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Tesla says it delivered its first car autonomously from factory to customer
This might be a bigger deal than the robotaxis. Tesla said it completed its first fully autonomous vehicle delivery from factory to customer. A video posted on X shows the vehicle — a Tesla Model Y — leaving the company’s Austin Gigafactory, driving on the highway, passing through suburban sprawl and residential neighborhoods, before arriving […]
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FBI, cybersecurity firms say a prolific hacking crew is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector
The fresh wave of attacks targeting airlines comes soon after the hackers hit the U.K. retail sector and the insurance industry.
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Kobo’s Libra Colour and Elipsa 2E e-readers have dropped to some of their best prices
Kobo is discounting two of its best e-readers. The Kobo Elipsa 2E, a competitor to the Kindle Scribe, is available for an all-time low of $349.99 ($50 off) from Rakuten Kobo and Target. Meanwhile, the Kobo Libra Colour is available for $209.99 ($20 off) from Amazon, Target, and Rakuten Kobo. The sale runs through July […]
2 hours ago
Reddit turns 20, and it’s going big on AI
Reddit has become known as the place to go for unfiltered answers from real, human users. But as the site celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, the company is increasingly thinking about how it can augment that human work with AI. The initial rollout of AI tools, like Reddit Answers, is "going really well," CTO […]
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How extreme heat disproportionately affects Latino neighborhoods
Scorching hot days tend to hit certain neighborhoods harder than others, a problem that becomes more dangerous during record-breaking heat like swathes of the US experienced over the past week. A new online dashboard shows how Latino neighborhoods are disproportionately affected in California. Developed by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the tool helps fill […]
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Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically
In the past week, big AI companies have - in theory - chalked up two big legal wins. But things are not quite as straightforward as they may seem, and copyright law hasn't been this exciting since last month's showdown at the Library of Congress. First, Judge William Alsup ruled it was fair use for […]
3 hours ago
Lamborghini Revuelto review: perfect harmony
With the dawning of a new era of hybridization in the automotive industry, more and more manufacturers are integrating electric propulsion into their lineups. Mild-hybrid systems are well-established, and more beneficial plug-in hybrid systems keep getting better and better. Even Lamborghini's participating in the latest wave of hybridization, which might come as a surprise to […]
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SpaceX launches UK satellite to create semiconductors in low Earth orbit — sub-zero temps and vacuum of space could advance AI data centers and quantum computing
A satellite designed to produce semiconductors in space has reached low-Earth orbit, launching on a SpaceX rideshare mission. ForgeStar-1 from Space Forge seeks to be a proof of concept to prove that fabrication in space is possible and scalable.
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Asus's new BTF GPUs can now be used in standard systems courtesy of a detachable 1000W power connector — New 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti models have a dual personality
Asus lists the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GDDR7 BTF White Edition and ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 BTF Edition on its website.
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Rob Biederman will help founders rethink how to scale at TechCrunch All Stage 2025
If you’re a founder looking to grow your startup, chances are you’re wrestling with more than just product or capital. Talent, scale, and smart execution are the real battlegrounds. That’s exactly what TechCrunch All Stage 2025 is built to address on July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. Rob Biederman, managing partner at Asymmetric Capital […]
27/06/2025
Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
For years, Meta's trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram's servers. But apparently, Meta has decided to try training its AI on the billions of images that users haven't uploaded to those servers. On Friday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook users trying to post something on […]
27/06/2025
How vulnerable is critical infrastructure to cyberattack in the US?
Our water, health, and energy systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack. Now, when tensions escalate - like when the US bombed nuclear facilities in Iran this month - the safety of these systems becomes of paramount concern. If conflict erupts, we can expect it to be a "hybrid" battle, Joshua Corman, executive in residence for […]
27/06/2025
As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout
As warnings mount about AI’s potential to displace millions of jobs, Anthropic on Friday launched a its Economic Futures Program, new initiative to support research and policy development that addresses AI’s economic impacts.
27/06/2025
Logitech says all its webcams work with Nintendo Switch 2 — save one
If you’re looking for a webcam that works with the Nintendo Switch 2’s new GameChat mode that lets you video chat with friends and see their faces within games, it looks like the biggest brand in PC accessories is still your best bet. Logitech is the first webcam maker to confirm to The Verge that […]
27/06/2025
YouTube’s mobile video editor is coming to iOS
Google is preparing to bring YouTube Create to iOS devices nearly two years after the video editing app launched exclusively on Android. Job listings reviewed by TechCrunch reveal the company is actively hiring engineers in India for the iOS development project. The job postings show Google is recruiting software engineers in Bengaluru specifically to build […]
27/06/2025
The Nothing Phone 3 might have the weirdest camera design out there
Earlier this month, I wrote about a leaked image of what was rumored to be the Nothing Phone 3. That image showed a design with a translucent back and three center-aligned cameras. But a new set of supposed Nothing Phone 3 images reveal a different design — with one of the wildest camera layouts I’ve […]
27/06/2025
Jesse Draper’s Halogen Ventures closes $30M Fund III to focus on ‘future of family’
Halogen Ventures closed a $30 million Fund III to invest in early-stage startups building in the “future of family,” as reported first by Fortune. The firm was founded in 2015 by Jesse Draper, the daughter of famed venture capitalist Tim Draper. She explained to Fortune that the fund will focus on the physical and financial […]
27/06/2025
TikTok is testing its own version of Instagram’s ‘broadcast channels’
TikTok is testing a new bulletin boards feature, the social network confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday.
27/06/2025
Only 2 exhibitor tables up for grabs at TechCrunch All Stage — claim by June 29
TechCrunch All Stage hits Boston’s SoWa Power Station on July 15 — and just 2 exhibitor tables remain.
27/06/2025
I tested a bunch of gaming laptops and these are the best
Gaming laptops come in various shapes and sizes, though many of the heavy hitters remain thick and beefy machines that maximize cooling to get the most out of their powerful chips. Most are awash in RGB lighting and edgy designs geared towards capital-G Gamers, but there are also thinner, lighter options that are more portable […]
27/06/2025
Runway is going to let people generate video games with AI
So far, Runway is known for bringing generative AI to Hollywood. Now, the $3 billion startup is setting its sights on the gaming industry. This week, I was granted access to a new interactive gaming experience that Runway plans to make available to everyone as soon as next week, according to CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela. The […]
27/06/2025
Prolific cybercrime gang now targeting airlines and the transportation sector
The fresh wave of attacks targeting airlines comes soon after the hackers hit the U.K. retail sector and the insurance industry.
27/06/2025
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ could mean slower Wi-Fi for you
The Senate version of the budget reconciliation bill, backed by President Donald Trump, removes protections for unlicensed spectrum that broadens the capacity of the 6GHz Wi-Fi band. This could result in slower Wi-Fi speeds. Under the bill, which may be voted on at the end of this week, the FCC would sell off some of […]
27/06/2025
Eufy’s Omni C20 mopping robovac is $300 off for a limited time
After a long week, the last thing I want to do is clean my floors (they’re seriously overdue for a cleaning). Busting out the vacuum and mopping can be tiring. That’s why I’m a big fan of robot vacuums, especially ones with built-in mops that can handle all the cleaning on their own. Speaking of, […]
27/06/2025
Google’s carbon emissions just went up again
Google’s carbon emissions jumped yet again as the company continues to push ahead in AI. The company’s 2025 sustainability report emphasizes that its “ambition-based emissions” grew 11 percent last year to reach 11.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution, marking a 51 percent increase compared to 2019. That puts Google farther away from its […]
27/06/2025
Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’
Meta is offering multi-million pay packages to AI researchers. But no one is really getting an $100 million "signing bonus."
27/06/2025
Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’
Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers. But no one is really getting a $100 million "signing bonus."
27/06/2025
TechCrunch Mobility: The Tesla robotaxi Rorschach test and Redwood’s next big act
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!
27/06/2025
Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means.
A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline. Here's what's at stake.
27/06/2025
What comes after Twitter and Meta? The founders of 01A share their playbook at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is coming to Moscone West in San Francisco, October 27–29, and we’re bringing the heavy hitters to the Builders Stage. On October 28, three names that helped shape the modern internet are sitting down for an exclusive fireside chat on what it takes to build, scale, and fund startups in today’s ever-shifting […]
27/06/2025
Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared
Facebook is asking users for access to their phone’s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their photos — including ones that haven’t been uploaded to Facebook yet. The feature is being suggested to Facebook users when they’re creating a new Story on the social networking app. Here, a screen pops up and asks […]
27/06/2025
The best deals on 4K TVs
Things are looking bright for those who want to nab a great TV in 2025 at a substantial discount. There’s usually a great deal happening on a mid- or high-end TV from LG, TCL, Hisense, or Amazon’s own Fire TV brand — even if the biggest discounts remain reserved for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Amazon […]
27/06/2025
Riot turns to sports betting to help fund its esports leagues
As the esports industry searches for new sources of revenue, Riot Games has opened up its League of Legends and Valorant esports leagues to sports betting sponsorships. The decision will permit tier one organizations – or the highest level of professional players – in the North and South America and European esports leagues of Valorant […]
27/06/2025
TechCrunch All Stage 2025 welcomes Boldstart partner Ellen Chisa to talk early-stage enterprise bets
We’re thrilled to announce that Ellen Chisa, partner at Boldstart Ventures, will be joining us at TechCrunch All Stage 2025 for an energizing conversation about investing in enterprise startups from day one. She’s one of the standout voices shaping this year’s lineup of founders, funders, and operators gathering July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station, […]
27/06/2025
SpaceX’s Starbase city officials silent on crane collapse
A crane collapsed at SpaceX’s South Texas rocket facility this week, and the company’s newly-formed city won’t say if anyone was hurt. On June 23, a crane being used to clean up debris from the most recent SpaceX rocket explosion collapsed at the company’s launch complex. Footage of the accident was captured by Lab Padre, […]
27/06/2025
689 different Brother printer models all use the serial number to create default password — ridiculous security flaw baked in from manufacturing, can't be fully remediated with firmware
689 Brother printer models, along with some from a handful of other manufacturers, are vulnerable to a critical security vulnerability. The printer's default password is determined algorithmically at manufacturing and is reverse-engineerable, and is unfixable via firmware updates.
27/06/2025
Startups Weekly: Tech and the law
Here are the startup stories and funding rounds that caught our eye over the last few days, which have been quite busy.
27/06/2025
Adobe’s new camera app is making me rethink phone photography
Adobe's Project Indigo is a camera app built by camera nerds for camera nerds. It's the work of Florian Kainz and Marc Levoy, the latter of whom is also known as one of the pioneers of computational photography with his work on early Pixel phones. Indigo's basic promise is a sensible approach to image processing […]
27/06/2025
PetLibro’s new smart camera uses AI to describe your pet’s movements, and it’s adorable
PetLibro launched an AI-powered smart camera that provides users with real-time insights into their pets' activities.
27/06/2025
Tesla loses key execs but hires a new one from GM’s failed robotaxi company
There’s some executive shuffling going on at Tesla. Two key leaders have left recently – one of them being fired by CEO Elon Musk – but the company also hired an exec from Cruise, GM’s failed robotaxi company. Yesterday, reports from Forbes and CNBC said that Musk had fired Omead Afshar, who formerly led operations […]
27/06/2025
Anker's 3D texture printer raises $45 million in most successful Kickstarter campaign ever — world's first UV printer for personal use to begin shipping in August
Anker is behind the eufyMake E1 3D texture printer campaign on Kickstarter which has raised over $45 million—the most of any Kickstarter campaign ever.
27/06/2025
Google quietly introduced precise Bluetooth tracking on the Pixel Watch 3
With the Wear OS 5.1 update that was released last March, Google quietly introduced a new feature called Channel Sounding for the Pixel Watch 3 that could improve the accuracy of pinpointing the location of other devices using its existing Bluetooth hardware. But while Channel Sounding is now supported by the smartwatch, it’s not yet […]
27/06/2025
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, […]
27/06/2025
Meta buys over 1 GW of renewables to power its data centers
Meta has been on a renewable buying spree in recent months.
27/06/2025
Porn age-gating is the future of the internet, thanks to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law requiring age verification to access adult websites, saying despite First Amendment claims, the law “only incidentally burdens the protected speech of adults.” The ruling, in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, opens the door to age-gating in states nationwide. The court ruled in Texas’ favor by a margin […]
27/06/2025
Cooler Master NR200P V3 Mini-ITX case can house an RTX 5090 — $150 chassis features cutout for optimized GPU airflow, and PCIe 5.0 support
The NR200P V3 is now available on Amazon, ready to take on your RTX 5090 SFF builds.
27/06/2025
SCOTUS porn ruling opens door to sweeping internet age verification
The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday to uphold a Texas law requiring websites with “sexual material harmful to minors” to verify the ages of all visitors. The Free Speech Coalition (FSC), a trade association for the adult industry, had brought the lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the state’s age verification law. […]
27/06/2025
RTX 5090 Founders Edition is now in stock in the UK — flagship GPU returns at MSRP
The Nvidia RTX 5090 Founder's Edition is back in stock in the UK at MSRP.
27/06/2025
Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that the funding mechanism behind a key broadband subsidy program for schools and underserved areas can continue operating. In a decision issued on Friday, the Supreme Court rejected claims that Congress and the FCC’s implementation of the fund is unconstitutional. The program, known as the Universal Service Fund (USF), helps subsidize […]
27/06/2025
Denmark clamps down on deepfakes by letting people copyright their own features
The Danish government is working to change copyright law to give its citizens a right to their own body, facial features, and voice. The landmark law is designed to strengthen protections against the creation and dissemination of deepfakes, reports The Guardian.
27/06/2025
PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation
The W3C updated PNG to make it work with HDR content, and it expects to receive a couple more updates in the near future.
27/06/2025
Gigabyte says its 'revolutionary' Ultra Turbo Mode can boost frame rates by 35% — BIOS level enhancement exclusive to Intel Z890 motherboards
The new BIOS feature offers three levels of performance tuning, surpassing Intel’s standard 200S Boost profile in both CPU and memory optimization
27/06/2025
China to pivot $50 billion chip fund to fighting U.S. squeeze as trade war escalates — country to back local companies and projects to overcome export controls
China's Big Fund III is refocusing on building local lithography equipment and chip design software after U.S. export bans blocked access to advanced tools, pushing managers to prioritize filling these critical gaps over supporting already strong areas.
27/06/2025
The FTC has reopened claims for Fortnite settlement refunds: here’s how you can submit one
Eligible Fortnite players who felt bamboozled into making unwanted purchases have been given a second chance to request a refund. The Federal Trade Commission has reopened applications to receive refunds from the $245 million settlement that Epic Games reached with the agency until July 9th, after previously closing requests in February. The agreement was announced […]
27/06/2025
Microsoft's own AI chip delayed six months in major setback — in-house chip now reportedly expected in 2026, but won't hold a candle to Nvidia Blackwell
A new report says Microsoft's in-house AI chip is delayed and won't be as good as Nvidia Blackwell when it finally does launch.
27/06/2025
David H. Rosmarin brings a founder-focused approach to anxiety at TechCrunch All Stage
Startups demand constant decision-making, pressure-filled pivots, and bring big emotional swings. It’s no wonder anxiety shows up at every stage. But what if it didn’t have to be a liability? At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, Dr. David H. Rosmarin, clinical psychologist, author, and Harvard Medical School professor, […]
27/06/2025
Rollback rates: TechCrunch All Stage brings back early launch prices for a limited time
We’re almost there, and ticket rates have officially rolled back with savings of up to $425. TechCrunch All Stage, the founder summit of the year, is just around the corner. On July 15, Boston becomes startup central. Are you ready to gain the insights and strategies you need to launch or scale? Now’s the moment […]
27/06/2025
Google’s Doppl app took off my socks
I just tried on five different outfits in about 10 minutes — or at least my AI lookalike did. That’s all thanks to Doppl, a new app that Google is testing, which I used to create AI-generated clips of myself wearing outfits that I found across the web. It mostly works, but it has clear […]
27/06/2025
This smart smoke alarm could be a worthy Nest Protect replacement
A new line of smoke and CO alarms from Gentex called Place is packed with smart features, including phone notifications, a nightlight, motion detection, and temperature and humidity sensing. There’s also optional air quality monitoring and a camera/intercom. The four Place models start at $139, and are available now at The Home Depot. With the […]
27/06/2025
M3gan 2.0 is a fun upgrade that’s a little too self-aware
Universal and Blumhouse's first M3gan feature came out of nowhere with a premise so ridiculous and campy that it was hard not to be at least a little intrigued. Equal parts Child's Play and Small Wonder, M3gan was undeniably silly with its story about an AI-powered doll who sang Sia's "Titanium" and danced around as […]
27/06/2025
What Meta and Anthropic really won in court
A lot of the future of AI will be settled in court. From publishers to authors to artists to Hollywood conglomerates, the creative industry is picking a big copyright fight over the vast quantities of data used to train AI models - and the ultimate output of those models. (Disclosure: Vox Media, The Verge's parent […]
27/06/2025
2,000-GPU data center launches powered exclusively by reusable batteries — 12-megawatt storage system built on hundreds of repurposed EV batteries
Redwood Materials repurposed old EV batteries as power storage for a 2,000-GPU data center running solely off renewable energy.
27/06/2025
Threads now has a better word filter than Instagram
Threads has taken another step towards decoupling from Instagram by introducing its own word blocking filters. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the Hidden Words setting on Threads includes “newly added custom filters to block words, phrases, and emojis in batches, with optional time limits.” A previous version of Hidden Words was tied […]
27/06/2025
German data protection official wants Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores
Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores, saying the company transfers users' data to China illegally.
27/06/2025
Graphic artists in China push back on AI and its averaging effect
Sendi Jia, a designer running her own studio between Beijing, China, and London, England, says she mainly uses AI generators like DALL-E to make fake photos for background panels or websites when her clients don't have access to real ones. That's helped clients with limited budgets, but it's also exposed just how much of the […]
27/06/2025
Windows Blue screen of death axed after 40 years, but BSOD still remains — will be replaced by new black Windows 11 'unexpected restart screen'
After 40 years, Microsoft is replacing its iconic blue screen of death with a simpler black screen that displays the stop code and faulty driver error message.
27/06/2025
OpenAI hires team behind AI recommendation startup Crossing Minds
Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce firms, said its team is leaving the company to join OpenAI.
27/06/2025
Meta in talks to acquire voice cloning startup Play AI
Meta is in talks to acquire a voice cloning startup called Play AI, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.
27/06/2025
I swapped out my laptop's Wi-Fi 6E card for Wi-Fi 7 in minutes and gained 50% more performance for just $54 — here's how you can, too
I saw up to a 50 percent performance uplift going from the default Wi-Fi 6E card to a Wi-Fi 7 transplant.
27/06/2025
Lenovo's hot-swappable batteries made my colleagues nostalgic — but today's USB-C solutions are better
Lenovo's hot swappable batteries were a great way to keep working when you ran out of charge. Now, there are many ways to do that.
27/06/2025
Top semiconductor toolmaker launches talent competition in China — ASML is looking for 16 skilled lithography engineers
ASML launches an online competition in China to boost lithography awareness and recruit talented engineers for its operations in the country.
27/06/2025
Redwood Materials launches energy storage business and its first target is AI data centers
Redwood Materials has launched a new business — taking old EV batteries to store energy and help power businesses.
27/06/2025
Redwood Materials is giving old EV batteries a second life as microgrids
Redwood Materials is repurposing old EV batteries into energy storage systems that cost “substantially less” than brand new storage projects, the company said Thursday. The electric vehicle battery recycling and manufacturing venture, which was founded by Tesla’s former chief technologist, has created a new division called Redwood Energy to manage these projects. The aim is […]
27/06/2025
Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI
During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday, some of Meta's top executives were asked about the "$100 million signing bonuses" that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed they had been offering to poach his employees. "Sam is just being dishonest here," Andrew Bosworth, Meta's CTO, said at the meeting when asked about Altman's remarks. "He's suggesting […]
27/06/2025
This AI-powered startup studio plans to launch 100,000 companies a year — really
Henrik Werdelin has spent the last 15 years helping entrepreneurs build big brands like Barkbox through his startup studio Prehype. Now, with his new, New York-based venture Audos, he’s betting that AI can help him scale that process from “tens” of startups a year to “hundreds of thousands” of aspiring business owners. The timing certainly […]
27/06/2025
Google is rolling out its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search again – and it has a speed boost
After quietly pausing the rollout of Google Photos’ AI-powered “Ask Photos” search tool, Google is now expanding access once again and making some improvements to the feature. Google’s Gemini AI models power Ask Photos so that you can ask complex questions to help you find photos. But earlier this month, a member of the Google […]
26/06/2025
At TechCrunch All Stage, Jahanvi Sardana shares how top startups reshape markets
TechCrunch All Stage — the ultimate founder summit — is shaping up to be a powerhouse event where 1,200 founders and VCs across all stages will come together to forge meaningful connections and gain practical insights they can immediately apply to scale their startups. Join us on July 15 at SoWa Power Station in Boston […]
26/06/2025
Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you
Google is launching a new experimental app called Doppl that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you.
26/06/2025
Why a16z VC believes that Cluely, the ‘cheat on everything’ startup, is the new blueprint for AI startups
Andreessen Horowitz explains why its new investment philosophy prioritizes 'build as you go' approach embodied by Cluely
26/06/2025
TechCrunch All Stage: Learn how AI can supercharge your MVPs with Chris Gardner
TechCrunch All Stage, our big event for founders of startups at all stages of funding (see what we did there?), is coming up July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. And it’s our pleasure to announce that Underscore VC’s investing partner Chris Gardner will join a loaded lineup of speakers by leading a breakout session […]
26/06/2025
Apple overhauls EU App Store rules following penalty
Apple has introduced new App Store changes in the EU in an attempt to avoid being further penalized under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). On Thursday, the company announced a new tier system for its Store Services fee that’s applied to purchases made outside apps, and it will only give developers access to […]
26/06/2025
Apple updates the rules for its EU App Store by adding more complicated fees
Apple on Thursday announced a series of updates to its developer policies to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The news, which was expected, arrived just in time to meet the deadline of June 26, after which the iPhone maker would risk new fines. The changes involve both how app developers can communicate […]
26/06/2025
Travis Kalanick is trying to buy Pony AI — and Uber might help
Uber is reportedly in talks to help fund Travis Kalanick's potential acquisition of Pony AI, which has a market cap of around $4.5 billion.
26/06/2025
Ember’s temperature-controlled smart mug is down to its best price
Ever been racing to meet a deadline only to realize your coffee’s gone cold again? The Ember Mug 2 self-heating smart mug keeps your drink hot so you can stay focused without making constant trips to the microwave. And right now, Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart are selling the 14-ounce smart mug in select colors starting at […]
26/06/2025
Windows killed the Blue Screen of Death
Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?
26/06/2025
Micron 2600 QLC SSD uses flexible caching to offer TLC-like performance—7,200 MB/s reads and 6,500 MB/s writes push the limits of PCIe 4.0
Micron announces the new Micron 2600 SSD, available in 2230, 2242, and 2280 form factors.
26/06/2025
Simpler XAML in .NET MAUI 10
Make your .NET MAUI XAML more consistent and easier to read with global and implicit XML namespaces. The post Simpler XAML in .NET MAUI 10 appeared first on .NET Blog.
26/06/2025
AI disruptor DeepSeek's next-gen model delayed by Nvidia H20 restrictions—short supply of accelerators hinders development
DeepSeek's development of its next-gen R2 AI model has reportedly stalled due to a shortage of Nvidia's H20 chips in China, exposing the company's heavy reliance on U.S. hardware and casting uncertainty over the model’s launch timeline.
26/06/2025
Microsoft’s Xbox PC launcher gets going with Steam, Epic, and other games showing up
Microsoft announced earlier this week that it would start testing its new aggregated gaming library on the Xbox app for Windows, and it's now starting to show up for testers today. This new library experience lists Steam, Battle.net, Ubisoft, Epic Games Store, and Riot Games titles that are all installed on a PC from various […]
26/06/2025
The Xbox 360 dashboard just got updated… to advertise newer Xboxes
Earlier this week some devoted Xbox 360 users booted up their aging consoles to find that Microsoft had updated the home screen to finally resolve an issue with box art. But in addition to that fix, several users on Reddit, as well as Kotaku, have confirmed the update also adds some sizable ads for the […]
26/06/2025
Comcast is simplifying its Xfinity internet plans and dropping data caps
Comcast is changing its Xfinity plans nationwide to make them simpler – and it’s dropping data caps so that the plans have truly unlimited data. The company announced today that it will now offer four plans – 300 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 2 Gbps – across three different pricing tiers: an “Everyday Price” […]
26/06/2025
In just 3 months, CoreWeave CEO, once a crypto-mining bro, becomes a deca-billionaire
CoreWeave remains a symbol of the AI industry in 2025: Massive revenue, investor enthusiasm built on an insatiable need for more.
26/06/2025
Threads now lets you manage Hidden Words separately from Instagram, set time limits
Threads, Meta’s competitor to X, now has its own Hidden Words settings that operates separately from Instagram.
26/06/2025
Google Photos merges classic search with AI to speed up results
The AI feature, first introduced at Google's I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries.
26/06/2025
Gemini is getting ready to replace Google Assistant on Android
Android users will soon be able to let Gemini control device features and apps with fewer privacy concerns. In an email seen by Android Police, Google recently notified Gemini users that it will start rolling out an update on July 7th that allows the AI bot to “use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your […]
26/06/2025
The creator of the Delta emulator made a Game Boy Camera-style app for your iPhone
Riley Testut, the developer behind the robust Delta emulator app for iOS, announced a new iPhone app designed to replicate the Game Boy Camera accessory but with “features you’d expect from a modern camera app.”The Delta Camera app’s full feature list hasn’t been revealed yet, but it’s currently available for beta testing to those who […]
26/06/2025
Hisense’s latest smart air conditioner is on sale for just $249.99
Staying cool during the summer is about more than comfort; being overly hot can accelerate the aging process and be the difference between life and death. The NIH has guidance on how to handle hot weather, including a recommendation to stay in a place with air conditioning, if possible. Luckily for those in warmer climates, […]
26/06/2025
Uber has Atlanta’s autonomous ride-hailing and delivery market on lock
Uber Eats customers in Atlanta can now opt in to have their food delivered via sidewalk delivery robots, following partner Serve Robotics’s launch on Thursday. The move comes just two days after Uber and Waymo launched a commercial robotaxi service in the city.
26/06/2025
Rivian cuts dozens on manufacturing team ahead of R2 launch
The company laid off around 1% of its total workforce, or around 140 employees. It's the third round of cuts since the start of 2024.
26/06/2025
Elon Musk reportedly fires Tesla’s top sales exec
Omead Afshar, one of Musk's top lieutenants, is out after more than seven years at the company. He was recently elevated to a VP role in late 2024.
26/06/2025
New homegrown China server chips unveiled with impressive specs — Loongson's 3C6000 CPU comes armed with 64 cores, 128 threads, and performance to rival Xeon 8380
Loongson has finally released its 64-core 3C6000 data center CPU, featuring CPU performance equivalent to 2023 Intel and AMD data center processors such as the Xeon 8380.
26/06/2025
US, French authorities confirm arrest of BreachForums hackers
Kai West was arrested in France, along with four other hackers, all suspected of being part of the well-known hacking forum, BreachForums.
26/06/2025
The pharma CEOs aren’t safe in new trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia
CEOs would be nothing without the labor of their (typically) underpaid employees, and the unfairness of that reality seems to be what’s causing all the chaos in director Yorgos Lanthimos‘ upcoming film, Bugonia. A remake of South Korean director Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 feature Save the Green Planet, Bugonia zooms in on the life of Teddy […]
26/06/2025
YouTube search gets its own version of Google’s AI Overviews
Google is bringing an AI Overviews-like feature to another product: YouTube. The video streaming platform may now show an “AI-powered search results carousel” when some YouTube Premium members in the US make searches related to “shopping, travel, or things to do in a specific place,” according to a blog post. As shown in a video, […]
26/06/2025
Homeland Security warns of Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting US networks
DHS said low-level cyberattacks targeting U.S. networks are "likely" in the wake of military conflict between the US and Israel, and Iran.
26/06/2025
Now Google’s Gemini AI is ready to fill in those empty cells in your spreadsheet
Google is launching a new AI function in Sheets to help you generate text to fill out parts of your spreadsheet. The feature, powered by Google Gemini, can reference specific cells to create text, summarize information, or categorize your data. In the example shared by Google, you can use the new AI function to generate […]
26/06/2025
Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models
Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new AI superintelligence unit, a person familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch. OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal had departed OpenAI. Bansal’s LinkedIn page says that he left OpenAI in June. Bansal […]
26/06/2025
As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.
26/06/2025
Micron samples ground-breaking EUV-based memory — new DRAM process slashes power consumption by 20% and boosts performance by 15%
Micron has begun sampling LPDDR5X chips made with its new 1γ process that relies on EUV patterning, marking a major technology transition that improves performance, power efficiency, and bit density across its DRAM portfolio.
26/06/2025
Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel
It’s been nearly a year since a faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows-based machines around the world, and Microsoft wants to ensure such a problem never happens again. After holding a summit with security vendors last year, Microsoft is poised to release a private preview of Windows changes that will move antivirus (AV) […]
26/06/2025
What is an Xbox?
Microsoft's "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign in November always felt a little too early. If you ask a friend or family member what an Xbox is, the response is likely going to be "it's a game console." Xbox is ingrained in popular culture as a box under your TV that you play games on, […]
26/06/2025
Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as the Black Screen of Death. The […]
26/06/2025
Suno snaps up WavTool for its AI music editing tools amid ongoing dispute with music labels
AI music company Suno acquired WavTool, a browser-based AI DAW. This aims to improve editing capabilities for musicians.
26/06/2025
Bargain of the century? Lucky Goodwill shopper pays $30 for a PC, finds $1,200 RTX 3080 Ti and $400 Ryzen 7 inside
A Reddit user has revealed they spent $30 on a Goodwill PC find, only to discover an RTX 3080Ti and a Ryzen 7 3800X inside.
26/06/2025
OpenAI's gargantuan data center is even bigger than Elon Musk's xAI Colossus — world's largest 300 MW AI data center could reach record 1 gigawatt scale by next year, threatens grid stability
OpenAI, which is already operating a 300 MW data center, is building a gigawatt-scale AI data center in Texas, which will further strain the regional power grid.
26/06/2025
Insta360’s new $110 Flow 2 gimbal sacrifices some useful pro features
Insta360 has announced a new version of its entry-level smartphone gimbal. The new Insta360 Flow 2 includes many of the upgrades introduced on the Insta360 Flow 2 Pro that launched earlier this year including multi person tracking and the ability to use the Apple Watch as a remote control. But you’re also going to lose […]
26/06/2025
The BBC is launching a paywall in the US
The BBC wants to make people in the US pay for its content. The public broadcaster announced on Thursday that it will start offering US-based users an $8.99 per month (or $49.99 per year) subscription for “unlimited” access to news stories, feature reports, and the BBC News channel livestream. Users in the US will still […]
26/06/2025
Jeff Bezos is reportedly courting Trump after public spat with Musk
Bezos allegedly sees an opening for his space company, Blue Origin, now that Musk has been diminished in the eyes of the President.
26/06/2025
Denis Villeneuve is directing the next Bond film for Amazon
First, Amazon MGM secured creative control of the James Bond IP, then it brought Amy Pascal and David Heyman in to produce a new feature about the iconic spy. Now, the studio has found a director to lead the project. Last night, Amazon MGM announced that Denis Villeneuve has been tapped to direct a new […]
26/06/2025
People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think
A report by Anthropic reveals that people rarely seek companionship from AI, and turn to AI for emotional support or advice only 2.9% of the time.
26/06/2025
People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to believe
A report by Anthropic reveals that people rarely seek companionship from AI, and turn to AI for emotional support or advice only 2.9% of the time.
26/06/2025
YouTube adds an AI Overviews-like search results carousel
YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday.
26/06/2025
Jon McNeill brings the operator’s playbook to TechCrunch All Stage
Founders are often told to chase product-market fit before anything else, but what if scaling too soon, too fast, is what’s really holding them back? At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, Jon McNeill, CEO and co-founder of DVx Ventures (and former president of Tesla and COO of Lyft), will take the […]
26/06/2025
Dell's new 'Premium' laptops are the XPS in all but name — Intel Core Ultra Series 2 arrives in 14 and 16-inch sizes
Dell has unveiled two new Premium laptops sporting Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors.
