percent fees on purchases made outside apps, and it […]
02/05/2025
Nintendo has released an update fixing a Switch boot up bug
Following the release of the V20.0.0 firmware earlier this week that introduced features like Virtual Game Cards, some Switch users found their consoles unable to boot and displaying an error code after applying the update and restarting. Nintendo acknowledged the issue and released another update, V20.0.1, this morning, which fixes the problem. But those experiencing […]
02/05/2025
Nvidia RTX 50 GPUs make a small splash in the Steam Survey — AMD RX 9000 GPUs remain absent from the list
The latest Steam Hardware survey does not include an AMD RX 9000-series GPU, despite a few new entries from Nvidia's RTX 50-series lineup.
02/05/2025
The chance of getting hit by a Soviet spacecraft goes up next week
Part of a failed Soviet spacecraft that’s been circling Earth for the last 53 years is about to come crashing down. The Kosmos 482 probe launched by the USSR in 1972 was intended to collect data from the surface of Venus, but was marooned in orbit following a malfunction in its upper-stage rocket booster. Kosmos […]
02/05/2025
Intel hedges its bet for High-NA EUV with the 14A process node — an alternate Low-NA technique has identical yield and design rules
Intel has not yet fully committed to using the new High-NA EUV chipmaking tool in production and has an alternative production flow of its 14A node that uses standard Low-NA EUV as a backup plan.
02/05/2025
Hands-on with Lian Li's Lancool 217 PC case: High airflow, wood accents, no RGB
With large fans, a dual-chamber design, dedicated GPU cooling, wood accents, and a reasonable price, Lian Li's Lancool 217 has a lot to like.
02/05/2025
Microsoft makes passkeys the default authentication method for all new accounts
Microsoft says that passkeys reduce password use by 20% and wants to remove password use altogether.
02/05/2025
How Apple lost control of the App Store
"Cook chose poorly" is one of those phrases you'll someday read in a history book about the tech industry. That's just one of the memorable lines from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers' stinging rebuke of Apple this week, in which she ruled that Apple needed to change the way it handled external payments, buttons, and links […]
02/05/2025
Airbnb is quietly rolling out an AI customer service bot in the US
Airbnb started rolling out an AI-powered customer service bot in the U.S. last month, CEO Brian Chesky said during the firm’s first-quarter conference call on Thursday. Chesky said 50% of Airbnb’s U.S. users are already using the AI bot for customer service, adding that the company plans to roll out the feature to all its […]
02/05/2025
Apple approves Spotify app update with external payments
Apple has approved an update to Spotify’s iPhone app that makes it the first major app to support direct links for US users to pay for plans on an external site, without restrictions. Apple has been forced to change its rules on external payments following an order in its ongoing case against Epic Games. Spotify […]
02/05/2025
Build your dream PC with Chillblast and save £65 with our exclusive discount code
Build your dream PC and save £65 on a custom PC built using Chillblast's helpful configurator.
02/05/2025
Pinterest users left confused by mass account suspensions
Pinterest is having some weird moderation issues. Reports of sweeping pin removals and account suspensions have appeared across social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and X, with many users saying they received no warning or explanation about the ban before being locked out of their accounts. The r/Pinterest subreddit is also currently dominated by posts […]
02/05/2025
Nvidia's CEO says China is not far behind the U.S. in AI capabilities
Jensen Huang states that China is nearly on par with the U.S. in AI hardware development, as Huawei begins shipping its CloudMatrix 384 systems. However, Huawei's scale remains far behind Nvidia's projected AI compute deployments for 2025.
02/05/2025
Grand Theft Auto VI release delayed to May 2026
Rockstar Games is delaying the highly anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI to May 26th, 2026. The game had originally been planned to release in fall 2025, but Rockstar Games now says the team needs extra time “to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve.” In a message posted on the […]
02/05/2025
TikTok fined $600 million for sending user data to China
TikTok has been ordered to pay €530 million (around $600 million) for sending European users’ data to servers in China, a breach of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). TikTok has six months to bring its data processing into compliance, pending any possible appeal. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) found that TikTok […]
02/05/2025
The Chromecast is back, but not as we know it
When Google killed its diminutive Chromecast line to replace the dongles with the TV Streamer set-top box, not everyone was happy about the change. Fortunately, if you’re hankering after a new version of Google’s old streamer, the Thomson Cast 150 might just fit the bill — but only if you live in Europe. The Cast […]
02/05/2025
Apple changes App Store rules to allow external purchases
Apple has updated its App Store Guidelines around external payments and links in response to the injunction issued this week in the Epic Games v. Apple case. The changes, spotted by 9to5Mac, allow developers to steer users outside Apple’s App Store to make external purchases in compliance with the ruling. Language has been updated in […]
02/05/2025
Apple changes US App Store rules to let apps redirect users to their own websites for payments
Apple has changed its App Store rules in the U.S. to let apps link users to their own websites so they can buy subscriptions or other digital goods. This change comes after a U.S. court ruled in favor of Epic Games in a case against the iPhone maker, ordering the latter not to prohibit apps […]
02/05/2025
New tariffs are now hitting cheap US imports from China
The de minimis exception, which has allowed businesses to import low-value goods without duties from China and Hong Kong, has expired as of 12:01AM ET today as part of President Trump’s executive order signed last month. Many businesses in the US rely on the de minimis loophole. Any package valued under $800 — including electronics, […]
02/05/2025
Amazon CEO says 100,000 users now have Alexa+
Amazon’s upgraded digital assistant powered by generative AI, Alexa+, has rolled out to over 100,000 users, CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s earnings call Thursday. While that’s a far cry from the 600 million Alexa devices out there, the company is making some progress on the rollout of Alexa+, which was first unveiled in […]
01/05/2025
Reddit’s AI play is for the Google crowd, not just the community scrollers
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says there are two kinds of people who come to the social media platform: Scrollers and seekers. Scrollers are the ones who come to Reddit’s core product, which is community conversation and engaging about topics they’re passionate about, from r/sourdough to r/popculturechat. Then there are the Seekers; the people who might […]
01/05/2025
Despite paying $900M in tariffs, Apple’s Tim Cook isn’t announcing price increases — yet
"We're very engaged on the tariff discussions, Apple CEO Tim Cook said. "On the pricing piece, we have nothing to announce today."
01/05/2025
Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts
After supporting passwordless Windows logins for years and even allowing users to delete passwords from their accounts, Microsoft is making its biggest move yet towards a future with no passwords. Now it will ask people signing up for new accounts to only use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys instead, by […]
01/05/2025
The investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal group chats is growing
The Pentagon Inspector General is expanding an inquiry into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s questionable Signal group chats. According to the Wall Street Journal, the investigation is now also looking into a second chat, as well as exactly how classified information was transferred from a secure government computer onto Hegseth’s account on his personal devices. Beyond […]
01/05/2025
Spotify already has an app ready to test Apple’s new rules
Spotify says it has submitted an update to its iOS app that would, among other things, let US customers use payment options that aren’t Apple’s, according to a blog post. The update submission follows Wednesday’s major Epic Games v. Apple ruling that forces Apple not to take a cut of payments on non-Apple payment systems […]
01/05/2025
Apple says tariffs will cost it at least $900 million this quarter
During Wednesday’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook went into the most detail yet on how the company is responding to the far-reaching US tariffs imposed by President Trump — and the potential impacts on its business. “Assuming the current global tariff rates, policies and applications do not change for the balance of the quarter […]
01/05/2025
Apple CEO Tim Cook says tariffs to add $900M in costs in Q3, but future uncertain
Apple CEO Tim Cook offered the company’s first comments on the impact of President Trump’s tariffs during Thursday’s second-quarter earnings call with investors. While the iPhone maker saw only “limited impact” from tariffs in the March quarter, Cook said Apple couldn’t forecast what that would mean for the coming quarter. However, if things remained the […]
01/05/2025
Amazon’s CEO says the company can weather challenges from tariffs because of how big it is
In Amazon’s Q1 2025 earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy touched on the potential impact of the Trump administration’s tariffs, and he seems to think that Amazon won’t be affected too harshly. People are “buying a lot of their everyday essentials at Amazon” and the company has “extremely large selections” and “hundreds of millions of SKUs,” […]
01/05/2025
DJI’s back-to-back Osmo Pocket 3 price hikes take it from $519 to $799 in two months
We've called DJI's baby steadicam "almost everything I wanted my iPhone camera to be" and one of our favorite gadgets of 2023, but it's just become a harder product to recommend. In April, DJI quietly hiked the US price of the camera from $519 to $619. Now, DJI has hiked the price again, officially listing […]
01/05/2025
Apple doesn’t seem too worried about Trump’s tariffs
Apple reported its latest quarterly earnings on Wednesday under the backdrop of a court ruling that’s poised to upend the company’s App Store business and tariff uncertainty that could spur price increases for devices including the iPhone. At least on this occasion, Apple’s revenue numbers weren’t top of mind for tech industry onlookers like they […]
01/05/2025
Peacock trained TikTokers to make content, and now four creators are getting original series
Three years ago, a group of TikTokers joined NBCUniversal’s new initiative aimed at transforming social media influencers into the next generation of TV show creators. Now, four of these creators are set to launch their original series on Peacock. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the shows set to premiere are “The Warehouse Phase,” developed by […]
01/05/2025
Rising star defense tech startup Mach Industries is raising $100 million, sources say
Mach Industries, the defense tech founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, is about to close a fresh $100 million in financing co-led by new investor Khosla and existing investor Bedrock Capital, a source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch. The new round will value the company at around $470 million, according to the source. However, the […]
01/05/2025
Stripe shows iOS developers how to avoid Apple’s App Store commission
Payments processing software provider Stripe is ready to help iOS app developers bypass Apple’s cut of App Store transactions. Following yesterday’s ruling in the Apple-Epic antitrust trial, where Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers outright shamed Apple for not permitting external payment links in apps as she had previously ruled, Stripe shared documentation that shows iOS developers […]
01/05/2025
Buzzy investing app Dub lands $30M Series A
Dub, the copy-trading platform that says it’s transforming how Gen Z invests, has secured a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing its total raised to $47 million. The deal, which founder Steven Wang had previously hinted to TechCrunch was in the works, comes a year after its official launch. The 23-year-old’s Harvard dropout’s platform […]
01/05/2025
Aurora’s driverless trucks are making deliveries in Texas
After years of testing and validation, Aurora says its first fully autonomous tractor-trailers are operating on public highways in Texas. The company’s Class 8 trucks are now making customer deliveries between Dallas and Houston, having already completed 1,200 miles “without a driver,” Aurora said. The clients for these initial trips are Uber Freight, the ridehailing […]
01/05/2025
FutureHouse releases AI tools it claims can accelerate science
FutureHouse, an Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit that aims to build an “AI scientist” within the next decade, has launched its first major product: a platform and API with AI-powered tools designed to support scientific work. Many, many startups are racing to develop AI research tools for the scientific domain, some with massive amounts of VC funding […]
01/05/2025
Russia's Baikal has produced 85,000 of its CPUs since 2012, aims for more
Russia's Baikal Electronics has produced and sold 85,000 processors since its founding, but due to post-2022 sanctions and blocked shipments from Taiwan, it now aims to restart production with new chips like Baikal-L and Baikal-S2 at SMIC.
01/05/2025
Anker’s lightest 45W USB-C charger is already on sale for 26 percent off
If you need a svelte USB-C charger that won’t weigh you down on your commute or your next flight, Anker’s new 45W Nano charger is on sale for the first time at Amazon, where you can pick it up in either black or white as part of a lightning deal for $25.99 ($9 off). At […]
01/05/2025
Patreon will update its iPhone app to sidestep Apple’s payment system
Patreon is planning to submit an update to its iOS app that will let creators accept payments outside of Apple’s payment system, spokesperson Adiya Taylor tells The Verge. The planned update follows yesterday’s major Epic Games v. Apple ruling that blocks Apple from collecting fees on payments made outside of apps. “This is a huge […]
01/05/2025
Fintech Bench conducts layoff while others still work month-to-month
Bench, the accounting and tax startup that was bought in a fire sale last December, has conducted a round of significant layoffs, it confirmed to TechCrunch. Bench didn’t specify how many people were affected, but one person who works there estimated that Bench was eliminating dozens of positions – that’s a big chunk of the […]
01/05/2025
Google dusts off Google Voice and adds three-way calling
Google is giving its Google Voice app some much-needed love after leaving it practically untouched for a long time. The company is adding a refreshed in-call interface with key call control buttons lined up in a row, plus the ability to start a three-way conference call. In a Workspace update today, Google says the call […]
01/05/2025
Shokz’ new open headphones don’t care what ear you clip them to
Shokz has launched what the company is calling its “smallest and lightest open earbuds to date.” The new OpenDots One clip onto the back of your ear instead of sitting entirely inside it. It’s a design that’s similar to what the Bose Ultra Open Earbuds have helped popularize over the past year, but Shokz’ new […]
01/05/2025
Sinners is getting an IMAX re-release
If you’re rushing to see Sinners in IMAX, you’ll have a bit more time. Today, Warner Bros. has announced Ryan Coogler’s sexy and soulful vampire thriller will get a 70mm IMAX re-release at select locations around the world. “Audiences have spoken and we listened,” said Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. president of global distribution in a […]
01/05/2025
Ai2’s new small AI model outperforms similarly-sized models from Google, Meta
‘Tis the week for small AI models, it seems. On Thursday, Ai2, the nonprofit AI research institute, released Olmo 2 1B, a 1-billion-parameter model that Ai2 claims beats similarly-sized models from Google, Meta, and Alibaba on several benchmarks. Parameters, sometimes referred to as weights, are the internal components of a model that guide its behavior. […]
01/05/2025
Intel IPO delivers better gaming performance than 200S Boost in user benchmarks
BiliBili user evaluates Intel's IPO and 200S Boost technologies to determine which offers higher gaming performance.
01/05/2025
Despite Nvidia claims, Chinese smugglers have used live lobsters and fake baby bumps to traffic chips
Nvidia and Anthropic have publicly locked horns over the extremes Chinese smugglers are willing to go to in order to acquire sanctioned GPUs.
01/05/2025
Nvidia takes aim at Anthropic’s support of chip export controls
Nvidia clearly doesn’t agree with Anthropic’s support for export controls on U.S.-made AI chips. On Wednesday, Anthropic doubled down on its support for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s “Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion,” which would impose sweeping AI chip export restrictions starting May 15. The next day, Nvidia responded with a very different take on […]
01/05/2025
Epic is offering developers an alternative to Apple’s in-app purchases
Epic Games is making some big changes to its store to provide an enticing alternative to Apple’s in-app purchases for developers. The company is announcing the changes less than a day after a major court ruling that mandates that Apple can’t collect fees on purchases made outside of apps or restrict how they point to […]
01/05/2025
MoviePass’ next big pivot is basically blockchain sports betting for film buffs
For many self-proclaimed cinephiles, enjoying movies has become an odd game of logging titles into Letterboxd and shouting at each other online about box office totals. And now, MoviePass has a plan to capitalize on that energy with a platform built on the blockchain. Today, MoviePass and Mysten Labs announced the imminent launch of Mogul, […]
01/05/2025
Lyft launches ‘Lyft Silver’ for older riders, with simpler app and more accessible vehicles
Lyft said it plans to a new senior citizen-focused product called “Lyft Silver” that includes more accessible vehicles and customer service support staffed with actual human employees. Noting that older riders comprise just 5.4 percent of its total customer base, Lyft says it hopes to make its app-based ridehailing more accessible to seniors — and […]
01/05/2025
Microsoft is getting ready to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI model
Microsoft has been instructing engineers working on its AI infrastructure to get ready to host Elon Musk's Grok AI model, according to a trusted source familiar with the plans. In recent weeks Microsoft has been in discussions with xAI to host the Grok AI model and make it available to customers and Microsoft's own product […]
01/05/2025
Uber strikes deal with May Mobility to deploy ‘thousands’ of robotaxis
May Mobility is the latest autonomous vehicle operator to team up with Uber to get more passengers into its robotaxis. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company, which has mainly focused on long-term transportation contracts, says it will deploy “thousands” of autonomous vehicles on Uber’s ridehailing platform across multiple US markets. May Mobility says its partnership with […]
01/05/2025
May Mobility to launch robotaxis on Uber platform this year in Texas
Startup May Mobility plans to deploy its autonomous vehicles on the Uber platform by the end of 2025, starting in Arlington, Texas, as part of a multi-year partnership. The tie-up with Uber offers May a chance to grow beyond offering shuttles within campuses and planned communities, while Uber adds May Mobility to its growing roster […]
01/05/2025
Epic Games is launching webshops to allow developers to circumvent app store fees after new ruling
Epic Games is taking a victory lap. After notching a big win against Apple in a years-long legal dispute, Epic announced that its Epic Games Store will allow developers to open webshops, which can offer players out-of-app purchases to circumvent fees from Apple and Google. Epic has been in a long legal battle with Apple […]
01/05/2025
Anthropic lets users connect more apps to Claude
Anthropic on Thursday launched a new way to connect apps and tools to its AI chatbot Claude, as well as an expanded “deep research” capability that allows Claude to search the web, enterprise accounts, and more. The new app connection feature, called Integrations, and expanded deep research tool, dubbed Advanced Research, are available in beta […]
01/05/2025
Fivetran acquires Census to become end-to-end data movement platform
After nearly 13 years in business, Fivetran will now be able to offer its customers an end-to-end data movement solution. Fivetran, which helps enterprises move data from a variety of sources into cloud databases, announced on Thursday it has acquired Census, a reverse extract, transform, and load (ETL) platform that enables companies to transfer data […]
01/05/2025
Boox debuts 23.5-inch color E ink monitor with 1800p resolution and $1,900 price tag
The latest color E ink display from Boox costs as much as a high-end IPS panel from Apple or Dell
01/05/2025
House Republicans move to stop California from setting its own vehicle pollution standards
The US House of Representatives voted to revoke California’s ability to enact its own, tougher pollution regulations for cars and heavy-duty trucks. It’s an attempt to kill one of the nation’s most ambitious climate plans and strip California of its ability to set stricter tailpipe pollution standards than the nation as a whole. But it’s […]
01/05/2025
Polygon sold to GameRant owner Valnet
Polygon, The Verge’s sister site dedicated to gaming and entertainment, has been sold by Vox Media to Valnet, a company that owns brands like ScreenRant, GameRant, and Android Police. Some Polygon staffers will continue with the publication under its new owner, while others have been laid off, according to posts online and an internal message […]
01/05/2025
Read the juiciest bits from the court ruling against Apple over its anticompetitive App Store practices
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is pissed off at Apple. Really, really pissed off. In Rogers’ newly released 80-page decision, she took Apple and its executives to task for defying the court’s orders in its original case with Fortnite maker Epic Games. Though Apple largely won that round, as it was determined the tech giant was […]
01/05/2025
Read the juiciest bits from the Apple-Epic court ruling
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is pissed off at Apple. Really, really pissed off. In Rogers’ newly released 80-page decision, she took Apple and its executives to task for defying the court’s orders in its original case with Fortnite maker Epic Games. Though Apple largely won that round, as it was determined the tech giant was […]
01/05/2025
Waymo is still good at avoiding serious death and destruction after 56.7 million miles
Waymo released a new study today that it says shows its fully driverless vehicles continuing to outperform human drivers after 56.7 million miles. The peer-reviewed study, which is slated for publication in Traffic Injury Prevention Journal, analyzes Waymo’s performance in 11 different crash scenarios compared to human drivers. In addition, it cites early evidence that […]
01/05/2025
Google is putting AI Mode right in Search
Google is preparing to publicly unleash its AI Mode search engine tool for the first time. The company announced today that “a small percentage” of people in the US will start seeing an AI Mode tab in Google Search “in the coming weeks,” allowing users to test the search-centric chatbot outside of Google’s experimental Labs […]
01/05/2025
Google’s AI Mode gets expanded access and additional functionality
Google is expanding access to AI Mode, its experimental feature that allows users to ask complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Search. The tech giant is also adding more functionality to the feature, including the ability to pick up where you left off on a search. Google launched […]
01/05/2025
Wikipedia is using (some) generative AI now
Wikipedia isn't replacing their human editors with artificial intelligence yet - but they're giving them a bit of an AI boost. On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, announced that it was integrating generative AI into its editing process as a means to help its volunteer and largely unpaid staff of moderators, […]
01/05/2025
Mark Zuckerberg just declared war on the entire advertising industry
It's not really a secret that the advertising industry is about to get upended by AI - one reason big platform companies like Google and Meta have been so deeply invested in photo and video generation is because they know the first heavy users of those tools will be advertisers on their platforms. But no […]
01/05/2025
Tiny cooling fan-on-a-chip designed for phones to be deployed in AI data centers
xMEMS Labs is deploying its micro cooling solution on optical transceiver DSPs to make fiber optic communication in AI data centers more efficient.
