Walk up to someone wearing a pair of Halliday’s smart glasses, and you might not notice they’re looking at smartphone notifications, live language translations, or advice from an AI assistant. The only giveaway is the tiny green dot of light on their eyeball. Wearables startup Ha … | Continue reading
AeroAstro PhD student Sydney Dolan uses an interdisciplinary approach to develop collision-avoidance algorithms for satellites. | Continue reading
It’s only the second day of CES 2025, and we’ve already reached the point where it’s difficult to distinguish real products from elaborate pranks. In Case of Death currently leads that race by a country mile. Produced by Zugu, the product is designed as a kind of dead man’s switc … | Continue reading
Last year, police surveillance startup Flock Safety hired the mayor of a California city with over 200,000 residents to promote its products. But the mayor, Ulises Cabrera of Moreno Valley, now claims Flock wrongfully terminated him, partly because he refused to use his position … | Continue reading
No design skills? No problem. Squarespace’s AI tools will help you create an awesome site. | Continue reading
Former Google engineer and influential AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to help develop benchmarks that’ll probe AI for “human-level” intelligence. The nonprofit, the ARC Prize Foundation, will be led by Greg Kamradt, an ex-Salesforce engineering director … | Continue reading
Watch Duty, an app to track wildfires with live maps and alerts, has become the number one free app in Apple’s App Store as of Wednesday morning. The fire tracking app surpassed the ChatGPT app for the number one spot as devastating fires continue to rage across Southern Californ … | Continue reading
Mashable checked out the Evenflo SensorySoothe smart car seat at CES Showstoppers 2025 Tuesday. It has a color-changing light bar and built-in speakers. | Continue reading
OpenAI's Sam Altman is facing a civil lawsuit from his sister alleging heinous acts of sexual abuse. | Continue reading
January is one of the worst months of the year for wildfires — in southern Australia. Not in the metro area of Los Angeles, where it is, technically, supposed to be the rainy season. But try telling a fire that it’s unseasonal. At the time of this writing, three wildfires are bur … | Continue reading
Ask me one thing I love about living in Los Angeles and there’s a good chance I’d say, Because it’s wild. The giant city park near us is no flat, grassy plane for picnicking and Frisbee, but a rugged expanse of coyotes and the occasional mountain lion, God rest his soul. Outside … | Continue reading
The Thermochromorph printmaking technique developed by CSAIL researchers allows images to transition into each other through changes in temperature. | Continue reading
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing fact-checking across its apps in favor of a crowdsourced community notes feature, similar to X’s. The Mastodon found … | Continue reading
On October 16 and November 20, Elon Musk tweeted videos of himself clearing the highest level of the Diablo IV video game in about 2 minutes. While Diablo IV has been out since mid-2023, the latest “season,” called The Pit, launched on October 7. Many asked: How did he find the t … | Continue reading
Roadshow Pictures The new film Conclave is a psychological thriller looking at the selection of the new pope. But what is a conclave, and where did this ritual begin? The institution of the conclave is the formal process by which a pope is elected. As cardinals cast their secret … | Continue reading
Everett Collection/Shutterstock Blues singer Gladys Bentley was a dazzling star of the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the 1920s and ’30s when African American culture flourished in New York City. Bentley’s risqué performances intrigued audiences. So did the entertainer’s relatio … | Continue reading
Like anything in life, the secret to becoming Steph Curry or Sabrina Ionescu is practice, practice, and more practice. You practice when it’s too hot, too cold, you’re tired, or you’re sick. Finding a willing one-on-one partner through all of that is, however, another question en … | Continue reading
Maël BALLAND/Pexels When I (Nathan Brooks English) was six years old, I snuck a starfish home from the beach and hid it in my closet. I regret that now, as my parents did then when the smell of rotting starfish overwhelmed the house. I regret it also because that starfish had a p … | Continue reading
topimages/Shutterstock The popularity of e-bikes has soared over the past decade. Shared electric bikes for rent have become a common sight in major cities worldwide, while private ownership is also rising. Since 2020, both sales and import of e-bikes have nearly tripled in Austr … | Continue reading
Przemek Klos/Shutterstock Once, borrowing money to make a purchase was a relatively tedious process, not a spur-of-the-moment thing. True, some stores offered lay-by plans that would let you pay for goods in instalments. But if they didn’t, and you didn’t already have a credit ca … | Continue reading
The Conversation, CC BY Dudes, dudines and dudettes of Australia, we need to talk about border security. Our long-time frenemies – the Americans (hey bae!) – seem to be taking over our English. For many Aussies, our linguistic border security is a matter of cultural and national … | Continue reading