26/06/2025
FTC to give $126 million back to Fortnite players who were charged for unwanted items — 950,000 payments refunded, and the deadline to claim your cash was just extended
The FTC has begun its second round of refunds for players affected by Fortnite's dark patterns that led to unwanted in-game purchases.
26/06/2025
Intel is closing its automotive chipmaking business
Intel is shutting down its business dedicated to making processors for cars. In a memo seen by The Oregonian, Intel tells workers that it plans to lay off “most” employees in the division, citing plans to shift focus to its “core client and data center portfolio.” “As part of this work, we have decided to […]
26/06/2025
Bose SoundLink Plus review: here’s your new beach speaker
I've been testing the $269 Bose SoundLink Plus, which is the company's latest portable Bluetooth speaker. It's durable, attractive, and designed to join you wherever you go, thanks to solid construction and an IP67 rating. You can toss it in a small backpack or clip it to the outside of one for easy transport to […]
26/06/2025
Dell’s new Premium laptops are here, for the XPS rebrand nobody asked for
After scrapping its XPS branding earlier this year, Dell has now launched two of the new “Premium” laptop models that are replacing it. Aside from being refreshed with Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 Arrow Lake processors, a slightly revised Dell lid logo, and a few other spec changes, the Dell 16 Premium and Dell 14 […]
26/06/2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang begins sale of $925M worth of Nvidia stock — sale of 6 million shares barely dents his $123 billion in shares
Jensen Huang will rake in almost a billion dollars this year from his planned sale of 6 million Nvidia shares.
26/06/2025
AMD’s next-generation mobile processors 'Gorgon Point' spotted in shipping manifests — HX 475 and 465 to use 10-core and 12-core CPU designs, respectively
AMD’s next-generation laptop processors, “Gorgon Point,” were spotted in shipping manifests with similar designs to the corresponding models of this generation’s Strix Point, Ryzen AI 9 365 / Ryzen AI 9 HX 375.
26/06/2025
AI is ruining houseplant communities online
"Maybe you could organize your plants like this," my friend's text message said, with an attached photo of white pots of plants floating midair in front of a huge, sunny window. As a newbie plant collector, I do need to organize my growing collection of flora, but not like this - the photo was AI-generated […]
26/06/2025
Intel hosts Direct Connect Asia event in Seoul — company tries to lure Samsung Foundry clients in its own backyard
Intel Foundry hosts its first Direct Connect Asia event in Korea, targets local chip designers, automotive industry.
26/06/2025
These 12 under-$50 gadgets have upgraded my tech life, and they're all on sale ahead of Amazon Prime Day
From electric screwdrivers to high-res webcams, these are inexpensive game-changers.
26/06/2025
Fedora Linux ponders dropping 32-bit packages, which could impact support for Steam gaming — change could also force Bazzite to shut down, according to its creator
A proposal for Fedora 44 suggests removing 32-bit support from the operating system, and many gamers are up in arms against it.
26/06/2025
Laser-cooled GPUs get buy-in from the U.S. military — government beams cash to Maxwell Labs to cool AI processors
Maxwell Labs has received a $500,000 grant through a U.S. Army-backed program to develop and test its laser-based cooling technology using ultrapure gallium arsenide semiconductors.
26/06/2025
New single-molecule magnet tech could unlock hard drives with 100x more capacity — drives could store three terabytes per square centimeter
New single-molecule magnet tech could enable hard drives with 100x more capacity
26/06/2025
Insane DDR4 price spikes mean last-gen RAM loses its value luster versus DDR5 — prices have nearly tripled in just two months
As tariffs rise and production falls, DDR4 has soared to become over twice as expensive as DDR5. This is the first time in DRAM history that a previous generation of DRAM has become this much more expensive than its current-gen replacement.
26/06/2025
RTX 5060 eGPU hooks handheld PCs up with Blackwell — prototype unit fits desktop-class power into the palm of a hand
The compact prototype is similar in size to RX 7600M XT-powered eGPU docks.
26/06/2025
Semiconductor industry faces critical talent crisis — one million additional skilled workers needed by 2030
The semiconductor industry is experiencing strong growth and soaring demand, but a worsening shortage of engineers, managers, and technical talent threatens to undermine its ability to grow further.
26/06/2025
Nvidia defends RTX 5050 desktop GDDR6 decision — says power-efficient GDDR7 is a better choice for laptops
Nvidia has revealed why it used GDDR6 VRAM in the desktop version of its RTX 5050, despite the fact the laptop version comes with GDDR7
26/06/2025
Meta’s recruiting blitz claims three OpenAI researchers
In the fight for top AI talent, Meta just reportedly snagged a win, poaching three OpenAI researchers despite rival Sam Altman’s public mockery of Mark Zuckerberg’s lavish hiring tactics. The latest victory in Zuckerberg’s widely-reported recruiting blitz: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai – who established OpenAI’s Zurich office – have joined Meta’s superintelligence […]
26/06/2025
Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars
Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr has raised $100 million in an all-equity Series B round led by General Catalyst, as the startup aims to boost its R&D and local production capabilities amid growing demand for drones in battlefields and for border surveillance. Drones are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in global military operations. In recent and ongoing […]
26/06/2025
Here are 14 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s early Prime Day sale
Amazon’s next Prime Day event hasn’t officially kicked off yet, but in classic Amazon fashion, the retailer has already dropped a selection of early deals ahead of its four-day sale. While steeper discounts are not likely to arrive until next month, many of the current offers are already worth considering, especially if you’re a Prime […]
26/06/2025
Meta’s AI copyright win comes with a warning about fair use
Meta won a major legal ruling in an AI copyright lawsuit brought by 13 authors alleging that the company illegally trained its AI systems on their work without permission. On Wednesday, Judge Vince Chhabria ruled in Meta’s favor, saying it is “entitled to summary judgment on its fair use defense to the claim that copying […]
26/06/2025
Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books
A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria issued a summary judgment — meaning the judge was able to decide on the case […]
25/06/2025
Brad Feld on “Give First” and the art of mentorship (at any age)
Brad Feld has spent decades operating by a simple principle: give without expecting anything in return. This philosophy goes beyond traditional pay-it-forward thinking, he says. It’s about helping others, knowing only that meaningful connections and opportunities will emerge organically over time if you do. The entrepreneur and VC, who began angel investing in the 1990s, […]
25/06/2025
Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot
Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI chatbot that lets you build AI-powered apps right inside the app. The upgrade, launching in beta, builds upon Anthropic’s Artifacts feature introduced last year that lets you see and interact with what you ask Claude to make. “Start building in the Claude app by enabling […]
25/06/2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 webcam compatibility mystery is solved and updates are on the way
If you plug the world's best-reviewed webcams into the Nintendo Switch 2 today, they won't work, while many comparatively ancient webcams do. Why? That's been a mystery for the nearly three weeks since the handheld launched. Now, two companies say they've figured it out and are pledging to update the firmware on their cameras. Here's […]
25/06/2025
WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages
WhatsApp can now call on Meta AI to summarize your personal chats. As shown in a GIF, you can access it by tapping the button to unfurl all of your unread messages in a chat. But instead of showing your messages, WhatsApp uses Meta AI to generate a bulleted summary of what you missed. The […]
25/06/2025
Philips Hue lighting will be more expensive starting July 1st, but you can save on them now
Signify has announced price increases for its Philips Hue smart lighting and accessories starting on July 1st due to US tariffs. As for how much the products will go up in price, that hasn’t been confirmed, but the Hue Wall Washer that was recently launched is 10 percent more expensive than its price in the […]
25/06/2025
Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times
From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theatre-style seating […]
25/06/2025
Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel to The Social Network
The Social Network is finally getting a sequel courtesy of Sony. Deadline reports that Sony is moving forward with The Social Network Part II, a “follow-up” to David Fincher’s 2010 feature about how TheFacebook went on to become one of the most singularly influential websites in internet history and made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire in […]
25/06/2025
Apple’s more immersive CarPlay is dividing the auto industry
Apple’s next-generation CarPlay is splitting the auto world down the middle. Several automakers are eagerly lining up to adopt the newly immersive CarPlay Ultra, which takes over more screens and includes embedded vehicle features like speedometers, heating and cooling, and radio functions. Others are flatly refusing to allow it, while the rest are taking a […]
25/06/2025
Kalshi closes $185M round as rival Polymarket reportedly seeks $200M
Investors are pouring big bucks into these two rival prediction markets.
25/06/2025
Dbrand admits it had a ‘spectacularly terrible response’ to Killswitch Joy-Con grip detachment complaints
Dbrand will send replacement Killswitch Joy-Con Grips for the Switch 2 to buyers after admitting it had a “spectacularly terrible response” to complaints that the controllers could detach from the console if held a certain way while the grips were on. The company is currently working on tweaks to the grips as well. A few […]
25/06/2025
Hundreds of data brokers might be breaking state laws, say privacy advocates
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a nonprofit privacy rights group have called on several states to investigate why “hundreds” of data brokers haven’t registered with state consumer protection agencies in accordance with local laws. An analysis done in collaboration with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) found that many data brokers have failed to register in […]
25/06/2025
The Trump Phone no longer promises it’s made in America
When the Trump Organization launched the Trump Mobile wireless carrier, it also launched a flagship phone called the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version). One of the phone’s main selling points was that it was to be made in America. We figured that was unlikely to be true. And we were right: sometime in the last […]
25/06/2025
I tested 12 Switch 2 cases and these are the best
You might find it kind of sad to put a hard-earned gadget into a protective case. To me, it's freeing. Using a case relieves me of the worry that it will accumulate tons of little scratches. So, I wasted no time testing cases on the new Nintendo Switch 2, and it didn't take long for […]
25/06/2025
Air quality tests around xAI’s Memphis data center raise questions
A legal group is questioning why a key pollutant was omitted from air quality tests near xAI's data center
25/06/2025
Anker’s versatile travel charger is on sale just in time for summer
If you’re planning on traveling internationally this summer, Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter is one of the most essential — and probably cheapest — items you can pack to level up your vacation game. And right now, you can buy the new adapter at Amazon as a part of a lightning deal for just $21.99 ($4 […]
25/06/2025
Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem
The idea is meant to create a balance between the open nature of the internet and the demand for ever more data to fuel AI.
25/06/2025
Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp
Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, the company notes. The feature builds on the AI technology that Meta released in April, […]
25/06/2025
Rubrik acquires Predibase to accelerate adoption of AI agents
Predibase helps companies train and fine-tune open source AI models which will help Rubrik customers deploy AI agents faster.
25/06/2025
China vows to retaliate against Taiwan for blacklisting Huawei, SMIC from chip tech — "Such despicable acts are utterly contemptible" says China spokesperson
Taiwan's blacklisting of 601 Chinese firms, including Huawei and SMIC, over national security concerns have provoked fierce condemnation from Beijing, which threatened retaliatory measures.
25/06/2025
Switch 2 has a 120 Hz screen with response times that are too slow for 60 Hz gaming, tester claims
Nintendo's latest Switch 2 console allegedly has a response time that is inadequate even for 60 FPS gaming.
25/06/2025
The photographer using AI to reconstruct stories lost to censorship
Video screens glow softly from the floor, looping footage of salt lakes, steppe villages, and decaying nuclear test sites. Suspended above them is a large handwoven textile map, crafted by artisans in Kazakhstan. The tapestry maps 12 significant sites across Kazakhstan and the surrounding region, each corresponding to one of the flickering videos below. This […]
25/06/2025
Apple’s sports app now shows tennis scores
Apple Sports, the company’s sports app for iPhone, now shows scores for tennis matches. “Tennis fans can access live scores for Grand Slam and 1000-level tournaments, and can track every point across all men’s and women’s singles matches, beginning with Wimbledon,” Apple says in a press release. The company is also adding a “brand-new home […]
25/06/2025
Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues
Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at London’s High Court, narrowing one of the most closely watched legal fights over how AI companies use copyrighted content to train their models.
25/06/2025
Intel hits the brakes on its automotive business, and layoffs have started
Intel has decided to close down its automotive business, a decision that will lead to layoffs.
25/06/2025
Gigabyte prepares a low-profile RTX 5050 GPU — Designed for SFF and aging gaming rigs
Gigabyte has announced the GeForce RTX 5050 OC Low Profile 8G for compact systems.
25/06/2025
How to safely maintain, use, and dispose of your power banks
The lithium-ion battery inside your power bank isn't designed to run forever. After years of use and hundreds of charges, its performance and capacity will decline, while the risk of more severe issues increases. There are things you can do to prolong your power bank's lifespan, while also ensuring you can use it safely. And […]
25/06/2025
Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week
"Let's use technology to benefit workers," Sanders said.
25/06/2025
Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has put a spotlight on private conversations leading up to a rival company suing OpenAI over its upcoming device, io. On Tuesday, Altman posted screenshots of emails on X showing messages between him and Jason Rugolo, the founder of the Iyo hearing device startup that’s suing OpenAI. The emails show a […]
25/06/2025
iPhone users on Google Fi will now get all their voicemails in the Phone app
Google is making a big change to how Fi users on iPhone access their voicemails: instead of getting voicemails from a dedicated tab in the Fi app, iPhone users will be able to get them right from the native iOS Phone app instead. The change started rolling out on Tuesday and will be fully rolled […]
25/06/2025
Better Auth, an authentication tool by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC
Better Auth offers an open source framework that promises to simplify how developers manage user authentication, and it’s caught the attention of some big name investors. It recently raised about $5 million in seed funding from Peak XV.
25/06/2025
Sitch’s new dating app fuses human matchmaking and AI
Can AI improve the dating app market? A new dating app called Sitch aims to find out by leveraging human expertise in matchmaking to power its AI model. Today’s dating apps bank on the speed of onboarding and having millions of options. Users create profiles within seconds by uploading photos and answering simple questions. The […]
25/06/2025
Remedy is in control
In the quiet city of Espoo, a short drive west from Helsinki in Finland, is an unassuming building that's home to one of the most confounding studios in games. Remedy Entertainment is known for getting weird. It started with the meta horror of Alan Wake, and has since expanded with Control, a game that turns […]
25/06/2025
Australian authorities say top crypto ATM users are scam victims and money mules — most transactions from victims or mules forced to deposit money into the machines
Scammers are using crypto ATMs as a tool to defraud victims out of their savings.
25/06/2025
Before Windows 10 goes EOL, I'm testing three alternative Linux distros to save my 6-year-old laptop from the landfill
Windows 10 goes EOL on October 14 2025 and I’m testing three alternative Linux distros that the community are raving about.
25/06/2025
Man behind $245m Bitcoin theft has bizarre tale that includes kidnapped parents, fraud, and money laundering — suspect now faces up to 24 years in prison, half-million-dollar fine, and possible deportation to India
Connecticut man, Veer Chetal, is one of three charged with stealing 4,100 Bitcoins in August 2024.
25/06/2025
Apple Sports app adds live tennis scores and a redesigned home screen
Apple Sports is introducing tennis coverage ahead of Wimbledon, along with a redesigned home screen experience.
25/06/2025
Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant
Wind power has run into some headwinds, and not the kind that spin its turbines. Recently, President Trump has decided to wage war against the technology, an unwelcome bit of friction that coincides with rising costs in recent years. Onshore wind power went for $61 per megawatt-hour last year, according to Lazard, bucking a decade-long […]
25/06/2025
Here’s a running list of all of Tesla’s robotaxi mishaps so far
Tesla’s robotaxi rollout has been rockier than the fanboys and influencers who got early access to the company’s driverless vehicles would like you to believe. And thanks to these diligent Redditors, we now have a list of all the mistakes the company’s “unsupervised” vehicles have made in the first couple days. Some are relatively minor, […]
25/06/2025
Winning capital for your AI startup? Kleida Martiro is leading the conversation at TechCrunch All Stage
AI-native startups are rewriting the rules of what early traction looks like — and too often, investors are still playing by the old ones. At TechCrunch All Stage, happening in Boston on July 15, Kleida Martiro, partner at Glasswing Ventures, will lead a breakout that cuts straight to the core of this disconnect. Her session, […]
25/06/2025
Bumble to lay off 30% of its workforce
Dating app Bumble announced on Wednesday that it's laying off 30% of its workforce, impacting around 240 positions.
25/06/2025
Insta360’s new wireless mic looks no bigger than an Apple AirTag
Having already secured a strong foothold in the action cam market with its Ace Pro lineup, Insta360 is now challenging DJI, Shure, and Rode with the company’s first wireless microphone. Looking comparable in size to an Apple AirTag, the Insta360 Mic Air is one of the smallest and lightest wireless mics now available while still […]
25/06/2025
University shakes hands with the past - 3D printing replicates 500-year-old prosthetic
Auburn University researchers have replicated a 500-year old prosthetic hand and demonstrate its usability half a millennia later.
25/06/2025
Nascent Materials emerges from stealth to make LFP batteries better and cheaper
Nascent recently raised $2.3 million to develop its novel manufacturing process for cathode materials.
25/06/2025
Introducing the Going Public Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
For the first time ever, TechCrunch Disrupt is launching the Going Public Stage — a brand-new destination for founders navigating the mid and late stages of company building. This content is essential for any founder, but especially those scaling fast, preparing for exit, or reimagining what comes next. Because whether you’re at the seed stage […]
25/06/2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 will be available for Walmart Plus subscribers today at 9pm Eastern
Most restocks are free to participate in, but not the latest one at Walmart. The retailer will stock both the $449.99 standalone Nintendo Switch 2 and a $499.99 bundle that includes the system along with a digital copy of Mario Kart World exclusively for Walmart Plus subscribers today starting at 9PM EDT/6PM PDT. Mind you, […]
25/06/2025
Discord is working on a Windows on Arm app
Discord is working on a native Windows on Arm version of its communications app. An early development preview build is available for testers, ahead of a full Arm64 release for compatible Arm-powered devices. Discord spokesperson Claudia Fellerman confirmed to The Verge that the company is working on a build for Windows on Arm, but it’s […]
25/06/2025
DLSS Transformer Model for DLSS 4 is out of beta as Nvidia looks to officially incorporate new model to improve image quality and efficiency
Nvidia's Transformer model for DLSS has exited the beta stage and will replace the CNN-based approach very soon with DLSS 4.
25/06/2025
WinRAR exploit enables attackers to run malicious code on your PC — critical vulnerability patched in latest beta update
The CVE-2025-6218 bug allows attackers to manipulate archive paths, potentially writing to protected system folders
25/06/2025
Russia frees REvil hackers after sentencing
Four members of the REvil ransomware group have been released from custody despite pleading guilty to fraud and malware distribution charges. The Dzerzhinsky Court of St. Petersburg allowed Roman Muromsky, Andrei Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, and Dmitry Korotaev to walk free after sentencing them to five years in prison on Monday, ruling that the gang members […]
25/06/2025
Google unveils Gemini CLI, an open-source AI tool for terminals
Google is launching a new agentic AI tool that will put its Gemini AI models closer to where developers are already coding. The company announced on Wednesday the launch of Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool designed to run locally from your terminal. The new tool connects Google’s Gemini AI models to local codebases, and […]
25/06/2025
Ring cameras and doorbells now use AI to provide specific descriptions of motion activity
Ring gets a new AI-powered feature that offers users specific text descriptions of current motion activity.
25/06/2025
Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals
Google has launched a new open-source AI agent that brings Gemini’s coding, content generation, and research capabilities directly into developers’ terminals. Gemini CLI provides a “fundamental upgrade to your command line experience,” according to Google, making it easier for developers to write and debug code using natural language prompts. “It provides lightweight access to Gemini, […]
25/06/2025
Ring camera alerts are about to get a lot smarter
Ring cameras are getting an AI upgrade that can tell you what’s happening at your front door, as well as show you. Video Descriptions is a new feature that generates text descriptions of the motion activity on Ring doorbells and cameras. Now, instead of an alert that says “Front door: person detected,” you’ll get something […]
25/06/2025
Kodiak is using Vay’s remote driving tech in its self-driving trucks
Kodiak Robotics has partnered with driverless car-sharing startup Vap to bring a remote-driving system into its self-driving trucks operation.
25/06/2025
Intel lays off hundreds of engineers in California, including chip design engineers and architects — automotive chip division also gets the axe
Intel has begun laying off employees in California — including design engineers — as part of CEO Lip-Bu Tan's plan to cut 15–20% of the workforce. The company is also to shut down its automotive chip division.
25/06/2025
HDMI 2.2 will support 16K video at 60Hz
After first announcing it at CES 2025, the HDMI Forum is finally releasing the new HDMI 2.2 specification to manufacturers today. Although there is no definitive timeline for how long it will take hardware makers to adopt the new specification, the first Ultra96 HDMI Cables, with bandwidth capabilities boosted to up to 96Gbps, could be […]
25/06/2025
Blacklisted Chinese GPU makers line up to file for IPOs as US sanctions and trade war take toll on AI hardware market
Amid rising demand for AI hardware in China and U.S. sanctions, China's GPU industry is rapidly expanding, with companies like Biren, Moore Threads, MetaX, and Zhaoxin pursuing IPOs to secure funding and strengthen their position.
25/06/2025
Julie Bornstein’s Daydream is releasing an AI-powered chatbot for fashion-related shopping
Ecommerce veteran Julie Bornstein's startup Daydream is releasing its AI-powered chatbot for shopping with a focus on fashion.
25/06/2025
New space startup Lux Aeterna wants to make satellites reusable
Lux Aeterna, a Denver-based startup, is working on a reusable satellite that has attracted $4 million in pre-seeding funding from investors.
25/06/2025
Western Digital's $500 million penalty for patent infringement reduced to a mere $1 — court says recipient failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to damages
A California court reduced the damages awarded to SPEX Technologies after the testimony of its expert has been excluded from the case.
25/06/2025
HDMI 2.2 is here with new 'Ultra96' Cables — up to 16K resolution, higher maximum 96 Gbps bandwidth than DisplayPort, backwards compatibility & more
The full spec for HDMI 2.2 has been released and it confirms 96 GB/s data transfer rates, which edge DisplayPort, and allow for uncompressed 4K 240 Hz video support.
25/06/2025
Massive $40 quad-fan JF15K Diamond CPU cooler wields dual-heatsinks for up to 280W TDP cooling capacity — Jiushark's latest spans the entire width of a standard motherboard
The Jiushark JF15K Diamond features a wide dual-tower design with quad-fans, and support for up to 280W cooling
25/06/2025
How to add non-Steam games to your Steam Deck with Heroic Games Launcher
Valve’s Steam Deck typically stores my neglected Steam games library, but with Heroic Games Launcher, I can now keep my Amazon, GoG, and Epic games close at hand and ready to play.
25/06/2025
Veloretti just made one of the best e-bikes lighter and cheaper
Dutch bicycle brand Veloretti just announced a slimmed-down version of its excellent Electric Two series of electric bikes for European commuters. The step-over Ace Two Lite is a lighter and less expensive version of the very heavy Ace Two e-bike I reviewed back in 2023, which ditches the sublime Enviolo automatic shifter in favor of a simpler […]
25/06/2025
AMD researchers reduce graphics card VRAM capacity of 3D-rendered trees from 38GB to just 52 KB with work graphs and mesh nodes — shifting CPU work to the GPU yields tremendous results
AMD researchers have developed a new 3D tree rendering technology that can reduce video memory demands
25/06/2025
Death Stranding 2 is bigger and more ambitious — and that includes its music
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is an expansive, captivating sequel filled with huge environments to explore and a big story from Hideo Kojima to try and wrap your head around. But one of my favorite additions is a small one: an in-game music player that basically functions as your own iPod. Woodkid, a co-composer […]
25/06/2025
27-year-old Easter egg found in the Apple Power Mac G3's ROM— creating a RAM disk with the name 'secret ROM image' unveils a hidden file
The activation method for an Easter egg, hidden deep within the ROMs of ancient beige Apple Power Mac G3 computers, has been uncovered.
25/06/2025
The smaller Fairphone 6 introduces swappable accessories
Fairphone has announced its latest repairable smartphone, nearly two years after introducing the last upgrade. The new Fairphone 6 is smaller and 9 percent lighter than its predecessor, but it includes a larger 4,415mAh battery — easily replaceable by removing just seven screws — that will power the phone for up to 53 hours on […]
25/06/2025
Ironheart believes the children are the future
Before the multiverse, magic, or any of Marvel's streaming series were important parts of the studio's cinematic universe, there was Iron Man. After years of so-so movies, Iron Man reminded everyone that Marvel's big-screen adaptations could be amazing with the right creative teams and stars attached. Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark was the MCU's centerpiece […]
25/06/2025
DJI ‘remains committed to the US market’ as shelves go bare of drones
Is DJI exiting the US drone market? The company says no - but it would not explain to The Verge what has changed such that it can't even keep a single drone on shelves. When I walked into my local Best Buy store today, June 24th, there were zero DJI drones available to purchase. There […]
24/06/2025
How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud AI voice category
Synthflow AI was founded in 2023 and has amassed more than 1,000 customers and handled more than 45 million calls.
24/06/2025
A nasal spray company wants to make it harder for the FTC to police health claims
In the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, a health products company called Xlear began advertising its saline nasal spray to people desperately searching for ways to protect themselves from a new virus. In its marketing, Xlear pointed to studies that it said supported the idea that ingredients in the spray could block viruses from sticking […]
24/06/2025
MindsEye developer undergoing layoffs less than a month after launch
Build a Rocket Boy has confirmed previous reports from IGN that it is undergoing layoffs less than a month after the tumultuous release of its first game MindsEye. The Verge reached out to Build a Rocket Boy to confirm the layoffs, but they did not respond. In a statement made to IGN, Build A Rocket […]
24/06/2025
The US is stripping its forests of decades-old protections
The Trump administration wants to open up tens of millions of acres of national forest to development. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced yesterday that it’s rescinding a landmark rule that prevents road construction and timber harvesting in the last unfragmented stretches of national forest. The USDA says the move will boost timber production, […]
24/06/2025
India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation
GoKwik, an Indian startup that offers a suite of integrated e-commerce products, has raised a small round of $13 million, which it calls a “growth” round, that has boosted its valuation to $450 million pre-money. While the new funding round, led by RTP Global, is 63% smaller than its Series B of $35 million, announced […]
24/06/2025
New data highlights the race to build more empathetic language models
Measuring AI progress has usually meant testing scientific knowledge or logical reasoning – but while the major benchmarks still focus on left-brain logic skills, there’s been a quiet push within AI companies to make models more emotionally intelligent. As foundation models compete on soft measures like user preference and “feeling the AGI,” having a good […]
24/06/2025
Facebook Group admins complain of mass bans; Meta says it’s fixing the problem
After a wave of mass bans affecting Instagram and Facebook users alike, Meta users are now complaining that Facebook Groups are also being impacted by mass suspensions. According to individual complaints and organized efforts on sites like Reddit to share information, the bans have affected thousands of groups both in the U.S. and abroad and […]
24/06/2025
In just 4 months, AI medical scribe Abridge doubles valuation to $5.3B
Abridge nabbed $300 million Series E led by a16z, months after it closed its previous $250M fundraise.
24/06/2025
The All-In Podcast’s $1,200 tequila has already sold out
The VCs, pod bros, and self proclaimed “besties” of the All-In podcast launched their own tequila brand on Saturday night and it promptly sold out.
24/06/2025
The Titan 2 is a modernized BlackBerry with 5G, Android, and a second screen
Despite the demise of the BlackBerry, there’s still a demand for smartphones with physical keyboards, if successful products like the Clicks keyboard case are any indication. Unihertz, a Chinese company best known for its small Android handsets, has announced the Titan 2: a follow-up to its first BlackBerry Passport-inspired smartphone that adds modern upgrades like […]
24/06/2025
This 55-inch QLED TV is on sale for $565 and looks like a picture frame when it isn’t being used
With Amazon’s Prime Day just a few weeks away, we’re already starting to see deals on TVs ahead of the four-day event. If you want to get a head start on your shopping, TCL’s subbrand, iFFALCON, has dropped the price of its 55-inch QLED 4K Mural TV to a new low price at Amazon. It […]
24/06/2025
Apple Wallet notifications for an F1 movie promotion ticked off iPhone owners
Apple poured some good money into making F1 – a Formula 1 racing movie starring Brad Pitt – and it wants its customers to know that. To that end, many people, including some Verge staffers, noticed an unusual Apple Wallet notification this morning that’s both an advertisement and promotion for the film. The notification prompts […]
24/06/2025
Paramount Plus with Showtime is getting a rebrand
“Paramount Plus with Showtime” has always been one of the more awkward bits of branding to come out of the streaming era, but soon subscribers will know the tier by another name. This week Paramount informed Paramount Plus subscribers that Paramount Plus with Showtime — the platform’s most expensive tier that features Showtime programming and […]
24/06/2025
Netflix is letting go of some of its best indie games
If you’ve been enjoying Hades on mobile via Netflix, you better get in those last few runs while you still can. First spotted by Engadget, and confirmed via the Netflix app, Supergiant’s Greek mythology inspired roguelike and 21 other games are being delisted from the service next month. Several titles like Braid, Katana Zero, and […]
24/06/2025
Asus ROG Azoth X Review: A very different aesthetic
Asus' new flagship ROG Azoth X keyboard looks very different from its predecessor — white, colorful, and with semi-translucent keycaps for better backlighting. The new Azoth X also comes with a wrist rest and support for Asus' new web-based armoury crate software.
24/06/2025
Hideo Kojima sees Death Stranding 2 as a cautionary tale
For once, the unflappable Hideo Kojima was overwhelmed. Even close to four decades of game-making experience didn't prepare him for his biggest tribulation so far: developing Death Stranding 2: On the Beach during the covid-19 pandemic. "I thought I can't pull this off. [I can't] meet people or scan people, or shoot with people. I […]
24/06/2025
iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie
However well-received the film may be, iPhone users don't necessarily want their built-in utilities, like their digital wallet, marketing to them.
24/06/2025
Samsung’s offering a $50 credit if you commit to preordering its upcoming Galaxy foldable
Samsung has announced an Unpacked event that’s happening on Wednesday, July 9th at 10AM ET. Details are sparse, but it shared the tagline “Ultra Unfolds,” which suggests we’re about to learn a whole lot more about a premium foldable phone, and perhaps some other foldables. However, you don’t have to wait for the keynote to […]
24/06/2025
Tesla’s robotaxis are operating in a regulatory vacuum
This week, Tesla launched its long-promised robotaxi service in Austin, and almost immediately its vehicles were caught fucking up. In a YouTube video, a Tesla robotaxi briefly drives on the wrong side of the road. Another video shared by Ed Niedermeyer, the author of a book about Tesla's origins, shows a robotaxi braking hard in […]
24/06/2025
ElevenLabs releases a standalone voice generation app
Voice AI company ElevenLabs just released a standalone mobile app for iOS and Android users to generate voice clips from text. Until now, if you had to generate samples using ElevenLabs’ AI-powered voice libraries, you had to rely on its web app. Now, you can use its mobile app to generate clips on the go. […]
24/06/2025
Chrome for Android now lets you move the address bar to the bottom, too
Google Chrome’s web browser for Android devices is finally catching up to the notable design change that Safari made with the 2021 introduction of iOS 15: it’s offering a way to move the address bar to the bottom of the screen too. The company announced on Tuesday that the latest version of its Chrome for […]
24/06/2025
Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom
Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen. It’s something that iOS Chrome users have been able to do since 2023, and it could help make the address bar more easily accessible, especially if you are using a […]
24/06/2025
Microsoft makes Windows 10 extended security updates free, but there’s a catch
Microsoft revealed last year that it will charge consumers $30 for a year of extra security updates to Windows 10. Now, it’s allowing consumers to enroll into its Extended Security Updates (ESU) free of charge ahead of the Windows 10 end of support on October 14th. But there’s a catch. Consumers will have three options […]
24/06/2025
Philips Hue is raising prices in the US ‘as a direct result of tariffs’
You’ll soon have to pay more for various Philips Hue smart lighting and security gadgets if you live in the US. After vaguely notifying customers that prices will “go up” on July 1st in a promotional message, Philips Hue’s parent company Signify has confirmed that it’s inflating prices across the Philips Hue portfolio “as a […]
24/06/2025
How to use Steam’s in-game performance monitor to display real FPS with DLSS or FSR frame generation active
Valve’s new in-game performance monitor can report real and DLSS / FSR-generated frames at the same time.
