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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,”...
5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better
We spend dozens of hours at our desks each week (if not more), so it’s worth creating a workspace that’s productive and enjoyable. The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day. From ambient lighting...
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public
Bending Spoons, the Milan-based tech conglomerate that made headlines for acquiring the likes of AOL and Vimeo, went public on the Nasdaq this week with a pop, briefly reaching a market capitalization over $25 billion. While Bending Spoons stock has slightly slumped...
Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns in 2026. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are...
New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline “Group project, but make it 1776,” the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas...
How America’s 250th birthday became a test of AI-powered collective intelligence
Imagine if you could bring 250 people together in a massive room and have them discuss and debate an important issue, arguing the points and counterpoints, and converging on answers that accurately reflect their collective knowledge, wisdom, values, and...
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, AI startup Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves. Disney and Universal sued Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement last year, noting that the...
Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports. Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models. The...
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Following the Trump directive that led Anthropic to pull its latest AI models offline and growing calls for sovereign tech that reduces reliance on the U.S., Mistral AI has been caught in a whirlwind of attention. But the French AI darling is often misunderstood, and...
Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook
Meta announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new AI creator assistant on Facebook that will give creators personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, community, and goals. Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to...
What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri’s highly anticipated revamp and Apple Intelligence updates
As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, approaches, the excitement is building around what Apple has in store for us this year. From Siri’s overhaul to new Apple Intelligence updates, there’s a lot to look forward to. The annual Worldwide Developers...
A burglar used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes in San Francisco — and got away with it
A burglar used a Waymo while stealing yoga clothes in San Francisco this past January, and police have still not caught them. That may sound counterintuitive given the widespread concern that Waymo vehicles and other robotaxis are rolling surveillance machines. But...
Cash App launches a wand for tap-and-pay
Digital wallet app Cash App is launching a new gadget on Thursday, seemingly inspired by the social media trend that involves paying for items in the real world with a tap of a homemade magic wand, which hides a tap-and-pay credit card. Now, there’s a real wand you...
Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage
Waymo has announced a deal with an energy storage company called B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas. The deal helps answer the question of how Waymo is thinking about the end-of-life treatment of the thousands of...
Oura Ring 5 review: Thinner, lighter, better
When I first opened the box the Oura Ring 5 comes in, my first thought was, “Wow, that’s tiny.” My second thought was that this is a smart ring a lot of people have been waiting for. As someone who got quite used to wearing the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic, I was surprised...
Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise
Benchmark Capital, the storied Silicon Valley VC firm known for early investments in eBay, Snap, Uber, and Twitter, is breaking with one of its signature traditions: keeping its funds to about $425 million and backing only young startups. After more than two decades...
Quick commerce FirstClub doubles valuation to $255M in nine months
In a quick-commerce market obsessed with speed, Indian startup FirstClub has convinced investors that quality may be a fresh opportunity, helping to double its valuation just nine months after its last funding round. The Bengaluru-based startup has raised $55 million...
Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says
Lovable and Google announced an expanded multiyear collaboration on Wednesday. Lovable, the fast-growing Stockholm vibe-coding startup, has long been a Google Cloud user. Under the new agreement, it will be a much bigger one. While the companies did not disclose the...
Defense tech is flooded with money, but who’s built to last?
Loading the player… Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budget. A wave of new startups is chasing those government...
Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year
Uber revealed on Wednesday a prototype car that it plans to use to scoop up real-world driving data for its growing roster of autonomous vehicle partners, including Avride, Waymo, and WeRide. The vehicle is not some radical design. Rather, it’s a Hyundai Ioniq 5...
Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal
If Alphabet’s record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings — and it does — we can safely say that investors are voracious. Google’s parent company had initially intended to sell a first tranche of $40 billion worth of...
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Wix Answers – new customer support solution!
Remember the times where you had to pay someone to create a website for you? Of course, you would spend a lot of money just to make it pretty, functional and comprehensible. However, if you are a little bit into this matter, you've probably heard about Wix. This...
3 Tips for Getting Better Cell Phone Reception
Cell phone technology keeps advancing, but reception doesn’t always keep pace. Across the nation, a performance rate of 97 percent reliability in getting and staying connected is considered excellent for wireless carriers, according to RootMetrics. This is great 97...
How the DeLorean became the iconic film car
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Everything coming and going on Netflix for November 2015
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogleplusemailcommentsmoreredditpinteresttumblrJessica Jones' reaction when she saw all the titles leaving in November. Netflix November looks to be an interesting month at Netflix. So many titles are headed for the wood chipper including...