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The Story of Ross Perot, IT Outsourcing Godfather
Ross Perot, a famous American politician and businessman, died Tuesday, July 9. He was 89 and lost a short fight to leukemia. The world will remember him for one of the most successful independent election campaigns, memorable phrases, and maverick management style....
Can Smart Tech Reduce Car Accident Injury Rates?
Are Smarter Cars Also Safer Cars? Car accidents are a major issue on American roads today, and they cost the US hundreds of billions each year in largely preventable expenses. Is it possible, though, that we’re driving towards a future with fewer accidents, because of...
The Best Gaming Laptop Of 2018
Now, most of the advanced laptops come with high-end processor performance and graphics. If you are a gaming lover, you need to know that the many branded laptops are also available for gaming. Choosing the right gaming laptop is not a simple task, because there are...
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...
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Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse
AltStore PAL, an alternative app store for iOS, made possible by new regulations in markets like the EU and Japan, is integrating with the open social web. The company on Wednesday announced support for the fediverse, the open social web that runs on ActivityPub,...
Drivers in fatal Ford BlueCruise crashes were likely distracted before impact
Two drivers involved in fatal crashes in 2024 while using Ford’s BlueCruise hands-free driving system were likely distracted in the moments before impact, according to new information released Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The safety...
Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B
Vibe-coding sensation Replit has hit another funding milestone. The company announced Wednesday that it raised a $400 million Series D at a $9 billion valuation, led by previous investor Georgian Partners. Other participating investors include G Squared, Prysm...
Anthropic gives Claude shared context across Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, enabling reusable workflows in multiple applications
Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and potentially challenging Microsoft’s newly launched Copilot Cowork — which Claude also partially...
Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says
An unidentified foreign hacker broke into the FBI’s field office in New York in 2023 and compromised files related to the bureau’s investigation into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to Reuters. The newswire cited a source familiar with the breach, as well...
WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
WordPress’s publishing software can now run entirely in the web browser, the organization behind the open source publishing software announced on Wednesday. Through a new service called my.WordPress.net, the WordPress software lets users set up a site and begin...
Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M for industrial AI-powered robots
Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics lab spun out of the electric vehicle maker Rivian, has raised $500 million in a Series A funding round co-led by venture firms Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. The financing, announced Wednesday, follows a $115 million seed round...
Google’s Gemini Embedding 2 arrives with native multimodal support to cut costs and speed up your enterprise data stack
Yesterday amid a flurry of enterprise AI product updates, Google announced arguably its most significant one for enterprise customers: the public preview availability of Gemini Embedding 2, its new embeddings model — a significant evolution in how machines represent...
Manufact raises $6.3M as MCP becomes the ‘USB-C for AI’ powering ChatGPT and Claude apps
For decades, software companies designed their products for a single type of customer: a human being staring at a screen. Every button, menu, and dashboard existed to translate a person’s intention into a machine’s action. But a small startup based in San Francisco...
EV startup Harbinger reveals a smaller work truck with electric and hybrid variants
Los Angeles-based EV startup Harbinger has revealed its second vehicle: a smaller, medium-duty work truck. Called the HC Series Cab, the new truck will be available as an all-electric vehicle, or as a hybrid (the latter has up to 500 miles of range). The company says...
Meta didn’t buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
When news broke Tuesday morning that Meta bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it may have left some people scratching their heads. What on earth would Meta — an ad-supported company — want with a social network where the users are bots? Bots, after all,...
WhatsApp is launching parent-linked accounts for pre-teens
WhatsApp launched a new set of parent-supervised accounts for users under the age of 13 on Wednesday. The company said that these accounts will only have access to messaging and calling, and won’t be targeted with any ads. While the company rates its apps 13+ on both...