01/05/2025
Wyze gets $255K tariff bill for $167k worth of floodlights
Wyze just settled a $255k tax bill to the CBP for importing $167k worth of floodlights into the U.S.
01/05/2025
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership […]
01/05/2025
Microsoft hikes prices of Xbox consoles, controllers, headsets, and games worldwide - cites market conditions and price of development
Xbox hikes Xbox console prices by $80 - $130 along, also raises prices on controllers, headsets and games, citing increased development costs, but forgetting to note newly imposed U.S. import tariffs.
01/05/2025
Tesla’s board reportedly sought a successor while Musk wheeled around Washington
According to a new, brow-raising WSJ report, Tesla’s board quietly began searching for Elon Musk’s potential successor about a month ago, approaching executive search firms as the carmaker faced protests, plummeting sales, and shrinking profits while Musk waded into Washington to slash government spending. Board members reportedly met with Musk to express concerns about his […]
01/05/2025
Last call to volunteer at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
TechCrunch Sessions: AI is just over a month away! We’re doing a last call for exceptional volunteers to join us in bringing this event to life. If you’ve ever wondered about the inner workings of tech events, now’s your chance to get involved. Volunteer spots are limited, so don’t miss out. Apply before the May […]
01/05/2025
Xbox consoles, controllers, and games are getting more expensive
Microsoft announced price increases on Thursday for its Xbox consoles, controllers, and some games. The affected consoles, which include Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S models, will increase in price between $80 and $100 each, depending on the console. These consoles were first released almost five years ago, with the basic Xbox Series S […]
01/05/2025
Fortnite’s Star Wars season will let you fly an X-Wing and use Force Lightning
Fortnite’s new Star Wars-themed season will add new locations, weapons, skins, vehicles, and even new Force powers to the game when it kicks off on Friday, according to a blog post. The Fortnite island’s new Star Wars spots include a First Order base, a smuggler hub called the Outpost Enclave, a Resistance base with X-Wings, […]
01/05/2025
Anker’s Soundcore Liberty 5 earbuds boost battery life but ditch heart rate tracking
Over two-and-a-half years after the last version was released, Anker’s Soundcore audio brand is updating its budget wireless earbuds with the new Liberty 5. Launching next week for $129.99 – cheaper than the Liberty 4 that debuted at $149.99 – the earbuds will feature improved active noise cancellation, longer battery life, and Dolby Audio support. […]
01/05/2025
Instacart acquires Wynshop to provide tools for grocers and retailers
Grocery-delivery giant Instacart announced Thursday the acquisition of Wynshop, a provider of cloud-based e-commerce solutions for grocers. The deal will help Instacart improve its enterprise solutions, enabling retailers to enhance their online experiences. The company didn’t disclose deal terms. Wynshop launched its platform in 2020 and provides online storefronts for grocers, working with clients such […]
01/05/2025
Fortnite plans return to the US iOS App Store next week
Epic Games’ mega-popular Fortnite is returning to the US iOS App Store next week after a surprising ruling in a years-long legal battle with Apple. The dispute between Epic and Apple began in 2020, when Apple removed Epic Games from the iOS store. Because Apple takes 30% of all in-app purchases, Epic had introduced support […]
01/05/2025
GM thanks Trump for the $5 billion tariff hit it expects to take
General Motors CEO Mary Barra kicked off her Q1 letter to shareholders by thanking “President Trump for his support of the U.S. automotive industry.” Several paragraphs later, things take a turn, with Barra projecting an impact of $4 billion to $5 billion as a result of Trump’s ever-changing tariffs. Barra’s letter was evidence of the delicate line […]
01/05/2025
Aurora launches commercial self-driving truck service in Texas
Autonomous vehicle technology startup Aurora Innovation says it has successfully launched a self-driving truck service in Texas, making it the first company to deploy driverless, heavy-duty trucks for commercial use on public roads in the U.S. The launch comes just as Aurora hits its deadline: in October, the company delayed its planned 2024 debut to […]
01/05/2025
Pinterest is finally doing something about its AI infestation
Pinterest is making it easier for users to identify and avoid AI-generated slop on its platform. The company is launching new features that will automatically label images that are detected to be made or edited using generative AI, and allow users to see fewer of them when browsing for similar topics. “As people encounter AI-generated […]
01/05/2025
8BitDo backs down after blaming tariffs for suspension of China warehouse shipments to the U.S.
8BitDo's China warehouse goods will cease being sent to the U.S., but we aren't sure about the permanence of this decision.
01/05/2025
Jazz legend Kamasi Washington was influenced by anime, and now he’s making music for one
Even if you aren't big into jazz, there is a very good chance that you've heard the deep vibrations of Kamasi Washington's tenor sax. The Grammy-nominated musician has put out multiple studio albums, and counts Raphael Saadiq, Lauryn Hill, and Kendrick Lamar as some of his past collaborators. And more recently, he composed one of […]
01/05/2025
Meta and Spotify are teaming up to lobby against Apple and Google
Meta has joined forces with Spotify, Garmin, Match, and others to form a lobby group to represent their interests, especially as they come into conflict with those of Apple and Google. The group’s first order of business is arguing that age verification should be the responsibility of app stores, and not the apps themselves. Bloomberg […]
01/05/2025
UK company allegedly paid $4m in bribes to secure Microsoft data center construction contract
The UK government arrested three people connected to British companies that were involved with Microsoft's data center project in the Netherlands.
01/05/2025
Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide
Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S / X consoles, Xbox controllers, and even some new Xbox games around the world. Starting today, Microsoft says it has adjusted its recommended retailer pricing for its Xbox consoles and controllers worldwide, and that it’s also planning to adjust the pricing of some of its […]
01/05/2025
MoviePass explores a daily fantasy platform for film buffs
MoviePass, the startup that made its mark with its movie theater subscription service, has always been known for shaking things up, and its latest venture is no exception. The company announced on Thursday the beta launch of Mogul, a new daily fantasy entertainment platform designed specifically for the Hollywood industry. To understand what Mogul is, […]
01/05/2025
Buffalo celebrates 50yr anniversary with a limited edition 'skeleton' transparent hard disk
Buffalo Japan has launched the Buffalo HD-SKL 'skeleton hard disk' with a transparent panel showing the inner mechanism.
01/05/2025
Apple sure has had a rough 2025
It's been a rough start to 2025 for the world's most valuable company. Apple now faces three huge headwinds against its business: President Trump's tariffs and whatever impact those might have on shipments from Asia; the possibility that it could lose its lucrative deal with Google to serve as the default search engine; and a […]
01/05/2025
Finally, the most powerful gaming graphics card is available in the UK at almost MSRP and comes with a free copy of DOOM: The Dark Ages
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock from Palit is available from Overclockers for the cheapest price in the UK and comes with a free copy of DOOM: The Dark Ages.
01/05/2025
Google is reportedly showing ads in chats with some third-party AI chatbots
Google’s AdSense advertising network started supporting ads inside users’ chats with some third-party AI chatbots earlier this year, Bloomberg reported. The company is rolling out the feature following tests with AI search startups iAsk and Liner, the report said, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. “AdSense for Search is available for websites that want […]
01/05/2025
Tipster claims AMD's RX 9060 XT 8GB is planned to launch at Computex — Dismisses cancellation rumors
Despite all the talk of it being scrapped, it seems that AMD's RX 9060 XT 8GB GPUs are still in the pipeline, and set for launch at Computex, per Benchlife.
01/05/2025
‘Cook chose poorly’: how Apple blew up its control over the App Store
In 2021, a federal judge ruled that Apple had to loosen its grip, ever so slightly, on the App Store. On Wednesday, nearly four years later, that same judge found that Apple deliberately failed to do so and tried to hide its noncompliance in the process. In a furious opinion, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said […]
01/05/2025
SteelSeries QCK Performance Series mousepad hands-on: pick your flavor
SteelSeries' new QCK Performance series mouse pads comes in three surfaces, depending on what you're looking for: speed, control, or a mix of both.
01/05/2025
TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang opens up on process technology development & evolving demands: Interview
TSMC is evolving its strategy by developing distinct leading-edge process technologies optimized for AI, client, and HPC applications, while maintaining aggressive scaling with innovations like backside power delivery and second-generation nanosheet transistors.
01/05/2025
How To Dual Boot Linux and Windows on any PC
Windows and Linux co-existing on the same machine.
01/05/2025
Tesla board denies report it wanted to replace Elon Musk
Tesla has hit back following a Wall Street Journal report that its board had initiated a search for a new CEO to replace Elon Musk, taking to Musk’s social platform X to call the claim “absolutely false.” According to the WSJ report, about a month ago Tesla’s board began the process of hunting for a […]
01/05/2025
WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion users a month
WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion people using it every month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted during the company’s Q1 results conference call on Wednesday. Founded in 2009 and acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014, WhatsApp remains free to use and doesn’t serve any ads. The app reached the 2 billion monthly […]
01/05/2025
From tech pioneers to ‘extremists’: Belarusian founders face exile and statelessness
In 2013, Tatyana Marynich and Anastasiya Khamiankova opened the doors to Imaguru, a startup hub in Minsk, Belarus that would go on to launch some of Eastern Europe’s most prominent tech success stories. A decade later, they’ve been sentenced ‘in absentia’ to a combined 23 years in prison by Belarusian authorities. Their property has been […]
01/05/2025
EcoFlow Wave 3 review: a portable A/C and heater that’s better in every way
I've been testing the EcoFlow Wave 3, a follow-up to the all-in-one battery-powered air conditioner, heater, and fan I reviewed last summer. EcoFlow has dialed back its absurd marketing with a more powerful unit that can be recharged through several methods, including the sun. Only now it can automatically (try to) maintain a set temperature […]
01/05/2025
Tesla’s board reportedly sought a successor while Musk wheeled around Washington
According to a new, brow-raising WSJ report, Tesla’s board quietly began searching for Elon Musk’s potential successor about a month ago, approaching executive search firms as the carmaker faced protests, plummeting sales, and shrinking profits while Musk waded into Washington to slash government spending. Board members reportedly met with Musk to express concerns about his […]
01/05/2025
Microsoft’s most capable new Phi 4 AI model rivals the performance of far larger systems
Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI’s o3-mini on at least one benchmark. All of the new pemissively licensed models — Phi 4 mini reasoning, Phi 4 reasoning, and Phi 4 reasoning plus — are “reasoning” models, meaning they’re able to spend more time […]
01/05/2025
Apple exec ‘outright lied’ during Epic trial
In her ruling banning Apple from charging a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says that an Apple executive “outright lied under oath.” According to Gonzalez Rogers, Alex Roman, vice president of finance at Apple, gave testimony that was “replete with misdirection and outright lies.” The judge writes that […]
01/05/2025
Sam Altman’s eye-scanning project launches cryptocurrency in the US
Over the past few years, what sounds like an episode of Black Mirror has been unfolding in real life: millions of people around the world have agreed to let metallic orbs scan their eyes in exchange for receiving blockchain-based ID and a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin. Beginning this week, Worldcoin (WLD) will be available in most […]
01/05/2025
Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device
Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman co-founded, plans to unveil Wednesday a mobile device designed to help people determine the difference between a human and an AI agent. The company, which is debuting the device during its its “At Last” event in San Francisco, also […]
01/05/2025
World partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more places
World, the biometric ID company best known for its eyeball-scanning Orb devices, at an event late on Wednesday announced several partnerships aimed at driving sign-ups and demonstrating the applications of its tech. World is partnering with Match Group, the dating app conglomerate, to verify the IDs of Tinder users in Japan. Via collaborations with Kalshi […]
01/05/2025
Meta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from generative AI by 2035
Meta made a prediction last year its generative AI products would rake in $2 billion to $3 billion in revenue in 2025, and between $460 billion and $1.4 trillion by 2035, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. The documents, submitted by attorneys for book authors suing Meta for what they claim is unauthorized training of […]
01/05/2025
Epic Games just scored a win against Apple
Epic Games notched a win in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple. The result could be Fortnite returning to the U.S. iOS app store as early as next week. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a ruling Wednesday that Apple was in “willful violation” of a 2021 injunction that prohibited the company from anticompetitive pricing. […]
01/05/2025
Epic Games just scored a major win against Apple
Epic Games has notched a win in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple, as a result of which Fortnite could return to the U.S. iOS App Store as early as next week. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a ruling on Wednesday that Apple was in “willful violation” of a 2021 injunction that prohibited the […]
01/05/2025
Amazon launches Nova Premier, its most capable AI model yet
Amazon on Wednesday released what the company claims is the most capable AI model in its Nova family, Nova Premier. Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos (but not audio), is available in Amazon Bedrock, the company’s AI model development platform. Amazon says that Premier excels at “complex tasks” that “require deep understanding […]
01/05/2025
Study accuses LM Arena of helping top AI labs game its benchmark
A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena, of helping a select group of AI companies achieve better leaderboard scores at the expense of rivals. According to the authors, LM Arena allowed some industry-leading AI companies like Meta, OpenAI, […]
01/05/2025
Epic says Fortnite is coming back to iOS in the US
Following a court order that blocks Apple from taking a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says on X that the company plans to bring Fortnite back to iOS in the US “next week.” The app hasn’t been available on iOS in the US since August 2020, when […]
30/04/2025
Microsoft expects some AI capacity constraints this quarter
Microsoft customers could encounter service disruptions when using AI services due to demand outpacing the company’s ability to bring data centers online, an executive warned during the company’s earnings call Microsoft’s EVP and CFO Amy Hood said during the company’s fiscal 2025 third-quarter earnings call Wednesday the company may face AI capacity constraints as early […]
30/04/2025
A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store
Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers just ruled that, effective immediately, Apple is no longer allowed to collect fees on purchases made outside apps and blocks the company from restricting how developers can point users to where they can make purchases outside of apps. The ruling was issued as part of Epic Games’ […]
30/04/2025
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.
30/04/2025
Google’s Gemini chatbot gets upgraded image creation tools
Google’s Gemini chatbot app now lets you modify both AI-generated images and images uploaded from your phone or computer, Google announced in a blog post Wednesday. Native image editing in Gemini will start rolling out gradually today, expanding to more people in over 45 languages and most countries in the coming weeks. The launch follows […]
30/04/2025
Mark Zuckerberg is planning a premium tier and ads for Meta’s AI app
The Meta AI app could soon get a paid tier, similar to the ones offered by rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the plan during a Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday, saying there’s an opportunity to offer a “premium service for people who want to unlock more compute or […]
30/04/2025
WiZ’s new TV light sync box undercuts Philips Hue’s pricing by half
Budget smart lighting brand WiZ has announced a new HDMI sync box that syncs with its line of Wi-Fi-based LED lights to match what’s playing on your TV. WiZ’s HDMI Sync Box with TV backlight will be available next month. It comes in two models: one with a TV backlight strip for screens 55 inches […]
30/04/2025
Visa and Mastercard unveil AI-powered shopping
Artificial intelligence is not just infiltrating the startup world. Now, credit card giants Visa and Mastercard are getting into the AI game. Visa announced on Wednesday “Intelligent Commerce,” which it says enables AI “to find and buy.” AI agents will be able to shop and make purchases on behalf of consumers, based on preselected preferences. […]
30/04/2025
Threads tops 350M monthly users after adding 30M in the quarter
Instagram Threads, Meta’s X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday. That’s an increase of 30 million users since the prior quarter, where Meta reported that Threads had 320 million users. The new figure represents increased growth, as […]
30/04/2025
Sketchy rumors hint at an iPhone desktop mode
Alongside all the rumors lately about a big visual redesign for iOS and a more Mac-like iPadOS experience, there’s one interesting one that’s been bubbling up: the iPhone could get a desktop mode of sorts. Majin Bu, who has a mixed history with leaks, wrote last week that unnamed sources had said iPhones with USB-C […]
30/04/2025
Nvidia asks US government to ease AI GPU export rules, but Trump administration plans tighter controls
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is calling for the Trump administration to relax AI GPU export restrictions to support U.S. industry, but the administration is instead considering stricter controls to use chip access as leverage in trade negotiations.
