After six years of peace, the two tech giants are on course to butt heads again over the future of artificial intelligence. Share this story Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is about to go head-to-head with Google in a battle for the future of search. At a press event later today, Microsoft
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Laptops are expensive, so it’s important to know everything you need to before slapping down money on one of these pricey machines. If you’re using it frequently for work, school or even gaming, then it’s worth going a little more expensive. But which ones are the best for both work and play? We’ve done the
SoftBank Group’s investment vehicles posted a loss of nearly $6 billion in the quarter that ended in December as the Japanese tech investor continues to bleed through the market downturn and significantly pares back new backings. This is the fourth consecutive quarter in which SoftBank Group has lost money, prompting many to challenge the fundamental
Apple’s M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when they arrived in late 2021. Apple had been designing its own silicon since the A4 appeared in the iPhone 4 just over a decade earlier. The appearance of Apple’s in-house efforts in the Mac was really just a question of when, not if. When the M1
The Last of Us episode 4 came to HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, with Ellie and Joel (Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal) back on the road after last week’s heartbreaking diversion. They’re on track to connect Ellie to the Fireflies, a rebel group that wants to replicate her immunity to the fungal infection that
Highlighting the plastic industry’s infamous track record on recycling, London-based Recycleye says it raised $17 million in new funding led by “deep tech” investor DCVC. The startup claims its recycling-picking robots can identify materials “at an unrivaled 60 frames per second” and sort them more accurately than humans can. Ultimately, the startup says its tech
I don’t know if I’ve ever actually discussed this on Fine Art before, it’s just something we have to work with in the background and I haven’t wanted to bore you with the details, but you should know that video game artists are rarely, if ever, allowed to just share their work whenever and however
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello, Crunchers! Our fave read today was Connie’s piece with advice for startups that have the government as their target customer. In honor of Black history month, we want to share some
It’s Super Bowl week, which means the sporting news cycle is full of the same old shit it is every year. Empty interviews, retrospectives on Super Bowls past, endless predictions on who is going to win on Sunday…and one prediction in particular, which comes around every season like clockwork. CC Off English I get it,
/ Google is working on a competitor to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. The ‘experimental conversational AI service’ is called Bard and is only being tested by a limited group. We don’t know a lot about Google’s ChatGPT rival, but it’s called Bard and will be available to the public in the coming weeks.Image: Google It’s official:
Throw half a dozen entrepreneurs in a room together with a whiteboard, and they’ll be able to come up with a thousand business ideas in a couple of hours. It’s the nature of entrepreneurship: Our brains are wired to keep an eye on what could be better and how that gap in the market can
/ Fitbit users couldn’t connect data from their wearables to the cloud, and attempting to fix the issue by uninstalling the app or logging out just made things worse. Image: Fitbit No, it’s not you — Fitbit earlier today experienced a major outage. According to Downdetector, the outage started at about 8AM ET, with most
Apple released iOS 16.3 in January, and the update includes some bug fixes and security updates to make your iPhone run more smoothly. The update also brings some useful new features to your iPhone, like security keys and an update to emergency SOS via satellite. The iOS 16.3 update was released alongside updates for other Apple software,
The 65th annual Grammy Awards ceremony is done and dusted. The music awards show took place on Sunday, with Harry Styles, Lizzo, Steve Lacy and more busting out performances. Beyoncé made headlines with a historic 32nd Grammy win, one more than the 31 wins held by late conductor Georg Solti. Also signing her name in
Budapest-based SEON, — an anti-fraud platform which looks at a customer’s ‘digital footprint’ to weed out false accounts and thus prevent fraudulent transactions — has acquired compliance and AML specialist firm, Complytron, also based out of Budapest. Terms of the deal were not officially released, but Techcrunch sources said the deal was in the region
For the first time ever, tonight’s Grammy awards featured a category just for video game soundtracks. And the first ever winner in this new category was Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed. Congratulations! A momentous occasion for everyone involved, but for the rest of us, also a very funny moment of live television. CC Off English While video
If you played The Last of Us game and are watching HBO’s TV adaptation, you probably saw a couple of characters in this week’s episode and wondered, “Who the hell are these people?” That’s because these characters weren’t in the original game, but there’s a reason you might have thought you recognized one of them,
Director Craig Mazin certainly has a type, at least when it comes to prestige TV shows. His 2019 series, Chernobyl, was a masterful series dramatizing the 1986 nuclear reactor meltdown at the eponymous power plant. It won a ton of critical praise and racked up a few Emmys, too. But at CNET Science we were most
In this article: With so many TVs on the market, buying a new one can be a daunting task. The decision almost always comes down to price and the features you value most. One feature you’ll find on most modern TVs is 4K resolution support, which has become the predominant resolution in recent years —
TL;DR: Weave sustainability into the product design as early as you can Haje Jan Kamps 11 hours Nobody starts a hardware company with the express goal of destroying as much of the planet as they possibly can. Walking around the startup hall at CES, however, I noticed that — with a few notable exceptions —
Odds are, your cell phone gets more use than just about anything else you own. From communication and navigation to photography and gaming, your phone does a lot of heavy lifting. It’s worth investing in a model that fits your needs, but that doesn’t mean you have to drop $1,000 or more to get one
The United States shot down on Saturday what it says was a Chinese spy balloon after the object drifted over the US for several days and then sailed out over the Atlantic Ocean. “This afternoon, at the direction of President Biden, U.S. fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command successfully brought down the high altitude
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs, some citing Elon Musk, told me that they’re bringing back an in-person work culture in the
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Happy weekend, folks, and welcome back to the TechCrunch Week in Review. Henry here, standing in for a vacationing Kyle Wiggers, who is standing in for a parental-leaving Greg Kumparak. Listen, we’ve got a deep bench, and both blokes will be back very soon. Until then, check out just a few of the top stories
/ Apple’s pint-sized HomePod Mini is also on sale, as well as the latest Kindle Paperwhite and our favorite robot vacuum / mop hybrid. The midrange Galaxy Chromebook 2 packs plenty of bang for just $499.Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Happy Saturday, readers! During its Unpacked event on Wednesday, Samsung introduced a new
Skimming through HBO Max for what to watch tonight? Despite the Warner Bros. Discovery TV and movie cull of 2022, there’s still a superlative collection of titles to catch. It helps that HBO, Warner Bros. and DC Comics all live under the HBO Max roof. Plus, check out what’s coming to the streamer each month.
Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs — some citing Elon Musk — told me they planned to bring back in-person work culture in the following year to help promote productivity and, in some cases, loyalty. One founder even told me over drinks that they weren’t worried about losing talent — claiming that
Shopping in person for food or other products has always been a chore, especially when you have a busy life. We only have 24 hours in a day, so many of us have turned to businesses to help us get the food we need easily. One service, the ever popular Instacart, is one of them.
/ They’re demanding a different approach to returning to the office. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over 40 contractors for YouTube Music are going on strike — a first at Google, according to the Alphabet Workers Union (or AWU). The action is in response to an order to return to in-person work next