Tech
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Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman | TechCrunch
The actress' firm Kinship Ventures is an investor in the company.
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The founder's secret weapon: Work at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and learn how the pros do it | TechCrunch
Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get an insider's view of how world-class tech events get built and more.
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Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required | TechCrunch
Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., automatically upgrading users whether or not they subscribe to Prime.
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Google’s Pixel Watch 5 Pumps Up Its Fitness Smarts
With smarter gym tracking, new health alerts, and offline Gemini, the Pixel Watch 5 fine-tunes a winning formula—for a price.
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Sachin Bansal's fintech Navi raises first outside capital with $100M Prosus investment | TechCrunch
The investment comes amid Navi plans to go public.
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Canon is slashing prices on its cameras for World Photography Day — I've found the best deals on bodies, bundles, and lenses.
Save up to £270 on Canon cameras in this limited-time World Photography Day sale.
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How to watch Celtic vs LASK: Free Streams & TV Channels, Team News for Champions League 2026/27 Play-Offs
The Hoops aim to triumph on home turf ahead of the away leg of this play-off in Austria next week
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Experts manage to hack Microsoft Copilot by continually asking it questions about itself
An AI isn't secure if it's gullible
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GTA 6 leaks again, with 'pro-consumer' group threatening to continue if Rockstar doesn't comply with 'commandments' and issue a public apology
Rockstar Games is being held for ransom again after a leaker reveals GTA 6 gameplay and threatens to continue if demands aren't met.
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Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere. Here’s why. | TechCrunch
Companies including Tesla and Base Power are vying for a piece of the rapidly growing market for home batteries. One technology has made it all possible.
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Does a VPN bypass ISP video throttling? How to restore your connection speeds
How ISPs can slow down video traffic – and how NordVPN can speed it up again
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VPN
Discover more about VPN with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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NordVPN scores another Premier League deal with new Crystal Palace partnership
The cybersecurity giant adds a second Premier League club to its roster in just a week, aiming to keep matchday browsing safe and secure for Eagles fans
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China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy — ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent building AI infrastructure Guizhou
These data centers are popping up left and right in rural China.
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The reMarkable Paper Pro was close to perfect, but thanks to an Android 13 port this YouTuber might have taken it over the line
You could say this project is... remarkable...
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Overclocking
Discover more about Overclocking with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Don't be an archaeologist in a movie if you want to survive | New Scientist
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Archaeologists RIP In July, Feedback
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Want a DJI Pocket 4 with wings? The world’s first 2-in-1 drone that doubles as a pocket gimbal camera just got FCC approval
HoverAir, makers of the original self-flying drone, launched Versa on Indiegogo, and it's set for US availability
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Time's running out! Save $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21 | TechCrunch
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!
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Millions of Comcast routers may soon track their owners’ movements — here’s why users are calling it ‘Flock for your bedroom’
Comcast’s Xfinity routers can sense people’s presence in your home, but many users are worried.
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Qualcomm retracts select Snapdragon C power efficiency benchmarks nearly a week after publication — updated slide removes idle apps and web browsing results
The change is to "focus on the user experience" Snapdragon C delivers.
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Amazon’s Prime Air is taking off in nearly 500 US cities | TechCrunch
Amazon is significantly expanding its Prime Air drone delivery service, with plans to reach nearly 500 U.S. cities by the end of 2026.
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Japan is testing Helsing's HX-2 strike drone
Europe's hottest defence startup just found an unlikely Japanese ally as Rakuten helps Helsing enter the military market
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You can now buy a delidded Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition for $1,403 — stripped dual-cache offering is $500 more expensive than regular version
Thermal Grizzly offers the halo CPU with the pop topped for an egregious price, yet it almost makes sense on this chip.
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Over half of Americans are concerned about AI in daily life — with tech leaders and AI gurus desperately trying to calm the number one fear
Americans are getting more concerned about AI
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Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus | TechCrunch
Calendly is also releasing a meeting scheduling assistant called Callie.
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Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — 'the bar is completely losing money, ' owner admits
The giveaways outnumber sales 10 to one.
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microSD Cards
microSD Card reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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ChatGPT refusing to do teenagers’ homework is exactly how AI should behave
ChatGPT’s smartest teen feature makes the AI deliberately less helpful
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The Thermal Master DV2 could be perfect for nature-watching, if the software improves
The Thermal Master DV2 is a self-contained thermal camera that connects to an Android phone or PC using USB.
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Routers
Router reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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AI needs rules and rails: Why governance must move beyond policy
Policies alone aren't enough to govern AI
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AI isn't close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take. | TechCrunch
It's the data, stupid.
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I Tried a Window-Cleaning Robot and Hated It
I tested the top-of-the-line Ecovacs Winbot W2S Omni window-cleaning robot on my Victorian home, and it was an unmitigated disaster.
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Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers | TechCrunch
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.
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Jason Kelce-led marketing campaign asks beer drinkers to send their pee to AI data centers — Liquid Death and Garage Beer skit claims 'AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water'
“The suits want us to tell you to please don’t actually send your pee.”
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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Good news — you can now properly swear on Microsoft Teams calls...unless you work for the government
Government Teams users are ****** a little longer
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There’s a Very Simple Reason Why You Love the Slate Truck
The car world is filled with designers still obsessed with shoehorning sex into their rides. Slate went a different route, and it’s why people are smitten with the charming electric pickup.
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‘Dead on arrival’: the Fairphone Gen 6 Plus costs a lot for what you get — and tech fans are divided over whether its repairability justifies the price
The Fairphone Gen 6 Plus is a mid-range phone at a steep price, but that might just be the cost of a fairer world.
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First Nvidia H200 shipments reach China, ByteDance and Tencent take deliveries as Beijing loosens its import block — most licensed chips must stay in Hong Kong, which can't power them
Roughly 10,000 accelerators each have entered mainland China.
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Lioness season 3 episode 4 release date and launch time — when will it come out on Paramount+?
A plan to leak information back to Russia is now underway after all hope is lost. So, when does Lioness season 3 episode 4 land on Paramount+?
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‘Your Excel Skills Suck’: The Power Users Turning Spreadsheets Into a Spectator Sport
Data and finance professionals are competing in Excel obstacle courses—amassing huge followings and keeping the Microsoft program relevant.
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Bluesky reveals recent outage was caused by major DDoS attack
Iranian state-backed threat actors claim responsibility for Bluesky attack
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Retro Gaming
Discover more about Retro Gaming with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Player builds working AI chatbot in vanilla Minecraft using 445K command blocks — clever approach shrank initial block count from over 1 million, requires no mods, plugins, or datapacks to work
Hopefully they didn't have to buy extra RAM for this.
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
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Phones
Phone reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Hot or Not Built the Internet We’re Still Swiping Through
The early website Hot or Not taught its users to rank people at scale. Twenty-six years later, dating apps are trying to escape the culture the site helped create.