24/06/2025
Microsoft fixes Windows Vista boot sound bug in latest Windows 11 Insider Build — adds Recall Homepage and customizable system indicators
Build 26200.5661 also adds Recall Homepage, customizable system indicators, and key stability fixes
24/06/2025
Geekom 'violently' smashes its new Mini PC with a sledgehammer, drags it behind a motorbike, and spins it in a washing machine - PC still works after extreme torture testing
Geekom has shared a video which shows its latest IT15 Mini-PC being subjected to unnatural levels of violence.
24/06/2025
Feds question Ford in hands-free driving investigation
The top federal vehicle safety regulator has sent Ford an exhaustive list of questions about its hands-free driver-assistance system known as BlueCruise. It's the latest development in an investigation that started more than one year ago following two fatal crashes involving the software.
24/06/2025
The latest Fire TV Stick 4K is half off ahead of Prime Day
Streaming sticks can breathe new life into an older TV, and help you get even more out of a modern one. Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is one most affordable around, with a snappy interface, access to a plethora of streaming apps, and the ability to control some smart home devices from your couch. The […]
24/06/2025
Nvidia launches $249 RTX 5050, putting Blackwell within reach of more gamers — entry-level 50-series arrives in late July
Nvidia finally unveils the RTX 5050, sporting 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR6, and a 130W TGP. The new GPU represents Nvidia's first new xx50-class desktop card since the RTX 3050
24/06/2025
Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app
CEO Tanay Kothari noted that the startup will soon achieve profitability at the current rate of growth. Initially, he didn't want to raise money, but he worried that Big Tech players with a massive distribution advantage could be a risk to the company. He wanted to rapidly multiply the company's revenue and reach and decided to take the investment.
24/06/2025
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Medha Agarwal, Jyoti Bansal, and Jennifer Neundorfer discuss what makes a pitch land
Perfect your pitch for maximum impact. Investors hear hundreds of pitches, but only a few stand out. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, hear directly from Medha Agarwal, general partner, defy.vc; Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder, Harness; Jennifer Neundorfer, co-founder and managing partner, January Ventures as they share what grabs their attention, what turns them off, and the subtle signals founders often miss.
24/06/2025
Nomad’s minimalist MagSafe wallet has a tracking card built in
Nomad already sells a line of leather wallets that can be bundled with the company’s Apple-compatible Tracking Card, allowing them to be located if misplaced. The company’s new Leather Mag Wallet is its first to instead feature the tracker’s electronics built right in, so you don’t need to sacrifice a card slot in order to […]
24/06/2025
Roblox wants to better reward creators for bringing players back
Roblox is introducing two new systems that are designed to further encourage creators to bring players onto the social games platform on a regular basis. The systems, part of what Roblox is calling Creator Rewards, will roll out beginning July 24th. One is the Daily Engagement Reward program, which gives Roblox creators 5 Robux for […]
24/06/2025
These battery-powered 4K cameras record 24/7
TP-Link just launched a bunch of new security cameras for its Tapo smart home brand, including a 4K-capable line for outdoors and a slew of inexpensive pan and tilt cams that can be used indoors and out — all without any subscription fees. The company is also finally releasing its Tapo HomeBase H500 hub, first […]
24/06/2025
Nvidia’s RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM
Nvidia has announced GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs for both desktops and laptops with support for ray tracing and DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. On the desktop side, the RTX 5050 will start at $249, draw up to 130W of power, and feature 8GB of last-gen GDDR6 video memory (VRAM) and 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores. […]
24/06/2025
Rare Franken-GPU has both AMD and Nvidia branding — AMD Radeon GeForce RTX 9070 XT is the new ultimate midrange gaming champ
Redditor receives an Asus graphics card with both AMD and Nvidia branding.
24/06/2025
Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions — military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots
This tiny mosquito-sized drone was created by a team from the Hunan Province in China and is able to help in information reconnaissance missions.
24/06/2025
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At TechCrunch All Stage, we’re proud to spotlight our partners — not only for their support, but also for the invaluable expertise they bring to the conversation. Their sessions deliver front-line insights into the startup ecosystem and are must-attend moments for anyone looking to navigate and thrive in today’s dynamic entrepreneurial landscape. We sincerely thank […]
24/06/2025
A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission
The ruling isn't a guarantee for how similar cases will proceed, but it lays the foundations for a precedent that would side with tech companies over creatives.
24/06/2025
Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books
A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in an AI copyright case, ruling that training — and only training — its AI models on legally purchased books without authors’ permission is fair use. It’s a first-of-its-kind ruling in favor of the AI industry, but it’s importantly limited specifically to physical books Anthropic purchased and digitized. […]
24/06/2025
Noctua’s highly anticipated second-gen NF-A12x25 G2 120mm fans hit retail at $34.90 — redesigned fan blades and hub boost cooling performance
The NF-A12x25 G2 is Noctua’s latest addition to its 120 mm fan lineup, aimed at improving airflow efficiency without increasing noise levels
24/06/2025
Nintendo’s wheelchair basketball game will be out in August
Drag x Drive is the next Switch 2 exclusive to get a release date. Nintendo, via its Nintendo Today news app, announced that the 3 v 3 wheelchair basketball game would be out August 14th. Since the launch of the Switch 2 earlier this month, most of the new console’s catalogue has been third party […]
24/06/2025
Microsoft planning ‘major’ Xbox layoffs next week
Microsoft is planning to cut jobs in the company’s Xbox gaming business, as early as next week. I first reported in Notepad earlier this month that Microsoft was planning Xbox layoffs “potentially by the end of the month,” and now Bloomberg says a round of “major layoffs” is due next week. I understand managers at […]
24/06/2025
Amazon to spend over $4B to expand Prime delivery to rural communities in the US
Amazon expands its Same-Day and Next-Day delivery services to 4K small cities and towns in the U.S.
24/06/2025
UK may require Google to give users alternative search options and rank its results ‘more fairly’
The UK's competition regulator may require Google to offer users alternative search engines; change how it ranks searches; and improve data portability.
24/06/2025
Android’s youthful new design will change the way you make and answer calls
Google is freshening up its Phone app with a new interface that’s supposed to make it easier to find contacts and your calls. The test is gradually rolling out to some of Google’s public beta users, and also includes some style changes that align with Android’s more youthful Material 3 Expressive design language. For starters, […]
24/06/2025
Google rolls out new Gemini model that can run on robots locally
Google DeepMind has released a new language model called Gemini Robotics On-Device that can run tasks locally on robots without an internet connection.
24/06/2025
I skipped every Death Stranding cutscene and I’ll do it again
I beat the original Death Stranding, but please don't ask me what happened in it. There was a cataclysm - not quite a Gommage - that made the US more divided than ever, and you play as a babysitter-meets-delivery-guy who has special awareness of invisible, hostile creatures called BTs that are "beached," which isn't as […]
24/06/2025
How a data processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual
Eventual's data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders' experience working on Lyft's autonomous vehicle project.
24/06/2025
Sony faces class action over expensive digital game and DLC prices — ‘Sony tax’ means digital games cost ‘an average of 47% more’ than those on disc, group alleges
Dutch PlayStation gamers are up in arms about what they call the unfair 'Sony tax,' and have decided to take the corporation to court.
24/06/2025
Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth
Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth.
24/06/2025
Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic
Novoloop recently raised a $21 million Series B to begin building its first commercial scale plastic upcycling plant.
24/06/2025
US House bans WhatsApp from staff devices
The U.S. government has banned WhatsApp from devices used by U.S. House of Representatives staff, saying the app poses potential security risks.
24/06/2025
Uber and Waymo’s commercial robotaxi service is open for business in Atlanta
Waymo and Uber are offering commercial robotaxi rides in Atlanta.
24/06/2025
Riot is shutting down studio behind its Minecraft-like game
Riot Games is closing the studio behind Hytale, its Minecraft-like game that has been in development for nearly a decade. Hypixel Studios, which Riot acquired in 2020 for an undisclosed sum, is shutting down “over the next few months,” according to Hypixel CEO Aaron “Noxy” Donaghey. “After years of pushing forward, adapting, and exploring every […]
24/06/2025
Windows 11’s indicators for volume and brightness can soon be moved out of the way
Microsoft is testing a new feature in Windows 11 that will let you move hardware indicators pop-ups like volume and screen brightness to the top-left and top-center positions of a display. The customization feature is part of a new Dev Channel build of Windows 11 that also includes a new Recall homepage that lists the […]
24/06/2025
Raleigh One e-bike launches with VanMoof DNA
The Raleigh One e-bike is now official after The Verge first published details of it last week. It was developed for the Accell Group’s Raleigh brand with help from VanMoof’s cofounders, Ties and Taco Carlier, according to my sources. The announcement never mentions their involvement, which could be viewed as good or bad — good if you […]
24/06/2025
Google introduces AI mode to users in India
Google introduced its AI mode, a Q&A-style search tool, to users in India today. The company said that this tool is still in the experimental stage and users will need to opt in to it through Search Labs. Once a user has opted in, they can ask queries in English. Google didn’t specify whether it […]
24/06/2025
OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable
Thanks to a related trademark lawsuit, we know what OpenAI and Jony Ive's first AI device won't be. In court filings submitted this month, leaders from io - the consumer hardware team OpenAI recently acquired from Jony Ive's design studio for $6.5 billion - testified that the first device they plan to release won't be […]
24/06/2025
Yale’s new Google Home smart lock is here — but it costs more thanks to tariffs
The Yale Smart Lock with Matter is launching tomorrow, June 24th, for $189.99 — $20 more than when it was first announced in March. Yale tells The Verge the price increase is due to the impact of tariffs. The lock will be available on Amazon and Yale’s website. According to Yale, the new smart lock was […]
24/06/2025
Court filings reveal OpenAI and io’s early work on an AI device
Legal filings submitted earlier this month from lawyers representing OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io reveal new details about the companies’ efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. The filings are part of a trademark dispute lawsuit filed this month by iyO, a Google-backed hardware startup developing custom-molded earpieces that connect to other devices. Over […]
23/06/2025
Samsung confirms Unpacked for early July
Samsung’s summer Unpacked is officially on, starting at 10AM ET on Wednesday, July 9th. The invitation features a jazzy little bop and the words “Ultra Unfolds,” so I think it’s safe to assume we’re getting that foldable Ultra phone the company previously hinted at. The event is set to take place in Brooklyn, but you […]
23/06/2025
T-Mobile’s satellite service officially launches in July
After spending the first half of the year in beta testing, T-Mobile’s Starlink-powered satellite service will go public on July 23rd. While it will only include messaging at launch, the company has some ambitious plans to expand the service before the end of the year. When it goes live next month, “T-Satellite” will be available […]
23/06/2025
Nintendo’s GameCube controller for the Switch 2 is available once again
If you missed the chance to pick up Nintendo’s new GameCube Controller for the Switch 2, your time has come. It’s back in stock for $64.99 at the My Nintendo Store. To add one to your collection, you’ll need to have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, which starts at $19.99 a year for individuals. Once […]
23/06/2025
Tesla’s robotaxis have already caught the attention of federal safety regulators
Federal safety regulators have reached out to Tesla a day after the automaker began providing rides in its branded robotaxis in Austin.
23/06/2025
Phew: Apple fixed the Finder icon in macOS Tahoe 26
Apple’s first macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta introduced a big change to the Finder icon that I really didn’t like, but thankfully, the company has reversed it with the second beta released today. A big feature of macOS 26 is Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language, which it has applied across the operating system to […]
23/06/2025
The Steam Deck OLED is back in stock
If you’ve been itching to get a handheld, but the Switch 2 isn’t quite up your alley, now you can get your hands on a Steam Deck OLED. As spotted by @Wario64, Valve has started selling the device on its online store again after it was out of stock in the US and Canada for […]
23/06/2025
Trump’s FTC will approve an ad merger — with a gift to Elon Musk’s X
The all-Republican Federal Trade Commission agreed to approve a $13.5 billion ad merger if it includes a ban on steering ad dollars away from platforms or publishers based on “political or ideological viewpoints.” The order, which was reported by The New York Times earlier this month, would prevent ad giant Omnicom from wholesale avoiding platforms […]
23/06/2025
Hue’s new smart button is bigger and more expensive
Smart lighting company Hue has released a new version of its Smart Button, one of the simplest ways of controlling Hue’s colorful smart lights. The new Smart Button has a bigger design and a bit of price hike — in the U.S., at least, where it now costs $32.99 compared to $29.99 for its predecessor. […]
23/06/2025
Apple heard your complaints about the Liquid Glass Control Center
My biggest complaint with Liquid Glass in the first iOS 26 developer beta was that it sometimes made Control Center nearly unreadable, but Apple has seemingly fixed that with the second beta, which is out now. In the first beta, the glassiness of everything meant that you could still see a fair amount of what […]
23/06/2025
Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers
Andy Konwinski is pledging $100 million of his own money for a new kind of institute to fund researchers. It's already backed Ion Stoica's new lab.
23/06/2025
Apple’s Liquid Glass interface improves with release of iOS 26 Beta 2
These are not likely the final adjustments, given that iOS 26 doesn't launch publicly until the fall. However, they are indications that Apple is actively listening to early user feedback and making tweaks accordingly.
23/06/2025
New York’s getting a new nuclear power plant
New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans today to develop a new nuclear power plant, the first to be built in the state in decades. It’s the latest signal that nuclear energy could see a comeback in the US thanks to wide-ranging support from some strange bedfellows: the Trump administration purporting to seek “energy dominance”; […]
23/06/2025
Canada says telcos were breached in China-linked espionage hacks
Salt Typhoon previously hacked phone and telco giants across the United States.
23/06/2025
Apple’s USB-C EarPods are an even better buy at just $15.99
Last year, I lost my old AirPods in my apartment and relied on my old-school Lightning EarPods for months before upgrading to an iPhone 16. Honestly, aside from missing wireless connectivity, I hadn’t noticed much difference. That’s why I still think they’re a good investment in 2025, and why I’m considering picking up the newer […]
23/06/2025
Microsoft tests Xbox app with Battle.net integration — updated app brings third-party game library aggregation
Microsoft has announced a new aggregated gaming library for Xbox app on PC that will see installed games from third party storefronts show up in the Xbox app.
23/06/2025
Asus RTX 5090 BTF 2.5 GPU successfully pulls over 1,900W in extreme test — proprietary metal power connector kept its cool, unlike plastic 16-pin alternative
Tony Yu, the General Manager of Asus China, explained how the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 BTF GPU's power connectors work.
23/06/2025
Leak reveals Grok might soon edit your spreadsheets
Leaked code suggests xAI is developing an advanced file editor for Grok with spreadsheet support, signaling the company’s push to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft by embedding AI copilots into productivity tools.
23/06/2025
Four months after a $3B valuation, Harvey AI grows to $5B
The round, which comes just four months after $300 million Series D, was co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue.
23/06/2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: The Builders Stage agenda is now live and taking shape
Startups don’t build themselves. The Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, is where investors, operators, and founders come to talk tactics.
23/06/2025
Over a million people now have access to the gen-AI powered Alexa+
Alexa+ is available for free during Early Access and will later be free for Prime customers. Non-Prime users will be able to use the service for $19.99 per month after it publicly launches.
23/06/2025
Microsoft’s Xbox UI update lets you pin games and customize your homescreen
Microsoft is rolling out a new update to its Xbox Home UI that allows Xbox owners to pin apps and games on the homescreen. It’s part of a number of customization changes to the Xbox Home UI, including the ability to hide system apps and reduce the number of apps and games listed in the […]
23/06/2025
House staffers can’t have WhatsApp on their devices
The House of Representatives has banned staff members from using WhatsApp on government devices, according to a report from Axios. In an email viewed by the outlet, the House’s chief administrative officer (CAO) tells staffers that the Office of Cybersecurity “has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk” because of a “lack of transparency in how it protects […]
23/06/2025
RTX 5070 Ti falls below MSRP in the UK — grab one for less than £700 for the first time
The Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti has fallen below MSRP for the first time in the UK.
23/06/2025
Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations boosts compute performance — 20% uplift from setting change that even Intel employs, despite unknown security risk
Disabling security mitigations for Intel GPUs in Intel's GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can allegedly boost performance by up to 20%.
23/06/2025
Intel's laptop version of its Nova Lake processors will use Panther Lake-HX BGA2540 packaging — will smooth over transition for notebook makers moving to the next generation
Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-HX processors will share the same BGA2540 packaging as Panther Lake-HX, simplifying platform transitions for notebook makers.
23/06/2025
New York State wants more nuclear power in a big way
Gov. Kathy Hochul is directing the New York Power Authority to develop the new power plant.
23/06/2025
Nintendo’s Switch 2 is available online at Best Buy
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been difficult to find in stock since its June 5th launch, though restocks are beginning to ramp up. If you’re looking for one, head over to Best Buy’s site or use the app. Those who have a free account can get the standalone system ($449.99) and a console bundle ($499.99) […]
23/06/2025
AllSpice’s platform is the GitHub for electrical engineering teams
AllSpice's platform has landed customers including Blue Origin and Bose and just raised a $15 million Series A round.
23/06/2025
Someone turned a Steam Deck shell into a DIY PC controller using 3D-printed connectors — features dual touchpads and Nintendo Switch 2-esque split design
Bored waiting for an official Steam Controller 2, an engineer has taken things into his own hands, and shared the resources so you can do it too.
23/06/2025
$1,400 can get you a powerful (and huge) HP Omen laptop with an RTX 5070
Many people gravitate toward compact laptops for their convenience, but there’s a subset of gamers who want a big ass gaming laptop that offers desktop-class performance. If you fall into the latter bucket, you may appreciate knowing that HP is offering 20 percent off its latest Omen gaming laptops, which are equipped with Nvidia’s powerful […]
23/06/2025
Rubin telescope to collect up to 500,000 TB of data from 3,200-megapixel camera over ten years — each image is 6.4 GB, facility has its own data center for data storage
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is collecting so much data it might end up with 500 million billion bytes worth of image data over the course of a decade.
23/06/2025
The new lies spreading about climate change
New strains of misinformation about climate change are spreading, meant to slow the growth of renewable energy needed to fix the problem. Rather than flat-out denying the mountains of evidence that show that humans are causing climate change, more recent talking points aim to mislead people by casting doubt on potential solutions. Renewable energy has […]
23/06/2025
JLab’s new party speaker puts a light show in your pocket
JLab has announced a new Party line of wireless speakers that continues an industry trend of adding animated RGB lighting to anything that plays music. That even includes the new budget-minded JLab Pop Party speaker — which is small enough to squeeze into a pocket but still features customizable LEDs. The $19.99 Pop Party is […]
23/06/2025
Microsoft adds Steam games to its Xbox PC app on Windows
Microsoft is starting to test its new aggregated gaming library in its Xbox PC app on Windows. Xbox Insiders will now be able to see their Steam and Battle.net games all within the Xbox app — making it a single launcher for most installed PC games. This new consolidated library will roll out to the […]
23/06/2025
Senators urge FTC to investigate Spotify’s higher-priced bundled subscription
Two U.S. senators have requested that the FTC investigate Spotify due to allegations that the company bundled its subscription without user consent, while also undercompensating creators.
23/06/2025
TikTok parent ByteDance is shutting down its short-lived book publisher
The TikTok parent company ByteDance started a book publisher in 2023, but it's already shutting it down.
23/06/2025
US insurance giant Aflac says customers’ personal data stolen during cyberattack
The U.S. insurance giant provides supplemental insurance to around 50 million customers.
23/06/2025
PC gaming figures fall again in Germany, down to just 13.1 million — marking a 20% decline since 2019
The latest figures out of Germany suggest that the popularity of PC gaming has declined by a fifth since 2019.
23/06/2025
Want to know where VCs are investing next? Be in the room at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Early-stage founders, listen up! You will want a front row seat at the Builders Stage on Oct 27 at 1:00 pm. This session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 brings together Nina Achadjian, partner, Index Ventures; Jerry Chen, general partner, Greylock; and Viviana Faga, general partner, Felicis, all of whom will share their 2026 investment priorities across […]
23/06/2025
Apple keeps pulling its own ads
Apple has taken down a new ad just one day after posting it, making it the fourth one removed in just over a year, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The nearly eight-minute-long ad, titled “The Parent Presentation,” featured comedian Martin Herlihy giving students advice on how to convince their parents to buy them a Mac. […]
23/06/2025
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek reportedly using shell companies to try and evade U.S. chip restrictions — allegedly procured unknown number of H100 AI GPUs after ban, but Nvidia denies the claim
Nvidia says DeepSeek lawfully acquired H800 chips, not H100
23/06/2025
Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’
Today, I’m talking with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod. Hinge is one of the biggest dating apps in the United States — it’s rivaled only by Tinder, and both are owned by the massive conglomerate Match Group, which has consolidated a huge chunk of the online dating ecosystem. A fair warning here: I’ve never […]
23/06/2025
Hinge is planning its own mobile payment system to avoid App Store fees
As part of his appearance on the Decoder podcast, Hinge co-founder and CEO Justin McLeod says that the company would like to introduce an alternative payment service by the end of this year. With a Hinge-run alternative payment service, Apple won’t be able to take a cut of any purchases, and that “changes the equation” […]
23/06/2025
Japanese shipping firm NYK acquires Kadmos, a salary payment platform for seafarers
Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha is acquiring German salary payment platform for seafaring workers, Kadmos.
23/06/2025
Power utility built $95 million 500-megawatt power substation for Intel's $100 billion Ohio fab, but six-year delay leaves substation capable of powering 500,000 homes idle
Intel has once again postponed the launch of its Ohio chip plant, which is now expected in 2031, leaving utility AEP Ohio with an idle $95 million substation.
23/06/2025
Google adds AI features to Chromebook Plus devices
Google's adding a slew of AI features to the Chromebook Plus line, including a search and text capture tool, NotebookLM, and a tool for simplifying text.
23/06/2025
Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo’s sleek, new 14-incher are getting free Gemini AI features
Google announced a handful of new Gemini AI features for Chromebook Plus laptops, including a sleek, new 14-inch flagship device from Lenovo that I got to handle recently. The new AI functions include select to search, which allows you to long press the launcher icon or take a screenshot and do a Google search based […]
23/06/2025
Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time
In the online world of fanfiction writers, who pen stories inspired by their favorite movies, books, and games, and share them for free, there are unspoken codes of conduct. Among the most important: never charge money for your fanfic, and never steal other people's work. It makes sense then that fanfic writers were among the […]
23/06/2025
Death Stranding 2 is much more approachable, if you’re prepared
It took me a long time to appreciate Death Stranding. I'm not even sure I fully got it after my initial playthrough, which was equal parts mesmerizing and dull. The game, in which you play as a postapocalyptic delivery man in a world ravaged by a breach with the afterlife, demands a lot from players. […]
23/06/2025
Gigabyte's latest RGB firmware upgrade is bricking some motherboards, including Z790 series — dynamic lighting and RGB failures, rogue CPU fan usages, and more reported
Users report widespread failures after installing the IT5701/5702 RGB controller update, with some motherboards refusing to boot.
23/06/2025
Nvidia RTX 5090 beats RTX Pro 6000 in tests after shunt mod to a staggering 800W — consumer flagship barely scrapes past the $10,000 Pro despite eye-watering power modification
An Asus ROG Astral LC RTX 5090 has been shunt modded, resulting in its performance eclipsing the $10,000 RTX Pro 6000
23/06/2025
Nothing Headphone 1 leaks show quirky translucent design
While Nothing is gearing up to officially unveil its first over-ear headphones next week, leaked images and videos have given us a good idea of what they look like. The Nothing Headphone 1 sports an unusual design that appears consistently across leaks from multiple sources, featuring a squircle earcup with the company’s signature transparent elements […]
23/06/2025
Intel details 18A process technology — takes on TSMC 2nm with 30% density gain and 25% faster generational performance
Intel has fully detailed its 18A (1.8nm-class) process at VLSI 2025, highlighting major performance, power, and density improvements enabled by RibbonFET transistors and PowerVia backside power delivery.
23/06/2025
SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).
23/06/2025
Tesla’s robotaxi is live: here are some of the first reactions.
Tesla finally did the damn thing. The company launched its hotly anticipated robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, June 22nd — and we’re now starting to see some of the first reactions roll in. But first, we have to get a few important caveats out of the way. Tellingly, the service is not open to […]
22/06/2025
OpenAI and Jony Ive’s ‘io’ brand has vanished, but their AI hardware deal remains
OpenAI has scrubbed mentions of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famous Apple designer Jony Ive, from its website and social media channels. The sudden change closely follows their recent announcement of OpenAI’s nearly $6.5 billion acquisition and plans to create dedicated AI hardware. OpenAI tells The Verge the deal is still happening, but it […]
22/06/2025
OpenAI pulls promotional materials around Jony Ive deal
OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman’s device startup io) from its website and YouTube page.
22/06/2025
Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with big promises and unanswered questions
Tesla has started giving rides in driverless Model Y SUVs in Austin. Details are still sparse, but limited service is open to vetted and invited riders.
22/06/2025
Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later’ on iPhones
Director Danny Boyle famously shot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 Days Later” on Canon digital cameras, making it easier for him to capture eerie scenes of an abandoned London, and giving the movie’s fast-moving zombies a terrifying immediacy. To make his decades-later sequel “28 Years Later” (which opened this weekend), Boyle turned to a different piece […]
22/06/2025
The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun’s fight for digital dollars
In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who had dismissed digital assets as near worthless. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin's wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else — stablecoins.
22/06/2025
Moratorium on state AI regulation clears Senate hurdle
A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.
22/06/2025
Iconic Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX hits 20 years old today — PS3 GPU forbearer was 'graphics champion' of performance and efficiency in its day
The Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX launched 20 years ago, today, and it marked a ground-breaking achievement at the time for the green team.
22/06/2025
MIT researchers repair bridges by 3D printing steel onto corroded beams — Tech uses compressed gas to heat and accelerate powdered steel particles
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst worked with MIT researchers to create a cost-effective way to repair bridges and extend their lives until they can be replaced.
22/06/2025
New US restrictions could prevent leading chip manufacturers from installing chipmaking tools in their China fabs — TSMC, Samsung, and SK hynix potentially impacted
The U.S. government may cancel a program for multinational chipmakers, with impacts to firms like Samsung, SK hynix, and TSMC which operate in China.
22/06/2025
LinkedIn CEO says AI writing assistant is not as popular as expected
While LinkedIn users seem to have embraced AI, there’s one area that’s seen less uptake than expected, according to CEO Ryan Roslansky: the AI-generated suggestions for polishing your LinkedIn posts.
22/06/2025
Last day to save on your TechCrunch All Stage pass — prices go up tonight
It’s now or never — this is your final day to lock in savings for TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston. Prices increase tonight, June 22, at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you’ve been thinking about attending, now’s the time to commit. Register here. TC All Stage brings together founders, investors, and operators from […]
22/06/2025
Weird-shaped notebooks make me want to write again
Andru Marino is an audio and video producer at The Verge. “I make videos on our YouTube / TikTok / Instagram channels, and have produced our podcasts like Vergecast, Decoder, and Why’d You Push That Button?” He also keeps a lot of notes, and his latest favorite places to keep them are the Triangle and […]
22/06/2025
Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time, have dinner — 'No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner'
Photo shows the first meeting between two legends of the tech world, Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, standing together after a dinner.
22/06/2025
What happens when AI comes for our fonts?
Monotype is keen for you to know what AI might do in typography. As one of the largest type design companies in the world, Monotype owns Helvetica, Futura, and Gill Sans - among 250,000 other fonts. In the typography giant's 2025 Re:Vision trends report, published in February, Monotype devotes an entire chapter to how AI […]
22/06/2025
Unreal Engine 5.6 up to 30% faster than the the infamously bad version it succeeds -- better graphics fidelity promised, too
Unreal Engine 5.6 has been benchmarked, revealing up to a 30% performance improvement over version 5.4 of the same engine while boasting improved visual fidelity.
22/06/2025
Authorities saw open Bitcoin ATM to recover scammed money — almost $32,000 seized from machine
A Jasper County citizen was scammed out of $25,000, and the authorities used a power saw to seize the deposited amount from a Bitcoin ATM.
22/06/2025
User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any legitimate recourse'
A OneDrive subscriber is in despair after Microsoft suspended their account without reason, and won't respond to inquiries. It was stuffed with 30 years of precious data, deposited as a relocation stop-gap.
22/06/2025
Nvidia GPU owners may be losing performance because of a simple setting that's disabled by default — enabling Resizable Bar with Profile Inspector can enhance GPU performance by up to 10% in 3DMark
YouTuber JayzTwoCents discovered that manually enabling ReBAR in 3DMark can provide a 10% boost in performance, particularly on Intel Raptor Lake-based machines.
22/06/2025
Engineer creates ad-block for the real world with augmented reality glasses — no more products or branding in your everyday life
A software engineer on X has built an augmented reality app for Snap's Spectacles, using Google's Gemini AI to identify advertisements and brands in the real world.
22/06/2025
China's first 6nm gaming GPU matches 13-year-old GTX 660 Ti in first Geekbench tests — Lisuan G100 surfaces with 32 CUs, 256MB VRAM, and 300 MHz clock speed
The Lisuan G100 has been spotted on Geekbench (OpenCL), where it outputs performance similar to the GTX 660 Ti. That's largely due to early drivers and silicon.
22/06/2025
TP-Link releases $250 Wi-Fi 7 access point that can be submerged in 1.5 meters of water without issue — the heavy-duty wireless router boasts an IP68 rating, six antennas, and PoE
The EAP772-Outdoor Wi-Fi 7 access point can withstand the elements, allowing you to not worry about it after installation.
22/06/2025
European leaders worry they’re too reliant on U.S. tech
European governments may be reconsidering their use of American technology and services, according to a new report in The New York Times.
21/06/2025
Cartoonist Paul Pope is more worried about killer robots than AI plagiarism
Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” in which an adolescent god proves his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade since Pope’s last major […]
21/06/2025
Week in Review: Meta reveals its Oakley smart glasses
Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots in store for you today, including Wix’s latest acquisition, Meta’s new smart glasses, a look at the new Digg, and much more. Have a great weekend! Smart specs: Meta and Oakley have teamed up on a new pair of smart glasses that can record 3K video, play music, […]
21/06/2025
Greek man gets 5 years in prison for running a now-defunct torrenting site 10 years ago — Greece goes tough on torrenting
A Greek man appealing his judgment in a case involving a 10-plus-year-old torrenting site was handed down an immediate 5-year jail sentence and €11,800 in fines in court this week.
21/06/2025
3D-printed drill press can drill through metal — costs around $45 to create your own drill press
DC Sets' YouTube channel shows off its 3D printable drill press, which it created to drill holes in brass PCB M2 standoffs.
21/06/2025
Samsung’s entry-level Galaxy Watch 7 has returned to its best price to date
I jumped on the smartwatch bandwagon a bit late, but now I can’t go a day without mine. Beyond delivering helpful notifications, it’s perfect for setting timers, tracking workouts, and monitoring my sleeping habits (which are terrible). If you haven’t yet joined the smartwatch party or you’re looking to upgrade, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 7 is […]
21/06/2025
Truly ‘iconic’ WinRAR Messenger bags are available — at $150, they cost more than five WinRAR licenses
WinRAR and Tern are restocking their truly ‘iconic’ handbag design after initial sales success.
21/06/2025
MSI announces beautiful Toy Story 30th anniversary PC — plastered in branding from the GPU down to the CMOS battery
MSI has announced a new collection of PC parts themed around the Toy Story films, purchasable only as a boxed set limited to 500 units. The parts, sold with the parts to build a complete PC, will only be available for sale in Taiwan.
21/06/2025
Final Fantasy fans, now is the time to get into Magic: The Gathering
The Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering set is here, and there's never been a more perfect assemblage of Magic cards. The set features cards taken from every mainline Final Fantasy title, including the two MMOs, so there's something for every generation of Final Fantasy lovers. And while Magic has featured other video game crossovers in […]
21/06/2025
Massive DDoS attack delivered 37.4TB in 45 seconds, equivalent to 10,000 HD movies, to one victim IP address — Cloudflare blocks largest cyber assault ever recorded
Cloudflare says that it blocked the 7.3 Tbps of junk traffic in mid-May — the largest DDoS attack to happen in recorded history.
