The Capytistas, a secretive group claiming more than $1.2 million in backing, started with Elon Musk and Tesla’s board. Members argue that those who buy political power deserve the scrutiny they’ll impose.
A new leak strengthens a previous rumor that the Galaxy S27 Pro and Galaxy S27 Ultra will get an improved version of Samsung’s Privacy Display, used on this year’s flagship.
The Garmin Vivoactive 5 is down to its lowest price of all time in all four colors for a limited time, making this the least expensive Garmin you can buy today.
While we await potentially more discounts on our tech in the coming weeks, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is now down to $1,599 on Amazon, knocking a sizeable chunk off the MSRP.
Google’s new frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, brings some welcome improvements and while it doesn’t top the charts in a new benchmark, it does provide much more bang for your buck.
The maintainer of BTCPay Server, an open-source cryptocurrency payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version as hackers have been draining "hot wallets" on instances running older versions.
The space industry launched more rockets into orbit last year than ever before, yet satellite operators are confronting an unexpected problem: There still aren’t enough rides to go around. And
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors. A single task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens than a basic chat…
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. The agentic web is here In 2001, a decade after inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee…
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year's…
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he called the “Semantic…
At the Android Dev Summit 2026 earlier this week, Google said that Googlebook detachables will be the next form factor after clamshells and convertibles.
Pope Leo XIV said in an Oct. 30 speech at the Vatican that the future of AI isn't predetermined, that machines are tools rather than persons and that states should move to ban lethal autonomous weapons. Oren Etzioni agrees with four of his…
A recent scroll through social media got me thinking about trust. About half my feed was filled with AI slop that astute users would call out as being machine-generated, often to the embarrassment of the rube who unknowingly spread it and…
As we near the launch of Motorola’s return to the flagship space, it’s becoming clear that the company is ready to fill a gap left by the departure of OnePlus, though there’s one very obvious difference between the two. 9to5Google…
Microsoft offers buyouts to about 60,000 employees, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy predicts two trillion-dollar businesses, and we let Amazon's Bee AI wearable listen to the show and critique our conversation.
At the turn of the last century, the automobile industry was still new and evolving rapidly. In 1898, there were about 50 carmakers in the United States. A decade later, that number had increased fivefold. In 1901, the companies produced…