Page 48

Halliday’s $489 smart glasses beam a tiny screen to your eye

Walk up to someone wearing a pair of Halliday’s smart glasses, and you might not notice they’re looking at smartphone notifications, live language translations, or advice from an AI assistant. The only giveaway is the tiny green dot of light on...

2025-01-08 23:00 – Similar articles – read more

Grok may soon get an ‘Unhinged Mode’

Last April, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, teased a mysterious “Unhinged Mode” for X’s AI-powered chatbot, Grok. Nearly a year later, xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has updated an FAQ page on its website that sheds light on...

2025-01-08 23:00 – Similar articles – read more

Watch Duty surpasses ChatGPT as top free app on App Store as California fires spread

Watch Duty, an app to track wildfires with live maps and alerts, has become the No. 1 free app in Apple’s App Store as of Wednesday morning. The fire-tracking app surpassed the ChatGPT app for the No. 1 spot as devastating fires continue to rage...

2025-01-08 22:00 – Similar articles – read more

AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to build benchmarks for AGI

google

Former Google engineer and influential AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to help develop benchmarks that’ll probe AI for “human-level” intelligence. The nonprofit, the ARC Prize Foundation, will be led by Greg Kamradt,...

2025-01-08 22:00 – Similar articles – read more

Flock Safety quietly hired a sitting California mayor. Now he’s suing Flock.

Last year, police surveillance startup Flock Safety hired the mayor of a California city with over 200,000 residents to promote its products. But the mayor, Ulises Cabrera of Moreno Valley, now claims Flock wrongfully terminated him, partly because...

2025-01-08 22:00 – Similar articles – read more

This $1,500 iPad bundle will Rickroll your family after you die

ipad

It’s only the second day of CES 2025, and we’ve already reached the point where it’s difficult to distinguish real products from elaborate pranks. In Case of Death currently leads that race by a country mile. Produced by Zugu, the product is...

2025-01-08 22:00 – Similar articles – read more

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs

big

2025-01-08 21:00 – Similar articles – read more

Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages

2025-01-08 21:00 – Similar articles – read more

This basketball robot uses AI to rebound the ball after you shoot

hot

Like anything in life, the secret to becoming Steph Curry or Sabrina Ionescu is practice, practice, and more practice. You practice when it’s too hot, too cold, you’re tired, or you’re sick. Finding a willing one-on-one partner through all of...

2025-01-08 21:00 – Similar articles – read more

Gamers can’t fathom how 6x CEO Elon Musk found time to best Diablo IV

videos

On October 16 and November 20, Elon Musk tweeted videos of himself clearing the highest level of the Diablo IV video game in about 2 minutes. While Diablo IV has been out since mid-2023, the latest “season,” called The Pit, launched on October...

2025-01-08 21:00 – Similar articles – read more

Mastodon CEO calls Meta’s moderation changes ‘deeply troubling,’ warns users cross-posting from Threads

Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing fact-checking across its apps in favor of a crowdsourced community notes feature,...

2025-01-08 21:00 – Similar articles – read more

This Week in AI: More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be evenly distributed?

news

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The AI news cycle didn’t slow down much this holiday season. Between OpenAI’s 12 days of “shipmas” and DeepSeek’s...

2025-01-08 20:00 – Similar articles – read more

Ukrainian hackers take credit for hacking Russian ISP that wiped out servers and caused internet outages

internet

2025-01-08 20:00 – Similar articles – read more

Tonal’s new strength training system arrives with refreshed hardware and new workouts

fitness

The post-pandemic years haven’t been especially kind to connected fitness. As bigger names like Peloton and Mirror have struggled, however, plenty of smaller firms like Tonal are still going strong. At CES 2025 on Wednesday, the Bay Area firm...

2025-01-08 19:00 – Similar articles – read more

Triller launches a tool to back up users’ TikToks ahead of the US ban deadline

Triller, a would-be competitor to TikTok, is hoping to capitalize on the potential TikTok ban in the U.S. by pitching to creators to move their content from the popular short-form video app to its own. The company has now launched a website,...

2025-01-08 19:00 – Similar articles – read more

Grove cuts clinical trial enrollment time with AI

her

Tran Le was an engineering student at Stanford University when she tried to enroll in a clinical trial for her chronic condition. Although she identified several promising trials, she found the sign-up process daunting — she had to have extensive...

2025-01-08 18:00 – Similar articles – read more

Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’

electronics

San Francisco startup Based Hardware announced during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week the launch of a new AI wearable, Omi, to boost productivity. The device can be worn as a necklace where Omi’s AI assistant can be activated...

2025-01-08 18:00 – Similar articles – read more

Japan says Chinese hackers targeted its government and tech companies for years

2025-01-08 18:00 – Similar articles – read more

Former Huami employees launch SATELLAI, a satellite pet tracker, at CES 2025

dog

With the smart pet wearable market estimated at $1.72 million in 2024, a new startup in the pet tech space is entering the scene with a dog tracker and collar that can directly link with satellite tracking without needing an LTE signal. At CES 2025,...

2025-01-08 18:00 – Similar articles – read more

Boston Dynamics settles patent suit with military robotics firm Ghost

ghost

Roughly two and a half years after their patent battle began, Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics have settled the dispute on reasonably amicable terms. The robotics firms on Wednesday issued a joint release announcing the end of the dispute. “We...

2025-01-08 18:00 – Similar articles – read more