Checking whether an aging parent is okay could soon take fewer phone calls, thanks to a new wearable from Fitbit’s founders James Park and Eric Friedman. Luffu Link is designed to let family members keep tabs on health, location, and safety via a screen-free band that stays connected even when the wearer’s phone isn’t nearby….
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If you missed the spectacular solar eclipse earlier this month, you have a chance to catch another stunning astronomical phenomenon: a partial lunar eclipse and “blood moon” that will occur on Thursday night into Friday early morning. Earth’s shadow will cover nearly all of the bright lunar disk and will cast a reddish or orange…
Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer. The company, which offers an AI assistant that has inspired enthusiasm among its early users, told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that it…
Apple’s latest Mac Studio brings up to 512GB of unified memory to the compact desktop, giving developers and creative professionals more capacity to run demanding AI workloads locally. The company on Tuesday announced the new Mac Studio, offering the desktop with its M5 Max and new M5 Ultra processors. The M5 Max configuration features an…
Some advertisements make you want to buy the product. Others make the entire internet ask, “Who on Earth approved this?” A promotional video from golf equipment giant Callaway and popular YouTube brand Good Good Golf has landed firmly in the latter category. The since-deleted ad showed the brand’s co-founder Garrett Clark charging toward female golfer…
Roughly 160 people are dead and hundreds more—including dozens of international tourists—are missing after flash floods hit a region on the mountainous border of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday. Devastating footage posted to social media shows people fleeing a wall of water that washed away buildings and vehicles. Initial analysis of satellite imagery and reports…
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Nscale, founded only in 2024, has already cut deals with the likes of Microsoft, and will supply Anthropic with compute via Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, its new…
Android users who get queasy while scrolling in a moving car may soon have a built-in option, as Motion Assist begins appearing on select Pixel phones. Motion Assist, an Android 17 feature designed to reduce motion sickness when people use their phones in moving vehicles, has started appearing on select Pixel phones, according to Android…
With just one more day to go before Grand Theft Auto VI makes its big official debut (of sorts) on Netflix, the leaker known as Cyberleek is still on a tear. Shortly after Rockstar Games issued a statement about the GTA 6 leaks on Wednesday, Cyberleek released story spoilers for the first time by uploading…
