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.
Google Pics lets you generate and precisely edit images using simple text prompts It will be integrated directly into Google Docs, Slides and Drive Pics is rolling out to Google AI Pro, Ultra and eligible Workspace customers Google has started rolling out Pics, a new AI-powered image creation and editing tool that looks like the company’s answer to Canva and even Adobe Express . Canva became enorm…
SAVE $102 : As of Sept. 3, Samsung's 43-inch QN70H Mini-LED Neo QLED 4K TV is on sale at Amazon for $497.99. That's 17% or over $100 off its list price of $599.99 and its lowest price on record. Opens in a new window Credit: Samsung Samsung 43-inch QN70H Mini-LED Neo QLED 4K TV $497.99 at Amazon $599.99 Save $102 Get Deal Labor Day 2026 is proving to be one of the best times of the year to buy a n…
A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape . The EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and seek comment before issuing air pollution permits for data…
Apple’s new CEO John Ternus wrote “hello” in his first X post on Tuesday after taking the helm from former CEO Tim Cook , and his replies were immediately inundated with with requests for products and product design changes. It makes sense. He’s a hardware guy . A mechanical engineer who previously oversaw Apple’s hardware engineering, Ternus has significantly shaped the look and feel of Apple pro…
The best Labor Day laptop deals at a glance: Best MacBook deal Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M5, 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD) $1,699 (save $100) Get Deal Best Windows laptop deal HP OmniBook 3 16 (Snapdragon X, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) $599.99 (save $550) Get Deal Best Chromebook deal Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 (MediaTek Kompanio Ultra, 12GB RAM, 256GB UFS) $579 (save $170) Get Deal The ongoing memory crisis m…
Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies use the hub. CEO Jensen Huang promises to keep the platform open and hardware-neutral, but the deal also hands him a powerful distribution channel for compute. The article Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasin…
The Magnetar Ultima is a new 4K Blu-ray player for reference-quality playback Blu-Ray, DVD, SACD, DVD-A, CD and digital support — but no DAC: all-digital output to your system Costs a cool $12,000 (about £8,895 / AU$16,687) We've written many times about the benefits of Blu-ray over streaming , but many hardware firms have stopped making players as the format's popularity has declined. So it's nic…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved. The article Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royalist message hidden in plain sight since 1653 appeared first on The Decoder .
You don't have to look very far on the internet to find someone, somewhere, who is really upset about Final Fantasy games not having turn-based combat anymore. Final Fantasy games haven’t had it for 25 years, to be clear, but that doesn't stop people from yearning for a time before you had to get good at combos to finish a Final Fantasy. I totally get it, too, as turn-based combat kicks ass.…
Arguably, the most memorable parts of college have nothing to do with education. Participating in clubs, rooting for your team at athletic events, and making friends over food at the dining hall are likely among the fondest memories for alumni of any four-year institution—certainly outranking the hours spent sitting in lecture halls, at the very least. But those anecdotes don’t hold up against one…
The spirit forms of The Warrior of Light, Terra, Zidane, and Cloud bob up and down behind each character in my party as I get into battle in an early dungeon in Final Fantasy Resonance . When the trio of monsters is briefly staggered in front of me, I’m given a choice of which iconic character’s power to unleash to end the battle, and I promptly pick the spiky-haired and Buster Sword-wielding hero…
More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence. The article AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and scientists with questions about their own consciousness appeared first on The Decoder .