21/06/2025
The Verge’s guide to Amazon Prime Day 2025
Amazon’s mega sale is nearly upon us. This year, Prime Day will kick off on July 8th and run through July 11th, which, for those counting, is twice as long as previous years. Most everything else will likely be the same — well, aside from Amazon’s so-called “Today’s Big Deals” feature — making it a […]
21/06/2025
Nintendo Switch 2 motherboards with chips are already available for $124 in China — PCBs sourced directly from the production line
A user on the Chinese online marketplace Goofish is offering what appears to be the Nintendo Switch 2's motherboard for just $124.
21/06/2025
Acer Predator GM9000 2TB SSD Review: The Bargain High-End PCIe 5.0 SSD
The Acer Predator GM9000 is a high-end PCIe 5.0 drive positioned as a budget entry in an enthusiast market segment.
21/06/2025
2 days left to save up to $210 on your TechCrunch All Stage pass
Time is almost up! Regular bird pricing for TechCrunch All Stage ends this Sunday, June 22, at 11:59 p.m. PT. That means you have just 2 days left to lock in savings of up to $210 on your ticket to one of the ultimate founder events of the summer. TC All Stage lands in Boston […]
21/06/2025
Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later — patch squashes first bug report after 25 years
Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 fixes arrive for the Linux 6.16-rc3 kernel.
21/06/2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 is an awesome upgrade for parents like me
I wouldn't have preordered a Nintendo Switch 2 just for myself. The price is high, there's no new Smash Bros. or Metroid Prime (yet), and I've got a perfectly good original Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck that keep me plenty busy. At first, I could only justify the $450 because I write about gaming tech […]
21/06/2025
The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs
The music industry's nightmare came true in 2023, and it sounded a lot like Drake. "Heart on My Sleeve," a convincingly fake duet between Drake and The Weeknd, racked up millions of streams before anyone could explain who made it or where it came from. The track didn't just go viral - it broke the […]
21/06/2025
Inside the courthouse reshaping the future of the internet
The future of the internet will be determined in one building in Washington, DC - and for six weeks, I watched it unfold. For much of this spring, the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in downtown Washington, DC, was buzzing with lawyers, reporters, and interested onlookers jostling between dimly lit courtrooms that hosted everyone from the […]
21/06/2025
Chinese researchers invent silicon photonic multiplexer chip that uses light instead of electricity for communication — CCP says China's early steps into light-based chips precede 'major breakthroughs' in three years
Fudan University researchers have allegedly developed a photonics-based multiplexer chip, supporting up to 38 Tbps data transmission. While not yet a full CPU, Chinese industry observers believe China's big breakthrough in photonics will arrive in "three to five years".
21/06/2025
Intel to outsource marketing to Accenture and AI, resulting in more layoffs
Intel is outsourcing much of its marketing work to Accenture, aiming to cut costs and automate tasks using AI, which will reshape the company's longtime approach to customer engagement.
21/06/2025
New display hits 1 million FPS, but it's not for gaming — display and high-speed camera could enable 1 Terabit per second communication speeds, beating current network interfaces
XDC has unveiled a microLED-based optical system that transmits data at one million frames per second through free space using a high-speed display and camera pair.
21/06/2025
Nvidia reportedly books entire server plant capacity through 2026 to build Blackwell and Rubin AI servers, pushing out other potential customers
Nvidia has secured all available capacity at Wistron’s new facility in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, with confirmed orders extending through 2026.
21/06/2025
Even PowerGPU's founder can't escape thermal gel leakage from the Gigabyte RTX 50-Series Master GPU
PowerGPU founder Jese Martinez discovered that his Gigabyte GPU is leaking its thermal gel after switching it out on his personal system.
21/06/2025
Windows updates might finally be getting better — Microsoft to remove legacy drivers from Windows Update to boost security
Microsoft is planning on removing unwanted/legacy drivers from its Windows update catalog to boost the security of its Windows user base. The first phase of this cleanup will encompass older legacy drivers that already have newer replacements in Microsoft's database.
21/06/2025
Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his wife is afraid
If becoming a corporate spy sounds exciting, let this newest affidavit from confessed Rippling spy Keith O’Brien serve as a warning.
20/06/2025
Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence
At this point, it's becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn't looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity, the AI-native Google rival. None of these talks progressed to the formal […]
20/06/2025
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation
Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation.
20/06/2025
Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything’, raises $15M from a16z
The controversial AI startup was founded earlier this year.
20/06/2025
The best Apple deals you can shop ahead of Amazon Prime Day
If you want to get a head start on back-to-school shopping — or upgrade your Apple gear — there are already some great deals worth exploring ahead of Amazon Prime Day. From earbuds and laptops to tablets, the early deals are already starting to trickle in. Prices might drop even further during Amazon’s four-day sales […]
20/06/2025
TechCrunch Mobility: Applied Intuition’s eye-popping valuation, the new age of micromobility, and Waymo’s wild week
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! Waymo might be the largest commercial robotaxi operator — offering 250,000 paid rides per week — but it is hardly smooth. The past seven days in Waymo’s […]
20/06/2025
Gaming Peripheral Apps, Ranked From Worst to Worst
Buggy, bloated, and broken PC gaming peripheral software makes me want to buy a console.
20/06/2025
28 Years Later is a bleak fever dream with rage pumping through its veins
While it wasn't the first film to feature fast-moving ghouls, there is no denying how much of an impact 28 Days Later had on modern zombie movies. It was a gripping and nauseating wonder, whose action felt uniquely visceral thanks, in part, to director Danny Boyle's inspired use of a digital video camera. And there […]
20/06/2025
Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail
Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models. On Friday, Anthropic published new safety research testing 16 […]
20/06/2025
The new math: why seed investors are selling their winners earlier
Charles Hudson had just closed his fifth fund several months ago – $66 million for Precursor Ventures – when one of his limited partners asked him to run an exercise. What would have happened, the LP wondered, if Hudson had sold all his portfolio companies at Series A? What about Series B? Or Series C? […]
20/06/2025
These seven under-$50 tools make my tech life a lot easier
From spudgers to SSD cloners to a charger that you can always keep in your pocket, these seven tech tools make my life easier.
20/06/2025
Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students
Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app that helps students manage their school schedules and share them with others.
20/06/2025
The startups rolling out of Europe’s early-stage micromobility scene
A handful of early stage micromobility startups out of Europe that are filling the gaps in a maturing ecosystem.
20/06/2025
Apple’s tiny M4 Mac mini has dropped to its lowest price yet
If you’ve been curious about trying out a Mac for the first time or need a small computer powerful enough to be your home media server, we strongly recommend the latest Mac Mini. Thankfully, the step-up M4 model with 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM is on sale at Amazon and B&H Photo for […]
20/06/2025
Startups Weekly: Fast and furious
Some startups accrued value at lightning speed this week, and we got confirmation that defense tech is red hot.
20/06/2025
The unsung hero of my gaming PC setup: My $30 Power Tower of Destiny extension plug outlet
How messed up is your plug setup for your desk tech? Here's what I think of my solution.
20/06/2025
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 […]
20/06/2025
Applebee’s and IHOP have plans for AI
Applebee’s and IHOP plan to launch an AI-powered “personalization engine” that could help its restaurants provide recommendations and customized deals, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The personalization engine would use a customer’s past purchases — or the orders of customers similar to them — to make recommendations. Justin Skelton, the chief […]
20/06/2025
Character.AI taps Meta’s former VP of business products as CEO
Karandeep Anand comes to Character.AI with experience running advertising products that reached billions of users on Meta's apps.
20/06/2025
Bambu Lab A1 Combo vs Prusa Research MK4S with MMU3: Battle of the Color Bed Slingers
Can the $549 Bambu Lab A1 Combo take on the $1,269 Prusa Research MK4S with MMU3? We put these two mighty bed slingers into the ring to find out which 3D printer comes out on top.
20/06/2025
X app code points to a physical card coming to X Money
X’s plans for a payments service may extend beyond the digital realm, new data suggests. According to findings from mobile app intelligence firm App Sensa, the X app has been updated over the past few weeks with several references related to a physical debit card, which can be customized with your X username. Dozens of […]
20/06/2025
Iran’s government says it shut down internet to protect against cyberattacks
The government cited the recent hacks on Bank Sepah and cryptocurrency exchange Nobite as reasons to shut down internet access to virtually all Iranians.
20/06/2025
Nvidia wants in on the nuclear renaissance, invests in Bill-Gates backed TerraPower
TerraPower has been riding a wave of interest from hyperscalers, data center developers, and now chip designers.
20/06/2025
$200 GPU face-off: Nvidia RTX 3050, AMD RX 6600, and Intel Arc A750 duke it out at the bottom of the barrel
If you can’t spend more than around $200 on a discrete GPU, you have three choices these days. We dug in to see if any of them are worth your hard-earned cash.
20/06/2025
Nvidia RTX 5090D falls victim to infamous 16-pin melting issue — saga continues with China-specific chip
Two GeForce RTX 5090D owners share their unfortunate experience with the 16-pin power connector meltdowns.
20/06/2025
Deezer starts labeling AI-generated music to tackle streaming fraud
Deezer announced on Friday that it will start labeling albums that include AI-generated tracks as part of its efforts to combat streaming fraud. The company reports that about 18% of the music uploaded each day — more than 20,000 tracks — is now fully AI-generated. Although most of these tracks don’t go viral, Deezer says […]
20/06/2025
After raising $38M, African e-commerce startup Sabi lays off 20%, pivots to traceable exports
African B2B e-commerce startup Sabi has laid off around 20% of its workforce (~50 employees) as it pivots from its original retail-focused platform to double down on a growing business in commodity exports. The layoffs, confirmed by the company on Thursday, are part of a broader restructuring aimed at aligning resources with what it describes […]
20/06/2025
Scam RTX 5090 bought for $2,000 missing entire GPU chip — crooks lifted the GPU die and memory right off the board
Northwestrepair received a Zotac RTX 5090 from a customer featuring a missing GPU core and memory chips. The new card represents a new scam where criminals steal RTX 5090 GPU cores and memory modules, leaving customers with a dead graphics card.
20/06/2025
After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI talent hiring spree continues. In recent months, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, according to a report from CNBC on Thursday. Sutskever ultimately turned Meta down, according to CNBC, but the company is now in talks to hire Safe […]
20/06/2025
SoftBank reportedly looking to launch a trillion-dollar AI and robotics industrial complex
The investing conglomerate is looking to team up with TSMC on the initiative as SoftBank continues to pour money into AI.
20/06/2025
VanMoof is back with a new custom e-bike and rebooted repair network
Dutch e-bike startup VanMoof is back two years after bankruptcy with its first model designed under new leadership. And despite past criticism that VanMoof’s over-reliance on custom parts led to the company’s downfall, the S6 sticks to the brand’s signature bespoke design.
20/06/2025
Boston Side Events lineup at TechCrunch All Stage with Fidelity Private Shares, Women Tech Meetup, Prepare 4 VC, and more
Get ready to amplify your TechCrunch All Stage 2025 experience with the electrifying lineup of Side Events taking Boston by storm during the week of July 13–19. As the countdown to TC All Stage begins, we’re thrilled to share our Side Events lineup, where you can foster meaningful connections within the vibrant Boston tech community. […]
20/06/2025
Find out how Flexport’s CEO, Ryan Petersen, builds when the rules keep changing at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, and we’re bringing the big conversations to the Builders Stage. One of the biggest? What it takes to keep building when the rules won’t stop shifting. When global logistics meets startup agility Flexport CEO and founder Ryan Petersen knows a thing or […]
20/06/2025
I've spent 15 years burning my hands so you don't have to — these are my 21 hottest soldering iron tips
We have the hottest soldering iron tips for you. Learn how to master this essential maker skill as we reveal the secrets of how we solder.
20/06/2025
3D printed structures 10 times thinner than a human hair — 'extremely intense' laser pulses bring 3D printing closer to Ant-Man's Quantum Realm
A team of scientists has managed to 3D print microscopic structures that are designed to dampen sounds for specific frequencies.
20/06/2025
Startup hiring isn’t just about the pitch, it’s about the package — Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal break it down at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Startups live and die by their early hires. And in a world where top talent has options — and stock options — you’ve got to offer more than a ping-pong table and a pitch deck to bring in the right people. At TechCrunch Disrupt’s 20th anniversary, happening on October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, […]
20/06/2025
Trump and TSMC pitched $1 trillion AI complex — SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son wants to turn Arizona into the next Shenzhen
Masayoshi Son is planning a $1 trillion AI and robotics industrial hub in Arizona, called Project Crystal Land, and is seeking support from TSMC, Samsung, and the U.S. government.
20/06/2025
Amazon improves Kindle accessibility with new text spacing adjustments
Amazon released a new software update for several recent Kindle models last week. The company’s release notes only mention “performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements,” but the update includes notable upgrades when it comes to adjusting text and line spacing, improving legibility and accessibility for many users, as spotted by The eBook Reader. […]
20/06/2025
Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature
Earlier this month, Microsoft’s Family Safety feature, primarily used by parents and schools as a set of parental controls and filters, started randomly blocking Google’s Chrome browser from opening on Windows. The first reports surfaced on June 3rd, with some Chrome users noticing the browser kept closing or wouldn’t open. Microsoft has introduced a bug […]
20/06/2025
Tesla partners with Electrify Expo to launch full-weekend EV test drives
The 48-hour take-home program will be available to attendees of the upcoming Electrify Expo in Los Angeles, with more automakers joining soon.
20/06/2025
3 more days to fuel your next big move — and save up to $210 on your TechCrunch All Stage pass
The countdown is on — you have just 3 days left to save on your pass to TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station. After Sunday, June 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT, prices go up, and this opportunity to lock in savings disappears. If you’re a founder looking to scale, a […]
20/06/2025
Tesla’s first robotaxi rides will have a ‘safety monitor’ in the passenger seat
Tesla has begun sending out invitations for its highly anticipated robotaxi service, but there’s one significant caveat: it’s installing a “safety monitor” in the front passenger seat, as previously reported by Electrek. The invites, which were sent to Tesla influencers and investors, say the human monitor will “accompany you on your trip” when rides begin […]
20/06/2025
Meta unveils its Oakley smart glasses
After months of rumors, Meta has officially announced its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley.
20/06/2025
Truth, lies, and the Trump Phone
The idea behind Trump Mobile is relatively straightforward. It's easy to launch a mobile carrier these days, and it can be extremely lucrative - just ask Ryan Reynolds! You should know, though, that Trump Mobile is a pretty bad deal. And the network's supposed flagship phone? We're willing to bet that this $500, made-in-America, coming-soon […]
20/06/2025
Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
Meta is announcing its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley. The limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN (pronounced “how-stuhn”) model costs $499 and is available for preorder starting July 11th. Other Oakley models with Meta’s tech will be available starting at $399 later this summer. Like the existing Meta Ray-Ban glasses, the Oakley model features a […]
20/06/2025
You sound like ChatGPT
Join any Zoom call, walk into any lecture hall, or watch any YouTube video, and listen carefully. Past the content and inside the linguistic patterns, you'll find the creeping uniformity of AI voice. Words like "prowess" and "tapestry," which are favored by ChatGPT, are creeping into our vocabulary, while words like "bolster," "unearth," and "nuance," […]
20/06/2025
Astro Bot’s director on making a PlayStation icon
Astro Bot is filled with whimsy and silliness that makes you want to pay attention to the details. But in a presentation at this year's Game Developers Conference, director Nicolas Doucet shared one particular aspect of Astro the robot that I hadn't noticed but blew me away. Doucet talked about how Team Asobi worked hard […]
20/06/2025
How AMD’s partnership with Microsoft could help Team Red stay competitive against Nvidia
AMD gets gaming deal boon after gaming revenues fall
20/06/2025
Acer Swift 14 AI review: give it up for the ports
The Acer Swift 14 is all over AI the place. It has powerful chip options, exceptional battery life, and loads of ports for such a portable laptop. The keyboard and trackpad are solid, which is not always a given at any price. But the screen and webcam are mediocre, and the speakers are outright terrible. […]
20/06/2025
How Texas’ hands-off approach to autonomous vehicles gave Tesla an opening
Last week, a Tesla Model Y with the word "ROBOTAXI" scratched into its side and no one in the driver seat made a turn off Austin's bustling South Congress Avenue. Another Tesla, described by autonomous vehicle experts as a "chase vehicle," followed closely behind. Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented on the clip, seemingly confirming that […]
20/06/2025
White House crypto and AI adviser warns China catching up to the U.S. — 'Before DeepSeek, people thought that Chinese AI models were years behind and we realized that they are only months behind'
White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks shared his concerns over Chinese chipmakers getting too close to U.S. tech capabilities for comfort. Sacks estimates Huawei's growth has been helped by overly strict computer hardware export rules, making international customers less likely to buy American.
20/06/2025
This Language AI company says it can now translate the entire internet in just 18 days — 194-day task slashed by deployment of Nvidia DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200
Language AI company DeepL says that thanks to Nvidia's DGX SuiperPOD with DGX GB200, it can now translate the entire internet in just 18 days.
20/06/2025
Nvidia products could be made using humanoid robots for the first time ever — company in talks with Foxconn to deploy them in Houston factory building GB300 AI servers
Nvidia is reportedly in talks with Foxconn over plans to deploy humanoid robots in a Houston factory building GB300 chips.
20/06/2025
AMD teases custom chip roadmap following next-gen Xbox partnership announcement with Microsoft — company says it will create a full roadmap of gaming-optimized chips powered by Ryzen and Radeon
AMD announces future gaming-focused chip roadmap that will go beyond its existing partnerships with Microsoft and Sony.
20/06/2025
AMD leaks new entry-level Ryzen 5 9600X3D CPU — new gaming-optimized 3D V-Cache chip expected before the end of the year
AMD has confirmed the existence of several upcoming processors, including a new entry-level Ryzen 5 9600X3D desktop CPU featuring its popular gaming-optimized 3D V-Cache technology.
20/06/2025
Windows 11 24H2 updates are still failing on Western Digital's SN770, despite the fact that a fix came out 8 months ago — here's what to do if you're stuck
Microsoft is blocking Windows 11 version 24H2 on systems with WD Black SN770 SSDs due to a firmware issue, yet offers no clear guidance to users despite a firmware fix having been available since October 2024.
20/06/2025
ASRock preps Radeon RX AI Pro R9700 Creator for AI and workstation users — blower card packs massive 32GB of GDDR6 memory, adopts 16-pin connector
ASRock has launched the Radeon RX AI Pro R9700 Creator graphics card for the AI and workstation markets.
20/06/2025
Huawei's brute force AI tactic seems to be working — CloudMatrix 384 claimed to outperform Nvidia processors running DeepSeek R1
A new report says that Huawei's CloudMatrix 384 outperforms Nvidia processors running DeepSeek R1, which is to be expected given the energy use involved.
20/06/2025
The Robinhood founder who might just revolutionize energy, if he succeeds
When Baiju Bhatt stepped away from his role as Chief Creative Officer at Robinhood last year, only those close to him could have predicted his next move: launching a space company built around technology the aerospace industry has largely dismissed, and that might be more groundbreaking than anyone realizes. If people aren’t paying much attention, […]
19/06/2025
Adobe launches a new ‘computational photography’ camera app for iPhones
Adobe has a new computational photography camera app for iPhones – and one of its creators, Marc Levoy, helped make the impressive computational photography features that made some of Google’s earlier Pixel cameras shine. The new app, called Project Indigo, was released last week by Adobe Labs. It’s free and available for the iPhone 12 […]
19/06/2025
Spotify’s HiFi lossless streaming might really, finally, actually be coming soon
We’ve been waiting for Spotify’s lossless streaming for more than four years, but there are some new and promising hints that the feature might finally arrive sometime soon. The X account for Spicetify, a command-line tool that lets you customize the Spotify client, says that a new version of Spotify includes some hidden mentions of […]
19/06/2025
Eufy’s X10 Pro Omni mopping robovac has returned to its best price to date
Now that warmer weather is here, spring cleaning duties are likely falling by the wayside. But the good news is you can enjoy the outdoors and clean your home with zero effort by letting a robot vacuum do the hard work for you. For that, we recommend a versatile model like the Eufy X10 Pro Omni, which is […]
19/06/2025
Elden Ring Nightreign is getting even harder bosses
The bosses in Elden Ring Nightreign are already pretty tough. But if you’ve gotten good and need a harder challenge, you’ll be able to take on “Everdark Sovereigns,” which are more difficult versions of the game’s Nightlord foes you face to conclude a run. “These limited-time versions of the Nightlords are extremely challenging and pose […]
19/06/2025
Asus' costly AMOLED liquid cooler suffers from cooling degradation — company offers replacements for affected units
Asus is offering replacements for the brand's ROG Ryuo IV SLC 360 ARGB liquid cooler due to a factory defect that could affect cooling performance.
19/06/2025
Midjourney launches an AI video generator
Midjourney has released the first version of its video generation model to the public. For now, the tool can generate short videos based on images uploaded or created on the platform, but Midjourney plans on rolling out more capabilities in the future. After creating an image using Midjourney, the service will show a new “animate” […]
19/06/2025
Inside Microsoft’s complicated relationship with OpenAI
Beyond the selfies between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and the friendly conversations between the pair on stage, all is not well with Microsoft's $13 billion AI investment. Over the past year, multiple reports have painted a picture of a Microsoft and OpenAI relationship that is straining under pressure. As OpenAI […]
19/06/2025
DOJ files to seize $225 million in crypto from scammers
The Department of Justice reported yesterday that it filed a civil complaint to seize roughly $225.3 million in cryptocurrency linked to crypto investment scams. In a press release, the DOJ said it traced and targeted accounts that were “part of a sophisticated blockchain-based money laundering network” dispersing funds taken from more than 400 suspected victims […]
19/06/2025
Eero’s speedy Pro 6E mesh system is on sale with a gift card for $200 off
Sluggish Wi-Fi is one of my least favorite tech problems to deal with because it messes with everything: my work, my smart lightbulbs, my online sessions of Mario Kart World. There are many reasons your Wi-Fi may be wonky, but the good news is that you can solve many of them with better routers. One […]
19/06/2025
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.
19/06/2025
16 billion accounts exposed in one of the largest data breaches in history — enormous data haul holds two accounts for every human alive
A collection of entirely new data leak datasets has been uncovered by security researchers, exposing 16 billion new records to the public. The data was sourced from around the world, with breaches on this scale easily contributing to massive future attacks.
19/06/2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: The Builders Stage agenda is now live and taking shape
Startups don’t build themselves. The Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, is where investors, operators, and founders come to talk tactics — the nitty-gritty of getting something off the ground and making it work. This year, we’re bringing some of the sharpest minds in the game […]
19/06/2025
Amazon to invest $233M to enhance its India infrastructure
Amazon is investing $233M in its India business to expand operations infrastructure, build new tools for its delivery network, and work on employee safety.
19/06/2025
Raising a Series C+? Cathy Gao’s bringing the real playbook to TechCrunch All Stage
Growth-stage fundraising is picking up speed again, but it’s not the same game it used to be. At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, we’re bringing in someone who knows how the rules have changed and how to win in today’s market: Cathy Gao, partner at Sapphire Ventures. Gao has backed breakout […]
19/06/2025
Chinese manufacturers of Bitcoin mining rigs are moving production to the U.S. to sidestep tariffs and sanctions — 'This goes beyond tariffs — it’s a strategic pivot toward ‘politically acceptable’ hardware sources'
The three biggest mining rig manufacturers have started to or are exploring building local manufacturing facilities.
19/06/2025
At TechCrunch All Stage: VC red flags, founder signals, and pre-seed traps — Charles Hudson will tell you what investors really see
At the pre-seed stage, there’s not much for a VC to analyze — no revenue curve, no retention metrics, no CAC. That doesn’t mean they’re guessing. It means they’re watching everything else. At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, Charles Hudson, managing partner and founder of Precursor Ventures, will walk founders through […]
19/06/2025
4 days left: Lock in your TechCrunch All Stage pass — or miss $210 in savings
If you’re serious about traction, scale, and funding, you have 4 days left to secure your pass to TechCrunch All Stage — and save up to $210 while you’re at it. Prices rise after June 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT. This is not just another startup event. It’s your tactical launchpad and the fuel to […]
19/06/2025
FBC: Firebreak is missing Control’s weird charm
With FBC: Firebreak, Remedy Entertainment has entered the world of the first-person co-op shooter. Set in its Control universe - specifically the site of the first game, the brutalist nightmare office called the Oldest House - players control a member of the titular three-person team of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), tasked with addressing […]
19/06/2025
Nvidia goes nuclear — company joins Bill Gates in backing TerraPower, a company building nuclear reactors for powering data centers
Nvidia is investing in nuclear power to ensure that it will have enough power for its data centers in the future.
19/06/2025
Maker of world's largest AI chips victim of crypto scam — Cerebras confirms coin launched in its name is fake, X account compromised by hackers
Cerebras, maker of the world's largest AI chips, has had its X account compromized by a crypto scam, which also involves the launch of a fraudulent coin.
19/06/2025
The Crucial P510 2TB SSD Review: A budget PCIe 5.0 SSD that's good but not great
The Crucial P510 is a budget PCIe 5.0 SSD designed to bring more bandwidth than last-generation drives while being power-efficient and more affordable than the newest high-end drives. It mostly achieves these goals.
19/06/2025
Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools
Valve is introducing accessibility features for players with disabilities in its latest beta for Steam Big Picture Mode and SteamOS. The features — listed in full and explained here — include options to modify the Steam UI, like a high contrast mode, as well as a built-in screen reader for SteamOS. In its post, Valve describes the […]
19/06/2025
AI residencies are trying to change the conversation around artificial art
At a recent exhibition in Copenhagen, visitors stepped into a dark room and were met by an unusual host: a jaguar that watched the crowd, selected individuals, and began to share stories about her daughter, her rainforest, and the fires that once threatened her home - the Bolivian Amazon. The live interaction with Huk, an […]
19/06/2025
Somebody turned a Nintendo Switch into the world's slowest iPhone, and the results were a disaster — boasts 20-minute boot times, kernel panics, and no working apps
A tinkerer managed to boot Apple iOS on the Nintendo Switch
19/06/2025
Grab one of these 4TB SSDs for 5 cents per gigabyte – 8TB models start as low as 7 cents per GB
Bulk up your storage with a new, high-speed boot drive.
19/06/2025
One of the most unique PC cases you can buy just hit its lowest-ever price — Montech's leather-bound Heritage Pro Micro ATX PC even comes with a handle for portability
Adding some class and a unique aesthetic to your micro ATX build, Montech's Heritage Pro micro ATX case is reduced in price at Scan Computers.
19/06/2025
Summer Game Fest’s best games were small and personal
Summer Game Fest 2025 was definitely a weird one, but even with everything going on outside, the games on display were still immaculate. My favorites, the ones that I live for, are small, unique, and made for pure love of expression. Being able to see that love so clearly on display, expressed through such painstaking […]
19/06/2025
SpaceX’s Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
It's the latest in a string of setbacks for the mega-rocket, which SpaceX hopes to use to build Starlink and one day go to Mars.
19/06/2025
Bluesky briefly suspended JD Vance’s account after he joined
Bluesky's automated impersonation detection system took down JD Vance's new account, but it was restored soon after.
19/06/2025
Lucky PC builder pays just $146 for 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD, receives 9 — Amazon blunder so unbelievable some people think it's a marketing conspiracy
After an Amazon shopper strikes it lucky by receiving nine 2TB SSDs instead of one, it doesn't take long for conspiracy theorists to come to the fore.
19/06/2025
A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025
It’s already been a tumultuous year for the U.S. semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry plays a sizable role in the “AI race” that the U.S. seems determined to win, which is why this context is worth paying attention to: from Intel’s appointment of Lip-Bu Tan to CEO — who wasted no time getting to work […]
19/06/2025
Apple explores using generative AI to design its chips — executive says 'it can be a huge productivity boost'
Apple Vice President for Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji says AI in EDA tools could allow it to do 'more design work in less time'.
19/06/2025
Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.
19/06/2025
Nvidia keeping prized NVLink tech closely guarded — companies warn restrictions could hamper deployment of some solutions
Nvidia's NVLink Fusion program has drawn interest from the industry aiming to build custom CPUs and accelerators for its ecosystem, but the initiative remains tightly controlled by the green company, which may limit its success.
19/06/2025
Steam OS as a desktop? I used the Legion Go S as my work PC
I attempted to experience Linux firsthand in the most awkward way possible – using a handheld gaming PC.
19/06/2025
Measuring 'fake' frames — Steam beta in-game overlay now detects DLSS/FSR frame generation and reports both framegen and native frame rates
Valve is making Steam's overlay more functional: the Steam Client Beta includes the ability to monitor AI-generated and native frame rates simultaneously in games where DLSS/FSR frame generation might be used.
19/06/2025
Elon Musk's xAI is projected to lose $13 billion in 2025 — AI project burns $1 billion a month in expenditures
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is rapidly burning through cash — spending $1 billion a month and projecting $13 billion in losses for 2025 — as it races to build massive AI infrastructure and catch up with rivals.
19/06/2025
Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate
When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired the company, and that equity converted into Stripe shares, enough to let Kinvi leave his job, bootstrap a side project, […]
19/06/2025
SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground
Late Wednesday night at about 11PM CT, SpaceX was about to perform a static fire test of Ship 36, ahead of a planned 10th flight test for its Starship, when there was suddenly a massive explosion at the Massey’s Testing Center site. SpaceX says “A safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the […]
19/06/2025
No, Andreessen Horowitz didn’t post that crypto scam tweet
If it sounds too good to be true — like a VC giving away valuable assets — it isn't true.
18/06/2025
New code in Spotify’s app references the long-awaited ‘lossless’ tier
Newly added references in the music app's code suggest the lossless service is at least still under development and could even be getting closer to launch.
18/06/2025
Here are the 24 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025
Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “megaround,” and seven companies raised rounds $1 billion in size or larger. How will 2025 compare? […]
18/06/2025
‘Kid-pilled’ Sam Altman ‘constantly’ asked ChatGPT questions about his newborn
Across hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, an impossible question has befuddled our species: why is the baby crying?! Sam Altman, who is both the father of a three-month-old and CEO of OpenAI, hopped on OpenAI’s new podcast today to talk about how his company is impacting his experience with fatherhood. Altman, who […]
18/06/2025
Six-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash
In Base44's six months as a stand-alone company, it reportedly grew to 250,000 users and nearly $200,000 in monthly profits.
18/06/2025
6-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash
In Base44's six months as a stand-alone company, it reportedly grew to 250,000 users and nearly $200,000 in monthly profits.
18/06/2025
Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-up
Multiplier raised Series A and seed funding from Lightspeed and Ribbit Capital.
18/06/2025
Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-ups
Multiplier raised Series A and seed funding from Lightspeed and Ribbit Capital.
18/06/2025
Ancestra actually says a lot about the current state of AI-generated videos
After watching writer / director Eliza McNitt's new short film Ancestra, I can see why a number of Hollywood studios are interested in generative AI. A number of the shots were made and refined solely with prompts, in collaboration with Google's DeepMind team. It's obvious what Darren Aronofsky's AI-focused Primordial Soup production house and Google […]
18/06/2025
Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1
Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generation startups, announced on Wednesday the launch of its much-anticipated AI video generation model, V1. V1 is an image-to-video model, in which users can upload an image — or take an image generated by one of Midjourney’s other models — and V1 will produce a set of […]
18/06/2025
YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts
YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video generation model, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to a Cannes Lions keynote from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. Shorts creators can already take advantage of the previous-generation Veo 2 model to generate backgrounds with Dream […]
18/06/2025
Death Stranding is getting an animated film
The strange world of Death Stranding just keeps on expanding. As Deadline reports, Hideo Kojima’s ghostly, post-apocalyptic video game is getting a spinoff in the form of an animated film. While there aren’t a lot of details yet, the animated feature will supposedly be in the same mold as other animated spinoffs like the recent […]
18/06/2025
Voi CEO says he’s open to acquiring Bolt’s micromobility business
Frederik Hjelm, CEO of shared micromobility startup Voi, said he sees a path to acquiring the scooter and bike operations of Bolt, the European mobility super-app best known for ride-hailing.
18/06/2025
OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal
OpenAI is phasing out its work with Scale AI and cutting ties with the data provider following Meta’s deal with the startup, an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Sarah Friar, the chief financial officer of OpenAI, previously suggested the company would continue its work with Scale AI. Now, it appears OpenAI has changed its […]
18/06/2025
Xreal One Pro Review: Segment-leading AR glasses with 6DoF support — but high price limits appeal
Xreal’s One Pro brings 6DoF tracking with the Eye accessory.
