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Waymo robotaxis are coming to Tokyo in 2025
Waymo will begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Tokyo in early 2025, the first time the Alphabet company’s robotaxis have driven on public roads [more…]
Field Tested in the Galapagos
Normally we share updates through long articles, but writing about photography is like dancing about math. What if we share it in a video? (Spoiler: [more…]
NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Tuesday, December 17 (game #289)
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, [more…]
Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy
On the southern tip of Malaysia lies the state of Johor, renowned for its beaches and mountainous jungle. But Johor has a new boom industry: [more…]
The Framework Laptop 16 just got a modular gadget that enables quadruple SSDs
The most ambitious laptop ever made just got a long-promised modular upgrade. Starting today, you can pay $39 to add two extra M.2 slots to [more…]
Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners merges with investment arm of Pendulum Holdings
Jay-Z’s venture capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners, has merged with another Black-owned investment firm, Pendulum Holdings’ investment arm Pendulum Opportunities, to form MarcyPen Capital Partners, [more…]
All The Latest iOS 17 Photography Features
New iPhone season is upon us! Okay, more like the ‘new-iPhones-arrive-week’, but every year the event is inaugurated with a fresh update to iOS. This [more…]
NYT Connections today — my hints and answers for Tuesday, December 17 (game #555)
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read [more…]
Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets
If that tool were to leak or be sold online—Rodriguez himself says he doesn’t plan to publish his—he says anyone could use it to jailbreak [more…]
TikTok CEO meets with Trump as the platform tries to avoid a ban
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is set to meet with President-Elect Donald Trump on Monday as the platform faces a ban in the US, according [more…]
Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models
Cohere is one of the best-known AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, hitting a $5.5 billion valuation as of July as we previously reported. [more…]
Do More People Have iPhones or Android Phones?
Every time I make the statement that Android is the most popular mobile operating system on the planet, a certain cross-section of people look at [more…]
Which One is Right for Your Business?
For many contact centers and businesses, IVAs (Interactive Virtual Assistants) offer a better way to keep up with customer expectations and demands compared to IVR [more…]
Finally, a screen that goes anywhere
Today we’re launching a totally new, totally different app. Meet Orion. Orion is a small, fun app that helps you use your iPad as an [more…]
ChatGPT brings its conversational search engine to everyone
Day eight of the 12 Days of OpenAI was shorter than the previous days by several minutes, but the brevity fits with the ChatGPT Search [more…]
Luigi Mangione Conspiracy Theories Are Going Strong
In one particularly testy exchange on a conspiracy theories subreddit, two hair stylists clashed over Mangione’s eyebrows. “I was a hairstylist for 20 years back [more…]
Serbian authorities hacking and installing spyware on activists’ phones
Police in Serbia are using mobile device hacking tools to break into the phones of activists and journalists and then installing spyware to track them, [more…]
iRobot co-founder’s new home robot startup hopes to raise $30M
Colin Angle, one of the co-founders of Roomba maker iRobot, is raising cash for a home robotics venture. A filing with the U.S. Securities and [more…]
How to Enable Wi-Fi Calling to Bypass Bad Cell Service
Cell phone carriers started offering Wi-Fi calling in response to the rise in popularity of voice over internet protocol as a way to make phone [more…]
Ransomware to Cause ‘Bumpy’ Security Ride in 2025
Ransomware attacks will continue to plague APAC enterprises in 2025, according to Rapid7. The cybersecurity tech vendor expects that more zero-day exploits and changes in [more…]