Nike designed new gear to keep athletes cool in a warming world
Nike is showing off new performance apparel today that it says it designed with climate change in mind. It introduced its new Aero-FIT performance cooling technology today, which it says will make its debut in football kits Nike federations wear in 2026. The…
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The Long Tail of the AWS Outage
Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning.
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Louvre heist inspires ad campaign for 'whisper' quiet lift
Böcker is touting its "quiet as a whisper" technology for "when you need to move fast".
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An eye implant and smart glasses restore some lost vision
Several dozen patients regained some of their vision thanks to an implant inside their eye paired with a set of smart glasses. The study was published Monday in The New England Journal of Medicine, and researchers report that patients could see well enough us…
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Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
It’s been nearly 30 years since Microsoft’s Office assistant, Clippy, first graced our screens as an annoying paperclip. After the Groucho-browed interruptions of Clippy came to an end in 2001 with Office XP, Microsoft tried to revive the spirit of an assista…
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OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door
Will OpenAI send police to your door if you advocate for AI regulation? Nathan Calvin, a lawyer who shapes policies surrounding the technology at Encode AI, claims OpenAI did just that. “One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s de…
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Verizon buys the not-quite-5G wireless ISP Starry to expand wireless broadband
Verizon is acquiring Starry, the ISP that delivers home internet using antennas and millimeter wave technology. The acquisition “advances” Verizon’s ability to offer high-speed internet in apartments, condominiums, and other multi-dwelling units, the company …
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Ferrari exposes the guts of its upcoming 1000hp EV
Meet the Ferrari Elettrica. Well, meet some of it. The Italian supercar maker lifted the hood on the technology that will power its hotly anticipated first electric vehicle, the Elettrica. At an event at its Maranello headquarters, Ferrari showed reporters th…
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‘Sovereign AI’ Has Become a New Front in the US-China Tech War
OpenAI has announced “AI sovereignty" partnerships with governments around the world, but can proprietary models compete with Beijing’s open source offerings?
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Aura Ink Review (2025): Newspaper-Style Realism
Aura's new digital photo frame changes the game with a fully wireless device and E Ink screen.
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The Worst Thing About AI Is That People Can’t Shut Up About It
A plea from WIRED’s top boss: Say less.
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AI Is Not God
In recent times, there have been two techno-religious awakenings. Here comes the third?
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New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI
A bill attempting to regulate the ever-growing industry of companion AI chatbots is now law in California, as of October 13th. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 243, billed as “first-in-the-nation AI chatbot safeguards” by state senator…
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Jabra Enhance Select 700 Review: Still Great Hearing Aids
A couple of minor upgrades are the backbone for this new hearing aid from Jabra, which replaces its Enhance Select 500.
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Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Review: Halfway to the Future
Meta's next-level smart glasses include some incredible new technology, but there are still lots of missing pieces.
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I'm a UCLA student. Here's how I get the most out of OpenAI's new Atlas browser.
Neuroscience & Entrepreneurship student Monica Adams shares three things she uses this new technology for.
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3 CEOs on the frontlines of driverless tech challenged my assumptions on autonomy
Three CEOs working on autonomy dispel some of the common misconceptions around driverless technology.
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Exclusive: The road to AI — How it will transform our relationship with technology
In this exclusive collaboration, Android Central and IDC discuss the future of AI and its role in our lives.
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Experts predict AI may disrupt the App ecosystem, and this might be a good thing
As generative AI redefines mobile technology, experts predict a seismic shift where apps become mere extensions of AI's intellect, paving the way for seamless user experience.
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The Fascinating Waveguide Technology Inside Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses
Recently the avid teardown folk over at iFixit got their paws on Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses, for a literal in-depth look at these smart glasses. Along the way they came across the fascina…
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Meta told some employees their jobs are being replaced by tech — read the memo
An internal memo explaining the cuts said "many routine decisions can now be handled efficiently by technology."
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Amazon's TV and movie arm was hit during the company's broad layoffs. Here's what we know.
