Microsoft’s Mico is a ‘Clippy’ for the AI era
Microsoft has a new Clippy, and it’s an AI friend called Mico. At the company’s Copilot fall release press event…
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12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability
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Ousted Luminar CEO Austin Russell wants to buy the company
Austin Russell, the billionaire founder of Luminar, has made a bid to acquire the lidar-maker five months after he was…
Defunct electric aircraft startup Lilium’s tech lives on over at Archer
Electric aircraft startup Lilium may have ceased operations a year ago, but its insolvency filing wasn’t quite the end of…
Prezent raises $30 million to acquire AI services firms — starting with founder’s other company
Prezent, a startup that offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, said today that it has raised $30 million in…
Seeing like a software company
The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert…
Okosix will show its biodegradable plastic at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Healthcare is awash in single-use plastics. In U.S. healthcare facilities alone, more than 2,800 tons of plastic packaging and products…
Zoom launches a cross application AI notetaker, AI avatars and more in its latest update
Zoom on Wednesday launched new products at its Zoomtopia conference, including an upgraded AI companion that can work across meeting…
Sources: AI training startup Mercor eyes $10B+ valuation on $450 million run rate
Mercor, a startup that connects companies like OpenAI and Meta with domain experts needed to train and refine their foundational…
Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyA leak of more than 100,000 documents shows that a little-known Chinese company has…
Snap breaks into ‘startup squads’ as ad revenue stalls
In Brief Posted: 6:41 PM PDT · September 8, 2025 Connie Loizos Snap breaks into ‘startup squads’ as ad revenue…
Intel’s chief executive of products departs among other leadership changes
Semiconductor giant Intel continues to shake up its senior leadership since Lip-Bu Tan took the helm as CEO in March….
Musk’s $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises
Tesla has proposed a massive new $1 trillion compensation package for its CEO Elon Musk, and many of the benchmarks…
Adobe to bring its video editing app Premiere to iPhones
Adobe is planning to bring its video editing software, Premiere, to the iPhone. The company has listed the app on…
These Hi-Fi Speakers Are Made out of Rocket Fuel Tanks
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyMomentum for space development is growing on a global scale.The rocket company SpaceX, led…
How a 16-year-old company is easing small businesses into AI
Amid all the “is this a bubble?” talk about artificial intelligence, the supply chain and logistics industries have become breeding…
Nvidia reports record sales as the AI boom continues
Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, reported another quarter of sustained sales growth in its earnings statement Wednesday, with $46.7…
The Boring Company is finally testing Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ in its Las Vegas tunnels
In Brief Posted: 10:40 AM PDT · August 27, 2025 Image Credits:Ethan Miller / Getty Images Sean O’Kane The Boring…
The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyThe United States government is making an $8.9 billion investment in Intel, representing a…
Waymo approved to start autonomous vehicle testing in New York City
Waymo has been granted a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City, the first such approval granted…