The day is almost here, as Grand Theft Auto VI is just about a month away from finally coming out. But before that there’s still one more look from Rockstar Games, which just put out a brief “launch” trailer for the game. It doesn’t reveal much new, but the 90 second clip does give a … Read more
A seamless solution to a problem almost nobody has. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Last month, Apple announced a feature called iPhone Handoff. Not to be confused with that Handoff; this is a new one. iPhone Handoff allows you to keep your number active on two iPhones at the same time so you … Read more
Save all of the products you’re browsing in one place. | Image: Google Google’s intelligent AI shopping cart is finally here, and just in time to tempt users into Black Friday and seasonal holiday spending. The Universal Cart tool Google previewed at its I/O event in May is now rolling out in the US across … Read more
Most price comparison sites do a decent job of finding prices. The problem is figuring out whether those prices are actually comparable. You can pull prices from Amazon, Walmart, and Target, put them in a table, and sort from cheapest to most expensive. Everything might look correct, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the cheapest product … Read more
The Atom couldn’t have launched at a worse time for Ledger. | Image: Ledger Ledger has announced its latest crypto-centric hardware effort, the Android-based Atom, a device that resembles a phone but is instead designed to be used alongside one. It arrives at a tricky time for Ledger, which has been forced to cease sales … Read more
Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping, with prices starting at $74.99.
Eiliko. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge There’s a new digital pet in town – a cute little marshmallow of a robot that can change its cartoony expressions to match your mood. But if you or your kids talk to “Eiliko” over Wi-Fi, it’ll phone home to China. Its AI companion can store … Read more
Big Walk‘s co-op multiplayer walking adventure has proved popular since launching in August, but Xbox players have been excluded from the fun – and now the game’s creators have explained why. Developer House House said in a blog post that it decided not to release Big Walk on Xbox consoles in accordance with the Palestinian-led … Read more
The digital rights unit found evidence that dozens of devices at media organization Al Jazeera were hacked after being shown malicious online ads.
In modern endpoint security, preventing credential theft has historically focused on defeating keyloggers. However, contemporary infostealers and advanced persistent threats (APTs) have evolved. Instead of relying solely on low-level keyboard hooks, modern malware frequently implements continuous, asynchronous screen-scraping loops via graphics APIs like DirectX or GDI. If a user enters sensitive data via a virtual … Read more
PostgreSQL and Snowflake tend to be at different points in the same data architecture. PostgreSQL is responsible for transactions, while Snowflake is the place where the data gets analyzed, joined with other data sources, and reporting is done. Moving data from one to another once is simple enough. Synchronizing them when PostgreSQL database changes is … Read more
When you are experiencing a dream, you are almost never aware that you are in a dream. All your brain knows is the right here, right now. Strange situations are presented to you, but there is no questioning or reasoning behind it. However occasionally, every now and then when the conditions are just right, a … Read more
The United Kingdom has spent years building a regulatory perimeter around cryptoassets. Now firms have to walk through the door. The Financial Conduct Authority has opened its authorization process for crypto firms ahead of a new regime that will bring a much wider range of digital asset activities under its supervision. The dates are fixed. … Read more
Ironically, I found out 6 months into writing that this has happened before in 1920s & 1930s in the USA. One path was an energy economic system of hyper-productivity using technology of their time and another was money printing & debt (rent-seeking). Proposals gained national attention but failed, they weren’t designed to human neuroscience & … Read more
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Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
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The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company’s surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh the risks of abuse.
It’s time to unveil the five companies that will be competing in the Startup Battlefield finals.
Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumor—can quickly snowball into a much larger public controversy. Gudea, a company that tracks how stories and rumors spread online that describes itself as the “storm tracker for the internet,” … Read more
Intero Biosystems is selling lab-grown human intestines to drugmakers as regulators push for alternatives to animal testing, while the startup looks to scale production and expand its organoid technology.
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal. The AI simulation “aims to reflect 80% of the scenarios McKinsey consultants might encounter in their day-to-day work,” the … Read more
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Apple’s HomeView smart display seems tailor-made for the kitchen. (That aluminum base looks like it will hold up better than my now off-white kitchen HomePod.) I’m just going to come right out and say it. I love the approach Apple has taken with the HomeView. I think it’s the shared, always-available household interface that my … Read more
Databases have traditionally been designed either for analytical data or for operational data. But database engine CedarDB supports both, and its approach has gained relevance with the rise of agentic AI.