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It costs just as much to buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 right now as the launch price for the RTX 5090, with prices now at least two times higher for this high spec GPU.
iOS 27.2 launched this week with a variety of new features for Siri AI , FaceTime , Messages , and more, plus a handful of improvements for the Shortcuts app. Here’s everything new in Shortcuts.
You’re likely familiar with Google’s Cardboard, and the legions of cheap virtual reality headsets it spawned. By sticking a smartphone to the wearer’s head, all these headsets needed were some …
Premium styling, quiet operation, and impressive performance elevates the HyperX Omen 35L into competition with the best the market has to offer. But whether it's worth the money depends on which configuration you choose.
The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.
Today on Decoder, I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story inside the numbers of the Anthropic IPO filing — a document known as an S-1. Anthropic just filed its S-1 to go public on the Nasdaq, and it could start
Amazon is adding several new features to its AI shopping assistant, including ways to create, edit, and move items between shopping lists and gift registries. As an example, Amazon says you can now ask Alexa for Shopping to "Create a new shopping list" or "Show me what's left on my wedding registry." The ecommerce…
Apple released iOS 27.2 this week with new features for Messages , Siri AI , and Photos , plus an Apple Music rebrand and more. But work on iOS 27.3 is already well underway, here’s when to expect the next big iPhone update.
The social networking site is facing criticism for blocking access to the site, which identifies thousands of ICE agents and other employees working for Homeland Security.
As WIRED’s resident pet tech tester, I have lots of opinions on what’s worth your money. Petkit’s automatic litter boxes are my top picks—and my favorite models are $100 off right now.
The acquisition would bring two major players in on-demand delivery under one roof, combining DoorDash’s dominance in restaurant takeout with Instacart’s reach in grocery delivery.
After engineering a flexible version of Tetris that could be wrapped around a magazine, Kevin Bates' latest creation is a digital candle that uses a custom AI model to accurately simulate the appearance of a flickering flame across a grid of LEDs. It's a far cry from the types of devices Bates is typically known
The Anthropic S-1 seems to have provided the financial justification for the company to spend as much as it possibly can on compute. If you are the kind of person who wonders if Anthropic is doing its level best to build a machine god while convincing Wall Street it's in the business of selling IT
For more than 15 years, Apple has had a pretty simple answer to the idea of a touchscreen MacBook: no. Yesterday, Apple finally decided to think different and announce one anyway. "You've gotta touch it to believe it," says Apple CEO John Ternus. He might be right: I haven't yet touched it, and I still
Hopefully without disintegrating SRB nozzles
Everyone wants to know what Anthropic is up to, and hackers are gleefully exploiting the fact.
Sources say that Alice Huang, a senior executive at an Nvidia cloud partner who has close ties with Jensen Huang, is suspected of passing information to Beijing.
Six days from now, TechCrunch Founder Summit brings experienced founders, investors, and operators to Boston on Nov. 4 to share the decisions, mistakes, pivots, and lessons that shaped their companies. Register before it starts for ticket savings and deals.
The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions with the AI bot.
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.
The leak reveals undercover agents, surveillance groups, and sensitive DHS access.
DoorDash is offering $17 billion to buy Instacart to supercharge its grocery delivery business in what would be a big consolidation in grocery delivery
Nvidia's near $13 billion buyout of Hugging Face has come under scrutiny over concerns that it will impact competition in the AI space.
Tech whizz' internet-accessible Synology NAS gets bit by transomware attack — security updates 18 months out of date in a series of catastrophic errors
Following the release of the new 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro earlier this week, Apple has bought the “touch experience” to its professional laptop series, introducing a $2,899 (and up) MacBook Pro you can use with touch. It’s very fast, very thin, very light, with an impressive PROLED XDR display and up to 24 hours battery…
Reddit has announced the introduction of a new For You feed, an algorithmic-driven one that tries to find new communities and threads to match your interests. Fortunately, you don’t have to use it …
Some adults may not need to prove it, but many will
Extra connectivity on Apple Watch sure has its perks, but it’s still not for me. Here’s why.
The deal combines the two largest grocery delivery platforms in the US.
Over the past six months, CPUs have taken center stage as agentic AI workloads evolve. Here’s our first attempt at trying to measure CPU performance when running agentic workloads.
The MacBook Neo was already a bargain by Mac standards when it launched with a starting price of $599, but for students an education price of $499 made it a steal.
OpenAI and Anthropic agree that frontier AI systems need stronger oversight, but they are proposing sharply different approaches to stopping models that pose serious risks: Anthropic wants courts empowered to suspend dangerous systems, while OpenAI argues developers should be required to maintain and use effective…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time —Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz from the Partnership on AI, a nonprofit advancing best practices in AI…
'The workflow automatically is triggered within a second, and if the workflow is indeed vulnerable, then the attack is executed successfully'
EasySMX is using Elizabeth Holmes levels of pedantry with this faceplate situation.
