But the frustrations around new social platforms isn’t new. Networks will continue to pop up, ideally, and longtime users will continue to be annoyed by newbies. In the early-to-mid-1990s, people often first accessed the internet when they arrived at college. Around September of every year, a bunch of new users would log on to their…
Peter Diamandis, a futurist with degrees from both MIT and Harvard, has spent much of the past two decades evangelizing a vision of an “abundant future” driven by exponential technologies that will lengthen our lives. The serial entrepreneur and founder of organizations like the XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University has also cultivated close ties with…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a competitive necessity in e-commerce. From product recommendations and customer support to inventory forecasting and dynamic pricing, AI is reshaping how online retailers attract, convert, and retain customers. Its rapid adoption is driven by the demand for personalized shopping experiences, rising customer acquisition costs, and the pressure to optimize…
TL;DR: Give your old PC a new lease on life with a Microsoft Windows 11 Pro license, now only £11.63 (reg. £154.58). Need a new laptop but don’t have the budget to buy one? We’ve found the next best thing — updating your operating system. If you’ve got an old PC that could use an…
After a keynote, Nissan led us into a courtyard to look at (but not photograph) a series of vehicles in various states of development. The most intriguing was a rugged electric SUV that oozed X-Terra vibes. The light-offroader will begin production in Nissan’s Canton, Mississippi, plant in 2027, deftly escaping the latest tariffs announced by…
Forerunner has seen a number of high-profile successes, showing an ability to get ahead of consumer trends with investments in Oura, Chime, the Farmer’s Dog, and beyond in non-B2C companies. To get a sense of how that happened, and what’s next for Forerunner in the AI era, TechCrunch Editor in Chief Connie Loizos spoke with…
Between a last-minute crash out in the NCAA Final Four and Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) trying to kill his entire family, this has not been a good weekend for The White Lotus‘s Duke. SEE ALSO: Duke crashing out of March Madness inspired inevitable ‘White Lotus’ memes Surprisingly, though, none of the Ratliff family ended up…
Moore designed his pinball machine to complete the analogy to the Turing machine. The starting position of the pinball represents the data on the tape being fed into the Turing machine. Crucially (and unrealistically), the player must be able to adjust the ball’s starting location with infinite precision, meaning that specifying the ball’s location requires…
How did Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg get added to a Signal group chat with Trump administration officials discussing their plans for an airstrike in Yemen? The simplest explanation: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz had Goldberg saved as a contact in his phone and accidentally added him. Indeed, when Waltz first claimed that Goldberg’s phone number…
Fans of Apple TV+’s Severance got an unexpected dose of corporate surrealism this weekend, as the Bell Works building in Holmdel, New Jersey — the same location used for Lumon Industries in the series — was reactivated for a limited-time immersive event. SEE ALSO: I went to the ‘Severance’ pop-up in Grand Central. It was…
