The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.
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Microsoft is testing a cleaner version of the Windows 11 search menu that strips it of recommended content and ads. In a blog post on Monday, Microsoft announced that it's rolling out the decluttered Search Box to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel as the company looks to regain trust with users and fix Windows. […]
OnePlus and its parent company, Oppo, plan to announce in the coming days that OnePlus brand will be leaving the US and European markets, according to a machine translation of a WinFuture report. Should the exit actually happen, it will mark a conclusion to months of rumors about the future of OnePlus. Android Headlines said […]
Apple’s revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it’s now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta.
Bit by bit, Windows 11 is healing.
Smartphones these days have incredible cameras that are capable of taking smooth, sharp video, but the microphones are often lacking, to say the least. A wireless lavalier microphone can dramatically improve the audio quality of your videos, whether you’re the only one talking, or if you’re getting audio from multiple people. The DJI Mic 3 […]
With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.
Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.
Noise-canceling earbuds are great for flights and focusing, but they're not always ideal for outdoor workouts. The last-gen Shokz OpenRun Pro's open-ear design lets you enjoy music while staying aware of approaching cars, cyclists, and other potential hazards, and right now they're on sale for $109 ($50 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and B&H Photo. That […]
This year's Google Pixel 11 lineup might come in a bunch of funky colors. A series of now-deleted Amazon listings spotted by 9to5Google show what appear to be placeholders for Google's upcoming Pixel 11 in hot pink Fuchsia (Hibiscus), vibrant green Moss (Pistachio), and Midnight (Obsidian) black. We've seen two sets of names for the […]
Apple has just released public betas for iOS 27 and other major OS updates that are set to publicly launch this fall. The big new feature this year is Siri AI, the delayed AI-powered revamp to Siri. It actually works - which is big praise! - though it keeps things brief. Other betas available now […]
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Siri has been on the Apple Watch since day one, though I'm usually hard-pressed to find people who actually make good use of it. It's kind of just… been there - mostly as a way to set timers when my hands are full. But after playing around with the watchOS 27 developer beta, I get […]
iOS 27 escaped the developer world today with the launch of the first public beta. I've been testing the new operating system since early June, looking for quirks and seeing if it can live up to the hype Apple promised in the keynote. This year's iOS upgrades are what one might call a Snow Leopard […]
The macOS 27 Golden Gate public beta is here, and anyone with an M-series Mac now has easier access to test-drive Apple's latest changes - including a more subdued Liquid Glass aesthetic. That's reason enough to be at least a little excited for macOS 27 (particularly if you're on Tahoe and disliking all the transparency). […]
Ukraine’s drone blitz halted Russia’s Sea of Azov shipping in under a week.
The Los Angeles police department did not renew its contract with Flock due to data privacy concerns.
Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.
The video assistant referee system, or VAR, has led to some controversial calls at the 2026 World Cup. Here’s why.
Angelo Martino helped scam ransomware victims out of over $75 million, officials said.
There's a separate $1,750 rebate for used EVs, but both rebates have a price cap.
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.
New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation.
A dozen state attorneys general are trying to block the $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery they warn would raise movie prices and crush cable TV distributors. The states - California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington - filed suit on Monday, arguing […]
AG: Deal will bring "higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and TV."
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Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.
Chipset makers and router manufacturers are talking about Wi-Fi 8, but what is the new standard, and when will it arrive?
Bingers is expected to launch by the end of July as a replacement for TV Time.
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Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
The biggest smartphone makers keep on trucking in the face of component shortages and economic uncertainty.
A dozen state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit to stop the Paramount / Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
A Tesla representative at a DC hearing said the vehicle is “an active product being built.” But its timeline isn’t clear.
General Fusion started trading on the Nasdaq following a reverse merger that saw high redemptions.
The states allege that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences.
The amendment would restrict building codes that promote electrification.
Clever coding and graphical compromises get a classic game on more classic hardware.
What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
Games Done Quick said it would not accept funds from or work with SNK in the future.
"It's very clear that in the United States there is a big need for an additional crew vehicle."
Despite a complete lack of evidence, everyone from Russia to Israel and Iran is being blamed for Lindsey Graham’s death.
