Google long ago abandoned the pretense of surprise about the Pixel line. There’s an extent to which you can point the finger at the hardware rumor industrial complex. But at the end of the day, the company was always going to take matters into its own hands and announce its most anticipated hardware device a
Month: May 2023
It’s that moment you’ve been waiting for all year: Google I/O keynote day! Google kicks off its developer conference each year with a rapid-fire stream of announcements, including many unveilings of recent things it’s been working on. Brian already kicked us off by sharing what we are expecting. We know you don’t always have time
Shortly after last week’s joint announcement which saw Apple and Google teaming up on Bluetooth tracker safety measures and a new specification, Google today introduced a series of improvements coming to its own Find My Device network, including proactive alerts about unknown trackers traveling with you with support for Apple’s AirTag and others. The news,
Artificial intelligence is about to play a bigger role in how you use your phone. Google announced new features that will use AI to rewrite text messages and generate new Android wallpapers, further signaling its ambitions to establish itself as a leader in generative AI, or AI that can create content based on text prompts.
Shares of Amplitude, Airbnb and Twilio are down sharply this morning following their earnings results yesterday. It might seem odd to group these companies together given the different sectors they operate in: Amplitude does digital product analytics, Airbnb provides a marketplace for consumer lodging rentals, and Twilio sells communications services for software products via APIs.
Last year, climate tech seemed to be invincible while the venture capital and startup worlds were fretting about a downturn and scrambling to conserve cash. Climate tech investors and founders in 2022 may not have hit the heights of 2021 but they didn’t drop off a cliff either. In the first quarter of the year,
Helion, the clean energy company with its eye firmly on the fusion prize, announced a couple of years ago that it had secured $2.2 billion of funding to help it develop cleaner, safer energy at a commercial scale in November 2021. Today, it is starting to reap the fruits of its labor, announcing an agreement
Google I/O is kicking off Wednesday, and CNET will be hosting a live show as new announcements arrive during the developer conference’s keynote. CNET’s Bridget Carey will host the watch party on CNET’s YouTube channel, starting at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET — one hour before Google’s keynote begins. The watch party will provide commentary
/ The unlisted YouTube video contains several close-up shots of its upcoming Pixel Fold device in action. A little preview of the Pixel Fold for you ahead of it’s full reveal later today. Footage of the Pixel Fold has appeared in a YouTube ad ahead of its anticipated announcement at Google I/O later today. As
Dutch startup Farmless has today announced that it has raised a €1.2 million pre-seed equity round at an undisclosed valuation to bring to our tables proteins created without the need for traditional farming operations. The climate crisis means that it has never been more pressing to develop alternative food sources in order to both protect
Much of our computer time is spent in a web browser, where we check emails, create documents, transfer files, carry out online banking, shop or stream entertainment. This leaves us vulnerable to security threats like phishing, identity theft and session hijacking, but many cybersecurity tools were created when the main threats were file viruses, worms
Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to 2017’s classic Hollow Knight, was supposed to have been released around about now. It hasn’t, and now it won’t be either, because the team have decided to take some extra time making the game as good as it can be. The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck:
The world received the very sad news today that Frank Kozik, a man perhaps best known for his incredible music posters of the 1990s, has passed away. The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck: April 2023 Edition Off English The Week In Games: Return To Hyrule Monday 3:53PM Kozik’s social media channels shared
Much of the AI technology we use today runs in hulking data centers operated by cloud computing giants like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. But with a technology called WebGPU that Google is now building into its Chrome browser, web apps can take advantage of AI processing more directly. Google announced the WebGPU adoption at its
For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between. It’s time to disrupt TechCrunch Disrupt This year, we’re
Are you a seed-stage founder who’s building a unicorn? Last month, at TechCrunch Early Stage, I spoke to NFX Founding Partner James Currier about where ideas for billion-dollar companies come from. Currier, who was an angel investor in Patreon, Lyft and DoorDash, said startups that grow into unicorns have three basic forms of defensibility: Network
Health officials have updated the COVID-19 vaccine schedule in preparation for the end of the national public health emergency this week, though right now the changes apply only to older adults and people who are immunocompromised. People age 65 and up, as well as those whose doctors agree they need added protection because they’re immunocompromised,
Mega YouTuber MrBeast, aka 25-year-old Jimmy Donaldson, has been casually buying extensive property in a North Carolina neighborhood for him, his family, and his employees to live in, the New York Post reports. In the last five years, Donaldson has already purchased five homes on the same Greenville street, most of them off-market, for an
We’re finally getting another update on what sort of content we might expect to see in Bethesda’s upcoming spacefaring RPG, Starfield. Rather than coming directly from its publisher, however, we’re getting this information from the game’s ESRB rating. The advisory board’s description reveals that the game will allow you to share a bed with other
/ The fast-food chain is partnering with Google to train an AI model that knows what ‘biggie bags’ and ‘JBC’ mean. Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Wendy’s is partnering with Google to create an AI chatbot that can take orders at its drive-thrus, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. The fast-food chain
I’m playing fetch with my bubbly little green-and-black virtual pet, a fuzzball my kid and I called Leopard because it looks like a leopard. I toss a virtual tennis ball by tapping my phone screen and see the ball bounce off the floor and armchair, and Leopard looks like he’s chasing after it. This is
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Despite the investor caution narrative permeating the startup world throughout the economic downturn, certain startup-types have been a little more impervious to market conditions. The global supply chain was one of the major industrial casualties of the pandemic, so it perhaps goes without saying that companies tackling issues related to the global supply chain would
Tesla officially broke ground Monday on a Texas lithium refinery, making it the only U.S. automaker to refine its own lithium. CEO Elon Musk said the refinery will produce enough battery grade lithium for 1 million electric vehicles by 2025, which would make Tesla the largest processor of lithium in North America. Tesla will continue
In Respawn’s Jedi series, one of the constants across both games is the Mantis, a starship that’s kinda yours, but also not yours, but you use it enough that it may as well be. And I think, more than the combat or the jumping or the surprisingly Star Warsy tone of the games, it’s my
Google’s Pixel 6A was my favorite Android phone under $500 last year, which means Google has a lot to live up to for its rumored Pixel 7A. That new phone might get its announcement as early as Wednesday’s Google I/O developer conference, although at this time Google has not officially teased a Pixel 7A. Should
In August 2022 we told the very sad story of a serious Nintendo collector who, having thought he’d got hold of some very special old playing cards, had in fact got hold of two hunks of worthless cardboard. The Week In Games: Return To Hyrule Off English The Week In Games: Return To Hyrule Before
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/ Unsurprisingly, it appears a lot of I/O will be focused on AI. Illustration: The Verge Google’s I/O event is less than two days away, and a new CNBC report might have just revealed some of the major AI-focused updates to be announced at the show. One big component will be a new large language
/ The keynote kicks off on May 10th at 1PM ET. Here’s what you can expect. Google I/O is almost here, and that means the launch of the highly anticipated Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet is right around the corner. While the annual conference is largely geared toward developers, the company always holds a keynote
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