Amazon MGM Studios was impacted by the broader layoffs announced Tuesday as the company leans into AI technology.
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China is making big aircraft carrier moves. Here's how its flattops stack up against the US Navy.
China released footage of carrier Fujian's electromagnetic catapults last month, showing off a technology only the US had previously.
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The quants who built computer-run trading strategies aren't ready to hand it over to AI
The technology is only as good as the end user, many quant investors said this week at a London conference.
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This startup raised $26 million to protect data in subsea cables from hackers. Read the pitch deck.
CyberRidge's technology manipulates light to conceal data from potential adversaries as it travels through fiber-optic cables.
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First Partner to the Stars: Muon Space Adopts Starlink Lasers for Millisecond Data Transfer
By integrating Starlink's mini laser technology, Muon Space will eliminate ground station bottlenecks to build a high-speed, real-time network in orbit.
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OpenAI Finalizes Corporate Restructuring, Gives Microsoft 27% Stake and Technology Access Until 2032
Microsoft and OpenAI have finalized a new agreement that removes uncertainty for investors and clears the path for OpenAI to restructure as a for-profit business. Microsoft receives a 27% ownership stake in OpenAI worth approximately $135 billion and retains …
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Anthropic CPO says 'AI FOMO' pushed companies to use the technology. Now, they want success metrics
Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger said that companies need "some kind of success metrics or evaluation" for their AI tools.
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I tried a Tesla FSD dupe. It's challenging how I think about the technology.
Wayve is developing an advanced driver assistance system that is akin to Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised).
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Nvidia Bets the Future on a Robot Workforce
From surgical robots to humanoid robot fleets for household chores, here's what Nvidia announced about its robots at GTC.
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AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
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Mark Cuban Would Still Have Dinner With Donald Trump
The billionaire investor campaigned for Kamala Harris, but thinks tech execs have a “moral imperative” to play nice with the president. Why? It’s good business.
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NHS to offer same-day prostate cancer diagnosis
The new trial, which uses AI, has been described as a "game changer" for treating the disease.
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Business Insider's 2025 Rising Stars of Wall Street
From financing the future of technology to advising on the IPO comeback, here's why these young finance leaders are the ones to watch in 2025.
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Atlassian's CEO explains why the company is planning for more engineers, not fewer
Atlassian's CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes says the company plans to have more engineers in five years time than it does today as technology demand grows.
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Palantir CTO says AI doomerism is driven by a lack of religion
"I think the secularists in Silicon Valley are filling the God-shaped hole in their heart," said Shyam Sankar, Palantir's chief technology officer.
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'Code quality' doesn't matter because it won't make you successful, Block's CTO says
Block's chief technology officer, Dhanji Prasanna, says clean, elegant code is overrated — what matters is building products that solve real problems.
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My 83-year-old mom had dementia, and I lived 1,200 miles away. My oldest son visited her regularly, and I called her every day.
Heather Boynton felt guilty that she lived an 18-hour drive from her mom with dementia. But technology helped them both deal with the divide.
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Serve Robotics' CEO explains why delivery could be a bigger opportunity than robotaxis
Serve Robotics CEO Ali Kashani said that he wants as many delivery services and restaurants as possible to use Serve's technology.
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Amazon wants to buy ‘thousands’ of Rivian’s pedal-assist cargo bikes
Amazon and Rivian are back together again. The e-commerce giant is collaborating with Rivian’s Also spinoff on a custom-designed, pedal-assisted, four-wheel cargo bike. The bike would likely be based on the TM-Q quad vehicle that was unveiled by Also today in…
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Amazon CEO Now Says AI Is Not Responsible for Recent Layoffs
CEO Andy Jassy told investors on Thursday that the cuts were based on ‘culture.’
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How China is challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance
Beijing has urged local firms to use homemade chips. But is China ready to turn away from Nvidia?
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Why US Power Bills Are Surging
Americans are paying more for electricity—and rates will keep rising. But after a period of pain, rates should level off as the benefits of a shift away from fossil fuels begin to be felt.