30/04/2025
The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course
BBC Studios is using AI to recreate the voice and likeness of late detective story author Agatha Christie for the purpose of featuring it in digital classes that teaches prospective writers “how to craft the perfect crime novel.” A real life actor, Vivien Keene, is standing in for Christie, with her appearance augmented by AI […]
30/04/2025
Here are our favorite deals from Amazon’s annual gaming sale
Amazon’s annual Gaming Week celebration kicked off on Monday, April 28th, and will run through Sunday, May 4th. Whether you’re looking for a new headset, an internal SSD, or other gaming essentials, there are plenty of deals to explore. That being said, not every discount is worth your time and money — in fact, most […]
30/04/2025
Microsoft reports strong cloud growth in Q3 earnings
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2025 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $70.1 billion in revenue and a net income of $25.8 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 13 percent, and net income has increased by 18 percent. Microsoft was expected to report $68.42 billion in revenue, so the results have beaten Wall […]
30/04/2025
The TikTok ban is back in court — in Meta’s antitrust trial
TikTok is back in a Washington, DC courthouse discussing the US law that - at least on paper - effectively banned the app. But this time, it's serving as a witness for the government, not fighting against it. On Wednesday, TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety Adam Presser testified in the Federal Trade […]
30/04/2025
Pinterest launches new tools to fight AI slop
Pinterest says it’s finally going to do something about the AI slop that’s taken over its platform. After an increasing volume of complaints, the social networking and image pinboarding site announced Wednesday a plan to begin labeling AI-generated and AI-modified images. It will also introduce a new option that allows users to reduce the number […]
30/04/2025
Amazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbots
Amazon wants companies to build public-facing chatbots using its Q Business assistant. On Wednesday, the company announced that Q Business, its AWS-hosted AI assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, and complete tasks, now supports anonymous user access. This effectively means that AWS users can now create Q Business chatbots for websites, support portals, and […]
30/04/2025
Nintendo limits a game-sharing loophole as it introduces Virtual Game Cards
The Nintendo Switch just got a new update that adds Virtual Game Cards as a way to share digital games with other people. But the update also closes a loophole that would let you play shared games online at the same time as somebody you were sharing the game with, as reported by Eurogamer. Before […]
30/04/2025
YouTube is testing blurred thumbnails for ‘mature content’
YouTube has announced a new experimental feature that’s “aimed at providing safer search experiences for all users.” The service will begin blurring the thumbnails in search results for some queries “that frequently include sexual themes.” According to a recent update in the Community section of YouTube’s Help Center website, the feature is currently being rolled […]
30/04/2025
Rivian’s reportedly sitting on a stockpile of tariff-free batteries
Rivian built up a stockpile of batteries for its trucks, SUVs, and commercial vans before and after the election of Donald Trump, a strategy used to soften the blow of the president’s tariffs, according to Bloomberg News. The company apparently bought an undisclosed number of lithium iron phosphate batteries from Chinese firm Gotion before the […]
30/04/2025
If you own Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you should double-check your privacy settings
Meta has updated the privacy policy for its AI glasses, Ray-Ban Meta, giving the tech giant more power over what data it can store and use to train its AI models. The company emailed Ray-Ban Meta owners on Tuesday with a notice that AI features will now be enabled on the glasses by default, according […]
30/04/2025
Duolingo said it just doubled its language courses thanks to AI
Duolingo is “more than doubling” the number of courses it has available, a feat it says was only possible because it used generative AI to help create them in “less than a year.” The company said today that it’s launching 148 new language courses. “This launch makes Duolingo’s seven most popular non-English languages – Spanish, […]
30/04/2025
Kia reveals pricing for its first electric PV5 van with UK preorders
Kia is opening up preorders in the UK for its PV5 Passenger electric van at a starting price of £32,995, or about $44,000 with a standard range battery. Kia says preorders will open up tomorrow, May 1st, with initial deliveries in the UK planned for “late 2025.” It will come in a five-seat configuration (seven […]
30/04/2025
Google’s Play Store lost nearly half its apps
The Google Play Store shed 1.8 million apps since the beginning of last year, according to an analysis from Appfigures and reported earlier by TechCrunch. That makes up around 47 percent of the 3.4 million apps it started 2024 with — a decline that Google spokesperson Dan Jackson says reflects the company’s focus on “delivering […]
30/04/2025
Apple notifies new victims of spyware attacks across the world
Two alleged victims came forward claiming they received a spyware notification from Apple.
30/04/2025
Nvidia RTX 50-series demand drops in Germany — cheapest models of all but RTX 5090 priced at MSRP or lower
Demand for Nvidia's RTX 50-series appears to be dropping as cheapest models appear to be priced at or below MSRP. The only exception is the 5090, which is still in high demand.
30/04/2025
Automakers can’t figure out what the hell is going on with Trump’s tariffs
It started last week with Tesla, followed quickly by General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo. Automakers across the spectrum are pulling their guidance for the year because they can’t figure out how to accurately plan for the future thanks to President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariffs. The auto industry is paralyzed by uncertainty. Stellantis, the parent company […]
30/04/2025
Packaging and Publishing a .NET MAUI Library with GitHub Actions
In this post, learn how to setup a DevOps pipeline to build and publish a .NET MAUI library with GitHub Actions. The post Packaging and Publishing a .NET MAUI Library with GitHub Actions appeared first on .NET Blog.
30/04/2025
Elizabeth Warren asks Jeff Bezos if he got any favors for his ‘subservience’ to Trump
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to know whether Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received any “promises or favors” from President Donald Trump in exchange for his “subservience” after dropping all plans to show customers the cost of tariffs. In a letter sent on Wednesday, Warren questions Bezos about the details of his conversation with Trump and […]
30/04/2025
Gruve.ai promises software-like margins for AI tech consulting, disrupting decades-old Industry
Companies of all sizes are recognizing the game-changing possibilities of AI. Despite the excitement about the new technology, most of their pilot projects don’t make it into production. Gruve.ai, a startup founded by the team behind Rahi Systems aims to help enterprises get AI solutions out of testing phase and into real-world application by using […]
30/04/2025
OpenAI says its GPT-4o update could be ‘uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress’
OpenAI rolled back a GPT-4o update for ChatGPT that caused the chatbot’s default personality to be “overly flattering or agreeable – often described as sycophantic” and that “sycophantic interactions can be uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress,” the company says in a blog post. The company introduced a GPT-4o update last week that included adjustments “aimed […]
30/04/2025
JetBrains releases Mellum, an ‘open’ AI coding model
JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first “open” AI model for coding. On Wednesday, JetBrains made Mellum, a code-generating model the company released for its various software development suites last year, openly available on the AI dev platform Hugging Face. Mellum, trained on more than 4 trillion […]
30/04/2025
Sundar Pichai says the DOJ’s antitrust plan could kill Google Search
Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, took the stand on Wednesday during the remedies phase of the company's search antitrust trial, and offered a simple message. The US government's plan to rectify Google's search monopoly, he said, would be so crushing to Google Search that it might be hard to justify continuing to build a search engine […]
30/04/2025
Orb, a new app by Ookla’s ex-CEO, offers a broader picture of your internet connection
Since it launched nearly 20 years ago, Speedtest.net has been one of the most popular tools used to measure internet speeds. However, Doug Suttles, the founder and former CEO of Ookla, the network testing company behind Speedtest, felt that just measuring speed was not enough to tell people all they wanted to know about their […]
30/04/2025
Windows 11 update failure stops machines from updating to version 24H2 using WSUS
The latest Windows 11 update is stopping machines from upgrading to Windows 11 24H2 when using the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) application.
30/04/2025
Software dev fortifies his blog with 'zip bombs' — attacking bots meet their end with explosive data package
This developer sends zip bombs to pesky web crawlers that attempt to compromise his website.
30/04/2025
Google confirms it’s close to getting Gemini support on iPhones
Google is close to striking a deal with Apple to integrate Gemini into the iPhone. During the search monopoly trial on Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed the company expects to strike a Gemini deal with Apple by the middle of this year and suggested it would roll out by the end of 2025. The […]
30/04/2025
TSMC starts construction its 1.6nm and 2nm-capable U.S. fab: Fab 21 phase 3
TSMC breaks ground for its third Fab 21 module in the U.S., which will produce chips on A16 and N2 process technologies towards the end of the decade.
30/04/2025
Intel driver update for Lunar Lake chips reportedly improves iGPU FPS by 10%, 1% lows by 25%
Intel just released a driver update that increases the iGPU performance of Lunar Lake chips.
30/04/2025
Anthropic suggests tweaks to proposed U.S. AI chip export controls
Anthropic agrees with the U.S. government that implementing robust export controls on domestically made AI chips will help the U.S. compete in the AI race against China. But the company is suggesting a few tweaks to the proposed restrictions. Anthropic released a blog post on Wednesday stating that the company “strongly supports” the U.S. Department […]
30/04/2025
AMD is reportedly readying Ryzen 9000G (Gorgon Point) and EPYC 4005 (Grado) CPUs for AM5
AMD is reportedly preparing Ryzen 9000G, EPYC 4005, and Ryzen 9000WX offerings, along with a new Krackan Point die, three Gorgon Point variants, and the Soundwave series.
30/04/2025
Social Agent’s new app lets you book a photographer within 30 minutes
There’s an unspoken pressure nowadays to share all your special moments online, whether it be birthdays, graduations, or engagements. However, not everyone has the skills to take high-quality pictures, and often, people find themselves too distracted to snap the perfect shot. While hiring a professional photographer is an option, it may not always be feasible […]
30/04/2025
WhatsApp is working on private AI chats in the cloud
Meta announced a new WhatsApp feature it says is a private way to interact with Meta AI. Called “Private Processing,” the feature is totally optional, launches in the “coming weeks,” and neither Meta, WhatsApp, nor third-party companies will be able to see interactions that use it, according to the release. Meta says users can “direct […]
30/04/2025
Duolingo launches 148 courses created with AI after sharing plans to replace contractors with AI
Duolingo is introducing 148 new language courses that were created with generative AI, the company announced on Wednesday. The launch comes as Duolingo has been facing backlash this week after sharing that it was going to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company. The company says the launch of the new courses doubles […]
30/04/2025
Warning systems for floods, hurricanes, and famine are suffering from Donald Trump’s data purge
Within weeks of President Trump stepping into office, key health and environmental resources that doctors and farmers rely on started disappearing from federal websites. Trump was also quick to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID), cutting off funding - as well as the flow of data that people around the world use to […]
30/04/2025
Cast your vote: Help shape the TechCrunch All Stage agenda
TechCrunch All Stage is just around the corner — and you get to help shape the agenda. From a competitive pool of applicants, two of the six visionary finalists are one step away from leading a roundtable session on July 15 at SoWa Power Station in Boston. Your vote determines who makes it. Audience Choice […]
30/04/2025
Donald Trump might actually believe these Calibri labels are real MS-13 tattoos
For several weeks, President Donald Trump and his administration have been grasping for evidence that a man his administration deported and imprisoned in error is a dangerous gang member, and the effort has now reached what may be an untoppable peak: the President repeatedly insisting in an in-person interview that an obvious text label that […]
30/04/2025
Boox launches its first color E Ink monitor
Boox is debuting its first desktop monitor featuring a color E Ink screen. The new version of the Boox Mira Pro carries over the same functionality as the black-and-white version that launched in 2023, but using the same E Ink color display technology found in devices like the Kindle Colorsoft. E Ink offers several advantages […]
30/04/2025
Side Event submission deadline extended for TechCrunch Sessions: AI
Did you miss your chance to apply for a Side Event at “TechCrunch Sessions: AI Week?” Don’t worry – we’ve extended the deadline by three more days! You now have until May 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to submit your proposal. This is your opportunity to connect with attendees of TC Sessions: AI and the […]
30/04/2025
Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers
Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial intelligence, thankfully. Instead, Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers,” allowing editors, moderators, and patrollers tools that allow them to accomplish what they need […]
30/04/2025
Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers
The nonprofit behind Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial intelligence, thankfully. Instead, the Wikimedia Foundation says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers,” allowing editors, moderators, and patrollers tools that allow them […]
30/04/2025
Nuvo, a network for B2B trade, has nabbed $34M from Sequoia and Spark Capital
Nuvo, a company that has built a social-like platform to facilitate easier purchasing of physical goods between businesses, has raised a $34 million Series A from Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. The San Francisco-based startup previously raised $11 million in an undisclosed seed round led by Founders Fund and Index Ventures […]
30/04/2025
5 days left: $210 ticket discount and 50% off on the second for TechCrunch Sessions AI
You’ve got just 5 days to save up to $210 — plus 50% off your +1 — and get inside the minds of AI’s biggest voices at TechCrunch Sessions: AI. Imagine hearing firsthand from Anthropic’s Jared Kaplan, OpenAI’s startup team, and top voices from firms like Khosla Ventures — all in one day. June 5 […]
30/04/2025
Intel experimenting with direct liquid cooling for up to 1000W CPUs - package-level approach maximizes performance, reduces size and complexity
Intel experimenting with direct liquid cooling for up to 1000W CPUs
30/04/2025
UK retail giant Co-op warns of disruption as it battles cyberattack
The U.K. grocery and retail giant said the unspecified cyber incident is affecting its back office and call centers.
30/04/2025
Yale’s new smart lock can disarm your ADT security system with your fingerprint
One of the best features of the now-discontinued Nest Secure security system was that if you also had the Nest X Yale Lock, you could unlock your door and disarm your security system just by entering a single code. With both those products now discontinued, Yale and ADT have a solution you might find interesting. The new […]
30/04/2025
Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training
Meta is making a few notable adjustments to the privacy policy for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. In an email sent out on April 29th to owners of the glasses, the company outlined two key changes. First, it’s giving Meta AI a more frequent view of the world. “Meta AI with camera use is always […]
30/04/2025
Nvidia’s new tool can turn 3D scenes into AI images
Nvidia launched a new tool that lets developers generate AI images by first creating them in 3D. The awkwardly named Nvidia AI Blueprint for 3D-guided generative AI is available to download today for computers equipped with an Nvidia RTX 4080 GPU or higher, and works by bridging Blender’s 3D modelling software with Black Forest Lab’s […]
30/04/2025
Intel’s chief commercial officer and sales lead, Christoph Schell, resigns
Christoph Schell, Intel’s EVP and chief commercial officer, is leaving the company after two years in the role, according to a filing with the SEC. Schell notified Intel of his decision to leave on Monday, and will resign on June 30 “in order to pursue another career opportunity,” per the filing. It isn’t clear who will replace […]
30/04/2025
Microsoft's CEO reveals that AI writes up to 30% of its code — some projects may have all of its code written by AI
Satya Nadella revealed that AI writes as much as 20% to 30% of the code in Microsoft's repositories and projects.
30/04/2025
The DOGE days have just begun
I once wondered whether law enforcement might stop Elon Musk's power grab. About a month ago, I got my answer: no. On March 17th, the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency broke into the nonprofit, congressionally funded US Institute for Peace, according to court documents filed by the USIP's board of directors. By allegedly threatening to […]
30/04/2025
Rad Power Bikes’ bestselling RadRunner is getting a Class 3 upgrade
Rad Power Bikes may be going through some turmoil in its upper ranks, but the e-bike company’s product team is still working hard to churn out new bikes. Today, Rad Power revealed its refreshed RadRunner lineup, with a slew of cool new features, including a new Class 3 model. RadRunner is the company’s bestselling utility […]
30/04/2025
Supio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60M
Supio, a startup that uses AI to automate data collection and analysis for legal teams, has raised $60 million in a funding round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures. The new capital, which brings Supio’s total raised to $91 million, will be put toward growth, hiring, and go-to-market efforts, […]
30/04/2025
Montech HS02 Pro Case Review: GPU thermals take center stage
Montech’s HR02 Pro features a unique design with dual exhaust fans that prioritizes GPU temperatures. We tested it with an RTX 4070 Ti and a 14900K to determine its thermal efficiency.
30/04/2025
Intel details 14A performance and new 'Turbo Cells' that unlock maximum CPU and GPU frequency
Intel shared performance metrics for its upcoming 14A process node and teased its new Turbo Cell technology, a customizable design approach aimed at providing maximum CPU frequency and boosting performance for critical speed paths in GPUs.
30/04/2025
DeepSeek upgrades its AI model for math problem solving
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has quietly updated Prover, its AI system that’s designed to solve math-related proofs and theorems. According to South China Morning Post, DeepSeek uploaded the latest version of Prover, V2, to the AI dev platform Hugging Face late on Wednesday. It appears to be built on top of the startup’s V3 model, […]
30/04/2025
Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' would still be crashing hard drives without this audio processing filter
An audio filter introduced in Windows XP is still around to protect your PC today from Janet Jackson.
30/04/2025
Cast AI raises $108M to get the max out of AI, Kubernetes and other workloads
The crush of traffic going into training and running AI has quickly turned into a major cost and resource headache for organisations. Today, Cast AI — a startup building tools to ease and optimise AI and other workloads with automation — is raising a major round of funding on the back of its strong growth […]
30/04/2025
Would you wear a smart ring that proves you’re not a cheater?
Imagine this. You wake up, roll over, take your smart ring off its charger, and slip it onto your finger. After eating breakfast and getting ready for work, you kiss your lover goodbye and head out. Everything's hunky-dory - until you look down at your finger. The LED light on your smart ring is flashing […]
30/04/2025
Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech
Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance in a bid to improve working conditions. The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators (GTUACM) announced today in Nairobi, Kenya, says it aims to “hold Big Tech responsible” for failing to address workers’ issues like low […]
30/04/2025
AI sales tax startup Kintsugi had doubled its valuation in 6 months
Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has raised $18 million in new funding led by global indirect tax technology solution provider Vertex. The startup plans to enable more small and medium businesses to use its AI-enabled capabilities for tax calculations and filings. The ongoing growth of […]
30/04/2025
Raycast brings its super-powerful Mac launcher to iOS, sort of
Raycast users have been asking the app's developers for an iOS app for a long time. It took a while, though, for the developers to figure out exactly what that app was supposed to do. See, on a Mac (and soon a Windows PC), Raycast is a hugely powerful tool for navigating your computer. You […]
30/04/2025
GPD Win Max 2 review: a surprisingly competent tiny laptop that doubles as a gaming handheld
Since Neuromancer took the sci-fi world by storm in 1984, computing nerds have pined for a "cyberdeck" - the ultimate in personal, portable PCs for surfing and hacking the world. Usually, they're DIY affairs. But the 10-inch GPD Win Max 2 is the closest I've seen to an off-the-shelf cyberdeck worth buying. It's far from […]
30/04/2025
New York City wants subway cameras to predict ‘trouble’ before it happens
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it’s exploring the use of AI systems for “predictive prevention” of crime and dangerous behavior on the city’s subway platforms. MTA chief security officer Michael Kemper said that the agency is “studying and piloting technology like AI to sense potential trouble or problematic behavior on our subway platforms.” “If […]
30/04/2025
X is rolling out support for 4K video uploads
X is now allowing select creators to upload videos in 4K resolution, and will roll out the feature to all premium subscribers soon.
