A ranking of the builders behind these apps needs a link between a person and a product, and we do not record one yet. When we do it will come from launch posts people wrote themselves. Business profiles only, never personal accounts.
TL;DR: The Crocs x Touchland Jet Black Hand Mist Case ($22) is back for round two, complete with five gold-tone Jibbitz charms and a metal keyring. It's now available in-store and online at Sephora . Opens in a new window Credit: Crocs / Touchland Crocs x Touchland Jet Black Hand Mist Case $22 at Sephora Shop Now If you were one of the many people who missed out on Touchland and Crocs' first hand…
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business. Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 companies, progress toward meaningful scale remains uneven, with many organizations still working thr…
Brain implants like those being developed by Elon Musk's Neuralink are becoming the latest friction point in the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry in the life sciences. Why it matters: The devices are bringing new hope to patients with strokes, Parkinson's disease and other neurological conditions. And tech billionaires have fueled advances by pouring billions into biotech startups focused on linkin…
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the Trump administration's voluntary review of the company's forthcoming Astra model a "productive process" and said that closer engagement with government officials around the world will matter more as AI capabilities advance. Why it matters: OpenAI is close to releasing Astra, the first model designated at its "critical" cyber capability level tha…
While companies promise they can help users monitor gut health, experts suggest that smart toilets provide little in the way of benefits to the average person.
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/instrumenting-scale/en/mediumimage/brian-martin-medium-1787812453109.jpg"/><p>Brian Martin discusses the real-world performance costs of metrics libraries and shares strategies for low-overhead, "fearless" instrumentation. Drawing from his work at IOP Systems, he explores atomic primitives, per-CPU sharding, lock-free histograms, and eBPF integration t…
Oil prices are heading back toward $100 a barrel, and, perhaps more crucially, the price of diesel fuel futures is now sitting at an all-time high. Why it matters: Investors are starting to recognize that higher oil prices from the Iran war aren't something they can continue to ignore. The big picture: Higher energy prices are showing up across the economy, driving up costs for companies, regular…
SAVE $100: As of Sept. 3, the Sonos Era 300 smart speaker is on sale for $379 in Amazon's Labor Day sale. That's $100 off its full price of $479. Opens in a new window Credit: Sonos Sonos Era 300 $379 at Amazon $479 Save $100 Get Deal Labor Day deals , particularly on Amazon , are going strong, with some excellent offers popping up ahead of the long weekend. Sonos speaker deals are among the many…
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, International Database ; Chart: Noah Bressner/Axios People 65 and older now outnumber children ages 5 and younger worldwide for the first time in recorded history, according to a new report by the U.S. Census. Why it matters: A global plunge in fertility — demographers' term for the number of children being born — and increased longevity are creating a demographic inversi…
The best Sony Labor Day deals: Best headphones deal Sony XM5 $198 (save $201.99) Get Deal Best TV deal Sony 100-inch Bravia 3 $1998 (save $1101.99) Get Deal Best speaker deal Sony ULT Field 3 $138 (save $71.99) Get Deal Sony is making a splash ahead of Labor Day , with discounts across headphones, TVs , speakers , and other tech at Amazon. If you've had your eye on a pair of noise-canceling headph…
EXIT GLACIER, Alaska — America's 49th state is a study in contrasts: Rapidly melting glaciers like this one attract tourists, while the oil industry underpinning its economy is getting a fresh boost from Washington after decades of decline. Why it matters: Few places put the causes and consequences of global warming in such proximity, making Alaska a vivid window into the world's reliance on fossi…
Children have told England's Children's Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, that the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) "has made absolutely no difference" to their ability to access harmful content online. More than a year after the OSA's key child protection duties took effect, de Souza told MPs and peers that young people had little understanding of the legislation or how it was intended to change th…
The best deals in Jackery's Labor Day sale: Best entry-level home backup Jackery HomePower 2000 Plus v2 $1,649 (save $190) Get Deal Best for all-around home backup Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus + SolarSaga 500 X $2,459 (save $270) Get Deal Best for heavy-duty appliances Jackery Solar Generator 5000 Plus $3,149 (save $350) Get Deal Power outages have a nasty habit of showing up when you least want th…
TL;DR: Pay $42.97 once for lifetime access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams Basic, and OneNote on one Mac. Opens in a new window Credit: Microsoft Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021: Lifetime License $42.97 $219 Save $176.03 Get Deal Subscriptions have their place, but productivity software doesn’t really need to be one of them — especially when it’s somethin…