The creator of TV Time is building a successor app that will let users import their watch histories and preserve the community that formed around discussing their favorite shows.
Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.
Android and iOS both have built-in tools to easily open QR codes from screenshots.
"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's "fly, fail, fix" approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.
Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
If you like going on a long road trip, you might want to steer clear of these vehicles.
Washington, D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.
Oppo's Watch X3 is a Wear OS watch that'll outlast all of its rivals.
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Swimming against the iGarden Swim Jet X Pro 10’s artificial current is a real workout, even if it doesn’t quite replace a full-size lap pool.
Following a worrying new report, Europe is taking steps toward barring children from using social media.
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By some benchmarks, Julia code can run 10X to 1,000X faster than Python—but there’s a reason it’s not a very popular programming language.
Described as the “feel-good movie of white-boy summer” by one extremist, the movie Citizen Vigilante has been hailed by the far right as a way to convert moderates to their cause.
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
Responsibly dispose of your food scraps with one of these indoor, (mostly) odor-free, WIRED-tested devices.
Like Google Maps, Waze is going all-in on Gemini.
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In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars. The company says it’s fighting monopolies.
Microsoft also has to pay roughly $400 in damages to the user.
Vintage games can be hard to find, but Nintendo GameCube titles are exceptionally elusive.
Thanks to upcoming EU regulations, the next Apple Pencil could feature replaceable batteries.
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The Chinese company is allowed to sell its impressive phones in the States, but it doesn't. Here's why.
New climate evidence adds context to these long voyages.
Send the pool guy packing. Let one of these robotic buddies maintain your water quality instead.
Apple has announced several new Child Safety features coming soon to iPhones and other devices. Here’s what’s changing.
We found lots of math-filled and science-rich toys for tiny nerds to assemble, bake, squish—or even tear apart and rebuild.
Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.
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When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in roughly the same window, creating all kinds of new opportunities; and AI has gone from a curiosity to, in Jobs' words, a huge part of what Yosemite does. "I didn't expect Yosemite to be moving this fast," he said.
Ninja's latest slushie machine builds on the popularity of the original Slushi, but with a big upgrade.
The glasses are targeted at people who might be constantly in meetings, giving presentations, and traveling to countries where different languages are spoken.
ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage.
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations.
The AquaSense X brings self-cleaning technology to pool robots for the first time, but is it worth nearly twice the price of Beatbot’s flagship cleaner?
The Skylight has become the informational and organizational hub of my household. My touchscreen-native kids have also gained more agency over our family activities.
There’s a new fleet of TVs using new mini and micro RBG display tech, and Samsung’s R95H model isn’t as impressive as it should be.
Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.
More dog owners have begun cooking for their canine companions in recent years. When my own dog fell ill, I became part of this growing group.
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The probe sent back the first pictures of the asteroid Kamo’oalewa. Next step: landing on the surface and collecting samples to send back to Earth.
As the climate phenomenon sends warm water surging across the eastern Pacific, some parts of the fishing industry are suffering—but other regions are seeing a windfall.
Summer 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Jay-Z’s debut Reasonable Doubt. To honor it, he put on a massive concert at Yankee Stadium—complete with performances from Beyoncé, Nas, and Alicia Keys.
Johannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded.
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.
Data centers are driving up the company’s use of electricity—and carbon pollution.
Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.
More police and firefighters use drones to catch and deter illegal fireworks.
"Clearly, they admire the work that's being done by SpaceX and are trying to replicate it."
The iPhone maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.
Solid-state batteries are safer and more capable—but harder to mass-produce. They also represent an opportunity for non-Chinese companies to get back in the game.
A recent study tracked hundreds of soccer fans until their favorite team reached the final of a tournament. Their stress levels skyrocketed, and their heart rates jumped too.
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Billed as the “world’s first museum of AI arts,” Dataland uses wearables and troves of material from the Amazon to merge nature, biometrics, and art.
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Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN’s AI for Good summit wrestled with an urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the technology races beyond its control?