30/04/2025
Sarah Tavel, Benchmark’s first woman GP, transitions to venture partner
Eight years after joining Benchmark as the firm’s first woman general partner, Sarah Tavel announced on X that she is transitioning to a more limited role at the storied venture firm. In her new position as a venture partner, Tavel will continue to make investments and serve on existing company boards, but she will have […]
30/04/2025
OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophant
OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced the company to roll back an update to the model released last week. Over the weekend, following the GPT-4o model update, users on social media noted that ChatGPT began responding in an overly […]
30/04/2025
OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophantic
OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced the company to roll back an update to the model released last week. Over the weekend, following the GPT-4o model update, users on social media noted that ChatGPT began responding in an overly […]
30/04/2025
Nintendo’s new Switch 1 update is getting things ready for Switch 2
With just over a month to go before the Nintendo Switch 2 release date on June 5th, Nintendo has released a Switch 1 update that will help prepare things for the new console’s arrival. The V20.0.0 update for the original Switch adds a bunch of new features that go along with the Switch 2, like […]
30/04/2025
A Canadian mining company wants Trump’s permission to mine the deep sea
The Metals Company, which has been trying for years to exploit battery materials strewn across the ocean floor, announced today that it has applied for a permit from the Trump administration to start commercially mining in international waters. Together, the company and President Trump are circumventing a multilateral process to develop rules for deep sea […]
30/04/2025
Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI — during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI-generated today. The Microsoft CEO […]
30/04/2025
Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI
On Tuesday, Meta held its first-ever AI developer conference, LlamaCon, at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The company announced the launch of a consumer-facing Meta AI chatbot app, which will compete with ChatGPT, as well as a developer-facing API for accessing Llama models in the cloud. Both releases aim to expand adoption of the company’s […]
30/04/2025
Waymo and Toyota are dating — if they get serious, a new autonomous vehicle could be created
Waymo and Toyota have agreed to explore a possible deal that could one day lead to a new vehicle designed for ride-hailing and even bring self-driving tech into consumer cars. The two companies have signed a preliminary agreement to look into developing and deploying an autonomous vehicle platform, according to a blog posted by Waymo. […]
29/04/2025
France accuses Russia of a decade’s worth of high-profile cyberattacks
In an unprecedented display of diplomatic aggression, French authorities publicly accused Russia of sponsoring several high-profile cyber attacks on French entities for over a decade to gather intelligence and destabilize the country. The incidents include everything from a faked Islamic State takeover of a French television broadcast signal in 2015 to the leak of President […]
29/04/2025
Figure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to secondary markets brokers
Last month, Brett Adcock, founder of a robotics startup Figure AI, claimed in a post on X that his company “is now # 1 most sought-after private stock in the secondary market.” But the company has sent cease-and-desist letters to at least two brokers who run secondary marketplaces, those brokers told TechCrunch.These people said Figure […]
29/04/2025
EA lays off staff and cancels a Titanfall game
Electronic Arts is reportedly eliminating “between 300 and 400 positions” and scrapping a game set in the Titanfall universe, codenamed R7, that was in the works at Respawn Entertainment, according to Bloomberg. “As part of our continued focus on our long-term strategic priorities, we’ve made select changes within our organization that more effectively aligns teams […]
29/04/2025
Lyft’s AI ‘Earnings Assistant’ offers ideas about how drivers can make more money
Lyft has launched “Earnings Assistant,” an AI chatbot tool for drivers seeking to “optimize their time on the road.” With it, drivers can create plans based on information about things like airport arrivals or local events, announced Jeremy Bird, EVP of driver experience at Lyft in an email to The Verge. The Earnings Assistant feature […]
29/04/2025
Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely
AI cheating startup Cluely went viral last week with bold claims that its hidden in-browser window is “undetectable” and can be used to “cheat on everything” from job interviews to exams. But some startups are claiming they can catch Cluely’s users. And Cluely says it’s ready to develop hardware products like smart glasses, or even […]
29/04/2025
Snapchat abandons plans for a simplified version of its app
As part of its Q1 2025 earnings release, Snap said it’s scrapping plans for a simplified version of its app. The news comes seven months after Snapchat began testing a redesigned version of the app without the Snap Map or Stories tabs. The new version consolidated the app’s navigation bar around three icons: chat, camera, […]
29/04/2025
Netflix is streaming a showcase of Hitchcock’s greatest films this June
It’s always a good time to lock in for a marathon watch of Alfred Hitchcock films, and Netflix is getting ready to make a bunch of the legendary director’s features a lot easier to watch in one place. Today, Netflix announced that it plans to stream a number of Hitchcock’s films next month as part […]
29/04/2025
The EPA says it still cares about forever chemicals, but health advocates are wary
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a new plan to address “forever chemicals” once widely used in non-stick and water-proof products that have since been linked to cancer, reproductive health issues, and liver damage. The vague details the EPA has shared so far, however, have health and environmental advocates wondering whether the EPA’s plan helps […]
29/04/2025
OpenAI undoes its glaze-heavy ChatGPT update
OpenAI is rolling back its latest GPT-4o update after CEO Sam Altman said the company would be making fixes to address the chatbot’s “sycophant-y and annoying” personality introduced with recent updates. The rollback, which started Monday night, is “now 100%” rolled back for free ChatGPT users and will be rolled back for paid users “hopefully […]
29/04/2025
Snapchat scraps ‘simple’ redesign as it loses users in North America
Snap is backing away from plans to simplify the design of Snapchat as it reports losing 1 million users in North America. As part of its Q1 2025 earnings report on Tuesday, Snap revealed that it’s instead going to start testing a “refined” layout that keeps the app’s five existing tabs. The company first started […]
29/04/2025
Apple launches a new celebrity hub that’s all about Apple
Apple has quietly launched a new website called “Snapshot on Apple” that presents viewers with a carousel of celebrities and information on where you can find their work across the company’s services. The website, spotted by 9to5Mac reports, presents two slowly moving rows of celebrity images, with no way to manually scroll or search them. […]
29/04/2025
Slate Auto confirms where it’ll build its $20,000 Truck
Since Slate Auto came out of stealth mode last week, the internet has been abuzz with speculation about the finer details of the ultra-barebones electric Truck, which is set to cost just $20,000 when it enters production next year - assuming our federal EV incentives are still in place by then. One of those questions […]
29/04/2025
Freepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed data
Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company says was trained exclusively on commercially licensed, “safe-for-work” images. The model, called F Lite, contains around 10 billion parameters — parameters being the internal components that make up the model. F Lite was developed in partnership with […]
29/04/2025
Huawei Ascend AI 910D processor designed to take on Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin GPUs
Huawei's Ascend 910D AI accelerator is expected to match Nvidia's H100 performance on the GPU level, with full systems based on the Ascend 910D set to compete against Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin based pods.
29/04/2025
Natasha Lyonne to direct and star in a new sci-fi film created with generative AI
Poker Face’s Natasha Lyonne has a new project in the works that seemed poised to become a case study in the debate about how and whether Hollywood should be using generative AI. Lyonne is teaming up with technologist and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier to produce a new sci-fi film that will feature elements generated […]
29/04/2025
Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year
Google Play’s app marketplace is losing apps. From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting about 3.4 million apps worldwide to just around 1.8 million, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures. That’s a decline of about 47%, representing a significant purge of the apps that […]
29/04/2025
Elon Musk says Grok 3.5 will provide answers that aren't from internet sources
The Grok 3.5 beta is set to release next week for SuperGrok subscribers, with claims that it's a reasoning model that can provide unique answers that aren't on the internet.
29/04/2025
OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday said that the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o, after complaints about strange behavior, in particular extreme sycophancy. “[W]e started rolling back the latest update to GPT-4o last night,” Altman wrote in a post on X. “[I]t’s now 100% rolled back for […]
29/04/2025
Troubled startup CaaStle is now facing two new lawsuits and more allegations
CaaStle, the embattled fashion startup whose board of directors accused its founder, Christine Hunsicke, of financial misconduct, is starting to face lawsuits from a partner and a supplier over missed payments and more allegations of fraud. As first reported by Axios and by suits seen by TechCrunch, CaaStle is being sued by P180, a vehicle […]
29/04/2025
Tesla won’t have to report as many Level 2 crashes after Trump’s rule change
Last week, the US Department of Transportation announced a major change to the Biden-era rule that requires automakers and tech companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles. Under the revised rules, companies will no longer have to report certain crashes, such as those involving a vehicle equipped with a Level 2 […]
29/04/2025
Apple’s latest AirPods Pro are down to their best price of the year
Amazon’s annual Gaming Week sale might be the big focus this week as far as deals are concerned, but gaming peripherals and games aren’t the only discounts we’re seeing. Right now, for instance, Apple’s latest AirPods Pro with USB-C are on sale for $169 ($80 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy, which is just […]
29/04/2025
Isuzu starts mass producing its first all-electric pickup truck
Isuzu has started mass production of an all-electric version of its mid-sized D-Max pickup truck in Thailand, featuring a dual-motor four-wheel-drive system with 140kW of power that can “match the performance of existing diesel models,” according to the automaker. As reported by Electrek, the new D-Max EV matches the towing capacity of Isuzu’s current diesel […]
29/04/2025
OnePlus won’t sell the 13T in the US or Europe
If you were hoping to get your hands on the “compact” phone OnePlus launched in China last week, you’re going to have your work cut out for you. OnePlus spokespeople have confirmed to The Verge that the 13T will not be sold in Europe or North America. That leaves our OnePlus options limited to “big […]
29/04/2025
Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2025: Surprise and Delight
These are the most innovative products of the last year.
29/04/2025
ReactOS now supports 3dfx's Voodoo5 GPUs — open-source Windows alternative offers near-native performance for retro gamers
The open-source Windows alternative ReactOS now has support for 3dfx's Voodoo5 GPU family, with Unreal (1998) successfully tested.
29/04/2025
Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times
In mid-March, Meta said that its “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads, up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024. On Tuesday at its inaugural LlamaCon developer conference, Meta revealed that figure has reached 1.2 billion downloads. “We have thousands of developers contributing tens of thousands of derivative models being downloaded […]
29/04/2025
Amazon’s first 27 internet satellites launch to space
The first 27 satellites in Amazon’s effort to create a space-based internet network have finally made it to orbit, paving the way for the company to attempt to compete with Elon Musk’s well-established Starlink service. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifted off late Monday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in […]
29/04/2025
AirPlay security flaws could help hackers spread malware on your network
Cybersecurity firm Oligo has detailed a set of vulnerabilities its researchers found in Apple’s AirPlay protocol and software development kit that could serve as a point of entry to infect other devices on your network, Wired reports. Oligo’s researchers refer to the vulnerabilities and attacks they enable as “AirBorne.” According to Oligo, two of the […]
29/04/2025
A Tesla board member actually bought some stock
Tesla board member and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia acquired about 4,000 shares of the automaker’s stock, a purchase that has a value of about $1 million and change, according to a regulatory filing. That’s not a significant stock purchase, and certainly not for the billionaire board member, as Electrek noted in its reporting. It’s notable […]
29/04/2025
Silverstone's new PSU can power four RTX 5080 GPUs, or three RTX 5090 cards
Silverstone new Hela 2500Rz flagship PSU comes with quad 16-pin 12V-2x6 power connectors, and more than enough power to run four (or more) graphics cards simultaneously.
29/04/2025
Meta previews an API for its Llama AI models
At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API. Available in limited preview, the Llama API lets developers explore and experiment with products powered by different Llama models, per Meta. Paired with Meta’s SDKs, it allows developers to build Llama-driven services, […]
29/04/2025
Reddit bans researchers who used AI bots to manipulate commenters
Commenters on the popular subreddit r/changemymind found out last weekend that they've been majorly duped for months. University of Zurich researchers set out to "investigate the persuasiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in natural online environments" by unleashing bots pretending to be a trauma counselor, a "Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter," and a […]
29/04/2025
Trump reportedly complained to Bezos about Amazon’s tariff plan
President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to complain after a Punchbowl News report suggested the online marketplace planned on displaying the cost of tariffs next to product prices. White House officials told CNN that Trump called Bezos “shortly after” receiving information about the report. Before Amazon publicly commented on the report, White House […]
29/04/2025
Intel Foundry Roadmap Update - New 18A-PT variant that enables 3D die stacking, 14A process node enablement
Intel's new CEO Lip Bu-Tan took to the stage at the company's Intel Foundry Direct 2025 event here in San Jose, California to outline the company's progress on its foundry initiative.
29/04/2025
Google’s AI podcast maker is now available in over 50 languages
Audio Overviews, the AI tool that turns your research into podcast-like conversations in Google’s NotebookLM app, is expanding beyond English. Now you can generate and listen to Audio Overviews in more than 50 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi, Turkish, Korean, and Chinese. You switch to a different language by heading to NotebookLM, selecting your […]
29/04/2025
Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons
Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way. While the experiments are still in the early stages, it’s possible that the company is looking to take on Duolingo with the help of Gemini, Google’s multimodal large language model. The […]
29/04/2025
Google Wallet to add support for digital IDs in more states
Google announced on Tuesday that digital IDs are coming to more states and services in Google Wallet. The company also shared that Wallet is getting a way to privately verify age, and that the app is expanding to 50 more countries. Residents in Arkansas, Montana, Puerto Rico, and West Virginia will soon be able to […]
29/04/2025
Google’s NotebookLM expands its AI podcast feature to more languages
Google’s AI-based note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM is making its Audio Overviews feature available in 76 new languages, the company announced on Tuesday. Audio Overviews launched last year to give users the ability to generate a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on documents they have shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal […]
29/04/2025
Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now
Here's some dumb stuff that just happened: Okay - a couple things. First, there was no "act" by Amazon, just a single-sourced story that everyone wanted to believe. So Leavitt (and, if you believe her, Trump) reacted with nuclear fury to the mere idea that a major American retailer might add price transparency to its […]
29/04/2025
Meta launches a standalone AI app to compete with ChatGPT
After integrating Meta AI into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, Meta is rolling out a standalone AI app. Unveiled at Meta’s LlamaCon event on Tuesday, this app allows users to access Meta AI in a standalone app, similar to the ChatGPT app and other AI assistant apps. To win over users, Meta is trying to […]
29/04/2025
Borderlands 4 release date moved up two weeks
The release date for Borderlands 4 has been moved up by two weeks, shifting from September 23rd to September 12th. This is according to a video posted by Randy Pitchford, CEO of Borderlands developer Gearbox Interactive, that was ironically deleted and reposted because it went up too early. “I wanted to be the one to […]
29/04/2025
Meta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaCon
On Tuesday, Meta is hosting its first-ever LlamaCon AI developer conference at its Menlo Park headquarters, where the company will try to pitch developers on building applications with its open Llama AI models. Just a year ago, that wasn’t a hard sell. However, in recent months, Meta has struggled to keep up with both “open” […]
29/04/2025
Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
The ruling, which has yet to take effect, was ordered under India's online blocking laws.
29/04/2025
Trump administration brands Amazon's tariff transparency plan a 'hostile and political act'
Trump administration angered by Amazon tariff transparency price labeling leak.
29/04/2025
Meta’s ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI
Meta's standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you'd expect from an AI assistant. You can type or talk with it, generate images, and get real-time web results. The biggest new idea in the Meta AI app is its Discover feed, which adds an AI twist to social media. Here, you'll see a feed of interactions […]
29/04/2025
Weapons’ new trailer makes PTA meetings look like a nightmare
The first teaser for New Line Cinema’s upcoming horror Weapons was already unsettling enough, but the movie’s latest trailer makes it seem like writer / director Zach Cregger is about to leave us all terrified once again. Though Weapons’ new trailer doesn’t explain why an entire classroom of young children suddenly go missing one night, […]
29/04/2025
Alienware's 34-inch AW3425DW QD-OLED beams down to Earth with 240 Hz refresh rate and new design language
Alienware's new AW3425DW gaming monitor boasts a 240 Hz 34-inch QD-OLED panel and an $800 price tag
29/04/2025
Spotify adds 5M premium users and hits record operating income
Spotify reported on Tuesday that its premium subscriber base grew by 5 million in the first quarter, representing a 12% increase year-over-year. This brings the total to 268 million, marking the second-highest total ever and the highest net addition of paid subs for a first quarter since 2020. Spotify also reported a record-high quarterly operating […]
29/04/2025
Former Disney employee sentenced to three years for menu hacking
A former Disney employee will serve three years in federal prison for logging into the company’s servers to make changes to its restaurant menus’ allergen information, as well as carrying out “denial-of-service attacks” aimed at locking other employees out of their accounts. The court also ordered the man, Michael Scheuer, to pay nearly $690,000 in […]
29/04/2025
The deadline to book your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AI is May 9
We’re in the final stretch. TechCrunch Sessions: AI takes over Zellerbach Hall in almost a month, and the exhibit floor is almost completely booked. If you’ve been considering showing off your AI product or innovation, now’s the time to commit. Exhibit tables are in short supply, and the May 9 deadline is fast approaching. At […]
29/04/2025
Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AI
Hungry to learn more about Anthropic, directly from Anthropic? You aren’t alone if so, which is why we’re so delighted to announce that Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan is joining the main stage at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. Lean into this session exploring the frontier […]
29/04/2025
The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car
The generally accepted way to launch your new car company is by building something fancy and expensive. Call it Founder's Edition or name it after a precious metal, hope people pay for the privilege of exclusivity, and go from there. Slate Auto is doing… the opposite. The three-year-old company just announced its first vehicle, and […]
29/04/2025
MAGA’s next wave of influencers saved TikTok
The death knell for American TikTok should have been on March 13th, 2024, when Congress voted on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis to force its parent company to sell the app or face an outright ban. Rarely do you ever see Republicans and Democrats in agreement over anything, but both sides saw the app as a […]
29/04/2025
Final 6 days: Save big and bring a plus-one for 50% off to TechCrunch Sessions: AI
The AI revolution isn’t coming — it’s already underway, and the time to grab your Early Bird ticket ends in just 6 days. Don’t miss your chance to dive into the AI ecosystem and lock in the lowest rates. On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI takes over UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall for a one-day gathering […]
29/04/2025
Windows 7 users with a solid background color faced delayed login process — it took four months for Microsoft to fix
User thriftiness with system resources backfired, for a while.
29/04/2025
White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ after report says it will label tariff price hikes
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Amazon “hostile” based on a rumor that its site will adjust to show how tariffs affect the total cost of a product. The statement comes just hours after a report from Punchbowl News suggested that the ecommerce giant will display the added fees right next to a product’s […]
29/04/2025
Amazon Prime Day to return in July despite threat of tariffs
Amazon is bringing back its annual sales event, Prime Day, in July, the e-commerce giant said on Tuesday. This year, consumer demand for the popular sale event could be dampened by the possibility of tariffs increasing the cost of goods. To highlight the impact of President Trump’s tariffs, Amazon will reportedly begin to display the […]
29/04/2025
Hoofprint Biome boosts cow nutrition while slashing methane burps
The startup's enzymes modify a cow’s microbiome using enzymes, slashing methane while boosting the nutrients available to the cow.
29/04/2025
Near Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphere
When it comes to creating images of the earth from above, satellites, drones and planes are the air and spacecraft that tend to come to mind. But a startup called Near Space Labs is taking a very different approach to high-resolution photos from up high. It’s building aircraft that are raised by helium balloons and […]
29/04/2025
MSI's 'secure' yellow-tipped RTX 5090 12V-2x6 cable is still vulnerable to melting, user report suggests
MSI's colored 16-pin cables, designed to assist cable seating, are reportedly succumbing to the same problem they were meant to fix.
29/04/2025
Bird Buddy’s new nature camera attracts and records more than just birds
Bird Buddy’s camera-equipped smart feeders helped make bird-watching more accessible and easier by autonomously documenting all the wildlife that stopped by to eat. The company’s new Petal camera is designed to do the same for plants and insects, while its reconfigurable Wonder Blocks will help attract more nature to your yard. They were first announced […]
29/04/2025
Whatever happened to the Kids Online Safety Act?
2024 was shaping up to be the year Congress regulated how kids engage with social media, particularly through one bill, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). A debate about its risks to free expression still raged, but the voices of the bill's advocates seemed to ring loudest in senators' ears. The momentum was there. The […]
29/04/2025
Cooler Master revives Hyper 612 cooler with 30% smaller Apex design, dual fans, and stealthy design
Cooler Master just launched the Hyper 612 Apex, a single-tower cooler with dual fans for your Intel or AMD CPU.
29/04/2025
Bluesky is having an up and down Tuesday morning
On Tuesday morning, the social media platform Bluesky experienced back-to-back outages that prevented feeds from loading for many users around the world. An initial outage started at about 6AM ET, as tracked by Downdetector, lasting about 40 minutes, and then things crashed again at about 8AM. Bluesky experienced another major outage on April 24th that […]
29/04/2025
You have two months left to update your old LG phone
Time is running out for people who are still using LG phones to download any remaining Android updates before their devices are fully retired. After closing its Android phone business back in 2021, Android Authority has spotted that LG is now preparing to shut down its update servers for good on June 30th, 2025, advising […]
29/04/2025
Starlink’s got company — and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen
On the evening of April 28th, Amazon embarked on its latest venture to rival SpaceX Starlink: the first launch of its Project Kuiper satellites. With 27 satellites now in orbit around the Earth, Amazon joins a growing number of companies working to put more than 1,000 satellites each into space to create a mega constellation. […]
29/04/2025
Amazon's Starlink rival sees the first 27 satellites successfully reach low-earth orbit — Project Kuiper satellites 'operating as expected'
Amazon's Project Kuiper has successfully launched its first set of satellites.
