The U.S. Justice Department has put forth a sweeping proposal to force Google to sell off parts of its business, potentially leading to the first major corporate breakup in four decades and reshaping one of the world’s most valuable tech companies. The Department of Justice and a coalition of state …
Read More »18 Best Prime Day Laptop Deals (2024)
if you’re in the market for a laptop but want to spend money wisely, you’re in luck. Amazon’s Prime Day deals run on October 8 and 9, and you’ll find a number of our favorite laptops on sale. Not sure how to pick out which one is best for you? …
Read More »Atlassian’s Rovo AI is now generally available
Atlassian first showed off Rovo six months ago. Rovo is what the company calls its “AI teammate” that combines smarter search and chat-based AI tools with agents that can help users automate some of their workflows in tools like Jira and Confluence. At its Team ’24 Europe event in Barcelona, …
Read More »The Boring Company’s Las Vegas loop is attracting riders, and trespassers
The Boring Company’s 2.4-mile underground Loop in Las Vegas is proving anything but boring for management, with at least 67 trespassing occurrences since 2022, according to a deep dive by Fortune. Designed for Tesla models to shuttle passengers underneath the Las Vegas Convention center, others who’ve found their way into …
Read More »X is cleared to go back online in Brazil
Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday that Elon Musk’s X could return online in the country, marking the end to a months-long battle between the social media platform and Brazilian officials. Addressing the reasons that X was banned in the first place, Musk agreed to take down some user accounts …
Read More »True Anomaly, Slingshot Aerospace, and more at Disrupt 2024
As government and defense sectors increasingly lean on commercial services, opportunities for startups in dual-use technology have never been more promising. Yet, for young, agile companies, the challenge of entering such a highly regulated and traditional landscape is significant. How can emerging businesses compete with established primes for contracts and …
Read More »Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein, and Guy Oseary are coming to Disrupt 2024
Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Effie Epstein, announced a new $265 million AI fund that was betting big on large language model companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face. In fact, the plan was to …
Read More »Through Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Amateur Radio Triumphs When All Else Fails
The morning after Hurricane Helene pummeled the eastern seaboard of the US, Thomas Witherspoon inspected the damage to his western North Carolina home. The night before, he listened to the wind whip down trees and snap power lines along the two-mile access road connecting his family to their few neighbors …
Read More »Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Again
Peter Todd is standing on the upper floor of a dilapidated industrial building somewhere in Czechia, chuckling under his breath. He has just been accused on camera of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin creator, whose identity has remained a mystery for 15 years. In the final scene of a new …
Read More »The ‘Diablo IV’ Nobody Ever Saw
This week, Blizzard released Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, an expansion to the wildly popular fantasy action-role-playing game that tasks players with slaughtering masses of screeching demons and collecting the randomized gear that they leave behind. Since coming out last year, Diablo IV has been a big success for Blizzard, …
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