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GM Unveils Electric SUV With ‘Eyes-Off’ Driving
As EV demand drop begins, GM is betting on AI to spur sales
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NPR's Student Podcast Challenge: Here are our fourth grade winners!
We heard fun and engaging podcasts on topics including how math teaching has evolved, what its like to disengage from technology, and, who has it better: kids or grownups?
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Jeffrey Epstein wanted his body to be frozen until technology could bring him back to life, accuser says in memoir
Jeffrey Epstein shared "scientific" justifications for pedophilia, accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote in her posthumous memoir.
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Fictional gadget reviews: exploring the latest in fantasy and sci-fi tech
Modern gadgets are all well and good, but sometimes things get more exciting when you enter the realm of fantasy. And the worlds of gaming, TV, and film often feature extremely cool gadgets that we just wish were real, whether it’s an impossible VR headset or…
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RGB LED Is Getting Its Time in the Spotlight. Will TV Shoppers Tune In?
Samsung, Hisense, TCL and Sony presented RGB LED TVs at IFA in Berlin last month. The technology replaces each standard LED backlight with a trio of red, green and blue LEDs to expand the range of colors a screen can display. Each manufacturer is using differ…
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Toward obvious
Most people do the obvious thing, that’s why we call it obvious. A new product, idea or technology is rarely obvious, at least at first. So the work of scale is to be seen as inevitable. The stepwise process of becoming the obvious choice. Skipping steps requ…
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Dyson Dumps Supersonic Hair Dryer Stock, Now Selling for Pennies Against What Salons Charge
The Dyson Supersonic delivers salon-quality results at home with intelligent heat control technology.
The post Dyson Dumps Supersonic Hair Dryer Stock, Now Selling for Pennies Against What Salons Charge appeared first on Kotaku.
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NASA’s Boss Just Shook Up the Agency’s Plans to Land on the Moon
Sean Duffy called out SpaceX for being “behind schedule” on a lunar lander and said he’d explore other options.
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Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ Pressure
Plus: China sentences scam bosses to death, Europe is ramping up its plans to build a “drone wall” to protect against Russian airspace violations, and more.
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This Startup Wants to Spark a US DeepSeek Moment
With the US falling behind on open source models, one startup has a bold idea for democratizing AI: let anyone run reinforcement learning.
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Hackers Dox ICE, DHS, DOJ, and FBI Officials
Plus: A secret FBI anti-ransomware task force gets exposed, the mystery of the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is finally solved, North Koreans busted hiding malware in the Ethereum blockchain, and more.
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New Bitcoin Protocol Makes Payments Easier
Bitcoin is getting some Ethereum-like features.
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Is Getting Theaters to Make Major Upgrades
Cinemark now joins Regal in adding and upgrading IMAX screens for the Matt Damon-Tom Holland summer 2026 film.
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Sensor Survives Reactor-Level Heat and Radiation, Paving the Way for Real-Time Monitoring
This tiny chip can withstand temperatures up to 1,500 degrees and could one day sit inside the core of a nuclear reactor, delivering critical real-time data.
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Physicists Built a Pixel So Small, Full HD Could Fit on a Bread Crumb
The pixels are small enough to pack a 1920 by 1080 resolution into a display the size of breadcrumbs.
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Former GOP Election Official Buys Election Machine Vendor That Trump Attacked After His 2020 Loss
Dominion Voting Systems is now Liberty Vote.
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Sam's Club makes major checkout change Costco rejected
Sam's Club wants to fix a major member pain point.It's doing so by embracing controversial technology.After a pilot, the new technology is now being rolled...
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WhatsApp can now use passkeys to secure your backups
WhatsApp is introducing a passwordless way to instantly secure your chat backups. The messaging platform is launching passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android, allowing users to quickly encrypt their stored message history using their face, fingerprint, …
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Why D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) Is Up 38.4% After Quantum Tech Cuts Police Response Times in Wales
North Wales Police announced the completion of a joint proof-of-technology project with D-Wave Quantum, using a hybrid-quantum application to optimize police...
