Maybe you have a hand-me-down couch or a thrifted floral sectional that isn’t cutting it. Or maybe your seat cushions are sunken in or stained. Whatever the reason you’re looking to buy a new couch online, you’ve come to the right place. A few of us here on the WIRED …
Read More »Xiaomi 14T and 14T Pro Review: Solid but Not Snazzy
Xiaomi’s 15 flagship range won’t arrive in most of the world until early 2025. In the meantime, we get a midyear update to the 14 range in the shape of the 14T and 14T Pro, though neither bears much relation to the Xiaomi 14 or 14 Ultra. The Chinese manufacturer …
Read More »How to Preorder Sony’s PS5 Pro (Before a Scalper Bot Does)
We’re barely done with the years-long period where it was almost impossible to get your hands on a PlayStation 5, and now Sony is launching the PlayStation 5 Pro. It has a more powerful graphics processor, better AI upscaling, and tons more storage, with a higher price to match. If …
Read More »Google TV Streamer 4K Review: Smooth Streaming
There are a few products in our lives we want to use all the time and never have to think about. Faucets come to mind—you want your faucet to turn on and off, not leak. That’s about it. Google’s new Google TV Streamer is an Android-powered TV faucet that never …
Read More »Dinii, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, raises $45M Series B
Japan has always been a strong market for bringing technology into the experience of consuming food, and now one of the startups leading on this idea is attracting investors from across the ocean. Dinii, which lets diners order food from restaurants and shops through a mobile platform, has raised $48 …
Read More »Peak XV has reaped $1.2B in the year since it split from Sequoia
Peak XV Partners, the largest India-focused venture fund, has realized about $1.2 billion in exits since its separation with Sequoia last year, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The investor has sold stakes in nearly a dozen portfolio companies that went public in the past year, including food …
Read More »Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can’t Save Them
In May 2023, Air India launched safety management software called Coruson, as well as BAM (Boeing Alertness Model), a fatigue-mitigation tool integrated into its rostering system, which is used by airlines to create and manage pilot schedules. Coruson, developed by cloud software company Ideagen, centralizes, analyzes, and reports on safety-related …
Read More »Soon After the Deadly Hezbollah Pager Explosions, This AI-Generated Podcast Went Up
While the idea of a quick-turnaround, generously AI-generated podcast might sound terrifying to some fans and creators, other players in the industry see it as an inevitability. Oskar Serrander, who describes his AI-meets-podcasting studio Wondercraft as “Canva for audio,” says that he views AI as a way to help creatives …
Read More »WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources
WordPress drama went up another notch today after WordPress.org, the free-open source web content hosting software, banned web hosting provider WP Engine from accessing their resources. In a post on WordPress.org, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg wrote that, pending their legal claims, WP Engine doesn’t have access to the platform’s resources, …
Read More »Marvel Fusion lands $70M for laser-powered fusion bet
When it comes to fusion power, there are two basic approaches: One, create a small star here on Earth that’s held in place by powerful magnetic fields. Two, use intense lasers to make a succession of even smaller stars, but repeat the process several times per second. Moritz von der …
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