Google said that it is adding Venmo as a payment option today on Google Play for purchases including games, apps, add-ons, and other digital content. The company said that users can use Venmo’s wallet or other linked payment methods, such as bank accounts and cards, to pay for subscriptions or tip creators within different content-based…
Anthropic is making its custom-chip ambitions official. The Claude developer is assembling an in-house silicon team to work on custom chips, according to Business Insider and a company job listing seeking engineers with experience completing and shipping semiconductor designs. The move places Anthropic among a growing group of AI companies trying to reduce infrastructure constraints…
Burning bridges with the most connected person in King’s Landing could have consequences for Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy). In the House of the Dragon Season 3 finale, the Westeros monarch makes a sudden decision to dismiss her Mistress of Whispers, Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno). Even lady’s maid Elinda (Jordon Stevens) seems shocked to the deliver the…
I use Wireless earbuds constantly. I use them for work, running, working out, relaxing, traveling—whatever I am doing, chances are I have a pair of wireless earbuds on me, just in case. While some of the earliest models were huge and inconvenient, earbuds nowadays are slim, comfortable, and often affordable. The WIRED Reviews team doesn’t…
Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including a cyber evaluation startup called…
On July 29, 2026, Kiteworks published the 2026 Data Security and Compliance Risk: Annual Survey Report, a survey of 459 security, compliance, and IT leaders across 10 industries and three regions. The finding that mattered most: no AI containment control measured in the survey, not a kill switch, not behavioral monitoring, not purpose binding, was…
If you thought the Moon looked small last night, it’ll be even thinner this evening as it continues to wane ahead of the New Moon in a few night’s time. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Monday, Aug. 10, NASA’s Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon phase is in Waning Crescent phase,…
The European Space Agency is trying to understand why astronauts lose their eyesight in space, in the hope they can figure out how to treat—or even prevent—the condition as looming longer spaceflights heighten the risk of permanent vision damage. The agency has commissioned British eye-scanning startup Siloton to develop a solution ahead of the international…
In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks “a return to tyranny and mystification in the form of rule by algorithms, corporations, machines.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, I…
Google Assistant, Google’s original voice helper, is about to become the latest name added to the company’s long list of retired products. The tech giant is starting the final phase of its Google Assistant retirement on Sept. 4, 2026, moving Android users to Gemini as the company’s default AI assistant experience. The company informed existing…