29/04/2025
Grab the best CPU for gaming at its lowest price — only £445 for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, plus free delivery
You can now buy the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D for just £445 at AWD-IT right now. Includes free delivery.
29/04/2025
Here’s how to watch LlamaCon, Meta’s first AI developer event
On Tuesday, Meta is hosting LlamaCon, its first-ever AI developer event. It’ll center around the company’s Llama family of open AI models, and we’re expecting some big updates for developers. Also on the agenda: keynotes from Meta executives and fireside chats with Big Tech CEOs and Meta’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is hosting a small […]
29/04/2025
Yelp debuts AI voice agents for restaurants and service providers
Yelp said on Tuesday that it’s working on deploying AI-powered “voice agents” to help service providers and restaurants handle calls, answer basic questions, and accomplish tasks like adding a customer to a restaurant waitlist. Yelp says its agents don’t require a complicated setup or API integrations, and can draw from existing metadata along with data […]
29/04/2025
Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink
Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation is starting to take shape, with its first batch of satellites shipped and deployed into space on Monday. The launch is just the first of 80 that Amazon has lined up to take all 3,236 Project Kuiper satellites into low-Earth orbit as part of the retail giant’s effort to compete […]
29/04/2025
Nvidia issues yet another GPU hotfix driver to address crashes and bugs
Nvidia has released another hotfix driver that primarily addresses bugs and crashes with its RTX 50-series GPUs. The 576.26 hotfix driver is based on the 576.02 driver release earlier this month, which itself included a large amount of fixes for bugs and crashes. This latest hotfix driver includes all the fixes in the 576.15 hotfix […]
29/04/2025
Government hackers are leading the use of attributed zero-days, Google says
Governments like China and North Korea, along with spyware makers, used the most recorded zero-days in 2024.
29/04/2025
A16z backs UK startup Dex to scale ‘AI talent agent’ and recruitment matchmaker
Storied Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is backing a fledgling U.K. startup that’s setting out to “redefine” how AI is used to match companies with talent. Dex, as the startup is called, targets candidates and companies with various AI-powered recruitment smarts, including matchmaking and coaching, with a view toward improving retention in the long […]
29/04/2025
Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups
Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On the face of it, Grouphug will simply generate memes from the archive of a group WhatsApp chat. However, that masks a wider play. Grouphug is led by Felix Petersen, […]
29/04/2025
New Starlink subscription drops hardware price to $0
SpaceX is now offering 12-month residential service plans that bring the price of the dish and router — normally $349 in the US — down to $0 in select markets, without increasing the monthly fee. You have 30 days to test or return the kit for a full refund, but after that there’s some fine […]
29/04/2025
IXI raises $36.5M from Amazon and more to bring the concept of autofocus to prescription glasses
Blink and you’ll miss it: a startup out of Finland is taking a new look at the market for prescription eyewear. Tapping into innovations in eye-tracking and liquid crystal lens technology, IXI is building low-power glasses that will invisibly, automatically adjust to account for Presbyopia (far-sightedness), for the wearer. Four years into its life, Hensinki-based […]
29/04/2025
Reddit now supports translation of posts and comments into Hindi
In a bid to broaden its user base in India, Reddit has updated its machine translation feature to support the automatic translation of posts and comments into Hindi. “With this expansion, authentic, more people-powered content is now accessible in one of India’s most spoken languages,” the company wrote in an update to a blog post. […]
29/04/2025
Are EWOR fellowships the real project Europe is looking for?
Supporting super-early stage entrepreneurs in Europe seems to be suddenly in vogue. Back in March, “Project Europe” was launched to great fanfare by podcaster and VC Harry Stebbings with a small $10 million fund to back founders aged only 25 and under, riffing on the ‘Peter Thiel Fellowship’ model of old. Now a new fund […]
29/04/2025
Take It Down Act heads to Trump’s desk
The Take It Down Act is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk after the House voted 409-2 to pass the bill, which will require social media companies to take down content flagged as nonconsensual (including AI-generated) sexual images. Trump has pledged to sign it. The bill is among the only pieces of online safety legislation […]
29/04/2025
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.” The email was posted on Duolingo’s LinkedIn account. According to von Ahn, being “AI-first” means the company will “need to rethink much […]
28/04/2025
OpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversations
A bug in OpenAI’s ChatGPT allowed the chatbot to generate graphic erotica for accounts where a user registered as a minor, under the age of 18, TechCrunch’s testing revealed, and OpenAI confirmed. In some cases, the chatbot even encouraged these users to ask for raunchier, more explicit content. OpenAI told TechCrunch its policies don’t allow […]
28/04/2025
Deel officially agrees to be served legal papers in Rippling’s lawsuit
HR tech giant Deel says it has formally accepted service of legal documents in its ongoing court battle with rival Rippling in Ireland. This ends weeks of suspense after Rippling’s bailiffs couldn’t find Deel’s executives to serve them – only for Deel’s CEO and top lawyer to turn up in Dubai. Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, […]
28/04/2025
Deel officially agrees to be served legal papers in Rippling’s lawsuit
HR tech giant Deel says it has formally accepted to be served legal documents in its ongoing court battle with rival Rippling in Ireland. This ends weeks of suspense after Rippling’s bailiffs couldn’t find Deel’s execs to serve them – only for Deel’s CEO and top lawyer to turn up in Dubai. Deel CEO Alex […]
28/04/2025
‘Video games are not manufactured in China,’ Playasia reassures tariff-wary customers
Playasia, a popular retailer for buying video games, toys, and more from Asia, says that it “does not expect” the Trump administration’s planned import rule changes on Chinese-made goods to apply to “game-related orders” because “those orders will not include Chinese-manufactured goods.” On May 2nd, the Trump administration is planning to end the de minimis […]
28/04/2025
GOG is adding some classic Star Wars games to its preservation program
The PC gaming platform GOG is adding a bunch of classic Star Wars games to its preservation program, which aims to keep older games playable on modern systems. The games joining the program include: First announced last November, GOG’s game preservation program includes 162 DRM-free games, such as Breath of Fire IV, Diablo, System Shock […]
28/04/2025
Alibaba unveils Qwen 3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models
Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen 3, a family of AI models the company claims matches and in some cases outperforms the best models available from Google and OpenAI. Most of the models are — or soon will be — available for download under an “open” license from AI dev platform Hugging Face […]
28/04/2025
DHL restarts deliveries of international packages worth more than $800
DHL Express is resuming shipments of packages valued over $800 that are bound for consumers in the US, Reuters reports. The international shipping company had suspended the shipments last week due to “a surge in formal customs clearances” amidst the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs on international goods. Effective today, business-to-consumer shipments valued between $800 and […]
28/04/2025
The DJI Phantom is no more
In 2019, DJI insisted to me that it wasn’t killing off the Phantom, its iconic line of oft-imitated drones that turned the Chinese company into the powerhouse it is today. And yet, DJI has just announced the end of life for its final two Phantom drones — the Phantom 4 Pro and Phantom 4 Advanced […]
28/04/2025
Mysterious financier asks judge to stop Canoo asset sale
A mysterious investor out of London has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to stop the sale of EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO, calling it a “flawed” process. Charles Garson, a UK-based investor with no obvious ties to the EV startup, offered $20 million for Canoo’s assets, according to a filing. A lawyer […]
28/04/2025
New ChatGPT ‘glazes too much,’ says Sam Altman
Less than 48 hours after announcing an update to GPT-4o that promised improvements in "both intelligence and personality," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the chatbot had become "too sycophant-y and annoying." In an April 27th post on X, Altman said fixes to GPT-4o's personality would be coming "asap." After the update rolled out, users began […]
28/04/2025
Hugging Face releases a 3D-printed robotic arm starting at $100
Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects and perform a few other basic chores. Called the SO-101, the arm is the follow-up to Hugging Face’s previous robotic arm, the SO-100, released last year. […]
28/04/2025
How Marc Andreesen’s Signal group chats helped spawned the tech right
The power elites have a Signal group chat, too - and the ones that seem to be reshaping the government, according to a recent report, are the ones Marc Andreesen created to bring the American right wing and the technocracy together. Semafor's Ben Smith published a massive article on Monday detailing an ecosystem of private, […]
28/04/2025
Taiwan's government strengthens 'silicon shield,' restricts exports of TSMC's most advanced process technologies
Taiwan is set to enforce strict controls on outbound semiconductor investments and advanced process technology exports under the amended Industrial Innovation Act, but uncertainty remains over how the government will define and restrict its future flagship nodes.
28/04/2025
Huawei aims to take on Nvidia’s H100 with new AI chip
Chinese tech conglomerate Huawei is looking to take on semiconductor behemoth Nvidia with a new advanced AI chip. Huawei is making progress developing its latest Ascend AI GPU, the Ascend 910D, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar. The company has been reaching out to other Chinese firms to find test partners, the […]
28/04/2025
The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump’s tariffs
Kickstarter is launching a new “Tariff Manager” tool that will allow creators to apply a surcharge to projects after their campaign has ended, as spotted earlier by 404 Media. The tool is supposed to help creators deal with “rising costs” and import fees as a result of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. If a creator’s […]
28/04/2025
YouTube support affected by European power outages, too
YouTube’s support team is experiencing an outage, too. The company says the widespread power outages in Spain and Portugal have knocked some of YouTube’s customer support team offline, including those who offer support in related European languages. The company did not share how many employees are unable to work because of the outages, or how […]
28/04/2025
OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT search with shopping features
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday. When ChatGPT users search for products, the chatbot will now offer a few recommendations, present images and reviews for those items, and include direct links to webpages where users can buy the […]
28/04/2025
ChatGPT is getting better for shopping
OpenAI is improving ChatGPT’s web search capabilities to make the AI chatbot a more useful tool for shopping. People already use ChatGPT to do research around products, but before these updates, ChatGPT didn’t make it easy to understand up-to-date prices or see visual images of the results, Adam Fry, OpenAI’s ChatGPT search product lead, told […]
28/04/2025
A pirated iOS port of Blue Prince is climbing the App Store charts
Apple’s App Store review has yet again let at least one unofficial mobile port of a hot new game show up on the store – this time, it’s Blue Prince. In a joint post on Monday, Blue Prince’s developer, Dogubomb, and its publisher, Raw Fury, said that they have “received reports of games claiming to […]
28/04/2025
WhatsApp is working on video and voice calls on the web
WhatsApp’s web-based client may soon get voice and video call functionality built in, reports WABetaInfo. Currently, WhatsApp users who would like to make calls to others have to either rely on the mobile app or the PC or Mac app on desktop. However, WABetaInfo discovered new call buttons appearing on the web client, which means […]
28/04/2025
Temu adds ‘import charges’ after Trump tariffs
Temu is adding “import charges” of around 145% in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods shipped from China, CNBC reports. The fees cost more than the products that U.S. consumers are buying, and in some cases are more than doubling the price of a standard order. For example, CNBC found that a summer […]
28/04/2025
Tennis star Alexander Zverev calls out automated line judging system
It’s clay court season in tennis, and instead of questioning the judgments of chair umpires, some players are now questioning the decisions of complex software — specifically electronic line-calling (ELS) systems, which are increasingly tasked with determining whether a ball is in or out. German tennis star Alexander Zverev became the latest to dispute the […]
28/04/2025
Wii Homebrew Channel development shuts down over ‘stolen’ code
The GitHub repository for The Homebrew Channel (HBC), a popular piece of software used on hacked Nintendo Wiis, has been archived. Its maintainers are accusing the creators of “libogc,” a software toolkit HBC relies on, of stealing both Nintendo-made and open-source code and presenting it as their own, according to a ReadMe posted to the […]
28/04/2025
Neurotech companies are selling your brain data, senators warn
Three Democratic senators are sounding the alarm over brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies' ability to collect - and potentially sell - our neural data. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Maria Cantwell (D-IN), and Ed Markey (D-MA) called for an investigation into neurotechnology companies' handling of user data, and […]
28/04/2025
Apple’s most affordable iPad is now the cheapest it’s ever been
If all you need is a reliable tablet for everyday tasks like streaming, checking email, or browsing the web, Apple’s latest entry-level iPad delivers good value — and right now, it’s more affordable than ever starting at just $299 ($50 off) with Wi-Fi at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. This is its lowest price to […]
28/04/2025
The Pixel Watch 2 is now on sale for $100 off
If you’re an Android user who has been staring longingly at the wrists of people with smartwatches, but haven’t had the impetus (or the cash) to buy one yourself, this may be your chance. The last-gen Google Pixel Watch 2 is currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Google for about $149, a savings […]
28/04/2025
These wireless headphones have ‘80s Sony Walkman vibes
Headphones had existed for well over 50 years by the time Sony’s Walkman debuted in 1979, but the portable cassette player helped popularize the technology by miniaturizing it. km5’s new Lightwear Headphones Hp1 feature a minimal design similar to the one shipped with the Walkman over 40 years ago, but upgraded with wireless capabilities and […]
28/04/2025
Asus partners with Bethesda to make even pricier Doom Edition RTX 5080 ROG Astral video card
Asus and Bethseda partner up to create a Doom-themed RTX 5080 ROG Astral graphics card just two weeks before the debut of Doom: The Dark Ages.
28/04/2025
Citizen Lab say exiled Uyghur leaders targeted with Windows spyware
The researchers said the attackers behind the campaign had "deep understanding of the target community."
28/04/2025
Citizen Lab says exiled Uyghur leaders targeted with Windows spyware
The researchers said the attackers behind the campaign had "deep understanding of the target community."
28/04/2025
Google announces a special Android event ahead of I/O
Google just announced that it will host a separate event ahead of I/O to discuss updates coming to Android. The Android Show: I/O Edition will land on YouTube and the Android website on May 13th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET and will feature Android ecosystem president Sameer Samat. That’s a full week ahead of […]
28/04/2025
Google shifts Android news to a virtual event ahead of its I/O developer conference
News about Android is being relegated to a side show at Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, next month. On Monday, the company announced it would share information about the latest updates coming to the Android ecosystem at an upcoming virtual event called “The Android Show: I/O Edition,” airing on May 13. The decision to […]
28/04/2025
Intel Cougar Cove (P), Darkmont (E) core architectures revealed in Panther Lake perfmon commit
Intel has updated its perfmon platform to support Panther Lake, while disclosing its Performance (P) and Efficient (E) core architectures: Cougar Cove and Darkmont.
28/04/2025
Google Play Games might be headed to the graveyard
Google is quietly building key features of its Play Games app, which lets you track achievements on Android games, directly into the Play Store, Android Police reports — signaling plans that the former may be headed for the infamous Google Graveyard. Coder and self-proclaimed APK teardown specialist AssembleDebug posted on X that Google hasn’t made […]
28/04/2025
PC cooling company Scythe is shutting down its European division amid financial troubles
Scythe says that it will continue to sell products and offer customer service via international channels
28/04/2025
UK fintech Sprive closes $7.3M round to facilitate mortgage overpayments
Most mortgage lenders would rather people didn’t pay off their mortgages early. After all, that’s that’s how they make their money. Indeed, overpayment is positively discouraged and sometimes even penalized. What if there were a solution that solved the technology behind it, alongside the financing arrangements? That’s the idea behind the Sprive fintech app. This […]
28/04/2025
America is living in tariff limbo
For millions of people, any one of the many unprecedented actions in the first 100 days of the second Trump presidency was enough to show that the US is barreling toward - or has already arrived at - billionaire-helmed fascism. Sure, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has indiscriminately fired thousands of federal employees […]
28/04/2025
Vote for the session you want to see at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15
We’ve been blown away by the overwhelming response to speak at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 at SoWa Power Station in Boston. After thorough consideration, we’ve selected six standout finalists. The power to choose who will take the stage and share their startup scaling expertise is now in your hands! This Audience Choice voting […]
28/04/2025
Doom slithers and dithers its way with a 16-color Atari ST port
Jonas Eschenburg shows off Doom running on the classic Atari ST system—complete with 16 color support and more dithering than you can shake a stick at.
28/04/2025
OnePlus backs off its Watch 3’s huge price hike
OnePlus has reversed a big price hike for the Watch 3 and will sell the smartwatch for $349.99, OnePlus spokesperson Spencer Blank tells The Verge via email. That’s $20 more than the price it was initially announced at, but a big drop from the unexplained $499.99 cost it debuted at on April 10th. Blank attributes […]
28/04/2025
Final 7 days: Save $210 + 50% off a second ticket to TechCrunch Sessions: AI
The hub of AI innovation is here — don’t miss out on the last 7 days of Early Bird ticket savings! AI is reshaping the world, and TechCrunch Sessions: AI is where you’ll witness the future unfold. Join 1,000+ founders, investors, researchers, and innovators on June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall for a full […]
28/04/2025
StrictlyVC heads to london and Athens this May: Featuring Prime Minister of Greece and Europe’s leading tech and VC voices
It’s been a busy year for TechCrunch events — and it’s about to get even bigger. StrictlyVC, our boutique, highly exclusive event series for VCs and startups, is crossing the Atlantic this May with stops in London and Athens! We’re bringing StrictlyVC’s insider conversations to Europe. On May 8, we’ll dive into Athens’ booming tech […]
28/04/2025
Fired FTC commissioners on fighting for their jobs back
Today, we have something special for you: A few days ago, I hosted a panel with FTC commissioners Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC. We recorded the discussion, and we’re bringing it to you today. That’s all pretty normal Decoder stuff, you might say — except these […]
28/04/2025
Amazon-backed Glacier gets $16M to expand its robot recycling fleet
The world has a trash problem. The amount of stuff we throw away is expected to nearly double, to 3.8 billion metric tons, by 2050. Reducing what we use would go a long way to addressing the issue, but let’s face it, we’re not very good at buying less either. That leaves recycling, which has […]
28/04/2025
Nothing’s second modular phone reinvents the rules
Nothing has announced the second phone under its colorful subbrand CMF: the Phone 2 Pro. Just like the first CMF phone, this is a modular handset with extra accessories you can screw into place. And also just like the first CMF phone, it’s not getting an official US release. Buy the Phone 2 Pro by […]
28/04/2025
Over 250 billion Arm chips have shipped since the first ARM1 processor launched 40 years ago
The first Arm processor was created in Cambridge in 1985.
28/04/2025
Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips
Quantum computing has long been announced as “just around the corner,” but several companies are now determined to make this a commercial reality, with the promise of solving complex problems beyond classical computers’ reach. The problems in question are wide-ranging, from medicine and cybersecurity to materials science and chemistry. But first, there are very practical […]
28/04/2025
IBM pledges to spend $150B in the US over the next few years
Enterprise tech giant IBM says that it plans to invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, which will include a “more than” $30 billion investment in mainframe and quantum computing research. The goal is to fuel the economy and “accelerate [IBM’s] role as the global leader in computing,” the company said in a press release Monday. […]
28/04/2025
Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine
In less than 100 days the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been converted from a media and telecom watchdog into a bizarre, rights-trampling grievance machine built for one purpose: to coddle and protect the ego of President Donald J. Trump. Gone is the agency that used to occasionally care about whether broadband maps were accurate […]
28/04/2025
Netflix’s Tudum 2025 event will stream live next month
Tudum, Netflix’s annual fan event showcasing all of its upcoming projects, is almost upon us once again. Today, Netflix dropped a trailer teasing some of what’s going to be at this year’s Tudum, which will stream live from the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on May 31st. On the film side of things, we can […]
28/04/2025
RX 9070 GRE pre-orders go live in China — May 8 retail, $575 MSRP, and 6% faster than the RX 7900 GRE
AMD's RX 9070 GRE has officially launched in China and is now available for pre-order starting at 4,199 RMB (approximately $575) with shipments expected to start on May 8th.