Salesforce reported Q2 FY27 on August 26 and the stock went up a stunning 23%. And almost every other B2B stock went up along with it, Is the SaaSpocolypse … over? Well, it may be past the panic selling of earlier in the year at least at least. {“model_id”: “unified-v1/prod/20260818-030536”} Salesforce did re-accelerate on bookings, and that was important: Revenue of $11.345B, up 11% cRPO (future…
Thomson Reuters confirmed March 2026 breach of its C‑Track court management system Incident affected courts in 11 US states, Ontario, and the US Virgin Islands No operational disruption; scope of exposed records still under investigation, no misuse reported yet Thomson Reuters, the IT company behind the Reuters news agency, suffered a cyberattack a few months ago, exposing certain court documents…
I've been looking through Labor Day laptop deals, and for the specs on offer, this is my favorite one for business professionals so far, with the Dell 15.6" 2K Touchscreen laptop now $650 (was $1100) at Best Buy . With that massive $450 discount, you're getting a 13th-generation Intel Core i7-1355U processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 512GB PCIe SSD, which is good enough for everyday work, multitask…
Nvidia Corporation announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. While rumors and speculation about Nvidia’s potential play had been swirling for weeks , the chipmaker has now made it official. Hugging Face, which is something of a GitHub for AI, has a library of models and datasets that should make Nvidia an even more dominant pla…
How are you, hacker? 🪐 Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here . ## MCP Was Declared Dead By @mayankc [ 6 Min read ] Declared dead in 2026, MCP survived by deleting its handshake and session layers for stateless HTTP efficiency. Read More. Navigating Claude Code: The…
Western Digital's WD Red Pro NAS drive line is designed for businesses small and large looking to max out their storage. Having benchmarked several, it remains one of our favorite internal drive brands - and right now, the WD Red Pro 16TB NAS drive is now $690 (was $705) at Amazon , so long as you tick the coupon box. Designed for demanding environments, Western Digital rates this model for worklo…
The sixth beta of the Haiku OS is here, now with more choice of web browsers and a working hardware-accelerated hypervisor. Haiku OS beta 6 came out just a week after the project's 25th birthday. We have been trying it on several different machines around the Irish Sea wing of Vulture Towers, and enjoying the experience very much. The release notes contain a lot of changes and some significant new…
If you're looking to score a fitness tracker or one of the best smartwatches for comparatively little cash, the Labor Day deals are an excellent time to do so. It's always worth searching for big names such as Garmin, Apple, Samsung, and Google Pixel in this space, but it's worth being open to up-and-coming challenger brands too. Amazfit is one such brand, offering great fitness tech products whil…
Google has fixed a setup issue with the first-gen Chromecast device Owners have been complaining for months about their devices going missing from the Google Home app The update also fixes functionality issues Have you been running into setup issues with your older Chromecast and Google Home devices? You’ll be happy to hear you’re not alone on this one — and even happier to know that Google has fi…
Nvidia has agreed to buy AI model platform Hugging Face for $13 billion, in the latest step by the $5.4 trillion chip giant to use its financial might to accelerate the technology’s boom while exerting greater control over the industry. Hugging Face, which only last year turned down a large investment from Nvidia at a $7 billion valuation to maintain its independence, serves as a repository for mi…
SAVE $30: As of Sept. 3, the Fire TV Stick 4K Select is on sale for $19.99 at Amazon. That's a $30 discount from its full price of $49.99. Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select $19.99 at Amazon $49.99 Save $30.00 Get Deal Labor Day sales are a real treat for shoppers who don't want to wait until Black Friday and the holidays to score some good deals. Amazon's been par…
Modern computer vision produces genuinely astonishing results. Cars navigate city streets on their own. Imaging software flags tumors that experienced radiologists miss. Warehouse robots identify and sort thousands of objects an hour. Behind every one of those achievements sits an unglamorous foundation that almost nobody talks about: enormous quantities of carefully labeled, real-world visual dat…
Nvidia has agreed to buy AI developer platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, tightening its grip on the ecosystem surrounding open models. Following weeks of industry chatter, Nvidia confirmed Thursday it had entered into a definitive agreement to buy the model-hosting hub, sometimes described as a GitHub for AI developers. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2027, subject…
When the beta arrives next year—15 years after its predecessor—Guild Wars 3 will have a new momentum engine that makes combat in the game feel closer to an action RPG.
Our rebranded Boston event, TechCrunch Founder Summit (formerly All Stage), is back on November 4th! And we are looking for some incredible volunteers to help us make this event happen. If you are interested in finding out what goes into building tech events, apply to volunteer. If you are selected, not only will you get […]
Cybercriminals have reeled in password hashes and corresponding salts belonging to users of popular fishing app Fishbrain, opening the door to cracking attempts. Fishbrain AB, which says its eponymous app serves more than 20 million anglers, disclosed the August 19 breach to the California Attorney General's Office this week. The unknown perpetrators helped themselves to a trawl of user data, incl…
Gloria Steinem, the journalist, activist and organizer who became the most recognizable face of the U.S. women's movement, died Wednesday at 92. The big picture: Steinem resisted being cast as feminism's singular face, but for six decades she carried its ideas into mainstream America across its second and third waves. Steinem made the personal political: An illegal abortion at 22 preceded decades…
Featuring an improved design, including replaceable batteries, along with better noise-canceling and voice-calling performance, the excellent sounding $300 Momentum TWS 5 are top earbuds contender and earn a CNET Editors' Choice award. Read more about wireless and noise-canceling earbuds: We found the 7 best noise-cancelling earbuds after extensive testing The 11 best wireless earbuds we've ever t…
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. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot Digital harms have become the defining fear of American parents. In response, they’re increasingly turning to content-monitoring apps that scan their children’s texts, photos, emails, and chats, issuing alerts whenever…
Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it up. He also admits that falling computing costs could turn today's billion-dollar projects into bad bets, even for OpenAI. The article OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout appeared f…
Momo is an app for people who can't start things. You sit down with a small raccoon, pick something off the pile you've been avoiding, and do it. I built it because I missed a family trip over a visa form that takes an hour to fill in . It went live on the App Store three weeks ago and did nothing, because a new app with no install velocity doesn't surface in search. So the only distribution I had…