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Apple TV+ is exactly one month away from debuting Bono: Stories of Surrender, a concert-style “documentary event.” This will also be the first ever feature-length film in Apple Immersive Video on the Vision Pro. And today, Apple debuted the first trailer to show us what to expect. more…
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:In its latest quarterly revenue announcement, Samsung is teasing the upcoming Galaxy S25 Edge launch while touting “strong” sales of the Galaxy S25 series. more…
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:A crate engine is a fantastic way to squeeze even more power out of your muscle car build. How many of the ones on the market put out 500 hp?
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:So for many years, so many B2B founders wanted to be “more PLG” or “add a PLG motion”. What they really wanted though was to add a better self-serve product with a more viral element. PLG was a great way to describe the next evolution of self-serve + viral: HubSpot added self-serve, it worked great... Continue Reading
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Spotify is getting into gameplay — kind of —through a partnership with EA Sports. The music streaming platform has teamed up with the sports video game maker to give users integrated streaming access while playing EA Sports FC 25. This partnership should allow players on the PS5 and Xbox Series X or S to access Spotify music, podcasts and audiobooks. The only catch? It's currently a pilot program and only available to...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The nonprofit behind Wikipedia on Wednesdayrevealedits new AI strategyfor the next three years — and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial intelligence, thankfully. Instead, the Wikimedia Foundation says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers,” allowing editors, moderators, and patrollers tools that allow them […]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Your recession action plan doesn’t have to be complicated.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The freestanding charging and emptying station makes this cordless vacuum feel almost like a robot vacuum—except you still do the vacuuming.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:When Bethesda surprise-released a remake last week, I revisited its world with my son to see if the magic was still thereFor a 10-day period the summer of 2006, in between handing in my resignation at my first job on a games magazine and returning to Scotland to start university, I did almost nothing except eat, sleep and play The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on my Xbox 360. I hauled my TV from the living room of my...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:OpenAI has rolled back a recent update to GPT-4o, the default model that powers ChatGPT, following complaints from users that it made the chat bot act weird. "The last couple of GPT-4o updates have made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying (even though there are some very good parts of it), and we are working on fixes asap, some today and some this week," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a X post spotted by...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The free story DLC for Sea of Stars, the excellent Chrono Trigger-inspired indie RPG, will be available to download starting May 20. You might fear that a free expansion is going to be light on content, but the new Throes of the Watchmaker quest clocks in at eight hours. It’s a substantial add-on for those who have rolled credits on the main campaign, which you’ll need to do before the quest unlocks. The DLCreunites...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Once the unshakable king of enterprise development, Java is now facing its most important existential moment since its creation. It’s not that Java has failed; it’s that the world around it has changed. And Java, with its traditional runtime model and heavyweight architecture, hasn’t always kept up. In a cloud-native world where agility, speed, and efficiency matter more than ever, traditional Java stacks often...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:You’ve got just 5 days to save up to $210 — plus 50% off your plus-one — and get inside the minds of AI’s biggest voices at TechCrunch Sessions: AI. Imagine hearing firsthand from Anthropic’s Jared Kaplan, OpenAI’s startup team, and top voices from firms like Khosla Ventures — all in one day. June 5 […]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Industry entities led by the Crypto Council for Innovation argued in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it shouldn't regulate staking.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Nuvo, a company that has built a social-like platform to facilitate easier purchasing of physical goods between businesses, has raised a $34 million Series A from Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. The San Francisco-based startup previously raised $11 million in an undisclosed seed round led by Founders Fund and Index Ventures […]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Ubisoft has launched its decentralized verification network (DVN) to secure cross-chain asset transfers viaLayerZero’s interoperability protocol.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Using a VPN won't get your Spotify account banned, but you could face performance issues.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Intel experimenting with direct liquid cooling for up to 1000W CPUs
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Mohsen Langarneshin is accused of being ‘senior spy’ for Mossad, but human rights groups say he was innocentIran has executed a 36-year-old man it accused of helping the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, kill a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Tehran in 2022. Iranian state media said Mohsen Langarneshin was hanged, the usual method of execution in Iran, at Ghezel Hesar prison...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Leaders at federal research organizations DARPA, ARPA-I, and ARPA-H discussed the myriad obstacles in addressing critical infrastructure security at RSAC Conference 2025.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:At least 16 civilians and security officials killed in Druze-majority areas around capital on WednesdayMiddle East crisis – live updatesAt least 16 civilians and security officials have been killed in clashes in a town near Damascus, Syria’s interior ministry reported, the second consecutive day of fighting in Druze-majority areas around Syria’s capital.Reports on Wednesday said fighting had started overnight in the...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The crypto market experienced a dramatic surge in failed tokens during the first quarter of 2025, with nearly 2 million digital assets collapsing. According to a CoinGecko report, over 1.8 million crypto tokens were abandoned or failed in this year’s first three months. This number represents nearly half (49.7%) of all token failures recorded since […] The post Crypto token failures skyrocket to nearly 2 million in Q1...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:It’s been about a year since Apple announced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024. Since then, Siri has received a visual refresh with its new rainbow animation, text-to-Siri support, visual intelligence, and image generation. Features like Genmoji are also available in iOS 18. However, the most critical aspects of Siri, like being conversational and having contextual awareness, are still missing. Meanwhile, AI assistants...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Chinese artificial intelligence development company DeepSeek has released a new open-weight large language model (LLM).DeepSeek uploaded its newest model, Prover V2, to the hosting service Hugging Face on April 30. The latest model, released under the permissive open-source MIT license, aims to tackle math proof verification. DeepSeek-Prover-V2 HuggingFace repository. Source: HuggingFaceProver V2 has 671 billion...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:If you're just getting into woodworking, there's a lot of equipment you'll need. Clamps are likely at the top of the list, and these are what you look for.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The British Business Bank has committed 7 million to a new investment platform managed by Haatch, aiming to co-invest alongside five of the UK's emerging angel syndicates. This initiative is part of ...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released another update on what he believes the future of the network should entail.In an April 30 post on blockchain-based social media platform Farcaster, Buterin outlined his personal areas of focus for Ethereum development this year. These include investigating changes to the network infrastructure to achieve single-slot finality, updates to smart contract execution and...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:U.S. GDP turned negative in the first quarter, while prices rose more than forecast; ADP jobs data was the weakest in nearly one year.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:US official tells international court of justice hearing that it backs Israel’s stance on the agency, which says Israel has abused detained staffThere is now a live feed from the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague, where the US is giving evidence (see 8.52am). You may need to refresh the blog to see it.An Iranian man convicted of espionage and intelligence cooperation with Israel was executed on...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Keeping spectators safe at rally racing events can be difficult given the large and often remote areas of terrain that races cover. Read more: AI drives spectator safety at rally racing
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Economists fear Trump's tariffs will weigh on economic growth while adding to inflation.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:ServiceTitan, the operating system for the trades, continues to scale impressively, with $772M in FY25 revenue, $800m+ ARR and a clear path to $1B ARR. It’s the vertical SaaS rocketship: $840m ARR Still growing a stunning 29% (!) Just above non-GAAP break-even (3% non-GAAP margins) 110% NRR and 95% GRR $10.5B market cap (12x ARR)... Continue Reading
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Corsair’s latest Pro keyboard cuts corners by mixing Hall effect and mechanical switches to create a confusing mess.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:With Wear OS 5.1, Google changed the behavior of Touch Lock on the Pixel Watch. more…
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The head of the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets says new laws could be set by August, and Trump's own crypto interests aren't a factor.
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