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Rivian’s first e-bike is unlike anything you’ve ever seen
Rivian’s micromobility spinoff Also has just taken the wraps off its TM-B e-bike, TM-Q pedal-assisted electric quad bike, and Alpha Wave helmet that represents “a breakthrough in rider safety and connectivity.” The TM-B (aka Transcendent Mobility – Bike) wit…
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David Solomon says AI means Goldman needs 'more high-value people'
Goldman Sachs CEO said that AI will increase the bank's headcount and make productive people more productive.
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Experts discuss how to scale up the autonomous vehicle industry
Industry experts explore scaling the autonomous vehicle market, emphasizing safety and collaboration among automakers, tech innovators, and policymakers to drive growth and adoption.
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How Vibration-Based Speakers Work and Why Apple Might Use Them in the iPad Mini 8
The next-generation iPad mini 8 could feature an updated design that removes the speaker holes for improved water resistance, with Apple considering a new speaker system design. The new system would use vibration-based technology, according to Bloomberg, whic…
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Aliens Might Not Do Physics Like We Do—and That’s a Problem
Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens.
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Airbnb says it's using AI technology to crack down on Halloween parties
Airbnb says they are deploying AI anti-party technology across the U.S. and Canada to mitigate Halloween parties this weekend.
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Google Shows Off Prototype Android XR Glasses From Extended Magic Leap Deal
Google and Magic Leap have extended their partnership for another three years to develop Android XR glasses. They also showed off a new prototype concept that combines Google's Raxium microLED light engine with Magic Leap's AR optics, resulting in a lightweig…
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X-ray tables, high-tech glasses, NBA players: How a poker scheme allegedly stole millions
Prosecutors said the elaborate plot - which allegedly netted $7 million from victims - belonged in a Hollywood film.
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Fox News AI Newsletter: Dems demand 'robot tax'
The Fox News Artificial Intelligence Newsletter brings you the latest news on the emerging technology every Saturday, highlighting top stories.
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Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried?
The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans
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The Pitfalls of Sleepmaxxing
Technology might help you sleep better, or go haywire.
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ICE is building a social media panopticon
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the web. Federal records uncovered by The Lever reveal that IC…
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Apple's Custom Image Sensor Could Debut in 20th Anniversary iPhone
Apple could debut LOFIC camera sensor technology in its 2027 iPhone lineup, according to new information coming out of Korea. The tech would allow iPhones to capture photos with far more detail in both bright and dark areas of the same shot without losing inf…
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Tesla's Lead in Car Software Updates Remains Unchallenged
No automaker has matched Tesla's ability to deliver over-the-air software updates despite years of effort and billions in spending. Tesla introduced the technology in 2012 and issued 42 updates within six months, Jean-Marie Lapeyre, Capgemini's chief technolo…
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Apple and Samsung users could be due share of £480m payout
Consumer group Which? is taking tech giant Qualcomm to the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London on Monday.
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This Is the Nuclear-Powered Ship Deployed in Trump’s War on Drug Boats
The USS Gerald R. Ford is a $13 billion aircraft carrier sailing to the Caribbean with nuclear propulsion, an electromagnetic plane launcher, and 90 aircraft onboard.
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The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down
When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.
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How China really spies on the UK
The national security threats China poses today go beyond traditional notions of espionage - in this new world, threats are far more complex
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Michael Dell's advice to leaders: 'If you don't have a crisis, make one'
Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell said that good leaders act as if in a crisis — even if the going is good.
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There's No 'AI Bubble', Says Yahoo Finance Executive Editor
"I'm here to say we have to give these AI bubble predictions a rest," says Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi.
First of all, AI is a real technology being deployed in real ways inside of Corporate America. Second, this technology is requiring more ph…
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Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop?
Good thing it's only the entire economy propped up by this right now.
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AI chatbot dangers: Are there enough guardrails to protect children?
Last week, Character.AI, one of the leading platforms for AI technology, announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having conversations with its chatbots.