18/06/2025
A glitch is turning Threads into a literal echo chamber
A Threads glitch is making it look like everyone on your feed is saying the same thing.
18/06/2025
Enthusiast hacks FSR 4 onto RX 7000 series GPU without official AMD support, returns better quality but slightly lower fps than FSR 3.1
A Reddit user used FP8 emulation and DLL injection techniques to run AMD's latest upscaling tech on unsupported hardware.
18/06/2025
xAI is facing a lawsuit for operating over 400 MW of gas turbines without permits
The Colossus data center was allegedly operating as many as 35 gas turbines without pollution controls in a region that already had poor air quality.
18/06/2025
Facebook will soon roll out support for passkeys on Android and iOS
Passkey logins make it harder for bad actors to remotely access your accounts because they require physical access to your phone.
18/06/2025
Facebook rolls out passkey support to fight phishing attacks
Facebook is adding support for passkeys on its mobile app. That means you’ll be able to log into the platform using your device’s authentication method, like your fingerprint, face scan, or PIN, making it more difficult for bad actors to take control of your account. Passkeys offer a more secure alternative to typical passwords because […]
18/06/2025
Malaysia investigates Chinese use of Nvidia-powered servers in the country — trade minister verifying reports of possible regulation breach following reports of smuggled hard drives and server rentals
Malaysia’s trade ministry is investigating whether a Chinese firm’s use of Nvidia-equipped servers in a local data center violates domestic laws.
18/06/2025
OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’
OpenAI researchers say they’ve discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas,” or types of people, according to new research published by the company on Wednesday. By looking at an AI model’s internal representations — the numbers that dictate how an AI model responds, which often seem completely incoherent to humans — […]
18/06/2025
Texas Instruments commits $60 billion to U.S. semiconductor manufacturing — includes planned expansions to Texas, Utah fabs
Texas Instruments follows the semiconductor industry in announcing its new investments in expanding U.S. facilities, though we already knew about most of the projects.
18/06/2025
Waymo has set its robotaxi sights on NYC
Waymo said it's working on a return to New York City and its first step it applying for a permit.
18/06/2025
Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility
Zoox says the facility will eventually be able to pump out 10,000 robotaxis per year.
18/06/2025
Internet collapses across Iran, say web monitoring firms
It’s unclear what is causing a “near-total” internet blackout in Iran.
18/06/2025
The ‘OpenAI Files’ push for oversight in the race to AGI
“The OpenAI Files,” an archival project from the Midas Project and the Tech Oversight Project, are a “collection of documented concerns with governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture at OpenAI.”
18/06/2025
Here’s your first look at the rebooted Digg
Digg launched its iOS app to testers who are a part of its Groundbreakers community of early adopters.
18/06/2025
Futureproof
AI tools are flooding the culture ecosystem — and no corner of the arts space is immune. In this series, we’re looking at the ways artists are embracing AI, pushing back on it, or trying their best to find an equilibrium with a new technology that’s both sweeping and destabilizing. We talk to perfumers questioning […]
18/06/2025
NFC is getting a range boost
The next version of the Near Field Communication (NFC) standard aims to make it easier to make payments, pair devices, and unlock doors using your phone or smartwatch. The most notable improvement is a boost to the distance of contactless connections from 0.5cm to 2cm, extending the range by x4. The NFC Release 15 standard […]
18/06/2025
How The Roottrees are Dead ditched AI and became a hit
Robin Ward was recovering from a broken arm when he fell in love with The Roottrees are Dead, a free browser game hosted on itch.io, an indie games salesfront. He reached out to its creator, Jeremy Johnston, and told him, "This should be a bigger deal than it is." At the same time, Ward says, […]
18/06/2025
Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations
Google is rolling out the ability for users to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with AI Mode.
18/06/2025
Waymo’s robotaxis are coming back to New York City
Waymo announced today that it intends to launch a fully autonomous robotaxi service in New York City — but first it needs to change state law to permit its vehicles to operate with safety drivers behind the wheel. The Alphabet-owned company said it has applied for a permit from the city’s Department of Transportation to […]
18/06/2025
Google tests real-time AI voice chats in Search
Google is building Search Live into AI Mode, allowing you to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with the company’s AI chatbot right from its search engine. The test, which is rolling out now to Labs users in the US, currently doesn’t support camera-sharing, but Google plans to add the capability in the “coming months.” Search […]
18/06/2025
Some Animal Crossing Lego sets are cheaper than ever
I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten back into Animal Crossing: New Horizons in a pretty big way since the Switch 2 arrived. I’ve started a new island (the game loads faster and runs better on that console), and I’ve been doing house chores to the relaxing music. The natural progression of my invigorated […]
18/06/2025
Tubi now features content from popular YouTube channels like Mythical Kitchen and more
Tubi for Creators is a new program that brings content from well-known YouTubers like Mythical Kitchen and more.
18/06/2025
Imec's next-gen high-speed chip transistor addresses manufacturing concerns — outer wall forksheet design simplifies production, but may sacrifice density
Imec has introduced a more manufacturable version of its forksheet transistor, named the outer wall forksheet, intended to extend gate-all-around (GAA) technology through the A10 node and serve as a stepping stone toward future CFET designs.
18/06/2025
Samsung’s latest midrange phone is on sale for its lowest price ever
Choosing a budget Android phone typically means wading through a ton of product pages and doing spec comparisons. Of course, a simpler way through the noise is to use The Verge’s handy guide to the best cheap phones. But we’re going to make it even easier for you today with a great discounted option. The […]
18/06/2025
Scale smarter: 5 days left to save up to $210 on your TechCrunch All Stage pass
5 days until prices rise! Are you ready to scale or stall? Time’s ticking. Ticket prices for TechCrunch All Stage go up after June 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Founders save $210, and investors save $200. Register here to fuel your growth with a discount. Join 1,000 founders and investors on July 15 at Boston’s […]
18/06/2025
YouTube launches new Shopping product stickers for Shorts
YouTube found that Shorts with Shopping product stickers saw over 40% more clicks on products than Shorts with the Shopping button.
18/06/2025
This smart light has party speaker aspirations
The most surprising thing about Govee's colorful smart lamp with a speaker built-in is that we didn't get something like this sooner. We've had color-changing smart home lights that sync to music via an app, and we've had Bluetooth speakers with RGB lights - putting the two together feels like the natural next step. The […]
18/06/2025
Framework Laptop 12 review: plastic fantastic
Framework finally made a touchscreen laptop, and the convertible 2-in-1 is one of the coolest-looking computers ever made. It doesn't have top-tier specs, but its two-year-old 13th Gen Intel Core i3 processor isn't on its last legs just yet. Like Framework's Laptop 13, the new Laptop 12 has modular ports and fully repairable innards. And […]
18/06/2025
Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket
Honda successfully conducted a “launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket” developed by its research and development subsidiary, the company announced this week. It was the first time Honda landed a rocket after it reached an altitude of 890 feet, according to a press release. The launch took place at a Honda test […]
18/06/2025
The whiplash of covering Summer Game Fest 2025 in LA
I love going to Summer Game Fest. It's a rare opportunity to connect with my colleagues and friends in person, as well as listen to developers talk about why they make their games. In some ways, this year's SGF gave me everything I love about the event. But while I was comfortably ensconced in a […]
18/06/2025
Hackers steal and destroy millions from Iran’s largest crypto exchange
It's the latest cyberattack on Iran claimed by a pro-Israeli hacking group since the latest flare up in tensions between the two countries.
18/06/2025
RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines
Last November, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that, as secretary of health and human services, he would not "take away anybody's vaccines." If you believed him, you were duped. The longtime anti-vaccine crusader remains intent on vilifying lifesaving immunizations and promoting the lie that the shots cause autism and all manner of other conditions. Maybe […]
18/06/2025
Even Klarna is launching a mobile phone service now
Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later service, is launching a mobile phone service. The $40 per month phone plan is launching in the US in the “coming weeks,” offering unlimited 5G data, calls, and texts on AT&T’s network — making it yet another MVNO in an increasingly crowded space. MNVOs, or mobile virtual network operators, are companies that […]
18/06/2025
Eufy’s new smart display keeps an eye on your security cams
Eufy is launching its first portable smart display, designed to allow multiple users to control and monitor security devices from a single hub. The Smart Display E10 is capable of displaying up to four live camera feeds simultaneously and can be paired with the company’s AI-supported video doorbells, smart locks, or the Homebase S380 data […]
18/06/2025
Wyze says its security cameras deserve your trust again
In an effort to restore trust in the security of its cameras, smart home brand Wyze has developed VerifiedView — a new layer of protection that embeds your user ID into the metadata of every photo, video, and livestream. Wyze claims the system matches this data to your account before playback, blocking unauthorized access to […]
18/06/2025
VanMoof’s co-founders have a new e-bike coming from Raleigh
Ties and Taco Carlier, who founded VanMoof as an alternative to Big Bike, are working for Accell Group, the Dutch cycling giant responsible for over a dozen bicycle brands including Batavus, Sparta, Carqon, and Raleigh. According to multiple sources, the first e-bike, developed for the Raleigh brand and pictured above, is nearing completion. The bike's […]
18/06/2025
Leica is launching its own 35mm film
Leica has announced the first 35mm film produced under its own name, Monopan 50. It’s an ultra-fine grain black-and-white film, and will cost $10 per 36-exposure roll when it goes on sale on August 21st. Leica says that the new film is produced in Germany, though wouldn’t name a manufacturer when asked. The specs, right […]
18/06/2025
The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
For about a year, Tyler Johnston has been collecting public information about the inner workings of OpenAI, and for the past month, he’s been working on a report to help the public understand and visualize it. That report, dubbed The OpenAI Files, is out today. It’s a collaboration between the Midas Project and the Tech […]
18/06/2025
MIT researchers crack 3D printing with glass — new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures
Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory have successfully 3D printed using a special type of glass-based filament they developed.
18/06/2025
Nintendo shows off Donkey Kong Bananza’s destructive gameplay
Switch 2 owners will soon have another big Nintendo game to play. During its latest Direct presentation, the company showed off plenty more of Donkey Kong Bananza, a 3D platformer that launches as a Switch 2 exclusive on July 17th — and it’s looking like a surprisingly robust experience. In the new game DK teams […]
18/06/2025
After 10 years, we're past peak RGB — but don't celebrate yet, stealth PC purists
It's hard to say when RGB lighting in PCs, components, and peripherals hit its peak. But after a decade of RGB everything, it's nice to see lights in fewer cases, components, and peripherals.
18/06/2025
Expert asserts Mario Kart World is a 'fake HDR' Nintendo Switch 2 title — ‘Mario Kart World reveals that even the highest caliber of developers aren’t taking HDR seriously’
Mario Kart World appears to have been developed using 'an SDR-first content pipeline with a last-minute HDR tonemap.'
18/06/2025
Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating for its female user base
Investment app Grifin secured a $11 million Series A funding round.
18/06/2025
Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating
Investment app Grifin secured a $11 million Series A funding round.
18/06/2025
$1.4 million worth of Switch 2 consoles stolen from semi-truck — 2,800 consoles were en route from Nintendo of America HQ to a GameStop store in Texas
A $1.4-million Nintendo Switch 2 shipment has been stolen off the back of a semi-truck.
18/06/2025
Why is the President selling me phone service now?
Blame Ryan Reynolds. With a new wireless brand from the hosts of SmartLess emerging last week, and the debut of Trump Mobile this week, it sure seems like there's a hot new trend in Celebrities Selling Things: phone service. How did it come to this? Why can't they just stick to tequila? I talked to […]
18/06/2025
VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality - enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos
AI texture decompression promises better image quality, lower resource usage
18/06/2025
What happens when you feed AI nothing
If you stumbled across Terence Broad's AI-generated artwork (un)stable equilibrium on YouTube, you might assume he'd trained a model on the works of the painter Mark Rothko - the earlier, lighter pieces, before his vision became darker and suffused with doom. Like early-period Rothko, Broad's AI-generated images consist of simple fields of pure color, but […]
18/06/2025
Netflix will air traditional TV channels inside its app in France
Starting in summer 2026, Netflix subscribers in France will be able to watch commercially broadcast TV content “without ever having to leave the service.” The streaming giant has announced a distribution deal with French media company TF1 Group to make TF1’s free-to-air live TV channels and on-demand TF1 Plus streaming content available to French Netflix […]
18/06/2025
Nvidia planning new RTX 5090 'DD' variant for China — 24GB card with tweaked GPU latest attempt to comply with strict export restrictions
Following the alleged ban of the RTX 5090D in China, Nvidia is reportedly preparing a further cut-down alternative, dubbed the RTX 5090DD.
18/06/2025
Sam Altman says Meta is offering obscene $100M bonuses to poach AI employees and even bigger salaries — OpenAI CEO says ‘none of our best people decided to take them up on that’
Meta is reportedly offering a $100 million signing bonus to senior OpenAI talents, but none have taken it yet.
18/06/2025
The only MSRP RTX 5080 is back in stock in the UK — grab a Founders Edition straight from Nvidia for £949
The Nvidia RTX 5080 Founder's Edition is back in stock in the UK at MSRP.
18/06/2025
Garmin’s new sleep-tracking armband lasts a full week between charges
Garmin has announced a new sleep-tracking band that can be strapped to your upper arm, which could make it more comfortable to wear overnight. The Index Sleep Monitor tracks sleep stages, heart rate, and even your breathing to create a “comprehensive view of overall fitness and recovery,” with a personalized sleep score delivered every morning […]
18/06/2025
Trump set to delay TikTok ban with yet another extension
U.S. President Donald Trump will issue another extension to decide the fate of TikTok, pushing it by 90 days, the White House said on Tuesday.
18/06/2025
Corsair says audible clicking noise from its PSU is completely safe — will give you a new one anyway
Corsair has confirmed it has fixed a clicking issue with its RMe PSUs and will replace any affected units.
18/06/2025
AMD reveals benchmarks of Ryzen Threadripper 9000 — claims it's up to 145% faster than rival Xeon in some tests
AMD has finally revealed performance benchmarks for its Ryzen Threadripper 9000-series CPUs, showing that the new Zen 5-based 9995WX and 9980X deliver substantial gains over both their predecessors and Intel’s Xeon W9-3595X.
18/06/2025
Misguided copper thieves plunge LA into internet blackout — perps cut lines only to find fiber-optic cables
Some would-be copper thieves sliced into Spectrum fiber optic internet lines in Los Angeles this week, cutting internet and TV service to large swaths of the L.A. area. Repairs and restoration of service took over a day of work.
18/06/2025
Pope Leo makes AI’s threat to humanity a signature issue
Pope Leo XIV, the new American pope, is making the threat of AI to humanity a key issue of his legacy, even as the technology industry has spent years attempting to make friends with the Vatican.
18/06/2025
After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns
With Polar as their ‘Merchant of Record’ responsible for handling billing and taxes, developers can sell online products and SaaS subscriptions globally from day one.
18/06/2025
Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill in a win for the crypto industry
In a 68-30 vote on Tuesday evening, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the GENIUS Act with bipartisan support. Eighteen Democrats joined the majority of Republicans in passing the bill, which is the first to establish a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, crypto tokens that are pegged to the value of the US dollar. In the past […]
18/06/2025
Iran is going offline to prevent purported Israeli cyberattacks
In a purported attempt to limit Israel's ability to wage cyberwarfare, Iran has begun throttling its civilians' access to the internet and plans to disconnect entirely from the global internet by Tuesday night. Fateme Mohajerani, a government spokesperson, said during a recent television broadcast that the speed reduction was "temporary, targeted, and controlled, aimed at […]
17/06/2025
Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup
The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it occurred over “the most legendary party that never happened."
17/06/2025
Trump is giving TikTok another ban extension
For the third time, President Donald Trump will extend the deadline for TikTok to spin out from its Chinese parent company or face a US ban. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed in a statement Tuesday that Trump will sign an executive order this week extending the deadline another 90 days, landing the new […]
17/06/2025
Senate confirms Trump’s FCC pick, Olivia Trusty
The Senate confirmed Republican Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, installing another nominee by President Donald Trump and ending the brief lack of quorum at the agency. The vote was 53-45, with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) being the only Democrat to vote in her favor. Trusty will join Republican […]
17/06/2025
Meta is making all Facebook videos reels
Meta is making a change to how sharing videos works on Facebook. Right now, you can share videos as a video from the post composer or as a reel, and both have different sharing workflows. In “the coming months,” however, “all videos on Facebook will be shared as reels,” according to a blog post. “Facebook […]
17/06/2025
Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk physically near Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI […]
17/06/2025
WhatsApp’s rollout of ads will change the app forever
This week, WhatsApp did something its founders said it would never do: it's putting advertisements inside the app. It ends WhatsApp's decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience. Meta, which acquired WhatsApp in 2014, attempted to justify the decision by saying ads will be sequestered to its "Update" tab, where you'll see […]
17/06/2025
OpenAI’s $200M DoD contract could squeeze frenemy Microsoft
The contract could put the model maker in competition with the OpenAI services that Microsoft wants to sell to the DoD.
17/06/2025
Nintendo will take your Switch 2 offline forever if you use a Mig flash cartridge
Some Switch 2 owners have received the error code 2134-4508, which results in their consoles being permanently banned from accessing any of its online services, as spotted by IGN. It’s not a ban hammer from sucking at Mario Kart World, thankfully for me, but one that’s targeting consoles that have used a Mig – a […]
17/06/2025
EVs dominate the most American-made cars index and it’s not just because of Tesla
Tesla, Kia, and Volkswagen took six of the top 10 spots in the 2025 American-Made Index, which ranks vehicles built and bought in the U.S.
17/06/2025
Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon
AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes, they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind has written in a report that Gemini 2.5 […]
17/06/2025
Amazon CEO says it will cut jobs due to AI’s ‘efficiency’
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says advancements in AI will “reduce” the company’s corporate headcount over the next few years. In a memo to employees on Tuesday, Jassy writes that Amazon expects the change due to “efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company,” without specifying how many employees would be affected. “As we roll […]
17/06/2025
Fossil fuels are an insurance disaster
Heatwaves, mold, and plastic pollution pose new risks to businesses and insurance companies, a new report by reinsurer Swiss Re warns. What do these things have in common? Fossil fuels make matters worse. They release the greenhouse gases warming our planet and are the primary ingredients for plastics, of course. Swiss Re’s annual report flags […]
17/06/2025
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.
17/06/2025
Amazon expects to reduce corporate jobs due to AI
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects that AI automations will both change how people work and change the number of people needed.
17/06/2025
PlayStation’s concert series is coming to the US
Sony is bringing its PlayStation concerts to the US this fall, where you can hear live performances of tracks from franchises like God of War, The Last of Us, Ghost of Tsushima, and Horizon. Ticket pre-sales for PlayStation: The Concert begin on Wednesday, and you can see the full list of current tour dates on […]
17/06/2025
Meta is reportedly building AI smart glasses with Prada, too
Meta is reportedly working on a pair of AI smart glasses with Prada.
17/06/2025
Multimodal Vision Intelligence with .NET MAUI
Enhance your .NET MAUI app with photo-based AI by capturing images and extracting structured information using Microsoft.Extensions.AI. The post Multimodal Vision Intelligence with .NET MAUI appeared first on .NET Blog.
17/06/2025
Four reasons why it’s a surprisingly bad time to buy a gaming handheld
I love modern handheld gaming, and I recommend it to anyone and everyone. Just maybe not today? If you decided today was the day to finally drop hundreds of dollars on your first handheld, I might advise you to wait. Four reasons: The best handhelds are sold out If you're reading this story, I suspect […]
17/06/2025
Tumblr’s content filtering systems have been falsely flagging posts as ‘mature,’ users blame AI
Tumblr users are complaining that content is being falsely labeled as mature, the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns.
17/06/2025
Asus' $10,000 ROG Astral Dhahab RTX 5090 gets a less-elite 5080 version with wider availability
Asus unveils RTX 5080 version of RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition, dubbed the ROG RTX 5080 Astral Dhahab Core. The new GPU uses the same 24K gold-plated ROG Astral cooler as the RTX 5090 version.
17/06/2025
Unlock purpose-driven growth at TechCrunch All Stage, and get $210 off for 6 more days
T-minus 6 days until TechCrunch All Stage ticket prices rise. From now until June 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT, founders save $210 and investors save $200 on passes. Are you ready to push your startup to the next level? Or are you an investor looking to back the next big breakthrough? Join TC All Stage […]
17/06/2025
Bungie delays Marathon after alpha test feedback
Bungie announced Tuesday that it’s delaying Marathon, its new extraction shooter that had been set for a September 23rd release date. The studio isn’t providing a new release date just yet, though has promised to share it sometime this fall. The studio outlined a few “immediate focus areas” for the game. It plans to make […]
17/06/2025
AMD to design processor for Xbox Next: Team Red extends long-standing Microsoft partnership
Microsoft has officially confirmed a multi-year partnership with AMD to co-develop high-performance custom processors for both next-generation Xbox home consoles and new Xbox-branded portable gaming devices.
17/06/2025
Applied Intuition raises $600 million as it pushes further into defense
The buzzy AI-powered autonomous vehicle software company doubles its valuation from last year -- and then some.
17/06/2025
Facebook announces that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels
Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation.
17/06/2025
Intel to lay off up to 20% of Intel Foundry workers
Rumors of these layoffs began back in April as Intel looks to refocus on its core business units and shed additional bloat.
17/06/2025
Microsoft has broken Windows Hello facial recognition — it no longer works in the dark
The newest revision of Windows Hello Face requires a color camera to authenticate logins in addition to the use of IR sensors, somewhat limiting the function's usability in low-light scenarios.
17/06/2025
Pro-Israel hacktivist group claims reponsibility for alleged Iranian bank hack
The apparent cyberattack comes as Israel and Iran engage in a days-long escalating military conflict.
17/06/2025
Pro-Israel hacktivist group claims responsibility for alleged Iranian bank hack
The apparent cyberattack comes as Israel and Iran engage in a days-long escalating military conflict.
17/06/2025
Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’
Microsoft is confirming today that it’s working on a next-gen Xbox console in partnership with AMD. Xbox president Sarah Bond made the announcement in a minute-long video posted to YouTube, promising to deliver “an Xbox experience not locked to a single store or tied to one device.” Bond says Microsoft is partnering with AMD for […]
17/06/2025
In just 3 months, Ramp’s valuation jumped to $16B from $13B
Spend management startup Ramp announced on Tuesday that it raised a $200 million Series E led by its largest investor, Founders Fund.
17/06/2025
In just 3 months, Ramp’s valuation jumped to $16B, up from $13B
Spend management startup Ramp announced on Tuesday that it raised a $200 million Series E led by its largest investor, Founders Fund.
17/06/2025
LG’s C4 OLED TV has dropped to a new low price
It’s official: Amazon’s Prime Day event is just three weeks away, and it’s possible we’ll see a number of great TV deals during the four-day event. But if you’d rather not wait and see, LG’s C4 OLED TV has hit a new low price, starting at $699.99 ($800 off) for the 42-inch model at Amazon […]
17/06/2025
Who is really behind the Trump Mobile T1 phone?
In case you missed it, the Trump Organization announced yesterday that it plans to release a $499 Trump-branded, "built in the United States" phone later this year. A spokesperson for the Trump Organization doubled down on this claim to The Wall Street Journal, saying "manufacturing for the new phone will be in Alabama, California and […]
17/06/2025
I've been using an OLED monitor for 2656 hours, and I'm not scared of burn-in: Here's why
I've been using this monitor for nine months, and I'm not afraid of burn-in.
17/06/2025
Anysphere launches a $200-a-month Cursor AI coding subscription
Anysphere launched a new $200-a-month subscription plan for its popular AI coding tool, Cursor, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The new plan, Ultra, offers users 20x more usage on AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI compared to the company’s $20-a-month subscription plan, Pro. Anysphere also says Cursor users […]
17/06/2025
All hell is about to break loose in new trailer for The Sandman season 2
Were it not for Neil Gaiman getting caught up in a sexual misconduct scandal, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of The Sandman comics could have run for much longer given how much source material there is to be pulled from. But you can see in the new trailer for the show’s second and final season that the […]
17/06/2025
Threads expands open social web integrations with fediverse feed, user profile search
Posts from federated users will be found on the Following tab of the Threads app.
17/06/2025
Waymo is gradually expanding its borders in California
Waymo is continuing its slow and steady approach to the robotaxi business by gradually expanding its service area in the key cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company said that starting June 17th, it would begin accepting passengers further south along the San Francisco Peninsula in cities like Brisbane, South San Francisco, San […]
17/06/2025
Waymo robotaxis are pushing into even more California cities
Waymo is expanding its commercial robotaxi service area by another 80 square miles, a move that brings its driverless vehicles into new parts of Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
17/06/2025
Streaming viewership exceeded cable and broadcast combined for the first time last month, report says
Last month, streaming services accounted for 44.8% of all television viewership, their largest share to date.
17/06/2025
The CPU Core Wars return — Intel Nova Lake leak teases monster 52 cores, DDR5-8000, and 32 PCIe lanes rumored, would rival AMD's finest
Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 'Nova Lake-S' desktop CPUs will reportedly feature up to 52 cores, DDR5-8000 memory support, and 32 PCIe 5.0 lanes. What a beast!
17/06/2025
Max will show autoplaying video previews picked by AI
Max — soon to be called HBO Max again — is rolling out an update that automatically plays video previews when you hover over shows and movies. The video previews are launching to users in the US now, but Max is still working on an “AI-assisted” tool to pick the clips that go in them. […]
17/06/2025
California is trying to regulate its AI giants — again
Last September, all eyes were on Senate Bill 1047 as it made its way to California Governor Gavin Newsom's desk - and died there as he vetoed the buzzy piece of legislation. SB 1047 would have required makers of all large AI models, particularly those that cost $100 million or more to train, to test […]
17/06/2025
Philips’ new ambient wall light is now available
Signify has officially announced its new Philips Hue Play Wall Washer light, which was previously leaked by Amazon UK earlier this month. The company has also launched its new Philips Hue AI assistant in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, with a broader global release expected by the end of August. Available now in Europe, the […]
17/06/2025
Satechi’s new SSD enclosure matches the Mac Mini
Satechi has announced a new SSD enclosure with an aluminum design that matches the black and silver finish and dimensions of Apple’s Mac Mini M4, but thinner so it can perch atop the tiny desktop computer or be used as a matching stand. But since it connects using an included braided USB-C cable, the enclosure […]
17/06/2025
Peak Design’s new portable pro tripods can support up to 40 pounds of camera gear
Peak Design has announced three new tripods with features and functionality that cater to professional photographers and videographers. The company’s first tripod was a travel model that folded to be as slim as a soda can to prioritize portability. Its new pro tripods, available in three versions, are slightly thicker when collapsed, but they can […]
17/06/2025
Peak Design Pro Tripod review: a leg up over the original
Whenever Peak Design releases a new product, whether it's a backpack, a camera strap, or even a wallet, I'm always looking forward to seeing what kind of genius engineering tweaks the San Francisco-based company came up with. And while there are some clever tricks here, the newly released line of video tripods is more about […]
17/06/2025
Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
The Threads team at Meta has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching its biggest integrations yet: a new dedicated feed for fediverse posts, and a way to search for fediverse users inside of Threads. Starting today, if you’ve turned on fediverse sharing in Threads, there […]
17/06/2025
How AI chatbots keep people coming back
Chatbots are increasingly looking to keep people chatting, using familiar tactics that we’ve already seen lead to negative consequences. Sycophancy can make AI chatbots respond in a way that’s overly agreeable or flattering. And while having a digital hype person might not seem like a dangerous thing, it is actually a tactic used by tech […]
17/06/2025
'There's nothing I can do. I don't even know if I wanna play anymore' — Pokémon fan left devastated after '20 years worth of data' lost in Switch to Switch 2 transfer
A passionate Pokemon fan has lost '20 years worth of data' due to a botched transfer between the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2
17/06/2025
Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly seeking a $4.3B equity raise
Elon Musk's xAI company is looking to raise $4.3 billion in equity funding, adding onto the $5 billion it's seeking in debt funding.
17/06/2025
Last call to volunteer at TechCrunch All Stage 2025
TechCrunch All Stage, our founder-focused summit, is gearing up to return to Boston on July 15! 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 […]
17/06/2025
Blue Prince is coming to Mac
Blue Prince, the architectural mystery puzzle roguelite, is coming to a Mac near you. In a press release from the game’s publisher Raw Fury, it was announced that Blue Prince is getting an update that will add Mac support (via Steam) coming “later this year.” Blue Prince released earlier this year and quickly became an […]
17/06/2025
Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy
Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy.
17/06/2025
After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 consoles for players caught using Mig Flash — popular cartridge allows Switch 1 games on the new console, but users say they're only using their own ROMs
Be wary if you're planning to use the MIG-Switch with your Nintendo Switch 2, with user reports indicating a widespread ban on consoles that have been used with the flash cart.
17/06/2025
Senate GOP bill spares nuclear and geothermal energy while hammering wind and solar
The Senate Finance Committee’s language would take a sledgehammer to some parts of the renewable-friendly Inflation Reduction Act while sparing others.
17/06/2025
Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training
Social networks are bolstering their terms of service against scrapers and bots that crawl the website to train AI models. Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon today updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well. “We explicitly prohibit […]
17/06/2025
Sword Health nabs $40M at $4B valuation, pushes IPO plans to at least 2028
The digital health startup says it secured the fresh capital to update its valuation and finance acquisitions.
17/06/2025
Download these now free retro mobile games before Sega removes them
Although there has been no official announcement, Sega has revealed that it’s discontinuing support for nine retro games that were ported to iOS and Android several years ago. Before that happens, the company has made all the games completely free and removed all in-app purchases, as spotted by Android Authority. The list includes the following […]
17/06/2025
Cyclist with 'devastating injuries' one of the first patients to receive 3D-printed face repair — new features made with PEEK printer
Dave Richards is among the first to receive a custom prosthetic from the new Bristol 3D Medical Centre after serious injuries from a bicycling accident.
17/06/2025
As grocery shortages persist, UNFI says it’s recovering from cyberattack
The ongoing outage is preventing the company from fulfilling and distributing customer orders at scale.
17/06/2025
UK watchdog fines 23andMe over 2023 data breach
The ICO said over 150,000 U.K. residents had data stolen in the breach.
17/06/2025
Amazon is holding Prime Day 2025 on July 8-11
Amazon has revealed that Prime Day 2025 will take place on July 8-11, extending the annual sale event to four days this year. Amazon notes that consumers will be able to shop for “pantry staples and snacks for summer gatherings to home-improvement must-haves, back-to-school supplies, health and personal care finds, family-favorite toys, best-selling books, pet […]
17/06/2025
The first two Netflix Houses will finally open in late 2025
Netflix has announced that its first two Netflix House venues will open in late 2025. There’s still no specific opening date yet. The venues were first announced in late 2023 and later confirmed for two initial locations in the US including the King of Prussia Mall outside Philadelphia and the Galleria Dallas mall in Texas. […]
17/06/2025
Intel Factory layoffs could impact 'more than 10,000' factory workers — one fifth of employees affected by 'enormous cutback'
Intel plans to cut 15%-20 % of its global fab network workforce — between 8,170 and 10,890 employees — to reduce costs, but this risks operational agility and potentially jeopardizes federal and state funding.
17/06/2025
Two-year-old defense tech Mach Industries confirms $100M raise led by Khosla, Bedrock
Rising-star defense tech Mach Industries has announced a new $100 million round from Khosla, Bedrock and Sequoia.
17/06/2025
Adobe’s Firefly comes to iOS and Android
Adobe is launching its Firefly mobile app on iOS and Android for consumers to create AI-powered media
17/06/2025
I tried to crack Alienware’s secret code with AI – Gemini thought it was the Zodiac Killer instead
The Alienware 16 Area-51 gaming laptop has a secret code inscribed on the inside, written in a custom alien language. I tried to use Google Gemini and ChatGPT to solve it, but they didn't help, and in some cases Gemini hallucinated wildly.