DoorDash has announced that it's buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence in online grocery delivery thanks to Instacart's established grocery marketplace and retailer partnerships, with Instacart CEO Chris Rogers saying the deal will make…
You can save $1,250 on this Alienware Aurora gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 RAM, now priced at just $2,599.99.
Steve Jobs famously dismissed the idea of a touchscreen Mac back in 2010 when he said that it “gives great demo” but turns out to be “ergonomically terrible” in real-life use.
A fire at a national lab in South Carolina that is on a site that once made key parts for nuclear bombs has triggered an emergency response that shut down incoming traffic and restricted air and rail service in the area
The operator of one of Mongolia’s largest copper mines says its exports of copper concentrate to China have dropped by about 70% in the past two weeks due to restrictions at a border crossing
Fujifilm plans to increase the production of magnetic tape by as much as 5x as it works to meet a newfound demand for AI data center storage.
Core developers avoid AI coding assistants, while community contributors face disclosure and review rules
Looking to better protect your Kindle or add a little personality to your favorite e-reader? From cases and covers to page-turners and stickers, this is the guide for you.
"NASA desperately needs SpaceX, and SpaceX knows it, and Elon knows it."
You don’t have to be a full-on “prepper” to at least occasionally wonder what would happen if civilization collapsed. One thing you probably couldn’t do is go on the Internet …
Following a “coming months” teaser earlier this year, Motorola has confirmed that its flagship Signature 27 device is launching in the US in November.
A new Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A seen lurking in the repository
Good morning! Today I’m reading about the death of the internet , deciding whether to buy a PROLED or many pro LEDs, building all my IKEA furniture with this step-by-step 3D app , trying desperately to get into the Readwise Books early access, and playing an “Enhanced 3D” Command & Conquer: Red Alert on my PC.
There weren’t too many surprises with yesterday’s launch of the first touchscreen Mac, the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display . But one of those was the option to spec the SSD to a massive 16TB.
Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.
South Korean regulators found that Apple and Google violated the country's Telecommunications Business Act.
Illicit software on the computers of some of the world’s best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims’ hands—and trounce them at the tables.
The Hisense UR8 RGB MiniLED is more affordable than competitors and offers exceptional color accuracy, but is otherwise just OK.
They fit better than they look and stay put when you move, but Snap’s $2,195 Specs still feel like a developer prototype in search of a purpose.
Attachments in New Outlook come undone thanks to Windows' fundamental interconnectedness of things
This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government…
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is…
Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me.
Climate change itself is increasingly fueling climate change. Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are driving up global temperatures, setting off dangerous feedback loops that we have not fully accounted for in our climate models—or our emissions-reduction goals. Scientists have long warned that warming would…
Google's latest Gemini 4 Carbon AI model boasts top benchmark scores in areas like cybersecurity and coding.
Once more, with feeling: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you'
Opposition to the rapid emergence of data centers in states such as Ohio and Arizona has ginned up activism and unified voters. A range of public health issues have played into the resistance.
Apple’s first foldable iPhone is far from perfect, but it’s already the most premium option on the market – and its best aspects are overlooked.
PARTNER CONTENT: HPE Alletra MP X10000 cache offload delivers up to 20× faster time to first token in testing validated by Kamiwaza. Apparently, remembering things beats calculating them again.
A hacktivist group stole the information of ICE agents and border police from Homeland Security.
Over on IEEE Spectrum, [Stephen Cass] has a project that would probably have seemed like a magic a few centuries ago. Imagine a box that uses a magnetic device to …
Ofcom says photo and digital ID, banking checks or facial age estimation can help prove someone is 16 or over.
Although once little more than an academic endeavor, the RISC-V architecture is slowly supplanting applications that would have normally gone to ARM. Even a few microcontrollers have chips running this …
Tesla's next generation Roadster was spotted at SpaceX's Hawthorne headquarters, two weeks after its unveiling.
On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a "long-term goal" of pushing the computer industry to create "a fully domestic supply chain." Even a single Made-in-USA laptop…
Although the term ‘quantum battery’ is a bit of a vague term, the cell that [Kieran Hymas] et al. demonstrate in a recent paper does seem to suggest that it …
With the free File Converter program, you can easily convert images, videos, and audio files to other formats.
As Bloomberg reported today, Apple and Microsoft are now subject to Russian regulations requiring companies to store users’ communications and provide them to security agencies if requested. Here are the details.
The week, the Windows developer said it would offer buyouts to 60,000 workers as it looks to curb costs.
Judge Edward Davila today formally established the schedule for Apple’s trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit against two former employees, OpenAI, and io Products, including a trial date. Here are the details.
The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile want 290 MHz cut from an FCC satellite plan before Thursday.
The agency will vote next month on relaxing its long-standing opposition to jammers.
Although not technically the first virtual pet, the Tamagotchi handhelds certainly popularized the idea and made it a worldwide phenomenon. In the late 90s it was hard to go out …
Alphabet's cash burn was driven by spending to boost cloud capacity and fund AI research.