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Google’s extreme smart home makeover
Google has a long history of building something interesting, making a lot of big promises about its future, then seemingly forgetting it exists and killing it a few months or years later. Over the last few years, you'd be forgiven for thinking the smart home …
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Nike is trying to sell you ‘mind-body’ shoes
Nike’s new “neuroscience-based footwear” is designed to activate an athlete’s brain before and after a big game. The two shoes, a mule (the $95 Mind 001) and a lace-up sneaker (the $145 Mind 002), feature a distinctive array of 22 orange foam nodes embedded i…
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Musk wants to get rid of Tesla’s robotaxi babysitters ‘by the end of the year’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the company would be able to remove the safety monitors from its robotaxis "by the end of the year." He also said Tesla would launch a robotaxi service in 8-10 new markets also before the end of 2025. "We are expecting to have no…
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Mark Zuckerberg is excited to add more AI content to all your social feeds
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting ready to dump even more AI-generated posts into your social feeds. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said the company will “add yet another huge corpus of content” to its recommendations system as AI “makes i…
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Apple’s OLED transition could come with a more expensive iPad Mini
Apple is planning to incorporate OLED displays across more of its devices, including the MacBook Air, iPad Mini, and iPad Air, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company added an OLED display to the iPad Pro last year and the upgraded M5 …
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EA partners with Stability AI for ‘transformative’ AI game-making tools
EA is partnering with Stability AI, the company that develops the Stable Diffusion AI image model, to help infuse AI into its development processes. The two companies will “co-develop transformative AI models, tools, and workflows that empower our artists, de…
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LG’s brilliant B5 OLED TV is already down to just $530 for Black Friday
Best Buy’s early Black Friday deals are already live, with discounts to be had on everything from smartphones and gaming PCs to wireless headphones. If you’re in the market for a new 4K TV, Best Buy is also offering an exclusive doorbuster deal on LG’s 48-inc…
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Nike’s inflatable puffer jacket de-puffs to cool you down
Alongside a powered footwear system called Project Amplify and new performance apparel with improved airflow, Nike yesterday debuted a new jacket allowing athletes to regulate their body temperature without having to add or remove layers of clothing. Leveragi…
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Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app
After acquiring Serif last year, Canva is now relaunching its Adobe-rivalling Affinity creative suite as a new all-in-one app for photo editing, vector illustration, and page layouts. Unlike Affinity’s previous Designer, Photo, and Publisher software, which w…
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HIV self-test among projects from Georgia Institute of Technology
Dezeen School Shows: an HIV self-test designed for visually impaired people is among the projects from Georgia Institute of Technology. Also featured is a portable nightlight for children and an air pollution monitoring device. Georgia Institute of Technology…
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Yelp’s AI can now take reservations over the phone
Yelp’s AI-powered solutions promise to answer calls, take reservations, and manage bookings for “understaffed” restaurants. Yelp Host and Yelp Receptionist are part of a broader push from the company and similar platforms embracing AI to streamline customer m…
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Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
Amazon is reportedly leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers. Citing interviews and internal strategy documents, The New York Times reports that Amazon is hoping its robots can replace mor…
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Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA say OpenAI is taking their deepfake concerns seriously
Actors, studios, agents, and the actors union SAG-AFTRA have all expressed their concerns about appearing in Sora 2’s AI-generated videos ever since the deepfake machine was released last month. Now a joint statement from actor Bryan Cranston, OpenAI, the uni…
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Bose is yanking key features from its SoundTouch speakers
Bose is discontinuing support for the cloud-based features available on its SoundTouch products on February 18th, 2026. “After February 18, certain features — including access to integrated music services like Spotify and TuneIn, as well as multi-room playbac…
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Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
OpenAI will soon allow “erotica” for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform. In an X post on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will add support for mature conversations when it launches age-gating in December. “As we roll out age-gat…
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Google Beam will use AI to bring 3D video calls to military families
Google Beam is the 3D video communication platform first demoed as Project Starline, and it's now being used to connect military families.
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