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Month: January 2025
CES 2025 Press Day: Everything Nvidia, Sony, Toyota, Samsung announced, and more
CES 2025, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. TechCrunch reporters are on the ground giving you the latest announcements and reveals at the conference. Today is Press Day, which features keynotes from the biggest players, including Samsung, Nvidia, Toyota, Sony, and more. Below, you’ll find a list of the biggest … Read more
Efficiently build and tune custom log anomaly detection models with Amazon SageMaker
In this post, we walk you through the process to build an automated mechanism using Amazon SageMaker to process your log data, run training iterations over it to obtain the best-performing anomaly detection model, and register it with the Amazon SageMaker Model Registry for your customers to use it. Log-based anomaly detection involves identifying anomalous … Read more
Samsung’s next Unpacked event sets a date to reveal the Galaxy S25
Image: Samsung Samsung has announced that it will hold its next Galaxy Unpacked event at 10AM PT / 1PM ET on January 22nd in San Jose, California. Samsung will stream the event on YouTube, its website, and its newsroom page. According to its invitation, the company is preparing to introduce its next Galaxy S devices, … Read more
Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S25 on January 22
In what was an otherwise uneventful CES 2025 press conference, Samsung on Monday announced January 22 as the date for its next Unpacked event. The timing lines up with earlier reporting. The event, which is being livestreamed through Samsung’s site, will almost certainly serve as a launching pad for the company’s latest flagship phone, the … Read more
Dana White is joining Meta’s board of directors
Dana White and Mark Zuckerberg attend the UFC 300 event at T-Mobile Arena on April 13, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada | Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Meta is adding three new people to its board of directors, and one of them is UFC president and CEO Dana White, the company announced … Read more
The US just added Tencent to its list of ‘Chinese military’ companies
While the Chinese internet giant Tencent is best-known for its super-app WeChat, it’s also a major investor in U.S. tech companies and startups. Some of its most notable and still active investments include Reddit, Snap, and Fortnite creator Epic Games. Things might get a little awkward, though, because Tencent was designated a “Chinese military company” … Read more
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NBC’s Grimm series is being reborn as a Peacock movie
NBC Between Nosferatu and Wolf Man, it feels like Hollywood has come back around on good, old fashioned monster movies. And it seems like Peacock wants in on the action with a feature-length reboot of the long-dead Grimm series. Variety reports that Peacock is moving forward with a new film based on Grimm, Stephen Carpenter, … Read more
A new tax credit for hydrogen helps out nuclear energy
Workers outside the hydrogen production facility at the Constellation Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in Scriba, New York, on Tuesday, May 9th, 2023. | Photo: Getty Images The Biden administration finalized rules meant to boost domestic production of hydrogen fuel through a new tax credit, a move that might also keep struggling nuclear power plants … Read more
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SaaS is for Suckers: AI Already Builds Better Custom Software
It used to be that every company faced a definitive choice: buy or build. For most, the answer was to buy. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) dominated because it was cheaper, faster, and easier than building proprietary software from scratch. But things have changed now that many tasks within SaaS companies and many features within SaaS products can … Read more
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Consumer tech spending will break records in 2025 if Trump’s tariffs don’t squash it, CTA predicts
AI is leading US consumers towards a tech spending bonanza this year if tariffs don’t materialize, new research from the Consumer Technology Association finds. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs Have Already Added $585 Million in 2025
Crypto ETFs have already added $585 million worth of new money in January, led by Bitcoin and Ethereum funds, following a steep profit-taking drop in December.
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Toyota’s Woven City is open for business and looking for startups
Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda revealed Monday at CES 2025 his vision for a living laboratory chock full of startups and technology. His message: Woven City — a prototype city on a 175-acre site at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan — is open for business and searching for inventors. “Today, I say to … Read more
The ‘Always Available’ Trap: What Is It and How to Avoid It
Why Your Fear of Setting Limits Is Your Sign to Start Last week, I watched Sarah break down in the middle of our mastermind meeting. She runs a thriving design agency, the kind that big tech companies fight to work with. Revenue is up 200% this year. Her team has grown from just her to fifteen … Read more
Toyota is ‘exploring rockets’
Japanese automaker Toyota is “exploring rockets,” chairman Akio Toyoda just announced on stage at CES 2025, while hinting at the idea of moving people through space. Toyoda did not offer any details explaining what he meant. But he showed a rendering on stage of a rocket designed by Interstellar Technologies, a private Japanese spaceflight company … Read more
Washington sues T-Mobile over 2021 data breach that spilled 79 million customer records
The 2021 breach affected at least 2 million Washington state residents, and tens of millions more customers around the United States. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Toyota’s futuristic Woven City in Japan is ready for its first residents
Image: Toyota Toyota’s futuristic Woven City, which is being built on the site of a former car factory in Japan, is almost ready for its first residents. At CES this week, the Japanese auto giant updated the public on the progress of the $10 billion project, which is said to be a “living laboratory” where … Read more
TradFi Firms Are Flocking to Crypto After Trump Win: Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse told Decrypt that many Wall Street leaders are now open to crypto thanks to optimism over Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Meta appoints UFC’s president to its board
Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors, the company announced Monday: UFC president and CEO Dana White, European investment company Exor CEO John Elkann, and tech investor and entrepreneur Charlie Songhurst. In a press release, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that White, Elkann, and Songhurst “will add a depth of expertise … Read more
Toyota is teaching robot arms to fold t-shirts the Japanese way
Monday’s Toyota CES press conference was all about Woven City, the carmaker’s planned community at the base of Mt. Fuji. Robotics will undoubtedly play a major role in the company’s bid to automate as much of the 2,000-person city as possible, including autonomous cars and drones designed to chaperone people back home after dark. One … Read more