17/06/2025
Adobe made a mobile app for its Firefly generative AI tools
The all-in-one platform for Adobe’s Firefly-branded generative AI models is now available on iPhone and Android devices. The new Firefly mobile app allows users to generate images and videos using text descriptions and experiment with popular AI photo editing tools, enabling creatives to generate assets for their projects on the go. Adobe is also introducing […]
17/06/2025
New Lossless Scaling update can reduce GPU load by 2x — Version 3.1 could be the most potent FSR/DLSS alternative yet
Lossless Scaling 3.1 update can deliver 'up to 2x GPU load reduction' and improved quality.
17/06/2025
Honda dips its toes in cargo delivery micromobility
Honda will supply last-mile delivery companies with the Fastport eQuad.
17/06/2025
US court denies Apple’s request to dismiss antitrust case concerning iCloud
The lawsuit alleges Apple violates competition laws by forcing users of its devices to back up critical files and device settings on iCloud.
17/06/2025
Life with the Nintendo Switch 2
The Nintendo Switch 2 is great. In many ways, it's exactly what we hoped for: a Switch, only better. And yet there's something… underwhelming about it. Maybe it's unfair, but we've come to expect Nintendo to consistently amaze us with either how its consoles work or the games you can play with them. In this […]
17/06/2025
Sequoia-backed Crosby launches a new kind of AI-powered law firm
The tech industry talks a lot about how AI is going to transform work. Legal startup Crosby, which just came out of stealth, is an extreme example.
17/06/2025
Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion
Coralogix, an Israeli startup offering a full-stack observability and security platform, has raised $115 million at a pre-money valuation of over $1 billion, almost doubling in three years from its last round in 2022. With the influx of cash, the startup is looking to expand its engineering base in India and develop its AI agent. […]
17/06/2025
The Nissan Leaf is finally getting the makeover it deserves
Nissan revealed new details about the upcoming 2026 Leaf, which will return as a crossover SUV with up to 303 miles of estimated range, dual charge ports, and Google’s software built-in. The reborn Leaf will reach dealerships in the US starting this fall at a yet-to-be-announced price. The first-gen Leaf was somewhat charming — in […]
17/06/2025
Microsoft should change its Copilot advertising, says watchdog
Microsoft’s Copilot advertising has been criticized by an industry watchdog for its productivity claims and confusing use of Copilot branding. The Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division (NAD) has reviewed Microsoft’s Copilot advertising, and recommended that the software giant discontinues or modifies productivity claims about Microsoft 365 Copilot and more clearly disclose the limitations of […]
17/06/2025
'There is no way a Borderlands game is that demanding' — Borderlands 4 users furious as PC requirements reveal RTX 3070 minimum GPU, 3080 recommended
Borderlands fans are up in arms over the game's recently revealed recommended PC specs and tier pricing strategy.
17/06/2025
Prominent global VC Endeavor Catalyst is raising $300M, sources say
Endeavor Catalyst, the co-investment fund affiliated with global entrepreneurial network Endeavor Global, is raising a new $300 million fund, its fifth and largest fund yet, as it looks to deepen its bet on high-growth startups across Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, TechCrunch has learned. The new fund, according to sources, is […]
17/06/2025
The Atlantic is making a big push into games
Daily puzzle games are seemingly everywhere right now, and starting today, you’ll be able to add a new stop to your puzzle rotation: The Atlantic. The publication is launching a new hub for its growing game offerings, including already available games like Bracket City and Caleb’s Inferno Crossword Puzzle, as well as some new puzzles. […]
17/06/2025
Anthropic fires back at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, says it has never claimed only Anthropic can build safe and powerful AI
Anthropic has hit back at claims made by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in which he said Anthropic thinks AI is so scary that only they should do it.
17/06/2025
Future AI processors said to consume up to 15,360W — massive power draw will demand exotic immersion and embedded cooling tech
AI GPU power consumption is projected to rise from current levels of 1,400 to as high as 15,360W by 2035, prompting a shift from air and liquid cooling to immersion and embedded cooling technologies, according to KAIST.
17/06/2025
OpenAI awarded $200 million US defense contract
OpenAI is officially on the Pentagon’s payroll. The Department of Defence announced a $200 million contract with OpenAI to provide the US government with new artificial intelligence tools, including those used for proactive cyber defense. In a post outlining its latest contracts, the DoD said that OpenAI “will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address […]
17/06/2025
Nvidia calms fears and hypes Europe's impending AI future
Everything Nvidia announced at the GTC Paris keynote at VivaTech
17/06/2025
Google to scale up AI-powered fraud detection and security operations in India
Google has unveiled its Safety Charter in India, which will expand its AI-led developments for fraud detection and combating scams across the country, the company’s largest market outside the United States. Digital fraud in India is rising. Fraud related to the Indian government’s instant payment system UPI grew 85% year-over-year to nearly 11 billion Indian […]
17/06/2025
Spotify’s Daniel Ek just bet bigger on Helsing, Europe’s defense tech darling
Spotify's Daniel Ek just led a €600 million investment in Helsing, a four-year-old, Munich-based defense tech company that is now valued at €12 billion, according to the Financial Times. The deal makes it one of Europe's most valuable privately held companies; it also highlights Europe's scramble to build its own military muscle as the world grows messier and the U.S. turns inward.
17/06/2025
Amazon Prime Day stretches to four days of deals this year
Amazon has announced the dates when its annual Prime Day deal extravaganza will kick off, and it’s happening for much longer than usual. It starts Tuesday, July 8th, at 3AM Eastern and lasts through Friday, July 11th, at the same time. And, instead of being a two-day event that’s exclusive to Prime subscribers, it’s happening […]
17/06/2025
You can now set up double dates with friends on Tinder
Tinder launched a new Double Date feature, which allows users to team up with friends and chat with potential matches together.
17/06/2025
Tinder now lets you go on double dates
Tinder is no longer just a platform for solo dates. The company has announced a new “Double Date” feature rolling out in the US that will let you invite a friend to find — and match with – another pair. The feature lives within a new “Double Date” icon in the top-right corner of the […]
17/06/2025
Justin Sun takes crypto company public — reportedly with help from Eric Trump
Last year, Justin Sun was facing a federal investigation into his crypto empire, to the point that he avoided entering the US. Now, his company is going to be publicly listed on the American stock markets – and reportedly with the assistance of Eric Trump. Tron, Sun’s digital assets platform, announced on Monday that it […]
16/06/2025
The cracks in the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship are reportedly widening
OpenAI and Microsoft have an increasingly strained relationship, according to a recent WSJ report.
16/06/2025
Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing
Pornainen recently turned on a 100 MWh thermal battery filled with ground up soapstone.
16/06/2025
PC modding repository Nexus Mods has a new owner
Nexus Mods, a website known for hosting mods for thousands of PC games, has been handed over to new ownership, according to former owner Robin “Dark0ne” Scott. “After months of meetings, face-to-face talks, and a whole lot of soul searching, I am thrilled to say that I truly believe I have found the exact right […]
16/06/2025
I configured a 1080p-capable gaming PC for just $400 — here's how you can build your own
With the right set of parts, you too can build an inexpensive gaming rig that gets the job done.
16/06/2025
Charge your Apple Watch on this tiny iMac G3 replica
Previous additions to Spigen’s Classic C1 series of Apple accessories include iPhone and AirPods cases inspired by the iMac G3’s bright colors. Its new Apple Watch stand goes one step further and recreates the entire design of the iconic computer in miniature so it can fit on your bedside table and charge your smartwatch overnight. […]
16/06/2025
Instagram tests a reposts feature
Instagram is testing the ability for users to repost posts, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.
16/06/2025
Instagram users complain of mass bans, pointing finger at AI
Instagram users report that their accounts were banned even though they had not violated the company's terms of service or other policies.
16/06/2025
Threads will let you hide spoilers in your posts
Threads is rolling out a test that will let you hide images or text that contain spoilers, according to a post from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. With the test, you’ll be able to blur content by tapping an image or highlighting text and selecting the “mark spoiler” option. Other users can view the hidden content […]
16/06/2025
Deadline day: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close at midnight
Battle it out in front of 10,000+ startup leaders, investors, and media at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. It’s your moment to be seen, funded, and remembered — and maybe even walk away with $100,000 in equity-free funding.
16/06/2025
Threads is testing spoiler text, Zuckerberg says
Threads, Meta's microblogging platform, is testing spoiler text. This is a nice quality-of-life upgrade on the user side, but it also helps Meta by encouraging more conversations about pop culture without people worrying about spoiling others.
16/06/2025
GPU-disabled Ryzen 9000F support suspected in AGESA firmware update
AMD's upcoming AGESA 1.2.0.3e microcode update is rumored to support a Ryzen 9000 F-series CPU lineup or potentially just a single SKU in the form of the Ryzen 7 9700F.
16/06/2025
Phison E28 2TB SSD Review: A return for vengeance
The Phison E28 is a return to form, offering excellent performance and power efficiency. It’s an all-around impressive package.
16/06/2025
Intel Nova Lake specs leaked — Up to 52 cores and 150W of TDP for Intel's AMD Zen 6 rival
A hardware leaker has shared the alleged specifications for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors, rumored to utilize the new LGA1954 socket.
16/06/2025
Ford’s new modified Mustang Mach-E is ready to fly up Pikes Peak
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is a racing event that's been going on since 1916. It's a 12.42-mile run that climbs 4,720 feet and serves as a proving ground for carmakers to test the speed and agility of their new vehicles. Electric cars tend to do well in the Pikes Peak race; they don't […]
16/06/2025
Patreon will increase the cut it takes from new creators
Patreon is bumping its take fee from creators from 8% to 10%, but only for new signups.
16/06/2025
The U.S. Navy is selling MSRP Nvidia RTX GPUs — 5070, 5080, and even 5090 spotted at Navy Exchange
Redditor highlights an unexpected treasure trove of MSRP-priced Nvidia RTX 50 graphics cards.
16/06/2025
Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads
Reddit is launching a new feature for advertisers that slots positive posts from Reddit users right under their ads. The new alpha feature, called Conversation Summary Add-ons, “dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives,” […]
16/06/2025
Patreon is raising its fees for new creators soon
Patreon has announced an update to its pricing, consolidating its Pro and Premium plans into a single offering starting August 5th. The new plan will take 10 percent of creators’ earnings, rather than the current eight percent for Pro and 12 percent for Premium users. That will mean a price increase for many new users, […]
16/06/2025
Trump Mobile is a bad deal
Trump Mobile launched this morning with a single prepaid wireless plan and the promise of nationwide coverage for $47.45 per month. For that price, you get unlimited talk and texting, international calling, plus 20GB of "high-speed" cell and hotspot data, which a customer support representative told me is 5G. But while the plan's price might […]
16/06/2025
The GPU 16-pin melting fiasco is getting ridiculous — now this entire Nvidia RTX turns into a red ring of death when it is incorrectly plugged in
Galax’s Hall of Fame graphics cards use ARGB lighting to warn of 16-pin issues
16/06/2025
I've been gaming on Windows for over 30 years, but now I'm giving Linux a shot
Hopefully I can play more than Super Tux Kart
16/06/2025
A handy charger for every Switch Joy-Con you own is just $20
A company named Fastsnail has won the race when it comes to making a Joy-Con charging accessory that’s better than Nintendo’s and any other third-party maker. Its charging dock can charge the Joy-Con for the original Switch and for the Switch 2. Each charging port can accommodate either the rail-based charging connector of the Switch, […]
16/06/2025
As grocery shortages persist, UNFI says it’s recovering from cyberattack
Whole Foods and other grocery stores reported shortages following the cyberattack
16/06/2025
Microsoft’s Windows Hello facial recognition no longer works in the dark
Microsoft’s Windows Hello face unlock feature no longer works in dark rooms, and it’s not a bug. Microsoft quietly made the change to Windows Hello in April, in order to fix a vulnerability with Windows Hello spoofing. Fixing the security flaw has now removed key functionality from Windows Hello in Windows 11. Windows Central spotted […]
16/06/2025
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible
Here is a roughly complete list of all the things we know for sure about the first phone made for the new Trump Mobile wireless provider: it's called the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version). It costs $499, and you can reserve one now with a $100 down payment. It is, according to the website, coming […]
16/06/2025
The investor experience at TechCrunch All Stage: One floor, infinite deal flow
TechCrunch All Stage isn’t a waiting room for warm intros — it’s a floor full of founders, ideas, and breakout potential. For VCs, it’s a rare chance to skip the filters and meet the future of tech in one place, on one day, with no layers between you and the next standout story. Whether you’re […]
16/06/2025
Car sharing giant Zoomcar says hacker accessed personal data of 8.4 million users
The personal data includes customer names, phone numbers, and car registration numbers.
16/06/2025
What makes TechCrunch All Stage different from other startup events? Answers to your most pressing questions
Tech and startup events have a formula. You know it. We know it. We’ve all done it. But TechCrunch All Stage 2025, which we’re hosting July 15 at the SoWa Power Station in Boston, is designed to break out of that rinse-and-repeat model — and focus on what early-stage startups actually need to know, right […]
16/06/2025
The founder experience at TechCrunch All Stage: Built for people building what’s next
For a founder, time is the one resource you can’t raise. That’s why TechCrunch All Stage — happening July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station — is designed to make every minute count. Whether you’re at the whiteboard sketching v1 of your product or figuring out how to lead a team of 50, TechCrunch All […]
16/06/2025
WhatsApp is officially getting ads
WhatsApp is rolling out ads. In an update on Monday, Meta announced that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like status feature. The status feature lives within WhatsApp’s “Updates” tab and allows users to share disappearing text, photo, voice notes, or video messages. But now, you might see sponsored content in addition […]
16/06/2025
What to expect at TechCrunch All Stage: One day, countless connections and takeaways
Whether you’re a founder gearing up for your next raise or a VC scouting your next portfolio win, TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, packs more into one day than most multi-day conferences manage to deliver. This isn’t your typical sit-and-listen event. It’s designed to help you build momentum in […]
16/06/2025
The countdown begins: 7 days left to save up to $210 on TechCrunch All Stage passes
Final countdown — less than 1 week to save up to $210 on TechCrunch All Stage passes! Founder or investor, this is your last chance to save big before June 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Founders, sharpen your edge. Investors, meet the next rocket ships. On July 15, startup and VC leaders will gather at […]
16/06/2025
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.
16/06/2025
3D-printed homes tested against earthquakes for the first time — 'Dramatic leap forward' hailed for potential use in earthquake-prone countries
Professors from the University of Bristol have put together a giant earthquake simulator that shakes 3D-printed buildings to test for safety.
16/06/2025
China launches first-ever invasive brain-computer interface clinical trial — Tetraplegic patient could skillfully operate racing games after just three weeks
China's first in-human clinical trials of an invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) have launched.
16/06/2025
Nintendo announces a Donkey Kong Bananza Direct
Nintendo will offer an early look at Donkey Kong Bananza during a livestream on Wednesday, June 18th at 9AM ET / 6AM PT. The company announced the upcoming Direct event through its Nintendo Today app and on X, saying the livestream will feature 15 minutes of information about the Switch 2 game. Donkey Kong Bananza […]
16/06/2025
Alta raises $11M to bring ‘Clueless’ fashion tech to life with all-star investors
Throughout her years working in technology, Jenny Wang, 28, always found herself stumbling back to one idea — a personal styling agent to help users decide what to wear and buy based on their budget, lifestyle, weather and calendar. She has tried to build such a product numerous times in the past, “but the AI […]
16/06/2025
WhatsApp is adding ads to the Status screen
After years of not showing any ads, WhatsApp is adding ads to Status updates.
16/06/2025
Samsung Odyssey 3D G9 gaming monitor review: Premium 4K gaming in 2D and glasses-free 3D
Samsung delivers premium 4K gaming and glasses-free 3D with its Odyssey 3D G9. It’s a 27-inch IPS panel with 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and wide gamut color.
16/06/2025
This 17% MSI RTX 5070 discount is tempting me to upgrade my 3070, thanks to its lowest-ever price
Get 17% off this MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G VENTUS 3X OC, now just £545 at Amazon.
16/06/2025
$124 million armored truck crypto money laundering operation busted — Australian perps apprehended, could face life in prison
Australian law enforcement has charged four people for an 'elaborate and calculated' money laundering operation, cleaning $124 million
16/06/2025
HBM development roadmap revealed: HBM8 with a 16,384-bit interface and embedded NAND in 2038
KAIST has a roadmap projecting the evolution of high-bandwidth memory from HBM4 to HBM8 through 2038, detailing major gains in bandwidth, capacity, I/O width, power, and even system architecture.
16/06/2025
OnePlus announces the Nord 5 and four more products
OnePlus has announced five new products, including a new phone from its popular Nord lineup, which will launch in Europe and India next month. The company will release two phones, a tablet, a smartwatch, and a pair of earbuds, and has already shared a handful of details for each device, though full specs and prices […]
16/06/2025
Nintendo Switch 2 gets a CT scan that shows off internals layer-by-layer, including a scan of the Nvidia Tegra SoC
Scan-of-the-month over at Reddit shows off what the Nintendo Switch 2 looks like under a CT scan and confirms the hardware inside.
16/06/2025
Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s
If you’ve been having flashbacks to 2007 while using your PC over the past few days, you’re not alone. Microsoft has mistakenly replaced Windows 11’s boot sound — in test versions of the OS — with the startup chime from Windows Vista. Windows testers started noticing the issue shortly after Microsoft released its latest Dev […]
16/06/2025
Your next phone could run on Trump Mobile
Donald Trump might be planning to launch a mobile network and a Trump-branded phone. DTTM Operations LLC, the company Trump uses to manage his trademarks, has applied to use both “Trump” and “T1” for telecoms, mobile accessories, and even phones themselves. The applications, filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office last Thursday, cover wireless […]
16/06/2025
Here comes the AI sponcon
Social media is filled with an endless supply of people selling things, from Shein try-on hauls to health supplement and gadget product placements. Influencer marketing disrupted traditional advertising, creating an army of living room salespeople pumping out content meant to entice strangers at scale — and tech companies’ vision for the future includes more automation. […]
16/06/2025
Aspora gets $50M from Sequioa to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora
India has been one of the top recipients of remittances in the world for more than a decade. Inward remittances jumped from $55.6 billion in 2010-11 to $118.7 billion in 2023-24, according to data from the country’s central bank. The bank projects that figure will reach $160 billion in 2029. This means there is an […]
16/06/2025
Anker’s Soundcore Sleep earbuds finally feature active noise canceling
Anker has announced a new version of its wireless sleep buds that could be even more effective at delivering a peaceful slumber by blocking out disturbing noises using active noise cancellation. Previous versions of the Soundcore Sleep earbuds blocked external sounds passively using just a snug fit inside the ear, but the new Sleep A30 […]
16/06/2025
The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’
While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy. How? Well, the Navy’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli says he has spent the last two and a half years focused […]
15/06/2025
Spiraling with ChatGPT
ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times.
15/06/2025
Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC
Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls.
15/06/2025
Alexa von Tobel has high hopes for ‘fintech 3.0’
It’s been 10 years since Alexa von Tobel sold her financial planning startup Learnvest to Northwestern Mutual for $250 million. Since then, von Tobel became Northwestern Mutual’s first chief digital officer, then chief innovation officer, before launching an early-stage venture firm of her own, Inspired Capital, with former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. She’s […]
15/06/2025
Taiwan bans chip exports to Huawei, SMIC — ban comes after Huawei tricked TSMC into making one million AI processors despite US restrictions
Two of the most important companies behind China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency and AI supremacy hopes were dealt a blow on Saturday, with their addition to Taiwan’s strategic high-tech commodities entity list.
15/06/2025
$3,000 Steam Deck prototype disassembled — concept units had discrete GPU support, smaller joysticks, circular touchpads
Jon Bringus of Bringus Studios explored one of the first iterations of the Steam Deck gaming console.
15/06/2025
First reverse engineered Sony PS1 motherboard enables fixing broken systems — bare PCBs for $40, boards with chips for $95
An electronics enthusiast has created what they say is the 'first custom PlayStation 1 motherboard created in 30 years.'
15/06/2025
AMD partners roll out new BIOS updates to patch TPM vulnerability — error with AMD CPUs addressed with AGESA 1.2.0.3e
A large number of AMD CPUs, including Ryzen 7000, 8000, and 9000 processors, are vulnerable to a security flaw that could allow hackers to retrieve sensitive information within the TPM.
15/06/2025
OXS Thunder Pro+ Review: An interesting answer to surround sound
The OXS Thunder Pro+ is a 7.1.2 soundbar with built-in RGB lighting and an (optional) satellite neck speaker.
15/06/2025
Norbauer Seneca review: a $3,600 luxury keyboard for the keyboard obsessed
Some people can tell great wine from okay wine. They go on wine tastings, take wine tours. They tend to spend more money on wine than most. I am not one of those people. I can tell wine from vinegar if you show me the bottle. I am just a little bit obsessed with keyboards, […]
15/06/2025
How to build the best keyboard in the world
The term "endgame," among keyboard enthusiasts, is sort of a running gag. Endgame is when you finally dial in your perfect layout, case, features, switches, and keycaps, so you can stop noodling around with parts and get on with whatever it is you actually use the keyboard for - work, presumably. Then a few months […]
15/06/2025
Windows 11 Insiders surprised by return of Vista startup sound — it’s a bug not a feature, says MS exec
The latest Insider Build in the Windows 11 Beta and Dev channels plays the Windows Vista startup sound as it boots to the desktop.
15/06/2025
Customer sends four RTX 4090s to a repair technician, finds out three are fake — new counterfeiting technique uses modded 30-series chips
A Chineese repair YouTube recieved four faulty RTX 4090 graphics cards only to find three of them were fake, based on RTX 3080/3080Ti and RTX 3090 GPU dies.
15/06/2025
Would you switch browsers for a chatbot?
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 87, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy It's Officially Too Hot Now Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sabrina Carpenter and Khaby Lame and […]
15/06/2025
Unreleased Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti 20GB Founders Edition engineering sample sells for $1,999 on eBay
Rare Ampere-era GPU highlights a memory-boosted variant that never hit the market
15/06/2025
Beginner's 3D-printed winged VTOL drone can fly for 130 miles — enthusiast with little 3D printing and CAD experience builds long-range drone from scratch
Tsung Xu has designed and 3D printed a winged VTOL drone with a 3-hour battery life capable of flying for 3 hours (roughly 130 miles).
15/06/2025
Tanks, guns and face-painting
Of all the jarring things I've witnessed on the National Mall, nothing will beat the image of the first thing I saw after I cleared security at the Army festival: a child, sitting at the controls of an M119A3 Howitzer, being instructed by a soldier on how to aim it, as his red-hatted parents took […]
15/06/2025
No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm
As President Donald Trump kicked off a birthday military parade on the streets of Washington, DC, what's estimated as roughly 2,000 events were held across the US and beyond - protesting Trump and Elon Musk's evisceration of government services, an unprecedented crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and countless other actions from the administration […]
15/06/2025
Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI
Meta’s massive investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s biggest customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale AI $200 million this year but is now planning to cut ties with the startup and is having conversations with its competitors.
14/06/2025
How to delete your 23andMe data
23andMe holds millions of customers' genetic information. Here's what you can do to protect your data.
14/06/2025
Nvidia CEO slams Anthropic chief over claims of job eliminations — says ‘many jobs are going to be created’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disagrees with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's prediction that AI will wipe out nearly 50% of white-collar jobs.
14/06/2025
Waymo limits service ahead of today’s ‘No Kings’ protests
Alphabet-owned robotaxi company Waymo is limiting service due to Saturday’s scheduled nationwide “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump and his policies.
14/06/2025
Week in Review: WWDC 2025 recap
Welcome back to Week in Review! We have lots for you this week, including what came out of WWDC 2025; The Browser Company's AI browser; OpenAI's partnership with Mattel; and your iPad might finally be a true work machine.
14/06/2025
Nintendo Switch 2 screen survives being smashed with pliers 50 times — destructive testing finds the Switch 2 to be exceptionally tough
Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything tore apart the Nintendo Switch 2 to show us its internals and then stress-tested the screen with pliers to see how durable it is.
14/06/2025
Huawei's quad-chiplet rival for Nvidia's Rubin AI GPUs could use packaging tech that rivals TSMC — Ascend 910D rumors have seemingly solid foundation
Huawei has reportedly developed a chip packaging process technology for its Ascend 910D processor that is comparable to TSMC's leading-edge CoWoS technology.
14/06/2025
AMD quietly launches a budget gaming beast — AM4 is alive and kicking with the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, but it has limited availability
AMD has introduced the Ryzen 5 5500X3D for Latin American customers. The new chip is AMD's lowest-end Ryzen 5000X3D part, featuring six Zen 3 cores, 96MB of L3 cache, and a boost clock of 4 GHz.
14/06/2025
The App Store’s new AI-generated tags are live in the beta
Apple’s plans to improve App Store discoverability using AI tagging techniques are now available in the developer beta build of iOS 26. However, the tags do not appear on the public App Store as of yet, nor are they informing the App Store Search algorithm on the public store. Of course, with any upcoming App […]
14/06/2025
Intel's new ‘no frills, just thrills’ budget gaming CPU leaked — Intel Core 5 120F finally brings Bartlett Lake to gaming rigs
The Intel Core 5 120F is a budget-friendly gaming CPU that the company is seemingly getting ready to launch.
14/06/2025
The investor experience at TechCrunch All Stage: One floor, infinite deal flow
TechCrunch All Stage isn’t a waiting room for warm intros — it’s a floor full of founders, ideas, and breakout potential. For VCs, it’s a rare chance to skip the filters and meet the future of tech in one place, on one day, with no layers between you and the next standout story. Whether you’re […]
14/06/2025
Sony’s noise-canceling WH-1000XM6 are already on sale with a $30 gift card
Less than a month after making their debut, the WH-1000XM6 are on sale at Amazon in black, blue, and platinum with a $30 gift card for $448. It’s not a straight cash discount, sure, but if you were already debating picking up Sony’s latest pair of noise-canceling headphones, it makes the $50 price hike over […]
14/06/2025
ASML's Impasto Project creates 3D digital twins of Vincent van Gogh's art with 100 gigabytes of data per scan — nanometer-capable chipmaking tech used to create ‘Google Maps for paintings’
ASML and the Van Gogh museum have collaborated on the design of a 3D scanner to capture and create digital twins of the masterpieces of the Netherlands’ most famous artist.
14/06/2025
PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PCs won't arrive until 2030 — costs and complexity mean PCIe 5.0 SSDs are here to stay for some time
Client PC PCIe 6.0 x4 SSDs offering up to 32 GB/s bandwidth are not arriving until around 2030 due to high implementation costs, according to Silicon Motion CEO.
14/06/2025
Etsy cracks down on 3D printed products — new rules exclude many 3D printed items from listings
Changes to Etsy's creativity standards may ban selling items you didn’t design yourself.
14/06/2025
Answering the Nintendo Switch 2’s lingering accessibility questions
One of the biggest surprises of the Nintendo Switch 2's reveal was its proposed accessibility. For years, Nintendo has been known for accidentally stumbling on accessibility solutions while stubbornly refusing to engage with the broader subject. Yet, in the Switch 2, there appeared a more holistic approach to accessibility for which disabled players have been […]
14/06/2025
Anne Wojcicki’s nonprofit reaches deal to acquire 23andMe
Beleaguered genetic testing company 23andMe announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to sell itself to TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit led by the company's co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki.
14/06/2025
How to manage Linux network connections via nmcli and the terminal
Linux has a great network management GUI but sometimes we need to get our hands dirty in the terminal. In this how to we look at how to manage connections on a typical Ubuntu / Debian Linux machine.
14/06/2025
Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 3 Review: Great sound, terrible software
Turtle Beach's Stealth 700 Gen 3 flagship headset looks and sounds better than ever, but the software is still a mess.
14/06/2025
Nintendo Switch 2 review: exactly good enough
The first Switch was such a hit that Nintendo decided not to mess with a good thing. Instead of releasing a successor that feels like a generational leap or a pivot in a new direction, it's following up the hugely successful original with the Switch 2 - a welcome upgrade that largely sticks to the […]
14/06/2025
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree
AI researchers have recently been asking themselves a version of the question, "Is that really Zuck?" As first reported by Bloomberg, the Meta CEO has been personally asking top AI talent to join his new "superintelligence" AI lab and reboot Llama. His recruiting process typically goes like this: a cold outreach via email or WhatsApp […]
14/06/2025
New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters
New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios, including the death or injury of more than 100 people, or more than $1 billion in damages. The passage of the RAISE Act represents a win for the AI […]
13/06/2025
Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe
23andMe co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki is set to buy back the company after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year. On Friday, 23andMe and TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit public benefit corporation run by Wojcicki, announced in a press release that TTAM would be buying “substantially all of the Company’s […]
13/06/2025
Clay secures a new round at a $3B valuation, sources say
The sales automation startup doubles its valuation a month after launching a tender offer at $1.5 billion.
13/06/2025
New details emerge on Meta’s $14.3B deal for Scale
Meta’s deal to sort-of but not really acquire AI startup Scale, giving it 49% ownership, is certainly unusual.
13/06/2025
SMI CEO claims Nvidia wants SSDs with 100M IOPS — up to 33X performance uplift could eliminate AI GPU bottlenecks
The chief executive of Silicon Motion said in an interview that Nvidia is looking forward to ridiculously fast storage devices to eliminate performance bottlenecks for its AI GPUs.
13/06/2025
Mel Brooks is returning for Spaceballs 2
Spaceballs, which was first released nearly 40 years ago, is getting a sequel in 2027 from Amazon MGM Studios. A Spaceballs 2 announcement trailer posted Thursday doesn’t have any solid details besides the date, though it does poke fun at the entertainment industry’s obsession with franchises and spinoffs by listing many of them out. (I […]
13/06/2025
TechCrunch Mobility: The cost of Waymo
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
13/06/2025
The Switch 2 gives Splatoon 3 a fantastically fresh coat of paint
Splatoon 3 already looked phenomenal on the original Switch, in a way that seemed to defy the console's hardware limitations. The game's paint-slicked visuals were gorgeous, and its chaotic battles were a testament to how well the Switch could run software that was fine-tuned to make the best of its specs. What was most impressive, […]
13/06/2025
Belkin’s 3-in-1 Qi2 wireless charger is the cheapest it’s been in months
If you’re looking to declutter the cables on your desk or nightstand and keep all of your devices charged, Belkin’s Qi2-ready BoostCharge Pro 3-in-1 wireless charger will help you get the job done. Right now, it’s on sale for $99.99 ($30 off) at Amazon in black and white color schemes. That’s both its best price […]
13/06/2025
Google tests Audio Overviews for Search queries
Google Search is testing Audio Overviews for certain search queries, the company announced on Friday.
13/06/2025
Apple’s Liquid Glass design is paving the way for AR glasses
This visual overhaul gives us a glimpse into the design of Apple's rumored AR glasses, which will reportedly debut next year.
13/06/2025
ChatGPT touts conspiracies, pretends to communicate with metaphysical entities — attempts to convince one user that they're Neo
ChatGPT's affability and encouraging tone leads people into dangerous, life-threatening delusions, finds a recent NYT article. Many examples of responses encouraging psychosis-like symptoms have been found by a variety of researchers, including some leading people to commit suicide to meet imaginary AI-created phantoms.
13/06/2025
Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast
Google is rolling out a test that puts its AI-powered Audio Overviews on the first page of search results on mobile. The experiment, which you can enable in Labs, will let you generate an AI podcast-style discussion for certain queries. If you search for something like, “How do noise cancellation headphones work?”, Google will display […]
13/06/2025
Intel adds more Arc GPUs to end of life — A750 Limited Edition rides into the sunset 3 years after launch
Intel has put the Arc A750, A770M, A730M, A570M, A530M, and A370M on the EOL list.
13/06/2025
Silicon Valley tech execs are joining the US Army Reserve
CTOs from companies including OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir make up this first cohort of CTOs in the Army Reserve.
13/06/2025
Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS
Amazon and Talen revised an existing deal to buy power from the Susquehanna nuclear power plant.
13/06/2025
Anbernic’s sliding screen handheld might be too chunky and heavy for your pockets
Anbernic hasn’t officially released or even put its new RG Slide handheld up for preorder yet, but a handful of reviewers have recently shared their first impressions of the new console. Anbernic may be leaning a bit too far into novelty and nostalgia with the RG Slide’s design, while not actually capitalizing on what made […]
13/06/2025
Startups Weekly: No sign of pause
This week brought us many reminders that no startup journey is linear — but the next billion-dollar idea may only be one click away.
