Customers on AT&T’s network are getting one more tool to help them decide when to pick up the phone: an indication of why a business is calling you, right from the incoming call screen. It’s a continuation of the branded calling feature that AT&T and […]
Day: February 7, 2025
DeepMind claims its AI performs better than International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists
An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist in solving geometry problems in an international mathematics competition. The system, called AlphaGeometry2, is an improved version of a system, AlphaGeometry, that DeepMind released last […]
Let’s talk about the battery in smart glasses
We were whizzing down the slopes, screaming because it is sort of ridiculous to go flying down a snowy hill in an inflatable tube. There was a friendly family competition going on to see who could get down the hill the fastest. Other snowtubers had […]
8 Best Streaming Devices for TVs (2025), Tested and Reviewed
Should you get a Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Apple TV, or Google TV Streamer? We’ve tested them all, and these are worth your money.
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
Apple has reportedly been ordered by the UK government to create a backdoor that would give security officials access to users’ encrypted iCloud backups. If implemented, British security services would have access to the backups of any user worldwide, not just Brits, and Apple would […]
Trump suspends order that created delivery chaos
President Donald Trump has paused the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China, temporarily putting an end to the confusion and high fees that have plagued both customers and businesses over the past few days. The de minimis exemption allows packages valued […]
One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge
Elon Musk has reportedly picked fresh-faced six engineers to run DOGE. I spoke to one of them in 2023, when his life looked very, very different. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Netflix’s Prince documentary has been axed by the late artist’s estate
Netflix definitely wanted to debut Ezra Edelmanâs nine-hour-long documentary chronicling Princeâs life, but that wonât be happening thanks to the late singerâs estate. Though Edelmanâs untitled documentary was already completed, Netflix announced on Thursday that it has âcome to a mutual agreementâ with Princeâs estate […]
The Morning After: Apple’s Invite app and its less welcome third-party porn apps
The week has been a mixed bag for Apple. First, it launched a new iPhone app for organizing events and being actually social; then, it had to contend with a third-party app store offering a porn app in the European Union. And there’s nothing like […]
German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections
Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest researchers’ access to support the study of systemic risks — such as to elections and other democratic processes. But the Elon Musk-owned […]