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This GFN Thursday brings more games, more power and more ways to play on GeForce NOW. The cloud gaming service is expanding with a new GeForce RTX 5080-powered server in Toronto, bringing dedicated high performance in the cloud closer to members across the region. NTE: Neverness to Everness also gets an update in the cloud, […]
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration platform. LangChain tuned its Deep Agents harness for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, achieving the highest accuracy among open models, while completing more tasks at higher throughput and running at 10x […]
Max single-threaded CPUs at scale are a new category of CPUs built for the agentic AI era. Across the creation and deployment of an agentic system, the CPU is on the critical path for reasoning, response time and learning. CPUs are the processor which executes the work the AI model commands: the tool calling, code […]
Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data and tools are shared. Robotics has the same opportunity, but advancements in physical AI development can still be gated by costly and fragmented resources, from large datasets and robot foundation models to simulation, compute and validation tools. NVIDIA and Hugging Face are […]
Every year, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) reveals where thousands of AI researchers have decided to put their work. This year’s accepted papers reveal a clear direction: open frontier models and open AI infrastructure have become foundational to how modern AI science gets done. NVIDIA had 74 papers accepted at ICML 2026. Approximately […]
Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in areas such as transportation, communications, commerce, entertainment and healthcare. AI, the most important technology of our time, is turbocharging innovation across every facet of society. Countries are investing in AI capabilities so […]
Summer is heating up — and GeForce NOW is taking players along for the ride. Start the month with Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains, bringing a galaxy far, far away to the iconic board-game franchise, alongside 12 new games joining the cloud this month. Plus, don’t let the sun set on the biggest GeForce […]
As AI moves from model development to production inference, compute demand is accelerating and shifting toward continuously operating AI factories that generate tokens at scale. This shift requires access to large‑scale, multi‑tenant accelerated computing that can come online quickly, stay highly utilized and support the economics of token‑scale AI services. Emerging AI companies historically have […]
NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the infrastructure needed for better healthcare, breakthrough scientific discovery, stronger industrial productivity and global technology leadership.
Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, microservices and domain-specific tools — to help researchers run more sophisticated workflows and iterate faster. This week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, an AI workbench for science […]
As organizations move from AI pilots to production AI factories, infrastructure decisions have shifted from peak chip specifications to cost per token: how many useful tokens they can deliver per dollar, per watt and within required latency targets. Codesigned with NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, networking and systems, and strengthened by a broad open source ecosystem, NVIDIA’s […]
When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets developers see through a robot’s cameras and the engineering required before a robot can leave a demo floor to do something useful. As a robotics software engineer who leads the team behind […]
Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse. Vision AI agents are becoming a practical way to automatically turn video data from the physical world into operational intelligence in factories, […]
Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs — are now generally available, giving Azure-native enterprises a powerful new way to build autonomous and domain-specific AI agents. As agentic AI continues to drive enterprise innovation and becomes more autonomous, organizations need access to computing […]
Showcasing the importance of open source innovation in American AI, Palantir’s new intelligent engine — introduced today — uses NVIDIA Nemotron open models to serve the needs of U.S. government agencies. Open source software has long been a pillar of U.S. technology leadership. In 1969, DARPA connected four university computers — from UCLA, Stanford, UCSB […]
Summer savings are heating up. From the Steam Summer Sale to GeForce NOW membership discounts, this week’s GFN Thursday delivers double the deals and more ways to get the most value from cloud gaming. Plus, Dark Scrolls joins the growing Devolver lineup, alongside Square Enix’s The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. They lead the […]
Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow without multiplying operational complexity. NVIDIA’s latest work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) addresses each of those constraints. Across Amazon OpenSearch and Amazon EC2, NVIDIA AI infrastructure is giving enterprises more practical paths to deploy […]
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference , Google announced a sweeping redesign of the search box itself — the literal text field where billions of queries begin every day — transforming it from a simple keyword input into a dynamic, AI-driven con
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint , and Unusual Ventures . The investment values Railway as one of the most significant infrast
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose , an open-source AI agent develope
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers. The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they led to a coding challenge: build an algorithm to act as a digital bouncer at Berghain, the Ber
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emergin
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but w
Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors . The model, called NousCoder-14B , is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code , the agentic programming t