13/06/2025
Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol
A year ago, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was known as one of the many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the network formerly known as Twitter. Today, Bluesky’s social network has grown to over 36.5 million users, while the technology it’s built upon — the AT Protocol (or ATProto […]
13/06/2025
The U.S. Army is 3D-printing drones and repairing them — will soon have the capability to make 'the vast majority' in-house
Lieutenant General Chris Mohan delves into the US Army's 3D Printed drone strategy on the Washington Times' Threat Status podcast.
13/06/2025
Zevo’s EV-only car-share fleet is helping Tesla owners make money
Zevo is a new peer-to-peer car-sharing startup, which is broadly similar to Turo, but focused exclusively on electric vehicles.
13/06/2025
Crucial X10 Portable SSD (4TB) review: 20 Gbps, up to 8TB
Crucial’s latest X10 portable SSD is faster and roomier than its predecessors, but USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 feels dated now that USB4 is readily available.
13/06/2025
Intel to lay off fab workers in mid-July — company aims to refocus on more engineering talent
Intel will begin layoffs at its Intel Foundry division in mid-July as part of a new restructuring effort to cut costs while focusing on keeping engineering talent.
13/06/2025
Boston Dynamics robots dance to ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ for ‘America’s Got Talent’ audition
A dance crew of four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on “America’s Got Talent” to perform a synchronized routine to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Their performance was impressive enough to earn four “yes” votes from the judges — but one of the five robots experienced some stage fright, perhaps, and shut down in the […]
13/06/2025
Kwikset’s newest smart lock gets almost everything right
Legacy lock maker Kwikset has been producing innovative smart locks since 2013, when it released the first touch-to-open lock, the Kwikset Kevo. The company followed that up with the launch of one of the first key-free locks in 2016, one of the earliest Apple HomeKit locks, and one of the first fingerprint-only locks. Kwikset has […]
13/06/2025
The founder experience at TechCrunch All Stage: Built for people building what’s next
For a founder, time is the one resource you can’t raise. That’s why TechCrunch All Stage — happening July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station — is designed to make every minute count. Whether you’re at the whiteboard sketching v1 of your product or figuring out how to lead a team of 50, TechCrunch All […]
13/06/2025
Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers
A Chinese AI company circumvented the U.S. ban on importing advanced AI chips by exporting its data instead.
13/06/2025
Samsung's massive 57-inch Dual 4K gaming monitor drops to a low $1,550
If you're in the market for a massive ultrawide gaming monitor, the 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 hits a new low and delivers 7,680 x 2160 gaming goodness
13/06/2025
RTX 5050 could use the same 20 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM as the RX 9070 XT and RTX 4070 — Nvidia's budget card to leverage fastest GDDR6 possible
A new leak suggests Nvidia will be using the fastest mass-produced version of GDDR6 for the RTX 5050, capable of running at 20 Gbps. These modules are the same ones powering the RX 9070 series and the RTX 4070 GDDR6.
13/06/2025
Milestone one billionth Github Repo is just the word 'sh*t'
GitHub has hit an illustrious milestone with the publication of its one billionth repository this week.
13/06/2025
Nvidia to exclude China from its revenue and profit forecasts
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he isn't confident that the U.S. will change its mind on chip export restrictions anytime soon.
13/06/2025
Dbrand’s Killswitch is the best all-around Switch 2 case
I've been checking out a lot of new Switch 2 accessories recently, almost all of which were produced before the companies that made them ever touched a real Switch 2. Even a millimeter's difference in dimensions could completely throw off a design, and some products I've tried lack a perfect fit. For example, Genki's Attack […]
13/06/2025
The end of an era — DDR4 production to essentially end this year, Micron the final domino to fall
Micron is ending DDR4 production in two to three quarters, save for some long-term contracts in automotive, industrial, and networking applications.
13/06/2025
Expert pours cold water on Apple's downbeat AI outlook — says lack of high-powered hardware could be to blame
Contemporary AI models are not silly, Apple just does not have proper hardware to test their limitations, says professor Seokjun Kwon of Sungkyunkwan University.
13/06/2025
Google’s Gemini AI will summarize PDFs for you when you open them
Google is rolling out new Gemini AI features for Workspace users that make it easier to find information in PDFs and form responses. The Gemini-powered file summarization capabilities in Google Drive have now expanded to PDFs and Google Forms, allowing key details and insights to be condensed into a more convenient format that saves users […]
13/06/2025
Pixar is heading back to Italy for its next big film
Though Disney and Pixar are about to start getting everyone hyped for Toy Story 5, the studios are already working hard on another feature. While Disney and Pixar opened their Annecy presentation with more details about their next movie, Elio, and gave updates about Toy Story 5, the studio surprised festival goers by announcing that […]
13/06/2025
USDOT wants more self-driving cars without pedals or steering wheels
The US Department of Transportation wants to make it easier for automakers and tech companies to deploy self-driving cars without traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals. In a letter sent to stakeholders, the department said it would streamline reviews of requests for exemptions from safety rules requiring vehicles to have steering wheels, pedals, and […]
13/06/2025
Milestone one billionth Github Repo is just the word 'shit'
GitHub has hit an illustrious milestone with the publication of its one billionth repository this week.
13/06/2025
Steam is finally adding native support for Macs with Apple Silicon
Steam will soon fully support Macs equipped with Apple’s in-house chips. In the latest Steam client beta spotted by 9to5Mac, Valve says the “Steam Client and Steam Helper apps now run natively on Apple Silicon.” That means Steam will no longer need to use Rosetta 2 to run on Macs with M-series chips. Rosetta 2 […]
13/06/2025
The new Pebble watch’s mobile app will also work with some old Pebble watches
On his personal blog, Eric Migicovsky, the creator of the original Pebble smartwatch, has shared some updates and important milestones about the smartwatches his new company plans to release this year. The Core 2 Duo smartwatch is “nearing mass production,” according to Migicovsky, and Core Devices is “on track to ship out all pre-orders in […]
13/06/2025
Switch, Xbox, and the portable future of games
The Switch 2 is a hit (and a supply chain success story). Microsoft is starting to show off its plan for the future of Xbox. And everywhere you look, there are reasons to think we're headed toward a very different kind of gaming device. Maybe it'll be even more modular and portable. Maybe it'll be […]
13/06/2025
Google just released the first major Snapseed update in years
Google has completely revamped its Snapseed image editing app on iPhone and iPad. The change, spotted earlier by 9to5Google, is Snapseed’s first big update on iOS since adding dark mode in 2021. Snapseed was originally only available on iOS before Google acquired it in 2012 as part of a bid to compete with Instagram. Google […]
13/06/2025
11 startups from YC Demo Day that investors are talking about
Here are some of the top startups from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 Demo Day that caught investors' and our attention.
13/06/2025
What to expect at TechCrunch All Stage: One day, countless connections and takeaways
Whether you’re a founder gearing up for your next raise or a VC scouting your next portfolio win, TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, packs more into one day than most multi-day conferences manage to deliver. This isn’t your typical sit-and-listen event. It’s designed to help you build momentum in […]
13/06/2025
Iconiq VCs spent two years courting Chime and the firm isn’t selling its stake
Iconiq pursued Chime because the founders were focused, and didn’t get distracted by "shiny new objects."
13/06/2025
Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage
Google has confirmed that it plans to shut down Android’s Instant Apps later this year, attributing the decision to “low” usage of the functionality. Instant Apps were introduced in 2017, and allow developers to create mini versions of Android apps that load, well, instantly. Users can try apps and demo games from the click of […]
13/06/2025
Tesla’s minor Model S and X refreshes cost $5,000 more
Tesla is relaunching its Model S and Model X with minor changes as the EV maker struggles to address plummeting demand. The updated vehicles are launching in the US today with a $5,000 price increase applied across the All-Wheel Drive (AWD) and high-performance Plaid versions of both models, but judging by the comments on the […]
13/06/2025
University researchers tout using smartwatches to steal data from air-gapped systems — SmartAttack paper proposes using wearable as a covert ultrasonic signal receiver
A new air-gap attack dubbed 'SmartAttack' theorizes using a smartwatch to capture covert signals and steal information.
13/06/2025
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is getting a fifth and final season
We’re still over a month away from the premiere of season three, but Paramount has announced that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is getting a fifth season — and that it will be its last. While Strange New Worlds’ first four seasons are (or will be) all ten episodes long, the fifth will run for […]
13/06/2025
AMD deploys its first Ultra Ethernet ready network card — Pensando Pollara provides up to 400 Gbps performance
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be the first major cloud provider to deploy AMD's Instinct MI350X GPUs and Pensando Pollara 400GbE Ultra Ethernet NICs as part of a massive zettascale AI cluster.
13/06/2025
AMD unveils ROCm 7 — new platform boosts AI performance up to 3.5x, adds Radeon GPU support
AMD launches ROCm 7 platform that boosts AI inference performance by up to 3.5X, adds support for FP4/FP6 formats and distributed workloads, and extends compatibility to Windows and Radeon GPUs on Ryzen systems.
13/06/2025
PCIe 7.0 is coming, but not soon, and not for you
The PCIe 7.0 specification has now been released, while many of us are still waiting for PCIe 6.0 to materialize in consumer products. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) announced on Wednesday that PCIe 7.0 is now available to members of its organization, delivering a theoretical maximum bandwidth speed of 512GB per second in both […]
13/06/2025
Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexanr Wang is leaving
Data-labeling firm Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a "significant" investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion.
13/06/2025
Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving
Data-labeling firm Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a "significant" investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion.
13/06/2025
Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race
Meta is paying $14.3 billion to buy 49-percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to reboot its troubled AI efforts. As part of the deal, Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company announced on Thursday. He will lead a new AI lab inside Meta tasked with building "superintelligence" […]
13/06/2025
The Steve Jobs Archive shares stories, videos, and notes of his famous commencement speech
Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford commencement speech, and the Steve Jobs Archive has marked the occasion by uploading an HD version of the speech, publishing notes Jobs emailed to himself, and sharing details about the leadup to the speech. You can see everything on a page on the Steve Jobs […]
12/06/2025
It could be 2026 before all your Thread border routers work together
There’s finally some good news for anyone battling multiple Thread networks while using Matter devices in their smart home — as long as you’re the patient type. According to Matter Alpha, the tvOS 26 beta announced at WWDC this week adds Thread 1.4 to Apple TVs. And, as Apple’s smart speakers use a fork of […]
12/06/2025
Trump’s protest threats raise surveillance alarms around his military parade
President Donald Trump's warning that protesters of Saturday's US military parade in Washington, DC, will be met with "very heavy force" threatens to chill speech and underscores the need for protesters to take precautions around digital surveillance, privacy advocates tell The Verge. In remarks from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump did not distinguish between […]
12/06/2025
Apple’s upgraded Siri might not arrive until next spring
Apple is aiming to launch the upgraded Siri that it originally previewed at WWDC 2024 in spring 2026 with iOS 26.4, according to Bloomberg. At WWDC last year, Apple showed off how Siri would be able to do things like understand your personal context or take actions based on what’s on your screen. But in […]
12/06/2025
Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
If you’ve been on social media lately, you might’ve seen the unsettling AI slop videos showing AI-generated people in wild scenarios or just speaking a bunch of nonsense. On Wednesday night, the betting platform Kalshi decided to take this trend outside the social sphere by putting a nonsensical AI-generated ad in front of the millions […]
12/06/2025
AMD unwraps 2027 AI plans: Verano CPU, Instinct MI500X GPU, next-gen AI rack
AMD plans to launch its second-generation rack-scale AI platform in 2027 with EPYC 'Verano' CPUs, Instinct MI500X GPUs, and Vulcano 800 GbE NICs, accelerating its roadmap to an annual cadence.
12/06/2025
After a string of successes, early-stage fund Felicis raises fresh $900M
Lately, Felicis, like most VCs, has been all over AI. Its portfolio now includes, for example, Browser Use, Poolside, Runway, and Supabase.
12/06/2025
The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster
It sounds like the start of a 21st century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea. That’s basically what it feels like right now on the new standalone Meta AI app, where swathes of people are publishing their ostensibly private conversations with the chatbot. When you ask […]
12/06/2025
Bose upgraded the adaptive ANC on its new QuietComfort Ultra earbuds
Bose has announced upgraded QuietComfort Ultra wireless earbuds with better adaptive ANC that can more smoothly adapt to sudden spikes in noise. The QuietComfort Ultra (2nd Gen) are expected to be available through Bose’s online store starting later this summer for $299 in black, white smoke, and deep plum color options. The new earbuds carry […]
12/06/2025
Bluesky backlash misses the point
Not only is Bluesky more than just a Twitter/X alternative, it's just one app in a wider social ecosystem built on open technology.
12/06/2025
Chasing rainbows
Living with colorblindness feels like you're constantly being pranked by the world in subtle, irritating ways. The other day, I was booking a flight on Kayak, trying to figure out which dates are the cheapest by looking at their low fare calendar. See any issues? Oh, sorry - that's what it looks like to me. […]
12/06/2025
Meta inks a new geothermal energy deal to support AI
Meta’s geothermal ambitions are growing with a new agreement to support projects in New Mexico. It announced the deal with XGS Energy today, a company developing next-generation geothermal technologies that make it possible to use this energy source in places where it was unfeasible before. The plan is to add 150 megawatts of carbon pollution-free […]
12/06/2025
Meta teams with XGS Energy to build a 150 MW geothermal power plant
XGS Energy will build the new power plant in New Mexico.
12/06/2025
AMD EPYC Venice boasts 256 cores and bandwidth galore — next-gen server CPUs arrive in 2026
AMD’s Zen 6-based EPYC ‘Venice’ CPU pushes core count to 256, boosts performance by 70%, and features PCIe 6.0, 1.6 TB/s memory bandwidth, and a new SP7 packaging, according to AMD.
12/06/2025
Tesla sues former Optimus engineer over alleged trade secret theft
Tesla alleges that Zhongjie Li stole confidential trade secrets and used them to launch a robotics startup a week after he left Tesla.
12/06/2025
A lot of the internet is down right now
Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify. At 11:19 am PT, Cloudflare said it was investigating service disruptions affecting its customers, according to its status page. At 12:12 pm PT, Cloudflare said it was starting to see its […]
12/06/2025
Google Cloud outage brings down a lot of the internet
Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify. It appears that a Google Cloud outage is at root of these other service disruptions. Google Cloud said it started investigating service issues affecting its customers at 11:46am PT. The company […]
12/06/2025
A massive internet outage is messing up Google Home, Spotify, and other services
On Thursday afternoon, many people with smart home setups connected to Google Home / Nest, or who are trying to stream music on Spotify, are coming up empty. All I’m seeing when I try to open the Spotify website is a message that says “Audiences in Jwt are not allowed,” and opening the app also […]
12/06/2025
Pinterest is adding third-party influencer content to its feeds
Influencers on affiliate shopping platform LTK may soon get access to a huge new audience: Pinterest users. Under a new partnership announced today, high-performing image posts on LTK will automatically be cross-posted to Pinterest; the pilot program is expected to expand in the coming months to more creators and content formats. LTK is a huge […]
12/06/2025
All the Android features Apple announced at WWDC
Apple announcing Android features years after Google shipped them is a tale as old as time, but that doesn't make it any less fun to point out whenever it happens. This year's WWDC felt especially Android-y - not helped by Siri essentially sitting this year's announcements out while Apple put its new Liquid Glass design […]
12/06/2025
AMD RX 9070 XT GDDR6 sources have a small effect on performance — testing reveals 1 - 2% delta
Bilibili hardware tester finds discrepancies between SK hynix and Samsung memory across Radeon 9070 XT models
12/06/2025
AMD says Instinct MI400X GPU is 10X faster than MI300X, will power Helios rack-scale system with EPYC 'Venice' CPUs
AMD unveiled Helios, its first in-house rack-scale AI system built around upcoming EPYC 'Venice' CPUs and Instinct MI400-series GPUs, aiming to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI. But while it is said to offer higher memory capacity and bandwidth than competing platforms, it is expected to trail in peak compute performance against Nvidia's future Rubin-based systems.
12/06/2025
a16z-backed Infinite Machine shows off cheaper, modular electric scooter
The Olto is the newest entry into the always-churning market for electric two-wheelers, and it will cost $3,495.
12/06/2025
Nintendo Switch 2 tested: new internals are a major power-up
The Nintendo Switch 2's powerful internals deliver a major upgrade to the Switch formula, but there's still some room for improvement.
12/06/2025
Hotel management platform Canary nabs $80M Series D from YC, Insight Partners
Canary, the hotel guest management platform, announced Thursday the raise of an $80 million Series D in a round led by Brighton Park Capital. Harman Singh Narula and childhood friend SJ Sawhney launched the company in 2018 to help hotels digitize and automate guest interactions. The company has raised nearly $180 million in funding to […]
12/06/2025
Garmin’s Venu X1 smartwatch has its biggest display and smallest case yet
Garmin announced the $799 Venu X1 fitness watch today. It offers a 2-inch square AMOLED screen and seems like a shot at the Apple Watch Ultra 2, given its similar square design and titanium body, even though the company’s other watches already offer similar features to Apple’s flagship wearable. It’s sort of like a square […]
12/06/2025
A Mister Miracle animated show is in the works at DC Studios
And for its next trick, DC Studios is expanding its new cinematic universe with a series focused on Mister Miracle. During its presentation at this year’s Annecy Film Festival, DC studios announced it is producing an adult animated Mister Miracle series that will be showrun and executive produced by comics writer Tom King. Based on […]
12/06/2025
Here are Apple’s top AI announcements from WWDC 2025
At WWDC 2025, Apple announced several AI features, such as a workout coach, live translation, and more.
12/06/2025
Google’s excellent TV Streamer (4K) is on sale just in time for Father’s Day
I love finding deals on devices that pull double duty, as it feels like it’s stretching my dollar even further. That’s why Google’s discounted TV Streamer (4K) caught my attention this week. It’s not just a powerful streaming device but also a great smart home hub — one you can currently grab from Amazon, Walmart, […]
12/06/2025
Reddit is adding new features for comments
Reddit is introducing some new features for comments, including the ability to share comments as posts, a comment insights tool to track things like upvotes and views, and comment drafts, according to a post from the Reddit product team. The features are rolling out today on Reddit’s native apps and on the web, and the […]
12/06/2025
Snapchat adds new features for creators, including an easier way to edit videos
Snapchat is introducing a suite of new tools and features to make it easier for creators to post and share content on its platform.
12/06/2025
Nintendo’s GameCube controller for the Switch 2 is once again available for purchase
If you've been waiting for a chance to get your hands on Nintendo's GameCube Controller for the Switch 2, now's your moment. It's back in stock for $64.99 from the My Nintendo Store website. As before, it's only available to Nintendo Switch Online members, and it's made to play GameCube titles available through the Switch […]
12/06/2025
Switch 2 size comparison: Nintendo’s latest up next to a whole lot of consoles
Nintendo's Switch 2 is faster, more powerful, and all around better than its predecessor in just about every way. It's also bigger than the OG Switch. But, like, how much bigger? Okay, sure, we can check the specs and see that the Switch 2 is half an inch (12.7mm) taller and 1.2 inches (30.48mm) wider […]
12/06/2025
Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs. Today it IPO’d at $14.5B.
In 2016 when Chime desperately needed cash, over 100 VCs said no. One seed VC, took a chance and saved the company, co-founder Ryan King recalls.
12/06/2025
Apple fixes new iPhone zero-day bug used in Paragon spyware hacks
The iPhone maker quietly updated a February security advisory to publicize a flaw that was used to hack at least two journalists in Europe.
12/06/2025
Improve Your Productivity with New GitHub Copilot Features for .NET!
We recently introduced several new GitHub Copilot-powered .NET experiences designed to help you be more productive. Take a look! The post Improve Your Productivity with New GitHub Copilot Features for .NET! appeared first on .NET Blog.
12/06/2025
AMD announces MI350X and MI355X AI GPUs, claims up to 4X generational performance gain, 35X faster inference
AMD unveiled its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads here at its Advancing AI 2025 event in San Jose, California, claiming the new accelerators offer a 3X performance boost over the prior-gen MI300X, positioning the company to improve its competitive footing against its market-leading rival, Nvidia.
12/06/2025
OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toy-making, other products
Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging.
12/06/2025
How To Delete Files and Directories via the Linux Terminal
Removing files and directories using the Linux command line is very efficient and can be used directly, or when accessing a system remotely.
12/06/2025
Battery manufacturer Powin files for bankruptcy months after landing $200M loan
The Chapter 11 filing will let Powin continue operating while it restructures its debt.
12/06/2025
Apple will let you play video in CarPlay with iOS 26
Apple’s days of blocking you from watching video through CarPlay appear to be coming to an end. The upcoming iOS26 update will allow people to project video from their phones onto the center display of their vehicle through AirPlay. This will enable users to “watch their favorite videos from iPhone right on their CarPlay display […]
12/06/2025
ARM CEO joins Nvidia in stance against US export controls — Rene Haas says narrower access 'not good' for industry or consumer
ARM CEO joins Nvidia in stance against U.S export controls
12/06/2025
Konami is remaking the original Silent Hill
Get ready for more Silent Hill. As part of its Press Start online presentation on Thursday, Konami announced that it’s remaking the original Silent Hill in partnership with Bloober Team, the studio that developed last year’s well-received Silent Hill 2 remake. Konami didn’t share any more details beyond that the game is in development; the […]
12/06/2025
Instagram Notes can now show the Spotify song you’re playing
Instagram is making it easier for users to express themselves through music, reels, and posts. In a new blog post on Thursday, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said the platform is aiming to “reduce pressure and supercharge creativity” for creators by helping them to share their music tastes and gain confidence with creating content before pushing […]
12/06/2025
Microsoft’s new Copilot Vision can ‘see’ your apps on Windows
Microsoft is launching Copilot Vision for Windows today, an extension of its AI assistant that lets you share your screen or apps so that Copilot can do things like coach you through using Adobe Photoshop features or analyze the photos and webpages you’re looking at. “When you choose to enable it, Copilot Vision can see […]
12/06/2025
Microsoft just teased its next-gen Xbox console, and nobody noticed
I feel like a broken record, but I've been writing for more than a year that the next Xbox console will be more PC-like. Now, I think Microsoft just teased its next-gen Xbox plans while announcing its partnership with Asus to bring two Xbox Ally handhelds to the market later this year. The Xbox Ally […]
12/06/2025
Nothing’s new Phone 3 will be available on general sale in the US
Smartphone startup Nothing will sell its next flagship model, the Nothing Phone (3), in the U.S. through its website and Amazon.
12/06/2025
Instagram will finally let you rearrange your grid
Instagram is finally going to let users rearrange their grid, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without having the content appear in users' feeds.
12/06/2025
Conveyor uses AI to automate the painful process of vendor security reviews and RFPs with AI
The 4-year-old startup nabbed a $20 million Series B from SignalFire.
12/06/2025
Copilot Vision is live on Windows in the US — AI companion can see two apps at once
Copilot Vision is live on Windows in the United States for Windows 10 and 11.
12/06/2025
Nothing’s new Phone 3 will be available for general sale in the US
Smartphone startup Nothing will sell its next flagship model, the Nothing Phone (3), in the U.S. through its website and Amazon.
12/06/2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Huawei will take advantage if AI chip restrictions continue — 'our technology is a generation ahead of theirs', but not for long
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US tech isolationism may result in handing major wins to Huawei and the Chinese AI software stack. While Huawei may be lagging behind US tech, the time may come when it can catch up and perhaps surpass US interests.
12/06/2025
Your iPad is your new computer
iPadOS 26 makes the iPad function more like a MacBook, rather than a giant iPhone, making it a boon for productivity.
12/06/2025
Four great games from Steam’s June Next Fest
Steam's June 2025 edition of its Next Fest is going on now through June 16th, and the event is packed with great-looking demos for games coming to PC. Seriously, it seems like there are a lot of demos; a search filter on my Next Fest homepage shows more than 2,500 English demos to pick from. […]
12/06/2025
Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks
Anker has issued a recall for its PowerCore 10000 power bank (model A1263) due to a “potential issue with the lithium-ion battery” that could pose a fire safety risk. The company has received 19 reports of fires and explosions that have caused minor burn injuries and resulted in property damage totaling over $60,700, according to […]
12/06/2025
Google has a new AI model and website for forecasting tropical storms
Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is developing. It says its new, experimental AI-based model for forecasting […]
12/06/2025
Razer’s new mobile controller can stretch wide enough to fit an iPad Pro
The iPad Mini is no longer the biggest tablet you can fit into a mobile gaming controller (without breaking it a little). Razer’s new $199.99 Kishi V3 Pro XL can accommodate a 13-inch iPad or Android tablet that uses a USB-C connector. It’s like Razer’s 2013 Edge, in spirit at least. My 10.9-inch iPad Air […]
12/06/2025
Drive brand impact with a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Exciting news for tech enthusiasts and innovators! TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is just around the corner, and we have an incredible opportunity for you to elevate your brand’s visibility. How? By hosting your own Side Event at the most anticipated tech gathering of the year! Why host a Side Event? Imagine being at the helm of […]
12/06/2025
Micron starts to ship samples of HBM4 memory to clients — 36 GB capacity and bandwidth of 2 TB/s
Micron has become the first DRAM vendor to begin sampling 36GB HBM4 memory with a 2048-bit interface and 2TB/s bandwidth.
12/06/2025
John Deere has to face the FTC’s right-to-repair lawsuit
John Deere will have to fight the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit, which accuses the company of increasing repair costs by making farmers use its network of authorized dealers to fix their equipment, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a ruling on Monday, Illinois US District Court Judge Iain D. Johnston rejected John Deere’s attempt […]
12/06/2025
How to Run a Linux OS on your Chromebook
Running Linux on your Chromebook used to be fraught with hacks and complications, but now we can easily run a Linux virtual machine alongside Google’s cloud based OS.
12/06/2025
Save $100 on Apple’s latest iPad Air with the M3 chip
Discounts have been tough to find on the 11-inch iPad Air with the M3 chip (the 2025 model), but there’s a good one happening on every color available at Amazon and Best Buy. Normally $599, the 128GB tablet is available for $499 — a price that it has sold for just once before in late […]
12/06/2025
This open-source generative AI tool converts 2D images into 3D part meshes for 3D printing in seconds
A team has created an application called PartCrafter that creates 3D models, in single or multiple parts, using AI based on 2D images for input.
12/06/2025
3,800-hour test could show OLED burn-in is on the decline — MSI MPG 321URX shows only 'minor' issues after 15 months of worst-case scenario use
A video chronicling the degradation of an OLED monitor over time has just been published, offering a 15-month update, and things aren't too bad.
12/06/2025
Mig Flash V2 shown working on Nintendo Switch 2 — could pave the way for Switch 1 games on latest console
In a recent showcase, the team behind the MIG-Switch (now MIG Flash) successfully booted up The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom directly from the flash cart.
12/06/2025
Snapchat’s latest subscription tier will get you ‘hundreds’ of lenses
Snapchat has launched a new subscription tier that offers access to a wider selection of lenses and augmented-reality experiences. The Lens Plus subscription costs $8.99 per month and will include lenses made by Snapchat and “select” creators to start, such as an exclusive AI-powered video lens and a Bitmoji game lens. Along with access to […]
12/06/2025
Lian Li's new PC fans are completely wireless — cableless speed and RGB controls show promise, but the battery only lasts 30 minutes
Lian Li’s new fans aim to cut the cable clutter to some extent
12/06/2025
Lenovo Legion Go S (SteamOS) Review: Sky-high performance with a price tag to match
The Ryzen Z1 Extreme and SteamOS transform the Legion Go S from an also-ran to a giant slayer.
12/06/2025
Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Tubi‘s next move to expand its streaming catalog sounds like a win for the indie movie set. Today, Tubi (which is owned by Fox) announced that it is partnering with Kickstarter to distribute a number of films funded on the crowdfunding platform. Beginning this fall, more than 20 movies “that uniquely resonate with Tubi fandoms” […]
12/06/2025
Xgimi adds a laser option and built-in batteries to its MoGo 4 projectors
Xgimi is sticking batteries into the latest versions of its compact MoGo projectors, making them even more portable since you no longer need to bring an extra power bank if you don’t have access to an outlet. Both the MoGo 4 and MoGo 4 Laser are supposed to have enough built-in power to watch a […]
12/06/2025
Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
The US taxpayer is going to be on the hook for all the soldiers, tanks, and planes that appear in Donald Trump's military parade. But several major tech companies are paying for the festivities along the parade route. According to recent statements from America250, Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir are some of the […]
12/06/2025
Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools
WordPress.com owner Automattic has added another communication-focused startup to its lineup: relationship-management app Clay.
12/06/2025
How Warp is introducing robots to automate its network of warehouses
Warp can't automate long-haul trucking or short-range delivery, so it's working on what it can potentially change: the workflows inside its warehouses.
12/06/2025
Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient
The company, based in the U.K., offers a productivity suite to streamline the legal drafting and review process.
12/06/2025
How To Create a Custom Linux App Menu — Zenity Makes It Easy
Learn how to write a Bash shell script that will have all of your favorite apps ready to go!
12/06/2025
Meta cracks down on nudify apps after being exposed
Meta is suing a company that advertised generative AI apps on its social media platforms that enable users to “nudify” people without their consent. The lawsuit against Joy Timeline comes after hundreds of ads for the digital undressing apps were discovered on Meta’s Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and Threads platforms by a CBS News investigation published […]
12/06/2025
How AI sales startup Landbase nabbed Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures to lead its $30M Series A
A concept Landbase's CEO calls "digital trust" led nearly 130 VCs to pursue the "vibe GTM" startup.
12/06/2025
How To Move and Rename Files in the Linux Terminal
Managing files across a remote connection, or sat at your desk, the Linux terminal is the place to be. Learn how one command can be used for two different purposes.
12/06/2025
Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware
The confirmation of two hacked victims further deepens an ongoing spyware scandal that, for now, appears largely focused on the Italian government.
12/06/2025
Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft — and people are paying anyway
A new analysis done by ride-hailing aggregator Obi shows Waymos cost more especially on shorter trips. They also have longer wait times.
12/06/2025
The Alters brings Kojima-esque weirdness to a tale of sci-fi survival
Rolling across rugged alien wilds, your circular base in The Alters offers a twinkling haven from the whipping winds and nauseating radiation. At least, that's how it feels for the first few hours. Gradually, as the in-game days stack up, my view of the vessel changes: protagonist Jan Dolski seems to be stuck on what […]
12/06/2025
China claims to have developed the world's first AI-designed processor — LLM turned performance requests into CPU architecture
China’s leading scientific institution has taken the wraps of QiMeng, an AI-powered system designed to accelerate chip design.
12/06/2025
Disastrous MindsEye launch plagued by performance issues — even an RTX 5090 can't deliver 60 fps despite 19GB VRAM usage, developer working on a fix
MindsEye players are complaining of poor performance despite having hardware that exceeds the game's recommended requirements.
12/06/2025
How to rip your audio CDs to MP3, FLAC from the Linux terminal with abcde
Rip your CDs directly from the Linux terminal using the abcde bash tool.
12/06/2025
PCIe 7.0 spec finalized with up to 512GB/s speeds — PCI-SIG targets 1TB/s for 8.0 as 'exploration' phase begins
PCI-SIG has revealed the specs for PCIe 7.0, and its plans for 8.0.
12/06/2025
SMI CEO says no PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PC "until 2030," Nvidia demands SSDs with 100 million IOPS — Wallace C. Kou on the future of SSDs
The CEO of Silicon Motion discusses the prospects of independent developers of SSD controllers, PCIe 6.0 SSDs, PLC 3D NAND, and other exotic types of non-volatile memory, as well as why NAND makers are poised to continue using controllers from third parties.
12/06/2025
Fujifilm’s new X-E5 is one of its sleekest mirrorless cameras yet
Fujifilm is announcing the X-E5, a new $1,699.95 mirrorless camera due out in August. It has a 40-megapixel sensor, a new control lever on its front, a classic EVF mode with old-school frame lines, and of course a bunch of analog-inspired film simulations. It’s yet another retro-looking mirrorless from Fujifilm, but it’s one of the […]
12/06/2025
Meta sues AI ‘nudify’ app Crush AI for advertising on its platforms
Meta has sued the maker of a popular AI "nudify" app, Crush AI, that reportedly ran thousands of ads across its platforms.
12/06/2025
Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically slim AI costs
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing announced that it raised an enormous Series B round on the strength of a technology it calls “CompactifAI.”