28/04/2025
AI animation startup Cheehoo lands $10M funding from Greycroft
Creating animation is a time-consuming process, requiring multiple steps including storyboarding, rendering, composition, and lighting to craft a single scene. If a director wants to experiment with a different take for a scene, an animation team has to go back and tweak things before the scene can be finalized. Cheehoo, a startup founded by a […]
28/04/2025
Dough Spectrum Black 32 Ultra HD OLED Gaming Monitor Review: Tremendous Performance And Tweakability
Dough sets a new benchmark with its Spectrum Black 32 Ultra HD OLED gaming monitor. With a 240 Hz refresh rate, 480 Hz at FHD resolution, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, extended color, premium video processing and tremendous tweakability, it has something for everyone.
28/04/2025
Skin Deep makes immersive sims messy and manic
Squidge, splodge, splat: Skin Deep doesn't sound like most immersive sims. It doesn't sound like most video games. Close your eyes and what it aurally resembles is a slapstick cartoon with a healthy dollop of toilet humor. These sounds, though, bookend chains of effects that are pure video game magic. Take the splodge, produced when […]
28/04/2025
I tried the magnetic mouse with its own folding USB-C charge cable
Ever wanted a mouse that could easily stick to your laptop as you carry it around? I can't say so myself - but one's launching on Kickstarter today that seems to do the job! I've been testing the $36 ESR MagMouse for roughly a week now, and I'm genuinely surprised we haven't seen anything like […]
28/04/2025
Elon Musk’s DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
Elon Musk’s expansive portfolio of companies could avoid more than $2.37 billion in potential legal liability due to his unprecedented influence over the US government, a new Senate report finds. The figure comes from a report assembled by Democratic staff for the Senate Homeland Security permanent subcommittee on investigations (PSI) probing the impact of Musk’s […]
28/04/2025
Volution doubles-down on booming UK fintech with new $100M fund
The UK fintech sector is on a bit of roll. Allica Bank – a London-based fintech – recently announced it had doubled its profits in 2024, bringing in £29.9 million, while Neobank Revolut announced a £1bn profit in 2024. Companies of this nature continue to spring out of London, a city which has become a fintech global […]
28/04/2025
Nvidia may release the RTX 5080 and 5070 Super with boosted memory configurations according to leaker
An unconfirmed source hints at a possible 24GB RTX 5080 Super and 18GB RTX 5070 Super using next-gen GDDR7 memory
28/04/2025
Lightrun grabs $70M using AI to debug code in production
AI-based coding has exploded in popularity on the promise that it will make developers’ jobs faster and easier. But AI coding has also resulted in something else: a vast increase in lines of code, and thus the likelihood of bugs resulting in crashes or other mishaps. On Monday, an Israeli startup called Lightrun, which has […]
28/04/2025
Widespread power outage hits Spain and neighboring countries France and Portugal
Power went down Monday afternoon in vast areas of Spain, crossing over into Portugal and France causing widespread outages in homes and businesses and bringing transportation infrastructure to a halt. The cause of the outage is currently unknown. Lisbon, Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, and Valencia are reportedly affected. The outage began at around 12:30PM CET. Play […]
28/04/2025
OmniRetail shakes up Africa’s B2B e-commerce market with $20M Series A
When Deepankar Rustagi last raised money for OmniRetail in 2022, excitement was high for African startups addressing the supply chain and operational challenges in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. At one point, these startups received more capital than all sectors, except fintech. Recently, though, the industry’s enthusiasm and venture capital’s interest have faded, as […]
28/04/2025
StrictlyVC heads to london and Athens this May: Featuring Prime Minister of Greece and Europe’s leading tech and VC voices
It’s been a busy year for TechCrunch events — and it’s about to get even bigger. StrictlyVC, our boutique, highly exclusive event series for VCs and startups, is crossing the Atlantic this May with stops in London and Athens! We’re bringing StrictlyVC’s insider conversations to Europe. On May 8, we’ll dive into Athens’ booming tech […]
28/04/2025
From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off
In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name recognition. The Iranian-born Harvard graduate built an impressive resume early on — joining the founding team of LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft in 1998 for $265 million), co-founding iLike (sold to MySpace for […]
28/04/2025
Early cancer detection startup Craif raises $22M
Cancer ranks as one of the top causes of death worldwide. The National Cancer Institute reported nearly 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer-related deaths globally in 2022, with projections showing a rise to 29.9 million new cases by 2040. Craif, spun off from Nagoya University in Japan in 2018, is using microRNA(miRNA) […]
28/04/2025
4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’
4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the person responsible for the hack apparently leaking data including a list of moderators and “janitors” (one janitor told TechCrunch they were “confident” that the leaked data was […]
27/04/2025
Nike is facing a lawsuit from people who bought its NFTs
A group of people sued Nike this week over its decision to wind down its virtual show project RTFKT last year. The buyers of the digital assets accuse Nike of causing “the rug to be pulled out from under them,” and say they wouldn’t have bought its NFTs if they’d known they were “unregistered securities,” […]
27/04/2025
SK hynix GDDR7 modules hit 34 Gbps on the RTX 5070 Ti — similar OC performance to Samsung
The newest RTX 50 GPU batch now includes GDDR7 memory from SK hynix, and reports indicate similar overclocking performance as Samsung.
27/04/2025
First 3D-printed Starbucks coffee shop opens tomorrow in Texas
The first 3D-printed Starbucks in the U.S. is opening in Brownsville, Texas, tomorrow.
27/04/2025
Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots
Nestled between an elementary school and a public library in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits a new kind of “luxury” coworking space. Dubbed the Chat Haus, this space has many of the elements you’d find in a traditional coworking office: people hammering away at their computer keyboards, another person taking a phone call, someone else pausing […]
27/04/2025
Commodore OS Vision 3.0 Linux-based OS arrives to spruce up retro builds
You can finally update your Commodore 64x with an up-to-date operating system ready to handle all of your modern retro computing needs.
27/04/2025
Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors
AI chatbots available on Meta’s platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually explicit conversations with underage users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ says that after learning about internal concerns about whether the company was doing enough to protect minors, it spent months conducting hundreds of conversations […]
27/04/2025
GPU's built-in gyro & accelerometer tell you if the card isn't level — ROG Astral GPU battles card sag with software-monitored feature
Asus activated the built-in gyro and accelerometer in its ROG Astral GPUs to warn you if its sagging.
27/04/2025
Intel's Core Ultra 5 processor 245K drops to $269 at Amazon
Right now at Amazon, you can purchase the Intel Core Ultra 5 Processor 245K for its lowest price to date — $269 instead of its recommended $319.
27/04/2025
Best bookmarking apps to help organize and declutter your digital life
If you’re someone who likes to bookmark a bunch of things that you find interesting or want to come back to later, it can be hard to manage everything you have saved. There are a number of great bookmark apps on the market that can help you organize all these sorts of links, articles, and […]
27/04/2025
Legendary Voodoo4 GPU modded into laptop, benchmarks work with Windows XP
The Dell Precision M4800 modded with a 25-year-old Voodoo4 GPU is capable of playing retro titles in Windows XP, to an extent.
27/04/2025
Game controller exports to Russia banned by UK gov — hopes to reduce options for enemy drone pilots
The UK's Foreign Office has implemented a ban on game controller exports to Russia.
27/04/2025
Here are Latin America’s biggest startups based on valuation
Not so long ago, the idea of public tech companies emerging from Latin America seemed far-fetched, and Mercado Libre once appeared as rare and mythical as a true unicorn. Today, however, the region is home to several startups that have reached billion-dollar valuations. Some of these startups, propelled into the spotlight by cross-border expansion, are […]
27/04/2025
USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world
USB 2.0 introduced 480 Mbps transfer speeds in 2000, making it one of the fastest ways of moving data between devices at its time.
27/04/2025
OnePlus 13R review: Maybe just buy a Pixel 9A
The OnePlus 13R is a particular kind of midrange phone for a particular kind of person. It's a pared-down version of the OnePlus 13 - which is a full-on flagship and a good one at that. And even though it shares a lot of the flagship DNA, the 13R lacks peace-of-mind features present on the […]
27/04/2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s battles are best when you break them
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has flashy, thrilling battles, but the best thing about them is how you can twist the game's many systems to your advantage. The turn-based RPG combat might feel familiar, but it offers a lot of ways to customize your approach to battles so that you can do absolutely devastating amounts of […]
27/04/2025
Wobkey Crush 80 Reboot Pro Review: Sounds even better than the Rainy75 Pro
The Crush 80 Reboot Pro is an impressive-sounding, well-built mechanical keyboard with a toolless case for easy tinkering and QMK / VIA support.
27/04/2025
Core i9 14900KS heatspreader transformed into CPU water block - clever machining yields a functioning water block
A Chinese modder has machined their CPU's IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) into a functional water-block for liquid cooling.
27/04/2025
Star Wars is so back
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 80, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you had better luck than I did preordering a Switch 2, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about The […]
27/04/2025
The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir
Julie Wainwright has taken two companies public, a pretty incredible feat by any standard. Yet in her new memoir, Time to Get Real, she offers readers something even more valuable: a blunt look at the messy realities of leadership. Wainwright shares the kinds of tough truths that many high-achieving CEOs can relate to but rarely […]
26/04/2025
Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize
Around 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unionization effort. These DeepMind employees are reportedly unhappy about Google’s decision to remove a pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from […]
26/04/2025
A new Alien: Earth teaser includes the miracle of alien birth
It's been a busy week for Alien: Earth's marketing team, having released three new teasers over the last few days. The longest of them - titled "Gestation Complete" - spends two whole minutes on the gestation and birth of an alien creature. Another, "Crate," gives hints that Earth could be facing more than just a […]
26/04/2025
Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25
Google announced this week that beginning on October 25, it will no longer support or release software updates for the first and second generation Nest Learning Thermostats. And it will completely stop launching new Nest products in Europe. That means owners of the Nest thermostats released in 2011 and 2012 (as well as the version […]
26/04/2025
Tests indicate Intel's '200S Boost' feature provides no real gain for Arrow Lake CPUs on Linux
Phoronix's testing shows that Intel's 200S Boost feature yields little to no performance improvements with the same RAM kit.
26/04/2025
Windows will now let you swear at it — introduces toggle to disable profanity filter for voice typing
Due to popular demand, Microsoft is introducing a profanity filter toggle to Windows 11 Voice Typing.
26/04/2025
Week in Review: Cluely helps you cheat on everything
Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week: Slate EVs spotted in the wild; Airbnb pricing updates; a hack at Blue Shield; and much more. Let’s go! Get a clue: Cluely is an AI-based tool that helps people cheat on exams, sales calls, and even job interviews. Though […]
26/04/2025
Digital photo frame company Nixplay cut its free cloud storage to almost nothing
One of the most frustrating realities about modern technology products is that while so many of them can get exciting new features via the internet, they can lose them just as easily. That happened to owners of Nixplay smart digital photo frames this week when they were hit with a previously announced update the company […]
26/04/2025
Amazon’s big book sale just happens to overlap with Independent Bookstore Day
Amazon is raising eyebrows with the timing of its big book sale for 2025, which runs from April 23 to 28 — which means it’s competing directly with Independent Bookstore Day. As writer Maris Kreisman explained in Lit Hub, Independent Bookstore Day is an annual event organized by the American Booksellers Association (ABA), with events, […]
26/04/2025
Government officials are kind of bad at the internet
Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he had been mistakenly added to an unauthorized Signal group chat by U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, where numerous high-ranking […]
26/04/2025
PC case and components maker Hyte pauses shipments to U.S. customers amid tariff pressures
Hyte has temporarily suspended U.S. shipments due to the newly introduced tariffs, with higher prices likely ahead.
26/04/2025
Ryzen 5 9600X CPU at an all-time low, comes with a free 500GB PCIe 4.0 SSD
The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU is available at Newegg for $219 and comes with a free 500GB SSD and a copy of Monster Hunter Wilds.
26/04/2025
How to use Visual Intelligence on the iPhone
One of the Apple Intelligence features that hasn't been delayed is Visual Intelligence, which uses your iPhone's camera to identify and answer questions on whatever's around you in the world. It lets you snap a pizza restaurant storefront and find out its opening hours, for example, or point your camera at a plant and find […]
26/04/2025
Lately’s new gamified app helps people arrive on time
A new app called Lately launched on the App Store a few weeks ago, targeting people with ADHD to help them arrive on time and rewarding them for doing so. The service is designed to help users manage their travel plans by notifying them when it’s time to leave for a trip, sending reminders 30 […]
26/04/2025
Elon Musk’s Nvidia-powered Colossus supercomputer faces pollution allegations from under‐reported power generators
xAI's Colossus supercomputer at Memphis, Tennessee, is accused of spewing excess pollution to get the power it needs to run all its GPUs.
26/04/2025
Is Google’s smart tag network any good yet?
When Google launched its long-awaited Find My Device network in April 2024, it arrived to… well, what's the opposite of "fanfare"? A slow network rollout and damning reviews dampened enthusiasm for what was supposed to be a wave of Android-powered rivals to Apple's AirTag. But a year's a long time in tech, and Google has […]
26/04/2025
The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni
Move over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. Its meteoric rise to a $300 billion valuation has spurred many employees to leave the AI giant to create startups of their own. The hype around OpenAI is so […]
26/04/2025
Bionic Bay mixes floppy physics with hard sci-fi
Wandering through Bionic Bay's dark alien world is unsettling and awe-inspiring. There are massive structures with no clear purpose and autonomous factories filled with whirring saw blades and devastating lasers. It's grim and unforgiving, with little light and harsh shadows that give everything a sinister tone. But then you step on a bomb and your […]
26/04/2025
Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut’s
Instagram Edits, Meta’s newly released video creation app, had a bigger debut than its direct competitor, ByteDance’s CapCut, once did. The new app, which today helps users craft videos for Instagram reels, stories, and other social posts, was downloaded an estimated 702,900 times on iOS devices during its first two days on the market. That’s […]
26/04/2025
Montech XR Wood Case Review: Low cost, wood accents
Montech’s XR Wood features a unique aesthetic and a budget price, but does it deliver performance? We test it with Intel’s i9-14900K with both the pre-installed fans and with a standardized set of fans to determine its efficiency.
26/04/2025
AMD's Ryzen 5 7533HS APU makes its debut with Lenovo's budget lineup
Lenovo's latest budget laptops feature a never-before-seen Ryzen 5 7533HS (Rembrandt-R) APU from AMD.
26/04/2025
Kuxiu’s ‘world first’ solid-state power bank costs more but lasts much longer
Solid-state batteries are the future. They're more powerful, compact, safe, and sustainable than Lithium-ion alternatives, but true all-solid state batteries can't be mass-produced cost-effectively. That's why Kuxiu has gone semi-solid state for what it calls the "world's safest" power bank, while calling dibs on it being a world first. Kuxiu's $79.99 S2 Qi2 5000mAh MagSafe […]
26/04/2025
Musk’s xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round ever
Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in talks to raise $20 billion in fresh funding, potentially valuing the AI and social media combo at over $120 billion, according to a new Bloomberg report that says talks are in the “early stages.” If successful, the deal would constitute the the second-largest startup funding round ever, behind only […]
26/04/2025
GPU prices are out of control again
Every so often, Central Computers - one of the last remaining dedicated Silicon Valley computer stores - lets subscribers know it's managed to obtain a small shipment of AMD graphics cards. Today, it informed me that I could now purchase a $600 Radeon RX 9070 XT for $850 - a $250 markup. It's not alone. […]
26/04/2025
Bending to industry, Donald Trump issues executive order to “expedite” deep sea mining
Donald Trump wants to mine the depths of the ocean for critical minerals ubiquitous in rechargeable batteries, signing an executive order on Thursday to try to expedite mining within US and international waters. It’s a brash move that critics say could create unknown havoc on sea life and coastal economies, and that bucks international agreements. […]
26/04/2025
DoorDash seeks dismissal of Uber lawsuit
DoorDash has asked a California Superior Court judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Uber that accuses the food delivery company of stifling competition by intimidating restaurant owners into exclusive deals. DoorDash argues in its motion that Uber’s claim lacks merit on all fronts. On a post on its website on Friday, DoorDash said, “the […]
25/04/2025
Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia
Interim DC attorney Ed Martin has written a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation — the organization behind Wikipedia — that calls into question its status as a nonprofit entity. In the letter, which was obtained by The Free Press, Martin claims he found that Wikipedia “is engaging in a series of activities that could violate […]
25/04/2025
TechCrunch Mobility: Slate’s ‘transformer’ EV truck breaks cover and Tesla’s dueling realities
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Busy week, so let’s get to it. Starting with federal regulations! Woohoo. Exciting stuff. I’m talking about the U.S. Department of Transportation’s new Automated Vehicle Framework, which […]
25/04/2025
Trump offers a private dinner to his biggest memecoin buyers
President Donald Trump recently announced that he would host a private dinner for the top 220 biggest holders of $TRUMP, the meme coin he launched days prior to taking office - and several U.S. Senators would like to know exactly why he's doing this. The dinner was publicly advertised on the $TRUMP coin homepage this […]
25/04/2025
Gmail gets a slider on Android tablets, AI on the side
Google is rolling out Gmail updates for mobile users across Android and iOS, with some design updates and new access to AI features. Android tablet and foldable owners will have a more flexible Gmail app interface that lets them drag the divider to adjust the list and conversation panes to whatever size they want in […]
25/04/2025
Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool
In the battle between two “agentic” coding tools — Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI — the latter appears to be fostering more developer goodwill than the former. That’s at least partly because Anthropic has issued takedown notices to a developer trying to reverse-engineer Claude Code, which is under a more restrictive usage license […]
25/04/2025
USAID decides not to collect former workers’ abandoned devices
After stranding former US Agency for International Development (USAID) workers with devices holding sensitive information, the Trump administration says it will no longer physically collect their government-issued phones, laptops, and tablets. An email sent by USAID to workers on Thursday and obtained by The Verge says the devices will be wiped remotely, and then “marked […]
25/04/2025
Deel files countersuit against Rippling as rivalry escalates
In the latest development of an increasingly public dispute between HR and payroll services rivals, Deel has filed a countersuit against Rippling. To recap: Rippling publicly announced on March 17 that it was suing Deel over alleged corporate espionage, with accusations ranging from violation of the RICO racketeering act (typically used to prosecute organized crime) […]
25/04/2025
Slate Auto eyes former Indiana printing plant for its EV truck production
Slate Auto, the buzzy new EV startup that broke stealth this week, is close to locking in a former printing plant located in Warsaw, Indiana as the future production site for its cheap electric truck, a review of public records shows. The company is expected to lease the 1.4 million-square-foot facility for an undisclosed sum. […]
25/04/2025
TechCrunch StrictlyVC in Athens in May will feature a special guest: Greece’s prime minister
We’re thrilled to announce that Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will be joining us at our upcoming StrictlyVC event in Athens, co-hosted with Endeavor, on Thursday night, May 8, at the stunning Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. For those who might not be familiar with his background, Mitsotakis brings a fascinating blend of experiences to […]
25/04/2025
Why are companies lining up to buy Chrome?
