Renault is building its €17,900 Dacia Spring EV in Europe to qualify for local subsidies
Dacia also redesigned the Spring to add some sporty allure.
Dacia also redesigned the Spring to add some sporty allure.
Xiaomi's impressive-sounding new foldable arrives on the eve of Apple's big foldable iPhone event.
Xiaomi is the latest manufacturer to release a short, wide foldable phone, in the week Apple is expected to do the same. I got to try the 18 Fold behind closed doors at IFA last week, and while it looks and feels similar enough to Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8, superior specs make it feel […]
Eric Wu, who built and ran Opendoor before stepping away in 2022, has had his new company, NavigateAI, out of stealth since May — building AI copilots that give construction workers real-time, hands-free guidance through smartphones and Meta's AI glasses, backed by $25 million from Elad Gil, Khosla Ventures, and Lennar to tackle a labor shortage severe enough that data center projects alone now need 4,000 to 5,000 workers apiece.
China is getting first crack at a British technology that might change how mobile games are made and played. Today, the Xiaomi 18 Fold launches in mainland China with an Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics processor inside its custom Xring O3 chip. What's so special about that? After five years of development, Arm now has […]
We all want to take the best photos with our $1,000 devices, and sometimes that means rolling back all those extra settings in the Camera app back to zero.
Chromebooks are great devices, but they might not be able to do everything a Windows or Mac device can. Consider carefully before using one daily.
In the market for a new laptop? You'll want to know just how long it'll run without being plugged in, and how you can maximize the efficiency of its battery.
Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater—you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan.
GM's lineup is dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of its own infotainment systems. But one model is keeping the phone-mirroring capabilities.
'You Can See Everything' was filmed in 2023 before Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison to serve an 11-year sentence for defrauding Theranos investors.
There are many reasons why you'd want to download a YouTube video, but doing so comes with a bevy of questions about the legality of the available methods.
Apple Wallet can hold all kinds of passes and cards, plus items you might not have ever considered storing digitally.
We're expecting details about the 'Ocarina of Time' and other Zelda projects during Nintendo's 30-minute stream.
When shopping for an electric vehicle, affordability is becoming a more common trait. But affordable and energy efficient is truly a rare breed. Often you have to sacrifice one for the other. Want something affordable? Great, here's a range loser. Want something that goes the distance? Be ready to pay the price. Surprisingly, here comes […]
At this point, there are very few situations in which you'll want to use an Ethernet splitter.
After Onimusha: Way of the Sword sold more than a million copies at launch, Capcom is now looking to revive some of its other forgotten IPs.
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
Everything you need to know to decide which set of Sony earbuds are right for you.
While it probably won't be available in the US, the Audi A2 e-tron looks like an appealing affordable EV with plenty of range.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.
Apple's sound settings often meant you'd sleep through your iPhone alarm if you lowered the volume before you went to bed. With its new update, that is no more.
When is it no longer worth repairing your phone and buying a new one instead.
While there aren't a ton of concrete details yet, the arrival of yet another dual-screen handheld is a great sign for fans of Nintendo old-school portables.
The Home Depot Labor Day sale goes hard on grills and tools. Here are our recommendations on what to buy—and what to ignore.
From cordless vacuums to the best wireless earbuds we’ve tested, some of our favorite tech is on sale for Labor Day this year.
A Bluetooth jammer might seem like a fix for a neighbor's loud music, but using one can lead to serious legal consequences far beyond simple noise control.
Six years ago Sony and Bose were in the middle of a noise-canceling battle, with each new model of headphones better than the last. In the fall of 2020, Sony released the WH-1000XM4 headphones to wide acclaim. They sat atop best headphones lists for years, thanks to their great sound, competitive ANC, and compact size, […]
Sony is taking a unique approach to its 2026 headphone lineup: bringing back 2020's greatest hit.
If Apple CarPlay leaves you feeling frustrated and you want a break from it, there are a few ways to prevent it from automatically connecting in your car.
While Apple's first foldable iPhone Ultra will headline the September 9 launch, we're also expecting news about AirPods and HomePods.