12/06/2025
Moto Tag finally gets precise UWB location tracking
Promised way back in June 2024, the Moto Tag location tracker is finally rolling out UWB support via a firmware update. That makes it the first tracker on Google’s Find Hub network to support ultra-wideband tracking, which is superior to Bluetooth since it uses distance and directional arrows to guide owners with compatible phones to […]
12/06/2025
Twenty years strong: a love letter to TechCrunch
Here’s to the perspective that twenty years gives you, and to twenty more years of asking hard questions, helping readers see around corners, and working with people who make even the roughest days worth it.
12/06/2025
Klarna’s CEO is now taking your calls — over an AI hotline
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has already used AI to replace himself during earnings reports, and now Klarna is using AI to clone him another way: through an AI-powered phone hotline. The hotline is now open for users to provide feedback to an interactive AI version of Siemiatkowski that’s trained on his “real voice, insights, and […]
12/06/2025
Apple Home is expanding its energy management features
Apple’s smart home didn’t get a single nod during the WWDC keynote, but it turns out there are some interesting developments coming to the Home app around energy management. In a video posted to the Apple developer site this week, the company outlined its new EnergyKit framework, which allows developers to integrate energy data from […]
11/06/2025
Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues
Earlier this year, Google shipped a Pixel 4A update to some owners that lowered battery life to mitigate overheating risk, and soon, it’s going to do the same for the Pixel 6A. “A subset of Pixel 6A phones will require a mandatory software update to reduce the risk of potential battery overheating,” Google’s Alex Moriconi […]
11/06/2025
Apple is salvaging Image Playground with a boost from ChatGPT
With the new ChatGPT integration, users will be able to access more styles that move beyond the emoji-like creations that Image Playground has become known for.
11/06/2025
Europe, we’re not leaving. Period.
There are some headlines making the rounds claiming that TechCrunch is “pulling out of Europe” and shuttering its coverage of European startups. This is flat-out wrong. It misrepresents who we are, what we do, and — most of all — what we believe. The recent changes at TechCrunch are not about retreat. They are about […]
11/06/2025
Sam Altman-backed Coco Robotics raises $80M
Coco Robotics has made more than 500,000 deliveries with its zero-emissions robots since they hit the streets in 2020.
11/06/2025
FCC’s last Democratic commissioner doesn’t know why Trump hasn’t fired her yet
Every morning, Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez says she checks her email "to see if I'm going into work." At a time when the federal workforce has been slashed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Gomez's job appears to be one of the most precarious in the US government. She's the last remaining […]
11/06/2025
All of the new features coming to Apple’s iOS apps
These include significant updates like Call Screening, more travel-friendly features in Wallet, and highly-requested group chat features in Messages.
11/06/2025
Fervo Energy lands $206M in financing to build massive geothermal power plant
Fervo is developing what promises to be the largest enhanced geothermal power plant in the world.
11/06/2025
Massive privacy concern: over 40,000 security cameras are streaming unsecured footage worldwide
Bitsight warns of real-time privacy breaches as cameras in homes, offices, and factories stream openly on the web
11/06/2025
Reddit is looking for a new product boss
Reddit's first-ever chief product officer, Pali Bhat, is leaving the company in "the coming months," spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt confirmed to The Verge. Bhat, a former Google executive, joined Reddit in October 2021. "His tenure was about as clear pre / post test as we could run," CEO Steve Huffman said in an internal message about […]
11/06/2025
Can Scale AI and Alexandr Wang reignite Meta’s AI efforts?
Meta has reportedly invested billions of dollars into AI startup Scale AI and hired its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to lead a new AI research lab. So what does that mean for Meta and the rest of the AI ecosystem?
11/06/2025
AMD's Instinct MI355X accelerator will consume 1,400 watts
As power consumption of accelerators for supercomputers continues to grow in the coming years, AMD expects zetta scale-class datacenters to consume 500 megawatts, require nuclear reactor.
11/06/2025
US government’s vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content
The content of a vaccines information website owned U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was swapped with gay-themed spam.
11/06/2025
Meta’s new AI video tool can put you in a desert (or at least try to)
Meta is launching new video editing tools that will let you transform videos using AI. The tool, which is only free for a “limited time,” gives you more than 50 preset prompts you can use to edit your video, allowing you to set a theme, change the background, and tweak what you’re wearing. The presets […]
11/06/2025
At WWDC, Apple says it will use AI to tag apps to improve discoverability on the App Store
Apple will begin using AI technology to power the discovery of apps on the App Store, the company announced at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 25). In a session focused on updates to App Store Connect, its app distribution platform for developers, the company announced it will introduce App Store Tags — labels that […]
11/06/2025
Scalpers list ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition GPU for as much as $22,900 on eBay
The Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition has hit the eBay marketplace with prices varying between $8,500 and $22,900.
11/06/2025
TikTok’s biggest star was detained by ICE, with help from another influencer
The situation grabbed headlines after a teenage influencer, Bo Loudon, boasted on X that he flagged Khaby Lame’s immigration status to authorities.
11/06/2025
Apple’s updated parental controls will require kids to get permission to text new numbers
Apple is introducing a suite of updated child safety features, including one that will give parents more control over who their kids can communicate with. The features are set to arrive with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, which will launch this fall. Children will now be […]
11/06/2025
Wikipedia pauses AI-generated summaries pilot after editors protest
Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia's credibility.
11/06/2025
How to delete your 23andMe data
23andMe holds millions of customers' genetic information. Here's what you can do to protect your data.
11/06/2025
Snapchat rolls out a new $8.99 Lens+ subscription tier
Snapchat is launching a new Snapchat+ tier called "Lens+," the company announced on Wednesday.
11/06/2025
YMTC sues Micron again, now over serious defamation claims — Micron funded anti-Chinese tech misinformation campaigns to get ahead, says YMTC
Yangtze Memory Technologies Company has launched its second lawsuit against Micron within the last two years, the third total in their lengthy legal battle. The new suit accuses Micron of funding a lengthy astroturfing misinformation campaign aimed at slanderizing YMTC in the American market.
11/06/2025
AMD says zettascale supercomputers will need half a gigawatt to operate, enough for 375,000 homes
AMD shared a graph at ISC 2025 demonstrating the projected growth of supercomputer power consumption until 2035. It expects by the mid-2030s, supercomputers will require 500 megawatts of energy to run.
11/06/2025
Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging AI-related copyright infringement
The studios are seeking monetary damages, a jury trial, and an order barring Midjourney from further copyright infringement.
11/06/2025
Whole Foods warns of shortages after cyberattack at its primary distributor UNFI
The retail giant described the food shortages as "temporary supply challenges" following the cyberattack at its primary distributor, UNFI.
11/06/2025
You can own a functional version of Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog sculptures for $750
Jeff Koons, best known for his Balloon Dog sculptures that have sold for as much as $58 million, has collaborated with Lexon Design and The Broad museum in Los Angeles to make his iconic artworks more functional and accessible. Available for preorder through Lexon’s website starting June 17th are a new 11-inch tall Balloon Dog […]
11/06/2025
Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters
Disney and Universal sued Midjourney on Wednesday for generating Shrek, Darth Vader, Buzz Lightyear, and a host of other copyrighted characters in the first major legal showdown between Hollywood and generative AI. The complaint, filed in a US District Court in central California, calls Midjourney’s AI image generator a “virtual vending machine, generating endless unauthorized […]
11/06/2025
Multimodal Voice Intelligence with .NET MAUI
Learn how to enhance your .NET MAUI apps with multimodal AI capabilities, enabling users to interact through voice using plugins and Microsoft.Extensions.AI. The post Multimodal Voice Intelligence with .NET MAUI appeared first on .NET Blog.
11/06/2025
Taboola’s clickbaity chumbox is evolving into an AI chatbot
Taboola, the company best known for serving up those weird, clickbaity advertisements you often find beneath online articles, has created an AI chatbot. The tool, called “DeeperDive,” is launching in beta on USA Today and The Independent, and will answer readers’ questions using information “sourced from trusted journalists.” A demo on Taboola’s site shows a […]
11/06/2025
ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims
Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study that claims that, in certain scenarios, his former employer's AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down.
11/06/2025
Jewel Burks Solomon’s Collab Capital has closed a new $75M fund
Collab Capital announced today the close of a $75 million Fund II. Jewel Burks Solomon, who rose to prominence in Silicon Valley during her years running Google for Startups US, has just closed her second fund for her VC firm Collab Capital. Fund II is $75 million and includes heavyweight limited partners like Apple, Goldman […]
11/06/2025
Nintendo says your bad Switch 2 battery life might be a bug
If you’re dealing with what appears to be poor battery life on the Nintendo Switch 2, the company has a support document with steps you can try to fix it. The document spells out what you can try if “the battery amount displayed and the actual remaining battery use don’t match,” according to Nintendo. “For […]
11/06/2025
AirPods Pro 3 could be on the way
Apple might be releasing the AirPods Pro 3 sooner than you think.
11/06/2025
How to Use Tio — Connecting to Serial Devices with Linux
Tio, is a tool for Linux that enables easy and fast connections to serial devices. If you are working with the Raspberry Pi Pico or Arduino, then this is a great tool for you.
11/06/2025
Amazon’s note-taking Kindle Scribe is the cheapest it’s ever been
The Father’s Day deals have landed, with discounts on everything from Bluetooth speakers to streaming devices to help you (or your dad) make the most of summer. And if your plans involve unwinding with a good book, well, Amazon’s latest Kindle Scribe is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy starting at just $299.99 ($100 […]
11/06/2025
The Switch 2 is now available online at Best Buy
Gamers who missed out on a chance to get a Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day, or in the rare opportunities since, can buy one through Best Buy’s website or mobile app right now. Although the retailer had plenty of in-store stock on launch day, this particular restock is available exclusively online. You can currently […]
11/06/2025
Meta’s V-JEPA 2 model teaches AI to understand its surroundings
Meta's V-JEPA 2 model is a "world model," referring to AI that is designed to understand its physical surroundings.
11/06/2025
Musk targets June 22 launch of Tesla’s long-promised robotaxi service
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his company will start offering public rides in driverless vehicles in Austin, Texas on June 22.
11/06/2025
How to install the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 developer betas
The most recent presentation of Apple's WWDC event has come and gone, during which Apple introduced the developer beta of the newly renamed iOS 26 - which is accessible to everyone, non-developers included, for free. If you want to try out an early version of the new OS, we've got directions on how to install […]
11/06/2025
Apple executives say new AI-powered Siri wasn’t ‘demoware,’ it just wasn’t ready to ship
Apple's executives would not concede to being behind in the AI race.
11/06/2025
After Google, Meta loses public policy head in India
Meta’s head of public policy in India, Shivnath Thukral, is leaving the social networking company, nearly three and a half years after joining, and just months after his counterpart at Google stepped down. Thukral spent over seven and a half years at Meta and took over as public policy lead for the South Asian market […]
11/06/2025
A big list of the small and hidden features in iOS 26
Apple most notably unveiled a new design language called "Liquid Glass" and changed the version number to 26 to unify all operating systems.
11/06/2025
A Steven Universe spinoff is in the works at Amazon
Though Steven Universe‘s time on Cartoon Network has come and gone, Amazon is stepping in to keep the story going. During a Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe panel at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival, Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar announced that Amazon is moving forward with a new spinoff series focused on side […]
11/06/2025
The war is on for Congress’ AI law ban
"This is absurd." That's all Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, recalls thinking when she first heard about the proposed moratorium on state AI regulation tucked into President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" - the same funding bill that had Trump and Elon Musk recently trading barbs online. According to the bill's […]
11/06/2025
Capcom’s lineup at Summer Game Fest was a mix of bold and boring
Capcom had an interesting showing at Summer Game Fest with three titles that will carry the developer into 2026 and beyond: Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Resident Evil Requiem, and Pragmata. I got hands-on previews with both Requiem and Pragmata, and a hands-off presentation for Onimusha. Across the three games, I saw a mix of […]
11/06/2025
Trump claims the US-China trade war is over
President Donald Trump says he has reached a deal with China that will ensure the US receives rare earth materials, keeps tariffs at a total of 55 percent, and allows American universities to keep accepting Chinese students. Trump announced the news of the agreement on Truth Social, which he says is still “subject to final […]
11/06/2025
Nvidia is building the 'world's first' industrial AI cloud—German facility to leverage 10,000 GPUs, DGX B200, and RTX Pro servers
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pushing AI factories towards European manufacturers to "advance simulation-first, AI-driven manufacturing."
11/06/2025
This smart pizza oven improved my pie-making skills
I am an excellent home cook, if I do say so myself. I regularly produce restaurant-quality dishes from my smart kitchen. But I have two favorite dishes I've never mastered at home: pizza and burgers. Yes, I can make them, but do they taste as good as my local burger or pizza joint? Nope. Naturally, […]
11/06/2025
23andMe says 15% of customers asked to delete their genetic data since bankruptcy
More than two dozen states have sued 23andMe to block the sale of genetic data without customers' permission.
11/06/2025
Pinterest tests an AI feature that lets advertisers turn their catalogs into shoppable collages
Pinterests is experimenting with "auto-collages," an AI feature that allows advertisers to quickly turn their product catalogs into shoppable collages.
11/06/2025
A dark power is rising in Foundation’s new season 3 trailer
The first teaser for season 3 of Apple TV Plus’ Foundation hinted at some of the changes coming with the series’ massive timeskip. But the show’s latest trailer really hammers how much wilder this story is about to get. Though Foundation‘s third season jumps 152 years into the future and picks up at a time […]
11/06/2025
The Dia browser is a big bet on the web — and an even bigger bet on AI
Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company, is almost nothing like the company's last product. That app, Arc, was a total rethink of how browsers work: it moved tabs to the side and combined them with bookmarks, it offered endless ways to organize all your stuff, and it had lots of ideas about how […]
11/06/2025
The Browser Company launches its AI-first browser, Dia, in beta
With its built-in AI interface, Dia hopes to give people an easy way to use AI, cutting out the need to visit tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.
11/06/2025
Praise be, my visionOS 26 persona is significantly less cursed!
For several months, my Slack avatar was a screenshot of my incredibly cursed Vision Pro persona. My virtual avatar's head was cocked back, cackling into the pixelated void, her hair one solid unmoving block. It wasn't good - but it also wasn't the end of the world. Everyone else's Persona looked just as horrible, and […]
11/06/2025
The Switch 2’s GameChat is my new meeting room
Nintendo introduced a new hardware button to the Switch 2 specifically for chatting with your friends, and it's undoubtedly my favorite feature on the console. Instead of using a smartphone app like the original Switch, Switch 2 users can open up a communications channel at any time with the "C" button and chat with friends, […]
11/06/2025
CHIPS Act beneficiares 'mired in NIMBY fights and two-year permits' — delays to Micron, Amkor, and SK hynix NY fabs costing $5M per day
Several major U.S. semiconductor projects — including Amkor’s packaging plant in Arizona, Micron’s $100B DRAM fab in New York, and SK hynix’s HBM site in Indiana — are facing delays or opposition due to environmental reviews and local protests.
11/06/2025
Uptime Industries wants to boost localized AI usage with an ‘AI-in-a-box’ called Lemony AI
The Lemony AI device can run large language models, AI agents and automated workflows locally.
11/06/2025
Third-Party Apps Made Easy — Simplify Linux App Installations Using Deb-Get
Manage your third party applications as easily as software from the official repositories with deb-get.
11/06/2025
Maingear's new Ultima 18 laptop pairs a 4K screen with top-end RTX graphics in a Clevo-designed chassis
Maingear's new 18-inch gaming laptop, the Ultima 18, is a desktop replacement with a 3840 x 2400 screen, up to 192GB of RAM, and fits four PCIe SSDs.
11/06/2025
Huawei’s latest phone fits two telephoto lenses into one camera
Huawei has just announced the Chinese launch of its Pura 80 flagship phones, and the Ultra comes with a clever trick: a “switchable” dual-lens telephoto camera that allows two different lenses to share the same sensor. You can see both lenses side-by-side in the largest of the three camera rings on the 80 Ultra’s rear, […]
11/06/2025
Standard Nuclear emerges from the ashes of a failed startup
Standard Nuclear was the winning bidder for Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's fuel-related assets at a bankruptcy auction.
11/06/2025
BenQ DesignVue PD3226G 144 Hz gaming monitor review: A 4K pro monitor with gaming chops
BenQ brings top-shelf gaming cred to its DesignVue line with the PD3226G. It’s a 32-inch 4K IPS panel with 144 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and wide gamut color. It’s well-suited for pro graphics and video, and high-performance gaming.
11/06/2025
HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam
HP has become the first company to preview hardware built with Google Beam, the 3D video communication technology formerly known as Project Starline. It’s launching the HP Dimension, a device that features a 65-inch light field display with six high-speed cameras inside the bezel to create “a true-to-life” 3D video of your caller. Google first […]
11/06/2025
Nintendo’s Switch 2 is the fastest-selling game console of all time
Nintendo was expecting the Switch 2 would be just as successful as the original, and it’s already become the fastest-selling game console of all time after a strong launch. Nintendo revealed today that it has sold more than 3.5 million Switch 2 units in the console’s first four days, surpassing records for any of Nintendo’s […]
11/06/2025
Despite $2M salaries, Meta can't keep AI staff — talent flocks to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic
Employment in AI companies is growing, with Anthropic quickly becoming one of the most popular startups to go to.
11/06/2025
Boot Up in Style — Design Your Own GRUB Menu for Linux
Using Grub Customizer, add a custom background to your Grub boot menu.
11/06/2025
Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads
Amazon is making it easier for sellers to quickly create generative AI ads on its platform, sometimes with just a single click. Amazon Ad’s Video Generator, a free advertising tool introduced in beta last year, now has some new tricks and is generally available for sellers in the US to create “photorealistic video assets” in […]
11/06/2025
Nintendo Switch 2's 3.5 million opening weekend sales smashes brand's console record — beats Switch 1's opening month by almost a million in four days
Nintendo says it sold 3.5 million Nintendo Switch 2 units worldwide in its opening weekend.
11/06/2025
Samsung’s fridges now recognize family members by voice
Samsung’s latest smart fridges now support multi-voice recognition powered by the company’s Bixby assistant, which can be used to bring up personalized information on the built-in smart displays based upon which member of a household is speaking. Voice identification in smart home tech is nothing new, but with no successful Samsung-branded smart speaker line of […]
11/06/2025
BMW iX3 prototype drive: your next-gen EV is nearly here
There's a fight for control going on inside the cockpits of many modern cars. Enable all the active safety systems in a Tesla, and it'll do most of the steering for you. But if it makes an errant turn or meanders a little too far this way or that in the lane (and trust me, […]
11/06/2025
Sam Altman thinks AI will have ‘novel insights’ next year
In a new essay published Tuesday called “The Gentle Singularity,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his latest vision for how AI will change the human experience over the next 15 years. The essay is a classic example of Altman’s futurism: hyping up the promise of AGI — and arguing that his company is quite close […]
11/06/2025
Logitech’s new iPad case has a compact removable wireless keyboard
Logitech has announced a new keyboard case for iPad Pro and iPad Air models that lets you remove and position its keyboard exactly where you need it. It’s not an entirely new idea for the company — its Combo Touch case also lets you detach the keyboard — but the new Flip Folio’s keyboard has […]
11/06/2025
Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A
Commercial nuclear fusion power isn’t a reality yet. But venture capital is flowing into startups that promise that clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy is no longer just a distant dream. Most fusion companies that have raised over $100 million are based in the United States. Not Proxima Fusion, a German startup that has just […]
11/06/2025
Craig Federighi confirms Apple’s first attempt at an AI Siri wasn’t good enough
In March, Apple delayed its upgraded Siri, saying that “it’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver” the promised features. At WWDC this week, Apple’s SVP of software Craig Federighi and SVP of worldwide marketing Greg Joswiak shared more details about the decision to delay in an interview with The Wall Street […]
10/06/2025
OpenAI’s open model is delayed
OpenAI was targeting an early summer release date for its open model, which is slated to have similar "reasoning" capabilities to OpenAI's o-series of models.
10/06/2025
Hands on with macOS Tahoe 26: Liquid Glass, new theme options, and Spotlight
At WWDC, Apple announced its new Liquid Glass design language, which is coming to all of its devices, including Macs. I've been tinkering with the macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta on the M4 MacBook Air for about a day. So far, the aesthetic changes range from slick to slightly overwrought, but the new Spotlight search […]
10/06/2025
Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z bio and health strategy, steps down
Since its founding in 2014, a16z Bio+ Health has raised four funds of nearly $3 billion each, including a $1.5 billion fund that closed in 2022.
10/06/2025
Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a blog post published Tuesday, says an average ChatGPT query uses about 0.000085 gallons of water, or “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.” He made the claim as part of a broader post on his predictions about how AI will change the world. “People are often curious about how much […]
10/06/2025
AI storage platform Vast Data aimed for $25B valuation in new round, sources say
The AI-friendly data storage startup is raising capital at a giant leap in valuation.
10/06/2025
Apple Intelligence: Everything you need to know about Apple’s AI model and services
Apple Intelligence was designed to leverage things that generative AI already does well, like text and image generation, to improve upon existing features.
10/06/2025
Android 16 is here, but its big redesign isn’t ready
Google rolled out a bunch of new features with Android 16 on Tuesday, but the company appears to be saving its big Material 3 Expressive redesign for a future update. The update doesn’t feature the design language’s revamped elements, and a source tells Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman that Google is planning to launch the new […]
10/06/2025
Google is offering employee buyouts in Search and other orgs
Google is starting to offer buyouts to US-based employees in its sprawling Search organization, along with other divisions like marketing, research, and core engineering, according to multiple employees familiar with the matter. The buyouts, which Google is referring to as a "voluntary exit program," are currently not being offered to employees in DeepMind, Google Cloud, […]
10/06/2025
More than a million people now have Alexa Plus
While a smarter Siri may have been a no-show at WWDC, Alexa Plus, the generative AI-powered overhaul of Amazon’s voice assistant, is finally appearing in the wild. No one at The Verge has access yet, but Amazon spokesperson Eric Sveum tells me over a million people now do — up from “hundreds of thousands” just […]
10/06/2025
It’s more than just a hat
There's a line in showbiz that goes, "There's no such thing as bad publicity." Ian Proulx, CEO of Splitgate 2 developer 1047 Games, has recently learned the hard way that's not entirely true. Last week, during the Summer Game Fest keynote livestream, Proulx came out to promote his game wearing a black hat that read […]
10/06/2025
AMD supercomputers take gold and silver in latest Top500 as Chinese HPC remains shrouded in secrecy
The Top500 project's 65th list of performance results reveals U.S. leadership in supercomputing. The AMD-based El Capitan, Frontier, and Intel-powered Aurora take the top three spots. AI-focused systems like Microsoft's Eagle and Germany’s GH200-powered Jupiter Booster make early appearances. China submitted no new entries for this Top500 edition.
10/06/2025
YouTube says its ecosystem created 490k jobs and added $55B to the US GDP in 2024
YouTube's impact report shows that the creator economy has continued to grow, despite less interest from venture capitalists.
10/06/2025
Google just soft-launched nine cool Home app features
Google has launched a bevy of noteworthy additions to its Home app, most of which are available now in public preview (which you can enroll in here). The biggest news, according to The Verge’s smart home expert Jen Tuohy, is that picture-in-picture support has arrived for Nest Cams on whichever Google TV product you might […]
10/06/2025
OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model
OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.
10/06/2025
.NET and .NET Framework June 2025 servicing releases updates
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for June 2025. The post .NET and .NET Framework June 2025 servicing releases updates appeared first on .NET Blog.
10/06/2025
Bedrock Ocean dredges up $25M to map the seafloor with robots
Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.
10/06/2025
Nothing Phone 3 leak shows the Glyph lights might be gone
Nothing’s next major phone is going to be revealed next month, but it might be missing the company’s signature Glyph lights. Leaker Max Jambor shared a picture of what he says is the Nothing Phone 3, and the image doesn’t appear to include Glyph lights, which Nothing has offered on previous phones as a way […]
10/06/2025
Whole Foods tells staff cyberattack at its primary distributor UNFI will affect product availability
The retail giant described the food shortages as "temporary supply challenges" following the cyberattack at its primary distributor, UNFI.
10/06/2025
Why VCs should care about TechCrunch All Stage 2025
Let’s be honest: Most events aren’t built for VCs — they’re built around VCs. Panels, keynotes, maybe a few startups worth watching, and a sea of business cards you’ll forget by dinner. TechCrunch All Stage 2025 flips that script, when we fill up Boston’s SoWa Power Station on July 15. This isn’t just a chance […]
10/06/2025
Love it or hate it? Apple’s new ‘Liquid Glass’ design is getting mixed reviews
Some users and designers are already panning Apple's new user interface dubbed Liquid Glass, even though it's a bit early. There are reasons to think it might improve — but also valid critiques.
10/06/2025
.NET 10 Preview 5 is now available!
Find out about the new features in .NET 10 Preview 5 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more! The post .NET 10 Preview 5 is now available! appeared first on .NET Blog.
10/06/2025
Ninja Gaiden 4’s gory combat hides a goofy center
Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of several games that Xbox showed off in its games showcase over the weekend. And during its Summer Game Fest-adjacent in-person preview event, I got the chance to play it for myself. I've never played Ninja Gaiden before and was skeptical that the game's generic dark aesthetic, which feels straight […]
10/06/2025
Atlassian rival Linear raises $82M at $1.25B valuation
Linear, an enterprise software maker that competes with many of Atlassian's products, announced that it raised $82 million in a Series C funding round led by Accel.
10/06/2025
Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixel phones, unveils AI-powered edit suggestion for Google Photos
Google is releasing Android 16 to Pixel phones and rolling out additional updates to other Pixel devices.
10/06/2025
Google’s ‘Pixel VIPs’ will help you keep track of your favorite contacts
Google is rolling out a new feature to Pixel devices that makes it easier to connect with people you’re close to. Pixel VIPs is a new widget that builds on the favorite contacts already saved to Pixel phones, allowing users to add personal notes about them, see real-time location information when shared, and quickly check […]
10/06/2025
Android 16 has arrived with iPhone-style Live Updates
Android 16 is officially here, and it includes Google’s take on the iPhone’s Live Activities. On Tuesday, Google announced that Live Updates are rolling out first with ride-share and food delivery apps, allowing you to track the progress of your ride or delivery with persistent, real-time notifications. Google first started working on Live Updates last […]
10/06/2025
The best last-minute deals you can grab before Father’s Day
Father’s Day is on Sunday, June 15th, and if you’re after a last-minute gift that won’t blow your budget, we’ve got you covered. Several retailers are currently offering fantastic Father’s Day discounts on an array of gadgets we can personally vouch for at The Verge, from the Roomba Combo 10 Max to budget-friendly options like […]
10/06/2025
Apple turns up the speed on Podcasts and adds a new emoji game to News
Apple’s next major software updates are getting a huge new feature for playback speed sickos like me: you’ll be able to listen to shows on the Podcasts app at as much as 3x speed, Apple notes in a press release about new services features. Previously, the maximum was 2x. You can move to super speed […]
10/06/2025
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB review: plenty of performance with 16GB
AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB delivers solid performance at seemingly reasonable pricing, though current retail costs are about 10% higher than the official MSRP. It’s a good option with no massive shortcomings, unlike the 8GB cards that are still being foisted off on less knowledgeable consumers.
10/06/2025
GeForce RTX 5050 listed with 2,560 CUDA cores and 2,250 MHz boost clock
German IT company Kiebel reveals the specifications for Nvidia's unreleased GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card.
10/06/2025
Nintendo’s Switch 2 Pro Controller is pro enough for me
The new $84.99 Pro Controller for the Switch 2 may not be your idea of a pro-grade controller - perhaps not by a long shot. But it's certainly more of one than Nintendo's $69.99 last-gen controller. It has two extra buttons embedded into its grips (one on each side), which can be programmed on a […]
10/06/2025
3D Printer Simulator could take the guesswork out of printing — Virtual 3D printer mirrors physical machine's quirks, like stringing, supports multi-color printing
This 3D printer simulator, created by 5minlab, is much more than a game—it's a practical tool and learning platform that gives you the chance to see your 3D printed object without wasting filament.
10/06/2025
What makes TechCrunch All Stage different from other startup events? Answers to your most pressing questions
Tech and startup events have a formula. You know it. We know it. We’ve all done it. But TechCrunch All Stage 2025, which we’re hosting July 15 at the SoWa Power Station in Boston, is designed to break out of that rinse-and-repeat model — and focus on what early-stage startups actually need to know, right […]
10/06/2025
Sonos is finally updating its Ace headphones with a long-delayed feature
Sonos has released a major software update for its Ace wireless headphones bringing performance improvements and a feature that was supposed to originally be available late last year. TrueCinema mode, which adapts the headphone’s spatial audio to your space and makes the virtual surround sound effect more convincing, is finally available, as spotted by What […]
10/06/2025
Snap will start selling AR glasses next year
Snap plans to start selling its first pair of augmented reality glasses to the public in 2026. The coming release is part of CEO Evan Spiegel's decade-plus bet on what comes after the smartphone. He teased it Tuesday onstage at the Augmented World Expo, an augmented and virtual reality developer conference in Long Beach, California. […]
10/06/2025
Snap plans to sell lightweight, consumer AR glasses in 2026
Snap is back with a new pair of AR smart glasses, and for the first time in years, it’s ready to sell them to consumers. The company plans to sell these new glasses, called Specs, to consumers starting in 2026, CEO Evan Spiegel announced on Tuesday during the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. […]
10/06/2025
Mario Kart World is the perfect Switch 2 launch game
All sequels have to live up to their predecessors in some form, but few have as daunting a task as Mario Kart World. It's a follow-up to the best-selling game across Nintendo's last two console generations, and a game that eventually doubled in size thanks to an ambitious array of downloadable add-ons. So instead of […]
10/06/2025
'In the last 10 years, AI has advanced 1 million times' — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hails 'incredible' speed of industry change
At London Tech Week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claimed that AI has advanced a millionfold over the past decade, likely referencing explosive growth in GPU performance and system scale.
10/06/2025
The Trump administration appears to be planning its own chatbot
The Trump administration is working on an “AI.gov” website and API to “accelerate government innovation with AI,” 404 Media found based on code posted to Github and an early version of the site. The project appears to be run by the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services, led by former Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd. Shedd, […]
10/06/2025
Learn How to Archive Files in Linux with TAR
In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression methods to squeeze every last byte of space.
10/06/2025
Final call: Apply to host a Side Event at TechCrunch All Stage 2025 today
Hosting a Side Event around TechCrunch All Stage 2025 in Boston? Today is your last chance to get on the official calendar — and it’s not just for the day of our All Stage event on July 15. You can book a time during our full All Stage Week, from July 13 to 19, by […]
10/06/2025
Meta is reportedly making a $15 billion bet on AGI
Meta is close to finalizing an almost $15 billion investment in Scale AI, the tech giant’s largest-ever external investment, which would give Meta a 49% stake in the company, according to The Information. As part of the deal, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a team of about 50 people to help Meta supercharge […]
10/06/2025
IBM is building a large-scale quantum computer that 'would require the memory of more than a quindecillion of the world's most powerful supercomputers' to simulate
IBM has shared its roadmap to deliver the 'world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer' in 2029.
10/06/2025
Threads is finally getting a DM inbox
Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta's social network Threads is finally testing a separate DM inbox that is separate from your Instagram DM Inbox.
10/06/2025
Threads is finally getting DMs
Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on June 10th that Threads will start testing its own DM system this week, starting in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina, with plans to expand to more locations “soon.” The experiment […]
10/06/2025
Apple’s upgraded AI models underwhelm on performance
Apple has announced updates to the AI models that power its suite of Apple Intelligence features across iOS, macOS, and more. But according to the company's own benchmarks, the models underperform older models from rival tech firms including OpenAI.
10/06/2025
Enterprise AI startup Glean lands a $7.2B valuation
Glean announced on Tuesday that is raised a $150 million Series F led by Wellington Management at a $7.2 billion valuation.
10/06/2025
Republicans are determined to make you pay more for gas
Things are getting nutty in the world of vehicle fuel economy standards. Last week, Transportation Secretary (and ex-reality TV contestant) Sean Duffy declared that he was resetting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that govern vehicle fuel efficiency in the US. Duffy confidently declared that the current CAFE standards, in which fuel economy would […]