While just about everyone loves the thought of growing fresh herbs n' veggies in their own kitchen, not everyone has the green thumb required to do so. The Plantaform system was designed with that fact in mind, as it grows edible plants automatically … using a nutrient-rich fog. … | Continue reading
Gridware's sensors listen for sounds that the company’s software has been trained to identify as different hazards to the grid. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. | Continue reading
The Intake is a low-tech magnetic device that helps you breathe better. | Continue reading
Welcome to the latest edition of Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s weekly newsletter, Hey There, It’s Amanda, packed with food, travel, and shopping tips, Food52 doings, and other matters that catch her eye. Get inspired—sign up here for her emails. Photo by Amanda Hesser Hello from … | Continue reading
When government-supported businesses fail, they attract criticism from both political opponents and the media. (Shutterstock) A common government strategy to increase prosperity in economically lagging regions is to provide financial assistance to technology-based businesses. Thi … | Continue reading
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. | Continue reading
The engineer and aspiring astronaut developed an outreach program at Lincoln Laboratory to help bring hands-on STEM activities to all. | Continue reading
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There’s a nascent, concerted effort to make Oklahoma the first state to ban new renewable energy projects. And it’s picking up steam. Across the U.S., activism against wind and solar energy has only grown in intensity, power, and scope in tandem with the recent renewables boom. T … | Continue reading
If a philanthropic organization is looking to support local news in a given community, it typically wants to figure out the answers to a few questions before committing funding: What are the community’s information needs? Who, if anyone, is meeting those information needs, and wh … | Continue reading
The Russian ISP blamed the Ukrainian hackers for causing a "complete failure" across its internet infrastructure. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. | Continue reading
Meta announced its reducing its protections against hate speech and discriminatory content, with advocates warning its opening up the floodgates to more online hate. | Continue reading
stokkete/Shutterstock The idea of becoming a “soft girl” – a woman who embrace values that are seen as soft, such as beauty and family life, at the expense of a career – is an emerging trend among some social media influencers. Soft girls often opt to be financially supported by … | Continue reading
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Donald Trump’s threat of 25 per cent tariffs against Canada — combined with his ongoing denigration of Canadian sovereignty, including his recent threat to take the country “by economic force” — have Canadians rightly concerned about the immediate future. Unfortunately, the feder … | Continue reading
The Palisades, Hurst, and Eaton fires now spreading across Los Angeles are yet another reminder that our rapidly changing climate now acts in unprecedented ways, with hurricane-force winds, longstanding drought, and a host of other factors contributing to blazes that have so far … | Continue reading
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The AI news cycle didn’t slow down much this holiday season. Between OpenAI’s 12 days of “shipmas” and DeepSeek’s major model release on Christmas Day, blink … | Continue reading
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microsoft/phi-4 Here's the official release of Microsoft's Phi-4 LLM, now officially under an MIT license. A few weeks ago I covered the earlier unofficial versions, where I talked about how the model used synthetic training data in some really interesting ways. It benchmarks fav … | Continue reading
Google announced 'Daily Listen,' which provides AI-generated audio of topics you're interested in. | Continue reading
A captivating and fascinating evolution to their sonic vocabulary, Psylhouette soars through landscapes that are both devastating and hopeful managing to find beauty in all of them. | Continue reading
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Co-founder Anton Pronkin originally shared this letter on our community forum. In it, he expands on Anytype’s history and our priorities for this year. Its relevance is broad, so we’re also publishing it here. This year has been the most exciting in Anytype& | Continue reading
As of Jan. 8, get the OnePlus 13 for $100 off at Best Buy with a free $100 gift card with purchase. | Continue reading
It’s 2025, the year when mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities. The difference between a tool and an ability is subtle yet profound. From the very first hammerstones to the … | Continue reading
Triller, a would-be competitor to TikTok, is hoping to capitalize on the potential for a TikTok ban in the U.S. by pitching to creators to move their content from the popular short-form video app to its own. The company has now launched a website, SaveMyTikToks.com, which promise … | Continue reading