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6 Car Brands You Might Not Realize Are Owned By Volkswagen
Volkswagen manufactures an expansive line of top tier vehicles, but did you know it also manages several other marquee brands? Here are some of the best known.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Bring It Onโs Big Cash Bingo surpasses $500K in monthly revenues and 80,000 players
Bring It On said its Big Cash Bingo game is one of the fastest growing skill games on the market with more than $500,000 in monthly revenues.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Epic Games for Android is bringing Flappy Bird back
Epic Games has slowly been creating a safe space for Android games that are free from the Google Play Store. The newest Epic Games addition is a title that hasnโt been around in some time โ Flappy Bird. moreโฆ
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Popular Mac app Raycast heads to iPhone with key limitations
Raycast, a popular free productivity app for Mac, is making its way to the iPhone. However, due to Appleโs sandboxing restrictions, some of the tools itโs known for on desktop arenโt available on iOS, at least not yet. Claiming to be a tool for achieving โproductivity on the go,โ Raycast for iPhone includes several core [โฆ]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Inflation Cools in March, but Don't Expect Interest Rates to Budge
Uncertainty about the economy and looming tariffs may be spurring spending.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Venezuelan detainees at Texas center spell out SOS with their bodies
Men at Bluebonnet fear deportation to El Salvador under wartime law despite maintaining they do not have gang tiesDetainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: SOS.With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday. Continue reading...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:DHS Boss Noem Vows to Get CISA Back 'On Mission'
Secretary Noem asks the cybersecurity community to get in touch with CISA to help reshape the agency to focus on finding efficiencies.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Apple's new iPad A16 is down to its best price yet
Those looking to upgrade from an aging tablet to a new iPad could do much worse than the new iPad A16. We already consider it the best budget iPad at its standard going rate, but currently it's on sale for $299 at Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy. That's the lowest price we've tracked and $50 off Apple's MSRP. Note that this deal applies to the entry-level configuration, which includes 128GB of storage and 6GB of RAM, and...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:FIFA moves towards its own blockchain, leaving Algorand behind
FIFA, the international football governing body, is taking a significant step in its Web3 journey by announcing a new blockchain network compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The update, published on April 30 via the FIFA Collect FAQ, outlines plans to migrate the football bodyโs NFT collection platform, FIFA Collect, from the Algorand network [โฆ] The post FIFA moves towards its own blockchain, leaving...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The new Star Wars TIE Fighter Stand bundled with an Amazon Echo Dot is already on sale
The Star Wars Echo Dot bundle with limited edition Star Wars TIE Fighter Stand is on sale for $97.98, down from the normal price of $109.98. That's an 11% discount.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:New Apple TV+ trailer reveals first ever full-length โimmersiveโ film
Apple TV+ is exactly one month away from debuting Bono: Stories of Surrender, a concert-style โdocumentary event.โ 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. moreโฆ
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Samsung touts โstrong salesโ for Galaxy S25 series, teases Edge & XR launches
In its latest quarterly revenue announcement, Samsung is teasing the upcoming Galaxy S25 Edge launch while touting โstrongโ sales of the Galaxy S25 series. moreโฆ
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:5 Crate Engines With Over 500 HP
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:2026 Will Be a World of PLG+AI. PLG plus AI Sales Reps. We Have No Choice.
So for many years, so many B2B founders wanted to be โmore PLGโ or โadd a PLG motionโ. 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 lets EA Sports FC players stream music during gameplay
Spotify is getting into gameplay โ kind of โthrough 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:Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers
The nonprofit behind Wikipedia on Wednesdayrevealedits new AI strategyfor the next three years โ and itโs 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 โremove technical barriers,โ allowing editors, moderators, and patrollers tools that allow them [โฆ]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Tineco Pure One Station 5 Review (2025): This Vac Empties Itself
The freestanding charging and emptying station makes this cordless vacuum feel almost like a robot vacuumโexcept you still do the vacuuming.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Worried About a Recession? 6 Money Moves Experts Say to Make ASAP
Your recession action plan doesnโt have to be complicated.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:I had a passionate crush on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Could it still thrill me 19 years later?
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 rolls back update that made ChatGPT an ass-kissing weirdo
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 upcoming Sea of Stars expansion Throes of the Watchmaker arrives on May 20
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. Itโs a substantial add-on for those who have rolled credits on the main campaign, which youโll need to do before the quest unlocks. The DLCreunites...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Javaโs Next Act: Native Speed for a Cloud-Native World
Once the unshakable king of enterprise development, Java is now facing its most important existential moment since its creation. Itโs not that Java has failed; itโs that the world around it has changed. And Java, with its traditional runtime model and heavyweight architecture, hasnโt 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:5 days left: $210 ticket discount and 50% off on the second for TechCrunch Sessions AI
Youโve got just 5 days to save up to $210 โ plus 50% off your plus-one โ and get inside the minds of AIโs biggest voices at TechCrunch Sessions: AI. Imagine hearing firsthand from Anthropicโs Jared Kaplan, OpenAIโs startup team, and top voices from firms like Khosla Ventures โ all in one day. June 5 [โฆ]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Crypto Coalition Tells SEC Staking Is 'Essential Good,' Not a Security
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 network for B2B trade, has nabbed $34M from Sequoia and Spark Capital
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 [โฆ]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Ubisoft launches decentralized verification network with LayerZeroโs protocol
Ubisoft has launched its decentralized verification network (DVN) to secure cross-chain asset transfers viaLayerZeroโs interoperability protocol.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Using Spotify with a VPN? Hereโs what the company actually says about it
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 - package-level approach maximizes performance, reduces size and complexity
Intel experimenting with direct liquid cooling for up to 1000W CPUs
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Iran executes man accused of helping Israel kill Revolutionary Guards colonel
Mohsen Langarneshin is accused of being โsenior spyโ for Mossad, but human rights groups say he was innocentIran has executed a 36-year-old man it accused of helping the Mossad, Israelโs 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:DARPA Highlights Critical Infrastructure Security Challenges
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:Deadly Syria clashes continue for second day outside Damascus
At least 16 civilians and security officials killed in Druze-majority areas around capital on WednesdayMiddle East crisis โ live updatesAt least 16 civilians and security officials have been killed in clashes in a town near Damascus, Syriaโs interior ministry reported, the second consecutive day of fighting in Druze-majority areas around Syriaโs capital.Reports on Wednesday said fighting had started overnight in the...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Crypto token failures skyrocket to nearly 2 million in Q1 2025
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 yearโs first three months. This number represents nearly half (49.7%) of all token failures recorded since [โฆ] The post Crypto token failures skyrocket to nearly 2 million in Q1...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:I tested iPhone AI voice assistants: hereโs the best one
Itโs 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:Chinaโs DeepSeek launches new open-source AI after R1 took on OpenAI
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...
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