Chrome could eventually be up for sale, if the US Department of Justice gets its way in the remedies trial for US v. Google. And there are already buyers lining up at Google's door. Any potential sale might not happen for a very long time. The remedies trial is still ongoing, a decision in that […]
25/04/2025
Perplexity’s CEO on fighting Google and the coming AI browser war
Aravind Srinivas is battling Google to get his Perplexity AI assistant preinstalled on Android phones. At the same time, the CEO is refocusing his startup on what he predicts will be the next battleground in the AI race: your web browser. Perplexity plans to release its own browser called Comet next month, Srinivas tells me. […]
25/04/2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an audacious RPG with all the right moves
On paper, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 doesn't seem to stand out amidst a recent wave of prestige RPGs, from the newly polished high fantasy of the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake to the medieval warfare of 15th century Bohemia in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. For one, its fantastical conquests are set in a world reminiscent […]
25/04/2025
Is this the antidote to America’s truck bloat problem?
Last night, a new company called Slate Auto unveiled its first product, a spartan two-seater electric truck with a mere 150 miles of range and a world of possibility. There's no paint, no distracting infotainment screen, and no stereo or even radio. It doesn't tower over your average 12-year-old, and it may sell for under […]
25/04/2025
The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary
This glossary includes the most common terms and expressions TechCrunch uses in our security reporting, and explanations of how — and why — we use them.
25/04/2025
The world’s biggest zipper maker is developing a self-propelled zipper
Japan’s YKK, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer (go ahead, grab the nearest zipper, it probably says YKK on the pull), has announced a prototype self-propelled zipper with a built-in motor and gear mechanism it can use to zip itself up at the push of a button on a wired remote. The days of being embarrassed […]
25/04/2025
Chromebooks could get a boost from Snapdragon X Plus chips soon
Chromebooks on Arm processors are about to get a big boost as developers prepare new versions of ChromeOS with support for Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon chips, reports Chrome Unboxed. According to a new developer commit message posted in the Chromium project Gerrit code review, the SoCID for a Qualcomm X1P42100, aka the Snapdragon X Plus, is […]
25/04/2025
Infinity Nikki is coming soon to Steam and will add co-op mode
Infinity Nikki’s next update will add some major new features. Bubble Season starts April 29th and will include a new area, new activities, and, of course, new (and returning) outfits. But the biggest addition is one that fans have been asking for since launch: co-op. Check out the trailer above. In the new season you’ll […]
25/04/2025
Windows 11’s voice typing will soon let you turn off the ****ing profanity filter
If you’re like me and you have a bit of an uncontrollable potty mouth, Microsoft has got you covered with its latest Windows 11 feature. The software maker is changing the way its profanity filter for voice typing works on Windows 11 soon, so you can disable the filter and let all your nasty swear […]
25/04/2025
Signalgate: Pete Hegseth’s problematic passion for groupchats
Trump administration senior officials are facing harsh criticism after it was revealed that they had used the personal messaging app Signal to discuss highly classified military intelligence in a group chat. The chat, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid out plans for an upcoming military strike in Yemen, inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The […]
25/04/2025
Shein and Temu raise prices in response to Trump tariffs
Donald Trump's staggering tariffs on Chinese imports have hit nearly every category of consumer goods, from electronics and automobiles to clothing and footwear. One of the most vulnerable industries is the ultracheap e-commerce sites like Shein, Temu, and AliExpress that American shoppers have become accustomed to. It is already showing signs of a bloodbath. Last […]
25/04/2025
TSMC discloses N2 defect density — lower than N3 at the same stage of development
TSMC claims N2 defect density is lower than N3 defect density two quarters before mass production starts, reveals N2 HVM time frame.
25/04/2025
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership […]
25/04/2025
WD’s 2TB SSD for Xbox is $50 off and the M4 MacBook Air is just $899
Maybe, like me, you bought the Xbox Series S with 512GB of storage and realized, after installing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, that you don’t have much (or any) space left for any other games. And maybe, like me, you had to hunt for another drive so you could install other games to play. […]
25/04/2025
Startups Weekly: Tech IPOs and deals proceed, but price matters
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week confirmed that deals can still happen in a troubled world, but price considerations and adjustments are now part of the picture. Most interesting startup stories […]
25/04/2025
Microsoft launches Recall and AI-powered Windows search for Copilot Plus PCs
We knew Microsoft was about to launch Recall for real this time, and now the software maker is making it available to all Copilot Plus PCs. Recall, a feature that screenshots almost everything you do on a Copilot Plus PC, will be available today alongside an improved AI-powered Windows search interface and a new Click […]
25/04/2025
Google is killing software support for early Nest Thermostats
Google has just announced that it’s ending software updates for the first-generation Nest Learning Thermostat, released in 2011, and the second-gen model that came a year later. This decision also affects the European Nest Learning Thermostat from 2014. “You will no longer be able to control them remotely from your phone or withGoogle Assistant, but […]
25/04/2025
Microsoft launches Recall to Windows 11 general availability — Click to Do and Improved Search also coming
Microsoft's flagship Windows 11 AI feature, Recall, is launching to general availability today, along with other features, like Click to Do and Improved Windows Search, as part of an April non-security release.
25/04/2025
Adidas’ 3D-printed shoes are launching globally on May 2nd
When Adidas’ launched its Climacool shoes last September, the 3D-printed slip-ons featuring a form-fitting and breathable lattice structure were only available in very limited quantities to those who joined the company’s Confirmed platform. Next week that’s going to change as Adidas will be launching the Climacool shoes globally making them available to everyone starting May […]
25/04/2025
Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe launched a shopping app
Phoebe Gates, the daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates, has launched an AI shopping app with former roommate Sophia Kianni, The New York Times reports. The app, called Phia, is designed to help shoppers compare prices on listings of clothing, shoes, and accessories. It’s available on iOS and as a browser extension for Google Chrome. […]
25/04/2025
MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro: The Pro is better in nearly every way, but the Air might be the better choice
How much are you willing to pay for a better display?
25/04/2025
Linux developers want to remove i486 and i586 Pentium CPU support to unburden kernel developers
Linux developers are discussing removing i486 and early i586 (Pentium) CPU support from the Linux kernel to unburden Linux developers.
25/04/2025
AMD patches critical Zen 5 microcode bug — partners deliver new BIOS with AGESA 1.2.0.3C
Motherboard partners are rolling out a new BIOS update for Ryzen 9000 CPUs, fixing a critical vulnerability that could allow hackers to run malicious microcode.
25/04/2025
The FBI arrested a sitting judge for ‘obstruction of justice’
Federal agents arrested a Milwaukee judge Friday on obstruction charges for allegedly interfering with an immigration arrest. Judge Hannah Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court was arrested in the county courthouse and remains in federal custody, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), posted about […]
25/04/2025
An OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card denied
Kai Chen, a Canadian AI researcher working at OpenAI who’s lived in the U.S. for 12 years, was denied a green card, according to Noam Brown, a leading research scientist at the company. In a post on X, Brown said that Chen learned of the decision Friday and must soon leave the country. “It’s deeply […]
25/04/2025
TP-Link under DOJ investigation for alleged predatory pricing practices and national security concerns
The U.S. DOJ launched an antitrust investigation on TP-Link, just as the U.S. Commerce Department continues its probe on the company's impact to American national security.
25/04/2025
Waymo might be willing to sell you a self-driving car, says Sundar Pichai
Waymo may sell autonomous vehicles for personal ownership at some point in the future, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said during an earnings call last night. Pichai was asked about the long-term business model for Waymo, and he responded that it includes expanding partnerships like it has with Moove in Miami and Uber in Austin and, […]
25/04/2025
Gigabyte addresses RTX 50-series thermal gel leak, blames over-application in early production units
There will be no recall or replacement as Gigabyte says the issue does not compromise the product's performance, stability, or lifespan.
25/04/2025
Intel redefines AI strategy — Jaguar Shores to be rack-level design with focus on silicon photonics
Intel outlined its revamped AI strategy under new leadership that includes variety of workload-specific products, optical interconnects for rack-scale solutions, and revamped software stack.
25/04/2025
An AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months
For months, a popular Australian radio station has used an AI-generated DJ to host one of its segments — and no one seemed to notice, as reported by the newsletter The Carpet and the Australian Financial Review. The show, called Workdays with Thy, offers a four-hour mix of hip hop, R&B, and pop, with no […]
25/04/2025
Intel posts flat year-over-year earnings and bleak outlook, warns about macroeconomic pressures
Intel reports flat revenue but deeper losses and lower margins in Q1 2025 as well as gives a bleak Q2 guidance driven by macroeconomic and trade-related uncertainties.
25/04/2025
Google’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by design
Google started testing AI-summarized results in Google Search, AI Overviews, two years ago, and continues to expand the feature to new regions and languages. By the company’s estimation, it’s been a big success. AI Overviews is now used by more than 1.5 billion users monthly across over 100 countries. AI Overviews compiles results from around […]
25/04/2025
Roelof Botha, the head of Sequoia Capital, is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
We’re thrilled to announce that Roelof Botha, the managing partner of Sequoia Capital and one of the most influential figures in the venture capital world, will join us live onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone West in San Francisco, which will take place from October 27 to 29. As part of our ongoing mission […]
25/04/2025
Behind the Scenes
On the first day of filming, a small crew set up in my parents’ house in Long Beach, California. We were shooting a short documentary about my parents’ experiences as Vietnam War refugees who were used as background extras in Apocalypse Now nearly 50 years ago. Though my parents played a variety of characters — […]
25/04/2025
Last day to boost your brand and host a Side Event at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
This is your last chance to put your brand at the center of the AI conversation during TechCrunch Sessions: AI Week — with applications to host a Side Event closing tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. From June 1-7, TechCrunch is curating a dynamic weeklong series of Side Events leading up to and following the main […]
25/04/2025
Prince Harry meets, funds youth groups advocating for social media and AI safety
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, walked into the sunlight-lit hotel conference room in Brooklyn on Thursday to meet with a dozen youth leaders working in tech safety, policy, and innovation. The young adults chatted away at black circular tables, many unaware of his presence until he plopped down at a table and started talking with […]
25/04/2025
Nvidia's budget RTX 5060 GPUs rumored to launch on May 19th
Word on the street is that the $299 RTX 5060 is set to drop on May 19th next month, landing right before Computex.
25/04/2025
Boox’s newest Android e-readers let you take notes
Boox is expanding its Go Series with two new E Ink devices that are the first from the company to bring stylus support and note-taking capabilities to its smaller seven-inch e-reader models. It’s functionality that Kobo already offers on its seven-inch Libra Colour, but the new Boox Go 7 and Go Color 7 Gen II […]
25/04/2025
Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation
Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, according to Bloomberg. The company will use the money to expand to new markets, including the U.S., Japan, and the Middle East, Bloomberg noted, […]
25/04/2025
Everybody wants to buy Chrome
For sale: one browser, very popular. As the remedies phase of the Google Search trial heats up, two things have become very clear. The US government would really like to force Google to sell Chrome, and there are a lot of companies interested in buying it. What do you really get when you buy the […]
25/04/2025
Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million
Yale New Haven Health is Connecticut's largest healthcare provider.
25/04/2025
The best robot vacuum and mop to buy right now
Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as effective as good ol’ manual labor, if you run them regularly, they will help keep your floors cleaner with much less effort on your part. The difference is that newer “combo” robot vacuum […]
25/04/2025
China reportedly waives tariffs on some US chip imports — duties paid are eligible for refunds
Chinese authorities might be putting an exemption from their 125% tariff on some American chip imports.
25/04/2025
ChatGPT is getting a ‘lightweight’ version of its deep research tool
OpenAI is introducing a new version of its ChatGPT deep research tool that it says is cheaper to operate. The “lightweight” model is available now to free users, as well as those on several of the company’s paid tiers. Deep research (lightweight) is powered by a version of OpenAI’s o4-mini model, and the company says […]
25/04/2025
Startup aims to 3D print chips and cut production costs by 90% — nanoprinter operates at wafer scale
Atum Works claims its nanoscale 3D printing technology can cut chip production costs by 90% by replacing traditional production steps with direct 3D structuring, though its 100 nm resolution limits it to applications that do not need ultra-small features.
25/04/2025
Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed
Microsoft has revealed that it’s created a minute-long advert for its Surface Pro and Surface Laptop hardware using generative AI. But there’s a twist: it released the ad almost three months ago, and no-one seemed to notice the AI elements. The ad, which went live on YouTube on January 30th, isn’t entirely made up of […]
25/04/2025
Cooler Master V 850 SFX Gold ATX 3.0 power supply review
Cooler Master's V850 SFX Gold offers compact power delivery with ATX 3.0 compliance, making it a solid choice for small form factor builds, but it struggles with thermal management and noise under heavy loads.
25/04/2025
TechCrunch StrictlyVC in Athens in May will feature a special guest: the Greece Prime Minister
We’re thrilled to announce that Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be joining us at our upcoming StrictlyVC event in Athens, co-hosted with Endeavor, on Thursday night, May 8, at the stunning Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. For those who might not be familiar with his background, Mitsotakis brings a fascinating blend of experiences to […]
25/04/2025
Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla
A new American electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto has made its debut, and it’s about as anti-Tesla as it gets. It’s affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog. It has manual windows and it doesn’t come with a main infotainment screen. Heck, it isn’t even painted. It can also transform from a two-seater pickup to […]
25/04/2025
Faraday Future founder named co-CEO three years after being sidelined by internal probe
Troubled electric vehicle startup Faraday Future’s board of directors has appointed founder Jia Yueting as the company’s co-CEO, three years after he was sidelined following an internal probe into allegations of fraud — a probe that led to a investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission that remains ongoing. Jia will serve alongside current CEO […]
25/04/2025
The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
Ask just about anybody, and they'll tell you that new cars are too expensive. In the wake of tariffs shaking the auto industry and with the Trump administration pledging to kill the federal EV incentive, that situation isn't looking to get better soon, especially for anyone wanting something battery-powered. Changing that overly spendy status quo […]
25/04/2025
Tabletop game companies sue Trump to stop tariffs
A group of tabletop game makers and other American small businesses are filed a lawsuit on Thursday against President Donald Trump and his administration to attempt to stop his tariffs. The lawsuit alleges the tariffs are “unlawful and unconstitutional” and details how they are creating challenges for the plaintiffs’ businesses. The tabletop companies that are […]
25/04/2025
Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?
It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant outage, leaving users unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for roughly an hour. According to a message on Bluesky’s status page, the company was aware of the […]
25/04/2025
Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Thursday highlighting how little researchers understand about the inner workings of the world’s leading AI models. To address that, Amodei set an ambitious goal for Anthropic to reliably detect most AI model problems by 2027. Amodei acknowledges the challenge ahead. In “The Urgency of Interpretability,” the CEO says Anthropic has […]
24/04/2025
Bluesky is down
Bluesky is currently experiencing a major outage. On my desktop browser, my Bluesky feed won’t load at all — it just shows a spinning loading circle. I’m seeing something similar with the mobile app; I can log in, but when I do, the feed doesn’t low. Other Verge colleagues are also experiencing issues. In an […]
24/04/2025
Intel's AI PC chips aren't selling; instead, last-gen Raptor Lake booms
Intel announced that its new AI PC chips aren't selling as well as expected. As a result, it faces a shortage of production capacity for its 'Intel 7' process node, and the company expects this shortage to "persist for the foreseeable future."
24/04/2025
Nintendo’s Switch 2 upgrades for Mario Party and Kirby will cost $19.99
While Switch 2 upgrades for games such as Breath of the Wild will still cost $9.99, Nintendo is pricing Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Super Mario Party Jamboree’s upgrades at $19.99, reports Nintendo Life. The listings for both Mario Party and Kirby expansions went live today on retailer sites like Best Buy. The very […]
24/04/2025
IGN and CNET owner Ziff Davis sues OpenAI
Ziff Davis, the owner of several digital outlets like CNET, PCMag, IGN, and Everyday Health, is suing OpenAI over claims of copyright infringement, as first reported by The New York Times. In the lawsuit, the digital media company accuses OpenAI of “intentionally and relentlessly” creating “exact copies” of its outlets’ works without permission. The company […]
24/04/2025
How do you define cheating in the age of AI?
This AI startup raised $5.3M to help people “cheat on everything.” But in the age of AI, how do you define cheating? Columbia University recently suspended student Roy Lee for building a tool to help people cheat on engineering interviews. He’s been making waves on X after posting a long thread detailing the saga and how […]
24/04/2025
OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT deep research tool
OpenAI is bringing a new “lightweight” version of its ChatGPT deep research tool, which scours the web to compile research reports on a topic, to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users, the company announced Thursday. The new lightweight deep research, which will also come to free ChatGPT users starting today, is powered by a version […]
24/04/2025
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads
Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
24/04/2025
Intel reverses course, opts not to spin out Intel Capital
Semiconductor giant Intel won’t spin out its venture arm, Intel Capital, after all. During Intel’s Q1 earnings call Thursday, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the company has reversed its decision to spin out its 34-year-old venture arm. Instead, Intel Capital will remain internal and continue to invest with Intel’s interests in mind. “We have made […]
24/04/2025
Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate
Intel CEO Lip Bu-Tan announced a series of sweeping measures today, including an unspecified number of layoffs, a company restructuring, the elimination of non-core products, and a return-to-office mandate, as the company presented its first-quarter earnings report.