If you're in the market for a tiny power station that punches well above its size and weight then have a look at EcoFlow's new fourth-generation River series. The River 260 Gen4 features a 256Wh capacity battery while the 520 Gen4 packs in 512Wh - storing about 2.5x and 5x the energy of the largest […]
Labor Day already? Say it ain’t so. Today is the last day to shop the best deals on WIRED-tested outdoor gear from REI, Nemo, MSR, Coleman, and more during REI’s Labor Day sale.
When Apple debuts the next generation of iPhones this week, they're likely to come with an unwanted change: a higher price tag. A price hike from the supply-chain powerhouse would be the clearest sign yet that soaring memory costs have become unavoidable - with no end to the memory crunch in sight. Call it "chipflation" […]
Dark energy might be getting weaker. Scientists are wondering if interactions with dark matter in a “dark dimension” may be responsible.
The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial objects.
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
Thanks to their ability to provide a smooth ride and quiet powertrain with ease, electric vehicles are a true shoo-in for the high-end luxury automotive segment. Rolls-Royce has the Spectre, Cadillac's Celestiq is taking bespoke to a whole new level, and Mercedes has given the EQS the full Maybach treatment. From Volkswagen Auto Group, Bentley […]
It’s called the Edge Panel. Here’s how to make the most of it.
Forget email surveys or long calls spent on hold. Voicebox lets people send customer feedback by recording a voice note on their phone.
Apple’s annual hardware launch event may feel different as the company welcomes a new CEO alongside a folding iPhone.
Huawei has released its third trifold phone in China, and the company has clearly had half an eye on Samsung during development. Not only does the Mate XT 2 adopt the inward-folding form factor used on Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold, it's also the first foldable to include a privacy-enhancing display, much like the one Samsung […]
I’ve tested every single Kindle. Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up.
It’s one of the best times of the year to buy a mattress, and our top tested picks are on sale.
The science curriculum the industry is offering to schools casts plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda.
The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries. This is similar to lawsuits filed by […]
Schiller reportedly had reservations about new CEO John Ternus' goal of bringing in more recurring revenue from the App Store.
A plane bearing an Amazon logo overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday during landing, crashing into vehicles and resulting in multiple injuries. The extent of the damage or the seriousness of the injuries was not clear at the time of publication. In the aftermath of the incident, the FAA released a statement […]
Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
The wrong bag can aggravate you every single day. These WIRED-tested picks get comfort, capacity, and organization just right.
Take full control of your desktop alerts by sending yourself recurring reminders and custom notifications triggered by specific events.
The team embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver medication via remote control.
I was initially enamored with the beta version of Apple’s revamped smartphone assistant. As the full release approaches, I’ve forgotten Siri AI even exists.
Don’t let busted pipes or an overflowing washing machine dampen your day. These smart water sensors can help you catch problems quicker.
The shift in the fish’s diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their allies—the only problem is a lack of evidence.
The best gaming chair is actually an office chair. Here are our top picks from our real-life testing so far.
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."
OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off.
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, a growing number of rivals are now racing to dethrone it by trying all sorts of approaches to get an edge over it.
I’ve rounded up the best smart speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the popular Echo Dot to the newest Echo Studio.
Apple is expected to announce several products at its September event next week—including a folding phone—but the iPhone 18 might not be among them. It would be a first for the company.
Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.
The research could do more than help unlock the mystery of caterpillar hearing. It could also help make microphones better.
The main action took place at Geneva Watch Days, but others dialed in remotely to make sure it wasn't just a Swiss party.
The studio released an official catch-up list ahead of December’s release. We have easy links to watch every one of the movies so you can get up to speed.
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
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FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
In what appears to be a follow-up to the mighty “CasiOak,” the rugged Japanese watch brand is expected to release an all-new luxury homage.
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.
The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.
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Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name.
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The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab, which lacks a steering wheel and pedals, meets vehicle safety standards.
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.
Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week.
The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.
Feeling the pull of a new clean machine? I'll help you make sense of Dyson’s whirlwind vacuum lineup.
With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.
Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild.
With the risk of infection rising, parents and their children are trying to navigate how safe it is to be out in public as school starts back up.
Macs are fantastic computers, but you’ll need one of these great displays to complete your work-from-home setup.
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.
The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t fully understand.
A San Francisco “Hot List” is trying to buck stereotypes about dating in tech circles amid wider debates about the value of being perceived as attractive.
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Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware. New compact NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows PCs are also coming in October to give AI enthusiasts, developers and creators […]
September is here with 28 more games streaming on GeForce NOW this month, led by a slam dunk: NBA 2K27 with the NVIDIA DLSS 5 3D-Guided Neural Rendering feature. Through NVIDIA’s close collaboration with Visual Concepts and 2K, DLSS 5 brings a new level of lifelike lighting and material detail to the court — tuned […]
I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. Over the past decade, Clem, Julien, Thomas and the team at Hugging Face have built something remarkable: a vibrant home for […]
“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joined CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz to announce CrowdStrike SafeMind, its agentic cybersecurity system developed by the CrowdStrike Cyber […]
NVIDIA’s Gamescom announcements are revealing what’s next for GeForce NOW, with new ways to play, more supported devices and platforms, and even more big PC games headed to the cloud. New NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 technology controls give members more ways to fine-tune gameplay, while expanded support for new Steam devices, GOG single sign-on, Firefox browser […]
NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC Ian Buck hand-delivers Vera CPU systems across the AI ecosystem as Vera begins shipping at scale.
The next wave of AI is placing new demands on infrastructure. As AI agents and trillion-parameter workloads become mainstream, the performance of AI infrastructure depends not only on compute, but on how compute, memory, storage, networking and software are designed together as a unified system. To help hyperscalers and AI innovators build the next generation […]
NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality. Electronic Arts, Embark and Ubisoft are among the latest game publishers and developers bringing their blockbuster titles to NVIDIA RTX Spark ahead of its launch […]
To generate intelligence at scale, AI factories run continuously, and their economics are defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost per token, utilization and uptime. That requires AI infrastructure designed and built as a full factory, not a collection of individual accelerators. Hyperscalers and AI-native companies building custom XPUs must consider […]
The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how every layer of the AI factory works together. That’s why NVIDIA is extending Vera Rubin NVL72 with fast token generation for agentic systems. Announced today, the NVIDIA Vera Rubin rack-scale system NVIDIA Groq […]
According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a company for an investment decision. The agent queries financial databases, searches news and filings, invokes a sub-agent to run peer comparisons and model valuations, then synthesizes everything into a […]
It’s a new way into the cloud. GeForce NOW welcomes Firefox support to the cloud, opening up another way to jump into high-performance PC gaming straight from the browser, starting today. Whether on a school laptop or everyday PC, it’s now even easier to play supported PC games without downloading a dedicated app. Plus, discover […]
AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era — where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, industry and country. In the AI economy, compute is revenue. AI factories require a full stack of critical resources: advanced chips, packaging, memory and networking — as well as land, power and […]
Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in Yogyakarta — the country’s first university-based AI technology center. Established under Indonesia’s AI Center of […]
GeForce NOW is giving cloud gaming an extra-credit upgrade just in time for back-to-school season. The native Linux app for GeForce NOW is officially out of beta. GeForce NOW is also delivering new cloud optimizations that make Frame Generation feel even more responsive while streaming. On top of that, Performance members will see higher frame […]
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s Best CEOs list for 2026. In the just-released ranking, recognition is earned directly from the people who know their leadership the best — employees. Huang topped the list, with 99% of employees approving of the job he does. “As AI and shifting expectations […]
We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital to support the buildout of AI infrastructure over time. This is a major milestone for NVIDIA and the AI industry. We have moved from an era in which companies […]
Every new generation of accelerated computing demands more from the infrastructure underneath it — more compute performance, higher rack density and more efficient, scalable power distribution. The bottleneck isn’t just wattage. It’s how power gets from the grid to the GPU. In traditional power delivery, electricity travels from the grid as an alternating current (AC) […]