
Tech Meme - 11 min 32 sec ago
Annie Palmer / CNBC : Opendoor's new chairman Keith Rabois says "I don't know what most" of its 1400 employees do and the company doesn't need "more than 200 of them" — Opendoor co-founder and newly minted board chair Keith Rabois said remote work and a "bloated" workforce have been a drag …...

PC World - 31 min 26 sec ago
Good deals for laptops aren't easy to find, especially if you need something with a little more oomph and enough memory to smoothly handle a modern browser. Best Buy is offering just such a deal right now: A 14-inch HP laptop with a touchscreen, Intel Core 7 processor, and 16 gigs of RAM. It'll cost you $549.99 , $250 off the original price. Best Buy seems to be closing out this particular model, the HP Omnibook 5 Flip, as we've seen it go on sale several times in the last couple of...

Tech Meme - 31 min 32 sec ago
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC : Gemini opened up 32.2% at $37.01 per share in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a ~$4.4B market cap, after the Winklevoss' crypto exchange raised $425M in its IPO — Shares of Gemini Space Station soared more than 40% on Thursday after the exchange operator raised $425 million in an initial public offering.

PC World - 31 min 33 sec ago
Looking for a decent laptop under $500? Yeah, it's kind of a mess out there. One quick search and you're drowning in options most of them pretty meh. The key is knowing what actually matters. Shoot for a 1080p screen and at least 8GB of RAM . That combo keeps things running smooth and makes videos look good, too. You'll have to give up a few bells and whistles at this price, but don't worry, we've already sifted through the junk to identify affordable laptops you actually want...

Tech Meme - 36 min 32 sec ago
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Mastodon plans to roll out quote posts next week, with safety features that give users several ways to control how their posts can be quoted, to avoid "dunking" — Mastodon, an open source, decentralized alternative to X, is rolling out a somewhat controversial feature by adding quote posts, which will launch next week.

Wired - 42 min ago
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S10 FE, a solid mid-tier tablet, is now $430 on Amazon.

Air and Space - 50 min 25 sec ago
For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels the "Oseberg," "Gokstad" and "Tune" about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo...

TechRadar - 1 hour 1 min ago
SocialMetrics Pro cannot give you the blue check mark...

ABC News - 1 hour 23 min ago
OpenAI has reached a new tentative agreement with Microsoft and said its nonprofit, which technically controls its business, will now be given a $100 billion equity stake in its for-profit corporation...

Observer - 1 hour 30 min ago
Kyle Weiss, head of strategy at the Holonym Foundation, examines the rapid rise of autonomous A.I. agents and the urgent question of accountability they raise. The agentic era will only succeed, Weiss argues, if we establish trust infrastructure that ties A.I. actions back to real humans and organizations, ensuring that autonomy never comes at the expense of responsibility.

TechRadar - 1 hour 32 min ago
Between March and September, Apple users were repeatedly targeted...

TechRadar - 1 hour 36 min ago
The colors you're pre-ordering right now...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 hour 57 min ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ACTUATE 2025 : 23 24 September 2025, SAN FRANCISCO CoRL 2025 : 27 30 September 2025, SEOUL IEEE Humanoids : 30 September 2 October 2025, SEOUL World Robot Summit : 10 12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN IROS 2025 : 19 25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA Enjoy today's...

PC World - 2 hours 1 min ago
At a glance Expert's Rating Pros Far more powerful than most robot mowers Outstanding app Fast, efficient cut even at its default speed Cons Unreliable Bluetooth connectivity during manual mapping Poor navigation through narrow passageways Some slope and cliff detection issues Our Verdict While the Ecovacs Goat A3000 excels in a few areas, its shortcomings are disruptive enough to give us pause. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing...

Variety - 3 hours 1 min ago
Tech company Pickford AI has assembled a voice cast for its interactive series “Whispers” using SAG’s newly established AI protocols. The company tapped Stephen Chang (“The Last of Us,” “Bosch Legacy”), Tohoru Masamune (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Never Have I Ever”), Brandon Soohoo (“Tropic Thunder,” “NCIS: Los Angeles”), Heavenly Reyna (“The Bold and The Beautiful”) […]...

Variety - 3 hours 35 min ago
Roblox is facing another legal battle over its child safety regulations, this one a wrongful death lawsuit tied to the April 2024 suicide of a 15-year-old boy. The lawsuit, according to the New York Times, is being filed in Superior Court by Becca Dallas following the death of her son Ethan Dallas, and is “likely […]...

Wired - 4 hours 1 min ago
The groundbreaking Leaf returns bigger and better than ever but leaves us wanting more.

The Hill - 4 hours 8 min ago
Poland's Foreign Minister Rados aw Sikorski on Friday rejected President Trump's suggestion that a Russian drone incursion into Poland earlier this week was a mistake. Russia said it was attacking Ukraine when at least 19 of its drones crossed over into Polish airspace, triggering Polish and NATO aircraft to scramble and shoot down the drones. Trump...

Ars Technica - 4 hours 16 min ago
Man agreed to return more than 1,000 stolen DVDs to his former employer.

Wired - 4 hours 24 min ago
Authorities have named Tyler Robinson as a suspect in the murder of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, citing Discord messages as evidence of his alleged role.

New York Times - 5 hours 18 min ago
Ethan Dallas at 15. He had played Roblox, an online game aimed at children, since he was 7.

The Hill - 5 hours 37 min ago
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that the U.S. will respond accordingly to Brazil's 27-year prison sentence for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of attempting a coup to stay in office after he lost reelection in 2022.

Ars Technica - 5 hours 58 min ago
EU probe came after complaint by Slack in 2020.

New York Times - 6 hours 41 min ago
An area at Utah Valley University in Orem was cordoned off after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk during a rally there on Wednesday.