24/04/2025
Intel mandates four days in the office
Intel says that it’ll require employees to work from the office four days a week, a shift from the company’s old policy. CEO Lip-Bu Tan made the announcement during Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings call on Thursday. Previously, Intel allowed staff to work from home two days a week, but Tan said that adherence to the […]
24/04/2025
Yahoo wants to buy Chrome
Legacy search brand Yahoo has been working on its own web browser prototype, and says it would like to buy Google's Chrome if the company is forced by a court to sell it. The information came out during the fourth day of the Justice Department's remedies trial to rectify Google's search monopoly. The DOJ has […]
24/04/2025
Today’s your last chance to get three months of Apple TV Plus for $9
From The Studio to Severance, Apple TV Plus is home to a variety of high-quality originals that we highly recommend. And now through the end of today, you can get access to the streaming platform’s entire library for just $2.99 a month for the first three months. Given Apple TV Plus usually costs $9.99 a […]
24/04/2025
Intel will require four-day office work week as it aims to ‘flatten organization’
Today is Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings call, and the first we’re truly hearing from new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took over the company on March 18th. But he didn’t wait until the call to announce major changes at Intel, nor did he begin his reign by laying off 20 percent of the company’s employees, […]
24/04/2025
Public comments to White House on AI policy touch on copyright, tariffs
Individuals, industry groups, and local governments submitted over 10,000 comments to the White House about its work-in-progress national AI policy, also known as the AI Action Plan. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Thursday published the text of the submissions in a PDF spanning 18,480 pages. The comments, which touch […]
24/04/2025
I got my Switch 2 preorder the old-fashioned way: lining up at GameStop
Switch 2 preorders are sold out online everywhere. But some people have managed to snag one using once conventional but now antiquated means: going to GameStop and preordering one in store. In addition to offering online preorders for the Switch 2, its Mario Kart World bundle, and the various Switch 2 accessories, GameStop also allowed […]
24/04/2025
Meta is trying to clean up Facebook spam
Meta is ramping up efforts to rid Facebook of spammy content, the company announced on Thursday. It’s cracking down on accounts that try to “game” the Facebook algorithm with lengthy posts and numerous hashtags. The platform is also taking action against accounts that create posts with captions completely unrelated to an image. Now, if Meta […]
24/04/2025
Trump goes after websites that raise money for his enemies
Donald Trump will sign an executive order that will target online election fundraising platforms that may allegedly process foreign campaign donations – an action specifically aimed at curtailing the activities of ActBlue, the primary online fundraising platform for the Democratic Party. Politico first reported that the executive order was imminent, was aimed at launching an […]
24/04/2025
Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month
Google’s AI Overviews in Search now have “1.5 billion users per month,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement as part of Alphabet’s Q1 2025 earnings. Google started to widely roll out AI Overviews last May. Despite some awkward suggestions found shortly after their launch, the company has continued to expand upon the tool with […]
24/04/2025
Astro Teller is joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in October
We are thrilled to announce that Astro Teller, the head honcho of Alphabet’s X, the Moonshot Factory, will be joining us as a featured speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. The whole affair promises to be fun filled and rife with intel and insights that you won’t […]
24/04/2025
Evernote founder’s video startup mmhmm becomes Airtime, launches new products
Evernote founder Phil Libin is ready to liven up your video meetings. The entrepreneur’s video startup, mmhmm, launched in 2020 amid the pandemic, on Thursday unveiled its latest product: a video toolkit for online meetings called Airtime. The suite includes two related tools: a virtual camera that helps you appear more polished on video calls, […]
24/04/2025
Report: Neumann’s Flow raises $100M+, more than doubles valuation to $2.5B
Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has raised over $100 million in capital for his proptech startup, Flow, in a round that values that company at about $2.5 billion, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Citing anonymous sources familiar with the deal, Bloomberg reported that existing backer Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) participated in the financing. Neumann told Bloomberg that […]
24/04/2025
Report: Adam Neumann’s Flow raises $100M+, more than doubles valuation to $2.5B
Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has raised over $100 million in capital for his proptech startup, Flow, in a round that values that company at about $2.5 billion, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Citing anonymous sources familiar with the deal, Bloomberg reported that existing backer Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) participated in the financing. Neumann told Bloomberg that […]
24/04/2025
OpenAI wants its ‘open’ AI model to call models in the cloud for help
For the first time in roughly five years, OpenAI is gearing up to release an AI system that’s truly “open,” meaning it’ll be available for download at no cost and not gated behind an API. TechCrunch reported on Wednesday that OpenAI is aiming for an early summer launch, and targeting performance superior to open models […]
24/04/2025
Trump updates Biden’s robo-car crash reporting rule to benefit Tesla
In a surprise move, President Trump’s transportation department has decided to keep the Biden-era rule requiring automakers and tech companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles. But they’re making a few changes that are likely to have a big impact on one company. In 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued […]
24/04/2025
OpenAI may be developing its own social platform but who’s it for?
OpenAI is reportedly building its own X-like social network. The project is still in the early stages, but there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that contains a social feed, The Verge reports. A social app would give OpenAI its own unique, real-time data that X and Meta already use to help train […]
24/04/2025
You’re invited to a fireside chat with Baiju Bhatt on Sand Hill Road on June 18 at StrictlyVC
We’re thrilled to announce that Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood and founder and CEO of Aetherflux, will be joining us for a rare, intimate fireside chat as part of TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening series on June 18 on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. As with all of our StrictlyVC evenings, the event will feature just […]
24/04/2025
Meta conducts layoffs in Oculus Studios, impacting VR exercise app Supernatural
Meta laid off employees on Thursday in its Reality Labs division, which encompasses various virtual and augmented reality projects. The cuts impact employees within Oculus Studios, which develops apps and games for Meta’s Quest headsets. Meta did not specify how many people were impacted by the layoffs but said that the cuts impacted people working […]
24/04/2025
Bowers & Wilkins upgraded our pick for the best sounding wireless headphones
We called Bowers & Wilkins’ PX7 S2e the “best-sounding wireless headphones” in our noise-canceling headphones buyer’s guide, but the company’s latest could be a new contender for that title. Bowers & Wilkins says its PX7 S3 headphones have a “re-imagined industrial design” that’s more comfortable with a new button layout that’s more intuitive. The headphones […]
24/04/2025
Parents who lost children to online harms protest outside of Meta’s NYC office
Meta may have managed to kill a bipartisan bill to protect children online, but parents of children who have suffered from online harm are still putting pressure on social media companies to step up. On Thursday, 45 families who lost children to online harms – from sextortion to cyberbullying – held a vigil outside of […]
24/04/2025
The Switch 2’s GameCube controller costs $64.99
Nintendo’s GameCube controller for the Switch 2 will cost $64.99, according to the controller’s listing on the company’s website. The controller releases on June 5th, the same day as the Switch 2, but Nintendo will be making it available to order ahead of that date. Initially, the controller will be available to buy from May […]
24/04/2025
Remedy’s multiplayer Control spinoff FBC: Firebreak launches in June
The summer of video game releases is starting to heat up. Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake and Control, announced that its first multiplayer title FBC: Firebreak will launch on June 17th. It’ll be available on PC (both Steam and the Epic Game Store), the PS5, and Xbox. It’ll also be available on subscription […]
24/04/2025
Threads’ web app is moving from .net to .com
Threads on the web has a new address. Now, you can access the Meta-owned network by heading to Threads.com instead of Threads.net. The move will likely make it easier for users to find the website, as traffic to an unrelated messaging app startup, “Threads.com,” spiked following the platform’s launch. Meta finally acquired the “Threads.com” domain […]
24/04/2025
Threads officially moves to Threads.com and updates its web app
Instagram Threads, Meta’s newest social network and X competitor, is officially relocating from the website Threads.net to Threads.com. The transition will coincide with a handful of quality-of-life improvements for the Threads web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, saved posts, and likes, as well as other tools for creating new columns, copying […]
24/04/2025
AMD releases open-source GIM driver aimed at GPU virtualization, support for mainstream Radeon GPUs coming later
AMD releases open-source GIM driver aimed at Linux-based hardware virtualization. The new driver is one of AMD's first open-source drivers in a new push to make more of its software stack open-source.
24/04/2025
Pope Francis’ funeral to stream on YouTube
The funeral of Pope Francis will be livestreamed on YouTube on Saturday. Pope Francis passed away earlier this week at age 88 due to a stroke and cardiac arrest. Vatican News’ YouTube channel will begin coverage of the funeral at 10 AM CET/4 AM ET, with availability in English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German. […]
24/04/2025
Flex acquires a16z-backed Maza for $40M as fintech M&A heats up
Flex, a startup that offers personal finance software for business owners, has acquired Maza, a finance app aimed at Spanish speakers in the U.S., for $40 million, the companies told TechCrunch exclusively. At first glance, the pairing may seem a bit curious. Flex’s software and payments infrastructure is to help business owners have a single […]
24/04/2025
Within six years, building the leading AI data center may cost $200B
Data centers to train and run AI may soon contain millions of chips, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and require power equivalent to a large city’s electricity grid, if the current trends hold. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Georgetown, Epoch AI, and Rand, which looked at the growth trajectory of […]
24/04/2025
Mark Zuckerberg really wants to make Facebook cool again
In an ongoing antitrust case, the Federal Trade Commission says that Meta has a monopoly on “personal social networking services” and should have to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp. Throughout the proceedings, there have been several internal messages and plans that have come to light. In one, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered wiping all Facebook […]
24/04/2025
Now Kia EVs can use Tesla’s Superchargers
Kia is the latest automaker to be granted Tesla Supercharger access, allowing owners of the company’s EVs to connect to over 21,500 stalls across North America. Kia EVs were originally supposed to get access to Superchargers in January, but it was delayed until March, and now it has finally gone through. The news comes as […]
24/04/2025
Ember’s 16-ounce temperature-controlled Tumbler is half off
Tired of your coffee going cold halfway through the cup? Ember’s smart mugs are designed specifically to solve that problem, and right now the black Ember Tumbler is on sale for half off. Regularly $199.95, you can buy the travel-friendly smart mug for just $99.95 at Amazon and Walmart, which is $20 shy of its […]
24/04/2025
Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles
Netflix just introduced a new way to experience subtitles that eliminates the need to read audio cues like “door slams” or “phone rings.” Announced on Thursday, Netflix’s new dialogue-only subtitles can be enabled by going to “Navigate to Audio” and then “Subtitles.” Users will see an option labeled “English” instead of “English (CC),” indicating that […]
24/04/2025
Chess.com reaches 200 million members
Chess.com reaches a new membership milestone as it nears its 20th birthday. Chess.com, the online chess platform that was founded in 2005 and launched in 2007, has surpassed 200 million members. Of those 200 million members, 1.5 million are paying users. More than 6 million games of chess are played every day on the platform. […]
24/04/2025
Meta is laying off employees in Reality Labs
Meta has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its Reality Labs division, a company spokesperson confirmed. The cuts affected teams working in Oculus Studios, Meta's in-house games division for Quest headsets, as well as some employees involved in the company's hardware efforts, according to people familiar with the matter. Specific titles impacted by […]
24/04/2025
Netflix rolls out dialogue-only subtitles
Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that shows just spoken dialogue. Before this change, Netflix offered Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC), which show spoken dialogue along with speaker names and descriptions of sounds, such as “[phone buzzing]” or [dramatic music swells].” The new option drops these audio cues. It […]
24/04/2025
Nintendo Switch 2 preorders are sold out everywhere
Nintendo Switch 2 preorders have sold out online across the major retailers selling them in the US. Walmart, Best Buy, and Target sold out of their inventory early Thursday morning, while GameStop says it sold out of online preorders hours after they opened at 11AM ET. It’s not clear when — or if — the […]
24/04/2025
Sinners’ cinematographer wants you to feel the Mississippi Delta’s vastness
Though Ryan Coogler's Sinners is crawling with vampires and steeped in supernatural mythology, the film's monsters are far from the most magical thing about it. Those aspects of Sinners' story are exciting, and they help illustrate many of its ideas about the US' legacy of racism. But in terms of showing you both the beauty […]
24/04/2025
Here’s the cheaper Nintendo Switch 2 camera that’s small enough to go handheld
After debuting a fun Piranha Plant-inspired alternative to Nintendo’s own $50 Switch 2 camera, Hori is back with another camera accessory for the console that’s less fun but more functional. Standing just shy of two inches tall and weighing 30 grams, the camera is small and light enough to be connected to the Switch 2’s […]
24/04/2025
Facebook cracks down on spammy content by cutting reach and monetization
Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday. The company is also increasing efforts to remove Facebook accounts that coordinate fake engagement and impersonate others, it says. The move comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised a return to “OG Facebook.” […]
24/04/2025
Love, Death, and Robots Vol. 4 introduces its cast in wild new trailer
Netflix’s Love, Death, and Robots anthology series has always featured pretty stacked casts, and it doesn’t sound like the show’s next season is going to be any exception. Along with a new trailer for the upcoming season, Netflix released a full listing of Love, Death, and Robots Vol. 4’s episodes detailing their plots and highlighting […]
24/04/2025
Kingston's Renegade G5 PCIe 5.0 SSD with 14.8 GB/s speeds now available starting at $200 for 1TB
Kingston's PCIe 5.0 ready Renegade G5 is finally here, ready to seize the speed crown from Samsung and Crucial.
24/04/2025
TSMC mulls massive 1000W-class multi-chiplet processors with 40X the performance of standard models
TSMC is prepping a 9.5-reticle, 7,885 mm² multi-chiplet packages on 120×150 mm substrates with integrated power management for future AI and HPC processors.
24/04/2025
TikTok adds support for ALT text for photos
TikTok is rolling out support for ALT text for photo posts to make content more accessible for users with visual and cognitive impairments. Creators can now provide descriptive text for photos to help users with screen readers understand the visual content through spoken descriptions. TikTok told TechCrunch in an email that creators can add ALT […]
24/04/2025
AMD RX 9070 GRE allegedly ready for launch — Navi 48 GPU trimmed down to 12GB VRAM and 48 compute units
AMD's upcoming RX 9070 GRE is allegedly confirmed to be launching anytime now instead of debuting in Q4 2025 as previous rumors predicted.
24/04/2025
Motorola’s new Razr Ultra brings the wood back panel back
Motorola is kicking off hot foldable summer in style — and a little early this year. This time around it’s offering not two but three Razr models with the introduction of the premium Razr Ultra. It comes with some notable upgrades, and all three phones get some quality-of-life improvements like a sturdier hinge. But the […]
24/04/2025
Motorola’s new watch and earbuds are a case study in deja vu
Phones aren't the only gadgets that Motorola is announcing today. But whereas the new Razr foldables evoke a sense of nostalgia, its latest smartwatch and earbuds summon a powerful feeling of déjà vu. Handling the new Moto Watch Fit and Moto Buds Loop, it's like I'm looking at Motorola-flavored clones of the Apple Watch and […]
24/04/2025
Microsoft’s design chief on human creation in the AI era
The first time I met Jon Friedman, corporate vice president of design and research at Microsoft, was in 2019 when he was spearheading a new open approach to design at Microsoft to make its hardware and software look like it came from one company. That's a largely successful work in progress, so these days Friedman […]
24/04/2025
Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’
Could future AIs be “conscious,” and experience the world similarly to the way humans do? There’s no strong evidence that they will, but Anthropic isn’t ruling out the possibility. On Thursday, the AI lab announced that it has started a research program to investigate — and prepare to navigate — what it’s calling “model welfare.” […]
24/04/2025
Spotify’s AI playlist rolls out to Asia and more markets
Spotify announced on Thursday that it expanded the availability of its AI Playlist feature to over 40 additional markets, including countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. The AI-powered tool, currently in beta on Android and iOS devices, lets listeners create personalized playlists based on written prompts, such as “workout music to make my […]
24/04/2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: Blackwell GB206 takes on Ada AD106
The new RTX 5060 Ti 16GB should naturally be faster than the previous-generation RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, but just how much faster, and are there any other differences you should know about? We compare the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and look at price, performance, features, and availability.
24/04/2025
GameStop’s Switch 2 preorders started poorly, too
GameStop’s online Nintendo Switch 2 preorders went live at 11AM ET, and like the preorders from other retailers overnight, things immediately got off to a rocky start. Right as the clock rolled over to 11AM, many of us at The Verge experienced issues with the website. At first, GameStop’s website showed me a mostly-blank page […]
24/04/2025
Eufy’s new floor mopping robovac has a portable deep cleaner
If you’ve got pets or kids, in addition to a vaccum, you may also have a carpet and upholstery deep cleaner like Bissell’s Little Green machine to deal with their worst messes. But with Eufy’s new Omni E28 floor-mopping robot vacuum you only need one device to get everything: it comes with its own deep […]
24/04/2025
Newegg has RTX 5090 bundles starting at $3,139 — counts as a good GPU deal these days
It's been nigh on impossible to buy an RTX 5090 for anywhere close to the supposed $1,999 MSRP, with most cards in the U.S. starting at around $4,000. Newegg has some RTX 5090 + Z890 motherboard starting at $3,139 if you're looking for options, though the mobo is almost superfluous for a top-end gaming build.
24/04/2025
This is Razer’s first vertical mouse
Razer is announcing two new mice, the Pro Click V2 and Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition — the latter being Razer’s first vertical mouse design. Both mice are more ergonomic and productivity-focused than the usual gaming-first designs Razer is known for, but the $99.99 Pro Click V2 and $119.99 Vertical Edition feature the brand’s typical […]
24/04/2025
Speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Applications now open
TechCrunch Disrupt returns October 27–29 to Moscone West in San Francisco — and we’re inviting thought leaders, founders, VCs, and tech experts to apply for a chance to take the stage at one of the most anticipated tech events of the year. Applications are now open to speak at Disrupt 2025, where over 10,000+ tech […]
24/04/2025
Researchers develop new metamaterials that pave the way to bendy, stretchable computer chips
A team of MIT researchers developed a new fabrication method that allowed to make existing materials strong but stretchy.
24/04/2025
Samsung says its ‘Screens Everywhere’ approach won’t mean ads everywhere, for now
Almost a decade after launching the first smart fridge with a giant Android tablet built in, Samsung is leaning hard into the idea that we need tablets in all the things. At CES this year, the company announced its Screens Everywhere initiative, which essentially means putting 7- and 9-inch full-color touchscreens, called "AI Home screens," […]
24/04/2025
GameStop is set to open Nintendo Switch 2 preorders at 11AM ET
Most major retailers launched their Nintendo Switch 2 preorders at 12AM ET on April 24th and sold out quickly — but thankfully, GameStop is doing things a bit differently. The company says it’s kicking off in-store preorders when the “doors open” today, with online preorders going live at 11AM ET. In this guide, we’ll walk […]
24/04/2025
The Napalm Girl Standard
It’s a photo you may have already seen. Captured in stark black and white, several Vietnamese children run down a road, flanked by soldiers. In the left foreground, there is a crying child whose mouth is contorted. But the viewer’s eye drifts toward the center and the main subject of the photograph: a 9-year-old girl, […]
24/04/2025
Former DOJ antitrust chief says a Google break up will benefit the internet
Today, we’re talking about the very real possibility that the United States government might break up Google. To figure that all out, I invited Jonathan Kanter, the former assistant attorney general for antitrust under the Biden administration, to join me on Decoder again. Jonathan left the DOJ after President Trump was elected, but he was […]
24/04/2025
RepAir Carbon is making carbon removal machines inspired by batteries
RepAir recently raised a $15 million extension to its Series A.
24/04/2025
Founders, your moment is now: Apply for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200
Founders, the battlefield is open. And the bold are stepping forward. Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is now accepting startups to compete in the ultimate pitch showdown in front of over 10,000 tech leaders from around the globe to witness.. This is no ordinary pitch. This is the fight for visibility, capital, and […]
24/04/2025
GTA V is Twitch’s most watched game of 2024
11 years after its launch, Grand Theft Auto V is still massively popular, becoming the most watched game on Twitch. The streaming platform has shared some of its viewership stats from last year with GTA V capturing over 1 billion hours watched. Here’s an infographic breaking some of the stats down: Twitch also revealed insights […]
24/04/2025
Panther Lake and Nova Lake reportedly power Intel's next-gen automotive SoCs, Intel releases new roadmap
Intel's next-generation "Frisco Lake" and "Grizzly Lake" SDV SoCs for automobiles reportedly follow consumer architectures, with a one-year cadence.
24/04/2025
Pokémon TCG Pocket’s next expansion is bringing Alola back
The next set of Pokémon TCG Pocket cards feels like a reminder that spring and summertime is almost here. Today, The Pokémon Company announced that Celestial Guardians, Pokémon TCG Pocket’s next expansion, is set to release next week on April 30th. The new set will feature a number of monsters from the Pokémon Sun and […]
24/04/2025
TSMC's 2nm N2 process node enters production this year, A16 and N2P arriving next year
TSMC first GAA-based N2 process will enter HVM in the second half of 2025 with strong early adoption from both mobile and HPC/AI sectors.
24/04/2025
Revolut, the $45B neobank, posts $1B profit in 2024
Revolut, the $45 billion neobanking startup founded in the U.K., may have put its IPO plans on ice, but its balance sheet is looking pretty hot. The company reported net profit of $1 billion (£790 million) in 2024, while its customer base grew by 38% to 52.5 million, according to its annual report. Revenues increased […]
24/04/2025
Google extends the Pixel 7A’s repair program for battery swelling issues
Google announced an extended repair program for the Pixel 7A that promises free repairs for devices that suffer from “unexpected battery swelling” issues, 9to5Google reports. The program covers symptoms that directly indicate an expanding battery, including bulging of the device or separation of the phone cover. Google also indicates that rapid battery draining could be […]