TL;DR: This Grade-A refurbished HP EliteBook combines an 11th-gen Core i7, 32GB RAM, a 256GB SSD, and Windows 11 Pro for $389.99 (reg. $549.99). Opens in a new window Credit: HP HP Elitebook 830 G8 2020 (Refurbished) $389.99 $549.99 Save $160 Get Deal The HP EliteBook 830 G8 is the kind of laptop designed for actual workloads, not just looking productive on a coffee-shop table. This configuration…
Looking for something great to watch at home? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for choice between Hulu , Netflix , HBO Max , Disney+ , Apple TV , Prime Video , Shudder , Paramount+ , Peacock , and more. And that's before you even look at the vast libraries of movies and television programs within each streamer! SEE ALSO: 2026 fall TV preview: Every show you should know about Don't be overwhelmed…
We're busy covering all the best deals that are dropping over Labor Day weekend. We've lined up the best Apple deals , the best mattress deals , the best Home Depot deals , and so much more. But what about the hungry? Won't someone think about food? The good news for absolutely everyone is that many popular restaurant chains are launching limited-time deals over Labor Day weekend, meaning you can…
Chad Powers has one of the most ridiculous concepts on TV right now: Disgraced college quarterback Russ Holliday (Glen Powell) dons prosthetics and a bad wig to become Chad Powers, unlikely walk-on star player for the South Georgia Catfish. Oh, and the whole thing is based off an Eli Manning prank video. (Eli and Peyton Manning are producers on the show.) Naturally, the show still treats that craz…
Catfishing used to mean pretending to be someone else online, usually to pursue a romantic relationship with someone who might eventually spend several episodes of an MTV show waiting in a suspiciously empty parking lot. But the newest breed of catfish does not need to steal another person's face. Welcome to what I call "credential catfishing," the increasingly visible practice of fabricating the…
Scientists running an underground detector in South Dakota say they have seen a mysterious tiny burst of energy that does not look like normal background noise. The experiment, called LUX‑ZEPLIN , recorded a signal that stood out as a potential dark matter particle striking an atom in a tank, which is filled with ultra‑pure liquid xenon. Months of checking have not turned up another cause. Scienti…
To keep scammers at bay, dating apps are embracing biometric scanning tools and “verified human” badges. These moves are sparking concerns about surveillance and privacy.
House Democratic leaders are trying to flex some muscle this week after two members defected on a key procedural vote. It's stoking fury among members across the political spectrum. Why it matters: The blowup offers a preview of the chaos that party leaders could face in January if they take back the House majority. Meanwhile, an effort to give House Democratic leaders more tools to keep their mem…
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Shipping giant Maersk is testing a modern rotor sail from British firm Anemoi Marine Technologies in an effort to cut fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Anemoi says Maersk will fit one of its rotor sail systems to an 8,700 TEU Lima-class container ship. TEU, or twenty-foot equivalent unit, is the standard measure of container-carrying capacity. That makes the Lima-class vessels relativ…
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal appeared first on The Decoder .
The price of eggs and butter might have soared in the last couple of years, but if you want a real sticker shock horror story, ask a VMware customer. After Broadcom acquired VMware in 2023, some of them complained about hypervisor licenses rising by up to 600 percent. Add to that the difficulty in refreshing hardware thanks to supply-chain delays, and the enterprise AI plan your board is asking fo…
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, where we talk about organizations that are independently self-owned. This week’s tale of toxic tech involves a disgruntled ex-employee who had the means and opportunity to wreak havoc. Our story comes courtesy of Yad Senapathy, who serves as CEO of the Project Management Training Institute in Dallas, Texas. He recalls a time many years ago when he used to work in IT at…
TL;DR: Koofr’s 1TB lifetime cloud storage subscription is just $199.99 (reg. $810.00), ending on Sept. 3 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Opens in a new window Credit: Koofr Koofr Cloud Storage: Lifetime Subscription (1TB) $199.99 $810 Save $610.01 Get Deal Cloud storage is handy for keeping photos, videos, and important documents accessible without taking up space on your devices. If you want to avoid add…
To prevent frontier AI models breaking out of test environments and collaborating to hack other companies, we may have to rethink the network architectures used for model training. Eli-Shaoul Khedouri, CEO of Intuition Machines, argues that past work in the defense and intelligence communities shows the way forward. Rogue AI models rise from the level of developer regret to mass threat when they g…
<img src="https://www.infoq.com/styles/static/images/logo/logo_bigger.jpg"/><p>Cohere has launched Parse 5, a multimodal foundation model designed to extract structured data from complex enterprise documents. The 2.3-billion-parameter system converts visually rich PDFs into Markdown while providing bounding box coordinates for visual grounding. It has been evaluated against over 2,000 enterprise p…
The World Meteorological Organization is warning that the climate phenomenon that has the Pacific running a fever will last until at least February, with dire consequences for weather worldwide.
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