Tech & AI

Tech & AI

Nothing’s New Phone (3) and Headphone (1) Look Nothing Like You’ve Seen Before

The phone has a grid design with three columns, representing the flexible printed circuit boards underneath. The triple-camera system is laid out along the top of these grids with the Glyph Matrix display—more on that in a second. It’s an unusual style that breaks from circular or rectangular camera modules in most phones. The Glyph

Read More
Tech & AI

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism

ICEBlock, an iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, has rocketed to one of the coveted top spots in Apple’s U.S. App Store rankings. The upshot: Criticism from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi helped get it there. Most of ICEBlock’s users — about 20,000 —

Read More
Tech & AI

How to unblock Pornhub for free in Montana

TL;DR: Unblock Pornhub from Montana with a VPN. The best service for unblocking porn sites is ExpressVPN. In the early stages of 2025, the world of porn was rocked after a number of states introduced laws that required visitors to upload ID before accessing sites. Pornhub battled back by banning visitors from these states from

Read More
Tech & AI

AI Videos of Black Women Depicted as ‘Bigfoot’ Are Going Viral

An AI-generated “bigfoot baddie,” with acrylic nails and a pink wig, speaks directly to her imaginary audience using an iPhone. “We might have to go on the run,” she says. “I’m wanted for a false report on my baby daddy.” This AI video, generated by Google’s Veo 3, has racked up over a million views

Read More
Tech & AI

Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman

Legacy aerospace giants scored a win Tuesday when the U.S. Senate passed President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill that earmarks billions more for NASA’s flagship Artemis program.  The $10 billion addition to the Artemis architecture, which includes funding for additional Space Launch System rockets and an orbiting station around the moon called Gateway, is a rebuke

Read More
Tech & AI

‘Ironheart’ finally brings Mephisto into the MCU. But is it too late?

When Marvel’s WandaVision first started airing in 2021, the name “Mephisto” was unavoidable. Every week, fans theorized the demonic Marvel villain would be revealed as the mastermind behind all of Wanda’s (Elizabeth Olsen) suffering. The theory made sense, given that in the comics, Wanda’s (Elizabeth Olsen) twins Billy and Tommy (Julian Hillard and Jett Klyne)

Read More
Tech & AI

Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent-poaching spree. In a full-throated response sent to OpenAI researchers Monday evening and obtained by WIRED, Altman made his pitch for why staying at OpenAI is the only answer for those looking to build artificial general intelligence, hinting that the company

Read More
Tech & AI

Jon McNeill brings the operator’s playbook to TC All Stage

Founders are often told to chase product-market fit before anything else, but what if scaling too soon, too fast, is what’s really holding them back? At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, Jon McNeill, CEO and co-founder of DVx Ventures (and former president of Tesla and COO of Lyft), will take the

Read More
Tech & AI

Why compromise when refurbished tech is the smartest upgrade available?

Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsThe value of performanceHow eBay’s refurbished program ensures trustAdded perks: Shipping, returns, and warrantyA refurbished range for every needFuture-proofing your tech investmentsWho benefits most from refurbished tech?Your next stepsLearn & shop more: In today’s fast-moving digital world, where shiny new tech seems to hit shelves every other

Read More
Tech & AI

A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’

A pro-Russia disinformation campaign is leveraging consumer artificial intelligence tools to fuel a “content explosion” focused on exacerbating existing tensions around global elections, Ukraine, and immigration, among other controversial issues, according to new research published last week. The campaign, known by many names including Operation Overload and Matryoshka (other researchers have also tied it to

Read More